Ala. Code § 45-8-84.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8 / Section 45-8-84.20
Section 45-8-84.20 Indexing System; Special Indexing Fee
Status: in_force

(a) The provisions of this section shall apply only in Calhoun County. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Calhoun County by providing for the installation of an improved system of indexing of instruments and documents affecting the title to real and personal property that are recorded in the office of the judge of probate and for the indexing of other instruments, documents, and other uses in the discretion of the judge of probate.

(b) The following words and phrases, including plural of any thereof, whenever used in this section, shall have the following respective meanings:

(1) “Real property instrument” means and includes any instrument or document affecting the title to real property that may now or hereafter be filed for record in the probate office pursuant to the applicable requirements of the laws of this state, including but without limitation to Section 12-13-43, and all statutes providing for the filing and recording of notices or statements of liens of any kind, notices of judgment, and plats or maps showing subdivisions of real estate.

(2) “General property instrument” means a real property instrument that affects the title to personal property as well as real property.

(3) “Personal property instrument” means any instrument or document affecting the title to personal property only (as distinguished from real property) that may be now or hereafter titled for record in the probate office, in accordance with the applicable requirements of the law of this state, including and particularly Sections 35-4-50 and 35-4-90.

(4) “Improved indexing system” means a system of indexing real property instruments and personal property instruments in the probate office, and in the discretion of the judge of probate, of indexing other instruments and documents, which system when completed, will consist of equipment necessary and suitable to prepare and index records.

(c) The judge of probate is hereby authorized to provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved indexing system in the probate offices of the county. The initial installation of the improved indexing system shall include the following:

(1) The acquisition of the equipment provided for in the definition hereinabove set forth of an improved indexing system;

(2) The establishment of procedures for the continued indexing and filing of all instruments and records that will, after the effective installation date, constitute a part of the improved indexing system;

(3) The initial installation of the improved indexing system shall be performed by a person or persons, firm, or corporation engaged in records management business and experienced in setting up county records; and such initial installation shall be supervised and inspected by a person who is experienced in handling records pertaining to abstracts and title. Following its installation in the county, the improved indexing system shall be thereafter maintained in the county and all real property instruments, general property instruments, and personal property instruments and other documents and records herein provided to constitute a part of the system, that may be thereafter filed for record in the probate office of the county shall be in accordance with the aforesaid improved indexing system. Each real property instrument and each personal property instrument shall be operative as a record from the time of its delivery to the judge of probate of the county, in accordance with the provisions of existing law, including particularly Section 12-13-43.

(d) Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records provided herein to be indexed with computer-generated indexes to be filed in binders, shall constitute the official record of such instruments for the purpose of Section 12-13-43.

(e) All provisions of the laws of Alabama with respect to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, general property instruments, miscellaneous instruments, and other instruments and records that may constitute part of an improved indexing system installed hereunder (including without limitation to the provisions of Section 12-13-43 and the provisions of all statutes respecting the filing and recording of notices or statements of liens of any kind, notices of Lis Pendens, declarations of claims or exemption, certificates of judgment, or plats or maps showing subdivisions of real estate) that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section shall continue in effect with respect to an improved indexing system installed hereunder, the recording of the instruments therein, and the duties of the judge of probate with respect thereto.

(f) Thirty days after May 21, 1996, a special indexing fee of three dollars ($3) shall be paid to the county, and collected by the judge of probate with respect to each real property instrument and each personal property instrument that may be filed for record in the office of the judge of probate and for the indexing of other instruments and documents in the probate office, in the discretion of the judge of probate in the county, and, on and after such date, no instrument may be received for record in the office of the judge of probate unless the special indexing fee shall be paid. The special indexing fee shall be in addition to all other fees, taxes, and charges required by law to be paid upon the filing for record of any real property instrument or personal property instrument and for the indexing of other instruments and documents in the probate office in the discretion of the judge of probate in the county. All special indexing fees collected shall be deposited by the judge of probate to any bank in Calhoun County and spent by the judge of probate for the improvement of the services of the office of the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County.

(g) The fees collected under the provisions of this section shall be controlled by the sole discretion of the judge of probate and shall be audited by the Examiners of Public Accounts. The expenditures shall be open to the public on a continuous basis.
Ala. Code § 45-17A-83.06 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 17A / Section 45-17A-83.06
Section 45-17A-83.06 Accountant; Duties of Accountant
Status: in_force

The board shall appoint, on mutually agreeable terms, a duly licensed certified public accountant or firm to make an annual audit of all books and accounts of the board, covering the period since the preceding examination, and to present a written report to the board of the findings at its first meeting following completion of the report. The original audit shall be maintained in the official records of the board and a copy shall be delivered to the offices of the City Clerk of Tuscumbia. (Act 2007-502, §7.)
Ala. Code § 45-49-249.04 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-249.04
Section 45-49-249.04 Purchase of Stamps; Records
Status: in_force

(a)It shall be the duty of each wholesale dealer or jobber who sells, stores, or delivers cigarettes to retail sellers in this county to affix to each package of cigarettes sold or delivered in the county the designated stamp. Each wholesaler or jobber who desires to do so may purchase the stamps from the county commission of the county at a 10 percent discount on the entire amount of sale when the purchases are made in quantities of two hundred dollars ($200) or more. The discount allowed hereby will be compensation to the wholesale dealer or jobber for the cost of affixing the stamp to the cigarettes and for the keeping of the records required by this subpart. All other persons, except such wholesale dealers, or jobbers, must pay the full face amount for stamps, and no person, wholesaler, jobber, or dealer, shall be entitled to purchase any such number of stamps as would cause the purchase price to include a fraction of a cent. Between the first day and the tenth day of each calendar month, each wholesaler or jobber selling, storing, or delivering cigarettes for retail in this county, shall submit to the county commission, on a form provided for the same by the county commission, a sworn statement setting forth the amount of sales of cigarettes made in Mobile County, during the preceding calendar month, to whom the sales were made, and designating the sales as being within the city limits of the cities or towns located within the county, when such sales are made therein, or designating the sales as rural if sold outside of the city limits of the municipalities or towns located within the county.

(b) Each seller, wholesaler, jobber, or retailer shall keep complete records of all purchases, sales, receipts, inventories, and all other matters necessary to determine the correct amount of license tax for which he or she is liable. In the event a seller discontinues his or her business, he or she shall not dispose of his or her records without giving the county commission 30 days’ notice in writing.

(c) The seller’s records, books of accounts, bank deposit books, and bank statements shall be open, during reasonable hours at the place of business of the seller, for inspection and examination by the county commission, or its agent, or such other person as may be designated under any rule or regulation adopted and promulgated by the County Commission of Mobile County.

(d) In the event the amount of tax due by the seller cannot be accurately determined from the seller’s monthly report, or if the seller does not keep adequate records, or if he or she refuses to allow an examination of his or her records, the amount of tax due may be determined from any other information or data available, and the amount of the tax so determined shall be assessed against the seller. Notice of such assessment shall be given to the seller and a demand made for immediate payment.

(e) No person shall divulge any information obtained by him or her in the course of an inspection and examination of the records of any seller, except to a person duly authorized by the county or municipal governing body, the county attorney, or any others connected with the administration of this subpart, unless he or she is required to do so by an order of competent court.
Ala. Code § 45-37-82.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37 / Section 45-37-82.01
Section 45-37-82.01 Deputy District Attorneys - Appointment; Compensation
Status: in_force

(a) In the Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bessemer Division, the elected assistant district attorney of the circuit may appoint 16 deputy district attorneys. The deputy district attorneys appointed pursuant to this section shall be qualified to practice law in the courts of this state and shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing elected assistant district attorney. The deputy district attorneys shall be state officers and shall perform the duties in the circuit as the elected assistant district attorney may require.

(b) The elected assistant district attorney may designate one deputy district attorney to serve as chief deputy district attorney, four deputy district attorneys to serve as Level I deputy district attorneys, five deputy district attorneys to serve as Level II deputy district attorneys, and six deputy district attorneys to serve as Level III deputy district attorneys.

(c) The total annual compensation to be received by each deputy district attorney shall be computed by the use of levels and steps. Levels shall refer to the amount of legal experience which each deputy district attorney had at the time of appointment to the office. It is intended to entitle an attorney with applicable legal experience to commence the office at a higher rate of pay than one who has less applicable legal experience. Steps shall refer to the amount of time that the deputy district attorney has served in the office as deputy district attorney or the length of time that the officer shall continue. It is intended by this provision to allow periodic increases in pay as incentive for the officer to continue to serve in the office; however, the elected assistant district attorney shall have the authority to designate the level and step, at the time of appointment, of any appointed deputy district attorneys authorized by this section.

(d) The annual compensation to be paid the chief deputy district attorney, one deputy district attorney designated as Level I deputy district attorney, one deputy district attorney designated as Level II deputy district attorney, and one deputy district attorney designated as Level III deputy district attorney shall be as provided in the schedule of salaries set out in subsection (g). Of the total annual compensation to be paid each of the four deputy district attorneys, each shall be paid an annual salary by the State of Alabama of twelve thousand nine hundred dollars ($12,900), payable from the general funds of the state in equal installments as the salaries of other state officers are paid. The remainder of the annual compensation as provided in the schedule of salaries set out in subsection (g), of each of the four deputy district attorneys, shall be paid by the county within the Tenth Judicial Circuit, which sum shall be paid from the general funds of the county, in equal semimonthly installments as the salaries of other county officers are paid.

(e) The annual compensation to be paid to three deputy district attorneys designated as Level I deputy district attorneys, four deputy district attorneys designated as Level II deputy district attorneys, and five deputy district attorneys designated as Level III deputy district attorneys shall be as provided in the schedule of salaries set out in subsection (g). The compensation shall be paid by the county within the Tenth Judicial Circuit, which sum shall be paid from the general funds of the county, in equal semimonthly installments as the salaries of other officers are paid.

(f) The deputy district attorneys appointed by the elected assistant district attorney to serve in the positions identified in subsection (b) shall be compensated at the rate consistent with their appointment in accordance with the schedule of salaries set out by subsection (g). Thereafter, increases in compensation for each deputy district attorney may be made annually within the grade scale set out in the schedule of salaries in subsection (g), provided the performance of the deputy district attorney has been satisfactory to the elected assistant district attorney. The elected assistant district attorney shall also have the authority to assign any of the deputy district attorneys to the Level I, Level II, and Level III positions as the elected assistant district attorney deems appropriate, within the limitations of subsection (b).

(g) The schedule of salaries, referred to below, consisting of levels and steps, shall be as follows:

(h) The compensation provided by this section shall become effective on October 1, 1997. The county governing body of the county or counties within the Tenth Judicial Circuit may increase the compensation payable by the county or counties within the Tenth Judicial Circuit as provided in the schedule of salaries at any time by resolution of the governing body. Upon passage of the resolution, the additional compensation shall be paid from the general funds of the county in semimonthly installments as the salaries of other county officers are paid.

(i) On or after July 1, 2022, subject to approval by the Jefferson County Commission, an additional deputy district attorney designated as a Level III deputy district attorney, shall be appointed and compensated in accordance with this section.
Ala. Code § 45-57-170.23 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 57 / Section 45-57-170.23
Section 45-57-170.23 Abatement
Status: in_force

(a) If the real property owner has not abated the nuisance within 60 days of the notice from the county employee, or a reasonable time agreed upon by the county employee and the property owner, the county employee shall report to the county commission that a public nuisance exists.

(b) The county commission, by resolution, if the proof is satisfactory, shall declare the condition to be a public nuisance.

(c) The resolution shall refer to the street or road by the name under which it is commonly known and describe the property upon which the nuisance exists by giving a legal description of the real property.

(d) After the county commission passes the resolution, the resolution shall be conspicuously posted as a ‘‘Notice to Abate Public Nuisance’’ in front of the property on which the nuisance exists.

(e) The ‘‘Notice to Abate Public Nuisance’’ shall have substantially the following form:

“NOTICE TO ABATE PUBLIC NUISANCE “Notice is hereby given that on the ____ day of ___ , 2__, the county commission passed a resolution declaring that a public nuisance exists upon the real property on ___ (street) (road) in the county, more particularly described in the resolution. The public nuisance must be abated by its removal by the owner or the county commission, and if the county commission abates the nuisance the cost of the removal shall be assessed upon the property from which the public nuisance is removed. The cost shall constitute a lien upon the property until paid. A copy of the resolution of the county commission is attached. “Any owners of the real property having any objections to the proposed removal of the public nuisance are notified to attend a meeting of the county commission to be held (date, time, and location), when their objections will be heard and given due consideration. “Dated this ___ day of __, 2 ___ , (County Name), By ____ (county authority).” (f) The notice shall be posted on the manufactured dwelling or any other dwelling at least 10 days prior to the time for hearing objections by the county commission. In addition, a notice shall be mailed to the owner of the real property at least 10 days before the meeting at which objections will be heard. A notice mailed to the person last assessed for real property taxes due on the real property according to the records of the county revenue commissioner shall be conclusively presumed to be adequate and to comply with these requirements.

“Notice is hereby given that on the ____ day of ___ , 2__, the county commission passed a resolution declaring that a public nuisance exists upon the real property on ___ (street) (road) in the county, more particularly described in the resolution. The public nuisance must be abated by its removal by the owner or the county commission, and if the county commission abates the nuisance the cost of the removal shall be assessed upon the property from which the public nuisance is removed. The cost shall constitute a lien upon the property until paid. A copy of the resolution of the county commission is attached.

“Any owners of the real property having any objections to the proposed removal of the public nuisance are notified to attend a meeting of the county commission to be held (date, time, and location), when their objections will be heard and given due consideration.

“Dated this ___ day of __, 2 ___ , (County Name), By ____ (county authority).”

(f) The notice shall be posted on the manufactured dwelling or any other dwelling at least 10 days prior to the time for hearing objections by the county commission. In addition, a notice shall be mailed to the owner of the real property at least 10 days before the meeting at which objections will be heard. A notice mailed to the person last assessed for real property taxes due on the real property according to the records of the county revenue commissioner shall be conclusively presumed to be adequate and to comply with these requirements.
Ala. Code § 45-16-100 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 16 / Section 45-16-100
Section 45-16-100 Board of Education - Expense Allowance
Status: in_force

In Coffee County, in lieu of any and all other expense allowances of any nature whatsoever heretofore authorized, each member of the county board of education shall be entitled to receive a total expense allowance of two hundred dollars ($200) per month. Such expense allowance shall be payable from any available educational funds and made in the same manner as compensation or salary received by school board members.
Ala. Code § 45-19-70.04 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 19 / Section 45-19-70.04
Section 45-19-70.04 Chair of Commission; Compensation
Status: in_force

Beginning with the term of office which commences in November, 2000, the five members of the Coosa County Commission shall elect from among themselves a chair who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The chair and each commissioner shall receive salary as provided in Section 11-3-4.1. In the event of a vacancy in the office of chair during a term of office, the members of the commission shall select a chair from among themselves to complete the term of office. Immediately upon selection of a chair, the judge of probate shall cease to be an ex officio member and chair of the county commission. The chair shall have and exercise all of the powers, duties, limitations, and responsibilities given to the chair of the county commission by general law or by local law. The chair, with approval of the county commission, shall manage the daily operation of the county commission.
Ala. Code § 45-37-123.190 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37 / Section 45-37-123.190
Section 45-37-123.190 Merger, Consolidation, or Transfer of Assets
Status: in_force

(a) This plan may be merged or consolidated with any other qualified plan or its assets or liabilities transferred to any other qualified plan as determined by the Legislature or the county.

(b) A member, with the approval of the pension board, may elect to transfer, in cash, amounts from his or her account under a § 457(b), Internal Revenue Code, plan in accordance with such rules and regulations as the pension board may establish from time to time. Unless otherwise determined by the pension board, any such amounts transferred from a § 457(b), Internal Revenue Code plan shall be treated as employee contributions for purposes of the plan.
Ala. Code § 45-48-81 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 48 / Section 45-48-81
Section 45-48-81 Compensation
Status: in_force

The County Commission of Marshall County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to pay to the Judge of the District Court of the Twenty- seventh Judicial Circuit commencing October 1, 1985, a supplement to the state salary of the district judge in the same percentage amount as is paid by the county to a judge of the Circuit Court of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit.
Ala. Code § 45-39-243.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 39 / Section 45-39-243.07
Section 45-39-243.07 Actual Payment Deemed a Credit Against Amount Due
Status: in_force

The acceptance of any amount paid for the excise tax imposed under this part shall not preclude the collection of the amount actually due. However, the amount actually paid shall constitute a credit against the amount actually due.
Ala. Code § 45-16-82.66 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 16 / Section 45-16-82.66
Section 45-16-82.66 Amnesty Period
Status: in_force

There shall be an amnesty period of 60 days after July 17, 1995, during which any person may voluntarily pay in full any duly assessed court costs, fines, victim compensation assessments, bail bond forfeitures, penalty payments, restitution, or like payments in default. Commencing with the sixty-first day after July 17, 1995, the enforcement and collection procedures provided in this subpart shall be implemented.
Ala. Code § 45-52-150.13 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 52 / Section 45-52-150.13
Section 45-52-150.13 Applicability of Other Laws
Status: in_force

Any other law providing a penalty or disability on a person who conducts or participates in bingo games, who possesses equipment used in conducting bingo, who permits bingo to be conducted on his or her premises, or who performs other acts in connection with bingo, shall not apply to the conduct when done pursuant to this article or rules adopted under this article.
Ala. Code § 45-41-72.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-72.02
Section 45-41-72.02 Assessment Bank
Status: in_force

The list shall be entered in a well-bound book or loose-leaf book firmly bound, prepared for that purpose, and shall contain appropriate columns in which payments may be credited and the lien of the assessment satisfied by the tax collector of the county. The book shall be known as the assessment book for county improvements and shall be a public record. No error or mistake in regard to the name of the owner shall be held to invalidate any assessment, and it shall be sufficient if the name of the person in whose name the property was last assessed for taxes for state taxation is shown in the book.
Ala. Code § 45-16-200 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 16 / Section 45-16-200
Section 45-16-200 Powers and Duties of County License Inspector Transferred
Status: in_force

In Coffee County, notwithstanding Section 40-12-10, and any other general or local law of this state effective at the expiration of the current term of county license inspector, or when a vacancy occurs in the office, no person shall be appointed to the position of county license inspector of or for Coffee County. The position of county license inspector in the county is hereby abolished and the powers, duties, and functions of the office shall henceforth be vested in and performed by the sheriff of the county. All fines, fees, and penalties heretofore paid to the license inspector for the performance of his or her duties of office shall be paid into the general fund of the county.
Ala. Code § 45-34-82.11 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 34 / Section 45-34-82.11
Section 45-34-82.11 Violations; Waiver
Status: in_force

(a) If the offender violates the conditions of the pretrial diversion program agreed to in writing by the offender and the district attorney, the district attorney may terminate the participation of the offender. The offender shall be given written notice of the intent of the district attorney to terminate him or her from the pretrial diversion program, including the reason for the termination.

(b) The district attorney may waive a violation for good cause shown why the offender should stay in the pretrial diversion program.
Ala. Code § 45-33-242.31 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 33 / Section 45-33-242.31
Section 45-33-242.31 Tax to Added to Sale Price of Tobacco Products
Status: in_force

Every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells, stores, or receives for the purpose of selling or storing in Hale County, any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and smoking tobacco products shall add the amount of the license or privilege tax levied and assessed to the price of the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and smoking tobacco products. It is the purpose and intent of this section that the tax levied is, in fact, a levy on the consumer with the person, firm, corporation, club, or association, that sells or stores or receives for the purpose of distributing the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and smoking tobacco products, acting merely as an agent for the collection of the tax. The dealer, storer, or distributor shall state the amount of the tax separately from the price of the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and smoking tobacco products, on all price display signs, sales or delivery slips, bills, and statements which advertise or indicate the price of the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and smoking tobacco products.
Ala. Code § 45-48-121.15 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 48 / Section 45-48-121.15
Section 45-48-121.15 Violations
Status: in_force

Any merit employee who willfully violates this part, or any rule or regulation issued in pursuance hereof, shall be dismissed from service under the system and shall not be reappointed or reemployed for two years.
Ala. Code § 45-49-80 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-80
Section 45-49-80 Administrative Secretary for Circuit Judge Assigned to Department of Investigation and Recovery
Status: in_force

The circuit judge assigned to the Department of Investigation and Recovery of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit may appoint a qualified person to serve as an administrative secretary in the department of investigation and recovery, provided that any such person employed under the terms of this section shall serve at the pleasure of the circuit judge and it shall be at the discretion of the circuit judge as to whether such administrative secretary shall be included in any civil service or merit system which may exist in Mobile County, provided that the salary of such secretary not be less than the salary paid for a comparable position under any such civil service or merit system. The salary shall be payable in equal monthly installments upon warrants drawn in the same manner prescribed for payment of compensation of county employees.
Ala. Code § 45-23-11.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 23 / Section 45-23-11.01
Section 45-23-11.01 Judge of Probate; Revenue Commissioner; Sheriff
Status: in_force

(a) Commencing March 1, 2005, the Judge of Probate, Revenue Commissioner, and Sheriff of Dale County shall receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. This expense allowance shall be payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county.

(b) Beginning with the expiration of the term of the incumbent Judge of Probate, Revenue Commissioner, and Sheriff of Dale County, the annual salary for the Judge of Probate, Revenue Commissioner, and Sheriff of Dale County shall be increased by five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county and at that time, subsection (a) shall become null and void.
Ala. Code § 45-57-82.53 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 57 / Section 45-57-82.53
Section 45-57-82.53 Contracting with Other Agencies
Status: in_force

The district attorney may utilize the services of the Russell County Drug Court and Russell County Community Corrections and may contract with any other agency, person, or corporation for services related to this subpart and may employ such persons as necessary to accomplish this subpart.
Ala. Code § 45-22-120.12 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 22 / Section 45-22-120.12
Section 45-22-120.12 County Road System Employees
Status: in_force

In the event that the county commission shall become responsible for the construction and maintenance of the roads of the county, then in such event any employee who has previously acquired permanent status with the state personnel system with the State Department of Transportation and who shall transfer to the employ of Cullman County shall be subject to any probationary period adopted by the Cullman County Commission; provided, however, that any such employee may, within six months of such employment with the county, transfer without prejudice back to the employ of the State Department of Transportation without loss of pay status or any other benefit or right as such employee previously had as such state employee.
Ala. Code § 45-12-30 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 12 / Section 45-12-30
Section 45-12-30 Choctaw County Medical Scholarship Board
Status: in_force

(a)(1) There is hereby created in Choctaw County a board to be called the “Choctaw County Medical Scholarship Board” which shall be composed of six members as herein provided. The Choctaw County Commission shall collectively select three members whose terms shall be coterminous with those of the county commission members; and the governing body of the City of Butler, Alabama, shall collectively select three members whose terms shall be coterminous with those of the Butler governing body members. Vacancies shall be filled by the respective governing bodies for the remaining term or terms in the same manner as original members are selected.

(2) The board shall annually select from among its members a chair and a vice chair and a treasurer; the chair shall preside over meetings of the board and the vice chair shall preside in his or her absence. The treasurer shall keep a full accounting of the receiving and granting of monies under the scholarship program. Formal action of the board shall require a majority vote of the board. The board shall meet at least once a year and such other times as may be called by the chair.

(b) The board is hereby authorized to adopt such rules, guidelines, and regulations as are necessary to effectuate a program of medical scholarship awards to deserving residents of Choctaw County.

(c) The board is hereby authorized to adopt bylaws to govern the election of officers, to govern the conduct of meetings, and to govern generally the conduct of its business.

(d) The Choctaw County Commission is hereby authorized to appropriate such funds as may be available from the county general fund to the board for the use of implementing and maintaining the medical scholarship program herein created.

(e) The City Council of the City of Butler is hereby authorized to appropriate such funds as may be available from the city general fund to the board for the use of implementing and maintaining the medical scholarship program herein created.

(f) The board is hereby authorized to accept funds from private sources for the use of implementing and maintaining the medical scholarship program herein created.
Ala. Code § 45-8A-71.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8A / Section 45-8A-71.02
Section 45-8A-71.02 Exemptions
Status: reserved

REPEALED BY ACT 2024-228, EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2024.
Ala. Code § 45-57-243.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 57 / Section 45-57-243.02
Section 45-57-243.02 Tax Levy Payment Due Date
Status: in_force

(a) The taxes levied by this part, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be due and payable to the state Department of Revenue on or before the 20th day of the month next succeeding the month in which the tax accrues. On or before the 20th day of each month after June 1, 1989, every person on whom the tax is levied by this part shall render to the department on a form prescribed by the department, a true and correct statement showing the gross proceeds of the business subject to the the tax for the then preceding month, together with such other information as the department may demand and require; and at the time of making the monthly report the taxpayer shall compute and pay to the department the amount of taxes shown to be due; provided, however, that any person subject to the tax who conducts any business on a credit basis may defer reporting and paying the tax until after the person has received payment for the items, articles, or accommodations furnished; and in the event he or she so defers reporting and paying any such taxes he or she shall thereafter include in each monthly report all credit collections made during the then preceding month and shall pay the amount of taxes computed thereon at the time of filing the report.

(b) It shall be the duty of every person engaged or continuing in any business subject to the taxes levied by this part to keep and preserve suitable records of the gross proceeds of the business and such other books or accounts as may be necessary to determine the amount of tax for which he or she is liable under this part. The records shall be kept and preserved for a period of two years and shall be open for examination at any time by the state Department of Revenue or by any duly authorized agent, deputy, or employees of the department.

(c) Any person who fails to pay the tax levied by this part within the time required by this part shall pay in addition to the tax a penalty of 10 percent of the amount of tax due, together with interest thereon from the date on which the tax became due and payable at the rate due and payable on the state lodgings tax, the penalty and interest to be assessed and collected as a part of the tax; provided, however, that the department, if good and sufficient reason be shown, may waive or remit the penalty or any portion thereof.
Ala. Code § 45-42A-23.03 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 42A / Section 45-42A-23.03
Section 45-42A-23.03 Duties of Commission
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the commission to pass upon the appropriateness of:

(1) The exterior architectural features of buildings and structures to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, renovated, or restored within any historic preservation district, except as hereinafter provided.

(2) The removal or demolition of any structure or building within any historic preservation district.

(3) The erection of any sign within any historic preservation district, provided, however, that passing on the appropriateness of a marker identifying the address and occupants of a residence shall not be within the province of the commission.
Ala. Code § 45-57A-63.194 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 57A / Section 45-57A-63.194
Section 45-57A-63.194 Contracts Extending Beyond One Year
Status: in_force

No contract involving the payment of money out of the appropriation of more than one year shall be made for a period of more than five years, nor shall any contract be valid unless made or approved by ordinance, and signed in the name of the city by the mayor and countersigned by the manager.
Ala. Code § 45-15-230 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 15 / Section 45-15-230
Section 45-15-230 Sale of Abandoned, Stolen, and Unclaimed Property
Status: in_force

(a) The Sheriff of Cleburne County, Alabama, shall sell at public auction, in the manner provided in this section, abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the Sheriff’s Department of Cleburne County which property has remained unclaimed by the rightful owner thereof for a period of six consecutive months.

(b) The Sheriff of Cleburne County shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the Sheriff’s Department of Cleburne County, which records shall state the description of the property, the date of recovery of the property, the serial or other identifying number of the property, and the place of recovery of the property. Such records shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times. All abandoned or stolen property recovered by the Sheriff’s Department of Cleburne County shall be stored in a suitable place to protect the same from deterioration; provided, that if the property be of a perishable nature, after reasonable attempts have been made to locate and identify the owner thereof, if such attempts be unsuccessful, the same shall be sold at once without notice in which case the proceeds shall be held for a period of six months for the account of the owner and if not called for within that period of time, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale of such property, shall be paid into the General Fund of Cleburne County.

(c) At least every six months, the Sheriff of Cleburne County shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash all abandoned or stolen personal property which has been recovered by the Sheriff’s Department of Cleburne County, and has remained unclaimed by the rightful owner thereof after a period of six months. The sales are to be made after notice thereof shall have been given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in Cleburne County once a week for two successive weeks or by posting such notice in a conspicuous place at the Cleburne County Courthouse for a period of at least 20 days prior to such sale. Such notice shall contain the place, date, and time of each such auction and shall further contain a description of each item of personal property to be sold at the auction. If publication of such notice be made by publication in the newspaper, the first notice shall run at least 20 days prior to the auction.

(d) The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Cleburne County Sheriff’s Department may redeem the same at any time prior to its sale by paying any reasonable expenses incurred in the recovery of the property, its maintenance and storage, and a pro rata share of the costs, if any, of publication of notice of the sale of the property.

(e) Whenever any property is sold at public auction as provided in this section, a notation in the storage record book shall be made of the fact of the sale and of the amount received for such property. All sales shall be cash. The person making the sale shall have the right to reject any and all bids if the amount bid be unreasonably low and shall have the right to continue the sale from time to time if no bidders are present.

(f) The proceeds from any auction conducted under the authority of this section, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale of property sold at such auction, shall be paid into the General Fund of Cleburne County.
Ala. Code § 45-35A-54.34 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 35A / Section 45-35A-54.34
Section 45-35A-54.34 Examination of Books and Accounts
Status: in_force

At the end of each year the board of commissioners shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books and accounts of the city to be made by competent accountants, and shall publish the result of such examination in the manner above provided for publication of statements of quarterly expenditures; and the Governor may at any time, have all the books and accounts of such city examined by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, the cost of such examination to be paid by such city upon the presentation to the president of the board of commissioners of the city of a duly verified statement of such expenses made by the department, approved by the Governor.
Ala. Code § 45-42-231.22 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 42 / Section 45-42-231.22
Section 45-42-231.22 Booking Fee
Status: in_force

(a) A booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed against and collected from each individual booked or incarcerated in the Limestone County Jail and subsequently convicted. The fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any fines, court costs, or other charges imposed.

(b) The booking fee imposed by this section shall be assessed against a defendant upon conviction by a court of law. The clerk of the court shall enter the amount of the fee on the docket sheet and shall collect the fee in the same manner and the same time as court costs.

(c) The revenues derived from the booking fee shall be deposited in the Limestone County Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund to be used by the Sheriff of Limestone County for salaries, training, operational expenses, or other law enforcement uses as determined by the sheriff to best meet the needs of his or her agency. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the fee shall not be deemed a court cost based on collection by the clerk.

(d) In any case where the booking fee is not paid, the district attorney of the county may assist in the collection of the fees in the same manner as court—ordered monies. In addition, the sheriff may contract for the collection of the fees and pay a portion of the fees as a cost for collection.

(e) The sheriff may withhold funds equal to the amount of the booking fee from any funds held while an individual is incarcerated in the Limestone County Jail and those funds may be applied toward any assessment of a booking fee pursuant to this section. Any funds withheld shall be repaid to the defendant if no conviction results after dismissal of all charges or acquittal.
Ala. Code § 45-27-244.06 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 27 / Section 45-27-244.06
Section 45-27-244.06 Mail Order Fee
Status: in_force

The judge of probate shall charge and collect an additional fee of one dollar ($1) for each motor vehicle license tag or decal issued by mail. This fee shall be paid with the mailed request for license tags or decals. Such additional fee shall be paid by the judge of probate into the county general fund, and the actual expense of mailing application forms to the owners of motor vehicles and of mailing tags or decals as hereinabove provided shall be paid from the county general fund, and approved as provided by law. In addition the mailing fee may be adjusted from time to time by the Escambia County Commission as may be necessary to cover the actual costs of mailing the tags or decals.
Ala. Code § 45-29-82.41 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 29 / Section 45-29-82.41
Section 45-29-82.41 Payments to Judicial Administration Fund
Status: in_force

An amount of five hundred dollars ($500) per month shall be paid from the district attorney’s fund in the county where the presiding judge’s office is principally located to the Judicial Administration Fund of the 24th Judicial Circuit.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-350 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-350
Section 45-37A-350 Civil Action by Municipality Regarding Condition of Real Property
Status: in_force

In the City of Mountain Brook in Jefferson County, whenever by reason of the dilapidated, deteriorated, unsafe, or unhealthful condition of real property or any improvements situated thereupon, the municipality files a civil action in any court of the state to compel the owner or occupant of real property to bring the property or improvements into compliance with any statute, ordinance, or regulation establishing, governing, or regulating public health, sanitation, safety, welfare, or minimum standards of human habitability, or to abate or eliminate a public nuisance created by the conditions, the city, if it prevails in the civil action, may recover as a part of its costs in the action its actual and reasonable attorney’s fees and litigation expenses incurred in connection therewith upon a showing by the city that the city afforded the defendant a reasonable opportunity to voluntarily correct or cure the conditions that gave rise to the litigation prior to initiating the civil action and that the defendant failed or refused to do so.
Ala. Code § 45-2A-161 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 2A / Section 45-2A-161
Section 45-2A-161 Warrant Recall Fee
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipal magistrate of the Town of Summerdale may assess a defendant with a warrant recall fee that shall be paid in order for a municipal judge or magistrate to recall a failure to appear warrant arising from any municipal ordinance violation against the Town of Summerdale.

(b) The warrant recall fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100) and is to be paid by the defendant at the time the warrant is recalled.

(c) Nothing herein shall be construed to require the Town of Summerdale to recall a warrant that has been issued. All orders to recall a warrant shall be issued solely in the discretion of the municipal judge or magistrate.

(d) All fees received by the Town of Summerdale Municipal Court for the warrant recall shall be deposited into the Town of Summerdale Corrections Fund and allocated in conformity with subsection (a) of Section 11-47-7.1.
Ala. Code § 45-1-241.03 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 1 / Section 45-1-241.03
Section 45-1-241.03 Oath of Office, Bond
Status: in_force

Before entering upon the duties of office, the county revenue commissioner shall take the oath of office prescribed by Article XVI of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and execute a bond in such sum as may be fixed by Section 40-5-3 for tax collectors in Alabama, giving as security thereon a bonding company authorized to do business in Alabama. The bond shall be conditioned as other official bonds are conditioned and shall be approved by and filed with the judge of probate. The cost of the bond required herein shall be paid out of the general funds of the county on warrant of the county commission, and shall be preferred claim against the county.
Ala. Code § 45-37-60.09 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37 / Section 45-37-60.09
Section 45-37-60.09 Authority of Coroner-Medical Examiner
Status: in_force

There shall be vested in coroners-medical examiners all the authority now or hereafter vested in coroners by the laws of Alabama, including the authority which Section 15-4-1, vests in coroners and to make inquiry of the facts and circumstances of the death of any person who has been killed or has suddenly died under such circumstances as to afford a reasonable ground for belief that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means, and the authority of the section vests in coroners to submit to a judge of a court of record or a district attorney, sworn written statements of witnesses having personal knowledge of such circumstances, and to summon, upon direction of such judge or district attorney, a jury to inquire into the cause and manner of such person’s death.
Ala. Code § 45-51-150.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 51 / Section 45-51-150.07
Section 45-51-150.07 Bingo Games - Fees
Status: in_force

All fees collected by the sheriff under this article shall be paid into the county general fund, and all necessary expenses incurred by the sheriff in the administration and enforcement of this article shall be financed from the county general fund.
Ala. Code § 45-44-260.12 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 44 / Section 45-44-260.12
Section 45-44-260.12 Remedies
Status: in_force

In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or any subdivision is established, or land used in violation of this article or of any regulation made under the authority conferred by this article, the county attorney shall initiate any appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance, or subdivision of the land or use of the land to restrain, correct, or abate such violation, or to prevent the occupancy of any such building, structure, subdivision of land, or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business, or misuse in or upon any premises regulated under the authority conferred by this article. If the county attorney is successful in any proceedings, all court costs and reasonable attorney fees for time spent by the county attorney shall be assessed against the losing violator.
Ala. Code § 45-45A-31.30 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 45A / Section 45-45A-31.30
Section 45-45A-31.30 Liability for Conduct of Offender
Status: in_force

In no event shall the city judge, the city attorney, or any other agency or service provider have any liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender while participating in the pretrial diversion program or for acceptance of an offender into the program.
Ala. Code § 45-1-81.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 1 / Section 45-1-81.02
Section 45-1-81.02 Collection and Disposition of Fees
Status: in_force

Except as hereinafter provided, the judge of probate shall be entitled to charge and collect the same fees that are provided for by law. All such fees shall be the property of the county and shall be paid to the general fund of the county. Refunds for licenses issued by mistake or fact of law and shall be made under the conditions and in the manner prescribed by this code.
Ala. Code § 45-8-200.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8 / Section 45-8-200.02
Section 45-8-200.02 Commissioner of Licenses - Official Seal; Oath; Bond
Status: in_force

The commissioner of licenses shall be a county officer, shall have an official seal of office, and shall maintain his or her permanent office in the county courthouse. Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, the commissioner of licenses shall take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution and enter into bond in such sum as may be fixed by the county governing body, giving as surety thereon a bonding company authorized to do business in this state. The bond shall be approved by the county governing body and filed with and recorded by the judge of probate of the county. All premiums on such bond shall be paid out of the general fund of the county.
Ala. Code § 45-49-150.17 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-150.17
Section 45-49-150.17 Applicability of Other Laws
Status: in_force

Any other law providing a penalty or disability upon a person who conducts or participates in bingo games, who possesses equipment used in conducting bingo, who permits bingo to be conducted on his or her premises, or who does other acts in connection with bingo, shall not apply to such conduct when done pursuant to this part or rules promulgated under this part.
Ala. Code § 45-31-101 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 31 / Section 45-31-101
Section 45-31-101 Expense Allowance; Salary
Status: reserved

REPEALED BY ACT 2025-364, EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2025.
Ala. Code § 45-51A-32.185 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 51A / Section 45-51A-32.185
Section 45-51A-32.185 Rules, Policies, and Procedures
Status: in_force

The rules, policies, and procedures necessary to implement this subpart shall be adopted by the department and approved by the city council by December 1, 2024. The rules, policies, and procedures adopted by the department shall be based on the principle that all employees and applicants shall receive fair and equitable treatment in all aspects of personnel management without regard to political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, and with proper regard for privacy and constitutional rights.
Ala. Code § 45-22-11 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 22 / Section 45-22-11
Section 45-22-11 Expenses for Various County Officials
Status: in_force

The members of the Board of Registrars, Jury Commission, and Board of Equalization in Cullman County shall receive an expense allowance of five dollars ($5) for each day they are in session, which shall be in addition to any other compensation, expense allowance, or salary now received, to be paid from the Cullman County General Fund.
Ala. Code § 45-29-82.74 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 29 / Section 45-29-82.74
Section 45-29-82.74 Advisory Board
Status: in_force

The district attorney may form an advisory board to assist in the determination of appropriate pretrial diversion candidates. The district attorney shall retain the final decision as to the admittance of individuals or administration of the program regardless of the board’s views. It shall be the district attorney’s decision who shall comprise the board and when or if it should meet.
Ala. Code § 45-18-82.24 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 18 / Section 45-18-82.24
Section 45-18-82.24 Compensation of Judge of Probate
Status: in_force

The judge of probate shall receive for the performance of duties in assessment and collection of ad valorem taxes, sales taxes, and issuance of motor vehicle license plates and decals the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) annually. The five thousand dollar ($5,000) annual sum is the compensation he or she receives in addition to that provided under subsection (e) of Section 12-13-20.
Ala. Code § 45-44-244.36 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 44 / Section 45-44-244.36
Section 45-44-244.36 Rulemaking Authority
Status: in_force

The revenue commissioner may prescribe, adopt, promulgate, and enforce reasonable rules and regulations relating to the administration and enforcement of this subpart, including, but not limited to, provisions for the reexamination and correction of returns as to which overpayment or underpayment is claimed or found to have been made, and the regulations so promulgated shall be binding upon all licensees and employers.
Ala. Code § 45-17-80 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 17 / Section 45-17-80
Section 45-17-80 Public Law Library; Librarian and Advisory Committee; Personnel; Law Library Fund; Fee
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body of Colbert County, Alabama, by whatever name called, is hereby authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the county, and to accomplish that purpose, may from time to time, expend such public funds of the county, as are not required by law to be expended for any other purpose or purposes, to provide suitable housing quarters, furniture, fixtures, and equipment therefor, to keep the same in a good state of maintenance and repair, and, from time to time, to enlarge, expand, and improve such library, facilities, and equipment and, from time to time, to provide such books, reports, and periodicals for the library as are not provided therefor out of the special fund created by this section or otherwise, and to pay the salaries of an assistant librarian and such other personnel as may be necessary and proper to operate the same, to the extent that such salaries are not paid out of the proceeds of such special fund; which expenditures shall, from time to time, be made on warrants drawn in the usual manner, upon the county depository payable out of appropriate fund or funds.

(b)(1) In order to provide a special fund for the maintenance of the library, there shall be taxed as cost:

a. The sum of one dollar ($1) in each misdemeanor case or case involving the violation of a municipal ordinance other than an ordinance relating to parking vehicles filed in a municipal court;

b. The sum of two dollars ($2) in each criminal case, quasi-criminal case, or civil case filed in the district court;

c. The sum of four dollars ($4) in each criminal case or quasi-criminal case involving a misdemeanor filed in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Colbert County;

d. The sum of four dollars ($4) in each criminal or quasi-criminal case involving a felony and in each civil action, proceeding on a forfeited bail bond, or proceeding on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment of conviction in any inferior court to the Circuit Court of Colbert County, hereafter filed in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Colbert County.

(2) Such costs shall be collected as other costs in such courts are collected and shall be paid by the magistrate, clerk of court, or registers thereof, as the case may be, to the Colbert County Law Library Fund of Colbert County, Alabama.

(c) The management and control of the public law library shall be vested in a librarian, and an advisory committee. Such librarian shall be the presiding Judge of the Thirty-first Judicial Circuit. Such advisory committee shall consist of two members of the Colbert County Bar. The members of such advisory committee shall be elected by the county governing body of Colbert County, Alabama, for such term as may be fixed by such governing body. In all matters involving the expenditure of moneys the concurring consent of one member of such advisory committee shall be necessary.

(d) The sums herein provided to be paid into the county depository of Colbert County, Alabama, shall be kept in a separate fund designated as “Colbert County Public Law Library Fund” and shall be expended by the librarian, by and with the consent of the advisory committee, for maintaining the law library. The librarian shall draw warrants on the county depository for expenditures, indicating on the warrants the fund against which the warrants are drawn. Every warrant drawn by such librarian shall be countersigned by at least one member of the advisory committee. The fund shall be used primarily to lease or purchase, from time to time, under conditional sales contracts in anticipation of future revenue under this section or otherwise as the librarian may deem expedient, such books and periodicals, and to pay the salaries of such personnel, as may in the opinion of the librarian be advisable, but to the extent not so used funds may otherwise be expended for the maintenance of the library. All books or other property purchased with the funds produced by this section shall be the property of Colbert County, Alabama, provided, however, that the librarian may from time to time, sell at public or private sale or exchange any such books, reports, periodicals, and personal property, and apply the proceeds from the sale thereof, or the value thereof, upon the purchase of other books, reports, periodicals, and personal property for use in the library, and the librarian may accept any gift or loan of any books, reports, periodicals, and property for public use in the library upon such terms and conditions as may be stipulated by the donor or lender thereof and as may be agreeable to the librarian. The librarian may appoint such assistant librarian and other personnel as may in his or her opinion be necessary or proper to operate the library, and, to the extent that in the opinion of the librarian the circumstances permit, may require the clerks of the court, and/or the register of the courts, and/or the official reporters of the circuit court and law and equity court to operate the same or to assist therein, either with or without additional compensation therefor from the fund as the librarian shall direct.

(e) The items of cost above referred to shall be designated in the respective courts as “public law library fee” and shall be taxed as other costs are taxed in the courts. On or before the 10th day of each month, the clerk or other collecting officer of the respective courts shall pay to the county depository the amounts collected for the public law library fees previous to the first day of the month.

(f) One-half of all fines and forfeitures hereafter paid between October 1, 1969, and September 30, 1971, by persons convicted in courts of competent jurisdiction within Colbert County of violations of the rules of the road, or the laws of this state relating to or regulating traffic or the operation of motor vehicles upon the highways of this state, shall be paid into the “Colbert County Public Law Library Fund” of Colbert County, and the remainder shall be remitted by the proper authority to the State Treasurer, who shall credit the same to the proper fund in the State Treasury.
Ala. Code § 45-49-252.10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-252.10
Section 45-49-252.10 Title to Solid Waste
Status: in_force

In the absence of an agreement to the contrary specified in a permit or contract with the county, title to all solid waste generated or otherwise found within Mobile County shall vest in the county when it is finally disposed of according to this part and the provisions of the individual permit or contract.
Ala. Code § 45-57-242.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 57 / Section 45-57-242.01
Section 45-57-242.01 Collection and Supervision
Status: in_force

The privilege or license tax authorized by this part shall be collected by, or under the supervision of, the county commission and one-half of the net proceeds of the tax, the term net being that portion remaining after payment of expenses incurred as provided for herein, shall be deposited into the general fund of the county. Of the amount that goes into the general fund one-half of such net proceeds shall be used by the county commission to aid the volunteer fire departments within Russell County which have agreements with the county commission to provide fire protection service and such funds shall be divided on a per department basis. The remaining one-half of the net proceeds shall go to the Russell County Board of Education.
Ala. Code § 45-44-231.46 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 44 / Section 45-44-231.46
Section 45-44-231.46 Employment Criteria
Status: in_force

The board or members of the board shall endeavor to secure employment for eligible inmates under this subpart subject to the following:

(1) Such employment must be at a wage at least as high as the prevailing wage for similar work in the area or community where the work is performed in accordance with the prevailing working conditions in such area.

(2) Such employment shall not result in displacement of employed workers.

(3) Inmates eligible for work release shall not be employed as strikebreakers or in impairing any existing contracts.

(4) Exploitation of eligible inmates, in any form, is prohibited either as it might affect the community, the inmates, or the board.
Ala. Code § 45-35-21 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 35 / Section 45-35-21
Section 45-35-21 Regulation and Sale of Alcoholic Beverages
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to sell or offer for sale any spirituous or vinous liquors in Houston County except at Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control liquor stores and at retail liquor establishments within the corporate limits of the City of Dothan in Houston County and licensed by the general laws of the State of Alabama and also licensed by the City of Dothan as herein provided.

(b) Each licensee of the City of Dothan under this section, in order to be eligible for the license, shall meet all of the licensing prerequisites and requirements of the general laws of the State of Alabama and the rules and regulations of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. It shall be unlawful for any licensee of the City of Dothan, licensed pursuant to this section, to sell or offer for sale any spirituous or vinous liquors without a state and a city license for such privilege.

(c) Nothing herein shall relieve any licensee from complying with all the laws of the State of Alabama and the rules and regulations of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. The authority herein granted to the City of Dothan in Houston County shall be cumulative and shall not relieve or suspend any other power held by the city under the general laws of the State of Alabama concerning the regulation and control of alcoholic beverages, nor shall this section be held to restrict the powers of the cities and towns of this state under the municipal laws of the state.

(d) Until concurrence by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and the State Health Department, no applicant shall be deemed eligible for a license under this section unless it is the holder of all required permits from the State Department of Public Health or division thereof. No establishment shall be eligible for a license under this section unless the same meets the minimum requirements of the fire prevention codes of the State of Alabama and of the incorporated municipality in which it is located.

(e) Alcoholic beverages may be sold, served, or given away by a licensee located in Houston County for on-premise consumption until 2:00 AM on Sunday morning and after 1:00 PM on Sunday afternoon. There shall be no restriction on the gift, sale, service, or consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises in those licensed establishments.

(f) It shall be the duty of each such retail liquor and malt or brewed beverage licensee in Houston County to keep posted in view of the customers or patrons of such establishment, the price of each drink or beverage offered or sold by the establishment and it shall be unlawful at any time such prices are not so posted to the extent allowed by state law. A current price list printed upon the regular menu of a retail restaurant liquor licensee or of an on premises beer licensee or upon a special menu regularly available at the tables of the customers and patrons of the licensee shall be held to comply with this requirement.
Ala. Code § 45-49-120.06 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-120.06
Section 45-49-120.06 Personnel Board
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The personnel board shall consist of five members designated respectively as Member 1, Member 2, Member 3, Member 4, and Member 5, each of whom shall be over 19 years of age, of recognized good character and ability, a qualified elector of Mobile County, and shall not, when appointed nor for three years then next preceding the date of his or her appointment have held elective public office, nor have been a candidate for public office. If any person actively solicits a position on the board, the committee, for this reason, shall refuse to consider his or her appointment. After May 15, 2009, each member shall be a resident of his or her respective district, as hereinafter provided, at the time of his or her appointment and for the duration of his or her term; provided however, that those members in office on May 15, 2009, may serve out the remainder of their then unexpired term without regard to their respective districts of residence. Members shall be appointed from the following districts:

a. Member 1 shall be appointed from personnel board District 1, which shall include the part of Mobile County which is included in House District 96 and all of House District 102.

b. Member 2 shall be appointed from personnel board District 2, which shall include all of House Districts 100 and 101.

c. Member 3 shall be appointed from personnel board District 3, which shall include all of House Districts 97 and 103.

d. Member 4 shall be appointed from personnel board District 4, which shall include all of House Districts 104 and 105.

e. Member 5 shall be appointed from personnel board District 5, which shall include all of House Districts 98 and 99.

(2) The members of the board serving on May 15, 2009, shall serve out their respective terms and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Thereafter, all members shall be appointed for five-year terms. In the event of a vacancy on the board, occasioned by death, resignation, impeachment, or other cause, the vacancy shall be filled by the appointment of a qualified successor by the committee for the then unexpired term. Each member of the board shall receive an expense allowance of six hundred dollars ($600) per month and shall receive sixty dollars ($60) per meeting for each meeting attended, and sixty dollars ($60) per day for attendance upon all trials and hearings by the board. The expense allowance and compensation shall be paid from the same funds as other expenses of the department are paid.

(3) The board shall meet once a month on dates to be fixed by its rules and regulations and as often as shall be necessary for the orderly dispatch of its business.

(b) It shall be the duty of the board as a body:

(1) To select a personnel director as provided in Section 45-49-120.07.

(2) After a public hearing or hearings to adopt and amend rules and regulations for the administration of this part.

(3) After a public hearing or hearings to adopt, modify, or reject such classification and compensation plans for the classified service together with rules for their administration, as may be recommended by the director after a thorough survey by him or her of the personnel and department organizations included in the plan or plans.

(4) To make investigations as, in the board’s opinion, are reasonable, either on petition of a citizen, taxpayer, or party at interest, or of its own motion, concerning the enforcement and effect of this part, and to require observance of its provisions and the rules and regulations made pursuant thereto.

(5) To conduct hearings and to render decisions, as hereinafter provided, on charges preferred against persons in the classified service.

(6) To make investigations as, in the board’s opinion, are reasonable, as may be requested by the governing bodies of the county or of any city therein or by the committee and to report thereon to the governing body or committee requesting same.

(7) To consider and act on any matters referred to the board by the director.

(8) To represent the public interest in the improvement of personnel administration in the classified service.

(9) To formulate and conduct orientation seminars on a regular monthly basis open to all job applicants for the purpose of familiarizing applicants with testing methods, procedures, and general subject range.

(10) To devise and implement various methods of testing as alternatives to written examinations, which may include, among others, oral and applied skills testing.

(11) To advise and assist the director in fostering the interest on institutions of learning, civic, professional, and employee organizations in the improvement of personnel standards in the classified service.

(12) To elect at the regular monthly meeting in April of each year one of its members to serve as chair of the board for the ensuing 12 months. Should the personnel board fail to elect the chair within 30 days after the regular monthly meeting in April of each year, then a chair shall be elected by the committee.

(13) Whenever by law or rules of the personnel board any positions in the service of Mobile County or of any municipality or of any other appointing authority within Mobile County, are duly transferred to and designated as positions in the classified service, or whenever a municipality or other appointing authority shall hereafter become subject to this part, if the municipality or appointing authority at the time of becoming subject to this part had in its employment employees or appointees in positions within the classified service, the personnel board may continue any or all persons employed by the county, a municipality, or other appointing authority in the same positions which they, respectively, held when the positions became subject to this part, without examination. The employees shall thereby be given a permanent status and their continued employment, promotions, and discharges shall in all matters be subject to, and governed by this part. It is the intent of this part that all present employees or appointees of the county, and any municipality, agency, or other appointing authority who were not in the classified service prior to April 8, 2004, in the discretion of the personnel board, may be blanketed in the classified service and continue to hold the same position, which they, respectively, held when the positions became subject to this part. The board shall also have the authority, functions, and duties as provided in other sections of this part. It is further the intent of this part that no employees, appointees of the county, any municipality, agency, or other appointing authority shall be a member of both a collective bargaining unit and the classified service.

(c) In the event that both of the following happens (1) that a municipality or other governmental agency hereafter becomes subject to this part, and (2) that at the time the municipality or other governmental agency becomes subject to this part it then has in its employ employees or appointees who would come within the classified service as defined in this part, the board may extend or grant permanent status to any or all the employees or appointees or require evidence of the fitness and ability it may deem necessary. All employees given permanent status shall thereafter in all matters be subject to and governed by this part and any rules and regulations promulgated hereunder.

(d) The board shall provide a meaningful and orderly procedure for the resolution of employee grievances.

(e) The board may provide an orderly procedure for discussion of matters which will improve and maintain a harmonious employee-employer relationship in all jurisdictions under the Mobile County Personnel Board. The board may establish an employee-management committee for any governmental agency whose employees are under civil service and it shall determine the composition, functions, and operations of the committees. All governmental agencies whose employees are under civil service shall cooperate with the personnel board to further these objectives.

(f) The personnel board has the inherent responsibility for establishing an overall policy relative to the pretraining and development of employees in the public service. The board shall adopt rules and regulations in cooperation with the appointing authorities as well as administrative guidelines to carry out its responsibility hereunder. The various governmental agencies, appointing authorities, and department heads under the jurisdiction of the Mobile County Personnel Board shall cooperate fully with the personnel board in furtherance of these objections so that the disadvantaged will be provided opportunities for employment.

(g) The personnel director, under the supervision of the personnel board, shall be responsible for developing and maintaining programs for improving safety practices and conditions affecting the safety, health, and morale of employees under the Mobile County Personnel System.

(h) The members of the personnel board shall be subject to impeachment for the same causes and in the same manner as other officers, as provided under Section 175 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.
Ala. Code § 45-18-90.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 18 / Section 45-18-90.07
Section 45-18-90.07 Exemption from Regulation and Supervision; Use of Public Roads
Status: in_force

The authority shall be exempt from regulation and supervision by the Public Service Commission and the state Department of Finance. The authority may use public roads in the state.
Ala. Code § 45-26-240 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 26 / Section 45-26-240
Section 45-26-240 Compensation
Status: reserved

REPEALED BY ACT 2024-182, EFFECTIVE MAY 3, 2024.
Ala. Code § 45-57-260 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 57 / Section 45-57-260
Section 45-57-260 Qualified Elector; Term Limits
Status: in_force

There is created the Russell County Planning Commission which shall be composed of 13 members, all of whom shall be over the age of 25 years and each of whom shall be a qualified elector who resides in the county. Except for the members appointed by the Russell County Bar Association and the circuit judge, each appointed member shall reside outside of the corporate limits of any municipality in the county. Seven members shall be appointed by the Russell County Commission. One member shall be appointed by the Russell County Board of Education. One member, who may reside in the county at-large, shall be appointed by the Russell County Bar Association from its membership. One member, who may reside in the county at-large, shall be appointed by the circuit judge. One member shall be the county administrator. One member shall be the chair of the county commission. One member shall be appointed from the county commission at-large. Each member shall serve a term of six years or until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified. Before taking office, each member shall subscribe to an oath as provided by law for public officials, and it shall be recorded in the office of the judge of probate. The initial members of the planning commission, except ex officio members, shall draw lots to determine the period of time each is to serve, and the terms of three shall expire two years from the date of the organization of the planning commission, and the terms of three shall expire four years from the date of the organization of the planning commission, and the terms of four shall expire six years from the date of the organization of the planning commission. In the event of a vacancy on the planning commission, it shall be filled as in the case of the original appointment. All members shall serve without compensation; however, reasonable and necessary expenses of the members shall be paid from the county general fund.
Ala. Code § 45-39-10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 39 / Section 45-39-10
Section 45-39-10 Disclaimer
Status: reserved

(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Lauderdale County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Lauderdale County prior local laws that were amended or affected by a local law enacted after 1978.

(b) It is the purpose of this chapter to state current applicable law. To this end:

(1) This chapter shall not affect the compensation, terms, pension and retirement benefits and rights, and other benefits and rights otherwise provided by law enacted prior to the codification of this chapter.

(2) A condition or requirement for operation or effect of a law included in this chapter, including, but not limited to, voter approval at a referendum, is not superseded by the inclusion of the law in this chapter, and such condition or requirement remains applicable.

(3) This chapter shall not be construed as validating, reenacting, or enacting laws otherwise superseded or repealed by a legislative enactment.

(4) This chapter shall have no effect on any law that is not included or otherwise treated and that law shall have the same effect as the law had prior to the codification of this chapter. The inclusion or exclusion of a law in this chapter is not an implication, inference, or presumption affecting the validity of that law.

(5) This chapter shall not affect any existing right, remedy, or defense. As to all such cases, the applicable laws in force at the adoption of this chapter shall continue in force and application.

(c)(1) The classification and organization of this chapter, the parts, subparts, sections, and other hierarchy units of this chapter, and the headings thereto, are made for the purpose of convenient reference and orderly arrangement, and no implication, inference, or presumption of a legislative construction shall be drawn therefrom.

(2) Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the descriptive headings or catchlines immediately preceding or within the text of the various hierarchy units, except the hierarchy unit numbers included in the headings or catchlines immediately preceding the text of such units, do not constitute part of the law, and shall in no manner limit or expand the construction of any such unit. All historical citations and effective notes set out in this chapter are given for the purpose of convenient reference, and do not constitute part of the law.
Ala. Code § 45-51-243.05 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 51 / Section 45-51-243.05
Section 45-51-243.05 Administration, Enforcement, and Collection of Tax
Status: in_force

The county commission shall administer, enforce, and collect the tax herein authorized to be levied and collected, or shall cause the tax to be administered, enforced, and collected by the State Department of Revenue or a private collection agency at the same time and in the same manner as the state rental tax, pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable provisions of Article 1, commencing with Section 11-3-1, of Chapter 3 of Title 11, except as otherwise provided in this part. All provisions of the state rental tax statutes and all other statutes which expressly apply to, or purport to affect, the administration, enforcement, and collection of the state rental tax, and any related rules of the State Department of Revenue that are not inconsistent with this part when applied to the rental tax, as such statutes and rules may be amended, shall apply to the rental tax and are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set forth herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the county commission or other collection agency shall have the same rights, remedies, power, and authority, including the right to adopt and implement the same procedures, as would be available to the State Department of Revenue if the rental tax was being administered, enforced, and collected by the State Department of Revenue. The county commission may retain or may pay to the State Department of Revenue or a private collection agency, as its fee for the cost of collecting the tax, an amount not to exceed five percent of the gross proceeds of the tax so collected, subject to any limitations provided in the general law of the state; provided, however, that if the county commission or the State Department of Revenue shall administer, enforce, and collect the tax, the amount retained by the county commission or paid to the State Department of Revenue shall not exceed the actual cost of collection, whichever is less.
Ala. Code § 45-8-22 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8 / Section 45-8-22
Section 45-8-22 Special Licenses; Additional Taxes; Maintenance of Records
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, other than the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, to sell at retail in Calhoun County any spirituous or vinous liquors without first obtaining a special license from the judge of probate that shall be in addition to all other licenses required by law. The amount of the special license shall be determined by the county commission and shall be levied in the same manner as other county licenses are levied. Licenses required by this subsection shall expire on September 30th following the date of purchase. All proceeds from sales of the special licenses shall be placed in the general fund of the county.

(b) In addition to all other taxes levied on the possession for sale, or the sale, of alcoholic beverages in Alabama, a tax is levied on the possession for sale, or the sale of, spirituous or vinous beverages in Calhoun County in an amount set by the county commission that shall be a percentage of the purchase price of the beverages and shall be levied in the same manner as other county taxes are levied.

(c) The proceeds of the tax imposed by this section less the costs of issuance, shall be paid into the county general fund and shall be distributed as follows:

(1) Twenty-five percent to the city and county boards of education in the county on the same basis as funds are distributed to the board under the minimum program fund laws.

(2) Fifteen percent to the mental health authority serving the county.

(3) Twelve and one-half percent to be apportioned among the municipalities according to their pro rata collections of the taxes.

(4) Thirty-five percent shall be deposited in a special fund and used by the county commission in its discretion for medical and hospital care for the indigent.

(5) Twelve and one-half percent to the general fund of the county to be used for general county purposes.

(d) The tax authorized by this section shall be collected by the judge of probate who shall be solely responsible for the administration of this section. The judge of probate shall also provide rules, regulations, and administrative procedure for the enforcement and collection of the tax levied by this section. It shall be the duty of the sheriff and other local and state law enforcement officers to enforce the provisions of this section.

(e)(1) No later than the 15th day of the first full calendar month immediately following May 15, 1992, and no later than the 20th day of each calendar month thereafter, each alcoholic beverage licensee subject to this section shall file with the judge of probate a record of the amount of each purchase of spirituous and vinous liquor made by the licensee during the month next preceding together with the name and address of the state wholesale store from which the purchase was made, and the date of the purchase, on forms prescribed and supplied by the judge of probate. Any licensee failing to timely file the reports shall be subject to a penalty in an amount equal to 20 percent of the total purchases delinquently filed.

(2) Any licensee failing, refusing, or omitting to file the required records shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each day the default continues shall constitute a separate offense.

(f)(1) Upon demand by the Calhoun County Judge of Probate or his or her authorized agent, auditor, or representative, any person, firm, or corporation subject to the tax imposed by this section shall furnish, without delay, all information required to determine the correct amount of tax that the person or entity is required to pay under this section. All books of account, invoices, papers, reports, sales receipts, inventories, bank statements, and deposits, and any other information from which the correct amount of tax to be paid may be determined shall be made available during business hours at the place of business of the licensee subject to the tax imposed by this section. Failure or refusal to submit the required information for inspection or examination, upon lawful demand therefor, shall be a Class C misdemeanor, punishable as provided by law.

(2) Any licensee subject to this section who fails to keep and control correct and detailed books of account, invoices, papers, and reports of memoranda that correctly show the date and information necessary for the determination of the correct amount of the tax due, and the required information on sales in the several tax areas, or if, possessing the required information, the licensee fails or refuses to submit and exhibit it for inspection and examination as required, then, the judge of probate may ascertain from the information the amount of tax due from the licensee and assess the tax against the licensee and give notice of the assessment and demand from the licensee immediate payment of the taxes. Failure to pay the taxes within 10 days of receipt of the demand for the taxes shall be a Class C misdemeanor punishable as prescribed by law. Each day of delay in payment shall constitute a separate offense.
Ala. Code § 45-57A-63.141 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 57A / Section 45-57A-63.141
Section 45-57A-63.141 Sale of Notes; Report of Sale
Status: in_force

All notes issued pursuant to this subpart may be sold by the director of finance at not less than par and accrued interest at private sale and without previous advertisement.
Ala. Code § 45-39-40.23 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 39 / Section 45-39-40.23
Section 45-39-40.23 Recordkeeping
Status: in_force

The board shall keep a permanent record of its proceedings. It shall keep a register of applicants for certificates or licenses showing: The name of the applicant, the name and location of his or her place of occupation or business, and whether the applicant was granted or refused a certificate or license. The books and records of the board shall be prima facie evidence of matters therein contained, shall constitute public records, and shall at all reasonable times be open for public inspection.
Ala. Code § 45-37-72.21 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37 / Section 45-37-72.21
Section 45-37-72.21 Resolution for Election Dates; Filling of Vacancies
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (b), within seven days from the occurrence of any vacancy, the election commission, by a majority vote thereof, shall adopt a resolution stating the date of the first primary election which shall be held not less than 45 days nor more than 60 days after the adoption of the resolution and the runoff primary election, if necessary, which shall be held not less than four weeks thereafter. The resolution shall also set the date of the general election which shall be held not less than three weeks nor more than five weeks after the last primary election.

(2) The election commission may schedule the date of the first primary election, a runoff primary election if needed, and the general election on the date of any previously scheduled countywide election, provided the time for holding the election meets the requirements of this section. The ballot used by the judge of probate may be a special ballot used only for an election under this section.

(b) When a vacancy occurs with fewer than six months remaining on the unexpired term, the position shall remain vacant until filled at the next scheduled countywide general election. The election commission may provide for the conduct of a special primary election and runoff primary election if needed for the purposes of qualifying a candidate for the general election.
Ala. Code § 45-5-241 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 5 / Section 45-5-241
Section 45-5-241 Increase of Tax Rate
Status: in_force

(a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

(1) AMENDMENT NO. 3. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act No. 60, S. 130, 1915 Regular Session.

(2) AMENDMENT NO. 373. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act No. 6, H. 170, 1978 Second Special Session.

(3) COMMISSION. Blount County Commission.

(4) CONSTITUTION. The Constitution of Alabama of 1901.

(5) COUNTY. Blount County, Alabama.

(6) SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TAX. The special district ad valorem tax for public school purposes authorized in Amendment No. 3 and levied and collected on taxable property in the special school tax district.

(7) SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX DISTRICT. The Hayden School Tax District in the county subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Blount County Board of Education, as the school tax district now exists or as it may be hereafter formed.

(b) The county presently levies and collects the special school district tax at a rate of thirty cents ($.30) on each one hundred dollars ($100) (three mills on each dollar) of assessed value pursuant to Amendment No. 3. Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the county commission in accordance with Amendment No. 373, the county proposes to increase the rate at which it may levy and collect the special school district tax to a maximum rate, for any tax year, which is equal to one dollar thirty cents ($1.30) on each one hundred dollars ($100) (13 mills on each dollar) of assessed value.

(c) Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment No. 373 and a resolution adopted by the county commission after a public hearing, the county commission may increase the rate at which the county levies and collects the special school district tax to a maximum rate, for any tax year, which is equal to one dollar thirty cents ($1.30) on each one hundred dollars ($100) (13 mills on each dollar) of assessed value.

(d) The increase in the rate at which the special school district tax may be levied and collected pursuant to this section is subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors residing in the special school tax district who vote on the proposed increase at a special election called and held for such purpose pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f) of Amendment No. 373.
Ala. Code § 45-16-80.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 16 / Section 45-16-80.20
Section 45-16-80.20 Jury Strike System
Status: in_force

Upon the trial by jury in the Circuit Courts of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or a felony not punished capitally, or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors empaneled for the week who are competent to try the defendant to be made, and the district attorney shall be required first to strike from the list the name of one juror, and the defendant shall strike one, and they shall continue to strike off names alternately until only 12 jurors remain on the list, and these 12 jurors thus selected shall be the jury charged with the trial of the case.
Ala. Code § 45-13-71 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 13 / Section 45-13-71
Section 45-13-71 Composition; Election by Districts
Status: in_force

(a) The county commission herein created shall consist of five members, one of whom shall serve as chairman as hereinafter provided.

(b) The five members of the commission shall be elected from, be a qualified elector of, and reside in each of five single-member districts within Clarke County as herein defined. Commissioners for Districts 2, 4, and 5 shall run in 1992, and every four years thereafter. Commissioners for Districts 1 and 3 shall run in 1994, and every four years thereafter. Each commissioner will serve a four-year term. The term for the commissioners from Districts 2 and 4 elected in 1992 shall begin on the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January, 1993. The term of all the commissioners from District 5 elected in 1992, and the term of commissioners elected thereafter, shall begin at 12:01 a.m. on the seventh day next following his or her election, or as otherwise provided by the general laws of Alabama.

(c) Beginning on the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January, 1993, the chairmanship of the county commission shall rotate among the five commissioners for equal terms in a manner to be determined at the organizational meeting of the county commission in 1993.

(d) The chairman of the commission shall preside at all meetings of the county commission and shall be entitled to vote on all matters coming before the commission.

(e) For the purpose of this section, and for future elections of members of the county commission, Clarke County is hereby divided into five separate geographical districts, to be numbered 1 to 5 inclusive, and are hereby described as follows:

(1) DISTRICT 1

Beginning at the intersection of US Hwy No 43 and Bassett Creek, being at the south city limits of Thomasville; thence Southerly along Bassett Creek 5.0 miles, more or less, to a power line of Alabama Power Company; thence Northerly along said power line 5.2 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 27; thence Southerly along Co Rt 27 2.8 miles, more or less, to Nettlesboro public road; thence Southeasterly along Nettlesboro public road 5.5 miles, more or less, to Little Bassett Creek; thence Southerly along Little Bassett Creek 3.0 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 30; thence Westerly along Co Rt 30 0.1 mile, more or less, to county public road (Gates Road); thence Northerly along Gates Road 3.0 miles, more or less, to Jr. Glass Road; thence Westerly along Glass Road 2.8 miles, more or less, to Co. Rt 27 and intersection with Dr Wade Road; thence Westerly along Wade Road 0.6 mile, more or less, to east town limits of Town of Fulton; thence Northerly along town limits of Fulton 1.1 miles, more or less, to the Woodie Bradford Road; thence Southerly along Woodie Bradford Road 0.7 mile, more or less, to Dr Wade Road; thence Westerly along Dr Wade Road 0.2 mile, more or less, to Southern Railroad; thence Southerly along Southern Railroad 1.4 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 27; thence Southerly along Co Rt 27 2.6 miles, more or less, to the Harrigan Road; thence Southerly along the Harrigan Road 2.5 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 22; thence Westerly along Co Rt 22 1.75 miles, more or less, to James Creek; thence Southerly along James Creek 0.1 mile to an unnamed branch near Grove Hill Sewer Plant; thence Westerly along said branch 0.6 mile, more or less, to Grove Hill Sewer Plant; thence from said plant go Westerly along sewer outfall line 1.0 mile, more or less, to Forest Lane Ave, approx. 500′ northwest of Morris Street; thence Easterly and Southerly along Forest Lane and Carter Drive 1.0 mile, more or less, to US Hwy No 84; thence Westerly along US Hwy No 84 and Grove Hill Ave 2.0 miles, more or less, to power line of Alabama Power Company; thence Northerly along said power line 1.75 miles, more or less, to north limits of Town of Grove Hill; thence West and South along town limits of Grove Hill 3.8 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 18; thence Easterly along Co Rt 18 1.4 miles, more or less, to branch, being the head of Fishers Creek; thence Southeasterly along said branch and Fishers Creek 7.0 miles, more or less, to the Southern Railroad; thence Northerly along Southern Railroad 1.2 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 84; thence East along US Hwy No 84 2.9 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 35; thence Southerly along Co Rt 35 3.8 miles, more or less, to Allen-Suggsville Road; thence Westerly along Allen-Suggsville Road 2.9 miles, more or less, to Allen at Methodist Church; thence Westerly along Shields Tarleton Road 2.6 miles, more or less, to Jim Wallace Kelly Road; thence Southerly along Jim Wallace Kelly Road 2.6 miles, more or less, to Simmons Creek Road; thence Westerly along Simmons Creek Road 2.0 miles, more or less, to the old public road leading North, approx. 0.1 mile west of Simmons Creek; thence Northwesterly along said old public road 2.0 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 19; thence Northerly along Co Rt 19 0.8 mile, more or less, to Boy Scout Road; thence Westerly along Boy Scout Road 1.8 miles, more or less, to branch at Boy Scout pond; thence Southerly along said branch 1.9 miles, more or less, to Rabbit Creek; thence Northerly along Rabbit Creek 0.1 mile, more or less, to a branch; thence Westerly along said branch 1.5 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43 near A.E.C. substation; thence Southerly along US Hwy No 43 1.1 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 3; thence Northerly along Co Rt 3 7.8 miles, more or less, to Jackson Creek near Winn, thence Southwesterly along Jackson Creek 5.2 miles, more or less, to Tattilaba Creek; thence Northerly along Tattilaba Creek 5.5 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 3 at Pleasant Grove Church; thence Northerly along Co Rt 3 2.7 miles, more or less, to Oliver Road; thence Northeast along Oliver Road 2.5 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 84; thence West along US Hwy No 84 3.5 miles, more or less, to Satilpa Creek; thence Northeasterly along Satilpa Creek 3.5 miles, more or less, to Harris Creek; thence Northerly along Harris Creek 0.25 mile, more or less, to Norris Road, thence Easterly along Norris Road 1.2 miles, more or less, to Satilpa Creek; thence Easterly along Satilpa Creek 14.0 miles, more or less, to Irwin Creek; thence Northeasterly along Irwin Creek 1.4 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 17; thence Westerly along Co Rt 17 0.1 mile, more or less, to Scotch Road; thence Easterly along Scotch Road 4.0 miles, more or less, to Old Grove Hill and Thomasville public road; thence Northerly along said road 1.5 miles, more or less, to unpaved county road; thence Northeasterly along said unpaved road 2.0 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Northerly along US Hwy No 43 3.2 miles, more or less, to Bassett Creek, the POINT OF BEGINNING.

(2) DISTRICT 2

Beginning at the Clarke-Marengo County line at the east bank of the Tombigbee River, thence Easterly along Clarke-Marengo County line 23.6 miles, more or less, to the Wilcox County line; thence Southerly along the Clarke-Wilcox County line 5.2 miles, more or less, to the Roundhill Road; thence Southwesterly along Roundhill Road 3.0 miles, more or less, to a prong of Little Bassett Creek; thence Southwesterly along Little Bassett Creek 1.4 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 27; thence Southerly along Co Rt 27 0.2 mile, more or less, to the Rural Road; thence Westerly along the Rural Road 2.0 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Northerly along US Hwy No 43 0.6 mile, more or less, to Windsorwood Drive; thence Westerly and Northerly along Windsorwood Dr, Windsorwood Circle and Windsorwood Dr 0.4 mile, more or less, to Pine Street; thence Easterly along Pine Street 0.2 mile, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Northerly along US Hwy No 43 2.8 miles, more or less, to Foster Ave; thence Westerly, Northerly and Westerly along Foster Avenue and Linwood Ave 1.3 miles, more or less, to Old Choctaw Corner Road; thence Southerly along Old Choctaw Corner Road 1.3 miles, more or less, to 4-Way Stop at Al Hwy 154; thence Easterly along Al Hwy 154 0.3 mile, more or less, to power line of Alabama Power Company; thence Southerly along power line 3.2 miles, more or less, to the Dummy Line Road; thence Easterly, Southerly and Easterly 0.7 mile, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Southerly along US Hwy No 43 3.2 miles, more or less, to county unpaved road; thence Southwesterly along said unpaved road 2.0 miles, more or less, to Old Grove Hill and Thomasville road; thence Southerly along Old Grove Hill and Thomasville public road 1.5 miles, more or less, to the Scotch Road leading to Chilton; thence Westerly along Scotch Road 4.0 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 17; thence Easterly along Co Rt 17 0.1 mile, more or less, to Irwin Creek; thence Southwesterly along Irwin Creek 1.4 miles, more or less, to Satilpa Creek; thence Westerly along Satilpa Creek 14.0 miles, more or less, to the Norris Road; thence Northerly and Westerly along the Norris Road 1.2 miles, more or less, to Harris Creek; thence Northwesterly along Harris Creek 6.3 miles, more or less, to Roberts Creek; thence Westerly along Roberts Creek 0.3 mile, more or less, to the Smyer Road; thence South and West along Smyer Road 3.5 miles, more or less, to Owl Hill Road; thence Northerly along Owl Hill Road 7.5 miles, more or less, to Al Hwy No 69; thence Northerly along Al Hwy No 69 0.3 mile, more or less, to Cunningham Road; thence Northwesterly along Cunningham Road 1.8 miles, more or less, to Turkey Creek; thence Southerly and Westerly along Turkey Creek 5.2 miles, more or less, to the east bank of the Tombigbee River, the Clarke County line; thence Northerly along the Tombigbee River, the Clarke-Choctaw County line, 20.0 miles, more or less, to the POINT OF BEGINNING.

(3) DISTRICT 3

Beginning at the intersection of Co Rt 3 and US Hwy No 43, north of Jackson, thence Northerly along US Hwy No 43 1.1 miles, more or less, to a branch near the A.E.C. substation; thence Easterly along said branch 1.5 miles, more or less, to Rabbit Creek; thence Southerly along Rabbit Creek 7.3 miles, more or less, to the Southern Railroad; thence Southerly along the Southern Railroad 2.8 miles, more or less, to Bridal Path Road and Industrial Road intersection; thence Northerly along Bridal Path Road 4.8 miles, more or less, to the Industrial Bypass; thence West along Industrial Bypass 0.6 mile, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Southerly along US Hwy No 43 1.3 miles, more or less, to Al Hwy 177 (College Ave); thence Southerly along Al Hwy 177 0.8 mile, more or less, to Forest Ave; thence Southerly along Forest Ave 2.1 miles, more or less, to E. Clinton St; thence Easterly on E. Clinton St 0.6 mile, more or less, to Linden Ave; thence South on Linden Ave 0.2 mile, more or less, to Church St; thence West on Church Stand extension thereof 2.5 miles, more or less, to the east line of Census Tract No 832; thence Northerly along said east line of Census Tract No 832 2.4 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence West along US Hwy No 43 4.0 miles, more or less, to the Tombigbee River, the Washington County line; thence Northerly along the Tombigbee River and Washington and Choctaw County line 38.0 miles, more or less, to Turkey Creek; thence Easterly and Northerly along Turkey Creek 5.2 miles, more or less, to the Cunningham Road; thence Southeasterly along Cunningham Road 1.8 miles, more or less, to Al Hwy 69; thence Southerly along Al Hwy 69 0.3 mile, more or less, to Owl Hill Road; thence Southerly along Owl Hill Road 7.5 miles, more or less, to Smyer Road; thence North and East along Smyer Road 3.5 miles, more or less, to Roberts Creek; thence Easterly along Roberts Creek 0.3 mile, more or less, to Harris Creek; thence Southeasterly along Harris Creek 6.3 miles, more or less, to Norris Road; thence Easterly and Southerly along Norris Road 1.2 miles, more or less, to Satilpa Creek; thence Southeasterly along Satilpa Creek 3.5 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 84; thence Easterly along US Hwy No 84 3.5 miles, more or less, to Oliver Road; thence Southwest along Oliver Road 2.5 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 3; thence Southerly along Co Rt 3 2.7 miles, more or less, to Tattilaba Creek at Pleasant Grove Church; thence Southerly along Tattilaba Creek 5.5 miles, more or less, to Jackson Creek; thence Northeasterly along Jackson Creek 5.2 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 3 near Winn; thence Southerly along Co Rt 3 7.8 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; the POINT OF BEGINNING.

(4) DISTRICT 4

Beginning at the intersection of Cedar Creek and the Alabama River at the Monroe County line; thence Southerly and Southwesterly along the Alabama River and Monroe and Baldwin County lines 38.0 miles, more or less, to the intersection with the Tombigbee River; thence Northerly along the Tombigbee River and Washington County line 30.0 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Easterly along US Hwy No 43 4.0 miles, more or less, to 2.0 miles, more or less, to the east line of Census Tract No 832; thence Southerly along east line of said Census Tract 2.4 miles to the extension of Church Street; thence Easterly and along Church Street 2.5 miles, more or less, to Linden Ave; thence Northerly along Linden Ave 0.2 mile, more or less, to East Clinton Street; thence Westerly along E. Clinton Street 0.6 mile, more or less, to Forest Ave; thence Northerly along Forest Ave 2.1 miles, more or less, to Al Hwy 177 (College Ave); thence Northerly along Al Hwy 177 0.8 mile, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Northerly along US Hwy No 43 1.3 miles, more or less, to the Industrial Bypass; thence Easterly along Industrial Bypass 0.6 mile, more or less, to Bridal Path Road; thence Southerly along Bridal Path Road 4.8 miles, more or less, to Southern Railroad; thence Northerly along Southern Railroad 2.8 miles, more or less, to Rabbit Creek; thence Southeasterly along Rabbit Creek 0.3 mile, more or less, to Bassett Creek; thence Easterly along Bassett Creek 2.5 miles, more or less, to a branch; thence Southeasterly along said branch 3.2 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 19; thence Southeasterly along Co Rt 19 2.9 miles to Perry’s Chapel; thence Northeasterly along Manila Road 3.2 miles, more or less, to intersection with public road at Rockhouse; thence Southerly along said public road 0.2 mile, more or less, to Cedar Creek; thence Easterly along Cedar Creek 8.0 miles, more or less, to the Alabama River; the POINT OF BEGINNING.

(5) DISTRICT 5

Beginning at the intersection of Cedar Creek and the Alabama River at the Monroe County line; thence Westerly along Cedar Creek 8.0 miles, more or less, to the public road; thence Northerly along said public road 0.2 mile, more or less, to the Manila Road at the Rockhouse; thence Southeasterly along the Manila Road 3.2 miles, more or less, to Perry’s Chapel; thence Northwesterly along Co Rt 19 3.2 miles to a branch; thence Northwesterly along said branch 3.2 miles, more or less, to Bassett Creek; thence Westerly along Bassett Creek 2.5 miles, more or less, to Rabbit Creek; thence Northerly along Rabbit Creek 7.5 miles, more or less, to a branch; thence Northerly along said branch 1.9 miles, more or less, to Boy Scout Road at Boy Scout Pond; thence Easterly along Boy Scout Road 1.8 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 19; thence Southerly along Co Rt 19 0.8 mile, more or less, to old public road; thence Southeasterly along said public road 2.0 miles, more or less, to Simmons Creek Road, approx., 0.1 mile west of Simmons Creek: thence Easterly along Simmons Creek Road 2.0 miles, more or less, to Jim Wallace Kelly Road; thence Northerly along Jim Wallace Kelly Road 2.6 miles, more or less, to Shields Tarleton Road; thence Easterly along Shields Tarleton Road 2.6 miles, more or less, to Methodist Church at Allen; thence Easterly along Allen-Suggsville Road 2.9 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 35; thence Northerly along Co Rt 35 3.8 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 84; thence West along US Hwy No 84 2.9 miles, more or less, to the Southern Railroad; thence Southerly along Southern Railroad 1.2 miles, more or less, to Fishers Creek; thence Northwesterly along Fishers Creek 7.0 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 18; thence West along Co Rt 18 1.4 miles, more or less, to the west town limits of Grove Hill; thence North and East along town limits of Grove Hill 3.8 miles, more or less, to power line of Alabama Power Company; thence Southerly along said power line 1.75 miles, more or less, to Grove Hill Ave; thence East along Grove Hill Ave and US Hwy No 84 2.0 miles, more or less, to Carter Drive; thence Northerly along Carter Drive and Forest Lane Ave 1.0 mile, more or less, to point approx., 500′ North of Morris Street, being the sewer outfall line: thence Easterly along said sewer outfall line 1.0 mile, more or less, to the Grove Hill Sewer Treatment Plant; thence Easterly along branch from sewer treatment plant 0.6 mile, more or less, to James Creek; thence Northerly along James Creek 0.1 mile, more or less, to Co Rt 22; thence Easterly along Co Rt 22 1.75 miles, more or less, to Harrigan Road; thence Northerly along Harrigan Road 2.5 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 27; thence Northerly along Co Rt 27 2.6 miles, more or less, to Southern Railroad; thence Northerly along Southern Railroad 1.4 miles, more or less, to Dr Wade Road; thence Easterly along Dr Wade Road 0.2 mile, more or less, to Woodie Bradford Road; thence Northerly along Woodie Bradford Road 0.7 mile, more or less, to east town limits of Fulton; thence Southerly along said east town limits 1.1 miles, more or less, to Dr Wade Road; thence Easterly along Dr Wade Road 0.6 mile, more or less, to intersection with Co Rt 27 and Jr Glass Road; thence Easterly along Jr Glass Road 3.0 miles, more or less, to county public road (Gates Road); thence Southerly along Gates Road 3.0 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 30; thence Easterly along Co Rt 30 0.1 mile, more or less, to Little Bassett Creek; thence Northerly along Little Bassett Creek 3.0 miles, more or less, to Nettlesboro Road; thence Northwesterly along Nettlesboro Road 5.5 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 27; thence Northerly along Co Rt 27 2.8 miles, more or less, to power line of Alabama Power Company; thence Southerly along said power line 5.2 miles, more or less, to Bassett Creek; thence Northerly along Bassett Creek 5.0 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43 at the south city limits of Thomasville; thence Westerly, Northerly and Westerly along the Dummy Line Road 0.7 mile, more or less, to power line of Alabama Power Company; thence Northerly along said power line 3.2 miles, more or less, to Al Hwy No 154; thence Westerly along Al Hwy No 154 to 4-Way Stop at Old Choctaw Corner Road; thence Northerly along Old Choctaw Corner Road 1.3 miles, more or less, to Linwood Ave; thence Easterly, Southerly and Easterly along Linwood Ave and Foster Ave 1.3 miles, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Southerly along US Hwy No 43 2.8 miles, more or less, to Pine Street; thence Westerly along Pine Street 0.2 mile, more or less, to Windsorwood Dr; thence Southerly and Easterly along Windsorwood Dr, Windsorwood Circle and Windsorwood Dr 0.4 mile, more or less, to US Hwy No 43; thence Southerly along US Hwy No 43 0.6 mile, more or less, to Rural Road; thence Easterly along Rural Road 2.0 miles, more or less, to Co Rt 27; thence Northerly along Co Rt 7 0.2 mile, more or less, to a prong of Little Bassett Creek; thence Northeasterly along said prong of creek 1.4 miles, more or less, to the Roundhill Road; thence Northeasterly along Roundhill Road 3.0 miles, more or less, to Wilcox County line; thence Southerly, Easterly, Southerly, West and Southerly along Wilcox and Monroe County line 43.0 miles, more or less, to the intersection of the Alabama River and Cedar Creek, the POINT OF BEGINNING.
Ala. Code § 45-26A-70.08 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 26A / Section 45-26A-70.08
Section 45-26A-70.08 Certificate of Appropriateness for Modification, Erection, or Demolition; Applications; Rules and Regulations; Design Standards; Records
Status: in_force

(a) No change in the exterior appearance of an historic property or any building, structure, or site within an historic district may be made, and no historic property may be demolished, and no building or structure in an historic district may be erected or demolished unless and until a certificate of appropriateness for such change, erection, or demolition is approved by the commission. Utility poles, lines, and equipment shall not be considered as structures within the meaning of this article; however, signs shall be considered as structures and no sign on an historic property or in an historic district shall be changed, erected, or demolished unless and until a certificate of appropriateness is approved by the commission. The requirement of a certificate of appropriateness shall apply to public property which has been designated as an historic property or which is contained in an historic district, and shall apply to all actions by public authorities which involve historic properties and properties within historic districts. Demolition by neglect and the failure to maintain an historic property or a structure in an historic district shall constitute a change for which a certificate of appropriateness is necessary. The commission may include selection of paint colors as changes requiring a certificate of appropriateness. The painting of originally unpainted surfaces shall require a certificate of appropriateness.

(b) The commission shall adopt rules and regulations setting forth the procedure for submission and consideration of applications for certificates of appropriateness, and no certificate of appropriateness shall be approved unless an application for a certificate of appropriateness is submitted to the commission accompanied by such drawings, photographs, and plans as may be required by the commission.

(c) The commission shall adopt general design standards which shall apply in considering the granting and denial of certificates of appropriateness.

(d) Applications for certificates of appropriateness shall be considered by the commission at public meetings, held at times and places and pursuant to such notices as are specified in the ordinance creating the commission.

(e) The commission may adopt an expedited procedure for approval of routine maintenance to historic properties, or to buildings or structures in historic districts. Such expedited procedure may waive the requirements for submission of an application for a certificate of appropriateness and for consideration at a public meeting.

(f) The commission shall keep a record of all applications for certificates of appropriateness and requests for approval of routine maintenance and of all of its proceedings.
Ala. Code § 45-24-231 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 24 / Section 45-24-231
Section 45-24-231 Jail Canteen and Telephone System
Status: in_force

(a) The Sheriff of Dallas County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail canteen and a telephone system for prisoners within the confines of the county jail. The jail canteen and telephone system shall be operated to serve the needs of the jail population.

(b)(1) The sheriff shall establish and maintain a Law Enforcement Fund in a bank located in Dallas County. All proceeds collected from the operation of the jail canteen under this section shall be deposited by the sheriff into the Law Enforcement Fund. All proceeds from the operation of the telephone system shall be deposited in the county general fund.

(2) The sheriff shall keep an account of all jail canteen sales and telephone usage fees and expenditures for the Law Enforcement Fund for audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The jail canteen account, telephone system account, and Law Enforcement Fund shall be audited at the same time other accounts of the sheriff are audited. The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts shall submit a copy of the audit to the sheriff within 30 days of its completion.

(c) All profits realized in the operation of the jail canteen shall be expended at the discretion of the sheriff for law enforcement purposes in Dallas County, including office expenses, that are in the interest of the public. All proceeds from the operation of the telephone system shall be expended at the discretion of the Dallas County Commission for law enforcement purposes or other purposes for which public funds may be expended.

(d) The establishment of the Law Enforcement Fund and the use of the proceeds shall not diminish or take the place of any other source of income established for the sheriff or the operation of the office.

(e) Any actions relating to the operation of a jail canteen and telephone system in the county jail prior to June 1, 1999, are ratified and confirmed. Any existing proceeds derived from the operation of a jail canteen prior to June 1, 1999, shall be deposited into the Law Enforcement Fund created by this section. Any existing proceeds derived from the operation of the telephone system prior to June 1, 1999, shall be deposited into the county general fund.
Ala. Code § 45-41-240.08 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-240.08
Section 45-41-240.08 Electronic Filing of Business Property Tax Returns
Status: in_force

(a) The Lee County Revenue Commissioner may establish procedures for electronic filing for the reporting, assessment, and payment of business personal property taxes pursuant to Title 40. A complete business personal property tax return filed electronically shall be in the format prescribed by the revenue commissioner and shall contain the same information as a business personal property tax return filed on paper. The timely filing and electronic signature requirements shall be provided generally in conformance with existing procedures for electronic filing of other electronic tax returns.

(b) Commencing for any business personal property tax return filed on or after October 1, 2025, the revenue commissioner may require any business personal property tax return filed with the office of the revenue commissioner to be filed electronically for any of the following returns: (1) For any business engaged in the leasing of personal property. (2) For any business with personal property assets of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more. (3) For any business personal property tax return that is prepared for filing by any professional or other third-party tax preparer. (c) The revenue commissioner may grant exemptions from this section for good cause. (d) The revenue commissioner shall conduct training sessions and otherwise assist any taxpayer in the procedures for the electronic filing pursuant to this section.

(1) For any business engaged in the leasing of personal property.

(2) For any business with personal property assets of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more.

(3) For any business personal property tax return that is prepared for filing by any professional or other third-party tax preparer.

(c) The revenue commissioner may grant exemptions from this section for good cause.

(d) The revenue commissioner shall conduct training sessions and otherwise assist any taxpayer in the procedures for the electronic filing pursuant to this section.
Ala. Code § 45-39-245.11 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 39 / Section 45-39-245.11
Section 45-39-245.11 Use of Funds - City of Florence
Status: in_force

All revenues arising from the taxes hereby levied applicable to the City of Florence in Lauderdale County shall be used exclusively for public school purposes in the City of Florence, including capital outlay, construction, and maintenance of city public schools and the payment of teachers’ salaries and other current school expenses, including the costs of school transportation; subject, however, to all pledges of the revenues from the taxes heretofore or hereafter made to warrants or other obligations of the City Board of Education of the City of Florence.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-51.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-51.07
Section 45-37A-51.07 Retirement Allowance and Survivor’s Allowance
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The words, terms, and phrases of this section shall have the meaning ascribed to them by Act 929, unless it appears from the context that a different meaning is intended. As used in this section and Section 45-37A-51.11, these words and terms have the meanings hereby accorded them:

a. DEFERRED PENSION UNDER THE GENERAL RETIREMENT AND RELIEF SYSTEM. A pension granted to a firefighter or police officer under Act 929, the payment of which does not commence until the pension granted to such firefighter or police officer under this subpart ceases.

b. DISABLED CHILD. A firefighter’s or police officer’s son or daughter regardless of age who becomes disabled prior to attaining age 18 with a medically determinable physical or mental impairment or impairments, by reason of which impairment, or impairments, the son or daughter has been unable, and continues to be unable, to engage in any substantially gainful activity.

c. ELIGIBLE CHILD. A deceased firefighter’s or police officer’s child under the rules of intestate succession who is under 18 years of age and has not married or is a unmarried disabled child.

(2) This subdivision shall apply to every police officer and firefighter who is a member of the system after having acquired at least 20 years of credited service hereunder, shall, upon his or her application, be entitled to retire from the service and to receive his or her retirement from the fund of the system created by this subpart, a monthly retirement allowance for the period and in the amount herein below specified. Such monthly retirement allowance and the date on which he or she would have accumulated 30 years credited service had he or she not retired, but had continued working until acquiring 30 years credited service. The monthly allowance shall be in an amount equal to 50 percent of his or her final average salary at the time of his or her retirement, plus one half of one percent of his or her final average salary multiplied by the number of years of his or her credited service in excess of 20 years of his or her credited service. The payment of such retirement allowance shall cease on the date whereon such firefighter or police officer would have accumulated 30 years of credited service had he or she continued to serve instead of retiring.

(b) For the purpose of computing retirement pay, an employee shall be deemed to earn, or to have earned, salary at the rate of salary as that which he or she shall be deemed to earn, or to have earned, salary for the purpose of deduction from salary under Section 45-37A-51.05. The board may treat the end of the payroll period next before actual date of retirement of the employee member as the date of his or her retirement for the purposes of computation, and, for such purpose, may disregard a fraction of a year of credited service less than one-fourth.

(c) If, after any person shall have retired or been retired as hereinabove in this section provided, and the amount of his or her retirement allowance shall have commenced to accrue, he or she should be reemployed in the service and again become a member of the system under the terms of the system, he or she shall again contribute to the fund as in the case of any other member, and accrual of the amount of his or her retirement allowance shall be suspended during the period of his or her employee membership, and upon any subsequent voluntary or involuntary retirement from the service the amount of his or her former retirement allowance shall again commence to accrue at the same rate as formerly, and he or she shall be entitled to allowance of such additional amounts, if any, as his or her additional paid membership time may have earned for him or her.

(d)(1) This subsection shall not apply to, or in favor of, the spouse or child of any firefighter or police officer who has not executed within the time hereinafter specified an instrument which shall provide that in the event of his or her death the board of managers of this supplemental pension system shall receive the return of contributions made by him or her to this supplemental pension system and to the general retirement and relief system created by Act 929, which if he or she had not executed the instrument would be returnable to his or her severance nominee, his or her personal representatives, his or her spouse, children, father, mother, sisters, or brothers of the deceased, or to any other person. To render this section applicable the firefighter or police officer may execute the instrument at any time prior to his or her having accumulated as much as 20 years of credited service under Act 929. Such instrument when executed shall be revocable by the firefighter or police officer executing the same until he or she has accumulated at least 20 years of credited service under Act 929; but thereafter the instrument shall be irrevocable. Any instrument executed hereunder shall be effective to authorize the board of managers to receive any return of contributions under this subpart or under Act 929 unless the firefighter or police officer executing the same has accumulated at least 20 years of credited service under Act 929 prior to his or her death. The board of managers shall adopt rules prescribing the form of the instrument and the number of copies to be executed. Neither the spouse’s benefit nor a child’s benefit shall be payable to the spouse or child of a deceased firefighter or police officer under this subsection if the deceased’s spouse or child is entitled to an allowance under any provision of Act 929. If a firefighter or police officer under this section dies before the date on which the general retirement and relief system becomes obligated to commence paying to him or her the deferred pension under the general retirement and relief system, then upon such firefighter’s or police officer’s death, his or her spouse at the time of his or her death, without regard to the time during which the marriage existed, shall be entitled to receive from the fund established by this subpart as a monthly spouse’s allowance, an amount equal to 60 percent of the amount of the benefit the deceased was receiving from the fund immediately prior to his or her death, plus a monthly allowance for each eligible child of the deceased equal to five percent of the amount of the benefit the deceased was receiving from the fund immediately prior to his or her death. In the event of the death of the spouse, the allowance provided hereby of any child of such deceased shall be payable to the legal guardian or to the person who has legal custody of the child or for the use or benefit of the child. If the surviving spouse and more than two children are entitled to an allowance under this section, the spouse shall receive 60 percent of the amount of the deceased member’s benefit, as aforesaid, and the allowance for the children shall be reduced equally so that in no event shall the total allowances paid under this section exceed 70 percent of the amount of the benefit the deceased was receiving from the fund immediately prior to his or her death.

(2) A spouse granted a benefit hereunder shall continue to receive the benefit until he or she shall die or remarry, whichever shall first occur. If the survivor’s benefit ceases because survivor remarries, in the event the remarriage is terminated by annulment, divorce, or death of survivor’s spouse, then on such termination the survivor shall be eligible to receive the survivor’s benefit.

(3) Any debt or liability of an employee member under Act 929 which has been offset against and deducted from the return of contributions paid by the general retirement and relief system created by Act 929 to the supplemental pension system created by this subpart shall likewise, in favor of this supplemental pension system, be offset against, and deducted from, any amount due from the fund provided by this subpart, to any person claiming under such employee member as a spouse’s allowance or otherwise.
Ala. Code § 45-28-84.03 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 28 / Section 45-28-84.03
Section 45-28-84.03 Mail Order Registration for Boat Owners
Status: in_force

(a) The Etowah County Probate Judge shall mail forms to all registered boat owners within the county to allow boat owners to complete such application forms for ordering the annual certificate of registration and pay for any taxes and tags or decals by mail so that the tag or decal and receipts therefor may be forwarded to the owner by mail. The probate judge’s office shall assess an additional two dollar ($2) fee for each registration certificate issued by him or her by mail. These fees shall be kept by the probate judge and expended, in his or her discretion, for the general operations of the probate office.

(b) The provisions of this section are cumulative and shall not be construed to repeal or supersede any laws or parts of laws not directly inconsistent herewith.
Ala. Code § 45-35-245 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 35 / Section 45-35-245
Section 45-35-245 Levy, Collection, and Enforcement; Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The Houston County Commission is hereby authorized to impose upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in Houston County a county privilege, license, or tax in the following amounts: a. Five cents ($.05) for each package of cigarettes, made of tobacco or any substitute therefor.

b. Two cents ($.02) for each cigar of any description made of tobacco or any substitute therefor.

c. Two cents ($.02) for each sack, can, package, or other container of smoking tobacco, including granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other kinds and forms of tobacco which are prepared in such manner as to be suitable for smoking in a pipe or cigarette.

d. Three cents ($.03) for each sack, plug, package, or other container of chewing tobacco, which tobacco is prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing only and not suitable for smoking as described in paragraph c.

e. Three cents ($.03) for each can, bottle, glass, tumbler, package, or other container of snuff made of tobacco or any substitute therefor.

(2) The privilege, license, or excise tax shall be in addition to all other federal, state, or local taxes heretofore imposed by law.

(3) Provided, however, when the license tax hereby required to be paid shall have been paid by a wholesaler or seller of cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products, such payment shall be sufficient, the intent being that such license tax hereby required to be paid shall be paid but once on each package of cigarettes and on each cigar.

(b) Upon adoption of a resolution by the Houston County Commission, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the purpose in Houston County any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products shall add the amount of the license or privilege tax levied and assessed herein to the price of the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco products, it being the purpose and intent of this provision that the tax levied is, in fact, a levy on the consumer with the person, firm, corporation, club, or association, who sells or stores or receives for the purpose of distributing the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products, acting merely as agent for the collection of the tax. The dealer, storer, or distributor shall state the amount of the tax separately from the price of the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products, on all price display signs, sales or delivery slips, bills and statements which advertise or indicate the price of the cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in Houston County in the business for which the tax is hereby levied to fail or refuse to add to the sales price and collect from the purchaser the amount due on account of the tax herein provided or to refund or offer to refund all or any part of the amount collected or absorb or advertise directly or indirectly the absorption of the tax or any portion thereof.

(d) The tax hereby authorized shall be paid by affixing stamps as is required for the payment of the tax imposed by Section 40-25-1 to Section 40-25-28, inclusive. The State Department of Revenue shall have the same duties relative to the preparation and sale of stamps to evidence the payment of such tax that it has relative to the preparation and sale of stamps under those sections and may exercise the same powers and perform the same duties in the same manner relative to the collection of the tax hereby levied that it does relative to the collection of that tax.

(e) The State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this section. All such rules and regulations duly promulgated shall have the force and effect of law.

(f) All laws, and rules and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section 40–25–1 to Section 40–25–28, inclusive, requiring reports from dealers and prescribing penalties for violations shall apply with equal force to the tax levied by this section as fully set out herein.

(g) The proceeds from the tax hereby authorized, less the actual cost of collection not to exceed ten per centum shall be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Houston County Commission on a monthly basis. The proceeds shall be deposited to the Houston County General Fund.

(h)(1) None of the provisions of this section shall be applied in such manner as to be in violation of the commerce or other clauses of the federal or state constitution.

(2) This section shall not be construed to apply to cigarette, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products stored by a wholesale dealer for the purpose of resale or reshipment outside of such counties which are actually resold or reshipped.
Ala. Code § 45-19-244.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 19 / Section 45-19-244.07
Section 45-19-244.07 Expiration Date
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2019-231, §2, effective May 23, 2019.
Ala. Code § 45-40-220 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 40 / Section 45-40-220
Section 45-40-220 Deer Hunting - Buck Shot; Dogs
Status: in_force

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall regulate the use of buck shot in shotguns or dogs used to hunt deer, or both, in Lawrence County during the legal hunting season on lands outside of any wildlife management hunting area located in the county.
Ala. Code § 45-16-82.64 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 16 / Section 45-16-82.64
Section 45-16-82.64 Manner of Enforcement
Status: in_force

After notification, as provided in Section 45-16-82.63, the district attorney may take all lawful steps necessary in order to require compliance with the court ordered payments, including any of the following: (1) A petition for revocation of probation; (2) a show cause petition for contempt of court; (3) any other civil or criminal proceedings which may be authorized by law or by rule of court. In addition, the district attorney may issue appropriate notices to inform the defendant of the noncompliance of the defendant and a warning of the penalty for noncompliance.
Ala. Code § 45-38-81 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 38 / Section 45-38-81
Section 45-38-81 Compensation of Judge of Probate
Status: in_force

(a) The Judge of Probate of Lamar County shall receive as his or her compensation an amount equal to 90 percent of the total amount paid the presiding circuit judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit. The compensation shall be paid out of the General Fund of Lamar County.

(b) All fees and monies received by the judge of probate or his or her office shall be deposited into the county general fund.

(c) This section shall become effective with the term of office of the Judge of Probate of Lamar County, Alabama, next following May 13, 1988.
Ala. Code § 45-10-82.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 10 / Section 45-10-82.20
Section 45-10-82.20 Mental Health Fund; Filing Fees
Status: in_force

(a) The Probate Judge of Cherokee County will charge a fee of two dollars ($2) for filing for record or for recording each and every instrument, paper, writing, document, or decree in his or her office, including, but not limited to, each real estate, warranty deed, deed/executive deed, subordinate agreement, agreement, land lease, partial release/release, affidavit, marriage license, official bond, plat, oath of office, bill of sale, custodian bond, declaration of trust, transfer, assignment, satisfaction, declaration of vacation, bond to indemnify, license pendens notice, order approving trustee bond, and excerpts of minutes.

(b) By the tenth of the month following collection, all funds so collected shall be paid by the probate judge into the Treasury of Cherokee County and kept in a fund to be designated the Mental Health Fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the benefit and furtherance of the mental health program in Cherokee County, Alabama. The chairman of the county commission or like official shall have the power to act for the county commission or like governing body in the withdrawal and payment of monies from the Mental Health Fund.

(c) This section is cumulative. Nothing herein contained shall alter or change an existing law relating to charges and fees to be collected by the Probate Judge of Cherokee County.
Ala. Code § 45-38-140 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 38 / Section 45-38-140
Section 45-38-140 Distribution of Funds; Annual List of Certified Fire Departments
Status: in_force

Relating to Lamar County, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, on July 18, 1991, any funds held in escrow which were to be distributed to the Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority, which was to be incorporated pursuant to Part 2, and which funds were never in fact distributed due to the lack of incorporation of the authority shall be disbursed immediately to the Lamar County Water Authority which is in existence on that date. Any funds collected after July 18, 1991, shall be distributed equally between each rescue squad and certified fire department in the county. The Alabama Forestry Commission shall annually present to the Lamar County Commission a list of the certified fire departments in the county.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-56.35 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-56.35
Section 45-37A-56.35 Security of Bonds
Status: in_force

In the discretion of the authority any bonds may be issued under and secured by an indenture between the authority and a trustee. The trustee may be a private person or corporation, including, but not limited to, any trust company or bank having trust powers, whether such bank or trust company is located within or without the state. In any such indenture or resolution providing for the issuance of bonds the authority may pledge, for payment of the principal of and the interest on such bonds, any of its revenues to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence and may assign, as security for such payment, any of its leases, franchises, permits, and contracts; and in any such indenture the authority may mortgage any of its properties, including any properties thereafter acquired by it. Any such pledge of revenues shall be valid and binding from the time it is made, and the revenues so pledged and thereafter received by the authority and any property of the authority so mortgaged shall immediately become subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act. The lien of such pledge shall be valid and binding against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether the parties have actual notice thereof, from the time a statement is filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which is located the principal office of the authority. Such notice need state only the date on which the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds was adopted by the board, the principal amount of bonds issued, a brief description of the revenues so pledged, and also a brief description of any property mortgaged or any property the revenue from which is pledged. In any indenture or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds and pledging for the benefit thereof revenues from any one or more of its parking facilities, the authority shall have the power to include provisions customarily contained in instruments securing evidence of indebtedness, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, provisions respecting the collection, segregation, and application of any rental or other revenues due to or become due to the authority, the terms to be incorporated in any lease agreement respecting any property of the authority, the maintenance and insurance of any building or structure owned by the authority, the creation and maintenance of special funds from any revenue of the authority, and the rights and remedies available in the event of default to the holder of the bonds or the trustee under the indenture, all as the board shall deem advisable and as shall not be in conflict with this subpart. If there be any default by the authority in payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds or in any of the agreements on the part of the authority that may properly be included in any indenture securing the bonds, any holder of any of the bonds or any of the coupons, or the trustee under any indenture if so authorized in such indenture, may, in addition to any other remedies herein provided or otherwise available, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, enforce payment of such principal or interest and compel performance of all duties of the board and officers of the authority, and shall be entitled as a matter of right and regardless of the sufficiency of any such security to the appointment of a receiver in equity with all the powers of such receiver for the operation and maintenance of the property of the authority covered by such indenture and the collection, segregation, and application of revenues therefrom. The indenture may also contain provisions restricting the individual rights of action of the holders of the bonds and coupons.
Ala. Code § 45-56-160 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 56 / Section 45-56-160
Section 45-56-160 Reimbursement from General Fund; Office of Judge of Probate
Status: in_force

(a) The Randolph County Commission shall reimburse the office of the judge of probate or license commissioner from the general fund of the county the amount of any monetary loss, not to exceed a total of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum, arising or caused by error, if the mistake or omission was caused without his or her personal knowledge, including loss arising from acceptance of worthless or forged checks, drafts, money orders, or other written orders for money or its equivalent.

(b) It shall be the duty of the judge of probate or license commissioner to ensure that his or her employees exercise due care in performing their duties and to make a diligent effort to correct the error, mistake, or omission and collect the amount subject to potential loss immediately upon becoming aware of the potential loss. This section shall not apply to any deliberate misuse or misappropriation of funds by the official or any clerk or employee of his or her office.
Ala. Code § 45-8A-130.12 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8A / Section 45-8A-130.12
Section 45-8A-130.12 Suspensions; Hearings
Status: in_force

An appointing authority shall have authority to suspend an employee for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning his or her fitness or ability to perform his or her duties in the public interest. In the event an employee is suspended for more than 30 days, he or she shall be entitled to a public hearing by the board upon written demand filed within five days from the date of the order of suspension. If, after hearing, the board determines that the action of the appointing authority was not with cause, the suspension shall be revoked.
Ala. Code § 45-51A-33.128 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 51A / Section 45-51A-33.128
Section 45-51A-33.128 Action by the Council on the General Fund Budget
Status: in_force

After the conclusion of the public hearing the council may insert new items of expenditures or may increase, decrease, or strike out items of expenditure in the general fund budget, except that no item of expenditure for debt service, or any other item required to be included by this part or other provision of law, shall be reduced or stricken out. The council shall not alter the estimates of receipts contained in the budget except to correct omissions or mathematical errors and it shall not cause the total of expenditures as recommended by the mayor to be increased without a public hearing on such increase, which shall be held not less than three days after notice thereof by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city. The council shall in no event adopt a general fund budget in which the total of expenditures exceeds the receipts and available surplus, estimated as provided in Section 45-51A-33.123, unless at the same time it adopts measures for providing additional revenue in the ensuing fiscal year, estimated as provided in Sections 45-51A-33.121 and 45-51A-33.124, sufficient to make up the difference.
Ala. Code § 45-56-231.03 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 56 / Section 45-56-231.03
Section 45-56-231.03 Notice and Sale of Abandoned or Stolen Property
Status: in_force

(a) As often as necessary, the sheriff shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder all abandoned or stolen personal property, other than firearms, which has been recovered by the sheriff’s office and has remained unclaimed by the rightful owner for a six-month period.

(b) Prior to the sale, notice shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in Randolph County once a week for two successive weeks or by posting notice in a conspicuous place at the Randolph County Courthouse and by posting on the sheriff’s office website for a period of at least 20 days. The notice shall contain the place, date, and time of each auction and a general description of items of personal property to be sold at the auction. If publication of notice is made in the newspaper, the first notice shall run at least 20 days prior to the auction.
Ala. Code § 45-27-60.05 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 27 / Section 45-27-60.05
Section 45-27-60.05 Medical Examiner’s Investigative Authority
Status: in_force

While investigating a death pursuant to this article, the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and the medical examiner or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction, or the legal designee of the medical examiner, may take possession and examine or have examined related physical evidence on or about the body at the scene as may be useful in establishing identity of the deceased or the cause, manner, and circumstances of death. The county medical examiner shall examine the body externally and take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever biological fluids or other evidence from the body he or she deems necessary to determine the cause, manner, and circumstances of death and the identity of the deceased.
Ala. Code § 45-46-243.05 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 46 / Section 45-46-243.05
Section 45-46-243.05 Construction and Application
Status: in_force

This subpart shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products stored by a wholesale dealer for the purpose of resale or reshipment outside of the county which are actually resold or reshipped.
Ala. Code § 45-20-241.30 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 20 / Section 45-20-241.30
Section 45-20-241.30 Tax Sales, Redemption Duties Transferred
Status: in_force

The procedure for selling and redeeming for taxes in Covington County, Alabama, shall be the same as provided in Title 40, except that all such duties as are therein required of the judge of probate shall be transferred to and be performed by the revenue commissioner of the county effective October 1, 1991, or as soon thereafter as the revenue commissioner is established by law. Thereupon, the judge of probate shall be relieved of all such duties.
Ala. Code § 45-49-252.12 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-252.12
Section 45-49-252.12 Responsibility of Generator
Status: in_force

Any person who generates solid waste within the county shall also be responsible for insuring that such solid waste is managed in accordance with the terms and provisions of this part, and may be required by the director to show to the satisfaction of the director that such management is being done. If an object of solid waste is discovered upon any property except property designated for use as a solid waste management facility pursuant to Section 45-49-252.04 in violation of this part, and if that object bears a person’s name or photographic likeness; it shall be prima facie evidence that the person whose name or likeness appears on the object threw, dumped, deposited, or caused it to be thrown, dumped, or deposited there in violation of this part.
Ala. Code § 45-21-232 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 21 / Section 45-21-232
Section 45-21-232 Fees; Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) In Crenshaw County the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person as provided in Section 13A-11-75, shall be twenty dollars ($20), which shall be collected by the sheriff.

(b) Six dollars ($6) of each fee collected under subsection (a) shall be paid into the county treasury and the remaining fourteen dollars ($14) of each fee shall be deposited by the Sheriff of Crenshaw County in any bank located in Crenshaw County, into a fund known as the Sheriff’s Pistol Permit Fund. The proceeds paid into the fund shall be used only for law enforcement purposes.

(c) The sheriff’s fund provided for in subsection (b) shall be drawn upon by the Sheriff of Crenshaw County or his or her appointed agent and shall be used exclusively for the purchase of equipment and supplies in the sheriff’s office.

(d) The establishment of the sheriff’s fund as provided in this section and the use of such funds in no way diminish or take the place of any other imbursement or other source of income established for the sheriff or the operation of his or her office.
Ala. Code § 45-28-80.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 28 / Section 45-28-80.20
Section 45-28-80.20 Orders and Decrees
Status: in_force

(a) In Etowah County all orders and decrees shall be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the county on a sheet or sheets now commonly called trial sheets. There shall be a trial sheet or sheets for each case docketed in such courts properly identified by the style of the case and a case number.

(b) After all orders and decrees have been made and entered, in any case, by the circuit judge or judges sitting in and for such county, the clerk of the circuit court of such county shall file such sheets in numerical order in well bound books labelled Minute Books and such judgments or decrees shall have the same force and effect as minutes of the circuit court of the county prior to the passage and approval of this section.
Ala. Code § 45-35-150.13 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 35 / Section 45-35-150.13
Section 45-35-150.13 Violations
Status: in_force

Any person who violates this article shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor upon first conviction under this article. Any subsequent conviction shall be a Class A misdemeanor. Any person who is convicted under this section shall be punished as provided by law.
Ala. Code § 45-49-252.05 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-252.05
Section 45-49-252.05 Solid Waste Management Permits
Status: in_force

Permits required under Section 45-49-252.03 shall be issued in the following manner:

(1) Any person desiring to obtain a permit shall file an application for a permit with the director on application forms provided by the director and shall accompany such application with:

a. Name and address of the applicant, showing its legal identity (individual, partnership, corporation, etc.).

b. The business address of the applicant.

c. An inventory of all motorized equipment or other equipment to be used in such collection, transportation, or disposal.

d. The methods of storage, transport, and processing to be used.

e. The location and type of processing or disposal, or both, contemplated.

f. The types and amounts of wastes to be covered by permit, including a description of the project or process generating wastes.

g. The route or routes to be used in transporting and schedules used.

h. Issuance of county permits shall not relieve applicants from obtaining any required state or federal permits.

i. Proof of all insurance and bonding required by this part (state financial responsibility limits for motor vehicles, etc.), or as established by resolution of the commission from time to time.

j. Proof that applicant has acquired any required certificates of need.

k. Statement of desired duration of permit, if less than one year.

l. Application fee established by resolution of the commission.

m. All other information reasonably required by the director to fulfill the intent of this part.

(2) Upon receipt of a completed application, the director shall within five days refer same to the health officer for investigation. The health officer shall inspect all facilities and equipment to be used in the applicant’s activity and shall report his or her findings to the director within six days of receipt, and the director shall take appropriate action within 10 days thereafter

(3) Upon determining that the activity, service, or facility for which the permit is sought will comply with the terms of this part and with all county regulations and ordinances; that no certificate of need is required; and that the applicant’s service, activity, or facility will be in the best interest of the public, the director shall grant a permit allowing the pursuit of such activity upon the terms and conditions as the director may deem to be in the public interest.

(4) If the director determines that a permit should not be issued based upon the above criteria, but if in the director’s opinion, modification can be made which will bring the application within the intent and purposes of this part, he or she shall notify the applicant or applicants, in writing, setting forth the correction to be made and the time in which the correction shall be completed.

(5) If the applicant fails to make the corrections pursuant to the notice mentioned above within the time limit specified therein, or, if the director previously determined that a permit should not be issued based on the above criteria, the application shall be denied and the applicant notified, in writing, stating therein the reasons for the denial. Nothing in this section shall prevent any applicant from reapplying after the rejection of his or her application, provided the requirements of this part are met. Appeals of such denials may be made in the manner provided for appeals or revocation of permits in subdivision (10).

(6) When issued a permit shall be effective for the period of time necessary to accomplish the desired service, activity, or facility operation, up to a period of one year from the granting thereof, or in the case of a franchised holder, for the duration of the franchise, unless the permit is sooner revoked pursuant to this part.

(7) Any permit holder desiring to renew an existing permit shall complete and submit to the director an application therefore not more than 45 days nor less than 15 days before the expiration date thereof and shall tender with each application form such permit fees as are required by resolution of the Mobile County Commission.

(8) All motor vehicles operating under any permit required by this part shall display the permit number or numbers on each side, in colors which contrast with that of the vehicle, such numbers to be clearly legible and not less than six inches high.

(9) The performance under this part of all those holding permits shall be evaluated by the director from time to time. If at any time during the life of the permit, performance satisfactory to the director shall not have been made, the permittee upon notification by the director, shall take all necessary steps including, but not limited to, increasing the work force, vehicles, and equipment as needed to properly perform his or her duties. The failure of the director to give such notification shall not relieve the permittee of his or her obligation to perform the work at the time and in the manner specified in his or her permit.

(10) If, after notice of unsatisfactory performance has been given, the permittee has failed to make necessary corrections within a reasonable time, the director may revoke the permit. Appeal from any decision of the director revoking such permit may be taken to the Mobile County Commission by the aggrieved party by filing a petition with the commission within 10 days after the mailing of notice of such appeal. Upon receipt of such petition, the Mobile County Commission shall set a time and place for a hearing upon the petition. The appeal shall proceed in accordance with due process of law. Revocations shall not be final until such appeals are heard.

(11) The director shall maintain a complete listing of all persons holding permits to provide solid waste management services within Mobile County. The listing shall contain the name and address of each person, its office telephone number, the number and types of vehicles used by such persons, the nature and extent of the services, activities, or facilities permitted, and the expiration date of the permit.

(12) Any person desiring to dispose of construction and demolition debris resulting from his or her regular business operation on property approved for the disposal of such materials and for which he or she has the right to use for the purpose of disposing of such debris shall not be required to obtain a certificate of need or regular permit in order to use the property for such purposes but shall be required to obtain an annual special permit from the health officer for such purpose in the manner and under such conditions as specified by the health officer. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, under no circumstances will any solid waste other than construction and demolition debris resulting from the permit holder’s regular business operation be placed or disposed of in a disposal facility permitted under this section. Failure to observe this condition may result in immediate revocation of the permit.

(13) No permit shall be granted pursuant to this section if the granting of the permit will result in a materially adverse effect on the net revenues of the county’s solid waste disposal system, as determined by the issuer, provided, however, that this subdivision shall not apply to disposal of construction and demolition debris permitted under subdivision (12).
Ala. Code § 45-41-141.11 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-141.11
Section 45-41-141.11 Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) The treasurer shall establish or cause to be established in the county treasury a district fire protection fund for each district in which a financial charge is then being levied and collected, and shall maintain such district fire protection fund, or cause it to be maintained, so long as such district exists and such financial charge is levied and collected therein. The proceeds derived for the levy and collection of a financial charge within any district and paid over to the treasurer pursuant to Section 45-41-141.08 shall be deposited by him or her in the district fire protection fund for such district. Moneys on deposit in each district fire protection fund shall be kept separate and apart from other county revenues or funds and shall be used or disbursed, by or upon order of the commission, solely to pay:

(1) Expenses of providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities within the district in which such financial charge is so levied and collected, including the employment of paid firefighters and

(2) Expenses of providing emergency medical services,

(3) Matching funds for federal grants,

(4) Expenses of levying and collecting the financial charge within such district, it being understood that for purposes of this section and applicable provisions of the authorizing amendment,

a. Costs incurred in connection with conducting any election held in such district under or pursuant to the authorizing amendment and this part (or other applicable law or laws, if any) shall be deemed expenses of levying and collecting such financial charge,

b. Costs incurred in connection with the preparation, advertisement, or enactment of this part shall be deemed expenses of providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services or facilities within such district, and

c. Any such expenses or costs paid by the county in anticipation of reimbursement therefor out of the proceeds of such financial charge shall be deemed expenses of providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities or expenses of levying and collecting such financial charge (as the case may be), for which the county may be reimbursed out of the district fire protection fund provided, in the case of any such costs referred to in paragraph b. of subdivision (4) of subsection (a), that the county may be reimbursed therefor out of any district fire protection funds then in existence and in amounts prorated among such funds in such manner as the commission may reasonably determine.

(b) Specifically, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the commission may appropriate or disburse moneys on deposit in any district fire protection fund to or for the benefit of any volunteer fire department operating in the district for which such fund has been established and maintained; and such department shall use such moneys for payment of expenses incurred by it in providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities within such district, it being expressly understood, however, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit any volunteer fire department whose expenses have been, are being or are to be paid wholly or partly with proceeds from any financial charge deposited in a district fire protection fund from responding to calls for fire fighting assistance in counties adjacent to the county or in districts other than the district for which such fund has been established and maintained. Any unappropriated and unexpended balance in a district fire protection fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain therein for appropriation and use during any fiscal year thereafter.

(c) The commission, to the extent permitted by Amendment 392, may enter into an agreement or agreements with any volunteer fire department with respect to the fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities provided or to be provided by such volunteer fire department within one or more districts.
Ala. Code § 45-49-83 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-83
Section 45-49-83 Salary Supplement
Status: in_force

In addition to the salary paid to the District Attorney in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there also shall be paid to the district attorney from the general fund of the county treasury in equal monthly installments an annual supplement to his or her salary payable by the state, so that the total amount of his or her entire annual salary payable by the state and county shall be an amount equal to five hundred dollars ($500) less than the total annual salary of circuit court judges in the county.
Ala. Code § 45-45-201.19 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 45 / Section 45-45-201.19
Section 45-45-201.19 License Inspector - Powers and Duties
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the license inspector to scrutinize the records and stubs kept in the office of the county license department and also to examine the license records of each city or town located in the county of which he or she has been appointed license inspector, and if it shall be reported to the license inspector or come to his or her knowledge that any person, persons, firms, or corporations have failed or refused to take out a license for a business or occupation for which a license is required by the state, or have failed or refused to take out a license for operating any motor vehicle or trailer for which license is required by law, the license inspector shall thereupon cite such delinquent to appear before the license inspector at the courthouse of the county in which the citation is issued and show cause why the license or privilege tax required by law has not been paid, and at the same time shall file with the director of the county license department of the county a copy of the citation showing service on the delinquent.

(1) If the license inspector shall discover any motor vehicle being operated without a proper or legal license, he or she shall cite the operator of the motor vehicle, and in filing a copy of the citation with the director of the county license department he or she shall show on the citation the particular motor vehicle operated without legal license, as well as the operator thereof.

(2) The director of the county license department shall in all cases, in addition to the other penalties required to be collected by him or her, collect the citation fee, if any, due the license inspector before issuing or authorizing the issuance of any license, and in case of a motor vehicle where a license is taken out in the name of a person not cited, the citation fee shall be collected if the citation filed shows the motor number of the vehicle. When any license is due the license inspector shall cause the delinquent to appear before the director of the county license department of the county and take out the same, but the director shall not have the authority to determine the liability of the delinquent for the license and shall in each case issue a license to the applicant upon the payment by him or her of the amount or amounts prescribed by Article 2, commencing with Section 40–12–40, Chapter 12, Title 40. If such delinquent shall fail or refuse to take out license, the license inspector shall institute or cause to be instituted, criminal proceedings against such delinquent before any court having jurisdiction of the offense. In case of emergency, the license inspector shall commence the criminal proceedings in the first place.

(3) All licenses levied by Article 2, commencing with Section 40–12–40, Chapter 12, Title 40, except as otherwise provided, shall be due and payable as of October 1 of each year and shall be delinquent November 1 thereafter. Where any license issuable by the director of the county license department shall be delinquent, the same shall be subject to a penalty of 15 percent of the amount of the license, which penalty shall be collected by the director of the county license department when the license is taken out, together with interest at six percent from the date of delinquency; provided, that the penalty for delinquency and payment of motor vehicle license shall in no case be less than one dollar fifty cents ($1.50).

(4) It shall be unlawful for the director of the county license department to fail to collect such penalties when issuing such license.

(5) The director of the county license department shall file report with the Comptroller and with the State Department of Revenue showing the amount of such penalties collected, from whom, and for what, the amounts paid to the county license department and the amounts remitted, provided, however, that all fees and penalties shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury, except as otherwise provided by law.

(6) If a criminal prosecution shall be commenced either by affidavit or warrant, or information or indictment, there shall be paid 15 percent of the fine or penalty thereafter imposed in the case. All costs and penalties to be paid in money and to be deposited in the general fund of the county treasury.

(7) License inspectors are authorized to appoint deputies and the acts of such deputies shall be recognized as his or her acts and he or she shall be responsible for the same. The deputies shall receive such salary as shall be provided in the budget adopted by the governing body of Madison County, Alabama, for the operation of the office of the county license department. All citations to delinquents shall be served by any lawful officer or by the license inspector or his or her deputy who shall be allowed as a fee one dollar fifty cents ($1.50) for each citation served, to be taxed against the delinquent and which fee shall be remitted and paid as now provided by law, except that the citation fee heretofore paid to the license inspector shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury. The license inspector or his or her deputies shall have the same power to arrest persons violating the revenue laws of the state as is now vested in the sheriff of the state and shall receive the same fees for such service, which fee shall also be paid into the general fund of the county treasury. The State Department of Revenue shall keep a record by counties in which, each month, shall be entered the number of licenses issued by the county license department for each and every business or occupation for which a state license tax is required, and the record may be compared each month with the number of licenses issued by cities and towns for the same business or occupation. The license inspector shall be required to report to the State Department of Revenue the reason for the failure to collect any license due the state which may be evidenced by the comparison of the report of the director of the county license department and the report made of licenses issued by cities or towns.

(8) It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners or other governing body of the county to supply the license inspector with necessary citation blanks and other necessary forms, with necessary transportation, including, but not limited to automobiles, and to pay necessary expenses in connection with the operation of same.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-54.38 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-54.38
Section 45-37A-54.38 Relation to Other Programs
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this subpart shall be construed to deprive either the City of Birmingham or Jefferson County of its authority to conduct, under its own auspices, programs of recreation for its residents and to acquire, own, and operate facilities as are determined by their respective governing authorities, to be necessary to the continuation and improvement of recreation programs now or hereafter conducted under existing constitutional and statutory authority delegated to them.
Ala. Code § 45-51-243.10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 51 / Section 45-51-243.10
Section 45-51-243.10 Return Required After Sale or Quitting of Business; Successor Obligations
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this part who shall sell out his or her business or stock of rental goods, or shall quit business, shall be required to make out the return provided for by this part within 30 days after the date he or she sold out his or her business or stock of rental goods, or quit business, and his or her successor in business shall be required to withhold a sufficient amount of the purchase money to cover the amount of tax due and unpaid under this part until the time the former owner produces a receipt from the county commission showing that the tax has been paid, or a certificate that no tax is due. If the purchaser of a business or stock of rental goods fails to withhold purchase money and the tax is due and unpaid after the 30-day period allowed, he or she shall be personally liable for the payment of the tax accrued and unpaid on the transactions engaged in by the former owner. If the county commission deems it necessary to collect the taxes due the county, it may make a jeopardy assessment as provided in Article 5, commencing with Section 40-29-90, of Chapter 29 of Title 40.
Ala. Code § 45-30-250.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 30 / Section 45-30-250.01
Section 45-30-250.01 Legislative Intent
Status: in_force

This article is intended to aid the state and county in the execution of its duties by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of the state and of the county with full and adequate powers to fulfill its functions. It is the further legislative intent that the Franklin County Water Service Authority develop a master plan of operation for the authority in consultation with all existing water authorities in Franklin County and county and local governments for the purpose of bringing about industrial development and economic expansion in the county as well as ensuring the health and safety of all citizens. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any master plan or plans for water services previously developed by the Franklin County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority shall be adopted by the Franklin County Water Service Authority.
Ala. Code § 45-12-82.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 12 / Section 45-12-82.07
Section 45-12-82.07 Costs and Fees
Status: in_force

(a) An applicant may be assessed a fee to be established by the district attorney when the applicant is approved for the program. The amount of the assessment for participation in the program shall be in addition to any court costs and assessments for victims or drug, alcohol, or anger management treatment required by law, the district attorney, or the court, and are in addition to costs of supervision, treatment, and restitution for which the pretrial diversion admittee may be responsible. Pretrial diversion program fees as established by this part may be waived or reduced due to indigency or reduced ability to pay or for other just cause at the discretion of the district attorney. The determination of indigency of the offender, for the purpose of pretrial diversion admission, fee waiver, or reduction shall be made by the district attorney. A schedule of payments for any of these fees may be established by the district attorney.

(b) Except as herein specifically allocated, the district attorney may use fees collected by the pretrial diversion program to fund the pretrial diversion program; for the prosecution of state criminal cases; to help support local and state law enforcement and coroners; for education programs which relate to the prosecution, detection, or prevention of crime; or to benefit any agency or department of state, city, or county government which assists local law enforcement. This support shall be provided to help employ more prosecutors, law enforcement officers, investigators, or staff, buy needed equipment or supplies, provide training opportunities, or for any other prosecutorial or law enforcement purposes.

(c) Except for court costs which are payable by the applicant directly to the clerk of court, fees required by this part shall be collected by the office of the District Attorney of the First Judicial Circuit. Those fees collected shall be deposited by the district attorney into the Pretrial Diversion Fund as described in Section 45-12-82.10. The district attorney shall timely make disbursement as provided in this part.

(d) The district attorney shall be allowed without further legislative action to raise fees to meet and equal those prescribed by the Alabama Legislature in the event a state pretrial diversion program is enacted after April 26, 2006.
Ala. Code § 45-35-244.04 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 35 / Section 45-35-244.04
Section 45-35-244.04 Provisions of State Use Tax Statutes Applicable
Status: in_force

(a) Unless otherwise provided for herein or where the context herein clearly indicates a different interpretation, the taxes levied by Section 45-35-244.03 shall be subject to all definitions, exceptions, proceedings, requirements, fines, punishments, and deductions that are applicable to the taxes levied by the state use tax statutes except where inapplicable or where herein otherwise provided including all provisions of the state use tax statutes for enforcement and collection of taxes.

(b) The tax imposed by this subpart shall constitute a debt due to Houston County as provided by law. The tax, together with interest and penalties with respect thereto, shall constitute and be secured by a lien upon the property of any person from whom the tax is due or who is required to collect the tax. All revenue laws of this state which apply to the enforcement of liens for license taxes due this state shall apply fully to the collection of the tax herein levied, and the Houston County Commission or its designee shall collect the tax and enforce this subpart and shall have and exercise for the collection and enforcement all rights and remedies that the State of Alabama or the Alabama State Department of Revenue has for the collection of the state sales tax. The Houston County Commission or its designee shall have full authority to employ counsel, including, but not limited to, the county attorney, as it deems necessary to enforce collection of the tax levied by this subpart, and to otherwise enforce this subpart, including any litigation involving this subpart, and the Houston County Commission or its designee shall pay counsel fees as it deems necessary and proper from the proceeds of the tax collected hereunder.
Ala. Code § 45-9-120 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 9 / Section 45-9-120
Section 45-9-120 Compensation
Status: in_force

(a) The following officers of Chambers County shall receive the following salaries on an annual basis in lieu of all other compensation:

(1) Probate judge - Twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000)

(2) Tax assessor - Eighteen thousand six hundred dollars ($18,600)

(3) Tax collector - Eighteen thousand six hundred dollars ($18,600)

(b) Whenever the compensation of the probate judge, sheriff, circuit clerk, tax assessor, and tax collector is altered to the salary basis as provided in subsection (a), the court of county commissioners shall provide such officers allowances for the purpose of hiring clerks, assistants, or deputies, as follows:

(1) The probate judge shall be allowed the sum of eleven thousand dollars ($11,000) annually for the employment of clerical assistance, including the chief clerk. The salary of the chief clerk of the probate judge shall be four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800) annually.

(2) The circuit clerk shall be allowed the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) annually for the employment of clerical assistants, in addition to the deputy provided for by Act No. 502, Regular Session 1955, as amended by Act No. 21, Regular Session 1959.

(3) The tax assessor shall be allowed the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) annually for the employment of clerical assistants.

(4) The tax collector shall be allowed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) annually for the employment of clerical assistants.

(5) The sheriff shall be allowed four deputies, the chief deputy and three others, whose compensation shall be paid by the county. Salaries shall be fixed by the board of revenue, Chambers County Commission, or other like county governing body at an amount not to exceed three hundred fifty dollars ($350) per month.

(c) All fees, commissions, allowances, percentages, charges, and costs heretofore collected for the use of any of the officers enumerated in subsection (a) shall be collected and paid into the general fund of the county when the compensation of the officer is altered to the salary basis.

(d) The compensation of the probate judge, sheriff, circuit clerk, tax assessor, and tax collector shall be paid in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county when their compensation is altered to the salary basis. The compensation of the county commissioners shall be paid in equal monthly installments from the gasoline tax funds and the road and bridge funds of the county when their compensation is altered to the salary basis.

(e) The Chambers County Commission shall provide the probate judge, sheriff, circuit clerk, tax assessor, and the tax collector with the necessary quarters, books, stationery, office equipment, supplies, postage, and other conveniences and equipment for the proper and efficient conduct of the affairs of their offices.
Ala. Code § 45-53-240.26 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 53 / Section 45-53-240.26
Section 45-53-240.26 Renewal by Mail; Mail Order Fee
Status: in_force

The tax assessor shall mail an application for renewal of a motor vehicle license to any person, firm, or corporation to which a motor vehicle license has been previously issued. A renewal form shall be returned prior to the expiration date of the previously issued motor vehicle license. The renewal form may be in post card form and with sufficient information to adequately identify and process the renewal. The signature of the licensee and proper remittance shall constitute sufficient authority for the tax assessor to issue the motor vehicle license and return it to the licensee by mail. There is established a fee to be entitled a mail order fee in an amount determined by the county commission to pay the cost of the mailing procedure authorized by this section. The fee shall be collected by the tax assessor at the time of issuance of the motor vehicle license and paid to the general fund of the county as are other fees and commissions.
Ala. Code § 45-10-82.21 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 10 / Section 45-10-82.21
Section 45-10-82.21 Marriage Rites
Status: in_force

The Judge of Probate of Cherokee County may charge an additional fee when celebrating the rites of marriage. The amount of the additional fee shall be in the discretion of the judge of probate. The fee authorized by this section shall be in addition to the fee imposed pursuant to Section 12-19-90, and shall be retained by the judge of probate.
Ala. Code § 45-41-140.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-140.01
Section 45-41-140.01 Financial Charge - Authorized; Payment
Status: reserved

(a) After the Lee County Commission has determined that such a need does exist in Lee County, the county commission, in the manner hereinafter specified, may provide for a financial charge to be paid by the owners of forest lands located in Lee County for the use of the land for timber growing purposes amounting to the whole or any part of the cost of such forest protection program, but not in excess of ten cents ($.10) per acre, provided such financial charge is not greater than the benefit accruing to such forest lands due to availability of such fire protection.

(b) Forest lands as used in this part, shall mean any land which supports a forest growth, or which under prevailing natural and economic conditions may be expected to support such a growth in the future, or which is being used or reserved for any forest purpose. Forest lands as used in this part, shall not include any lands primarily used for residential purposes nor shall it include any publicly owned lands.

(c) The financial charge fixed as provided in the above section shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes, and the owners of the forest lands, as herein defined, shall make report of the same to the Tax Assessor of Lee County, Alabama, at the time fixed by law for making return of the property of such property owned. Financial charges levied shall constitute a lien on the property against which they are charged in cases of default in the payment of such financial charge.
Ala. Code § 45-9-100 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 9 / Section 45-9-100
Section 45-9-100 Supplies
Status: in_force

The County Commission of Chambers County, Alabama, is hereby exempted from the provisions of Section 16-9-24 which requires the commission to provide the county superintendent of education with necessary furniture, office equipment, stationery, postage, forms, and supplies.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-52.96 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-52.96
Section 45-37A-52.96 Administrative Departments
Status: in_force

There shall be a department of finance, and such other departments as may be established by ordinance upon the recommendation of the mayor.
Ala. Code § 45-2-21.05 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 2 / Section 45-2-21.05
Section 45-2-21.05 Referendum - Timing Costs
Status: in_force

A referendum provided for by this subpart shall be held not less than 60 days from the date of the local authorization and not more than 120 days from the date of the local authorization. The referendum shall be held at the next regular election or at a special election called by the governing bodies of the municipalities holding the referendum, or by the county commission. The governing body or the county commission calling the referendum shall pay the costs associated with the referendum.
Ala. Code § 45-17-234.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 17 / Section 45-17-234.01
Section 45-17-234.01 Additional Fees; Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court official in the civil division of the District and Circuit Courts of Colbert County shall increase the fees by seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50) per document personally served by the sheriff’s office, or its designee. For the purposes of this section, the term document shall include multiple papers served on a party or entity at one time.

(b) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court office in the civil division of the District and Circuit Courts of Colbert County, for documents generated out-of-state, shall create a fee of fifty dollars ($50) per document served by the sheriff’s office, or its designee. For the purposes of this section, the term document shall include multiple papers served on a party or entity at one time.

(c) For the purposes of this section, all charges imposed under this section are taxed as costs to any party to the action by the judge of the court presiding at the hearing of the matter.

(d) The court official designated in Colbert County by law for the respective courts shall collect the additional service of process fee designated in subsection (a) with five dollars ($5) retained by the Colbert County Circuit Clerk’s Office and the remaining twenty-five dollars ($25) remitted to the Colbert County Sheriff’s Office for deposit in the Sheriff’s Civil Process Fund.

(e) The court official designated in Colbert County by law for the respective courts shall collect the additional service of process fee designated in subsection (b) and remit to the Colbert County Sheriff’s Office for deposit in the Sheriff’s Civil Process Fund.

(f) The Sheriff of Colbert County may use the monies generated by this section for law enforcement purposes as the sheriff sees fit.

(g) Any actions relating to the collection of service of process fees and use of the funds prior to September 1, 2019, are ratified and confirmed.
Ala. Code § 45-41-82.04 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-82.04
Section 45-41-82.04 Solicitor’s Fee
Status: in_force

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Lee County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly as follows: One dollar of the fees assessed in each case shall be distributed to the office of the circuit clerk in Lee County and the remainder to the Solicitor’s Fund or District Attorney’s Fund in the county or to the fund that may be hereafter prescribed by law for the solicitor’s fee. The solicitor’s fee shall be in an amount equal to all docket fees or court costs which are assessed upon an adjudication of guilt in a criminal case and distributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund.

(b) The solicitor’s fee shall be collected in all criminal cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty, a bond forfeited, a penalty imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capias warrant of arrest. The solicitor’s fee shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any other fees or costs. The solicitor’s fee shall not be waived or remitted unless the defendant proves to the reasonable satisfaction of the sentencing judge that the defendant is not capable of paying the fee within the reasonably foreseeable future.

(c) The solicitor’s fee may be expended, as the district attorney sees fit, for the payment of any and all expenses incurred by the district attorney for law enforcement and in the discharge of the duties of the office. That portion of the fees earmarked for the office of the Circuit Clerk of Lee County may be expended at the request of the circuit clerk for any lawful purpose.
Ala. Code § 45-19-141.12 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 19 / Section 45-19-141.12
Section 45-19-141.12 Volunteer Fire Department Personnel; Liability of County Employees
Status: in_force

The personnel of volunteer fire departments provided for in this part shall not be considered employees, servants, or agents of the county and the members of the commission and the employees of the county shall not be liable in either the official capacity or in a private capacity for the actions of the personnel of volunteer fire departments.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-51.196 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-51.196
Section 45-37A-51.196 Retirees of Firefighters’ and Police Officers’ Supplemental Pension System
Status: in_force

In the event of the retirement of a police officer or a firefighter from a supplemental pension system, as established by Subpart 1, with 20 or more but less than 30 years of credited service under the system, this system shall receive from the supplemental pension system each member’s monthly contribution payments required to be paid from the supplemental pension system to this system from the police officer or firefighter’s retirement date thereunder until the date he or she would have been entitled to retire under this system with 30 years of credited service had such police officer or firefighter continued to serve without retiring and without interruption as a participant in this system. The city shall then pay the employer’s required contributions pursuant to Section 45-37A-51.192 from its general fund or other appropriate funds to the fund within 30 days from the date of receipt of the member’s monthly contribution payments from the supplemental pension system.
Ala. Code § 45-6-140 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 6 / Section 45-6-140
Section 45-6-140 Participation in Forestry Commission’s Fire Protection Program
Status: reserved

(a) The county governing body of Bullock County is authorized, when the need exists to provide protection against forest fires in Bullock County by participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission’s fire protection program in the manner hereinafter specified.

(b)(1) After the Bullock County governing body has determined that such a need does exist in Bullock County, the county governing body may, in the manner hereinafter specified, provide for a financial charge or tax to be paid by the owners of forestlands located in Bullock County for the use of land for timber growing purposes amounting to the whole or any part of the cost of such fire protection program, but not in excess of ten cents ($.10) per acre, provided such financial charge or tax is not greater than the benefit accruing to such forestlands due to the availability of such fire protection.

(2) “Forestlands” as used in this section, shall mean any land which supports a forest growth, or which under prevailing natural and economic conditions may be expected to support such a growth in the future, or which is being used or reserved for any forest purpose. “Forestlands” as used in this section, shall not include any lands primarily used for residential purposes nor shall it include any publicly owned lands.

(c) The need for such a financial charge or tax to provide forest fire protection within the county shall be determined by the county governing body after a public hearing is held thereon. Notice of such public hearing shall be given by the county governing body for a period of two consecutive weeks by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in Bullock County. Such advertisement must indicate the date, time, and place of hearing, the manner proposed to finance such fire protection program, and the part of the cost of such program that is proposed to be paid by the owners of the forest lands. Any person owning forest land in Bullock County may appear in person or by attorney at such time and place and make defense against such financial charge or tax or the amount thereof. After such hearing the county governing body shall determine the amount of such financial charge or tax and enter on the minutes of the governing body an order fixing such financial charge or tax.

(d) Any such financial charge or tax fixed as provided in the above subsection shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes and the owners of the forest lands, as herein defined, shall make report of the same to the Tax Assessor of Bullock County at the time fixed by law for making return of the property of such property owner. Financial charges or taxes levied shall constitute a lien on the property against which they are charged or taxed in case of default in the payment of such financial charge or tax the land may be sold in the same manner and under the same conditions that lands are sold for the satisfaction of liens for county ad valorem taxes and redemption from such sale may be effected in the same manner as is provided by law for redemption where land is sold for nonpayment of ad valorem taxes.

(e) The county governing body of Bullock County is authorized to appoint agents and delegate authority to individuals to search out forest lands in Bullock County, determine the area and owners thereof, and report same to the Tax Assessor of Bullock County who shall be authorized, after notice by certified mail to such owners, and hearing before the county governing body is so requested by such owners, to place the financial charge or tax against the forest lands as may be determined by the report of such agents or the determination of the county governing body.

(f) All monies accruing to Bullock County shall be placed in the general fund of the county and shall only be spent by the county governing body in participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission’s forest fire protection program in Bullock County.