Salmon v. Birmingham Parking Authority

MADDOX, Justice.

The basic question presented is the constitutionality of an Act authorizing a Birmingham Parking Authority to issue bonds to build off-street parking facilities. The Act involved is Act No. 2079, p. 3335, Acts of Alabama, 1971, carried in Vol. 14B, Appendix, Code of Alabama 1940 (Recomp. 1958), as Subdivision 22, §§ 1601(230)-1601(255).

The litigation arose out of the proposed construction of a multi-level parking deck by the Birmingham Parking Authority in the City of Birmingham, the sale of bonds by the Authority to pay construction costs of the facility, and a contract…