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AL Code § 45-20-71.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.08 - Membership Pending Election.

Section 45-20-71.08Membership pending election. Pending the election of 1948 as provided herein, the president and members of the board shall be the same persons now constituting the membership of the court of county commissioners herein abolished, all of whom shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §9.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.09 - Vacancies - How Filled.

Section 45-20-71.09Vacancies - How filled. Should any vacancy occur in the presidency or associate membership of the board, the same shall be filled by appointment of the Governor who shall be governed by Section 45-20-71.04 and Section 45-20-71.05. Such appointment shall be for the unexpired term of the officer whose office is vacant, and until his or her successor is elected and qualified.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §10.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.10 - Compensation.

Section 45-20-71.10Compensation. The president and associate members of the board shall each receive an annual salary in the sum of four thousand two hundred dollars ($4,200), payable in equal monthly installments of three hundred fifty dollars ($350) by warrant issued by the board and signed by the president. Such salary shall be paid from the general fund or from the tax levied by the state on gasoline and other motor fuels and oils or by apportionment thereto as the board from time to time may determine. If a general law is now or becomes effective whereby the salaries of the county governing bodies of Alabama are fixed at a higher level than those specifically fixed herein, then such salaries prescribed herein shall automatically increase to the maximum level prescribed under such general law for counties within the population range of Covington County, that is, the president of the board shall receive a salary corresponding in amount to that fixed under the general law for the presiding officer of the court of county commissioners and each associate member of the board shall receive an amount equal to that fixed under general law for each associate member of the court of county commissioners. If any discretion in the fixation of salaries is given by general law to the court of county commissioners in the fixation of its own salaries, then the Board of Revenue of Covington County shall have like authority to increase but not to lower the salaries herein specifically fixed.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §11; Acts 1949, No. 533, p. 844, §1; Acts 1967, No. 614, p. 1417, §1.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.11 - Additional Allowances.

Section 45-20-71.11Additional allowances. In addition to the compensation provided in Section 45-20-71.10 the president and associate members of the board shall each be paid a mileage allowance of ten cents ($0.10) per mile for each mile necessarily traveled by him or her within the county in the discharge of his or her official duties as a member of the board, provided that the president or associate member shall use his or her personally owned motor vehicle for such travel. The president and associate members, the clerk, county road supervisor, and other employees shall each be reimbursed for lodging, meals, and transportation, not to exceed five cents ($0.05) per mile, while out of the county on official business at the direction of the board and attending meetings or conventions pertinent to county affairs or programs. Such allowances shall be paid out of any funds in the county treasury available for such purpose; provided, that in the discretion of the board the mileage allowance payable to the president and associate members for travel within the county may be paid out of the county gasoline tax revenues when such mileage is incurred by a member while occupied in the discharge of his or her duties in inspecting, accepting, building, repairing, or supervising any of the county roads or bridges; and provided, further, that such use of gasoline tax revenues shall be in accordance with and subject to all provisions of Title 51, Section 655, as amended.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §12; Acts 1965, 2nd Sp. Sess., No. 17, p. 28, §1.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.12 - Bonds of Board Members.

Section 45-20-71.12Bonds of board members. Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, the president and each associate member of the board shall each give bond in the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), with some bonding company authorized to do business in Alabama as surety, which shall be payable to Covington County, approved by the judge of probate and filed in his or her office, and conditioned that the principal thereof shall faithfully perform the duties of his or her office, or failing therein the bond shall be liable. Premiums on such bonds shall be payable from the general fund of the county.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, § 13.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.13 - Duties of the President.

Section 45-20-71.13Duties of the president. The president of the board is made the presiding officer of the board, charged with the duty to preside at all the meetings of the board, but with no right to vote except in case of a tie, in which event he or she shall cast the deciding vote. Such president, except as otherwise provided herein, shall have all the authority and is imposed with all the duties of a judge of probate while acting under the general laws of Alabama as the presiding officer of a county governing body. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §14.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.14 - Board Meetings.

Section 45-20-71.14Board meetings. The Covington County Commission shall meet in regular session in accordance with Section 11-3-8, and shall conduct an additional regular session each month in accordance with a policy to be established by the Covington County Commission, and amended from time to time.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §15; Acts 1950, 5th Sp. Sess., No. 50, p. 109, §2; Act 99-553, p. 1197, §1.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.15 - Quorum.

Section 45-20-71.15Quorum. The presence of the regular president and three associate members, or three associate members without the regular president or the fourth associate member, shall constitute a quorum for any regular session. The presence of all the associate members at a special meeting called without notice shall constitute a quorum. The presence of three associate members and the regular president at a special meeting after notice as provided in Section 45-20-71.14 shall constitute a quorum.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §16.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.16 - President Pro Tempore.

Section 45-20-71.16President pro tempore. At the first or any subsequent meeting of the board, a president pro tempore of the board shall be elected by the board. He or she shall serve at the pleasure of the board.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §17.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.17 - Duties of the President Pro Tempore.

Section 45-20-71.17Duties of the president pro tempore. The president pro tempore of the board shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered, except as otherwise provided herein for the regular president, to perform all the duties imposed by law upon the regular president of the board, but only during the absence of the regular president, whatever the cause of such absence. Also he or she shall perform all such duties and those imposed on the regular president whenever a vacancy occurs and until such vacancy is filled.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §18.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.18 - Majority Vote.

Section 45-20-71.18Majority vote. All business shall be valid if passed and approved by majority vote of the board quorum prescribed in this part. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §19.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.19 - Duties of the Board.

Section 45-20-71.19Duties of the board. Except as herein otherwise provided, the board is clothed and impressed with all the powers, duties, responsibilities, and official rights that the general laws of Alabama now or may hereafter give and appoint unto the county governing bodies of the State of Alabama. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §20.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.20 - Individual Duties of Associate Members.

Section 45-20-71.20Individual duties of associate members. Except as herein otherwise provided, each member of the board elected or appointed pursuant to the authority herein contained is constituted and appointed director and supervisor of all the public roads within the district which he or she represents, and shall have the authority, with due recognition of the wage scale herein provided, to hire and discharge road crews, to supervise, inspect, superintend, appoint, and designate all public roads and bridges within his or her district and the work to be done thereon, and such authority shall be exclusive in such respect. Provided, however, that if the county hires and employs a county engineer or supervisor, then, during the period of such employment, the authority granted in this section is subordinated to the authority given by law to the county engineer or road supervisor. Each associate member, in the absence of an engineer or supervisor, shall file with the clerk of the board, at the time he or she takes office and on the first day of each October thereafter during his or her term, a complete inventory of the equipment and supplies in his or her district.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §21.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.21 - Individual Duties May Be Withdrawn.

Section 45-20-71.21Individual duties may be withdrawn. Should a majority of the membership of the board (not a majority of a quorum) deem such action necessary from any cause, they may withdraw from the individual member of the board the authority and power impressed by Section 45-20-71.20, and when such withdrawal is made, and until granted again, such authority shall be vested in the board, or as it otherwise may determine, at any constituted meeting as herein provided. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §22.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.22 - Allocation of Funds.

Section 45-20-71.22Allocation of funds. The board if it so desires may allocate to each district of the county a portion of the taxes and funds available or received for road and bridge purposes. Such allocation may be withdrawn at the pleasure of the board.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §23.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.23 - Road Engineer or Supervisor.

Section 45-20-71.23Road engineer or supervisor. If the board should be authorized lawfully to employ an engineer or supervisor for the roads of the entire county, such supervisor shall be subject to the jurisdiction of each board member so far as the maintenance, appointment, designation, and construction of roads and bridges within the member's district are concerned, unless otherwise provided by law. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §24.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.24 - Contracts, Deeds, and Conveyances.

Section 45-20-71.24Contracts, deeds, and conveyances. Any contract, deed, or conveyance signed by the president of the board, and witnessed by the clerk of the board, on orders of and at the direction of the board, shall be valid and binding obligations of the county. Provided, further, that the president pro tempore may sign in lieu of the president in the absence of such president.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §25.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.25 - Airport Projects.

Section 45-20-71.25Airport projects. The board shall have power and authority, under conditions herein set forth, to appropriate money from the general fund or from the gasoline fund for the construction and maintenance of any airport project within the county, and may participate in any such project sponsored by any incorporated town or city within the county, and in the purchase or lease of land therefor, provided and upon conditions that the board is given representation on any board or committee named or selected for the purchase or lease of land therefor, or authorized and empowered to construct and maintain such project, and further, that any land acquired or leased for such project shall be leased or purchased with the county as joint lessee or owner.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §26.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.26 - State or National Association Dues.

Section 45-20-71.26State or national association dues. The board shall have power and authority, as a group or as individual members, to affiliate with any state or national organization fostering the improvement of county government and its physical properties, and it shall be the duty of board to pay the dues of such board or the individuals thereof as members of such organizations. Such dues shall be paid out of such fund or funds as the board may lawfully determine. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §27.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.27 - Clerk and Treasurer.

Section 45-20-71.27Clerk and treasurer. The board shall forthwith appoint a clerk, fix his or her salary, and prescribe his or her bond. Such clerk shall perform such duties as may be required by the general laws of a clerk of a county governing body, and shall perform such other duties as the board may impose upon him or her. The board may also name and designate a treasurer as provided by Section 52, Title 12, Code of 1940, who may be the clerk of the board. Such appointees shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Dual compensation may be provided for such dual services. The clerk shall purchase a seal of office for the county. The salary may be paid from any fund the board may designate. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §28.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.28 - Duties of the Clerk.

Section 45-20-71.28Duties of the clerk. It shall be the duty of the clerk to attend the meetings of the board and to issue all notices required by the board or any member thereof. He or she shall under the direction of the board keep the minutes of the records and proceedings of the board in well bound volumes (loose leaf authorized) kept for that purpose. The records shall conform to the uniform accounting system of the state, kept in the office of the board, and shall be open at all reasonable hours to the public and generally he or she shall do and perform such duties and matters as the board may require of him or her.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §29.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.29 - Bonds and Premiums.

Section 45-20-71.29Bonds and premiums. The board shall have the authority to prescribe a bond for any employee, including the clerk, treasurer, and general road supervisor, the premiums for which shall be paid out of such fund of the county as the board may lawfully direct. The bond shall be payable to the county, approved by the president, and shall be made by some surety company authorized to do business in Alabama. It shall be conditioned that the principal shall perform all the duties required by law.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §30.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.30 - Contingent Fund.

Section 45-20-71.30Contingent Fund. The commission may hereby appropriate annually out of the moneys in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), to be known and called the "Contingent Fund," out of which any donation or expense may be paid that in the judgment of the commission is worthy and for the best interest of the county.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §31; Acts 1971, No. 2219, p. 3564, §1; Act 2006-91, p. 118, §1.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.31 - Purchasing Agent or Agents.

Section 45-20-71.31Purchasing agent or agents. The board may create the office of purchase agent (or agents), fix the salary therefor, and prescribe the fund out of which the same shall be paid in whole or in part, and shall appoint such person or persons as they may deem proper to serve in such capacity. Such purchasing agent may be the clerk, the president, or any associate member of the board, or one or more of them. Such agent or agents, in the performance of his or their duties, shall be governed by such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe, and shall have only such authority and powers as the board may designate, and which may be revoked at any time or at the pleasure of the board, minutes of which shall be duly entered, and thereupon shall become binding. The president or board members shall not be entitled to extra compensation for such services, but the board shall fix compensation for such agent who is not the president or associate member of the board.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §32.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.32 - Clerical Assistant.

Section 45-20-71.32Clerical assistant. The board shall have the power and authority to authorize the clerk to employ such clerical assistants as he or she may deem needful in keeping the records of the board, to prescribe such salary as they deem proper and to be paid from any fund as it may lawfully determine, such employee who shall serve at the pleasure of the board.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §33.)
AL Code § 45-20-71.33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Membership and Meeting Days.|Section 45-20-71.33 - Wage Scale.

Section 45-20-71.33Wage scale. The board shall classify all employees engaged in the construction and maintenance of roads in the county, and shall fix a uniform salary or wage scale for each such classification.  (Acts 1945, No. 22, §34.)
AL Code § 45-20-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 1 - Circuit Court.|Section 45-20-80 - Jury Strike System.

Section 45-20-80Jury strike system. Upon the trial by jury in the Circuit Courts of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or a felony or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors impaneled for the week who are competent to try the defendant to be made, and the district attorney shall be required to strike from the list the name of one juror, and the defendant shall strike one, and they shall continue to strike off names alternately until only 12 jurors remain on the list, and these 12 jurors thus selected shall be the jury charged with the trial of the case.  (Act 80-194, p. 270, §1.)
AL Code § 45-20-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 20 - Covington County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 2 - Court Costs.|Section 45-20-81 - Law Library.

Section 45-20-81Law library. In Covington County, in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in equity, criminal, or quasi-criminal case or any other proceeding filed in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise in the circuit court, inferior court, or other court in the county, including municipal courts, there shall be taxed as part of the costs the sum of three dollars ($3). The fees taxed under this section shall be collected as other costs in such cases are collected; and when collected by the clerk or other collecting officers of such courts, including the register of the circuit court, shall be paid to the treasurer or depository as herein set forth. The sums so paid over to the county treasury or depository shall be maintained in a separate account in the county treasury or depository designated as the county law library fund. The funds shall be expended by the judges of the circuit court of the county for establishing, maintaining, equipping, and operating a law library within the county. The judges shall authorize the county treasurer to draw warrants on the county treasury or depository in making expenditures for the purposes contemplated in this section and shall indicate on the warrants the fund against which the warrants are drawn. The items of costs referred to above shall be designated as law library fees; and when any part of the costs in a case has been paid, the amount necessary for the payment of the fee shall be applied thereto before applying any of the amount paid as costs to any other item of costs. On or before the tenth day of each month, the clerks or other collecting officers of the courts, including the register of the circuit court, shall pay over to the county treasurer or depository all amounts collected as law library fees prior to the first day of the month. The management of the law library is rested in the judges of the circuit court in the county. All books or other property purchased with the funds produced by this section shall be the property of the county. (Act 83-68, p. 70, §1.)