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ORDINANCE NO.: _ 2037
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A POLICY RESPECTING
THE DONATION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
TO THE CITY OF PRICHARD, ALABAMA
WHEREAS. individuals and business entities occasionally donate personal property to
the City of Prichard for various purposes and the governing body desires to establish a policy
making all such donations irrevocable; and
WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Prichard further desires to provide for
the disposition of property donated for a specific purpose where the purpose cannot be
reasonably accomplished or completed.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF PRICHARD, ALABAMA, as follows:
Section 1. A donation or gift of personal property to the City of Prichard, whether for a
general or specific purpose, shall be irrevocable.
Section 2. In the event that a specific purpose for which personal property has been
donated to the City of Prichard cannot reasonably be accomplished or completed, the donated
property shall become a part of the general fund or, if not money equivalent, treated as a general
asset.
Section 3. In the event that personal property has been donated to the City of Prichard
for a specific purpose in a specified council district and the specific purpose cannot reasonably
be accomplished or completed, at the request of the council member from that district, the city
council shall make a reasonable effort to redirect said donation towards another project or use in
said council district.
Section 4. The Revenue Office of the City of Prichard, Alabama shall provide a copy of
this Ordinance to each person, firm or entity desiring to make a donation of personal property to
the City of Prichard and shall obtain from said donor a signed statement acknowledging the
policy embodied in this Ordinance.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon is adoption as
required by law.
ADOPTED this the Ho say of ety,2015, got st
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OSSIA EDWARDS, Council President
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APPROVED this the [bay of July, 2015.
TROY L. EP. , Mayor
ATTEST:
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DARLENE PALMER LEWIS, City Clerk

