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AL Code § 45-27-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 1 - Chair.|Section 45-27-70 - Commission Chair.

Section 45-27-70Commission chair. (a) All laws to the contrary notwithstanding, the Chair of the Escambia County Commission shall serve full time as such officer. (b) The provisions of this section are cumulative and shall not be construed to repeal other laws or parts of laws unless such laws or parts of laws are in conflict herewith. All laws or parts of laws which conflict with this section are repealed insofar as such conflicting provisions exist. (Act 84-649, p. 1302, §§1,2.)
AL Code § 45-27-70.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 1 - Chair.|Section 45-27-70.01 - Election of Chair; Term.

Section 45-27-70.01Election of chair; term. (a) In Escambia County, there is hereby created the office of Chair of the Escambia County Commission. The chair shall be elected by the commissioners from one of their number and shall serve for a term of one year or until his or her successor is elected. The one year term shall run from the third Tuesday in January of the year elected to the third Tuesday in January of the following year. The chair shall serve full time as county commission chair and shall receive compensation for serving as such officer as is provided for a full-time county commission chair under subsection (c) of Section 11-3-4.1. Provided, however, nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a chair of the commission from seeking consecutive terms as chair. (b) This section shall not become effective unless authorized by a resolution adopted by the Escambia County Commission. The resolution shall be introduced at a regularly scheduled meeting of the county commission and may not be adopted until the following regularly scheduled meeting. (c) This section and the resolution adopted by the county commission shall have retroactive effect to January 16, 1989. (Act 89-272, p. 426, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 45-27-71 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Compensation.|Section 45-27-71 - Expenses of Members.

Section 45-27-71Expenses of members. (a) In addition to all salaries, travel, and other expenses now provided or allowed by law to be paid to them, each member, including the chair, of the County Commission of Escambia County, shall be paid or reimbursed by the county for actual expenses incurred in the performance of his or her duties outside the county of his or her residence, including expenses incurred in attending conventions of the National Association of County Commissioners and the Alabama Association of County Commissioners. Expenses for attending conventions shall be limited to necessary expenses of travel to and from such officer's home to the place of such convention and to reasonable expenses actually incurred for maintenance during the time he or she is participating in such convention. Provided, that the total amount of expenses allowed to all of the members of the county commission, including the chair, shall not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) in anyone year. (b) Each member of the county commission, including the chair, shall submit a statement of his or her expenses to the entire membership of such body for its approval. It shall not be necessary for such statement to be accompanied by receipts or vouchers, but the statement shall be sworn to by each person submitting the same. Such expenses shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the approval of the chair and the entire membership of the county governing body upon the warrant of the chair that such payment is due. (c) All payments heretofore made by such counties to members of its county governing body as reimbursement for such expenses are hereby validated. (Acts 1978, No. 826, p. 1229, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 45-27-71.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Compensation.|Section 45-27-71.01 - Annual Expense Allowance; Salaries.

Section 45-27-71.01Annual expense allowance; salaries. (a) In Escambia County, the chair and members of the county commission are each hereby entitled to an expense allowance of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per year. The expense allowance shall be in addition to any and all other salary, compensation, or expense allowance heretofore provided by law and shall be payable from the general fund of the county. (b) In addition to the expense allowance provided for in subsection (a), effective at the beginning of their next term of office, the chair of the county commission is hereby entitled to receive a salary of sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000) per year and the members of the county commission shall each be entitled to receive salaries of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per year. The salaries provided for in this section shall be payable from the general fund of the county. (Act 80-715, p. 1448, §§1,2.)
AL Code § 45-27-71.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Compensation.|Section 45-27-71.02 - Monthly Expense Allowance; Additional Compensation.

Section 45-27-71.02Monthly expense allowance; additional compensation. (a) On July 1, 1991, the chair and associate commissioners of the County Commission of Escambia County shall be entitled to receive a monthly expense allowance in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300) to be paid from the county general fund. The expense allowance shall be in addition to all other compensation, expense allowances, or benefits granted to the chair and associate commissioners. (b) Beginning after the next election, the expense allowance paid to the chair and associate commissioners as provided in sup section (a), shall be null and void. In lieu thereof the chair and associate commissioners shall receive an additional monthly compensation of three hundred dollars ($300). The compensation shall be in addition to all other compensation expense allowances or benefits received. (Act 91-177, p. 236, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 45-27-72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 3 - Purchasing System.|Section 45-27-72 - Purchasing Agent.

Section 45-27-72Purchasing agent. (a) The Chair of the Board of County Commissioners of Escambia County shall serve as county purchasing agent without additional compensation. The county purchasing agent shall purchase for the county officials, the county offices, and every department of the county, all books, stationery, supplies, office equipment, printing and printing matter, blanks, forms, machinery, equipment, tools, materials, supplies, and contractual services needed by such county officials, offices, and departments. Subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners, the purchasing agent shall have authority to do all of the following: (1) Establish standard specifications for supplies, equipment, and materials used by the county officials, offices, and departments. (2) Operate a central storeroom. (3) Require county officers, offices, and departments to prepare estimates of requirements. (4) Transfer among the county officers, offices, and departments surplus supplies, equipment, and materials, or to sell surplus or obsolete items after receiving at least three competitive bids upon such surplus or obsolete items. (5) Promulgate reasonable rules and regulations governing the acquisition of supplies, materials, and equipment, or the disposal of surplus or obsolete personal property of the county. (b) Supplies, materials, equipment, and services shall be furnished to the county officers, offices, and departments only upon written requisition setting forth the articles needed and signed by the officer for whose office the articles are requested. The requisitions shall state by items the articles that are desired and needed, that the articles are necessary, that the amount of the requisition is not excessive, and that no part of the articles will be used except in conducting the public business. The requisitions, with the purchase invoices attached, shall be kept on file in the office of the purchasing agent, in an orderly manner, as a permanent record subject to public inspection at all reasonable times. (c) The purchasing agent shall keep a current inventory of all property owned or leased by the county, which inventory record shall show where such property is located and in whose possession or under whose control it is. (d) Before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, the county purchasing agent shall execute a bond in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). The bond shall be payable to Escambia County, with good and sufficient surety, and shall be conditioned upon the faithful discharge and performance of his or her duties. The bond shall be filed and recorded in the office of the judge of probate of the county, and the premium thereon shall be paid by the county. (Acts 1963, No. 410, p. 909, §§1, 3-5; Act 2008-455, p. 889, §1.)
AL Code § 45-27-81.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 2 - Court Costs.|Section 45-27-81.01 - Solicitor's Fee.

Section 45-27-81.01Solicitor's fee. (a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Escambia 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 or District Attorney's Fund in the county or to the fund that may be hereafter prescribed by law for the solicitor's fee. The solicitor's fee shall be in an amount equal to all docket fees, recoupments, 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. (Act 2008-454, p. 888, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 45-27-81.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 2 - Court Costs.|Section 45-27-81.02 - Additional Booking Fee in Certain Cases.

Section 45-27-81.02Additional booking fee in certain cases. (a) In Escambia County, a booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed against and collected from each person booked or incarcerated into the Escambia County Detention Center and subsequently convicted. The fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any fines, court costs, or other charges imposed. (b) The booking fee imposed by this section shall be assessed against a defendant upon conviction by a court of law where the defendant is convicted. The clerk of the court shall enter the amount of the fee as provided in this section on the docket sheet and shall collect the fee in the same manner and the same time as court costs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the fee shall not be deemed a court cost based on collection by the clerk. (c) The revenues derived from the booking fee shall be distributed to the Escambia County Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund to be used by the Sheriff of Escambia County for salaries, training, operational expenses, or other law enforcement uses as determined by the sheriff to best meet the needs of his or her office.  (d) In any case where the booking fee provided by this section is not paid, the district attorney of the county may assist in the collection of the fee in the same manner as court-ordered monies. In addition, the sheriff may contract for the collection of the fee and pay a portion of the fee as a cost for collection. (e) The sheriff may withhold funds equal to the amount of the booking fee from any funds held while a person is incarcerated in the Escambia County Detention Center and those funds may be applied toward any assessment of a booking fee pursuant to this section. Any funds withheld shall be repaid to the defendant if no conviction results after dismissal of all charges or acquittal. (f) Any revenues derived from this section shall be in addition to other funding sources for the Escambia County Detention Center and the Escambia County Sheriff's Department and shall not reduce or replace any funding from any other sources. (Act 2020-189, §§1-6.)
AL Code § 45-27-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 4 - Probate Court.|Section 45-27-83 - Compensation; Clerks; Reimbursement for Expenses.

Section 45-27-83Compensation; clerks; reimbursement for expenses. (a) The Judge of Probate of Escambia County shall be compensated on a salary basis which shall be in lieu of all fees and commissions heretofore paid as compensation to such judge. The amount of such salary shall be the same as that paid to the presiding circuit judge in the county including all county salary supplements. Such salary shall be paid in equal monthly installments in the same manner as other county officials are paid. (b) The judge of probate is hereby authorized to employ a chief clerk and in addition thereto up to nine clerks to carry out the duties of the office; thereafter, upon authorization of the county governing body, additional clerks shall be appointed by the judge of probate as needed. All such clerks shall serve at the pleasure of the judge of probate. (c) The judge of probate and the employees of the probate office shall be reimbursed by the county commission for all expenses incurred in the official operation of the office by reimbursement for expenses incurred in an amount not less than the mileage and per diem rate in effect for employees of the State of Alabama at the time the expenses are incurred. (Act 81-1169, 3rd Sp. Sess., p. 453, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 45-27-83.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 4 - Probate Court.|Section 45-27-83.01 - Additional Clerks.

Section 45-27-83.01Additional clerks. The Judge of Probate of Escambia County is hereby authorized to employ two additional clerks in addition to those provided for by Section 45-27-83, to aid in carrying out the duties of the office at the Atmore Satellite Courthouse. Such clerks shall serve at the pleasure of the judge of probate. The compensation and benefits of the additional clerks shall be comparable to other clerks heretofore authorized to be employed by the judge of probate. (Act 88-218, p. 344, §1.)
AL Code § 45-27-83.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 4 - Probate Court.|Section 45-27-83.02 - Additional Expense Allowance; Salary.

Section 45-27-83.02Additional expense allowance; salary. (a) Effective October 1, 2021, the Judge of Probate of Escambia County shall receive an additional expense allowance based on the difference in an annual salary of eighty-eight thousand dollars ($88,000) per year and the amount of the annual salary the judge of probate is eligible to receive on October 1, 2021. The expense allowance provided by this section shall be paid from the general fund of the county in the same manner as the salary of the judge of probate is paid. (b) Effective beginning the next term of office of the judge of probate, following April 2, 2021, the annual salary of the judge of probate shall be eighty-eight thousand dollars ($88,000) per year and the expense allowance provided in subsection (a) shall be repealed. The annual salary provided in this subsection shall be payable from the general fund of the county in the same manner as county employees. (c) Any expense allowance provided by this section shall be treated as salary for retirement purposes. (Act 2021-147, §§1, 4.)
AL Code § 45-27-84 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84 - Definitions.

Section 45-27-84Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. Escambia County. (2) DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The District Attorney for the 21st Judicial Circuit. (3) RESERVATION. The reservation of the tribe or any land held in trust for the tribe by the United States of America. (4) TRIBE. The tribe of Indians recognized as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians by the federal government and by the State of Alabama as a tribal government. (5) TRIBAL FUGITIVE. Any Indian, as defined by Section 5129 of Title 25 of the United States Code, charged with the commission of a crime alleged to have taken place within the reservation, who is not currently within the boundaries of the reservation. (Act 2017-351, §1.)
AL Code § 45-27-84.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84.01 - Extradition Authorized.

Section 45-27-84.01Extradition authorized. If a tribal fugitive is found within the county, he or she may be extradited to the tribe as provided for by this part. (Act 2017-351, §2.)
AL Code § 45-27-84.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84.02 - Written Request for Extradition.

Section 45-27-84.02Written request for extradition. (a) No demand for extradition of a tribal fugitive shall be recognized unless a written request is received by the district attorney. (b) The written request shall contain all of the following: (1) A sworn statement stating that the accused tribal fugitive was alleged to be present on the reservation at the time of the commission of the alleged crime and that the accused tribal fugitive is no longer on the reservation. (2) A copy of an arrest warrant issued for the accused tribal fugitive. (3) A copy of the conviction or sentence imposed, if applicable. (4) A sworn statement that the accused tribal fugitive has broken the terms of bail, probation, or parole, or has been charged with committing a specific offense under the laws of the tribe. (5) Any waiver of extradition validly executed as a bond condition or as a term or condition of parole or probation, if applicable. (6) Any identifying information that may assist law enforcement and the district court judge in a determination of whether the accused tribal fugitive is the person who is sought to be extradited by the tribe. (Act 2017-351, §3.)
AL Code § 45-27-84.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84.03 - Procedures When Tribal Fugitive Under Criminal Prosecution.

Section 45-27-84.03Procedures when tribal fugitive under criminal prosecution. If a criminal prosecution has been instituted under the laws of this state against a person demanded by the tribe as a tribal fugitive for extradition, and the prosecution is still pending, the district attorney may either commence extradition or demand that the accused tribal fugitive be held until tried and discharged or convicted and any punishment served. (Act 2017-351, §4.)
AL Code § 45-27-84.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84.04 - Warrant of Arrest.

Section 45-27-84.04Warrant of arrest. If the district attorney complies with the demand for extradition, the district attorney shall submit the documents specified in Section 45-27-84.02 to the district court and the district court judge shall issue a warrant of arrest directed to any law enforcement officer for the arrest of the tribal fugitive. (Act 2017-351, §5.)
AL Code § 45-27-84.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84.05 - Investigation, Report, and Recommendation of District Attorney.

Section 45-27-84.05Investigation, report, and recommendation of district attorney. The district court judge may call upon the district attorney to investigate the demand for extradition, to report the situation and circumstances of the person so demanded, and to recommend whether the person should be surrendered. (Act 2017-351, §6.)
AL Code § 45-27-84.06 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84.06 - Notice; Extradition Proceeding; Waiver.

Section 45-27-84.06Notice; extradition proceeding; waiver. (a) No tribal fugitive shall be delivered to an agent appointed by the tribe to receive the tribal fugitive until first being taken before the district court judge, who shall inform the accused tribal fugitive of the demand for extradition, the crime charged, and of his or her right to request counsel. (b)(1) If the accused tribal fugitive or his or her counsel state the desire to test the legality of the arrest, the accused tribal fugitive shall be taken before the district court judge within 72 hours for an extradition proceeding. (2) The time and place of the extradition proceeding shall be given by the court conducting the proceeding to the district attorney of the county and to the Office of the Attorney General of the tribe. (c)(1) A formal extradition proceeding under this part may be waived if the accused tribal fugitive making the waiver, knowingly, and in the presence of the district court judge, signs a statement that the accused tribal fugitive consents to return to the demanding authority. (2) Before a waiver under this subsection may be executed, the district court judge shall inform the accused tribal fugitive of his or her rights and the procedures available to him or her under this section. (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to imply that an accused tribal fugitive is entitled to an attorney at the expense of the state. (Act 2017-351, §7.)
AL Code § 45-27-84.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 27 - Escambia County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 5 - Extradition of Tribal Fugitive|Section 45-27-84.07 - Determination of Accused as Tribal Fugitive.

Section 45-27-84.07Determination of accused as tribal fugitive. (a) If the district court judge determines the accused person is a tribal fugitive, then the tribal fugitive shall be surrendered to an agent of the tribe. (b) The guilt or innocence of the accused tribal fugitive may not be inquired into by the district court judge in an extradition proceeding except as may be necessary to identify the person held as being the tribal fugitive charged of a crime by the tribe. (Act 2017-351, §8.)