Section 41-7-1

Created; composition; powers and duties.

(a) There is created hereby a State Bureau of Tourism and Travel, hereinafter referred to as the bureau, composed of a division of records and reports and such other divisions as the director determines to be necessary.

(b) The bureau shall, with the advice and assistance of the advisory board provided for in Section 41-7-3, have exclusive power and authority to plan and conduct all state programs of information and publicity designed to attract tourists to the State of Alabama. It shall be the duty of the principal administrator of each department, board, commission, institution, agency and office, upon request, to assist the Director of Publicity in preparing news items of general interest relating to tourism.

(Acts 1943, No. 253, p. 223, §§2, 4; Acts 1951, No. 712, p. 1250, §1; Acts 1984, No. 84-273, p. 459, §1.)