# Century Tel of Alabama, LLC v. Dothan/Houston County Communications District

> Supreme Court of Alabama · September 30, 2015 · 197 So. 3d 456

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4828504

## Case

- **Full name:** CENTURY TEL OF ALABAMA, LLC, and Qwest Communications Company, LLC v. DOTHAN/HOUSTON COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT and Ozark/Dale County E-911, Inc.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** September 30, 2015
- **Citations:** 197 So. 3d 456; 2015 Ala. LEXIS 124; 2015 WL 5725111
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Murdock
- **Judges:** Bolin, Bryan, Main, Moore, Murdock, Parker, Shaw, Stuart, Wise
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

MURDOCK, Justice
(concurring in the result).
In my view, Act No, 2012-293, Ala. Acts 2012, effectively repealed, rather than amended, the statutory provision imposing the local 911 charges that are the subject of the plaintiffs’ claims and replaced that statutory provision with one providing for similar, but different, charges. Nonetheless, I concur in the result because the plaintiffs’ right to the charges imposed by the former statute were vested at the time of the repeal of the statute. See Blake v. State ex rel. Going, 178 Ala. 407, 411 , 59 So. 623, 625 (1912) (noting the “general rule” that “when a statute is repealed it stands as if it had never existed, except as to vested rights which have accrued under its operation”).

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