Section 45-49-240.01 - Automobile expense allowances(a) Effective retroactively to August 28, 1981, the chair and each member of the Mobile County Board of Equalization shall be officially authorized to receive an automobile expense allowance of nine hundred dollars ($900) per annum, payable in monthly installments out of the county general fund, the sums having been previously authorized by the county commission and paid to the members.(b) Effective retroactively to December 15, 1983, the Chair of the Mobile County Board of Equalization shall be officially authorized to receive an additional automobile expense allowance of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum, payable in monthly installments out of the county general fund, and each member shall receive an additional automobile expense allowance of two thousand one hundred dollars ($2,100) per annum, payable in monthly installments out of the county general fund, the sums having been previously authorized by the county commission and paid to the chair and the members.(c) All actions taken and payments made by the county commission pertaining to automobile expense allowances on and after August 28, 1981, and December 15, 1983, are validated, ratified, and confirmed.Ala. Code § 45-49-240.01 (1975)