Counties and municipal corporations may condemn lands for public building sites or additions thereto, or for enlargements of sites already owned, or for public roads or streets or alleys, or for material for the construction of public roads or streets or for any other public use.

(a) As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) JUNKYARD. An establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper trash, rubber debris, waste or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard.

(2) SCRAP PROCESSOR. Any person who is engaged, from a fixed location or otherwise, in the business of paying compensation for ferrous or nonferrous metals that have served their original economic purpose, who is engaged in the business of performing the manufacturing process by which ferrous metals or nonferrous metals, or other recyclable materials, are converted into raw material products consisting of prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value.

(b) Any incorporated municipality may license a junkyard located within its police jurisdiction to the same extent as if the junkyard was located within its corporate limits and any county may license junkyards located outside the police jurisdiction of any municipality in the county to the same extent.

(c) Any incorporated municipality and any county shall have the authority, by adoption of local ordinance or regulation, to establish criteria to issue or revoke licenses as provided herein.

(d) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to supersede or alter the authority of the State of Alabama, and any of its agencies and departments, to regulate junkyards or issue permits relating to junkyards.

(a) No county or municipal corporation, instrumentality, or political subdivision thereof, by ordinance, resolution, or other enactment, shall regulate in any manner gun shows, the possession, ownership, transport, carrying, transfer, sale, purchase, licensing, registration or use of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms, firearms dealers, or dealers in firearm components.

(b)(1) Subsection (a) does not affect the authority a municipality has under law to regulate the discharge of firearms within the limits of the municipality or the authority a county has under law enacted prior to August 1, 2000, to regulate the discharge of firearms within the jurisdiction of the county.

(2) Subsection (a) does not affect the authority of the state, a county, or a municipality to assess, enforce, and collect sales taxes, use taxes, and gross receipts taxes in the nature of sales taxes as defined by Section 40-2A-3(8), on the retail sale of firearms and ammunition or to assess, enforce, and collect business licenses from firearms or ammunition manufacturers, trade associations, distributors, or dealers for the privilege of engaging in business.

Further, nothing herein shall exempt any business which uses firearms or ammunition in the conduct of its business or any business which leases or sells firearms or ammunition from the provisions of county and municipal planning and zoning laws, as long as the code, ordinance, or regulations are not used to circumvent the intent of subsection (a).

This section shall not be construed to limit or restrict the power of a municipality to adopt or enforce ordinances which make the violation of a state firearm law a violation of a municipal ordinance to the same extent as other state law violations.

(c) The authority to bring or settle any lawsuit in which the state has an exclusive interest or right to recover against any firearm or ammunition manufacturer, trade association, or dealer, and the authority to bring or settle any lawsuit on behalf of any governmental unit created by or pursuant to an act of the Legislature or the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or any department, agency, or authority thereof, for damages, abatement, injunctive relief, or other equitable relief resulting from or relating to the design, manufacture, marketing, or lawful sale of firearms or ammunition, or both, shall be reserved exclusively to the Attorney General, by and with the consent of the Governor. This section shall not prohibit a county or municipal corporation from bringing an action against a firearms or ammunition manufacturer or dealer for breach of contract or warranty as to firearms or ammunition purchased by the political subdivision or local governmental authority.

(a) The incorporated municipalities and counties of this state are hereby empowered to provide relocation assistance to persons displaced by the acquisition of real property by local land acquisition programs and to comply with the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisitions Policies Act of 1970, Public Law 91-646, Title 2, §§207 and 210, 84 Stat. 1898 and 1899, 42 USCA, §§4627 and 4630, and the requirements and regulations thereunder. Such incorporated municipalities and counties are empowered to appropriate public funds to provide such relocation assistance and to comply with the requirements of such act and the requirements and regulations thereunder in connection with projects financed in whole or in part by federal funds. The incorporated municipalities and counties of this state may exercise the authority granted hereunder by enactment of appropriate resolutions or ordinances to establish criteria for providing such relocation assistance.

(b) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as creating, in any condemnation proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain, any element of damages not in existence on March 10, 1975.

Municipalities and counties may contract with each other for the ownership or use and occupation of parts of city halls, city jails, county courthouses and county jails or other public buildings held and owned by such municipalities or counties located within such municipalities, and any such contract shall be binding upon both the municipality and county until revoked by the joint agreement and action of both parties to such contract. Any and all easements acquired under this section shall be in every respect binding between the parties.

(a) County and municipal governments in Alabama are hereby authorized to appropriate from the general fund of the county or municipality, or from federal revenue sharing funds of the county or municipality, funds to community action agencies authorized to administer grants and contracts in their areas. These funds may be used to match grant funds and contract funds from the federal government, state government, planning and development commissions, and other public and private organizations where local matching funds are required for the delivery of social services.

(b) County and municipal governments in Alabama are authorized to contribute to community action agencies in-kind services such as space, equipment, personnel and other resources which can be fairly evaluated as matching funds for the same purposes as stated in subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Community action agencies eligible to receive county and municipal funds may be organized as public agencies or public non-profit or private non-profit corporations as authorized by the local government jurisdictions.

The counties, cities and towns in the State of Alabama may appropriate moneys out of their general funds for the maintenance and support of municipal bands and other musical organizations for public entertainment.

The counties and municipalities of this state are hereby authorized to plan, establish and furnish recreational, social and cultural facilities, services and programs, including transportation services and programs, especially for senior citizens within the state, and to make the availability of benefits through use of such facilities, services or programs depend upon uniform nondiscriminatory eligibility requirements. In availing itself of this authority any county or municipality within the state may agree to and abide by the conditions of any grant from any agency of the state or the United States government pertaining to such facilities, services and programs. Such services may be administered by and through such instrumentality or instrumentalities as may be designated for that purpose by the governing body of such county or municipality and may also be furnished by each such entity or on a multijurisdictional basis through mutual agreements between two or more such entities and also by contract with such public or private agencies as may be determined by such governing bodies as necessary or desirable.

Any municipality, county, public corporation, city or county board of education, the State Board of Education, or any other entity organized pursuant to authorization, determination finding or other action by any municipality or municipalities, or county or counties, or the governing body of any one or more thereof, or any public officer or officers of the State of Alabama, is hereby authorized:

(1) To acquire a letter or letters of credit as security for any bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness or securities;

(2) To pledge such letter or letters for the benefit of such bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness or securities;

(3) To pay the premium or premiums on such letter or letters from the proceeds of any such bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness or securities;

(4) To enter into such agreements, contracts and indentures with respect to such letter or letters as the governing body of the purchaser of the letter or letters shall deem necessary or desirable; and

(5) To grant security with respect to such letter or letters.

(a) As used in this section, "local governmental unit" means any political subdivision of this state including, but not limited to, a county, city, town, or municipality, if the political subdivision provides local government services in a geographically limited area of this state as its primary purpose and it has the power to act primarily on behalf of that area.

(b) A local governmental unit shall not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance, resolution, or rule that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private property. This section does not impair the right of any local governmental unit to manage and control property in which the local governmental unit has a property interest.

(a) The governing body of each incorporated municipality and the county commission of each county of the state is hereby authorized to provide assistance, by means of gift or loan, to the governing body of any other municipality or county located within the state when such county or municipality has been declared a disaster area by the Governor of the State of Alabama or by the President of the United States. Such assistance may be in the form of funds not otherwise appropriated, services, or other aid as determined by the governing body of the municipality or county offering assistance. The terms upon which assistance is offered should be mutually agreed upon, reduced to writing, and approved by the governing bodies of both the assisting county or municipality and the recipient county or municipality.

(b) Nothing herein shall restrict or affect in any manner mutual aid agreements heretofore or hereafter entered into by municipalities and/or counties for the purpose of disaster assistance.