Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-5-605 (2026)
Application of Terms “Utilities” and “Public Utility”.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
For purposes of this article and for purposes of Sections 40-8-1 and 40-21-50 as amended, the terms “utilities” and “public utility,” as applied to telecommunications, “telephone company,” and “telephone business” mean the provisioning of local exchange services.
(Acts 1988, No. 88-542, p. 840, §3; Acts 1989, No. 89-525, p. 1074, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1991–1999 · leading case: Ex Parte State Dept. of Revenue, 595 So. 2d 472 (Ala. 1991).
Ex Parte State Dept. of Revenue, 595 So. 2d 472 (Ala. 1991). “Acts 1988 (codified at Ala.Code 1975, § 6-5-605), violates Art. 4, § 45, Constitution of Alabama.”
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Vinson, 749 So. 2d 393 (Ala. 1999). “1991) (stating that "[b]ased on our review of the record, we *404 find that the constitutionality of § 6-5-605 was at issue below, although the trial court declined to address it"); Farm Country Homes, Inc.”
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