§8-25A-1. Recovery fee included in rental agreement for heavy equipment property.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a person in the business of renting heavy equipment property located in this state may include in the rental agreement a one and one-half percent recovery fee on the gross rental receipts from any item of heavy equipment rented by a customer. The total amount of the recovery fee shall be retained by the business for the purpose of paying personal property taxes levied by all taxing jurisdictions against the heavy equipment property. For the purposes of this section, heavy equipment property includes self-propelled, self-powered, or pull-type equipment, including farm equipment, that is intended to be used for agricultural, construction, industrial, mining, or forestry uses. Heavy equipment property also includes equipment that is described under Industry Code 532412 of the 2002 North American Industry Classification System as published by the Bureau of the Census.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the recovery fee provided in this section shall not apply to the leasing or renting of heavy equipment to the State of Alabama, any municipality, or any county.

(Act 2009-583, p. 1718, §1.)