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AL Code § 45-49-120.25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.25 - Investigations.

Section 45-49-120.25Investigations. The board or its designated agent shall make studies upon all matters touching the enforcement and the effect of this part and the rules and regulations prescribed thereunder. Members of the board or its agent or agents may visit all places of employment and services affected by this part in order to ascertain and advise with the heads of the various departments concerning their methods of handling those matters affecting employees in the service, such as hours of work, attendance, training, working conditions, and morale, and in order to ascertain whether this part and the rules promulgated thereunder are obeyed. The board in the course of such inquiries shall have the power to administer oaths, and subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, documents, and accounts pertaining to the subject under investigation. All hearings and inquiries made by the board shall be governed by this part and by rules or practice and procedure adopted by the board, and in conducting such inquiries they shall not be bound by the technical rules of evidence. No informality in any proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony by the board shall invalidate any order, decision, rule, or regulation made by the board, provided, however, that the constitutional rights of no individual shall be abridged. The board or its designated agent or agents shall have the authority to inquire concerning the number of employees in any department or office, and if after notice, and opportunity to be heard to the appointing authority and to the employees affected, in the board’s judgment there is an excessive number of employees in proportion to the amount of work required in such department or office, they shall issue an order in writing to the appointing authority that the number of employees so found to be excessive, be laid off or transferred, and this order shall be promptly carried out by the appointing authority. The board or its designated agent or agents shall also study the organization, procedure or any other business matter which might affect the classified employment of the different departments and suggest such changes in procedure as may increase efficiency or enable the organization to carry on its work more economically.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 26.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.26 - Corrupt Practices.

Section 45-49-120.26Corrupt practices. (a) No person shall make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating, or report with regard to any test, certification, or appointment made under this part or in any manner commit or attempt to commit any fraud preventing the impartial execution of this part and the rules. (b) No person shall, directly or indirectly, give, render, pay, offer, solicit, or accept any money, service, or other valuable consideration for or on account of any appointment, proposed appointment, promotion, or proposed promotion to, or any advantage in, a position in the classified service. (c) No employee of the department, examiner, or other person shall defeat, deceive, or obstruct any person in his or her right to examination, eligibility, certification, or appointment under this part, or furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of affecting the rights or prospects of any person with respect to employment in the classified service. (d) Anything in this part which might be construed to the contrary not- withstanding, no person whether employed on September 15, 1939, in the classified service as defined in this part, or who applies for appointment to any position in the classified service after September 15, 1939, shall be allowed to fill any position within the classified service, or allowed to continue to hold such position, if the person is related by blood or marriage within the fourth degree to the public officer who is or would be his or her superior, or so related to any member of any board or body, constituting the appointing authority over such position, and the personnel board and personnel director shall administer this part accordingly. The commission of any such corrupt practice shall be a misdemeanor punishable as such in the county.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 27.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.27 - Certification of Payroll.

Section 45-49-120.27Certification of payroll. (a) It shall be unlawful for any county or city official, officer, or employee, or any other officer, to pay or to cause to be paid any salary or compensation to any person in the classified service for personal services unless the payroll, estimate, voucher, or account for salary or compensation, containing the name of the person to be paid shall bear the certification of the personnel director or the financial officer of the jurisdiction where the employee is employed, that the person or persons named therein are legally entitled to receive the sums stated therein. Any sum paid contrary to this part or of any rule, regulation, or order thereunder may be recovered in an action maintained in the name of the county or city or jurisdiction by the applicable county or city attorney or by any citizen or taxpayer of the jurisdiction, from any officer who made, approved, or authorized the payment or who signed or countersigned a voucher, payroll, check, or warrant for the payment or from the sureties on the official bond of any officer. (b) The Personnel Director of the Mobile County Personnel Board shall establish a system to audit the payrolls of those various jurisdictions certifying their own payroll on a periodic basis which shall be at least four times per year. Should any audit reveal any monies to be wrongfully paid, the payments shall be reported to the respective jurisdiction which shall take legal action as may be necessary to recover any funds improperly paid. Failure of the official to take action to recover funds improperly disbursed shall be reported to the District Attorney of Mobile County. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the personnel director shall continue to certify the payrolls of any jurisdictions requesting certification.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 28; Acts 1947, No. 430, p. 287, § 1; Act 2004-105, p. 145, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.28 - Attendance of Witnesses; Fees; False Oaths.

Section 45-49-120.28Attendance of witnesses; fees; false oaths. Any person who shall be served with a subpoena, issued in the course of an investigation or hearing conducted under this part, to appear and testify or to produce books and papers, who shall disobey or neglect to obey any such subpoena shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the same as fees of witnesses before the courts of record and shall be paid as is provided in Section 45-49-120.29. Any judge of a court of record, either in term time or vacation upon application of a member of the board or the director, shall compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and the giving of testimony before the board or an agent thereof by attachment, or contempt, or otherwise, in the same manner as the production of evidence shall be compelled before the court. Any person who, having taken oath or made affirmation in the cause of any investigation or hearing under this part, shall wilfully and knowingly testify or declare falsely, shall be guilty of perjury and upon conviction shall be punished accordingly. The director or the board may require the attendance of employees who are needed as witnesses without subpoena.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 29.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.29 - Expenses.

Section 45-49-120.29Expenses. The salaries and expenses of suitable regular office quarters, and all other expenses of the personnel board, the personnel director, and all other expenses arising under the provisions hereof, unless otherwise herein provided, shall be paid by warrants or requisitions drawn on funds of the personnel board and signed by at least two members thereof. On June 1 of each fiscal year, the personnel board shall prorate the total sum which it has expended for the purposes of this part for the fiscal year between itself, the county, the other cities or appointing authorities or any combination subject to the personnel board, charging each with the part of the total sum so expended as the total payroll of the county, city, or appointing authority, who were subject to this part on the last day of May, bears to the total payroll of the county and all cities and appointing authorities subject to this part, on the last day of May. The percentage arrived at by the personnel board as the proper contribution of each shall be certified to the director of personnel and when approved in writing, shall be used to compute the liability of each respective county, city, or appointing authority, or any combination of them, for the next fiscal year beginning October 1. In the event the salaries of the county, a city, or an appointing authority are paid in part from different treasuries or different funds, in the same treasury, the liability for this contribution shall accrue against such various treasuries or funds in the same proportion, as the salaries of the employees of the county, city, or the appointing authorities are paid therefrom. The personnel board shall submit a budget of expenses for each fiscal year to the supervisory committee with a copy to the governing body of the county, the City of Mobile, and each appointing authority before June 1 for the next fiscal year. The budgets may include expenses incurred in any previous year and not heretofore paid. The governing body of each appointing authority may appear before the board in connection with any budget or any item therein contained. The budget of the personnel board for the next fiscal year shall be fixed by the supervisory committee prior to July 1. Thereafter, the personnel director shall notify each entity of its contribution required which shall be paid in quarterly installments before the beginning of each quarter beginning October 1. In the event any contribution levied hereunder shall not be paid within 30 days after approval by the personnel director, the personnel board may bring suit therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction and any judgment so recovered shall be satisfied from any funds in such treasury or funds against which the contribution levy lies.   (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 30; Act 2000-771, p. 1767, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.30 - Use of Public Buildings.

Section 45-49-120.30Use of public buildings. It shall be the duty of all officers of the county and city to allow the reasonable use of buildings and rooms and to heat and light the same for the holding of any examinations of investigations provided for by this part, and in all proper ways to facilitate the work of the department.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 31.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.31 - Legal Services.

Section 45-49-120.31Legal services. If this part or its enforcement by the director or the board shall be called into question in any judicial proceeding or if any person shall fail or refuse to comply with the lawful orders or directions of the board, such board may call upon the proper county or city attorney or may employ independent counsel to represent it in sustaining this part and its enforcement. This independent counsel, if the board by resolution so prescribes, shall be in the unclassified service.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 32.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.32 - Records of the Department.

Section 45-49-120.32Records of the department. The records of the department, except such records as the rules may require to be held confidential for reasons of public policy, shall be public records and shall be open to public inspection, subject to regulations as to the time and manner of inspection which may be prescribed by the director.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 33.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.33 - Court Proceedings.

Section 45-49-120.33Court proceedings. Orders of the personnel director and personnel board may be enforced by mandamus, injunction, quo warranto, or other appropriate proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction. Any person directly interested, within 14 days, may appeal to the Circuit Court of Mobile County from any order of the board, by filing notice thereof with the board, whereupon the board shall certify to a transcript of the proceedings before it and file the same in court. Only findings of fact of the board contained in the transcript, if supported by substantial evidence adduced before the board or before its personnel director after hearing and upon notice to the interested party or parties, and after affording the parties an opportunity to be heard, shall be conclusive on appeal. The issues on appeal shall be made up under the direction of the court within 30 days after the transcript is filed therein, and the trial shall proceed on the evidence contained in the transcript, if it appears therefrom that the evidence was taken after such notice and opportunity to be heard. If upon appeal, the court finds that the ruling, order, or action appealed from is unlawful or unreasonable within the meaning of this part, the court shall vacate or modify the same.  (Acts 1939, No. 470, p. 298, § 34; Act 2004-105, p. 145, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.34 - Equal Opportunity.

Section 45-49-120.34Equal opportunity. No persons shall be denied the opportunity to take any test or examination given under authority of the board solely because of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, or age. No person shall be denied employment within the Mobile County Civil Service System solely because of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, or age.  (Acts 1976, No. 684, p. 939, § 5.)
AL Code § 45-49-120.35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-49-120.35 - Persons With Disabilities.

Section 45-49-120.35Persons with disabilities. (a) The Director of the Mobile County Personnel Board, upon request of an appointing authority, shall add to any certification of three applicants eligible for employment, the name of any handicapped person on the eligible list who is certified by the Director of the Division of Rehabilitation of Crippled Children, State Department of Education, as being eligible for rehabilitation services; but, the personnel director shall not give preference in certification for employment to any handicapped person if he or she finds such person is physically or otherwise unfit to perform effectively the duties of the position in which he or she seeks employment. (b) The decision of the personnel director shall be final.  (Act 86-479, p. 910, § 3.)
AL Code § 45-49-121 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 12 - Employees.|Part 2 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|Section 45-49-121 - Merit System.

Section 45-49-121Merit system. (a) On or before September 1, 1980, all full-time employees of the Mobile Housing Board shall be placed under the classified service of the merit system of Mobile County's Personnel Board. (b) The personnel director of the county shall promulgate such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to place any such full-time employees, who are not presently in such classified service, under such system.  (Act 80-781, p. 1616, §§ 1, 2.)
AL Code § 45-49-141 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection Program.|Section 45-49-141 - Participation in Alabama Forestry Commission's Fire Protection Program.

Section 45-49-141Participation in Alabama Forestry Commission's fire protection program. The County Commission of Mobile County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection against forest fires in Mobile County by participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission's fire protection program in the manner hereinafter specified.  (Act 82-311, p. 418, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-141.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection Program.|Section 45-49-141.01 - Financial Charge or Tax.

Section 45-49-141.01Financial charge or tax. (a) After the Mobile County Commission has determined that such a need does exist in Mobile County, the county commission, in the manner hereinafter specified, may provide for a financial charge or tax to be paid by the owners of forest lands located in Mobile County for the use of the land for timber growing purposes amounting to the whole or any part of the cost of such fire protection program, but not in excess of ten cents ($0.10) per acre, provided such financial charge or tax is not greater than the benefit accruing to such forest lands due to availability of such fire protection. (b) Forest lands as used in this part, shall mean any land which supports a forest growth, or which is being used or reserved for such purpose. Forest lands as used in this part, shall not include any lands primarily used for residential purposes nor shall it include any publicly owned lands. (c) The finance charge or tax fixed as provided in this section shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes, and the owners of the forest lands, as herein defined, shall make report of the same to the Tax Assessor of Mobile County, Alabama, at the time fixed by law for making return of the property of such property owned. Financial charges or taxes levied shall constitute a lien on the property against which they are charged or taxed in case of default in the payment of such financial charge or tax.  (Act 82-311, p. 418, § 2.)
AL Code § 45-49-141.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection Program.|Section 45-49-141.02 - Determination of Areas and Owners to Be Charged.

Section 45-49-141.02Determination of areas and owners to be charged. The county governing body of Mobile County is authorized to appoint agents and delegate authority to individuals to search out forest lands in Mobile County, to determine the area and owners thereof, and report the same to the Tax Assessor of Mobile County who shall be authorized, after notice by certified mail to such owners, and hearing before the county governing body is to requested by such owners, to place the financial charge or tax against the forest land as may be determined by the report of such agents or the determination of the county governing body. It shall be the responsibility of the Tax Assessor of Mobile County to establish such rules and regulations as are necessary to administer this part.  (Act 82-311, p. 418, § 3.)
AL Code § 45-49-141.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection Program.|Section 45-49-141.03 - Payment; Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-49-141.03Payment; disposition of funds. The tax herein imposed shall be due and payable to the Tax Collector of Mobile County, and shall, when collected, be paid to the Treasurer of Mobile County. All monies collected in accordance with this part shall be spent in participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission's forest fire protection program in Mobile County.  (Act 82-311, p. 418, § 4.)
AL Code § 45-49-141.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection Program.|Section 45-49-141.04 - Removal of Financial Charge or Tax.

Section 45-49-141.04Removal of financial charge or tax. The County Commission of Mobile County is authorized to remove such financial charge or tax after the county commission has determined that the financial charge or tax is no longer needed. The county commission shall hold public hearings to determine whether or not the financial charge or tax is still needed. Procedures for such public hearings shall be the same as those in Section 45-49-141.02.  (Act 82-311, p. 418, § 5.)
AL Code § 45-49-142 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 3 - Volunteer Fire Departments.|Section 45-49-142 - Definitions.

Section 45-49-142Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following words shall have the following meanings:  (1) COMMERCIAL BUILDING. Any building, structure, or other improvement to real property used or expected to be used for commercial or business purposes including rental property. The term does not include a school, church, senior citizens facility, or utility distribution or transmission poles or towers, utility substations, or any building used primarily for fire or emergency services. (2) DWELLING. Any building, structure, or other improvement to real property used or expected to be used as a dwelling or residence for one or more human beings, including, but not limited to, any of the following: a. A building, structure, or improvement assessed, for the purposes of state and county ad valorem taxation, as Class III single-family owner- occupied residential property. b. A duplex or an apartment building. c. Residential property used to generate rental income. d. Any manufactured home or house or travel trailer used or expected to be used as a dwelling or residence for one or more human beings. A building, structure, or other improvement shall be classified as a dwelling for purposes of this part notwithstanding the following: 1. That it is wholly or partially vacant or uninhabited at any time during the year for which a fire protection and suppression service fee with respect thereto is to be levied. 2. That it is also used or expected to be used simultaneously for a purpose, whether or not commercial in nature, other than as a dwelling or residence. (3) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. An organized group of area residents who meet the requirements of Section 9-3-17.  (Act 2015-258, § 2; Act 2019-152, § 1(2).)