Ala. Code § 45-4-111 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 4 / Section 45-4-111
Section 45-4-111 Electronic Voting System Authorized; Requirements for Use
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section:

(1) “Automatic tabulating equipment” shall mean apparatus which automatically examines and counts votes recorded on paper ballots or ballot cards and tabulates the results.

(2) “Paper ballot” shall mean a printed paper ballot which conforms in layout and format to the electronic voting system in use.

(3) “Ballot card” shall mean a tabulating card on which votes may be recorded.

(4) “Ballot label” shall mean the cards, papers, booklet, pages, or other material which contain the names of offices and candidates and statements of measures to be voted on and which are used in conjunction with ballot cards.

(5) “Ballot” shall mean ballot cards or paper ballots.

(6) “Counting center” shall mean one or more locations selected and designated by the county commission or the municipal governing body, as the case may be, for the automatic counting of ballots in the election.

(7) “Electronic voting system” shall mean a system in which votes cast by paper ballots or ballot cards, may be tabulated by automatic tabulating equipment.

(8) “Voting device” shall mean an apparatus in which paper ballots or ballot cards are used in connection with either a punch device for the piercing of ballots by the voter, or a device for marking ballots with ink or other substance, or any other method for recording votes on ballots in such way that the ballot may be tabulated by means of automatic tabulating equipment.

(b)(1) In Bibb County, the county commission, or the governing body of any city or town in the county may adopt; experiment with; acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise, or abandon any electronic voting system authorized by this section for use in all elections in the county or city or only for use thereof in certain elections. Further, may use such system in combination with paper ballots; and may use such system in all or a part of the voting districts within its boundaries. The local authorities, on the adoption and acquisition of an electronic voting system, shall provide for payment therefor in such manner as they deem for the best interest of the locality. Provided, however, the county or city shall not be required to furnish electronic voting systems in voting precincts or districts that contain less than 600 voters.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section or of any other law, the ballots to be counted by means of electronic or electro-mechanical devices shall be of such size, layout, and texture, and shall be printed in any type of ink or combination of inks that will be suitable for use in the automatic counting devices.

(c) No electronic voting system shall be used in any election unless it satisfies the requirements of Section 17-9-7 and:

(1) Permits each voter, at other than primary elections, to vote for the nominees of one or more political parties and for independent candidates;

(2) Permits each voter to vote for candidates in the primary of the political party of his or her choice;

(3) Prevents a voter from voting for the same person more than once for the same office;

(4) Is suitably designed for its purpose and in such a manner that it may be used safely, efficiently, and accurately in the conduct of elections and the counting of ballots; and

(5) Accurately and correctly records and counts every vote cast when properly operated.

(d)(1) If automatic tabulating equipment which requires the use of ballot cards is used:

a. Ballot labels used in conjunction with ballot cards shall, as far as practicable, be in the same order or arrangement as provided for ballots for elections conducted under the general law, except that the names of all candidates for each office shall be arranged in alphabetical order according to their surnames or last names, and except that such information may be printed in vertical columns or on a number of separate pages which are placed on the voting device.

Following the listing of particular candidates, the pages placed on the voting device shall be of sufficient number to include the names of candidates for any non-partisan offices and any measures on which a voter may be qualified to vote.

In a primary election the pages placed on the voting device may be arranged with the entire ballot label consisting of several groups of pages, so that a separate group can be used to list the names of candidates seeking nomination of each qualified political party, with additional groups or pages used to list candidates for non-partisan offices or measures. Groups of pages shall be identified by color or other suitable means, and voters shall be instructed to vote only for candidates of the party of their choice and, thereafter, to vote for non-partisan candidates or measures.

b. Ballot labels shall be printed in plain clear type in black ink, or such size and arrangement as to fit the construction of the voting device. The labels shall be printed on clear white material or on material of different colors to identify different ballots or parts of a ballot. In primary elections multi-colored ballot labels may be used to identify each political party.

c. On all ballot labels the titles of offices and the names of candidates shall in all election primaries be arranged in vertical columns or in a series of separate pages. The office titles and the name, or an abbreviation of the name of the political party, shall be printed above or at the side of the names of candidates so as to indicate clearly the candidates for each office, the party, and the number to be elected. All candidates for one office shall, insofar as feasible, be grouped on one page. In case there are more candidates for an office than can be printed in one column or on one ballot page, the ballot label shall be clearly marked to show that the list of candidates is continued on the following column or page. In partisan elections the party designation of each candidate shall be printed to the right or below the candidate’s name. Arrows may be used to indicate the place to vote for each candidate and on each measure.

d. In partisan elections the ballot labels shall include a voting square or position whereby the voter may by one punch or one X record a straight party ticket vote for all the candidates of one party or may vote a split ticket for the candidates of his or her choice. In such partisan elections the party designation and party emblem of each party shall be printed on the ballot labels immediately above the square or position which permits the straight ticket voting. The name or abbreviation of the name of the party shall appear after the name of each individual candidate seeking nomination by such party or seeking election after nomination as such party’s candidate.

(2) If automatic tabulating equipment which requires the use of paper ballots is used, such ballots shall conform to the requirements of Section 17-8-1 et seq.

(3) If either of the above automatic tabulating equipment is used:

a. Paper ballots or ballot cards shall be of the size, design, and stock suitable for processing by automatic data processing machines. Each paper ballot or ballot card shall have an attached, serially numbered, stub or perforated stub, which shall be removed by an election officer before it is deposited in the ballot box, or a place where a number can be recorded and obscured. A record of the number of each ballot issued shall be kept by the election official and such record shall record the name of the recipient of such ballot. The name of the county or other local governmental unit, the district number, the designation, and date of the election, and a facsimile of the signature of the judge or appropriate municipal officer who has caused the ballot to be printed shall be printed on the paper ballot or ballot card stub. Each paper ballot or ballot card shall contain the same serial number as the stub.

b. Sample ballots, which shall be facsimile copies of the official ballot or ballot labels, shall be provided and posted in each polling place on election day as required by law. Sample ballots may be printed on a single page or on a number of pages stapled together.

c. In elections in which voters are authorized to vote for persons whose names do not appear on the ballot, a place shall be placed on the ballot or a separate write-in ballot shall be provided to permit voters to write in the title of the office and the name of the person or persons for whom they wish to vote.

(e)(1) Prior to any election at which electronic voting devices are used, the probate judge or appropriate municipal officer shall have prepared the voting devices, voting booth, ballot boxes, ballot labels, ballot cards or paper ballots, “write-in” ballots, and such other records and supplies as required.

(2) Unless the voting device enables the voter to mark his or her choices in secret, the sheriff or appropriate municipal officer shall provide voting booths for each voting box or voting center, which shall be of a size and design so as to enable the voter to mark his or her ballot in secret. The probate judge or appropriate municipal officer shall determine the number of voting devices and voting booths to be provided.

(f)(1) The election official shall arrive at the polling place 30 minutes before the opening of the polls, open the voting devices, and examine them to see that they are in proper working order. They shall open and check the ballots, supplies, records, and forms and they shall also post the sample ballots and instructions to voters.

(2) In the event paper ballots are not used, each voter shall be instructed how to operate the voting device before he or she enters the voting booth. If paper ballots are used and the voter needs instructions or assistance, he or she may be provided such assistance or instructions in the manner provided by Alabama law as it applies to use of paper ballots.

(3) Any voter who spoils his or her paper ballot or ballot card may return it and secure another. The word “spoiled” shall be written across the face of the ballot and it shall be placed in the envelop for spoiled ballots.

(4) After the voter has marked his or her paper ballot or ballot card, he or she shall place the paper ballot or ballot card in the box provided or place the ballot inside the envelope provided and return it to an election officer, who shall remove the stub and deposit the envelop with the ballot inside the ballot box. No ballot card from which the stub has been detached shall be accepted by the election officer in charge of the ballot box, but shall be marked “spoiled” and placed with the spoiled ballot cards.

(5) As soon as the polls have been closed and the last qualified voter has voted, all unused ballots shall be placed in a container and sealed for return to the sheriff or appropriate municipal officer. If the ballots are to be tabulated in the polling place, the counting equipment used shall have an element which generates a printed record at the beginning of its operation which verifies that the tabulating elements for each candidate’s position, each question, and the public counter are all set to zero, and with an element which generates a printed record at the finish of its operation of the total number of voters whose ballots have been tabulated, the total number of votes cast for each candidate, and the total number of votes cast for, or against any question appearing on the ballot. If the ballots are to be counted centrally, the ballot box shall be opened, and any ballots containing write-in votes may be separated, counted, and tabulated on a standard form provided for this purpose, or such may be separated, counted, and tabulated at the central place of counting and tabulation as the equipment for counting tabulation dictates. If the voter has cast more votes for an office than he or she is entitled as a result of the write-in vote, such write-in vote shall be counted as being the obvious intent of the voter. Any such ballots shall be fastened to the reporting form for write-in vote tabulation and placed in the ballot container with all other voted ballots for delivery to the counting center. The voting devices shall be placed in their containers and locked or sealed for returning to the sheriff or appropriate municipal officer, and the sealed container shall be returned to the sheriff by chief inspector.

(6) The election inspector shall prepare a report of the number of voters who have voted, as indicated by the poll list, and shall place the original copy of this report in the ballot container so that no additional ballots may be deposited or removed, and shall deliver such container to the counting center. The duplicate copy of this report shall be returned to the sheriff or appropriate municipal officer with other records. The returning officer and the inspector, who shall be members of different political parties when this is feasible, shall forthwith deliver the ballot container to the counting center or other designated place. The judge of probate or appropriate municipal officer may provide that the ballots shall be picked up at the polling places by two authorized returning officers, who shall be of different political parties, if feasible.

(g)(1) Prior to the start of the counting of the ballots, the judge of probate or appropriate municipal officer shall have the automatic tabulating equipment tested in the presence of authorized watchers for interested persons or designated representatives of political parties, to ensure proper performance and to ascertain that it will accurately count the votes cast for all offices and all measures.

(2) All proceedings at the counting center shall be under the direction of the probate judge or appropriate municipal officer, or persons designated by him or her, and shall be conducted under observation of authorized watchers for interested persons and the public, but no person except those authorized for the purpose shall touch any ballot or ballot card or return. All persons who are engaged in processing and counting of the ballots shall be deputized and take an oath that they will faithfully perform their assigned duties. Each political party having election watchers at the polls shall be entitled to have watchers at the counting center in sufficient number, to be determined by the governing body of the county or city, so as to permit accurate observance of the receipt, handling, duplication, and processing of all ballots.

If any ballot is damaged or is defective so that it cannot properly be counted by the automatic tabulating equipment, a true duplicate copy shall be made and substituted for the damaged ballot. All duplicate ballots shall be clearly labeled “duplicate” and shall bear a serial number which shall be recorded on the damaged or defective ballot. The probate judge or appropriate municipal officer may, prior to the conduct of the official count, conduct an official count in order to provide early unofficial returns to the public.

(3) The return by the automatic tabulating equipment, to which have been added write-in, challenged, and absentee votes, shall, when certified by the board of election supervisors as provided for in Section 17-14-1, constitute the official return of each election. The persons engaged in processing and counting ballots may from time to time release unofficial returns. Upon completion of the count the returns shall be open to the public, but such returns shall be deemed unofficial until canvassed and the results declared pursuant to Sections 17-14-1 through 17-14-25.

(4) If for any reason it becomes impracticable to count all or a part of the ballots with tabulating equipment, the judge of probate or appropriate municipal officer may direct that the ballots be counted manually, following as far as practicable the provisions governing the counting of paper ballots.

(h) Absentee votes and challenged votes shall be cast on paper ballots or on ballot cards and handled in all ways as prescribed by law relative to challenged votes, the absentee ballot law, or any other applicable law.

(i) All challenged votes shall be counted and handled in the manner prescribed by law.

(j) Upon completion of the count, all ballot cards, absentee ballots, challenged ballots, write-in ballots, and paper ballots, shall be securely packaged, suitably labeled and sealed, and delivered to the returning officer of the election. The election officials shall likewise package and seal a true copy of the ballot label used in each voting district or at each voting center. Thereafter these packages are to be retained and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of Section 17-13-5. The election officials shall likewise package and retain all tabulating cards and other materials used in programming the automatic tabulating equipment. The person programming such equipment may have access to these tabulating cards and other materials; he or she shall not, however, alter or make changes to these materials, but may make copies of the originals and make changes to the copies. The sheriff shall retain and dispose of these materials in the same manner and at the same time he or she is directed by Section 17-13-5 to retain and dispose of paper ballots.

(k) Any election held pursuant to this section may be contested in the same manner prescribed by law for contesting other elections, and a recount of votes may be ordered under the same circumstances and conditions as recounts relative to other elections are ordered. Should a recount of votes be ordered as provided by law, the ballots shall be recounted in the manner directed by the judicial authority.

(l)(1) If the governing body of the county, with the approval of the probate judge, or the governing body of a municipality authorizes and provides for the use of the electronic voting system pursuant to this section, then such governing body shall also designate voting beats and voting boxes within such beat in the county. The order so designating voting boxes shall state (i) the location of the voting beat and box and (ii) the boundaries of the territory in which electors shall reside to be entitled to vote at the voting beat. A copy of this order shall be posted at the courthouse door of the county or at the post office door of any municipality which provides for the use of such electronic voting systems. The limitations prescribed by law as to the number of electors who may reside in a voting district shall not apply to a territory designated hereunder. Boxes may be established for territory or alphabetically. All of the territory designated for a voting box shall be located in the same beat. The county or municipal governing body may by law abolish a voting beat and discontinue the voting box or boxes therein or may extend or restrict the boundary of such voting territory and retain the voting boxes therein or may subdivide such voting territory and designate additional voting boxes therein.

(2) Except as herein expressly provided, in designating voting beats and the territory for which they were established, the county or municipal governing body shall be subject to all other applicable laws regarding the change or establishment of the district of a precinct, including but not limited to the provisions of Section 17-5-1, et seq.

(m)(1) The voting list of any territory which is furnished the election officers serving at the voting box or boxes designated for such territory shall contain the names of all qualified electors of the territory on a single roll; however, when the roll contains more than 2,400 names the list of qualified electors shall be divided into alphabetical sections of not more than 2,400 names per section. Except as herein provided, the laws applicable to the preparation, distribution, publication, and checking of qualified lists shall apply to the poll list of a territory for which a voting box has been established by the county governing body pursuant to authority hereby conferred.

(2) No elector shall vote at any voting beat and box other than the voting beat or box of the territory of which he or she is a qualified elector.

(n) The county governing body shall determine the number of voting beats and boxes and the location of each box deemed necessary to serve adequately the voters at an election, taking into consideration the nature or character of the election; provided, that during each election there shall be maintained at least one box for each 600 registered electors, or fraction thereof, residing in the territory designated as a beat. At least 30 days prior to the time when the election officials for an election are required to be appointed, the county governing body shall in writing inform the officers whose duty it is to appoint the election officials of the boxes which will be maintained in the respective beats during the forthcoming election. The officers whose duty is to appoint election officials shall appoint four of the officials for each of the respective boxes required to conduct elections as shown in the statement of the county governing body.

(o)(1) At each box of each beat, the election officials shall consist of an inspector, a chief clerk, and two assistant clerks.

(2) If an election official should be absent from the box at the opening of such box, a substitute election official may be appointed by the chief inspector in charge of the voting center.

(3) The election officials provided for herein shall be appointed by the same officers that appoint other election officials. They shall perform all duties imposed on election officials by the general law.

(4) The assistant clerk in charge of the voting device shall require that each voter sign a poll list when the punch card or other ballot is given to him or her, which shall contain a serial number, the same as on the paper ballot or ballot card given him or her. A separate poll list of persons casting challenged votes shall be kept by the officials. The poll list shall be signed or the name of the voter recorded as provided in Section 17-7-15.

(5) The inspector shall certify on a statement form furnished with the other election supplies the total number of votes cast on all devices at the voting box and the total number of electors’ names recorded on the poll lists at such voting box. Election officials provided for by this section shall be compensated for their services in the same manner and at the same rate provided by law for election officials where voting machines are used.

(6) It shall be the duty of all election officials to see that order is maintained in the polling place. The inspector shall see that the reports required by subsection (f)(6) are filled out for each voting device as required by law and delivered to the proper officials, that the records of the election relating to each device are enclosed respectively in each ballot box or other receptacle provided therefor, and that the list of qualified voters, challenged ballots, and one copy of each challenged vote and any other records relating to the election in general are enclosed in an appropriate box or other receptacle.

(p)(1) If the governing body of the county or municipality authorizes and provides for the use of the electronic voting system hereby authorized, then such governing body may, in its discretion, also provide for holding a school of instruction for those who will actually conduct the election at the polling places. If the governing body of the county or the municipality decides to do so, then not less than five days before an election the authority in charge shall cause to be held a school of instruction for those who will actually conduct the election at the polling places. The sheriff shall notify the election officials of the time and place of the holding of such school and shall also publish notice thereof at least 48 hours before the same is to be held.

(2) No election official shall serve in any election district or at any voting box in which a voting device is used, unless he or she shall have received such instruction and is fully qualified to perform the duties in connection with the voting device, has received a certificate from the authorized instructor to that effect, and is a qualified voter. This shall not, however, prevent the appointment of an uninstructed person as an election official to fill a vacancy among the election officials, and in the event that the governing body does not order the holding of such school of instruction, the appointment of election officials without such school shall be valid.
Ala. Code § 45-25-242.04 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 25 / Section 45-25-242.04
Section 45-25-242.04 Report of Business Address
Status: in_force

Within 30 days after any tax shall have been levied under authority of this subpart every distributor, storer, or retail dealer engaged in the sale or withdrawal of gasoline in DeKalb County shall make a report on blanks furnished under Section 45-25-242.01 to the governing body of the county, showing the place and post office address at which he or she is engaged in the business of distributor or storer or retail dealer in gasoline within the county, which information shall be entered by the governing body of the county on a book kept for that purpose, and should such distributor, storer, or retail dealer move his or her place of business from one business address to another, such distributor, storer, or retail dealer shall within 30 days thereafter notify the governing body of such removal, giving the former place and post office address and also the place and post office address to which his or her place of business has been removed. After the tax imposed under this subpart has become effective, no person shall become a distributor, storer, or seller of gasoline in the county until or she shall have made such reports to the governing body.
Ala. Code § 45-37-150.06 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37 / Section 45-37-150.06
Section 45-37-150.06 Bingo Games - Certain Activities Prohibited
Status: in_force

(a) It is the intention of the Legislature that only qualified organizations which are properly issued permits pursuant to this article shall be allowed to operate bingo games.

(b) A qualified organization shall not lend its name or allow its identity to be used by any individual, firm, association, or corporation in the operating or promoting of a bingo game in which the qualified organization is not directly and solely operating the bingo game. All equipment shall be stamped or clearly marked in letters no less than one-half inch in height and one-fourth inch in width, except for the letter ‘‘I,’’ with the name of the organization using the equipment, and it shall be unlawful to use equipment marked with the name of another organization.

(c) It shall be unlawful for two or more qualified organizations to operate bingo games jointly.

(d) It shall be unlawful for two or more qualified organizations to pyramid the valuation of prizes in such a manner as to exceed the limits in cash or gifts of equivalent value as provided in Section 45–37–150.09. The term equivalent value shall mean the fair market value of the gift on the date the gift is given as the prize in a bingo game.

(e) No person or organization by whatever name or composition thereof shall take any salary, expense money, or fees for the operation of any bingo game, except that not more than fifty dollars ($50) per day may be paid to one or more individuals for assisting in the conduct of such games on such day.

(f) No person shall pay consulting fees to any person for any services performed in relation to the operation or conduct of a bingo game.
Ala. Code § 45-8A-111.16 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8A / Section 45-8A-111.16
Section 45-8A-111.16 Exemption from Competitive Bid Laws
Status: in_force

The authority and all contracts made by it shall be exempt from the laws of the State of Alabama requiring competitive bids for any contract to be entered into by municipalities or public corporations authorized by them, including, but without limitation to, the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 16 of Title 41.
Ala. Code § 45-39-200.09 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 39 / Section 45-39-200.09
Section 45-39-200.09 Payment of Tax Required for Issuance of Motor Vehicle License
Status: in_force

To prevent motor vehicles from escaping taxation and to provide for a more efficient procedure for assessment and collection of taxes due on same, no licenses shall be issued to operate motor vehicles on the public highways of this state, nor shall any transfer be made by the county license commissioner until the ad valorem tax on such vehicles shall have been paid to the county for the preceding year as evidenced by receipt from the commissioner. Every person, firm, or corporation driving or owning a motor vehicle who desires to operate a motor vehicle on the public highways of Alabama, shall first return such motor vehicle for ad valorem taxation to the commissioner who shall issue a certificate of assessment on a form prescribed by the State Department of Revenue, shall collect the taxes shown thereon, and shall make a duplicate of the tax receipt and keep same on file in his or her office. The license tag shall be evidence of the payment of the license and ad valorem tax due as provided under this part.
Ala. Code § 45-20-242.59 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 20 / Section 45-20-242.59
Section 45-20-242.59 Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

The revenue derived by the county from the taxes levied under this subpart shall be deposited in the county general fund for expenditures for purposes of the county.
Ala. Code § 45-15-70 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 15 / Section 45-15-70
Section 45-15-70 Election of Members; Commission Districts
Status: in_force

(a) At the general election to be held in 2004, and every four years thereafter, a county commissioner for the first and fourth districts shall be elected by the qualified voters of each of the two districts. At the general election to be held in 2006, and every four years thereafter, a county commissioner for the second and third districts shall be elected by the qualified voters of each of the two districts. The commissioners shall be nominated and elected by districts and shall not be elected by the voters of Cleburne County at large.

(b) At least 180 days in advance of the primary elections to be held in 2004, the Cleburne County Commission may alter, by resolution, the boundaries for the districts designated in subsection (a), and make revisions to the boundaries thereafter in the manner provided by Section 11-3-1.1.
Ala. Code § 45-9-84.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 9 / Section 45-9-84.20
Section 45-9-84.20 Real Property Conveyances; Grantee Address Required
Status: in_force

The Probate Judge of Chambers County shall not receive for record or permit the recording of any instrument in which the title to real property is conveyed, unless such instrument has endorsed on it a printed, typewritten, or stamped statement, stating the mailing address of the grantee, or contains a statement of such addresses in the body of the instrument.
Ala. Code § 45-41-141.16 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-141.16
Section 45-41-141.16 Ballots
Status: in_force

When the county commission calls for a special election as set forth in Section 45-41-141.12, the commission shall also record in the minutes of the meeting for the special call the wording for the ballot. The wording shall not propose a rate or incrementing of rates which would exceed the maximum rate allowable under Section 45-41-141.03. At a minimum the wording shall include the authorized uses as outlined in subdivisions (1) to (4), inclusive, of subsection (a) of Section 45-41-141.11 and the period of time such fee shall be in effect if approved. If the special election is for a renewal, the wording should state accordingly and the period of time the renewal shall be in effect if approved.
Ala. Code § 45-54-232 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 54 / Section 45-54-232
Section 45-54-232 Fee; Sheriff’s Pistol Permit Fund
Status: in_force

(a) In Pickens 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) The fees collected under this section shall be deposited by the Sheriff of Pickens County in any bank located in Pickens County selected by the sheriff into a fund known as the sheriff’s pistol permit fund.

(c) The sheriff’s pistol permit fund as provided in this section shall be drawn upon by the Sheriff of Pickens County or his or her appointed agent and shall be used exclusively for law enforcement purposes in the public’s interest and in the discharge of the duties of the sheriff’s office as the sheriff sees fit.

(d) The establishment of the sheriff’s pistol permit fund as provided in this section and the use of the funds shall in no way diminish or take the place of any other source of income established for the sheriff or the operation of his or her office.
Ala. Code § 45-3-61 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 3 / Section 45-3-61
Section 45-3-61 Appointment; Oath; Fees for Services
Status: in_force

(a) The Coroner of Barbour County may appoint one or more deputies, as deemed necessary, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the coroner and perform such duties, from time to time, as the coroner may direct.

(b) A deputy coroner shall take the oath of office required by Section 279 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and shall receive the same fees for services performed in the place of the coroner that the coroner would receive in performing similar services, with the exception of any expense allowance now received by the coroner.
Ala. Code § 45-43-246.67 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 43 / Section 45-43-246.67
Section 45-43-246.67 Charge for Collection
Status: in_force

The collection agency may charge Lowndes County for collecting the tax levied under this subpart in an amount or percentage of total collections as may be agreed upon by the collection agency and the Lowndes County Commission. The charge shall not exceed five percent of the total amount of the tax collected in the county. The charge may be deducted each month from the gross revenues from the tax before certification of the amount of the proceeds due Lowndes County for that month. The collection agency shall pay into the Lowndes County General Fund all amounts collected under this subpart, as the tax is received by the collection agency within 10 days after it is collected. The collection agency shall certify to the county commission the amount collected and paid into the General Fund of Lowndes County during the month immediately preceding the certification.
Ala. Code § 45-35-83.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 35 / Section 45-35-83.01
Section 45-35-83.01 Salary; Cost-of-Living Increases
Status: in_force

THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2022-169 IN THE 2022 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2022. TO SEE THE AMENDED VERSION, SEE THE VERSION LABELED PENDING.

(a) Beginning on June 1, 2015, the Judge of Probate of Houston County shall receive an annual salary of one hundred five thousand dollars ($105,000). Notwithstanding Chapter 2A of Title 11, the judge of probate shall be eligible for any cost of living increase afforded to all county employees.

(b) In order to receive the compensation provided under subsection (a), the judge of probate shall waive any compensation provided under Section 17-3-60, relating to reports from the state voter registration list.
Ala. Code § 45-14-234 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 14 / Section 45-14-234
Section 45-14-234 Sale of Abandoned, Stolen, and Unclaimed Property
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The Sheriff of Clay County shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff’s office. These 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 where the property was recovered. The records shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times.

(2) All abandoned or stolen property recovered by the sheriff’s office shall be stored in a suitable place to protect the property from deterioration.

(b) If the abandoned or stolen personal property is of a perishable nature and reasonable attempts to locate and identify the owner of the property are not successful, the property may be sold at once without notice. The sheriff shall attempt to obtain the best possible price for the property. The proceeds from the sale shall be held for a period of six months for the owner. During this period, the proceeds shall be paid to the owner upon demand, less any cost of recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale. If the proceeds are not claimed within six months, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale of the property, the net funds shall be paid to the Office of the Sheriff of Clay County.

(c)(1)a. The sheriff shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned or stolen firearms not subject to disposition by general law. The records shall state the description of the firearm, the date of recovery of the firearm, the serial or other identifying number, if any, of the firearm, and the place where the firearm was recovered. The sheriff shall take reasonable efforts to locate the owner of abandoned or stolen firearms recovered by the sheriff’s office, including notifying the sheriff’s offices of surrounding counties of the recovered firearms.

b. For the purposes of this section, “firearm” shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 13A-8-1.

(2) Unless otherwise provided by law, the sheriff may sell or destroy a firearm if the owner of the firearm does not claim the firearm after six months of the date the sheriff obtained it.

(3) The sheriff may sell a firearm only to gun dealers who have a current federal firearm license on the date of the sale. The sheriff shall establish a procedure to notify gun dealers of a sale. A firearm shall be sold to the gun dealer submitting the highest sealed bid. All sales shall be on a cash basis. The proceeds of the sale, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, maintenance, and sale of the firearm, shall be paid to the Office of the Sheriff of Clay County.

(4) The sheriff may establish a procedure to destroy firearms and may expend necessary funds of the sheriff’s office for that purpose.

(d)(1)a. As often as necessary, the sheriff may sell at public auction or by Internet 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 at least a six-month period.

b. The sheriff shall take reasonable efforts to locate the owner of abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff’s office, including notifying the sheriff’s office of surrounding counties if the property is deemed to be a family heirloom or to be of substantial value.

(2) Prior to the sale, notice shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in Clay County once a week for two consecutive weeks or by posting notice in a conspicuous place at the Clay County Courthouse 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.

(e) The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, including firearms, may claim the property at any time prior to its sale by submitting sufficient proof of ownership as determined by the sheriff and by paying any reasonable expenses incurred in the recovery of the property, its maintenance, storage, and a pro rata share of the costs, if any, of publication of notice of the sale of the property.

(f) If property is sold at public auction, as provided in this section, a notation in the storage record shall be made of the sale and of the amount received for the property. The person making the sale may reject any bid if the amount bid is unreasonably low and may continue the sale, from time to time, if no bidders are present.

(g) The proceeds from the sale of property at an auction conducted under the authority of this section, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale of property, shall be collected by the sheriff and deposited in any bank located in Clay County into a fund designated as the Sheriff’s Fund. The fund may be drawn upon by the sheriff and used exclusively for law enforcement purposes in the discharge of the duties of the sheriff’s office at the discretion of the sheriff.
Ala. Code § 45-8A-23 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8A / Section 45-8A-23
Section 45-8A-23 Cities to Which Part Applies
Status: in_force

Any city in the State of Alabama, which has a population of more than 30,000 and not exceeding 33,000 according to the last federal census, or which may hereafter have such population according to any federal census that may be taken hereafter, may adopt the council-manager form of government by proceeding in the manner hereafter in this part provided.
Ala. Code § 45-49-80.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-80.01
Section 45-49-80.01 Trial Sheets; Case Action Summary Sheets
Status: in_force

(a) In the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the circuit on a sheet or sheets now commonly called trial sheets or case action summary sheets. There shall be a trial sheet or case action summary 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 the circuit, the clerk of the circuit court of the circuit shall file such sheets or copies thereof in numerical order in well bound books labeled minute books and the judgments or decrees shall have the same force and effect as minutes of the circuit court of the circuit before January 1, 1982.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-54.63 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-54.63
Section 45-37A-54.63 Board of Directors
Status: in_force

Such authority formed under this subpart shall constitute a public benefit agency of the State of Alabama and shall have a board of directors of nine members selected as herein provided. Such board of directors shall constitute the governing body of the authority. The members of the board of directors shall serve without compensation, except they shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in and about the performance of their duties hereunder. No member of the board of directors shall be an officer of the city. The six original and their subsequent directors shall be elected by the governing body of the city, and they shall be so elected that they shall hold office for staggered terms. For the purpose of so staggering the terms, the directorships shall be numbered one through six, inclusive. The first term of office of each director shall be for a number of years corresponding to the number of the directorship which he or she holds; and, thereafter the term of office of each director shall be six years. Any person appointed to any vacant directorship during any term of such directorship shall be deemed appointed for the remainder of such term; provided, that if any person be appointed to any vacant directorship during the last six months of any term of such directorship, he or she shall be deemed appointed for the remainder of such term and for the next succeeding term of such directorship. Three members shall be selected as follows: Two members selected by the Alabama Senate members representing the county in which the city of the authority is located, approved by a majority vote of the members of the Senate composing the county delegation; and one member selected by the House of Representatives members representing the county in which the city of the authority is located, approved by a majority vote of the members of the House comprising the county delegation. The incumbent of a directorship may be removed from the board of directors by the council, commission, or other governing body of the city for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance after a fair hearing or opportunity therefor. Every appointment or removal of a director, except for legislative appointed members, shall be by resolution of the council, commission, or other governing body of such city. A chair and vice chair of the authority shall be elected by the authority from among its members, and a secretary shall be appointed, who may be or may not be a member of the board. In the absence of incapacity of the chair, the vice chair shall serve as chair and may perform such acts and duties as the chair is authorized to perform. The power of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by the majority of the members of the authority then in office. The authority may delegate to one or more of its members or its officers, agents, and employees such power and duties as it may deem proper, and shall appoint a treasurer, who may or may not be a member of the authority, to act as custodian of all of the funds, from whatever source derived, received by the authority, and shall deposit the moneys in a separate account or accounts in one or more banks or trust companies which are duly qualified and doing business in the State of Alabama. The authority may by resolution or by trust indenture securing the issuance of bonds herein authorized designate a fiscal agent or trustee, which shall be a bank or trust company duly qualified to do business in the State of Alabama, and may authorize such fiscal agent or trustee to receive and disburse, upon such terms and conditions, and subject to such exceptions, if any, as may be specified in such resolution or trust indenture, all funds applicable to payment of the bonds. All such banks and trust companies are authorized to give security for moneys deposited with it.
Ala. Code § 45-48-101.26 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 48 / Section 45-48-101.26
Section 45-48-101.26 Applicability of Subpart
Status: in_force

This subpart shall not apply to the individuals who are serving as members of the Marshall County Board of Education on May 10, 2012.
Ala. Code § 45-53-243.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 53 / Section 45-53-243.02
Section 45-53-243.02 Statement of Sales and Withdrawals
Status: in_force

On or before the 20th day of each month after any tax shall have been levied under this part, every person upon whom the excise tax is levied shall render to the county commission on forms prescribed by the county commission a true and correct statement of all sales and withdrawals of gasoline and motor fuel made by him, her, or them during the next preceding month, liable for payment of the excise tax imposed pursuant to this part. Additional information shall be furnished as the county commission may require upon blanks to be formulated and furnished by the county commission, and at the time of making such report shall pay to the county commission an amount of money equal to the excise tax levied under this part. The statement required to be made by the distributor, storer, or retail dealer shall be sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths. Any false statement sworn to shall constitute perjury, and upon conviction, the person so convicted shall be punished as provided by law for the crime of perjury.
Ala. Code § 45-28-82.31 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 28 / Section 45-28-82.31
Section 45-28-82.31 Violations; Waiver
Status: in_force

(a) If the offender violates the conditions of the pretrial diversion program, the district attorney may terminate the participation of the offender in the program. 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 § 45-37-230 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37 / Section 45-37-230
Section 45-37-230 Salary; Expense Allowance
Status: in_force

(a) Effective beginning the next term of office, the annual salary of the Sheriff of Jefferson County shall be one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000).

(b) Effective beginning the next term of office, the sheriff shall receive the same cost-of-living increases provided to deputy sheriffs in Jefferson County granted after that date.
Ala. Code § 45-6-241.40 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 6 / Section 45-6-241.40
Section 45-6-241.40 Imposition of Tobacco Tax; Stamps; Disposition of Funds; Rules and Regulations
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The Bullock 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 Bullock County a county privilege, license, or excise tax in the following amounts:

a. Five cents ($.05) for each package of cigarettes, made of tobacco or any substitute therefor.

b. Five cents ($.05) for each package of cigars or cigarellos, such as Winchester, which are similar to, and which are packaged like, cigarettes.

c. Three cents ($.03) for each cigar, cheroot, or stogie of any description made of tobacco or any substitute therefor which are not similar to, nor packaged like, cigarettes as provided for in paragraph b.

d. Three cents ($.03) 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.

e. Five cents ($.05) 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.

f. Five cents ($.05) for each can, bottle, glass, tumbler, package, or other container of snuff made of tobacco or any substitute therefor.

g. Fifteen cents ($.15) for each package of tobacco paper, both gummed and ungummed.

(2) The privilege, license, or excise tax shall be in addition to all other federal, state, or local taxes heretofore imposed by law. 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 Bullock County Commission, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the purpose in Bullock 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 Bullock County in the business for which the tax is hereby levied to fail or refuse to add to the price and collect from the purchaser the amount due on account on the tax herein provided or to refund or offer to refund all or part of the amount collected or absorb or advertise directly or indirectly the absorption of the tax or any portion thereof.

(d)(1) The proceeds from the tax hereby authorized, less the actual cost of collection not to exceed five per centum shall be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Bullock County Commission to be used for the following purposes:

a. Five per centum of the proceeds shall be distributed to U.S.A. Recreation, Inc.; and

b. The remaining proceeds shall be distributed equally among each certified fire department in the county. Annually, on October 1, the Alabama Forestry Commission shall submit to the Bullock County Commission a list of each certified fire department.

(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the volunteer fire departments and municipally supported fire departments shall not be considered as employees, servants, or agents of the county and the members of the county commission and the employees of the county shall not be liable in either their official capacity or in a private capacity for the actions of the fire departments.

(e) 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 through Section 40-25-28. 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.

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

(g) 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 through Section 40-25-28, as amended, 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.

(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 statute shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products stored by a wholesaler dealer for the purpose of resale or reshipment outside of such counties which are actually resold or reshipped.
Ala. Code § 45-27-90.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 27 / Section 45-27-90.01
Section 45-27-90.01 Officers; Meetings; Compensation
Status: in_force

The authority shall hold an organizational meeting within 30 days after the appointment of all its members and shall elect a chair and vice chair from among its members. Such officers shall serve for such term as the authority by rule or regulation may prescribe. After the organizational meeting, the authority shall meet at the time and place designated in the call. The chair or a majority of its members may call a meeting of the authority, and at least four meetings shall be held annually. The chair shall preside at each meeting of the authority. In his or her absence, the vice chair shall preside. A majority of the members of the authority shall constitute a quorum. Members of the authority shall receive no compensation for their services, but they shall be entitled to reimbursement for their actual and necessary expense incurred in the performance of their official duties.
Ala. Code § 45-44-241 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 44 / Section 45-44-241
Section 45-44-241 Ad Valorem Taxation for Educational Purposes
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and a resolution heretofore adopted by the County Commission of Macon County after a public hearing, the county commission is hereby authorized to levy, in addition to any and all other taxes heretofore levied, an additional ad valorem tax in the amount of 10 mills on each dollar of taxable property in the county. The revenues from the tax shall be paid to the county board of education to be used for general educational purposes.

(2) The increase in the rate of tax as provided in this subsection is subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors who vote on the proposed increase at a special election called and held for such purposes pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.

(b)(1) Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the Macon County Commission may levy, in addition to any other tax, an ad valorem tax in the amount of 10 mills on each dollar of taxable property in the county. The revenue from the additional tax shall be paid to the county general fund to be used for general education purposes.

(2) The increase in the rate of the tax as provided by this subsection is subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors of the county who vote on the proposed increase at the next general, primary, constitutional, or special election held for that purpose.
Ala. Code § 45-22-225 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 22 / Section 45-22-225
Section 45-22-225 Composition; Terms
Status: in_force

(a) The Cullman County Tourism Bureau shall be comprised as follows: (1) Two members appointed by the Cullman City Council, of which one shall be an elected city councilman and one shall be a representative of tourism relating to the restaurant industry; (2) two members appointed by the full board of the Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce, of which one shall be either the chair of the chamber or the president of the chamber and one shall be a representative of tourism relating to the Smith Lake Community; (3) two members appointed by the Cullman County Commission, of which one shall be an elected county commissioner and one shall be a representative of tourism relating to the agri-tourism industry or the faith-based tourism industry; (4) one member appointed by the hotel association; (5) one member appointed by the Wallace State Community College President; (6) one member who shall be the Cullman County Parks and Recreation Director; (7) one member appointed by the Cullman City Parks and Recreation Board Director or President; and (8) one member who shall be a representative of the tourism industry selected by a majority vote of the state delegation; provided however, that in the event the delegation vote is tied, the Senator representing Cullman shall make the deciding vote.

(b) Members of the bureau shall serve staggered, four-year terms as follows: (1) appointees of the hotel association, Wallace State Community College, the Cullman County Parks and Recreation Board, and the Cullman City Parks and Recreation Board shall serve six-year terms; (2) one appointee each for the Cullman City Council, the Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Cullman County Commission shall serve four-year terms; and (3) all other appointees shall serve two-year terms.
Ala. Code § 45-34-84.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 34 / Section 45-34-84.20
Section 45-34-84.20 Special Transaction Fee
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to all other fees and costs provided by law, a special transaction fee in an amount determined by the Henry County Commission, but not exceeding five dollars ($5), shall be paid to the Henry County Judge of Probate when any public business is transacted in his or her office.

(b) The special additional transaction fees shall be collected by the judge of probate and deposited no later than the 20th day of the month following collection as follows:

(1) The first two dollars ($2) into a special fund in the Henry County Judge of Probate office to be used at the discretion of the judge of probate for the costs of maintaining, preserving, and upgrading the records and recording equipment and other services necessary for the improvement of the office of the judge of probate.

(2) Any amount in excess of two dollars ($2) into the Henry County General Fund.

(c) The judge of probate may transfer funds from the special fund in the Henry County Judge of Probate office to the Henry County General Fund at his or her discretion.
Ala. Code § 45-51A-32.37 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 51A / Section 45-51A-32.37
Section 45-51A-32.37 Annual Report by Fire Insurance Companies
Status: in_force

Each fire insurance company doing business in the city shall file with the board of trustees, on or before the first day of February of each year, a statement or report in writing showing the gross amount of premiums, less returned premiums, received by the fire insurance company for and on account of business done by it in the city during the preceding year, which statement or report shall be sworn to by the agent of the fire insurance company in the city, or some other person having knowledge of the facts; and any fire insurance company failing to make and file the report and statement as aforesaid, shall be subject to the same penalties as are provided in subdivision (3) of Section 45-51A-32.27, to be collected as in the subdivision provided, for the benefit of the fund.
Ala. Code § 45-10-82 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 10 / Section 45-10-82
Section 45-10-82 Expense Allowance; Salary
Status: in_force

(a) The probate judge, tax assessor, and tax collector of Cherokee County shall each receive an additional annual expense allowance in the amount of two thousand nine hundred dollars ($2,900) to be paid out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments at the end of each month upon warrants drawn in the same manner as employees of Cherokee County are paid. The expense allowance shall expire at the termination of the current term of office of such officers.

(b) Beginning with the next term of office, the probate judge, tax assessor, and tax collector shall receive a total annual salary of fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) to be paid out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments at the end of each month upon warrants drawn in the same manner as employees of Cherokee County are paid.
Ala. Code § 45-28A-42.65 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 28A / Section 45-28A-42.65
Section 45-28A-42.65 Payments to Beneficiaries of Deceased Active Member
Status: in_force

If any active member of such police or fire department, or any member of such department on official leave of absence from such department and in the Armed Forces of the United States, shall die from any cause whatever, leaving a widow or widower, the board shall direct the payment from the fund, to the widow or widower, of a sum equal to 50 percent of the amount specified in this subpart to be paid to a retired fireman or policeman of the same rank as such deceased member at the time of his or her death, the monthly payments to continue to such widow or widower during his or her natural life and while unmarried. Should such deceased member leave no surviving widow or widower, but leave surviving him or her a child or children under 18 years of age, the board of trustees shall direct the payment monthly from such fund, until such child or children shall have attained the age of 18 years, of a sum equal to 50 percent of the amount specified in this subpart to be paid to a retired fireman or policeman of the same rank as such deceased member at the time of his or her death, to the person having control and custody of such child or children or to such other person as the board of trustees shall direct, the sum to be expended by such person for the benefit of such child or children as may be prescribed by the board of trustees.
Ala. Code § 45-2-81.47 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 2 / Section 45-2-81.47
Section 45-2-81.47 Substance Abuse Treatment Program; Drug Testing
Status: in_force

The district attorney and the offender may enter into an agreement as a part of the Pre-Trial Intervention Program of an offender that the offender be admitted to a drug or alcohol program on an in-patient or out-patient basis or receive other treatment alternatives for substance abuse. The district attorney may require the offender to submit to periodic or random drug testing as a part of the Pre-Trial Intervention Program of the offender and other terms and conditions related to substance abuse as the district attorney may direct. The offender shall pay the costs of all services unless otherwise agreed.
Ala. Code § 45-23-130.11 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 23 / Section 45-23-130.11
Section 45-23-130.11 Employment of Road Supervisor in Emergency
Status: in_force

In the event of an emergency in which it would be impossible for the commission to employ an engineer, the commission shall employ a competent road supervisor who need not be an engineer, but, when so employed shall have all the duties and authority of the engineer, and be subject to this article. An emergency employment of a competent road supervisor shall not exist longer than necessary to employ a qualified engineer who shall accept employment by the commission under the terms of this article. It is the intention of this article to provide that, when county roads, bridges, and ferries are to be maintained or constructed in the county, the supervision thereof shall be under a qualified engineer.
Ala. Code § 45-49-250 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-250
Section 45-49-250 Notice of Rate Increase
Status: in_force

A written notice of any rate increase must be given to each customer by the gas utility boards at least 30 days prior to the increase.
Ala. Code § 45-34-171 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 34 / Section 45-34-171
Section 45-34-171 Legislative Findings
Status: in_force

The regulation of the accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor vehicles, and other litter within the unincorporated areas of Henry County, and licensing the operation of junkyards within the unincorporated areas of Henry County is hereby declared to be in the public interest and necessary to promote the public safety, health, welfare, convenience, and enjoyment of public travel; to protect the public investment in public highways; to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands and the environment; and to promote the conservation of natural mineral resources by encouraging recycling. The Legislature finds and declares that within the unincorporated areas of Henry County the accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor vehicles, other litter, and the operation of junkyards, any of which do not conform to the requirements of this part, are a public nuisance.
Ala. Code § 45-49-252.14 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-252.14
Section 45-49-252.14 Certain Acts and Practices Prohibited
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be unlawful to dispose of solid waste except by sanitary landfill, incineration, recycling process, or other method approved by the director, consistent with applicable state law, operated by the county or permitted and possessing certificates of need as required herein.

(b) It shall be unlawful to allow an unauthorized accumulation of rubbish, yard trash, garbage, and putrescible waste on any residential or commercial premises not engaged in a salvaging operation.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person other than the owner or collector, or his or her agent, or employees to collect refuse or to interfere in any manner with any such receptacles from the place where the same are placed by the owner or person lawfully in control thereof, or to remove the contents of such receptacles.

(d) No person shall place any refuse in any street, alley, or other public place, or upon private property, whether owned by such person or not, except if it be in proper containers for storage and collection. No person shall throw or deposit refuse in any street, ditch, lake, stream, or other body of water.

(e) It shall be a violation of this part for any person to dispose of any acid, explosive material, inflammable liquids, or any dangerous or highly corrosive material in a way which might be detrimental or harmful to any person or persons.

(f) No rack or other structure intended to house or support garbage or refuse containers shall be constructed, maintained, or permitted to remain in any part of a public street or on private property within sight of a street. This shall not prevent the use of a garbage cart which can be rolled in and out from the house to the curb line.

(g) Residential refuse or garbage containers shall not be placed on the curb or grass plot prior to 5:00 p.m. of the day preceding the scheduled time of collection, and all containers shall be removed from the curb or grass plot prior to 7:30 p.m. on the day of collection.

(h) It shall be unlawful to place any dead animal, or parts thereof, in a container for collection without the consent of the collector or director, provided, however, this section shall not apply to animal parts from food preparation for human consumption.

(i) It shall be unlawful for any builder, or building contractor to bury any trash and debris which includes limbs, tree trunks, roots, concrete slabs, concrete blocks, bricks, building debris and all other materials used by the contractors in the course of building or alterations, or both, upon any premise unless a permit is first obtained in accordance with this part.

(j) It shall be unlawful to transport any solid waste in any vehicle which permits the contents to blow, sift, leak, or fall therefrom.

(k) It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with any county enforcement or management personnel or employee of a permitted or franchised collector while in the performance of their duties authorized by this part.

(l) It shall be unlawful for any person to scavenge any solid waste within the boundaries of a sanitary landfill operated by Mobile County. This shall not prohibit persons who first obtain the permission of the director from removing such solid waste.

(m) It shall be unlawful for any person to use any property in Mobile County for disposal or treatment of solid waste without an unrevoked permit and if required herein, certificate of need issued in accordance with this part.

(n) It shall be unlawful for any person to burn solid waste in any manner other than in a duly authorized incinerator permitted under Section 45-49-252.04, or in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the Department of Environmental Regulation, as amended from time to time.

(o) It shall be unlawful to engage in any aspect of handling or managing any hazardous of infectious waste until a permit has been obtained in accordance with Section 45-49-252.05.

(p) It shall be unlawful to store, collect, transport, transfer, recover, incinerate, or dispose of any solid waste within the boundaries of Mobile County contrary to this part or any permit or certificate of need issued hereunder.

(q) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a solid waste collection, transportation, or disposal service in Mobile County who does not possess an unrevoked permit from the director and any required certificates of need from the Mobile County Commission.

(r) No person shall deposit or dispose of any solid waste at any county solid waste disposal or handling facility without paying, in accordance with the requirements of the director, any lawfully imposed charges.
Ala. Code § 45-51A-32.187 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 51A / Section 45-51A-32.187
Section 45-51A-32.187 Employment
Status: in_force

All classified employees shall be hired from a certified register of job applicants who meet the job related qualifications as provided by the department. All personnel activities shall be in accordance with the rules, policies, and procedures enacted by the city council.
Ala. Code § 45-31-84.11 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 31 / Section 45-31-84.11
Section 45-31-84.11 Violations; Waiver
Status: in_force

(a) After any violation of any program terms or conditions or upon any breach of any program agreement by the offender, the city attorney may do any of the following:

(1) Continue the agreement with or without modification.

(2) Terminate the offender from the pretrial diversion program.

(3) Require the offender to adopt a new agreement as a condition of continued participation.

(b) The city attorney may waive a violation for good cause shown why the offender should stay in the program.
Ala. Code § 45-48-120 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 48 / Section 45-48-120
Section 45-48-120 Payment of Life Insurance Premiums
Status: in_force

The County Commission of Marshall County may pay all or any part of the cost of life insurance premiums for retired Marshall County employees that it currently pays for its active regular employees from any funds in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Ala. Code § 45-48-70.10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 48 / Section 45-48-70.10
Section 45-48-70.10 Contingency Fund
Status: in_force

The commission shall have the power, and is hereby authorized to appropriate, out of any monies in the county treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and to expend not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum for any purposes, not otherwise provided for by law, which in their judgment are worthy and for the best interests of the county, the fund hereby authorized to be designated as the contingency fund. Provided, however, that the expenditures herein provided shall first be authorized by the commission, and spread upon the minutes; and, provided further, that not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) shall be appropriated and expended in any one year, under this section, and should any sum or sums remain unexpended in the fund at the end of the year, only so much shall be appropriated for the next succeeding year as well, together with the unexpended sum, being the contingency fund to the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000).
Ala. Code § 45-44-150.12 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 44 / Section 45-44-150.12
Section 45-44-150.12 Tax Due Parimutuel Pools; Distribution of Contributions
Status: in_force

Every licensee conducting a race meeting under this part shall pay to the treasurer of the racing commission on a quarterly basis, a tax equal to four percent of the total contributions to all parimutuel pools made at the track. The total take out by a licensee on any parimutuel pool shall be 18 percent. After deducting four percent for the racing commission and 14 percent for the licensee, the remainder of the total contributions to each pool shall be divided among and redistributed to the contributors to such pools betting on the winning dogs. The amount of each redistribution for each winning bet placed shall be determined by dividing the total amount remaining in the pool after the deductions hereinabove provided for by the number of bets placed on the winning dogs. Each redistribution shall be made in a sum equal to the lowest multiple of ten cents ($.10) per dollar wagered. The licensee shall be permitted to provide separate pools for win, place, and show and also a daily double pool, a quiniela pool, a double quiniela pool, a perfecta or exacta pool, a trifecta pool, and any other bets and pools as the commission may from time to time allow. The licensee is entitled to retain the odd cents of all redistributions to be known as the breaks to a dime, and all monies represented by any unclaimed, uncashed, or abandoned parimutuel tickets known as outs money. Should there be no ticket bet on the winning dog, the entire pool shall be divided among the holders of tickets of the dog running next in line until the pool has been redistributed to the contributors. The licensee shall be required to use a totalizator system to record the wagering and to compute the odds. Rules and regulations governing the operation of each of the pools shall be established by the racing commission. The licensee shall collect from each person paying to attend a race meeting under this part ten cents ($.10) as an admission tax. Licensee shall make payment of such taxes to the treasurer of the racing commission once each quarter or three months, which payment shall be accompanied by a report on the attendance covered by such report and such other information as the racing commission may require.
Ala. Code § 45-16-62 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 16 / Section 45-16-62
Section 45-16-62 Election of Coroner; Chief Deputy Coroner; Compensation and Expenses
Status: in_force

(a) The coroner shall be elected at the general election and every four years thereafter, and shall serve for a term of four years.

(b) The coroner shall appoint a chief deputy coroner from the judicial circuit division of the county where the elected coroner does not reside. The chief deputy coroner shall be entitled to compensation in the amount of four hundred dollars ($400) per month. The coroner may appoint one deputy coroner. The deputy coroner shall be entitled to compensation in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300) per month. The Coffee County Commission may adjust the compensation and any expense allowance for the chief deputy coroner or deputy coroner by resolution of the commission. Any compensation or expense allowance shall be paid from the county general fund by the county commission.

(c)(1) A Coroner of Coffee County who is first elected or appointed on or after September 22, 2015, shall receive an annual base salary of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per year, which shall be paid in the same manner and at the same time as other county employees.

(2) The annual salary provided in subdivision (1) shall continue to be adjusted thereafter as authorized in Chapter 2A of Title 11.

(3) If there is a break in continuous service as coroner on or after September 22, 2015, upon reappointment or reelection as coroner, he or she shall receive the base salary as provided in subdivision (1), which may be adjusted as provided in subdivision (2).

(d) The coroner may participate in the same retirement system and the same insurance plan in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as any other employee of the county.

(e) The Coffee County Commission shall pay all expenses incurred or required by the coroner, chief deputy coroner, and deputy coroner to perform the duties of his or her office, including travel expenses, radio and paging equipment and maintenance costs, and association dues and continuing education expenses. The expenses shall be paid from the county general fund by the county commission.
Ala. Code § 45-31-141.13 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 31 / Section 45-31-141.13
Section 45-31-141.13 Abolition of District
Status: in_force

(a) Any district created hereunder may be abolished in the manner provided for by this section; provided, however, that no district shall be abolished when it has any indebtedness. All assets and equipment shall go to the Geneva County Volunteer Firefighters Association.

(b) Upon the petition for abolition of a district, conforming to the requirements set forth below, being filed with the judge of probate, he or she shall order an election on abolition of the district within the time provided, at which the qualified electors residing within the district shall be entitled to vote. The petition shall be signed by at least 100 qualified electors of the district. It shall contain a recital that the district is not indebted and it shall request the judge of probate to order an election on whether the district shall be abolished. Upon the officers canvassing the returns of the election certifying that abolition of the district was approved by a majority of the votes cast at the election, the district shall be abolished.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-240.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-240.20
Section 45-37A-240.20 Establishment of Program
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the City of Hoover may establish a pretrial diversion program for any defendant within the jurisdiction of the municipal court.

(b) All discretionary powers endowed by a common law and provided by statutes and acts of this state or powers or discretion otherwise provided by law for the City of Hoover shall be retained.

(c) The pretrial diversion program shall be under the direct supervision and control of the city and the city may contract with any agency, person, or corporation for services related to this subpart. The city may employ necessary persons to accomplish this subpart and those persons shall serve at the pleasure of the city.
Ala. Code § 45-21-50 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 21 / Section 45-21-50
Section 45-21-50 Office Abolished
Status: in_force

In Crenshaw County the office of constable shall be abolished pursuant to Section 36-23-1. All assets, money, property, real or personal, equipment, and supplies belonging to such office shall be transferred to the county commission for use or disposition.
Ala. Code § 45-22-240.29 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 22 / Section 45-22-240.29
Section 45-22-240.29 Voiding of License When Payment Noncollectible
Status: in_force

In Cullman County, when a check tendered by an individual, company, or other entity for payment of any motor vehicle license is found to be noncollectible at time of deposit, the revenue commissioner shall notify the license inspector who shall make a reasonable attempt to retrieve the motor vehicle license plate and any decal in question. In the event the motor vehicle license plate or decal cannot be retrieved, the revenue commissioner shall so state and the statement shall constitute authorization for the revenue commissioner to void the motor vehicle license plate, decal, sales and use taxes, issuance fees, interest and penalty, and costs. Once the motor vehicle license has been voided, the revenue commissioner shall receive credit for costs associated with the noncollectible check issued. The appropriate state office shall mark the records pertaining to the void license accordingly and upon inquiry by any law enforcement agency, shall notify the agency that the party in question is operating under a voided license. All violations shall be prosecuted in accordance with current law.
Ala. Code § 45-10-244.10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 10 / Section 45-10-244.10
Section 45-10-244.10 Effective Date of Levy
Status: in_force

If the governing body of the county elects to levy or impose any of the taxes herein authorized to be levied and imposed, it shall specify, as the effective date of any such levy, the first day of the second month following such levy.
Ala. Code § 45-53-246.06 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 53 / Section 45-53-246.06
Section 45-53-246.06 Construction and Application
Status: in_force

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

(b) This part shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes stored by a wholesale dealer for the purpose of resale or reshipment outside of such counties which are actually resold or reshipped.
Ala. Code § 45-8-82.21 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8 / Section 45-8-82.21
Section 45-8-82.21 Docket Fee; Solicitor’s Fund
Status: in_force

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Calhoun 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 to the Solicitor’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.
Ala. Code § 45-15-171.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 15 / Section 45-15-171.01
Section 45-15-171.01 Issuance of Death Certificates; Fees
Status: in_force

(a) In Cleburne County, any county health officer or administrator is hereby authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required. Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on file for one year following the death for the purpose of issuing such death certificate. Such certificate shall be in all particulars the same as those issued by the State Department of Public Health in any court or for insurance purposes. Nothing in this section shall affect any existing duty of any person to gather and transmit data to the local registrar or to the State Health Department.

(b) The county health officer, not later than 10 days from the date of death, shall make such official death certificate available to the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased at a fee not greater than that charged by the State Health Department for the same service. The county health officer shall cause a complete and correct account to be kept of all fees received under this section and shall remit the fees to the treasurer of the county board of health or like official for custody subject to disbursement in the interest of health services in the county. Any officer failing to comply with this section is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and punishable by general law.
Ala. Code § 45-54-242.83 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 54 / Section 45-54-242.83
Section 45-54-242.83 Payment and Collection of Taxes
Status: in_force

All taxes levied pursuant to Section 45–54–242.82 shall be paid to and collected by the department at the same time and in the same manner as state sales and use taxes are paid. On or prior to the due dates of the additional tax levied in this subpart, each person subject to the tax shall file with the department a report or return in the form prescribed by the department, setting forth, with respect to all sales and business transactions used as a measure of the tax levied, a correct statement of the gross proceeds of all the sales and gross receipts of the business transactions. The report shall include items of information pertinent to the tax that the department may require. Any person subject to the tax levied may defer reporting credit sales until after they are collected, and if the person elects to defer reporting the sales, the person shall include in each monthly report all credit sales collections made during the month, and shall pay the tax due at the time of filing the report. All reports or returns filed with the department pursuant to this section shall be available for inspection by the Pickens County Commission, or its designated agent, at reasonable times during business hours.
Ala. Code § 45-6-241 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 6 / Section 45-6-241
Section 45-6-241 Imposition of Excise Taxes; Monthly Report; Failure to Comply
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this subsection.

(1) COUNTY. Bullock County.

(2) COMMISSION. The Bullock County Commission.

(3) GASOLINE. Gasoline, gasohol, naphtha, and other liquid motor fuels or any device or substitute therefor commonly used in internal combustion engines; provided, that such term shall not be held to apply to those products known commercially as “kerosene oil,” “fuel oil” or “crude oil” when used for lighting, heating, or industrial purposes.

(4) MOTOR FUEL. Diesel oil, tractor fuel, gas oil, distillate, kerosene, jet fuel, or any substitutes or devices therefor when sold, distributed, stored, or withdrawn from storage in any county for use in the operation of any motor vehicle upon the highways of this state.

(5) PERSON. Persons, corporations, copartnerships, companies, agencies, associations, incorporated or otherwise, singular or plural.

(6) DISTRIBUTOR. Any person who engages in the selling of gasoline or motor fuel in this state by wholesale domestic trade, but shall not apply to any transaction of such distributor in interstate commerce.

(7) REFINER. Any person who manufactures, distills, blends, compounds, or mixes any one or more products in the production of gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined.

(8) RETAIL DEALER. Any person herein defined as a distributor who is also engaged in the selling of gasoline or motor fuel in this state at any place in this state in broken quantities.

(9) STORER. Any person who ships or causes to be shipped or receives gasoline or motor fuel into this state in any quantities and stores the same in any manner and withdraws or uses the same for any purpose.

(10) USER. Any person who uses or consumes gasoline or motor fuel in this state in any manner or for any purpose; provided, that the term “user” is not to include any refiner who has a refinery or refineries located within the State of Alabama when using gasoline or motor fuel in the manufacturing or refining process, or any person who holds a federal permit to blend motor fuels under the federal law and statutes and who pays the federal excise tax on such motor fuels directly to the federal government, when such person uses gasoline in this state in such blending process.

(b) The Bullock County Commission is hereby authorized to impose excise taxes on persons selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose whatever, gasoline and motor fuel within such county not to exceed three cents ($.03) per gallon and to require every distributor, retail dealer, or storer of gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined to pay such excise taxes upon the selling, distributing, or withdrawing from storage for any use, gasoline and motor fuel as herein defined in such county; provided that excise taxes levied pursuant to the provisions of this section shall not be levied upon the sale of gasoline or motor fuel in interstate commerce, and provided further that if the excise tax imposed under this section upon the sale of such gasoline or motor fuel shall have been paid by a distributor or by retail dealer or storer, such payment shall be sufficient, the intention being that the taxes shall not be paid but once. The excise taxes imposed pursuant to the provisions of this section shall apply to persons, firms, corporations, dealers, or distributors storing gasoline or motor fuel and distributing the same or allowing the same to be withdrawn from storage, whether such withdrawal be for sale or other use, provided that sellers of gasoline or motor fuel and its substitutes paying the taxes herein provided may pay the same computed and paid on the bases of their sales as hereinafter required, and storers and distributors shall compute and pay such taxes on the basis of their withdrawals or distributions. The taxes herein provided for shall be in addition to any and all excise or other taxes imposed on gasoline or motor fuel or any device or substitute therefor, or on the business of selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose, gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined; however, the county commission shall have no authority to levy any tax upon any gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined when used in essential governmental functions by the State of Alabama or any agency thereof, or the government of the United States or any agency thereof.

(c) On or before the 20th days of each month after May 21, 1987, every person upon whom the excise tax is levied shall render to the county commission of the county on forms prescribed by such county commission a true and correct statement of all sales and withdrawals of gasoline made by him, her, or them during the next preceding month, liable for payment of the excise tax imposed pursuant to the provisions of this section, and shall furnish to the county commission such additional information as such county commission may require upon blanks to be formulated and furnished by the county commission, and at the time of making such report shall pay to the county commission an amount of money equal to the excise tax levied under this section. The statement herein required to be made by the distributor, storer, or retail dealer shall be sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths, and any false statement sworn to shall constitute perjury and upon conviction thereupon the person so convicted shall be punished as provided by law for the crime of perjury.

(d) All distributors, storers, and retail dealers shall keep for not less than three years within the State of Alabama at some certain place or office such books, documents, or papers as will clearly show the amount of sale and withdrawals of gasoline and motor fuel made in such county taxed under this section.

(e) Within 30 days after any tax shall have been levied under authority of this section every distributor, storer, or retail dealer engaged in the sale or withdrawal of gasoline or motor fuel in such county shall make a report on blanks furnished under subsection (b) to the county commission of such county, showing the place and post office address at which he or she is engaged in the business of distributor or storer or retail dealer in gasoline or motor fuel within such county, which information shall be entered by the county commission of such county on a book kept for that purpose, and should such distributor, storer, or retail dealer move his or her place of business from one business address to another such distributor, storer, or retail dealer shall within 30 days thereafter notify the county commission of such removal, giving the former place and post office address and also the place and post office address to which his or her place of business has been removed. After the tax imposed under this section has become effective, no person shall become a distributor, storer, or seller of gasoline or motor fuel in such county until he or she shall have made such reports to the county commission.

(f) If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer of gasoline or motor fuel in such county shall fail to make the reports or any of them as required in any provision of this section or shall fail to comply with any regulation adopted for the collection of the tax by the county commission of such county, within the time required for making such reports, or shall fail to pay the tax imposed within the time fixed for the payment thereof, the distributor, storer, or retail dealer shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished for each offense as otherwise provided by law.

(g) It shall be the duty of the county commission of such county to enforce the provisions of this section upon its imposing the tax hereunder, and it shall have the right itself, or its members or its agents, to examine the books, reports, and accounts of every distributor, storer, or retail dealer of gasoline or motor fuel on which such tax has been imposed and to make any and all rules and regulations necessary and proper for the collection of such tax. Provided however, upon resolution of the county commission, the State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized and directed to collect all taxes now or hereafter levied by such county under the provisions of this section. All persons, firms, businesses, and corporations subject to and owing such taxes shall be and hereby are directed to pay the same over to the department and such payment shall be a full and complete discharge of all liability therefor to the county. The department is authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to facilitate the orderly and efficient collection of the taxes. The department is authorized to recover all costs of collecting such taxes, not to exceed five percent of the proceeds thereof, from such proceeds and shall pay the net amount remaining thereafter to the county.

(h) If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer in gasoline or motor fuel shall fail to make monthly reports or shall fail to pay the tax imposed under authority of this section, the tax shall be deemed delinquent within the meaning of this section and there shall be added to the amount of the tax a penalty of 25 percent, provided if in the opinion of the county commission of the county a good and sufficient cause or reason is shown for such delinquency, the penalty may be remitted. The county commission shall be authorized and empowered to make returns for delinquent tax payers upon such information as it may reasonable obtain and add to that the penalty as prescribed by this section. If any person shall be delinquent in the payment of any tax imposed pursuant to the provisions of this section, the county commission of the county shall issue execution for the collection of the same, directed to any sheriff of the State of Alabama, who shall proceed to collect the same in the manner now provided by law for the collection of delinquent taxes by the county tax collector and make return of such execution to the county commission issuing the same. The tax herein authorized to be levied and the penalties herein provided for shall be held as a debt payable to such county by the person against whom the same shall have been imposed or against whom the penalties shall have accrued, and all such taxes and penalties shall be a lien upon the property in the county and elsewhere in this state of the person against whom the tax shall have been imposed and the penalties shall have accrued.

(i) The acceptance of any amount paid for the excise tax imposed under this section shall not preclude the collection of the amount actually due. However, the amount actually paid shall constitute a credit against the amount actually due.

(j) Any distributor, storer, or dealer who shall violate any provisions of this section, or shall fail to comply with any reasonable rule or regulation promulgated hereunder, may be restrained, and proper prosecution instituted in the name of the county by the Attorney General of the State of Alabama, or by such counsel as the county commission of the county shall direct, from distributing, selling, storing, or withdrawing from storage any gasoline or motor fuel the sale or withdrawal of which is taxable until such persons shall have complied with the provisions of this section.

(k) Each agent or any railroad company, bus or truck operator, or other transportation company or agency operating in such county shall report to the county commission of the county on the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year all shipments of gasoline or motor fuel as defined in this section or substitutes therefor handled by him or her or through the station or office at which he or she is the agent, and delivered to any person in such county during the preceding three months, giving the names and address of the consignor or consignee shipping and receiving the gasoline or motor fuel or substitute therefor and the number of gallons or pounds contained in each and every shipment.

(l) The proceeds of any tax imposed under authority of this section shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for use by the county commission for any purpose for which the general funds of the county may now be used by law and for payment of the costs incurred in the administration and enforcement of this section.
Ala. Code § 45-8-170 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8 / Section 45-8-170
Section 45-8-170 Fees, Charges, and Rates; “Animal Control” Defined
Status: in_force

Calhoun County and each of the municipalities therein which undertake to provide animal control services or programs for the public are hereby authorized and empowered to establish, fix, and collect reasonable fees, charges, and rates and to enter into contracts, including the leasing of county and/or municipal property, with other political subdivisions or private entities for the operation and maintenance of such services or programs. For the purposes of this section, the term “animal control” shall include, but shall not be limited to, the control, removal, and containment of stray or farm animals.
Ala. Code § 45-4-244.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 4 / Section 45-4-244.20
Section 45-4-244.20 County Sales Tax to Parallel State Tax; Exemptions; Collection and Disposition of Funds; Enforcement
Status: in_force

(a) All words, terms, and phrases that are defined in Article 1 of Chapter 23 of Title 40 shall, where used in this section have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in Article 1 except where the context herein clearly indicates a different meaning. In addition, the following words, terms, and phrases where used in this section shall have the following respective meanings except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(1) STATE SALES TAX STATUTES. Article 1 of Chapter 23 of Title 40, which levies a retail sales tax for state purposes, and includes all statutes, heretofore enacted, which expressly set forth any exemptions from the computation of the tax levied in Article 1 and all other statutes heretofore enacted which expressly apply to, or purport to affect, the administration of Article 1 and the incidence and collection of the tax imposed therein.

(2) STATE SALES TAX. The tax imposed by the state sales tax statutes.

(3) MONTH. A calendar month.

(4) FISCAL YEAR. The period commencing on October 1 of each calendar year and ending on September 30 of the next succeeding calendar year.

(b)(1) There is hereby authorized to be levied and imposed in Bibb County, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, a county tax to be determined by the application of rates against gross sales or gross receipts as the case may be, upon the unanimous recorded approval of a resolution by the Bibb County governing body, as follows:

a. Upon every person, firm, or corporation (including the State of Alabama and its Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in the sale of alcoholic beverages of all kinds, the University of Alabama, Auburn University, and all other institutions of higher learning in the state, whether such institutions be denominational, state, county, or municipal institutions, any association or other agency or instrumentality of such institutions) engaged or continuing within Bibb County in the business of selling at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise and commodities of every kind and character (not including, however, bonds or other evidence of debt or stocks, nor sales of materials and supplies to any person for use in fulfilling a contract for the painting, repair, or reconditioning of vessels, barges, ships, and other watercraft of over 50 tons burden), an amount equal to one percent of the gross proceeds of sales of the business except when a different amount is expressly provided herein. Any person engaging or continuing in business as a retailer and wholesaler or jobber shall pay the tax required on the gross proceeds of retail sales of such business at the rates specified, when his or her books are kept so as to show separately the gross proceeds of sales of each business, and when his or her books are not so kept he or she shall pay the tax as a retailer, on the gross sales of the business.

b. Upon every person, firm, or corporation engaged or continuing within Bibb County in the business of conducting or operating places of amusement or entertainment, billiard and pool rooms, bowling alleys, amusement devices, musical devices, theaters, opera houses, moving picture shows, vaudevilles, amusement parks, athletic contests, including wrestling matches, prize fights, boxing and wrestling exhibitions, football and baseball games (including athletic contests conducted by or under the auspices of any educational institution within this state, or any athletic association thereof, or other association whether such institution or association be denominational, a state, or county, or municipal institution, or association or a state, county, or city school, or other institution, association or school), skating rinks, race tracks, golf courses, or any other place at which any exhibition, display, amusement, or entertainment is offered to the public or place or places where an admission fee is charged, including public bathing places, public dance halls of every kind and description, conducted or carried on within Bibb County, an amount equal to one percent of the gross receipts of any such business.

c. Upon every person, firm, or corporation engaged or continuing within Bibb County in the business of selling at retail machines used in mining, quarrying, compounding, processing, and manufacturing of personal property, an amount equal to one-fourth of one percent of the gross proceeds of the sale of such machines; provided, that the term “machines,” as herein used, shall include machinery which is used for mining, quarrying, compounding, processing, or manufacturing tangible personal property, and the parts of such machines, attachments, and replacements therefor, which are made or manufactured for use on or in the operation of such machines and which are necessary to the operation of such machines and are customarily so used.

d. Upon every person, firm, or corporation engaged or continuing within Bibb County in the business of selling at retail any automotive vehicle or truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer, or mobile home set-up materials and supplies including but not limited to steps, blocks, anchoring, cable pipes, and any other materials pertaining thereto, an amount equal to one-fourth of one percent of the gross receipts of sale of the automotive vehicle or truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer, or mobile home set-up materials and supplies; provided, that where any used automotive vehicle or truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer is taken in trade, or in a series of trades, as a credit or part payment on the sale of a new or used vehicle, the tax levied herein shall be paid on the net difference, that is, the price of the new or used vehicle sold less the credit for the used vehicle taken in trade.

e. Upon every business, firm, or corporation engaged or continuing within Bibb County in the business of selling through coin-operated dispensing machines, food and food products for human consumption, not including beverages other than coffee, milk, milk products and substitutes therefor, there is hereby levied a tax equal to one percent of the cost of such food, food products, and beverages sold through such machines, which cost for the purpose of this subdivision shall be the gross proceeds of sales of such business.

(2) There are exempted, however, from the provisions of this section and from the computation of the amount of the tax imposed in this section the gross receipts of any business and the gross proceeds of all sales which are exempted under the state sales tax statutes from the computation of the amount of the state sales tax.

(c) The tax authorized to be levied in this section shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of the month next succeeding the month in which the tax accrues. All tax levied pursuant to this section shall be paid to and collected by the State Department of Revenue at the same time and along with the collection of the state sales tax. On or prior to the due dates of the tax levied pursuant to this section, each person subject to such tax shall file with the State Department of Revenue a report in such form as may be prescribed by the department, setting forth, with respect to all sales and business that are provided in this section to be used as a measurement of the tax authorized to be levied in this section; provided, however, that the report shall include also such other items of information pertinent to the tax in the amount thereof as the State Department of Revenue may require. Any person subject to the tax authorized to be levied in this section may defer reporting credit sales until after their collection, and in the event he or she so defers reporting them, he or she shall thereafter include in each monthly report all credit collections made during the month preceding, and shall pay the tax due thereon at the time of filing such report. All reports or returns filed with the State Department of Revenue under this section shall be available for inspection by the chairman of the governing body of Bibb County, or his or her designated agent, at reasonable times during business hours.

(d) Each person engaging or continuing within Bibb County in a business subject to the tax authorized to be levied in this section shall add to the sales price or admission fee and collect from the purchaser or the person paying the admission fee the amount due by the taxpayer on account of the tax. It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the tax to fail or refuse to add to the sales price or admission fee and to collect from the purchaser or person paying the admission fee the amount herein required to be so added to the sales or admission price and collected from the purchaser, and it shall likewise be unlawful for any person subject to the tax to refund or offer to refund all or any part of the amount so collected or to absorb or advertise directly or indirectly the absorption or refund of the tax or any portion thereof.

(e) The tax shall constitute a debt due Bibb County and may be collected by civil suit, in addition to all other methods provided by law and in this section. 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 of the provisions of the 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 authorized to be levied, and the State Department of Revenue, for the use and benefit of Bibb County, shall collect such tax and enforce this section and shall have and exercise for such collection and enforcement all rights and remedies that this state or the department has for collection of the state sales tax. The State Department of Revenue shall have full authority to employ such special counsel as it deems necessary from time to time to enforce collection of the tax authorized to be levied by this section, and to otherwise enforce the provisions of this section, including any litigation involving this section; and the department shall pay the special counsel such fees as it deems necessary and proper from the proceeds of the tax collected by it for Bibb County.

(f) All provisions of the state sales tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales tax, including discounts to licensees, making of monthly reports, and keeping and preserving records with respect thereto, interest after due date of tax, penalties for failure to pay tax, make reports, or otherwise comply with the state sales tax statutes, the promulgation of rules and regulations with respect to the state sales tax, and the administration and enforcement of the state sales tax statutes, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section when applied to the tax authorized to be levied shall apply to the tax. The state Commissioner of Revenue and the State Department of Revenue shall have and exercise all of the same powers, duties, and obligations with respect to the tax that are imposed on the commissioner and the department, respectively, by the state sales tax statutes. All provisions of the state sales tax statutes that are made applicable in this section to the tax herein authorized to be levied and to the administration of this section are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set forth herein.

(g) The State Department of Revenue shall charge Bibb County for collecting the special tax herein authorized to be levied, which charge shall not exceed five percent of the amount collected. Such charge may be deducted once each month from the special tax collected before certifying the amount of the tax due Bibb County. The state Commissioner of Revenue shall pay into the State Treasury all tax collected under this section, as such tax moneys are received by the State Department of Revenue; and on or before the tenth day of each successive month (commencing with the month following the month in which the department makes the first collection hereunder), the commissioner shall certify to the state Comptroller the amount of tax collected under the provisions of this section and paid by him or her into the State Treasury for the benefit of Bibb County during the month immediately preceding the making of such certificate; provided, however, that before certifying the amount of the tax paid into the State Treasury for the benefit of Bibb County during each month, the commissioner may deduct from the tax collected the charges due the department for the collection of the tax. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller to issue his or her warrant each month payable to Bibb County in an amount equal to the amount so certified by the state Commissioner of Revenue as having been collected for the use of Bibb County and paid into the State Treasury.

(h) Proceeds received by Bibb County from the tax herein authorized to be levied shall be used as follows:

(1) During the first 12 months of the collection of the tax:

a. Sixty-two and one-half percent shall be used to pay the costs of acquiring and providing real property, and utilities services in connection therewith, for use by the State of Alabama in the event the state should construct a prison or correctional facility in Bibb County and to provide for the promotion of economic development and tourism in Bibb County, as may be directed by the governing body of Bibb County;

b. Twelve and one-half percent shall be used to pay the costs of acquiring a vote counter and such other items of equipment and machinery as may be directed by the governing body of Bibb County; and

c. Twenty-five percent shall be paid into the general fund of Bibb County; and

(2) From and after the thirteenth month of collection of the tax,

a. Seventy percent shall be paid into the general fund of Bibb County;

b. Fourteen percent shall be used to provide fire protection services in Bibb County, as may be directed by the governing body of Bibb County;

c. Ten percent shall be used for the promotion of economic development and tourism in Bibb County, as may be directed by the governing body of Bibb County;

d. One percent to the rescue and medical squads;

e. Two percent to the public library;

f. Two percent to the public parks; and

g. One percent to the airport authority.
Ala. Code § 45-41-244.24 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-244.24
Section 45-41-244.24 Addition of Tax to Sales Price or Admission Fee
Status: in_force

Each person engaging or continuing within that part of Lee County outside the corporate limits of the Cities of Auburn, Opelika, and Phenix City in a business subject to the taxes levied in Section 45-41-244.20 shall add to the sales price or admission fee and collect from the purchaser or the person paying the admission fee the amount due by the taxpayer on account of the taxes; and every registered seller shall likewise add to the sales price and collect from the purchaser the amount of any tax which the registered seller is required to collect. It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the tax levied to fail or refuse to add to the sales price or admission fee and to collect from the purchaser or person paying the admission fee the amount herein required to be so added to the sales or admission price and collected from the purchaser, and it shall likewise be unlawful for any person subject to the tax to refund or offer to refund all or any part of the amount so collected or to absorb or advertise directly or indirectly the absorption or refund of the tax or any portion thereof. It shall likewise be unlawful for any registered seller to fail or refuse to add to the sales price and to collect from the purchaser the amount of the tax imposed or to refund or offer to refund or absorb, or to advertise directly or indirectly the absorption of, the tax or any portion thereof.
Ala. Code § 45-49A-64.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49A / Section 45-49A-64.07
Section 45-49A-64.07 Powers of Authority
Status: in_force

The authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form:

(1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be perpetual, subject to Section 45-49A-64.19) specified in its certificate of incorporation.

(2) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and to defend suits against it.

(3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure.

(4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business.

(5) To acquire, receive, and take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, and to hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether located in one or more counties or municipalities and whether located within or outside the authorizing municipality.

(6) To make, enter into, and execute such contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and to take other actions as may be necessary or convenient to accomplish any purpose for which the authority was organized or to exercise any power expressly granted hereunder.

(7) To plan, establish, develop, acquire, purchase, lease, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, and operate transit systems, whether located in one or more municipalities within the state; and without any requirement that such transit systems be interconnected or otherwise constitute an integrated operational unit, and to acquire real and personal property, franchises, and easements deemed necessary or desirable in connection therewith.

(8) To provide public transportation service within the state in any part thereof, upon such reasonable terms and for such reasonable rates and consideration as the board may prescribe.

(9) To sell and issue bonds of the authority in order to provide funds for any corporate function, use, or purpose, any such bonds to be payable solely from the sources specified in Section 45-49A-64.09.

(10) To assume obligations secured by a lien on, or payable out of or secured by a pledge of the revenues from, any transit system or any part thereof, that may be acquired by the authority, any obligation so assumed to be payable by the authority solely from the sources from which bonds of the authority may be made payable pursuant to Section 45-49A-64.09.

(11) To pledge for payment of any bonds issued or obligations assumed by the authority any revenues from which those bonds or obligations are made payable as herein provided.

(12) To execute and deliver, in accordance with this section and of Sections 45-49A-64.09 and 45-49A-64.10, mortgages and deed of trust and trust indentures, or either.

(13) To exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided in and subject to Title 18, provided however, that this subdivision shall not be deemed to authorize the authority to acquire, without the consent of the owner or owners thereof, any transit system from which public transportation service is at the time being furnished.

(14) To expend funds for the purchase or lease of materials, equipment, supplies, or other personal property without compliance with Acts 1967, No. 217, enacted at the 1967 Special Session of the Legislature of Alabama, as amended, that might otherwise be applicable, but only where the expenditure involves less than two thousand dollars ($2,000).

(15) Without regard to Acts 1967, No. 217, enacted at the 1967 Special Session of the Legislature of Alabama, as amended, or any law establishing a civil service or merit system that might otherwise be applicable, to appoint, employ, contract with, and provide for the compensation of, such officers, employees, and agents. Including, but without limitation to engineers, attorneys, management consultant, and fiscal advisers, as the business of the authority may require and at its option to provide a system of disability pay, employees insurance, retirement compensation, and pensions, or any of them.

(16) To make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations governing the use of any transit system owned or controlled by the authority.

(17) To provide for such insurance as the board may deem advisable.

(18) To invest any funds of the authority that the board may determine are not presently needed in the operation of its properties in bonds of the United States of America, bonds of the state, bonds of any county or municipality, and interest bearing bank deposits, or any thereof.

(19) To cooperate with the United States of America, any agency or instrumentality thereof, the state, any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state, and any public corporation organized under the laws of the state and to make such contracts with them, or any of them, as the board may deem advisable to accomplish the purposes for which the authority was established.

(20) To sell and convey any of its properties that may have become obsolete or worn out or that may no longer be needed or useful as a part of any transit system of the authority.

(21) To sell and convey, with or without valuable consideration, any of its transit systems or any portion of any thereof, to any one or more counties, municipalities, or public corporations organized under the laws of the state, which have the corporate power to operate the system, or portions thereof, so conveyed and the property and income of which are not subject to taxation; provided, that any such sale and conveyance may be made only with the consent of the authorizing municipality, such consent to be evidenced by a resolution adopted by the governing body of such municipality, and only if any such conveyance would not constitute a breach of any then outstanding mortgage and deed of trust, trust indenture, or other agreement to which the authority is a party.

(22) To enter into collective bargaining agreements with all or any part of the employees of the authority or with any groups or associations representing such employees.

(23) To enter into a management agreement or agreements with any person for the management by or for the authority of any transit system upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreeable.

(24) To require that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of construction work for the authority be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality where such work is performed as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor or any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States or of the state.

(25) In the event the authority shall acquire an existing transit system to enter into such arrangements as may be necessary to protect the interest of employees of such acquired system including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

a. The preservation of rights, privileges, and benefits (including continuation of pension rights and benefits under existing collective bargaining agreements or otherwise).

b. The continuation of collective bargaining rights.

c. The protection of individual employees against a worsening of their positions with respect to their employment.

d. Assurance of employment to such employees of acquired transit systems and priority of reemployment of such employees terminated or laid off.

e. Paid training and retraining programs.

(26) To fix and revise from time to time reasonable rates, fees, and other charges for public transportation service furnished or to be furnished by any transit system owned or operated by the authority, and to collect all charges made by it.
Ala. Code § 45-42-140.05 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 42 / Section 45-42-140.05
Section 45-42-140.05 Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

Funds paid to eligible volunteer fire departments shall only be expended for fire protection purposes, including training, supplies, and equipment. The funds may also be expended to purchase liability insurance to insure coverage of acts or omission which are directly related to the functions of a volunteer fire department which are committed by a volunteer fire department or the personnel of a volunteer fire department, or both. The funds may not be expended for salaries, food, drink, social activities, or fundraising activities. After receiving funds, the volunteer fire departments shall keep accurate records to verify that the funds were properly expended. By September 15th of each year, the department shall file a form with the county commission detailing the expenditure of all funds during the previous 12 months. The filing shall also account for all unspent funds and whether the unspent funds have been obligated. The county commission shall supply the accounting forms to each eligible volunteer fire department.
Ala. Code § 45-29-140.08 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 29 / Section 45-29-140.08
Section 45-29-140.08 Rates, Fees, and Charges
Status: in_force

Rates, fees, and charges for water service and fire protection service rendered by the authority from any of its water systems or fire protection facilities shall be so fixed and from time to time revised as at all times to provide funds at least sufficient to do all of the following:

(1) Pay the cost of operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, extending, and improving the systems and facilities, or either, from which such services are rendered.

(2) Pay the principal of and the interest on all bonds and obligations assumed by the authority that are payable out of the revenues derived from operation of those systems and facilities together with revenues from any tax sources and fees as the principal and interest become due and payable.

(3) Create and maintain such reserves for the foregoing purposes or any of them as may be provided in any mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture executed by the authority under this article or in any resolutions of the board authorizing the assumption of any obligation or the acquisition of any such system or facility.

(4) Make such annual payments if any, to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, the state, municipalities, counties, departments, authorities, agencies, and political subdivisions of the state and any public corporations organized under the laws of the state as the authority may have contracted to make.
Ala. Code § 45-2-261.66 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 2 / Section 45-2-261.66
Section 45-2-261.66 Construction of Subpart
Status: in_force

This subpart shall not be interpreted to affect the enforcement of building codes, the planning jurisdiction of the City of Gulf Shores as provided in the Baldwin County zoning maps of April 1, 2003, or of approval of subdivisions by the Baldwin County Commission.
Ala. Code § 45-56-83.65 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 56 / Section 45-56-83.65
Section 45-56-83.65 Initial Installation Costs Using Special Recording Fees
Status: in_force

The initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the the special recording fees. This section shall not prohibit the county from using any part of its own funds for the purpose of paying the cost of purchasing, operating, or maintaining, after the initial installation, any improved system installed pursuant to this subpart.
Ala. Code § 45-30-140 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 30 / Section 45-30-140
Section 45-30-140 Applicability
Status: in_force

This article shall apply only in Franklin County.
Ala. Code § 45-44-72.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 44 / Section 45-44-72.02
Section 45-44-72.02 Chief Clerk
Status: in_force

The chief clerk of the county commission shall be appointed for a four-year term of office and shall serve at the pleasure of the commission.
Ala. Code § 45-29-90.09 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 29 / Section 45-29-90.09
Section 45-29-90.09 Bonds Authorized
Status: in_force

The authority may:

(1) Sell and issue its bonds from time to time in order to provide funds for any corporate function, use, or purpose, all such bonds to be payable solely out of the revenues derived from the facilities and other property of the authority or out of the revenues of any particular facilities and other property of the authority; and

(2) Secure such bonds by a pledge of all or any of the revenues which may now or hereafter come to the authority from any source, by a mortgage or deed of trust covering the authority’s land or any part thereof, or under the provisions of a trust indenture, or by a combination of one or more thereof; provided, that all obligations created or assumed and all bonds issued by the authority shall be solely and exclusively obligations of the authority and shall not create an obligation or debt of the state or of any county or municipality.
Ala. Code § 45-11-172.03 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 11 / Section 45-11-172.03
Section 45-11-172.03 When Dog May Not Be Declared Dangerous or a Nuisance
Status: in_force

(a) A dog may not be declared dangerous or a nuisance in any of the following circumstances:

(1) When an injury or damage was sustained by a person who, at the time of injury or damage, was committing a willful trespass or other tort upon premises occupied by the owner or custodian of the dog with the intent to commit a crime or was committing a crime, or was teasing, tormenting, abusing, or assaulting the dog, or who can be shown to have repeatedly, in the past, provoked, tormented, abused, or assaulted the dog.

(2) When the dog was protecting or defending a person within the immediate vicinity of the dog from an unjustified attack or assault.

(3) When the dog was responding to pain or injury or protecting itself, its kennel, or its offspring.

(4) When a person or domestic animal was disturbing the natural functions of the dog such as sleeping or eating.

(b) Neither growling nor barking, or both, shall alone constitute grounds upon which to find a dog to be dangerous or a nuisance.
Ala. Code § 45-49-142.10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-142.10
Section 45-49-142.10 Construction and Purpose of Service Fee
Status: in_force

Any fire protection and suppression service fee levied pursuant to this part shall not be construed as a tax on property. The fire protection and suppression service fee shall be levied for the purpose of funding fire protection and suppression under this part.
Ala. Code § 45-15-171 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 15 / Section 45-15-171
Section 45-15-171 Collection and Disposition of Fees; Ability to Pay
Status: in_force

(a) The Cleburne County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall set the fee to be charged for each service. The health department is hereby authorized to charge and collect such fees. All fees collected shall be in addition to any and all federal, state, and local appropriations. Any fees collected shall be processed in accordance with the recommendations of the State Examiners of Public Accounts.

(b) No person shall be denied any service because of that person’s inability to pay. The county board of health may establish a sliding fee scale based on one’s ability to pay.

(c) This section shall not apply to nor affect any fees otherwise authorized, set, or collected under state or federal law or regulations.

(d) All fees collected pursuant to this section are hereby appropriated to the respective health department which collected such fees.
Ala. Code § 45-56-81.04 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 56 / Section 45-56-81.04
Section 45-56-81.04
Status: in_force

(a) In Randolph County, the clerk of court shall assess a booking fee of thirty dollars ($30) against each defendant incarcerated in or booked in the Randolph County Jail if the defendant is convicted of or pleads guilty in cases prosecuted in the circuit or district court in the county.

(b) The clerk of the court shall enter the booking fee on the docket sheet and collect the fee in the same manner and at the same time as other court costs are collected. The booking fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to all other fines, court costs, or other charges provided by law. The court costs provided by this section shall not be waived by any court unless all other fees, assessments, costs, fines, and charges associated with the case are waived.

(c) The clerk of court shall remit the booking fees collected pursuant to this section on a monthly basis to the Sheriff of Randolph County to be deposited in the Law Enforcement Fund created pursuant to Section 45-56-232.01, and used for law enforcement purposes in the county.
Ala. Code § 45-48-70.19 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 48 / Section 45-48-70.19
Section 45-48-70.19 Purchasing
Status: in_force

(a) No warrant shall be issued or check drawn on the county treasury or county depository by any person except the chair of the commission, or such other officers as may be designated by the commission unless otherwise provided by law; and officers who are authorized to pay claims which have not been first approved by the commission, shall issue orders for warrants or checks which shall be presented to the officer so authorized to issue warrants payable out of the county treasury or county depository.

(b) Purchase orders shall be made by a requisition from the respective county department head or associate commissioner and the requisition order shall show the description, use, need, and approximate cost for the article, machinery, equipment, services, or materials of every kind to be purchased.

(c) Every officer, agent, and department of the county in need of materials, equipment, supplies, and services of any kind for which the county is chargeable shall make requisition upon the commission or its designated officer, one or both, before obtaining the same. All purchases made for supplies, goods, services, merchandise, and materials of every kind for use of the county and which may be lawfully paid out of the county treasury or county depository, shall be first asserted to, made, or allowed, by the commission or designated officer or agent, either one or both.

(d) The commission may promulgate reasonable rules and regulations in complying with this subpart for the acquisition of supplies, materials, equipment, and supplies.

(e) Purchases of materials and supplies not allocated in the county budget or for materials and supplies in excess of the allocated budget shall be approved by the commission.

(f) Any other sections or subsections of this subpart to the contrary notwithstanding, the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) shall be approved by the commission.

(g) All purchases shall comply with the state bid law applying to county governing bodies.
Ala. Code § 45-49-120.35 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-120.35
Section 45-49-120.35 Persons with Disabilities
Status: in_force

(a) The Director of the Mobile County Personnel Board, upon request of an appointing authority, shall add to any certification of three applicants eligible for employment, the name of any handicapped person on the eligible list who is certified by the Director of the Division of Rehabilitation of Crippled Children, State Department of Education, as being eligible for rehabilitation services; but, the personnel director shall not give preference in certification for employment to any handicapped person if he or she finds such person is physically or otherwise unfit to perform effectively the duties of the position in which he or she seeks employment.

(b) The decision of the personnel director shall be final.
Ala. Code § 45-42-150.09 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 42 / Section 45-42-150.09
Section 45-42-150.09 Revocation of Bingo Permit ­ Eligibility; Effect of Convictions
Status: in_force

(a) A permit holder whose permit or special permit is revoked for a violation of this article or a rule promulgated under this article is ineligible to apply for a permit for a period of one year after the revocation.

(b) A person convicted of an offense under Section 45­42­150.11 or any other gambling offense is ineligible to serve as an officer, a permit holder, or to participate in conducting bingo for a period of one year after the conviction becomes final. If the person is licensed pursuant to this article, the person shall forfeit the permit and is ineligible to apply for the issuance or reissuance of the permit for a period of one year from the date of conviction.

(c) If the permit is revoked, in addition to any other penalties which may be imposed, the police chief may declare the violator ineligible to conduct a bingo game or apply for a permit under this article for a period not exceeding one year.

(d) The permit holder shall return its permit to the sheriff on or before the effective date of a revocation or forfeiture. Whether returned or not, the permit shall not be valid beyond the effective date of the revocation or forfeiture.
Ala. Code § 45-41-141 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-41-141
Section 45-41-141 Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) The following words and phrases used in this part, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, shall be given the following respective interpretations herein:

(1) AMENDMENT 392. That certain amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, proposed by Act 80–313 enacted at the 1980 Regular Session of the Legislature.

(2) AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT. That certain amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, proposed by Act 88–479 enacted at the 1988 Regular Session of the Legislature.

(3) CODE. The Code of Alabama 1975, as amended.

(4) COMMERCIAL BUILDING. Any building, structure, or other improvement to real property, excluding, however, any dwelling that:

a. Is subject to ad valorem taxation and has a fair market value, according to the records of the tax assessor pertaining to state and county ad valorem taxation for the fiscal or ad valorem tax year of the county with respect to which a financial charge is levied hereunder (or, if appropriate in the case of any building, structure, or other improvement subject, under the general laws of the state, to appraisal or assessment by the State Department of Revenue, according to the records of the State Department of Revenue), of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or

b. Is exempt from property taxation (whether on an ad valorem basis or otherwise) or is otherwise not assessed (or subject to assessment) for state or county ad valorem taxation according to the records of the tax assessor (or, if appropriate, the State Department of Revenue), and has a market value or replacement cost (whichever is greater) of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) any such building, structure, or other improvement that is used or expected to be used for religious, educational, or charitable purposes (such as, for example, a church, a school building, or a hospital); it being understood, however, that any such building, structure, or other improvement shall be classified as a commercial building for purposes of this part notwithstanding:

1. That it is vacant or unused at any time during the fiscal year for which a financial charge with respect thereto is or is to be levied, or

2. That an owner thereof may be the state, the county, a municipality or any department, agency, or instrumentality of any one or more thereof, any public corporation, district, or authority, any nonprofit corporation incorporated or organized under the laws of the state, or any other person whose property is, under the general laws of the state, exempt (in whole or in part) from ad valorem property taxation it being further understood, however, that the term commercial building shall not apply to any school, church, senior citizens facility, or utility distribution or transmission poles or towers, utility substations, or any building used primarily for fire or emergency services, and shall not apply to any building or structure used primarily for agricultural production purposes by the owner or an employee of an agricultural business or concern.

(5) COMMISSION. The Lee County Commission or other governing body of the county.

(6) COUNTY. Lee County, Alabama.

(7) DISTRICT. A fire fighting district established pursuant to Amendment 392 or any law providing for the implementation of the authorizing amendment of Amendment 392.

(8) DISTRICT FIRE PROTECTION FUND. A district fire protection fund established and maintained in the county treasury pursuant to this part.

(9) DWELLING. Any building, structure, or other improvement to real property used or expected to be used as a dwelling or residence for one or more human beings, including specifically and without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

a. Any such building, structure, or improvement assessed, for purposes of state and county ad valorem taxation, as Class III single-family owner-occupied residential property.

b. A duplex.

c. Every apartment complex or an apartment building that is not part of an apartment complex, and

d. Any mobile home or house trailer; it being understood, however, that any such building, structure, or other improvement shall be classified as a dwelling for purposes of this part notwithstanding:

1. That it is wholly or partially vacant or uninhabited at any time during the fiscal year for which a financial charge with respect thereto is or is to be levied, or

2. That is also used or expected to be used simultaneously for a purpose (whether or not commercial in nature) other than as a dwelling or residence as aforesaid.

(10) FAIR MARKET VALUE. The fair and reasonable market value (or, if applicable, the current use value) of a commercial building or dwelling (as the case may be), as such value is appraised by the tax assessor or the State Department of Revenue pursuant to applicable provisions of the code, prior to the assessment thereof for purposes of state or county ad valorem taxation pursuant to Section 40-8-1.

(11) FINANCIAL CHARGE. A financial charge or assessment levied by the commission in accordance with the authorizing amendment and this part.

(12) FIRE PROTECTION CORPORATION. Any public corporation, district, or authority that is:

a. Organized or incorporated under and pursuant to any law or laws of the state (or of any other state), whether heretofore or hereafter enacted, and

b. Authorized, whether by statute, by its certificate of incorporation, or similar corporate charter (as such may from time to time be amended), or otherwise, to provide or render fire protection, fire prevention, and related services (regardless of whether such corporation, district, or authority is also authorized to provide or render other services) and to make charges for the provision of such services, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) (i) any water, sewer, and fire protection district organized or incorporated under and pursuant to Chapter 89 of Title 11 (or predecessor statute), and (ii) any water, sewer, and fire protection authority organized or incorporated under and pursuant to Chapter 88 of Title 11 (or predecessor statute), but not including any municipality (or any district as defined above in this part).

(13) MUNICIPALITY. An incorporated city or town.

(14) OWNER. A person owning one or more dwellings or commercial buildings.

(15) SERVICE AREA. The geographic area or areas in which a fire protection corporation is authorized, whether by statute, by its certificate of incorporation, or similar corporate charter (as such may from time to time be amended), or otherwise, to provide or render fire protection, fire prevention, and related services, as such area or areas may from time to time exist.

(16) STATE. The State of Alabama.

(17) TAX ASSESSOR. The tax assessor of the county.

(18) TAX COLLECTOR. The tax collector of the county.

(19) TREASURER. The county treasurer of the county.

(20) UNIT OF PROPERTY. Any dwelling or commercial building, together with the real property on which it is situated or to which it is appurtenant.

(21) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. Any volunteer fire department with which the commission, pursuant to Amendment 392, may enter into an agreement or agreements with respect to providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities within the county.

(b) The terms herein, hereby, hereunder, hereof, and other equivalent words refer to this part as an entirety and not solely to the particular section or portion hereof in which any such word is used. The definitions set forth herein shall be deemed applicable whether the words defined are used in the singular or plural. Whenever used herein any pronoun or pronouns shall be deemed to include both singular and plural and to cover all genders.
Ala. Code § 45-37A-52.167 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37A / Section 45-37A-52.167
Section 45-37A-52.167 Competitive Bidding
Status: in_force

Before the purchasing agent makes any purchase of or contract for supplies, materials, or equipment, he or she shall give ample opportunity for competitive bidding, under such rules and regulations, and with such exceptions, as the council may prescribe by resolution or ordinance. The council shall not except individual contracts, purchases, or sales from the requirement of competitive bidding.
Ala. Code § 45-26-246.26 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 26 / Section 45-26-246.26
Section 45-26-246.26 Construction and Application of Subpart
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the Legislature that this subpart be construed as retroactive and curative, and the levying and collection of taxes pursuant to subpart 1 are hereby ratified, approved, validated, and confirmed. To the extent that any amount of taxes authorized by this subpart was paid by a person and collected by the county prior to May 2, 2023, such amount shall be deemed to be legally levied and paid and shall be deemed to be a credit against the amount of taxes levied pursuant to this subpart.
Ala. Code § 45-35A-52.09 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 35A / Section 45-35A-52.09
Section 45-35A-52.09 Bonds of Authority
Status: in_force

(a) Source of payment. All bonds issued by the authority shall be payable solely out of the revenues and receipts derived from the leasing or sale by the board of its projects or of any thereof as may be designated in the proceedings of the board under which the bonds shall be authorized to be issued.

(b) Pledge of revenues, receipts and other security.

(1) The principal of and interest on any bonds issued by the authority shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues and receipts out of which the same may be payable and may be secured by a mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture conveying as security for such bonds all or any part of the property of the authority from which the revenues or receipts so pledged may be derived.

(2) The resolution under which the bonds are authorized to be issued and any such mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture may contain any agreements and provisions respecting the operation, maintenance, and insurance of the property covered by the mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture, the use of the revenues and receipts subject to such mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture, the creation and maintenance of special funds from such revenues and receipts, the rights, duties, and remedies of the parties to any such instrument, and the parties for the benefit of whom such instrument is made and the rights and remedies available in the event of default as the board shall deem advisable and which are not in conflict with this part. Each pledge, agreement, mortgage, and deed of trust or trust indenture may for the benefit or security of any of the bonds of the authority shall continue effective until the principal of and interest on the bonds for the benefit of which the same were made shall have been fully paid.

(3) In the event of default in such payment or in any agreements of the authority made as a part of the contract under which the bonds were issued, whether contained in the proceedings authorizing the bonds or in any mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture executed as security therefore, the rights of any holder of the bonds may be enforced by mandamus, the appointment of a receiver, or either of these remedies, and foreclosure of such mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture, if provided for in the instrument, may be had.

(c) Execution. All bonds issued by the authority shall be signed by the chair of its board and attested by its secretary, and the seal of the authority shall be affixed thereto, and any interest coupons applicable to the bonds of the authority shall be signed by the chair of its board; provided, that a facsimile of the signature of one, but not both, of the officers may be printed or otherwise reproduced on any such bonds in lieu of his or her manually signing the same, a facsimile of the seal of the authority may be printed or otherwise reproduced on any such bonds in lieu of being manually affixed thereto, and a facsimile of the signature of the chair of the board may be printed or otherwise reproduced on any such interest coupons in lieu of his or her manually signing the same.

(d) General provisions respecting form, interest rate, maturities, sale, and negotiability of bonds. Any such bonds may be executed and delivered by the authority at any time and from time to time, shall be in such form and denominations and of such tenor and maturities, shall contain such provisions not inconsistent with this part, and shall bear such rate or rates of interest, payable and evidenced in such manner, as may be provided by resolution of its board. Bonds of the authority may be sold at either public or private sale in such manner and at such price or prices and at such time or times as may be determined by the board to be most advantageous. The authority may pay all expenses, premiums, and commissions in connection with any financing done by it. All bonds, except bonds registered as to principal or as to both principal and interest, and any interest coupons applicable thereto issued by the authority shall be construed to be negotiable instruments although payable solely from a specified source.

(e) Nature of obligation and source of payment. All obligations created or assumed and all bonds issued or assumed by the authority shall be solely and exclusively an obligation of the authority and shall not create an obligation or debt of the state or of any county or of the city; provided that this sentence shall not be construed to release the original obligor from liability on any bond or other obligation assumed by the authority. Any bonds issued by the authority shall be limited or special obligations of the authority payable solely out of its revenues and receipts of the authority specified in the proceedings authorizing those bonds.

(f) Eligibility for investment. Bonds of the authority are hereby made legal investments for executors, administrators, trustees, and other fiduciaries, unless otherwise directed by the court having jurisdiction of the fiduciary relation or by the document that is the source of the fiduciary’s authority, and for savings banks and insurance companies organized under the laws of the state.
Ala. Code § 45-30A-51 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 30A / Section 45-30A-51
Section 45-30A-51 Expense Allowances
Status: in_force

The Mayor of the City of Russellville, Franklin County, shall receive an expense allowance of four hundred dollars ($400) per month, and each member of the governing body of the city shall receive an expense allowance of one hundred dollars ($100) per month; such expense allowances shall be paid from the city general fund in the same manner as the salary of such mayor and members of the city governing body are paid, and shall be in addition to any other salary, expense, or allowance provided such mayor and city governing body members.
Ala. Code § 45-7-130.07 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 7 / Section 45-7-130.07
Section 45-7-130.07 Accountability for Equipment; Inventory
Status: in_force

The county engineer shall be the custodian and accountable to the Butler County Commission for all road machinery and equipment, tools, supplies, and repair parts owned by Butler County. The Butler County Commission shall establish necessary policies and regulations governing accountability and relief therefrom. The commission shall furnish the necessary storage and repair facilities for the tools, machinery, supplies, and equipment, and the county engineer shall keep on file in his or her office an up-to-date inventory containing a list of all tools, machinery, equipment, parts, and supplies owned by Butler County.
Ala. Code § 45-8-242 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 8 / Section 45-8-242
Section 45-8-242 Levy of Tax; Advisory Referendum; Collection of Tax; Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) This section shall only apply to Calhoun County.

(b) As used in this section, state sales and use tax means the tax imposed by the state sales and use tax statutes, including, but not limited to, Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-4, 40-23-60, 40-23-61, 40-23-62, and 40-23-63.

(c)(1) The County Commission of Calhoun County may levy in the police jurisdictions of the incorporated municipalities in the county and in the unincorporated areas of the county, in addition to all other taxes a sales and use tax, parallel to the state sales and use tax, of up to two percent of the gross sales, gross receipts, or the fair and reasonable market value of tangible personal property, as appropriate, except where a different rate is provided herein. Notwithstanding any other part or provision of this section, no additional tax levied by this section shall be levied or collected on the sale, storage, use, or consumption of any new or used agricultural machinery or equipment, and the county commission shall establish a tax rate of zero for such machinery and equipment.

(2) Notwithstanding any other part or provision of this section, every person, firm, or corporation engaged or continuing within the county in the business of selling at retail any automotive vehicle, truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer shall be subject to a sales tax, parallel to the state sales and use tax except as to rate, due to the county, in an amount equal to the following schedule as applied against the gross proceeds of the sale of such automotive vehicle, truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer:

a. If the sale occurs within that portion of the police jurisdiction of a municipality lying within the county which is levying a sales tax in its police jurisdiction, the county sales tax rate applicable hereunder shall be at the same rate as imposed by the municipality, in its police jurisdiction, on such sale, and in the event the municipality reduces its sales tax rate on such sales occurring within its police jurisdiction, the county commission may continue to levy and collect the sales tax authorized by this section on such sales at the rate imposed before the reduction, or at a lesser rate as specified from time to time by the commission in a resolution.

b. If the sale occurs within that portion of the police jurisdiction of a municipality lying within the county that is not then levying a sales tax in the police jurisdiction, the county sales tax rate applicable hereunder to the sale shall be specified by the county commission from time to time by resolution, provided that the rate shall not exceed 0.75 percent of the gross proceeds of the sale.

c. If the sale occurs outside the police jurisdiction of any municipality lying within the county, but within an unincorporated portion of the county, the county sales tax rate applicable hereunder shall be as specified by the county commission from time to time by resolution, provided that the rate shall not exceed 0.75 percent of the gross proceeds of the sale.

(3) The rate of county use tax due hereunder with respect to the storage, use, or consumption of automotive vehicles, truck trailers, semitrailers, or house trailers within the police jurisdictions of the incorporated municipalities in the county and in the unincorporated areas in the county shall be at the same rate as specified in subdivision (2), depending on where the storage, use, or consumption occurs.

(4) Except as provided in subdivision (1), the exemptions applicable under the state sales and use tax statutes shall be equally applicable under this section.

(5) For purposes of this section, the following words or terms shall have the following meanings:

a. Automotive vehicle, truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer shall have the same meaning as those terms contained in Section 40-23-2(4), including certain mobile home set-up materials and supplies as described therein.

b. County commission shall mean the county commission or any successor governing body of Calhoun County.

c. County shall mean Calhoun County.

d. Private collection agency and collection agency shall both have the same meaning as private auditing or collecting firm as that term is defined in Section 40-2A-3(17).

(d) The county commission may call an advisory countywide referendum election on the question of whether or not the qualified electors to the county support or oppose the county commission levying the additional sales tax provided for in this section. All costs of the advisory referendum or election, including, but not limited to, the cost of publishing the notice and of furnishing ballots or renting voting machines, shall be paid by the county.

(e) The tax levied by this section may be collected by the State Department of Revenue, the county commission, or a private collection agency under contract with the county commission, at the same time and in the same manner as state sales and use taxes are collected. On or prior to the date the tax is due, each person subject to the tax shall file with the collection agency a report in the form prescribed by the collection agency. The report shall set forth, with respect to all sales and business transactions that are required to be used as a measure of the tax levied, a correct statement of the gross proceeds of all the sales and gross receipts of all business transactions. The report shall also include items of information pertinent to the tax as the collection agency may require. Any person subject to the tax levied by this section may defer reporting credit sales until after their collection, and in the event the person defers reporting them, the person shall thereafter include in each monthly report all credit collections made during the preceding month, and shall pay the tax due at the time of filing the report. All reports filed with the collection agency under this subsection shall be available for inspection by the county commission or its designee.

(f) Each person engaging or continuing in a business subject to the tax levied by this section, shall add to the sales price or admission fee and collect from the purchaser or the person paying the admission fee the amount due by the taxpayer because of the sale or admission. It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the tax to fail or refuse to add to the sales price or admission fee and to collect from the purchaser or person paying the admission fee the amount required to be added to the sale or admission price. It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the tax levied by this section to refund or offer to refund all or any part of the amount collected or to absorb or advertise directly or indirectly the absorption or refund of any portion of the tax.

(g) The tax levied by this section shall constitute a debt due Calhoun County. The tax, together with any interest and penalties, 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. The collection agency shall collect the tax, enforce this section, and have and exercise all rights and remedies that the state or the collection agency has for collection of the state sales and use tax. The collection agency may employ special counsel as is necessary to enforce collection of the tax levied by this section and to enforce this section. The collection agency shall pay the special counsel any fees it deems necessary and proper from the proceeds of the tax collected by it for Calhoun County.

(h) All provisions of the state sales and use tax statutes with respect to the payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales and use tax, making of reports, keeping and preserving records, penalties for failure to pay the tax, promulgating rules and regulations with respect to the state sales and use tax, and the administration and enforcement of the state sales and use tax statutes which are not inconsistent with this section shall apply to the tax levied under this section. The collection agency shall have and exercise the same powers, duties, and obligations with respect to the tax levied under this section that are imposed on the commissioner and department by the state sales and use tax statutes. All provisions of the state sales and use tax statutes that are made applicable by this section to the tax levied under this section, and to the administration and enforcement of this section, are incorporated by reference and made a part of this section as if fully set forth herein.

(i) The collection agency may charge Calhoun County for collecting the tax levied under this section in an amount or percentage of total collections as may be agreed upon by the collection agency and the Calhoun County Commission. The charge shall not exceed two percent of the total amount of the tax collected in the county if collected by the Department of Revenue or the actual cost of collection, whichever is less. If collected by an entity or agency other than the state, the collection charge shall be two percent of the tax collected in the county. The charge may be deducted each month from the gross revenues from the tax before certification of the amount of the proceeds due Calhoun County for that month. The collection agency shall pay into the Calhoun County Road and Bridge Fund all amounts collected under this section as the tax is received by the collection agency within 10 days after it is collected. The collection agency shall certify to the county commission the amount collected and paid into the Road and Bridge Fund of Calhoun County during the month immediately preceding the certification.

(j) The net proceeds of the additional tax imposed under authority of this section shall be paid into the road and bridge fund, which is created in the county treasury, and shall be used as provided in subsection (k).

(k) Expenditures from the road and bridge fund shall be made exclusively for the purpose of construction, improvement, and maintenance of public highways and bridges, the full-time operation of the county road and bridge maintenance barn referenced in Section 45-8-180.01 to at least the same extent that this barn was operating in Piedmont during the 1994-1995 fiscal year, the retirement of securities evidencing obligations incurred for payment of costs of any construction improvement and maintenance, the matching of federal or state funds in the construction of improved roads and bridges in the county in the same manner as other county funds are used to match federal and state funds, and for payment of the costs incurred in the administration and the enforcement of this section.

(l) Any municipality in the county which levies an additional sales tax pursuant to this section which would make the aggregate of all state and local sales taxes more than eight percent shall earmark 25 percent of any amount in excess of eight percent to the county general fund. Any future increase in sales tax levied by the county in excess of an aggregate of all state and local taxes of eight percent shall be apportioned between the county general fund and each municipality in the county on a per capita basis.
Ala. Code § 45-20-71.17 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 20 / Section 45-20-71.17
Section 45-20-71.17 Duties of the President Pro Tempore
Status: in_force

The president pro tempore of the board shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered, except as otherwise provided herein for the regular president, to perform all the duties imposed by law upon the regular president of the board, but only during the absence of the regular president, whatever the cause of such absence. Also he or she shall perform all such duties and those imposed on the regular president whenever a vacancy occurs and until such vacancy is filled.
Ala. Code § 45-52-243.21 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 52 / Section 45-52-243.21
Section 45-52-243.21 Levy of Tax
Status: in_force

The Morgan County Commission is authorized to impose an additional excise tax on persons selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose whatever, gasoline and motor fuel within the counties not to exceed one cent per gallon and to require every distributor, retail dealer, or storer of gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined to pay such excise taxes upon the selling, distributing, or withdrawing from storage for any use, gasoline and motor fuel in the county; provided that excise taxes levied pursuant to this subpart shall not be levied upon the sale of gasoline or motor fuel in interstate commerce, and provided further that if the excise tax imposed under this subpart upon the sale of such gasoline or motor fuel shall have been paid by a distributor or by a retail dealer or storer, such payment shall be sufficient, the intention being that the taxes shall not be paid but once. The excise taxes imposed pursuant to this subpart shall apply to persons, firms, corporations, dealers, storers, or distributors storing gasoline or motor fuel and distributing the same or allowing the same to be withdrawn from storage, whether such withdrawal be for sale or other use, provided that sellers of gasoline or motor fuel and its substitutes paying the taxes herein provided for may pay the same computed and paid on the basis of their sales as hereinafter required, and storers and distributors shall compute and pay such taxes on the basis of their withdrawals or distributions. The taxes herein provided for shall be in addition to any and all excise or other taxes imposed on gasoline or motor fuel or any device or substitute therefor, or on the business of selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose, gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined; however, the Morgan County Commission shall have no authority to levy any tax upon any gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined when used in essential governmental functions by the State of Alabama or any agency thereof, or county governing agencies, municipalities, and boards of education.
Ala. Code § 45-54-242.54 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 54 / Section 45-54-242.54
Section 45-54-242.54 Collection of Tax; Enforcement
Status: in_force

The tax authorized to be imposed by Section 45–54–242.51 shall constitute a debt due the county and may be collected as provided by law. The tax, together with interest and penalties associated with the tax, shall constitute and be secured by a lien upon the property of the person who shall pay the tax or who is required to collect the tax. The revenue laws of this state which apply to enforcement of liens for license taxes due the state shall apply fully to the collection of the tax levied in Section 45–54–242.51, and the state Department of Revenue, for the use and benefit of the county shall collect the tax and enforce this subpart and shall have and exercise collection and enforcement rights and remedies that the state or the department has for collection of the state sales and use taxes. The state Department of Revenue may employ the special counsel it deems necessary, from time to time, to administer and enforce collection of the tax levied by this subpart, including the administration of any litigation involving this subpart. The department shall pay the fees of the special counsel from the proceeds of the tax collected by the department for the county.
Ala. Code § 45-15-243.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 15 / Section 45-15-243.01
Section 45-15-243.01 Addition of Tax to 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 Cleburne 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 part 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 § 45-30-241.10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 30 / Section 45-30-241.10
Section 45-30-241.10 Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

The proceeds of any tax received under authority of this part shall be paid over by the county within 10 days after its receipt to the county general fund and shall be expended for materials and supplies for road maintenance and construction.
Ala. Code § 45-37-243.02 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 37 / Section 45-37-243.02
Section 45-37-243.02 Levy of Tax
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings here given them:

(1) COUNTY. Any county now or hereafter subject to this subpart.

(2) COUNTY GOVERNING BODY. The county board of revenue, the county commission, or other like body of the county.

(3) DIRECTOR OF COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The director of the county department of revenue, the license commissioner, or judge of probate of the county, or any other public officer performing like duties in the county.

(4) SECTION 3 AS AMENDED IN 1979. Section 3 as amended by the 1979 amendment.

(5) STATE ORIGINAL UNBROKEN PACKAGE POLICY. The state policy in effect when the original Section 3 of Act 388 of the 1965 Regular Session was approved in August 1965, prohibiting licensees from selling or keeping for sale liquor or wine except in an original unbroken package.

(6) THE 1979 AMENDMENT. The act the Legislature of Alabama adopted during its Regular Session of 1979 amending the original Section 3 so as to put Section 3 in its present form.

(7) THE ORIGINAL SECTION 3. Section 3 of Act 388 of the Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama of 1965, approved on August 13, 1965, which original Section 3 appears on pages 535, 536, and 537 of the Acts of the Regular Session of 1965.

(b) Every person engaged in the sale at retail of alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquor, except malt or brewed beverages of an alcoholic content not in excess of four percent by weight and five percent by volume, shall, in addition to all other taxes and licenses now imposed by law, pay a license tax to the county in the amount prescribed below in this section.

(c)(1) The license tax levied by this subsection shall remain in effect until but not after the county governing body imposes the gross receipts license tax provided for by subsection (d).

The license tax levied by this subsection is hereby fixed and created as follows: Whiskey, gin, brandy, rum, vodka, cocktails, and all other alcoholic beverages except malt beverages, wines, and other fermented beverages, sold, distributed, delivered, stored, or taken out of storage within the county on each bottle or container of two ounces or less, ten cents ($.10); on each bottle or container of more than two ounces and not more than one-half pint, twenty-five cents ($.25); on each bottle or container of more than one-half pint and not more than one pint, one dollar ($1); on each bottle or container of more than one pint and not more than one-fifth of a gallon one dollar sixty cents ($1.60); on each bottle or container of more than one-fifth of a gallon and not more than one quart, two dollars ($2); on each bottle or container of more than one quart, two dollars ($2) plus ten cents ($.10) for each one and six-tenths ounces or fractional part thereof in excess of one quart; wines and other fermented beverages sold, distributed, delivered, stored, or taken out of storage within the county, on each bottle or container, twenty-five cents ($.25). On or before the 15th day of the calendar month succeeding the calendar month in which the purchase of such beverages is made, each retailer or person making such purchase for resale shall pay to the county by payment to the director of county department of revenue the license tax at the rate as hereinabove set forth.

(2) If any amount of the license tax be not paid at or prior to the due date thereof, a penalty of 20 percent of such amount shall be added thereto and paid by such retailer with a minimum of fifteen dollars ($15) penalty in any event. In addition to the penalty of 20 percent or the minimum penalty of fifteen dollars ($15), whichever shall apply, the board of revenue, county commission, or like governing body of such county may revoke the license of such retailer for delinquent payment of the tax provided for herein. In addition to the penalties herein provided, any delinquent tax shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from date until paid.

(3) It shall be the duty of each person subject to the license tax imposed by this section to keep full and complete records of all purchases, receipts, and deliveries of liquor and wine, or either from which records there can be readily obtained information as to the correct amount of license tax due the county. Such records shall be preserved for not less than two years, and shall be open to inspection and checking at all times during regular business hours by the director of county department of revenue or employees of such director. The person liable for any license tax imposed by this section shall file with the director of county department of revenue, on or before the final date on which the license tax may be paid without penalty such report or reports, and in such form, as the director of county department of revenue may prescribe sworn to or otherwise evidencing the amount of such purchases and the amount of license tax due thereon.

(4) Any person selling alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors purchased from any other person who has paid the license tax thereon as fixed in this subsection shall not be required to pay such license; provided, however, that in order to obtain such exemption such person claiming such exemption must, on or before the fifteenth day of the month next succeeding August 8, 1979, and on or before the 15th day of each and every calendar month thereafter, during which he or she claims such exemptions, file with the director of county department of revenue a written statement, sworn to and subscribed by such person claiming exemption, showing the name and address of such person, each and every purchase, receipt, or procurement of alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors made by such person during the calendar month next preceding, together with the name and address of the person from whom purchased, received, or procured, the brand of such beverages, the quantity of each brand of such beverages, the size of containers of each brand of such beverages, the date or dates on which purchased, received, or procured, and the disposition thereof by such person claiming the exemption, and evidence of payment of such tax by the person from whom such purchase was made; such statement to be made on forms prescribed by the director of county department of revenue.

(5) Each and every person selling alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors subject to this section, except such as claim and obtain exemptions under subdivision (4), shall, on or before the 15th day of the month next succeeding August 8, 1979, and on or before the 15th day of each and every month thereafter, file with the director of county department of revenue, on forms prescribed by such official, a written statement, sworn to and subscribed by such person showing the name and address of such person, each and every purchase, receipt, or procurement of alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors made by such person during the calendar month next preceding, together with the name and address of the person or agency from whom purchased, received, or procured, the price paid for each such purchase, the brand of such beverages, the quantity of each brand of such beverages, and the date or dates on which purchased, received, or procured; any licensee who has made no purchases or sales of beverages covered by this section during any month shall file with the director of county department of revenue, on forms prescribed by such director a written statement sworn to and subscribed by such person, attesting that no such purchases or sales were made in such month. This report shall be filed on or before the 15th day following any such month; and any person failing, refusing, or omitting to file such statement as herein prescribed shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each day that such default continues shall constitute a separate offense. It shall constitute a misdemeanor for any licensee to violate any prohibition, established by or under state law, against licensees’ selling, or keeping for sale, liquor or wine except in an original unbroken package or container.

(d)(1) When the original Section 3 was adopted in 1965, the state original unbroken package policy was in effect and remained in effect continuously thereafter until the 1979 amendment was drafted. When the 1979 amendment was drafted, the state policy was in effect, but the state officials authorized to establish such state policy had decided to discontinue such policy or were seriously considering the discontinuance of the policy. The discontinuance of the state original unbroken package policy would result in the license tax levied by subsection (c) being uncollectible. The purpose of the Legislature in adopting this subsection is to authorize the county governing body to levy the license tax provided for in this subsection, when the governing body of the county finds, and declares by resolution the following: That a state officer, or other state authority or agency, named in the resolution, authorized to discontinue the state original unbroken package policy has publicly announced that such policy will be discontinued, and that when the resolution is adopted it appears that on a date publicly announced by a state officer, authority, or agency, which date shall be recited in the resolution, it appears that the state original unbroken package policy will be discontinued.

(2) Contemporaneously with the adoption of such resolution, or after its adoption, the county governing body shall be authorized to levy the license tax provided for in this subsection on every person engaged in the sale at retail in the county of alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquor, except malt or brewed beverages of an alcoholic content not in excess of four percent by weight and five percent by volume, which license tax shall be in lieu of the license tax provided for by subsection (c) and in addition to all other taxes and licenses imposed by law. The license tax the county governing body shall be authorized to levy by this subsection is hereby fixed and created in the amount below stated.

(3) Such license tax shall be in the amount fixed in the ordinance or resolution levying such license tax, which amount shall not be less than three percent or more than six percent of the gross receipts realized by the licensee from distributing, delivering, selling, storing, or withdrawing from storage at retail within the county whiskey, gin, brandy, rum, vodka, cocktails, and all other alcoholic beverages except malt beverages. The license tax provided for by this subsection is hereinafter called the gross receipts tax. The county governing body shall be authorized to repeal the gross receipts tax at any time, or to increase or reduce the amount of the gross receipts tax within the limitations as to amounts the second foregoing sentence prescribes. Any ordinance or resolution of the county governing body repealing the gross receipts tax, or changing the amount thereof, shall state the date whereon the repeal or change shall become effective. The repeal of the gross receipts tax, or a change of the amount thereof, shall not affect the liability of any person for any payment of the gross receipts tax insofar as such liability relates to any transaction occurring before the effective date of the repeal or the change.

(4) In the event the governing body repeals the gross receipts tax, the license tax provided for by subsection (c) shall become effective on the first day of the calendar month next succeeding the date whereon the repeal of the gross receipts tax becomes effective.

(5) The ordinance or resolution levying the gross receipts tax shall state the date on which the gross receipts tax shall become effective, which date shall be the first day of a calendar month subsequent to the month wherein the ordinance or resolution is adopted. On and after the date whereon the gross receipts tax becomes effective, the license tax levied by subsection (c) shall no longer be in effect, provided, however, that no licensee shall be relieved of his or her obligation to pay any license tax due by such licensee under subsection (c) for, or on account of, transactions occurring when the license tax provided for by subsection (c) was in effect.

(6) The ordinance or resolution levying the gross receipts tax shall provide that in computing the amount of the gross receipts license tax a licensee is obligated to pay to the county such licensee shall not include any receipts realized by such licensee from the sale, distribution, delivery, or storage or removal from storage of any alcoholic beverages on which such licensee paid, or is obligated to pay, the license tax provided for by subsection (c). The director of county department of revenue shall adopt rules and regulations designed to assure that no licensee is required to pay the gross receipts tax on, or with respect to, any alcoholic beverages on, or with respect to, which such alcoholic beverages the licensee paid, or is obligated to pay, the license tax provided for by subsection (c).

(7) The gross receipts tax, levied by this subsection shall be due and payable monthly on or before the 15th day of the month next succeeding the month in which the tax accrues. On or before the day on which the tax becomes due and payable each person on whom the tax is imposed shall render to the director of the county department of revenue on a form prescribed by the director, a true and correct statement showing the gross sales, the gross proceeds of sales, or gross receipts realized by such person from the sale, distribution, delivery, storage, or removal from storage at retail in the county of any alcoholic beverages, subject to the gross receipts tax for the then next preceding month, together with such other information as the director may require, and at the time of making such monthly report such person shall pay to the director of the county department of revenue the amounts of the tax shown to be due.

(8) The following provisions of subsection (c) shall apply to the gross receipts tax levied by subsection (d): The provisions of subdivision (2) of subsection (c) imposing a penalty for failure to pay the license tax when due; the provisions of subdivision (3) of subsection (c) requiring licensees to keep and preserve records; and the provisions of subdivision (4) of subsection (c) providing for exemptions.
Ala. Code § 45-20-242.50 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 20 / Section 45-20-242.50
Section 45-20-242.50 Applicability
Status: in_force

This subpart shall apply only in Covington County.
Ala. Code § 45-17-80.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 17 / Section 45-17-80.01
Section 45-17-80.01 Additional Court Costs - Colbert County Drug Task Force
Status: in_force

In addition to any court costs or fees now or hereafter authorized in Colbert County, an additional court cost of five dollars ($5) shall be charged and collected in each case by the clerks of the municipal courts in the county, as well as the clerk of the circuit and district courts for the county, except for small claims cases. When collected by the clerk of the court, the additional amounts shall be remitted monthly to the Colbert County Commission to be deposited into the general operating fund of the Colbert County Drug Task Force to be used solely for the funding of the Colbert County Drug Task Force.
Ala. Code § 45-49-91.08 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 49 / Section 45-49-91.08
Section 45-49-91.08 Establishment of District
Status: in_force

No more than 30 days following a majority vote by the qualified electors in the district affirmatively authorizing planning and land use control authority for the district, a district planning and land use board shall be established to accomplish the objectives of this part.
Ala. Code § 45-20-243 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 20 / Section 45-20-243
Section 45-20-243 Levy of Tax
Status: in_force

In Covington County, in addition to all other taxes imposed by law, there is levied a privilege or license tax in the amount herein prescribed against every person within the county engaging in the business of renting or furnishing a room or rooms, lodging, or accommodations to a transient in a hotel, motel, inn, condominium, house, tourist court, or another place in which rooms, lodgings, or accommodations are regularly furnished to transients for a consideration. The amount of the tax shall be equal to seven percent of the charge for the rooms, lodgings, or accommodations, including the charge for use of rental of personal property and services furnished in the room or rooms.
Ala. Code § 45-14-111 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 14 / Section 45-14-111
Section 45-14-111 Establishment of Voting Centers
Status: in_force

Pursuant to Section 17-5-5, to facilitate or reduce election costs, the Clay County Commission may adopt a resolution which establishes voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts.
Ala. Code § 45-20-10 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 20 / Section 45-20-10
Section 45-20-10 Disclaimer
Status: reserved

(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Covington County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Covington 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 § 45-55-81.76 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 55 / Section 45-55-81.76
Section 45-55-81.76 Special Recording and Filing for Real Property, Personal Property, and Ucc Instruments
Status: in_force

Effective immediately after July 1, 2003, a special recording and filing fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by the Judge of Probate of Pike County, with respect to each real property instrument, each personal property instrument, and each Uniform Commercial Code document that may be filed for record in the office of the judge of probate and with respect to other instruments and documents in the probate office at the discretion of the judge of probate, and on and after that date, no instrument or document shall be received for record in the office of the judge of probate unless the special recording fee of five dollars ($5) is paid. The special recording 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, personal property instrument, or Uniform Commercial Code document, and for the recording of other instruments and documents in the probate office at the discretion of the judge of probate. All special recording fees collected shall be paid to a special fund in the office of the judge of probate to be designated as the judge of probate fund. These funds shall be used at the discretion of the judge of probate for an improved recording, archiving, and retrieving system and other equipment, maintenance, and services necessary for the improvement of the office of the judge of probate.
Ala. Code § 45-17A-80.09 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 17A / Section 45-17A-80.09
Section 45-17A-80.09 Appeal of Denial
Status: in_force

Any person having a request for a certificate of appropriateness denied by the historic preservation commission, or architectural review board as hereinafter provided, may appeal such denial to the Circuit Court of Colbert County.
Ala. Code § 45-45-60.01 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 45 / Section 45-45-60.01
Section 45-45-60.01 Salary and Benefits; Expenses
Status: in_force

(a) Effective beginning the next term of office of the coroner in January 2023, the Coroner of Madison County shall receive an annual salary of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). The salary shall be paid from the general fund of the county and shall be paid in the same manner as county employees are paid. In addition, the coroner shall be entitled to participate in the county health insurance plan and receive any other benefits to the same extent, under the same conditions, and in the same manner as county employees, and the coroner shall be entitled to receive uniform increases in compensation, such as cost-of-living raises, in the same amount as uniform increases in compensation granted equally to county employees by the county commission.

(b) The salary and benefits provided in subsection (a) shall be the total compensation of the coroner and shall be in lieu of any other compensation or fees, including any compensation provided in subdivision (1) of Section 45-45-11, except for actual and verified expenses as provided in subsection (c).

(c) In addition to the compensation provided in subsection (a), the coroner shall be entitled to be reimbursed for actual and verified expenses incurred for the operation of the office of coroner and other expenses in the performance of the duties of the office, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per year.
Ala. Code § 45-38-230.20 — Alabama Code / Title 45 / Chapter 38 / Section 45-38-230.20
Section 45-38-230.20 Community Corrections Officers
Status: in_force

Upon successfully completing the minimum standards of training and other requirements for law enforcement officers of the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission, a community corrections officer employed by the Community Punishment and Corrections Authority of the 24th Judicial Circuit, operating in Lamar County, shall have the same law enforcement powers, including powers of arrest, as granted to law enforcement officers of this state.