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AL Code § 45-49A-81.17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 2 - Employees.|Section 45-49A-81.17 - Board of Pensions.

Section 45-49A-81.17Board of pensions. There is hereby created a board to be known as the board of pensions, for the purpose of carrying out this part. The board shall consist of four members to be selected by the City Council of the City of Prichard and three members elected by the employees of the city. The members of the board shall serve staggered terms of four years each; the city council shall set the initial terms so that no more than two members’ terms expire in any one year. The board of pensions shall meet separately from the City Council of the City of Prichard. Such board shall have the same ministerial power as herein conferred on the City Council of the City of Prichard and all references in this part made to the City Council of the City of Prichard, insofar as is practicable, shall be also applicable to the board of pensions; provided, however, that any suit brought on behalf of the city under this part shall also be brought in the name of such board. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §18; Acts 1963, No. 235, p. 636, §18; Acts 1975, No. 929, p. 1854, §1.)
AL Code § 45-49A-81.18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 2 - Employees.|Section 45-49A-81.18 - Election Not to Participate; Subsequent Application.

Section 45-49A-81.18Election not to participate; subsequent application. Any employee of the City of Prichard at the original date of this part could elect at any time not to come within the provisions of this part, and should he or she so elect, no part of his or her salary or compensation could be deducted for the pension and relief fund. His or her election to not come within this part must have been in writing, signed by him or her, witnessed by two reliable witnesses, and filed with the City Council of the City of Prichard or the board of pensions. Thereafter, such person shall not be allowed to come within the provisions of or be entitled to any benefit under this part, unless he or she first makes application to the authorities and authorities approve such application. He or she shall not be credited for services during the time which he or she elected not to come within the provisions hereof; provided, however, under the terms of this part if such delayed application is to be effective on or before January 1, 1964, and the employee contributes to the fund before that date (or within such reasonable limit of time as may be granted by the board of pensions or the City Council of the City of Prichard as the case may be) the amount of contributions he or she would have made to the fund had he or she elected to come under this part as of its effective date, increased by interest compounded annually at four percent per annum, such employee shall be entitled to credit for continuous service from the date of his or her original employment, provided he or she otherwise complies with this part. In any such case, the city shall contribute an amount double to that contributed by the employee, including the interest. All persons employed after August 15, 1963, shall be bound by all of the provisions hereof. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §19; Acts 1963, No. 235, p. 636, §19.)
AL Code § 45-49A-81.19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 2 - Employees.|Section 45-49A-81.19 - Applicability of Part.

Section 45-49A-81.19Applicability of part. This part shall apply to all persons except elected officials who are now or who may hereafter be in the permanent employment of the City of Prichard, Alabama, but payment of benefits or any other sums, including refunds, hereunder shall not commence until the first day of January, 1961. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §20; Acts 1963, No. 235, p. 636, §20.)
AL Code § 45-49A-81.20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 2 - Employees.|Section 45-49A-81.20 - Severability.

Section 45-49A-81.20Severability. If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word, or other provision of this part shall be held or declared to be unconstitutional or void by any court of competent jurisdiction it shall not affect or destroy the validity or constitutionality of any other section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word, or provision of this part which is not in itself void or unconstitutional, it being the expressed intent of the Legislature that such remaining valid portion of this part would have been adopted by the Legislature in any event. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §21; Acts 1963, No. 235, p. 636, §21.)
AL Code § 45-49A-81.21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 2 - Employees.|Section 45-49A-81.21 - Return of Contributions.

Section 45-49A-81.21Return of contributions. Whenever any person who contributes to the fund provided for by this part shall leave the service for any reason he or she will be entitled to the return of all monies contributed by him or her to such fund, but without interest. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §22; Acts 1963, No. 235, p. 636, §22; Act 83–707, p. 1149, §1.)
AL Code § 45-49A-81.22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 2 - Employees.|Section 45-49A-81.22 - Implementation, Construction, and Enforcement of Part.

Section 45-49A-81.22Implementation, construction, and enforcement of part. This part shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor or its otherwise becoming a law; provided, that this part shall never be construed nor enforced so as to authorize any municipal authorities to grant any extra compensation, fee, or allowance to any public officer, servant, employee, or agent, after service shall have been rendered, or shall it ever be construed or enforced so as to authorize the retirement of any officer on pay or part pay or make any grant to any retiring officer, but this part shall be construed to the effect that all funds or monies paid out or expended under and by virtue of this part shall be paid for services to be performed or duties to be discharged in the future by persons or officers to whom such payments are made. The governing body of the City of Prichard, however, may assign duties and impose services to be performed by the person or officer for whose benefit this part is intended and may make appropriations and payments to such person or officer in consideration of the performance of such services or the discharge of such duties so imposed upon them. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §23; Acts 1963, No. 235, p. 636, §23.)
AL Code § 45-49A-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 3 - Enterprise Zones.|Section 45-49A-82 - Legislative Findings; Purpose.

Section 45-49A-82Legislative findings; purpose. The Legislature of Alabama finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the City of Prichard, in Mobile County, Alabama, are enhanced by the continual encouragement, development, growth, and expansion of private enterprise within this state. That there are certain economically depressed areas in such city that need particular attention to create new jobs, stimulate economic activity, and attract private sector investment rather than government subsidy to improve the quality of life of their citizens. It is the purpose of this part to encourage new economic activity in this depressed area by means of reduced taxes and the removal of unnecessary governmental barriers to the production and earning of wages and profits and the creation of economic growth. (Act 83-676, p. 1065, §1.)
AL Code § 45-49A-82.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 3 - Enterprise Zones.|Section 45-49A-82.01 - Creation of Enterprise Zones.

Section 45-49A-82.01Creation of enterprise zones. In order to further the purposes of this part, the municipal governing body is hereby authorized to create by ordinance one or more specific areas as enterprise zones which the governing body finds are areas of pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general economic distress, and, in order to encourage private investment, to promote the creation of jobs within such zones, the city is hereby authorized within such zones to initiate and carry out special programs which include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) A reduction of municipal tax rates, municipal license rates or municipal fees for governmental services or any combination of these, within such zones. (2) An increase in the level or efficiency of public services within the zone including provision for the providing of such services by nongovernment entities. (3) Reduction, removal, simplification, or other modification of regulatory requirements applying within such zones. (4) Involvement of private entities, organizations, neighborhood associations, and community groups with such zones, including the provision by such entities of jobs, job training, and technical, financial, and other assistance to employers, employees, and residents of such zones. (5) Other services or modification of requirements as may be necessary or desirable to quality for financial assistance to such city or private entities within such zones under any act of Congress of the United States heretofore or hereafter enacted. (Act 83-676, p. 1065, §2.)
AL Code § 45-49A-81.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities.|Article 8 - Prichard.|Part 3 - Enterprise Zones.|Section 45-49A-81.02 - Programs Authorized.

Section 45-49A-81.02Programs authorized. In carrying out any program established in an enterprise zone created hereunder, the governing body of the county in which the city is situated, and all agencies of such city and county agencies created thereby, and the State of Alabama and all agencies thereof, are hereby authorized to carry out pro- grams which include, but are not limited to, those authorized for such city under subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive of Section 45-49A-82.01. (Act 83-676, p. 1065, §3.)
AL Code § 45-50-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 1 - General and Miscellaneous Provisions.|Part 1 - Disclaimer.|Section 45-50-10 - Disclaimer.

Section 45-50-10Disclaimer. (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Monroe County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Monroe 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, sub-parts, 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.
AL Code § 45-50-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 2 - Court Costs.|Section 45-50-81 - Civil and Criminal Cases; Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-50-81Civil and criminal cases; disposition of funds. (a) In addition to any court charges, costs, or fees now or hereafter authorized in Monroe County, the Monroe County Commission may impose by resolution of the commission an additional fee in an amount not to exceed twenty dollars ($20) to be assessed and taxed as costs on each civil case and each criminal case, including traffic cases, but excluding small claims cases, filed in the circuit court, district court, or any municipal court in Monroe County. The court charges, costs, or fees may not be waived by any court unless all other fees, assessments, costs, fines, and charges associated with the cases are waived.  (b) The additional charges, costs, or fees, when collected by the clerks or other collection officers of the courts, shall be paid into the General Fund of Monroe County and one half of the proceeds of the additional fees shall be used to operate and maintain county buildings, other than the county jail, and one half of the proceeds shall be used to operate and maintain the county jail facility.  (Act 2000­343, p. 545, §§ 1, 2.)
AL Code § 45-50-81.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 2 - Court Costs.|Section 45-50-81.01 - Additional Court Costs; Judicial Administration Fund.

Section 45-50-81.01Additional court costs; Judicial Administration Fund. (a) In addition to any court costs now authorized in the district, circuit, and juvenile courts of Monroe County, there shall be assessed and collected an additional court cost of seven dollars fifty cents ($7.50) in all civil and criminal cases, including traffic cases in the district, circuit, and juvenile courts of the county.  (b) The additional court costs shall be paid to the Presiding Circuit Judge's Judicial Administration Fund and may be used for the operation of the office. (c) Nothing in this section shall impair the authority of a circuit or district judge to waive or to remit the court costs and fees assessed pursuant to this section upon the sworn and valid showing of substantial financial hardship. (d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the assessment and collection of the additional court cost pursuant to this section not diminish or take the place of any other source of funds for the office of the presiding circuit judge.  (Act 2016­262, p. 647, §§ 2­5.)
AL Code § 45-50-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 4 - Juvenile Justice.|Section 45-50-83 - Requisition and Distribution of Funds.

Section 45-50-83Requisition and distribution of funds. In Monroe County, the district judge may requisition expenditures from the supervision fees for probation service for any and all expenses to be incurred in the administration of juvenile justice and juvenile probation services. The Treasurer of Monroe County shall distribute monies from the fund upon requisition made to the treasurer by the district judge.  (Act 90-454, p. 641, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-50-83.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 4 - Juvenile Justice.|Section 45-50-83.01 - Contribution and Use of Funds.

Section 45-50-83.01Contribution and use of funds. In Monroe County, each municipality located in the county may contribute money to the Treasurer of Monroe County as provided herein. The contributions shall be remitted to the account for supervision fees for probation service to be expended for any and all expenses to be incurred in the administration of juvenile justice and juvenile probation services.  (Act 90-456, p. 642, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-50-230 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 1 - Compensation.|Section 45-50-230 - Expense Allowance; Compensation.

Section 45-50-230Expense allowance; compensation. (a)(1) In Monroe County, effective immediately, the sheriff is entitled to receive an expense allowance in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum. The expense allowance shall be in addition to any and all other compensation heretofore provided by law and shall be payable from the county general fund. (2) The expense allowance provided for by this subsection shall be paid each month from the treasury of Monroe County, in the same manner as county employees are paid. The sheriff receiving this expense allowance shall not be required to file an accounting thereof. (3) Effective with the beginning of the next term of office, the sheriff is hereby entitled to receive an additional county salary in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum and the provisions of subdivision (1), at that time, shall become null and void. The county compensation shall be paid out of the General Fund of Monroe County in the same manner as other county employees. (4) If there should be enacted a statewide law providing for an increase in the sheriff’s salary which, when added to the increase provided for under this subsection shall exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), then the amount of the salary increase provided for under this subsection shall decrease by the amount in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). allowance of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per year, payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. This expense allowance shall be in addition to all other compensation or benefits received by the sheriff and may be treated as compensation for retirement contributions.  (2) Beginning with the next term of office, the expense allowance paid to the sheriff as provided in subdivision (1) shall become additional compensation for the sheriff and the expense allowance shall be null and void. This compensation shall be in addition to all other compensation or benefits received.  (c)(1) The Sheriff of Monroe County shall receive an additional expense allowance of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per year, payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. This expense allowance shall be in addition to all other compensation or benefits received by the sheriff and may be treated as compensation for retirement contributions.  (2) Beginning with the next term of office, the expense allowance paid to the sheriff as provided in subdivision (1) shall become additional compensation for the sheriff and the expense allowance in subdivision (1) shall be null and void. This compensation shall be in addition to all other compensation or benefits received. (Act 91-185, p. 244, §§ 1-4; Act 2013-404, p. 1548, §§ 1, 2; Act 2021-467, §§ 1, 2.
AL Code § 45-50-231 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 2 - Jails.|Section 45-50-231 - Jail Store; Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund.

Section 45-50-231Jail store; Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund.  (a) The Sheriff of Monroe County, or the authorized agents of the sheriff, may operate a jail store for prisoners within the confines of the Monroe County Jail. The jail store shall be operated to serve the needs of the jail population.  (b) Any and all monies collected under subsection (a) shall be deposited by the Sheriff of Monroe County, or his or her appointed agent, in any bank located in Monroe County selected by the sheriff, into a fund known as the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund. (c) The Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund shall be drawn upon by the Sheriff of Monroe County, or his or her appointed agent, and shall be used for the betterment of law enforcement in the public's interest in the discharge of the sheriff's office, as the sheriff sees fit.  (d) Any and all monies collected prior to June 7, 2007, shall be transferred into the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund created by this section.  (e) The establishment of the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund and the use of the funds shall not diminish or take the place of any other source of income established for the sheriff or the operation of his or her office.  (f) The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts shall audit the fund annually and submit a copy of the audit to the sheriff within 30 days of its completion.  (Act 2007­327, p. 584, §§ 1­6; Act 2007­406, p. 835, §§ 1­6.)
AL Code § 45-50-232 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 3 - Pistol Permits.|Section 45-50-232 - Pistol Permit Fee.

Section 45-50-232Pistol permit fee.  (a) In Monroe 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 13A­11­75, shall be ten dollars ($10), which shall be collected by the sheriff. (b) Any and all monies collected under subsection (a) shall be deposited by the Sheriff of Monroe County in any bank located in Monroe County selected by the sheriff, into a fund known as the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund.  (c) The Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund as provided in subsection (b) shall be drawn upon by the Sheriff of Monroe County or his or her appointed agent and shall be exclusively for law enforcement purposes in the public's interest and in the discharge of the sheriff's office as the sheriff sees fit.  (d) The establishment of the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund as provided in this section and the use of such funds shall in no way diminish or take the place of any other imbursement or other source of income established for the sheriff or the operation of his or her office.  (Act 87­481, p. 732, §§ 1­4.)
AL Code § 45-50-233 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 50 - Monroe County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 4 - Service of Process Fee.|Section 45-50-233 - Additional Fees; Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-50-233Additional fees; disposition of funds.  (a) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the fee for each document or court order generated by or processed through the office of the Monroe County Circuit Clerk to be personally served by the Monroe County Sheriff, or his or her designee, shall be twenty dollars ($20). For the purposes of this section, the term document shall include multiple papers served on a party or entity at one time.  (b) The court official designated in Monroe County by law for the respective courts shall collect the additional service of process fee designated in subsection (a) and remit the fees collected to the Monroe County Commission General Fund for deposit in the fund to be expended for law enforcement purposes.  (Act 2011-243, p. 441, §§ 1, 2.)