Alabama § 22-30B-15 - Confidentiality of Fee Reports; Exception; Penalty; Refusal of Assistant or Agent of Department of Revenue to Perform Duties; Penalty.

§ 22-30B-15. Confidentiality of Fee Reports; Exception; Penalty; Refusal of Assistant or Agent of Department of Revenue to Perform Duties; Penalty.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to print or publish in any manner whatever the fee report of any operator or any part thereof or the fees due thereon or to divulge to any person, except persons required or authorized to collect or audit or assist in collecting or auditing the reports or to use the information contained in any such report or acquired in auditing any such report or enforcing the provisions of this chapter for any purpose except for the audit of such report and collection of the fee imposed by this chapter, unless the fee thereby imposed becomes delinquent; any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not to exceed $500.00 or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 90 days, one or both for each offense, and upon conviction thereof any such person shall thereafter be ineligible to hold the office of commissioner or become or be an employee or agent of the Department of Revenue or under the Department of Revenue; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to exchanges of information between the Alabama Department of Revenue and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management when used for the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter.

(b) Any assistant or agent of the Department of Revenue who shall willfully refuse to perform the duties imposed upon him by this chapter or by the Department of Revenue shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not exceeding $500.00 or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 90 days, one or both, for each offense.

(c) All reports and information secured by officials or employees of the Department of Revenue for the purpose of arriving at fees shall be kept under lock and key by the Department of Revenue, and any official or employee of the state or of any county who shall divulge the contents thereof except under order of court shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be punishable as provided by law, and any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter shall thereafter be ineligible to hold the office of commissioner or become or be an employee or agent of the Department of Revenue.