Code of Alabama

Ala. Code § 17-5-6 (2026)

Checking Account; Expenditures.

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A political action committee and a principal campaign committee shall maintain a checking account, money market account, or other similar banking account and shall deposit any contributions received by such committee into such account. No expenditure of funds may be made by any such committee except by check drawn on such account, electronic transfer from such account, a credit card the balance of which is paid from such account, or out of a petty cash fund from which it may make expenditures not in excess of one hundred dollars ($100) to any person in connection with a single purchase or transaction.

(Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-873, p. 397, §6; §17-22A-6; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §24; Act 2015-495, §1.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1984–2009 · leading case: Smith v. Burkhalter, 28 So. 3d 730 (Ala. 2009).

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Smith v. Burkhalter, 28 So. 3d 730 (Ala. 2009). · cites it 2× “See § 17-5-6 [now § 17-16-44]." Etheridge v. State ex rel.”

Roe v. Mobile Cnty. Appointment Bd., 676 So. 2d 1206 (Ala. 1995). “More recently, this Court revisited § 17-5-6 and reexamined its sphere of operation in an action initiated to compel election officials to count votes and declare a result.”

Roper v. Rhodes, 988 So. 2d 471 (Ala. 2008). “I see nothing in § 17-5-6, however, that requires all causes of action "specially and specifically enumerated and set down by [a] statute" outside the election-contest statutes to be prosecuted under those election-contest statutes.”

Yeargan v. Allen, 456 So. 2d 26 (Ala. 1984). “Petitioner Vines contends here, however, that the relief fashioned by the trial court is not authorized by statute, and that § 17-5-6 expressly prohibits the fashioning of equitable relief.”

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