Opinion of the Justices

The House of Representatives

State Capitol

Montgomery, Alabama

Gentlemen:

This acknowledges your request of July 30, 1969, for an advisory opinion as to the constitutionality of House Bill 1117, which is a local bill.

Several years ago the members of this Court felt constrained to take the position that “no more advisory opinions should be issued by the members of this Court when the only questions, constitutional or otherwise, involved purely local matters.” See Opinion of the Justices, 269 Ala. 127, 130, 111 So.2d 605, 608.

We followed that policy in Opinion of the Justices, 281 Ala. 187, 200…