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AL Code § 45-39A-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13 - Police and Fire Departments Under Civil Service.

Section 45-39A-13Police and fire departments under civil service. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Florence is authorized and empowered at any time subsequent to September 25, 1997, to put into force and effect an ordinance or ordinances governing the police and fire departments of the city as provided in this part; but this part shall have no effect excepting as an authority for the City of Florence to take such action. The police department and the fire department and all officers and members of the departments, in Florence, Alabama, including the chiefs of the departments, shall be governed by civil service regulations under the direction and supervision of a board as hereinafter provided, and all persons who may hereafter be elected or appointed as officers or members of such departments, or either of them, or who may hereafter be employed in either of the departments as members thereof, shall thereafter remain and continue in their respective employments of the city during good behavior, efficiency, and obedience to such reasonable rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be prescribed by the civil service board, which is herein provided for, and as is hereafter provided. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent or preclude the removal of any officer or member of either of the departments by the civil service board in the manner hereafter prescribed. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §1.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.01 - Definitions.

Section 45-39A-13.01Definitions. With reference to the police department the following definition shall apply as used herein: The word patrolman shall mean and apply to all motorcycle officers, drivers of automobiles used by the police department, and all other members of the police department below the grade of sergeant but shall not include detectives. The word officer shall mean and apply to all members of the police department of the grade of sergeant, detective, captain, assistant chief of police, and chief of police. The words members of the police department shall mean and include all officers, patrolmen, and detectives, and wardens, if detailed to warden's duty from the ranks of patrolman or officers. With reference to the fire department the following definitions shall apply as used herein: The words members of the fire department shall mean and include the chief of the fire department, assistant chiefs of the fire department, captains, lieutenants, engineers, assistant engineers, and firemen and all others who are regularly carried on the pay roll of the fire departments except hostlers and helpers; and in addition to those specifically named hereinbefore as members of the departments, such others as the board may find and designate to properly be such members, respectively. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §2.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.02 - Composition of Civil Service Board.

Section 45-39A-13.02Composition of civil service board. The civil service board shall consist of five members to be appointed by the members of the City Council of the City of Florence. In each year the city council shall appoint one person as the successor to the member of the civil service board whose term shall expire that year. The person so appointed shall hold office for a term of five years from and including the first Tuesday after the first Monday of April of the year and until his or her successor shall be appointed and qualify for office. Appointments to fill vacancies on the board shall be for the unexpired term. Any member of the board whose term shall expire shall be eligible to reappointment. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum. No person shall be eligible to be a member of the civil service board who shall not, at the time of his or her appointment, be over 25 years of age and an actual resident in and a qualified voter of the city. No person shall be eligible to be a member of the board who holds any office of profit under the city, county, or state. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §3; Act 2002-332, p. 902, §1.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.03 - Rulemaking Authority.

Section 45-39A-13.03Rulemaking authority. The civil service board shall make rules and regulations to carry out the purpose of this article, and for examinations, appointments, and removals in accordance with its provisions and the board, from time to time, may make changes in the existing rules. The chief of police and the chief of the fire department, from the membership of their respective departments, shall recommend for promotion such person or persons as the occasion may call for to fill any vacancy or vacancies that may occur in the respective departments, and all such vacancies shall be filled and all such promotions shall be made by the civil service board. The board may make rules and regulations relating to the eligibility for promotion. The chief of the police department and the chief of the fire department shall have authority in their respective departments to demote any member of the respective departments by and with the consent and approval of the civil service board, provided however, that upon written demand filed with the civil service board within five days from the date of the order of demotion the person whom it is proposed to demote shall be given a public hearing by the civil service board before any order of demotion shall be final. The chief of the police department and the chief of the fire department shall have authority to suspend any member of their respective departments pending the hearing by the civil service board. In the event any vacancy shall occur in the office of chief of the police department or chief of the fire department such vacancy shall be filled by the civil service board. In the event there is a reduction in the number of firemen or policemen employed by the city, the person last employed shall be the first to be dropped, and so on in succession; provided that the number of patrolmen in the police department who are qualified as motorcycle patrolmen shall not thereby be reduced below the number which may from time to time be determined by the board of commissioners of the city as needed for motorcycle patrolmen; provided, further, that the number of persons in the fire department who are qualified as mechanics shall not thereby be reduced below the number which may from time to time be determined by the board of commissioners of the city as needed for mechanics in the department. The civil service board may at any time, upon the request of the governing authority of the City of Florence, shown by resolution, discharge from employment the chief of police and the chief of the fire department or any number of either the police or fire departments. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §4.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.04 - Application and Examination.

Section 45-39A-13.04Application and examination. All applicants for a place or position on the police force or fire department, as the case may be, shall file their application in writing with the civil service board, the applications to be on the blank forms furnished by the board, and all applicants shall be subject to examination, which shall be public, competitive, and open to all citizens of the United States, with specified limitations as to age, residence, health, habits, and moral character. The examinations shall be practical in their character, and shall relate to those matters which shall fairly test the relative capacity of the persons examined to intelligently discharge the duties of the position to which they aspire. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §5.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.05 - Examinations; Fee.

Section 45-39A-13.05Examinations; fee. The board shall control all examinations, and whenever an examination is to take place, shall conduct the examination. Every applicant for examination shall pay to the city clerk the sum of one dollar fifty cents ($1.50), and the receipt therefor shall be attached to his or her application. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §6.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.06 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.06 - Vacancies.

Section 45-39A-13.06Vacancies. The chief of police, as far as the police department be concerned, and the chief of the fire department, as far as the fire department be concerned shall notify the civil service board of vacancies in the ranks of patrolmen or firemen, respectively, and the board shall furnish the respective chiefs with the name and address, or names and addresses, of the candidate or candidates standing highest on the eligible list, and same shall receive the appointment or appointments to fill the vacancy or vacancies. All appointments shall be on probation for a period of six months from date of appointment. Before the expiration of the period of probation, the chiefs of fire and police departments, respectively, may, by and with the consent of the board, discharge any probationer in his or her respective department upon assigning in writing the reasons therefor to the board. If a probationer be not discharged before the expiration of his or her probation, his or her appointment shall be deemed complete. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §7.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.07 - Emergency Appointment.

Section 45-39A-13.07Emergency appointment. The civil service board, in an emergency, or in cases where it deems proper, may authorize the chief of police to appoint for temporary service such number of police officers as in the opinion of the board of commissioners of the city the existing conditions demand. All officers so appointed shall be furnished with badges, the badge to be different in size and design from the regulation badges used by the regular members of the police and detective force, and shall have the words special officer across the face of them in large letters. The chief of police shall furnish the board with the names and addresses of all persons to whom he or she has issued special badges, and at the expiration of their appointment shall cause all such badges to be taken up. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his or her possession any commission or any badge of a police officer of the city unless same has been issued to him or her by the civil service board. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §8.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.08 - Badges for Use of Regularly Employed Police Officers or Detectives.

Section 45-39A-13.08Badges for use of regularly employed police officers or detectives. It shall be a violation of this part for any official, officer, or other person to issue, give, or lend one of the regulation police or detective badges to any person other than a regularly employed police officer or detective of the city. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §9.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.09 - Election of Chair.

Section 45-39A-13.09Election of chair. The civil service board shall elect one of their members as chair who shall hold office as chair at the pleasure of the board. The civil service board shall hold regular meetings on the third Mondays in January, April, July, and October for the transaction of business and may hold special, adjourned, or called meetings at any time. All meetings of the board shall be held in the city hall unless otherwise provided by the board. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §10.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.10 - Recordkeeping.

Section 45-39A-13.10Recordkeeping. The civil service board shall keep minutes of their meetings and records of all business transacted by them at each and every meeting. All minutes and records shall be open for inspection at all times by the chief of police, chief of the fire department, and any member of the city council or other governing body of the city in which same may exist. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §11.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.11 - Compensation.

Section 45-39A-13.11Compensation. The compensation of the civil service board shall be one hundred dollars ($100) per month. The mayor and the city council, or other governing body of the city shall provide for the salaries and expenses of the civil service board, and shall provide in the annual budget of all cities coming within this part an estimated appropriation sufficient to cover the salaries and expenses of the board. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §12; Act 2002-332, p. 902, §1.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.12 - Political Recommendations.

Section 45-39A-13.12Political recommendations. No recommendation by any officer or official, whether the officer or official be a city, county, state, or national officer or official, shall be considered by any person concerned in any examination or appointment under this part, except as to the general moral character of the applicant. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §3.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.13 - Violations.

Section 45-39A-13.13Violations. Any person in the service of the city by appointment under civil service rules who shall wilfully, or through culpable negligence, violate this part, and who shall be found guilty after a trial before the civil service board shall be dismissed from the service of the city, and shall not be subject to reappointment for two years. Any officer or employee of the city other than those holding office under the civil service rules, who shall wilfully or through culpable negligence, violate this part, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars ($50), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), unless same be otherwise provided therein, and the office so held by such person, by force of such conviction, shall be rendered vacant, and such person shall not again be allowed to hold any office or place of employment under the city thereafter for two years. Any other person who shall wilfully, or through culpable negligence violate this part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be punished by a fine in the sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500). (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §14.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.14 - Application of Part.

Section 45-39A-13.14Application of part. Every member of the police department and every member of the fire department in all cities coming within this part, who was such member on the day upon which this code goes into effect shall retain his or her position without examination, and be subject to all the conditions and benefits of this part. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §15.)
AL Code § 45-39A-13.15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 4 - Employees.|Section 45-39A-13.15 - Eligibility.

Section 45-39A-13.15Eligibility. No person shall be eligible to take the civil service examination or to appointment as a member of either the police or fire departments in cities coming within this part who is not a citizen of the United States or who has ever been convicted of a felony, or who does not possess a good moral character. (Acts 1947, No. 437, p. 291, §16.)
AL Code § 45-39A-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 5 - Taxation.|Section 45-39A-14 - Annexed Farm Property.

Section 45-39A-14Annexed farm property. (a) The City Commission of Florence, Alabama, shall waive city taxes on annexed farm property, so that the residential dwelling on the property and one acre of land shall be taxed at the regular city tax rates, but the remainder of the land used as farm and agricultural property shall be exempt from city taxes. (b) If and when the land is sold for, or is used for, non-agricultural purposes, then city taxes for the three years preceding the sale shall be assessed against the property to be paid by the purchasers, or by the owner in the case of change in use of the property. (Acts 1978, No. 260, p. 235, §§1, 2; Act 79-415, p. 640, §1.)
AL Code § 45-39A-14.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 39A - Lauderdale County Municipalities.|Article 1 - Florence.|Part 5 - Taxation.|Section 45-39A-14.01 - Special Ad Valorem Tax for Public School Purposes.

Section 45-39A-14.01Special ad valorem tax for public school purposes. (a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AMENDMENT 8. That amendment to the Constitution that was proposed by Act 650, S. 593, 1919 General Session. (2) AMENDMENT 373. That amendment to the Constitution that was proposed by Act 6, H. 170, 1978 Second Special Session. (3) CITY. Florence, Alabama. (4) CONSTITUTION. The Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (5) COUNCIL. Florence City Council. (6) SPECIAL TAX. The special voted ad valorem tax for public school purposes authorized in the second proviso of Amendment 8 and pursuant to an election held in the city on December 10, 1923, and levied and collected on taxable property in the city; being originally voted at the rate of 5 mills on each dollar assessed value and, pursuant to proceedings heretofore taken under Amendment 373, presently levied at the rate of 7 mills on each dollar of assessed value. (b) The city presently levies and collects the special tax at a rate of seventy cents ($.70) on each one hundred dollars ($100) (7 mills on each dollar) of assessed value pursuant to Amendment 8. Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the council in accordance with Amendment 373, the city proposes to increase (by not greater than 7 mills) the rate at which it may levy and collect the special tax to a maximum rate, for any tax year, which is equal to one dollar forty cents ($1.40) on each one hundred dollars ($100) (14 mills on each dollar) of assessed value. (c) Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment 373 and a resolution adopted by the council after a public hearing, the council may increase the rate at which the city levies and collects the special tax to a maximum rate, for any tax year, which is equal to one dollar forty cents ($1.40) on each one hundred dollars ($100) (14 mills on each dollar) of assessed value. (d) The increase in the rate at which the special tax may be levied and collected pursuant to this section is subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors residing in the city who vote on the proposed increase at a special election called and held for such purpose pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment 373. (Act 2003-154, p. 457, §§1-4.)
AL Code § 45-40-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 40 - Lawrence County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 1 - Chair.|Section 45-40-70 - Qualifications, Powers, Duties, etc.; Compensation.

Section 45-40-70Qualifications, powers, duties, etc.; compensation. (a) The Chair of the Lawrence County Commission shall be a resident of good moral character and a qualified elector of Lawrence County and shall reside in the county during his or her term of office. The Chair of the Lawrence County Commission shall have and exercise all of the powers, duties, limitations, and responsibilities given to the chair of the county commission by general law or by local law relating to Lawrence County. (b) The Chair of the Lawrence County Commission shall receive an annual salary of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per annum payable out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments. (Act 79-737, p. 1309, §§3, 4.)
AL Code § 45-40-71 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 40 - Lawrence County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Compensation.|Section 45-40-71 - Expense Allowance; Salary.

Section 45-40-71Expense allowance; salary. (a) The members of the County Commission of Lawrence County, excluding the chair, shall receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month in addition to any other compensation and allowance provided by law. The expense allowance provided by this section shall expire upon the expiration of any constitutional prohibition preventing the above named officers from receiving an increase in salary or other compensation on the effective date of this section. (b) The members of the Lawrence County Commission shall receive an additional salary in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month in addition to any other compensation and allowance provided by law except for the expense allowance provided in subsection (a). Such salary shall be effective upon the expiration of any constitutional prohibition preventing the above named officers from receiving an increase in salary or other compensation on the effective date of this section. (c) The expense allowance and compensation of the members of the county commission shall be paid from the county public road and bridge fund for the performance of their duties in relation to the roads, bridges, and ferries of Lawrence County. (Act 79-739, p. 1314, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 45-40-72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 40 - Lawrence County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 3 - Composition.|Section 45-40-72 - Commission Members; Districts; Chair.

Section 45-40-72Commission members; districts; chair. (a) The Lawrence County shall be composed of five , elected from single-member one through five, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The five districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The of the commission shall rotate among the five members of the commission with each commissioner serving as chair for one-fifth of his or her four-year term of office. (b) The composition and election of the county commission as it existed on January 1, 2003, is ratified and confirmed. This section shall continue to apply to commissioners elected for a term of office for county commissioners in Lawrence County on or after that date. (Act 2003-222, p. 562, §§1, 2.)