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AL Code § 12-17-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 2 - Circuit Court Judges.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-30 - Salary; Effect on Other Provisions; Judges and District Attorney's Supplements.

Section 12-17-30Salary; effect on other provisions; judges and district attorney's supplements. (a) Circuit judges shall receive an annual state salary in the amount of $34,000 commencing October 1, 1979. (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Section 12-17-68 and Section 12-17-92. (c) Any salary supplement received by any circuit judge or district attorney which now exceeds $11,000, or because of the enactment of this section will exceed such sum, is hereby reduced to the sum of $11,000. (Acts 1979, No. 79-826, p. 1562, §§1, 3, 4.)
AL Code § 12-17-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 2 - Circuit Court Judges.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Circuit Judges.|Section 12-17-40 - Continuation of Laws Concerning Duties, Benefits, etc.; Election of Supernumerary Status.

Section 12-17-40Continuation of laws concerning duties, benefits, etc.; election of supernumerary status. (a) All laws dealing with the eligibility of judges of the circuit court to assume duties and obligations, and to claim and receive benefits, as supernumerary judges are, as to all persons who were eligible to assume such duties and obligations and claim and receive such benefits as of September 18, 1973, continued in full force and effect, and shall not be repealed by the adoption of this code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on the date that all persons who became vested with eligibility, either present or prospective, to assume duties and responsibilities, and to claim and receive benefits, as, or, in the case of surviving spouses, on account of, supernumerary judges as of September 18, 1973, or those persons so electing pursuant to subsection (b), are deceased, all relevant laws relating thereto shall be repealed. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), any person may elect to become a supernumerary circuit judge if he or she had completed the years of judicial service prescribed for eligibility for supernumerary status before September 18, 1973, and has reached the age prescribed for eligibility by the laws in force and effect on September 18, 1973. Any person electing supernumerary status pursuant to this subsection shall otherwise be eligible to receive the same benefits as provided for any other person taking supernumerary status pursuant to subsection (a). (Acts 1977, No. 20, p. 28; Act 2009-647, p. 1987, §1.)
AL Code § 12-17-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-80 - Circuit Clerks, Registers, and Employees in Offices Thereof to Be Paid by State.

Section 12-17-80Circuit clerks, registers, and employees in offices thereof to be paid by state. Clerks and registers of the circuit court shall be paid by the state. The deputy circuit clerk serving the Bessemer cut-off division of the tenth judicial circuit shall for all purposes be deemed a circuit clerk and register and shall be elected as provided for by Section 12-17-98. Employees in the offices of the circuit clerks and registers, including employees serving district courts, shall be paid by the state beginning October 1, 1977. Employees in the offices of clerks and registers shall be paid by the county through September 30, 1977. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, §7-103.)
AL Code § 12-17-81.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-81.1 - Prior Service Credit.

Section 12-17-81.1Prior service credit. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose of determining the salary of any circuit clerk pursuant to Section 12-17-81, years of service under Section 12-17-81 shall include any prior service credit purchased toward supernumerary status as a circuit clerk pursuant to Section 12-17-144.1. (Act 2000-207, p. 274, §1.)
AL Code § 12-17-90 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-90 - Offices; Vacancies.

Section 12-17-90Offices; vacancies. The offices of the circuit clerks shall be at the courthouses of their respective counties. Vacancies in such an office shall be filled in accordance with Constitutional Amendment No. 328. (Code 1852, §649; Code 1867, §766; Code 1876, §670; Code 1886, §766; Code 1896, §932; Code 1907, §3270; Code 1923, §6722; Code 1940, T. 13, §196; Acts 1951, No. 31, p. 241.)
AL Code § 12-17-91 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-91 - Bond.

Section 12-17-91Bond. The official bond of the clerk of the circuit court shall in no case be less than $5,000.00. (Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 191, p. 203; Code 1940, T. 41, §88.)
AL Code § 12-17-92 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-92 - Compensation of Circuit Clerks.

Section 12-17-92Compensation of circuit clerks. Each circuit clerk shall be compensated by the state at a salary established by law; provided, however, that any supplemental salary now provided to circuit clerks by their respective counties on May 28, 1980, shall not be diminished; and provided, further, that any county may, pursuant to a local act already enacted or hereafter enacted, pay a circuit clerk a supplemental salary from the general fund of such county in excess of any supplemental salary provided for by this section. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-104; Acts 1980, No. 80-637, p. 1203, §3.)
AL Code § 12-17-93 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-93 - Authority.

Section 12-17-93Authority. Clerks of the circuit court have authority: (1) To administer oaths and take acknowledgments and affidavits in all cases in which the authority to administer such oath or take such affidavit is not confined to some other officer. (2) To appoint deputies, with full power to transact all business of such clerks, such deputies first taking an oath to support the Constitution and laws of this state and faithfully to discharge the duties of deputy clerks of the court for which they act. (3) To receive the amount of any judgment entered in the courts of which they are clerks, either before or after the issue of execution thereon. (4) To exercise such other powers as are, or may be, conferred by law, including administrative rules of procedure promulgated by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. (Code 1852, §651; Code 1867, §771; Code 1876, §676;Code 1886, §767; Code 1896, §933; Code 1907, §3271; Code 1923, §6723; Code 1940, T. 13, §197.)
AL Code § 12-17-94 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-94 - Duties Generally.

Section 12-17-94Duties generally. (a) The duties of the clerks of the circuit court include all of the following: (1) To sign and issue all summons, subpoenas, writs, executions, and other processes, under the authority of the court. (2) To keep a consolidated docket sheet of civil and criminal cases, the names of the parties, the character of action or offense, the names of the attorneys and the sheriff's return, which shall be entered in all civil and criminal cases standing for trial, in the order in which they are brought, and the bench notes, orders, rulings on motions and pleadings, other preliminary matters and final judgment which have been made in each case by the judge, which shall be the official minutes. (3) To keep all papers, books, dockets, and records belonging to their office with care and security, with the papers filed, arranged, numbered, and labeled, so as to be of easy reference, and the books, dockets and records properly lettered. Parties shall be allowed to inspect the records free of charge. (4) To make out and deliver, on application and payment of the legal fees therefor, to any person applying for the same, a correct transcript, properly certified, of any paper or record in their offices. (5) To exercise such duties as are, or may be, conferred upon them by law, including administrative rules promulgated by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. (6) To monitor compliance with court orders issued by a state court which assess court costs, fines, and other related court-ordered money against criminal defendants and to utilize accounts receivable systems and other procedures, including notice processes, to ensure payment of court-ordered money. (b) Any clerk of any circuit court who fails to perform any duty imposed on him or her, for the failure to perform which no other punishment is provided, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding $200.00. (Code 1852, §§650, 653; Code 1867, §§767, 773; Code 1876, §§671, 4159; Code 1886, §§768, 3950; Code 1896, §§934, 5146; Code 1907, §§3272, 7464; Code 1923, §§5056, 6724; Code 1940, T. 13, §§198, 203; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384; Acts 1994, No. 94-698, p. 1352, §1.)
AL Code § 12-17-95 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-95 - When Sheriff's Commissions to Be Collected.

Section 12-17-95When sheriff's commissions to be collected. When any clerk receives payment of a judgment, he shall collect the costs and commissions of the sheriff, if execution has issued on such judgment. (Code 1852, §604; Code 1867, §774; Code 1876, §677; Code 1886, §771; Code 1896, §937; Code 1907, §3275; Code 1923, §6729; Code 1940, T. 13, §206.)
AL Code § 12-17-96 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-96 - Duty of Clerk When Convict Indicted; Convict Not to Be Released Until Bail Given.

Section 12-17-96Duty of clerk when convict indicted; convict not to be released until bail given. The clerk of any circuit court shall, without delay, certify a copy of any indictment in his court against a convict sentenced to the penitentiary or to hard labor for the county to the head of the department having supervision over convicts; and such convict, if pardoned for the offense for which he is sentenced, shall not be discharged until he enters into a recognizance to answer such indictment at the next session of the court in which the same is pending, if the case is bailable, or is otherwise legally discharged from such indictment. (Code 1867, §769; Code 1876, §675; Code 1886, §772; Code 1896, §938; Code 1907, §3276; Code 1923, §6730; Code 1940, T. 13, §207.)
AL Code § 12-17-97 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-97 - Duty to Pay Over Money to Successor.

Section 12-17-97Duty to pay over money to successor. Any clerk of the circuit court, having in his hands, at the expiration of his term of office, any money held by him, subject to the further order or judgment of any court, shall, on demand, pay the same to his successor in office; and, upon such payment, he shall be discharged from further liability therefor. (Code 1876, §683; Code 1886, §773; Code 1896, §939; Code 1907, §3277; Code 1923, §6731; Code 1940, T. 13, §208.)
AL Code § 12-17-98 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-98 - Deputy Clerk for Bessemer Division of Tenth Judicial Circuit.

Section 12-17-98Deputy clerk for Bessemer division of tenth judicial circuit. At the general election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1982, and every six years thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of the territory over which the circuit court of the tenth judicial circuit sitting at Bessemer has and exercises jurisdiction a deputy clerk of the circuit court, who shall hold office for six years and until his successor is elected and qualified. He shall, at the time of his election and during his term of office, reside within and be a qualified voter of the territory from which he is elected. Such deputy clerk shall perform the same duties and exercise the same authority under the supervision of the circuit court when being held at said place as if he were the circuit clerk. Before entering upon the duties of his office such deputy clerk shall take and subscribe to the same oath of office, and enter into the same bond as circuit court clerks of the state, and shall be subject to the same liabilities. In addition to the duties and authorities hereinbefore in this section set out, such deputy clerk shall perform for said division of said court the duties of register of said court at said place. (Acts 1915, No. 686, p. 741; Code 1923, §421; Code 1940, T. 13, §199; Acts 1943, No. 252, p. 222; Acts 1947, No. 317, p. 182; Acts 1949, No. 567, p. 894.)
AL Code § 12-17-99 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 2 - Clerks.|Section 12-17-99 - Supplemental Salary for Elected Deputy Circuit Clerks.

Section 12-17-99Supplemental salary for elected deputy circuit clerks. In addition to any salary paid by the state, each elected deputy circuit clerk shall be paid a supplemental salary from the county at a rate equal to 50 percent of the supplemental salary paid by the county to each circuit judge; provided, that the total salary of such elected deputy circuit clerk shall in no event be in excess of the total salary of the circuit clerk of the same circuit or county. The county commission shall pay such supplemental salary in equal biweekly installments from the general fund of the county. (Acts 1976, No. 687, p. 950.)
AL Code § 12-17-110 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-110 - Office of Register Not to Be Filled When Vacancy Occurs; Reappointment of Registers Holding Office on October 10, 1975; Removal of Registers.

Section 12-17-110Office of register not to be filled when vacancy occurs; reappointment of registers holding office on October 10, 1975; removal of registers. (a) Vacancies. - When the position of register in any circuit court becomes vacant upon the death, resignation, retirement or inability of the incumbent to satisfy the conditions for reappointment specified in subsection (b) of this section, the vacancy shall not be filled, and the responsibilities and authority of the register shall become the responsibilities and authority of the clerk of the circuit court for the county where the register served. (b) Reappointment. - A register who:  (1) Holds office on October 10, 1975, and (2) Is not eligible to retire and receive retirement compensation by reason of age and years of service or by provision of any retirement program in effect on January 17, 1977,   may be reappointed for terms of six years, but no register shall be reappointed after completion of any term during which he becomes eligible to retire and receive retirement compensation; provided, that a register who becomes eligible to retire during a term shall be eligible to reappointment by the presiding judge of his circuit for not more than six additional terms of one year each; and provided further, that until such time as the register becomes eligible to retire and receive retirement compensation, reappointment shall be automatic unless a majority of the circuit judges within the circuit, or by unanimous agreement where there are only two circuit judges, file a written declaration with the Administrative Director of Courts stating that the register shall not be reappointed. At such time, the office shall be deemed vacant under subsection (a) of this section. (c) Removal. - The register shall be subject to removal by the judge who appointed him for cause by order to be entered at length on the minutes of the court. (Code 1852, §616; Code 1867, §720; Code 1876, §629; Code 1886, §732; Code 1896, §653; Code 1907, §3070; Acts 1915, No. 712, p. 809; Code 1923, §6503; Acts 1931, No. 29, p. 44; Code 1940, T. 13, §210; Acts 1971, No. 205, p. 501; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-109; Acts 1982, No. 82-383, p. 560.)
AL Code § 12-17-111 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-111 - Bond.

Section 12-17-111Bond. (a) The official bond of the register of the circuit court shall in no case be less than $5,000.00. (b) The circuit judge, whenever the public interests demand, shall require of such register an additional bond; and, on failure to give the same within the time fixed by the circuit judge therefor, the circuit judge shall remove him from office. Such additional bond shall be approved, filed and recorded as the first official bond. (Code 1852, §§618, 619; Code 1867, §§722, 723; Code 1876, §§631, 632; Code 1886, §734; Code 1896, §655; Code 1907, §3072; Code 1923, §6505; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 191, p. 203; Code 1940, T. 13, §211; Code 1940, T. 41, §90.)
AL Code § 12-17-112 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-112 - Compensation of Registers and Employees in Office of Register.

Section 12-17-112Compensation of registers and employees in office of register. (a) Each register shall be compensated by the state beginning January 16, 1977. Employees in the office of a register shall be compensated by the state beginning October 1, 1977. Employees in the office of a register compensated at the expense of the individual register shall be continued at their rate of compensation on January 16, 1977, until September 30, 1977, to be paid during that period by the county in which the service is rendered. (b) When the state assumes responsibility for compensating registers, each shall be paid a salary in lieu of all other fees previously received pursuant to statute or rule, equal to the highest net annual income received for services rendered as register for the three years next preceding January 16, 1977, as certified by the Administrative Director of Courts; provided, that in no event shall the salary of any register be less than the amount established by law as a minimum salary for registers; provided further, that no register who is being paid on a fixed compensation basis on October 10, 1975, shall suffer a reduction in fixed compensation. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-109.)
AL Code § 12-17-113 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-113 - Place of Office.

Section 12-17-113Place of office. The register shall keep his office at the place at which the court of which he is register is held. (Code 1852, §620; Code 1867, §724; Code 1876, §633; Code 1886, §735; Code 1896, §656; Code 1907, §3073; Code 1923, §6506; Code 1940, T. 13, §212.)
AL Code § 12-17-114 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-114 - Duties Generally.

Section 12-17-114Duties generally. (a) It is the duty of the register, within his respective county: (1) To administer oaths in all cases; to issue all processes from the circuit court as to equitable cases; to make orders of publication for defendants; to grant default judgments for want of answers; to issue attachments and processes of sequestration; to make all interlocutory decrees and orders, not affecting the decision of the controversy between the parties, subject at all times to the control, direction and supervision of the circuit court; and to exercise such other duties as are, or may be, conferred by law, including administrative rules promulgated by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. (2) To keep a consolidated docket sheet of all cases filed, in which must be entered the names of plaintiffs and defendants, the names of the attorneys of the several parties, a minute of the time when process issued and was returned, the return thereon and note of all the orders and proceedings. (3) To issue, within the five days after the decree or order is filed, all process necessary for the enforcement of any orders or decrees made during the term. (4) To keep all papers, books, dockets and records belonging to his office with care and security, with the papers filed, arranged, numbered and labeled so as to be of easy reference, and the books, dockets and records properly labeled. (5) To perform all duties concerning absentee voting as set out by the election laws. (6) On application, and the payment of the legal fees therefor, to make out and deliver to any person a correct transcript, properly certified, of any paper or record in his office. (b) Any register in the circuit court who fails to perform any duty imposed on him, for the failure to perform which no other punishment is provided, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding $200.00. (Code 1852, §§621, 653; Code 1867, §§725, 773; Code 1876, §§634, 4159; Code 1886, §§736, 3950; Code 1896, §§657, 5146; Code 1907, §§3074, 7464; Code 1923, §§5056, 6507; Code 1940, T. 13, §§203, 213; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384.)
AL Code § 12-17-115 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-115 - Pleadings to Be Endorsed With Date of Filing.

Section 12-17-115Pleadings to be endorsed with date of filing. All answers and other papers filed in any case must be endorsed by the register with the true date on which they were filed. (Code 1852, §2910; Code 1867, §3361; Code 1876, §3795; Code 1886, §3454; Code 1896, §711; Code 1907, §3075; Code 1923, §6508; Code 1940, T. 13, §214.)
AL Code § 12-17-116 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-116 - Injunctions.

Section 12-17-116Injunctions. The register has no authority to grant or dissolve injunctions. (Code 1852, §622; Code 1867, §732; Code 1876, §641; Code 1886, §738; Code 1896, §659; Code 1907, §3077; Code 1923, §6510; Code 1940, T. 13, §216.)
AL Code § 12-17-117 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.|Division 3 - Registers.|Section 12-17-117 - General Direct and Reverse Indexes.

Section 12-17-117General direct and reverse indexes. Registers shall keep general direct and reverse indexes of all record books in their offices, which must always be in good, substantial and well-bound books; but they are not required to prepare any new indexes if those already in their offices are sufficient. (Code 1867, §738; Code 1876, §646; Code 1886, §743; Code 1896, §663; Code 1907, §3081; Code 1923, §6513; Code 1940, T. 13, §219.)