§45-30-160. Distribution of Tennessee Valley Authority payments in lieu of taxes.

In Franklin County, the payments made to the county commission as authorized in Section 40-28-2, shall be distributed by the county commission as follows:

(1) Each local government shall first receive the same amount of funds which it received from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, provided, however, that in any fiscal year after the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, that the total Tennessee Valley Authority payments in lieu of taxes distributed to Franklin County by the state is in an amount less than the amount that all governments in Franklin County received from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, each local government shall receive an amount of Tennessee Valley Authority funds which shall be in the same proportion that all levels of government in Franklin County received in Alcoholic Beverage Control Board funds in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979.

(2) Any funds distributed to Franklin County by the State of Alabama as payments in lieu of taxes from the Tennessee Valley Authority in any fiscal year which are in excess of the amount which all levels of government in Franklin County received from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979 shall be distributed as follows: 40 percent of such payments shall be disbursed on the same formula as school funds according to the State Department of Education’s Current Expense Ratio are apportioned to the Franklin County Board of Education and the Russellville City Board of Education; 60 percent of the payments shall be distributed to the county general fund and on a pro rata basis to the general funds of the City of Russellville, the City of Phil Campbell, the City of Red Bay, the City of Vina, and the City of Hodges, with each city receiving the amount that its population, according to the latest federal census, bears to the entire population of the county, and the general fund of the Franklin County Commission receiving the amount that the population of the county outside the cities bears to the entire population of the county, according to the latest federal census.

(Act 79-474, p. 874, §1.)