Opinion ID: 1854992
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Heading: The Act violates Section 45 of the Constitution.

Text: Appellants have listed nine provisions of Act 2079 which they contend are not contained in the title of the Act. They have picked out provisions which require the proceedings of the Authority to be recorded in a well-bound book, that each director may receive $25.00 for attendance at each meeting, that the Authority may receive and accept grants, and other similar provisions. The necessary scope of the title of an Act, in order to meet the requirements of Section 45, is stated in Opinion of the Justices, 262 Ala. 345, 349, 81 So.2d 277, 281 (1955).    It is sufficient to say that the title of an act need not be an index to it nor need it catalogue all powers intended to be bestowed. When the subject is expressed in the title in general terms, everything which is necessary to make a complete enactment in regard to it, or which results as a complement of the thought contained in the general expression, is included in and authorized by it. Kendrick v. Boyd, 255 Ala. 53, 51 So.2d 694; Dearborn v. Johnson, 234 Ala. 84, 173 So. 864. The Act this Court upheld in Knight v. West Alabama Environmental Improvement Authority, 287 Ala. 15, 246 So.2d 903 (1971) is similar to the Act here in question. The discussion in Knight is apt for disposition of appellants' assignment of error on this point.