§45-2-244.134. Disposition of funds.

The proceeds from the tax authorized, less the amount or percentage of the actual cost of collection as may be agreed upon by the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue and the Baldwin County Commission, shall be distributed to the Baldwin County Commission to be allocated on an annual basis for the remainder of the 2005 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, as follows:

(1) The first eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) of the funds or portion thereof received pursuant to this subpart shall be equally divided among the following rescue squads: Lower Alabama Search and Rescue, Inc., North Baldwin Sheriff's Search and Rescue, Inc., and Daphne Search and Rescue, Inc. Any additional search and rescue squad authorized by the county commission after May 13, 2005, shall be funded out of the county treasury in an amount equal to the amount that each squad existing on September 26, 2003, receives from the tobacco tax. Each of the recipient rescue squads shall be a Baldwin County recognized quasi-public entity, as defined in Section 45-2-140.21, and a member in good standing with the Alabama Association of Rescue Squads, Inc. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any rescue squad receiving ad valorem tax funds pursuant to Section 45-2-242, shall be excluded from the distribution in this section regardless of the other requirements being met. Provided, however, after five years from September 26, 2003, the county commission may equally distribute funds received to any additional certified rescue squad established after September 26, 2003.

(2) The next forty thousand dollars ($40,000) of the funds or portion thereof received pursuant to this subpart shall be distributed to the Baldwin Abuse Network, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation/Southwest Alabama Abuse Network, or successor thereto.

(3) The remainder of the funds received pursuant to this subpart shall be distributed to the office of the District Attorney of Baldwin County.

(Act 2003-425, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 1223, §4; Act 2005-156, p. 277, §1.)