The Governor, by a request in writing, or either house of the Legislature, by a resolution of such house, may obtain a written opinion of the justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama or a majority thereof on important constitutional questions.
Ala. Code § 12-2-10
Advisory Opinions on Constitutional Questions - How Opinion Obtained.
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 782 So. 2d 582 - Duplantis v. Louisiana Bd. of Ethics (2001)
Most recently applied in In re Interrogatories on Senate Bill 21-247 Submitted by the Colorado General Assembly (June 2021)
(Acts 1923, No. 43, p. 25; Code 1923, §10290; Code 1940, T. 13, §34.)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.