Ala. Code § 33-2-210
Beginning with the fiscal year commencing on October 1, 1987, the first nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000) of the net amount of all taxes required to be deposited to or certified into the State Treasury to the credit of the State General Fund pursuant to Section 40-20-8, during each quarter of each fiscal year shall be credited to an account to be established in the State Treasury and known as the Alabama State Docks Facilities Contingency Trust Fund. All funds deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Alabama State Docks Facilities Contingency Trust Fund are to the extent set out herein appropriated to the Alabama State Port Authority and shall be transferred to the port authority upon the making by the Director of Finance of the factual determinations hereinafter provided for. In no case shall the amount transferred and paid out of the Alabama State Docks Facilities Contingency Trust Fund to the Alabama State Port Authority exceed the sum of nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000) during any fiscal year. In no event, however, shall the Alabama State Port Authority be required to use any appropriation made pursuant to this article in a manner that would result in any bonds heretofore or hereafter issued by or on behalf of the state constituting a debt of the state in violation of any constitutional prohibition or limitation.
Ala. Code § 33-2-210 (1975)