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AL Code § 12-2-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-6 - Performance of Duties of Chief Justice in Event of Extended Absence From Court or Disability Thereof.

Section 12-2-6Performance of duties of Chief Justice in event of extended absence from court or disability thereof. Whenever the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama shall, because of illness or otherwise, be disabled from actively performing his duties as chief justice or those ex officio duties imposed upon him by law or shall be absent from the court for a period of 30 days or longer, then, in either event, the duties so imposed upon him shall be performed by the available associate justice of the Supreme Court in order of seniority based upon continuous length of service on the court, and such associate justice of the Supreme Court is hereby authorized and empowered to perform all of the same in lieu of the chief justice during the latter's disability or absence from the court for said period longer than 30 days. (Acts 1949, No. 188, p. 220.)
AL Code § 12-2-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-7 - Jurisdiction and Powers of Court Generally.

Section 12-2-7Jurisdiction and powers of court generally. The Supreme Court shall have authority:  (1) To exercise appellate jurisdiction coextensive with the state, under such restrictions and regulations as are prescribed by law; but, in deciding appeals, no weight shall be given the decision of the trial judge upon the facts where the evidence is not taken orally before the judge, but in such cases the Supreme Court shall weigh the evidence and give judgment as it deems just. (2) To exercise original jurisdiction in the issue and determination of writs of quo warranto and mandamus in relation to matters in which no other court has jurisdiction. (3) To issue writs of injunction, habeas corpus, and such other remedial and original writs as are necessary to give to it a general superintendence and control of courts of inferior jurisdiction. (4) To make and promulgate rules governing the administration of all courts and rules governing practice and procedure in all courts; provided, that such rules shall not abridge, enlarge, or modify the substantive right of any party nor affect the jurisdiction of circuit and district courts or venue of actions therein; and provided further, that the right of trial by jury as at common law and declared by Section 11 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 shall be preserved to the parties inviolate. (5) To punish for contempts by the infliction of a fine not exceeding $100, and imprisonment not exceeding 10 days or both. (6) To transfer to the Court of Civil Appeals, for determination by that court, any civil case appealed to the Supreme Court and within the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, except the following:  a. A case that the Supreme Court determines presents a substantial question of federal or state constitutional law. b. A case that the Supreme Court determines involves a novel legal question, the resolution of which will have significant statewide impact. c. A utility rate case appealed directly to the Supreme Court under the provisions of Section 37-1-140. d. A bond validation proceeding appealed to the Supreme Court under the provisions of Section 6-6-754. e. A bar disciplinary proceeding. (7) To exercise such other powers as are or may be given to the Supreme Court by law. (Code 1852, §568; Code 1867, §660; Code 1876, §571; Code 1886, §675; Code 1896, §3826; Code 1907, §5955; Code 1923, §10276; Code 1940, T. 13, §17; Acts 1993, No. 93-345, p. 535, §1.)
AL Code § 12-2-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-8 - Regular Terms of Court.

Section 12-2-8Regular terms of court. Regular terms of the Supreme Court shall commence on the first Monday of October in each year and continue until and including the last day of June of the ensuing year, but the court may, in its discretion, adjourn from time to time. (Code 1852, §570; Code 1867, §666; Code 1876, §573; Code 1886, §677; Code 1896, §3828; Code 1907, §5957; Acts 1915, No. 718, p. 816; Code 1923, §10279; Code 1940, T. 13, §20.)
AL Code § 12-2-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-9 - Special Terms.

Section 12-2-9Special terms. The court may, whenever it deems proper, order and hold a special term. (Code 1852, §570; Code 1867, §662; Code 1876, §573; Code 1886, §678; Code 1896, §3834; Code 1907, §5963; Code 1923, §10285; Code 1940, T. 13, §26.)
AL Code § 12-2-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-10 - Advisory Opinions on Constitutional Questions - How Opinion Obtained.

Section 12-2-10Advisory opinions on constitutional questions - How opinion obtained. The Governor, by a request in writing, or either house of the Legislature, by a resolution of such house, may obtain a written opinion of the justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama or a majority thereof on important constitutional questions. (Acts 1923, No. 43, p. 25; Code 1923, §10290; Code 1940, T. 13, §34.)
AL Code § 12-2-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-11 - Advisory Opinions on Constitutional Questions - Request and Receipt by Court of Briefs From Attorney General and Amici Curiae as to Questions Presented.

Section 12-2-11Advisory opinions on constitutional questions - Request and receipt by court of briefs from Attorney General and amici curiae as to questions presented. The justices of the Supreme Court may request briefs from the Attorney General, and may receive briefs from other attorneys as amici curiae as to such questions as may be propounded to them for their answers. (Acts 1923, No. 43, p. 25; Code 1923, §10292; Code 1940, T. 13, §36.)
AL Code § 12-2-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-12 - Advisory Opinions on Constitutional Questions - Effect of Opinion.

Section 12-2-12Advisory opinions on constitutional questions - Effect of opinion. The opinion of the justices of the Supreme Court or a majority of them shall be a protection to the officers and departments of the state acting in accordance therewith in the same manner and to the same extent as opinions of the Attorney General of the state; and, in the event of a conflict between the opinions of the Attorney General and the opinion of the justices of the Supreme Court rendered in accordance with this article, the opinion of the justices of the Supreme Court shall take precedence and prevail. All opinions of the justices of the Supreme Court heretofore rendered in accordance with this article shall have the protective force and effect provided for in this article. (Acts 1923, No. 43, p. 25; Code 1923, §10291; Acts 1927, No. 144, p. 103; Code 1940, T. 13, §35.)
AL Code § 12-2-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-13 - Standard for Decision of Cases in Which Existing Opinion and Former Ruling in Case Conflict.

Section 12-2-13Standard for decision of cases in which existing opinion and former ruling in case conflict. The Supreme Court, in deciding each case when there is a conflict between its existing opinion and any former ruling in the case, must be governed by what, in its opinion, at that time is law, without any regard to such former ruling on the law by it; but the right of third persons, acquired on the faith of the former ruling, shall not be defeated or interfered with by or on account of any subsequent ruling. (Code 1867, §666; Code 1876, §579; Code 1886, §683a; Code 1896, §3840; Code 1907, §5965; Code 1923, §10287; Code 1940, T. 13, §28.)
AL Code § 12-2-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-14 - Appointment of Members of Bar to Sit as Special Judges in Determination of Certain Cases.

Section 12-2-14Appointment of members of bar to sit as special judges in determination of certain cases. When by reason of disqualification the number of judges competent to sit in a case is reduced to eight or to six and there is equal division among them on any question material to the determination of the case, the fact shall be certified by the Chief Justice or, when he is disqualified, by the judges sitting to the Governor, who shall thereupon appoint a member of the bar of the Supreme Court to sit as a judge of said court in the determination of said case. Similarly, when by reason of disqualification no one of the judges is competent to sit in a case or the number is reduced below six, the fact shall be certified by the Chief Justice, if he is competent to sit, or, if not, by the judge or judges sitting, or, if no one is competent, by the clerk of the court to the Governor, who shall thereupon appoint members of the bar of the Supreme Court to constitute a special court of seven members for the consideration and determination of such case. The word "disqualification," as used in this section, shall include inability to sit by reason of prolonged illness of a chronic nature. (Code 1896, §3837; Code 1907, §5953; Code 1923, §10274; Code 1940, T. 13, §15; Acts 1969, No. 602, p. 1087.)
AL Code § 12-2-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-15 - Minutes of Court and Reports of Decisions to State Names of Judges Sitting in Final Decision of Cases.

Section 12-2-15Minutes of court and reports of decisions to state names of judges sitting in final decision of cases. The minutes of the court and the reports of its decisions shall state the names of the judges sitting in the final decision of cases. (Code 1907, §5984; Code 1923, §10275; Code 1940, T.13, §16.)
AL Code § 12-2-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-16 - Advisory and Standing Committees.

Section 12-2-16Advisory and standing committees. The Supreme Court is authorized and empowered in connection with any rule-making power or other function to appoint from time to time various advisory committees or standing committees composed of justices, judges, lawyers, law professors and other persons to serve on such committees, and the Chief Justice is authorized and empowered to direct that the expenses of such advisory committees or standing committees, including, but not limited to, the expenses, compensation and employment of consultants, reporters and travel expenses, including, but not limited to, transportation, meals, lodging, membership fees, registration fees, printing and postage, be paid from any funds appropriated to the Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of Courts, the Department of Court Management, the Permanent Study Commission on Alabama's Judicial System or grant funds. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §6-102.)
AL Code § 12-2-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-17 - Establishment of Additional Duties for Judges.

Section 12-2-17Establishment of additional duties for judges. The Supreme Court may, by rules of court, establish additional duties for judges either within or without the geographical boundaries of the court of the judge when such is, in the opinion of a majority of the court, necessary to properly serve the administration of justice. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §6-115.)
AL Code § 12-2-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-18 - Institution and Maintenance of Safety Programs and Precautions for Security and Protection of Judicial Building, etc., Authorized; Designation of Marshal, Assistant Marshals, etc., as Conservators of Peace and Powers Thereof; Payment for Uniforms, Arms, etc., of Marshals, Etc.

Section 12-2-18Institution and maintenance of safety programs and precautions for security and protection of judicial building, etc., authorized; designation of marshal, assistant marshals, etc., as conservators of peace and powers thereof; payment for uniforms, arms, etc., of marshals, etc. (a) In connection with the security and protection of the judicial building and those sites other than the judicial building when the Supreme Court so meets, the Supreme Court is authorized to institute and maintain safety programs and precautions. (b) The marshal, assistant marshals, deputy marshal and other personnel designated by the Supreme Court are made conservators of the peace and shall have the power to make arrests and serve subpoenas. (c) The uniforms, arms and other equipment of such marshals and other personnel so designated by the Supreme Court maybe paid for from any funds appropriated to the Supreme Court. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §6-101.)
AL Code § 12-2-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-19 - Promulgation, Filing and Publication of Rules; Construction and Interpretation of Rules.

Section 12-2-19Promulgation, filing and publication of rules; construction and interpretation of rules. (a) Since the Supreme Court now has the initial primary duty to make and promulgate rules governing practice and procedure in all courts, as well as rules of administration for all courts, all such rules made and promulgated by the Supreme Court shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court and published in the official report of decisions. The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall certify to the Secretary of State all such rules. The Secretary of State shall cause the rules to be published in any code of the laws of Alabama whenever the codes are published or in pocket supplements to codes. (b) In connection with its duty to make and promulgate such rules, the Legislature finds that it is within the scope of such authority for the Supreme Court to make rules of administration pertaining to the collection, use, protection and disclosure of information, statistics and records involved in the administration of justice, criminal or otherwise, including information to be stored or which is stored in computers; collection of unpaid court costs, fines and forfeitures; the security of courts; the procedures, forms and standards for appointment of attorneys for indigents in criminal cases and, in the event an indigent becomes nonindigent, collection procedures for attorney's fees, transcript fees, and other expenses paid by the state during the period of indigency. (c) Rules heretofore promulgated by the Supreme Court shall not be considered to have been superseded or modified by this title unless by express reference in this title or by law hereinafter enacted or by irreconcilable conflict with this title. (d) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall give his or her opinion in writing on any question of the interpretation of any rule of administration promulgated by the Supreme Court to any other officer or official of the state who shows a need for such opinion and requests the same. The written opinion of the Clerk of the Supreme Court shall protect the officer or official to whom it is directed as well as other officers or officials who use it as guidance from liability to either the state, county, or any municipal subdivision of the state because of any official act or acts performed as directed or advised in such opinion; provided, however, that such opinion shall be merely advisory. Such opinions shall be published in the official report of decisions. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §6-105; Act 2014-217, p. 684, §1.)
AL Code § 12-2-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-20 - Purposes for Which Appropriations May Be Used.

Section 12-2-20Purposes for which appropriations may be used. The Supreme Court is further authorized and empowered to use moneys or funds appropriated to it, including, but not limited to, the moneys appropriated for the administrative fund, advisory committee work and judicial education, for any judicial purposes the Supreme Court may direct, including, but not limited to, the preservation, acquisition, framing and repair of portraits, pictures, murals, photographs, resolutions and orders of the court, historical documents and archives; the publishing of books, pamphlets and other publications; the use of consultants; expenses of visiting jurists and other judicial or legally related individuals who are performing services to the courts of this state; ceremonies; and seminars and conferences pertaining to courts and the administration of justice for justices, judges and court-related personnel within or outside the state, and the clerk of said court is authorized to direct payment for all expenses connected therewith, including, but not limited to, meal meetings; provided, however, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, fees authorized by law, court rule or order for certificates, documents, and any other copies of the court records of the Supreme Court shall be paid by the Clerk of the Supreme Court into the administrative fund and shall be expended therefrom on the monthly written requisition of the chief justice as an allowance for the office of the Chief Justice not otherwise provided by law: Provided further however, such allowance shall be and is hereby limited to the amount of such fees collected and paid into said administrative fund. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §6-106; Acts 1983, No. 83-744, p. 1225, §17.)
AL Code § 12-2-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-21 - Appointment, Compensation, etc., of Staff Attorneys.

Section 12-2-21Appointment, compensation, etc., of staff attorneys. The Alabama Supreme Court is hereby authorized to hire six staff attorneys to assist that court in legal research and analysis, including the preparation of staff memoranda, and to perform such other duties as directed by the court. The staff attorneys shall be licensed to practice law in the State of Alabama and shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the court. The salaries of each staff attorney shall be fixed within the range of the proper classification of attorneys under the merit system as may be determined by the Supreme Court. Said staff attorneys shall be subject to the Merit System Act only as to the pay plan selected for them by the Supreme Court. (Acts 1982, No. 82-491, p. 814, §1.)
AL Code § 12-2-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 2 - Ex Officio Powers and Duties of Chief Justice.|Section 12-2-31 - Provision for Compilation and Tabulation of Reports and Information Supplied to Office.

Section 12-2-31Provision for compilation and tabulation of reports and information supplied to office. The Chief Justice shall have the reports and information supplied to his office as provided by law, tabulated and compiled so as to furnish information as to the administration of justice, the workings and operation of the courts and the amount of business pending, performed or dispatched in the several courts of the state. Such reports and information shall be tabulated by counties and circuits. (Acts 1915, No. 521, p. 592; Code 1923, §10294; Code 1940, T. 13, §37.)
AL Code § 12-2-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 2 - Ex Officio Powers and Duties of Chief Justice.|Section 12-2-32 - Employment, etc., of Court Attendant.

Section 12-2-32Employment, etc., of court attendant. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may employ one court attendant, who shall wait upon the Supreme Court and have the care of its courtrooms, library and consultation rooms. His salary shall be fixed under the provisions of the merit system and he shall be paid as other state employees. (Code 1907, §5982; Acts 1919, No. 688, p. 996; Code 1923, §10318; Code 1940, T. 13, §84.)
AL Code § 12-2-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 2 - Ex Officio Powers and Duties of Chief Justice.|Section 12-2-33 - Ordering of Special Sessions of Courts, Etc.

Section 12-2-33Ordering of special sessions of courts, etc. Whenever in the opinion of the Chief Justice the business in any of the courts is being delayed or is unnecessarily congested or unnecessarily accumulated, he shall order adjourned or special sessions of court or the calling of the cases on the dockets for trial by sending a written order to the clerk of the court, which order shall be spread upon the minutes of the court as a part of the organization thereof, and he may direct the judge of any circuit at any time to call or order an adjourned or special session of any court in the circuit of such judge for the trial of all cases, civil or criminal, and the circuit judge shall immediately make such orders and issue such process and notice as shall be necessary for the calling, convening and holding of such sessions of court according to law. (Acts 1915, No. 521, p. 592; Code 1923, §10296; Code 1940, T. 13, §39.)
AL Code § 12-2-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 2 - Ex Officio Powers and Duties of Chief Justice.|Section 12-2-34 - Ordering of Attendance of District Attorneys at Special Sessions of Courts, Etc.

Section 12-2-34Ordering of attendance of district attorneys at special sessions of courts, etc. The Chief Justice shall direct and order in the same manner the attendance of any district attorney upon any regular, adjourned or special session of the court for the prosecution of any criminal case or the prosecution or defense in any case in which the state or any county thereof is interested at any regular, adjourned or special session of court or to attend upon any preliminary trial or application for bail or habeas corpus either in or out of his circuit. (Acts 1915, No. 521, p. 592; Code 1923, §10298; Code 1940, T. 13, §41.)
AL Code § 12-2-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 2 - Ex Officio Powers and Duties of Chief Justice.|Section 12-2-35 - Notification of Chief Justice by Judge or District Attorney Unable to Attend Court; Designation of Judge or District Attorney to Attend and Hold Court.

Section 12-2-35Notification of Chief Justice by judge or district attorney unable to attend court; designation of judge or district attorney to attend and hold court. Whenever the judge or the district attorney of the court shall be unable to attend such court, he shall notify the Chief Justice, and the Chief Justice shall designate some other judge or district attorney, as the case may be, not then engaged elsewhere to attend and hold said court or discharge the duties of district attorney or judge, as the case may be. (Acts 1915, No. 521, p. 592; Code 1923, §10297; Code 1940, T. 13, §40.)