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AL Code § 45-30-112 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 11 - Elections.|Part 2 - Election Officials.|Section 45-30-112 - Establishment of Voting Centers.

Section 45-30-112Establishment of voting centers. (a) Pursuant to the authorization under Section 17-6-4(c), the Franklin County Commission may establish voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts in order to facilitate or reduce costs for elections. (b)(1) The Franklin County Commission shall hold a public hearing seeking input from the affected voters before the voting centers are approved by the commission. (2) The public hearing shall be held at the location of the proposed voting center. (Act 2017-230, §1.)
AL Code § 45-30-230 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 1 - Compensation.|Section 45-30-230 - Expense Allowance; Salary.

Section 45-30-230Expense allowance; salary. (a) This section shall be operative in Franklin County. (b) Commencing on June 1, 1995, the Sheriff of Franklin County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance equal to the difference between the salary currently being paid to the sheriff and the salary of fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($52,500) annually currently being paid to the Circuit Clerk of Franklin County, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. This expense allowance shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. This expense allowance shall be payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. (c) Beginning with the expiration of the term of the incumbent sheriff, the annual salary for the sheriff shall be increased by the difference between the salary of the sheriff and the salary of the circuit clerk, payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county and at that time, subsection (b) shall become null and void. (Act 95-117, p. 180, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 45-30-231 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 2 - Jails.|Section 45-30-231 - Pay Telephones and Vending Machines.

Section 45-30-231Pay telephones and vending machines. (a) The Sheriff of Franklin County, Alabama, may retain the funds accruing from the pay telephones and vending machines located in the county jail in a special fund known as the Law Enforcement Fund which shall be used by the sheriff for law enforcement purposes in the county. The fund shall be managed exclusively by the sheriff. (b) The sheriff shall prepare an annual report detailing expenditures made during each fiscal year from the Law Enforcement Fund. A copy of the report shall be filed no later than 60 days after the close of each fiscal year with the county commission, the presiding judge of the circuit court of the county, and the county district attorney. (Act 95-116, p. 180, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 45-30-231.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 2 - Jails.|Section 45-30-231.01 - Jail Store.

Section 45-30-231.01Jail store. (a) The Sheriff of Franklin County, or the authorized agents of the sheriff, may operate a jail store for prisoners within the confines of the county jail. The jail store shall be operated to serve the needs of the jail population. (b)(1) The sheriff shall establish and maintain a Law Enforcement Commissary Fund in a bank located in Franklin County selected by the sheriff. All proceeds collected under this section shall be deposited by the sheriff into the Law Enforcement Commissary Fund. (2) The sheriff shall keep an account of all jail store sales and transactions of the Law Enforcement Commissary Fund for audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The jail store account and Law Enforcement Commissary Fund shall be audited at the same time other accounts of the sheriff are audited. The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts shall submit a copy of the audit to the sheriff within 30 days of its completion. (c) All profits realized in the operation of the jail store shall be expended at the discretion of the sheriff for law enforcement purposes in Franklin County that are in the interest of the public as the sheriff sees fit. (d) The establishment of the Law Enforcement Commissary Fund and the use of the proceeds shall not diminish or take the place of any other source of income established for the sheriff or the operation of the jail. (e) Any actions relating to the operation of a jail store in the county jail prior to March 7, 2006, are ratified and confirmed. Any existing proceeds derived from the operation of a jail store in the county prior to March 7, 2006, shall be deposited into the Law Enforcement Commissary Fund created by this section. (Act 2006-193, p. 272, §§1-5.)
AL Code § 45-30-232 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 3 - Pistol Permit.|Section 45-30-232 - Fee; Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-30-232Fee; disposition of funds. In Franklin County, the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person as provided in Section 13A-11-75, shall be twelve dollars fifty cents ($12.50), which shall be collected by the sheriff of such county and deposited in the county treasury. The county shall retain five dollars ($5) for the county general fund and seven dollars fifty cents ($7.50) shall be retained for the operation of the sheriff’s department to be expended as the sheriff may see fit. (Acts 1978, No. 514, p. 568, §1; Act 90-453, p. 640, §1; Act 90-543, p. 847, §1.)
AL Code § 45-30-233 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 23 - Sheriff.|Part 4 - Retirement.|Section 45-30-233 - Receipt of Badge, Pistol, etc., Upon Retirement.

Section 45-30-233Receipt of badge, pistol, etc., upon retirement. (a) Any individual employed by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office as a law enforcement officer for a period of 10 years or more who retires from the department in good standing may receive from the sheriff, without cost, his or her badge, a retired commission card, and a pistol, provided the pistol is furnished by the department. (b) The provisions of this section are retroactive to January 1, 2001. (Act 2001-508, p. 913, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 45-30-241 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241 - Definitions.

Section 45-30-241Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following terms shall have the respective meaning ascribed by this section: (1) COUNTY. Franklin County. (2) DISTRIBUTOR. Any person who engages in the selling of gasoline or motor fuel in this state by wholesale domestic trade, but shall not apply to any transaction of such distributor in interstate commerce. (3) GASOLINE. Gasoline, naphtha, and other liquid motor fuels or any device or substitute therefor commonly used in internal combustion engines; provided, that such term shall not be held to apply to those products known commercially as kerosene oil, fuel oil, or crude oil when used for lighting, heating, or industrial purposes. (4) MOTOR FUEL. Diesel oil, tractor fuel, gas oil, distillate or liquefied gas, kerosene, jet fuel, or any substitutes or devices therefor when sold, distributed, stored, or withdrawn from storage in any county for use in the operation of any motor vehicle upon the highways of this state. (5) PERSON. Persons, corporations, copartnerships, companies, agencies, associations, incorporated or otherwise, singular or plural. (6) REFINER. Any person who manufactures, distills, blends, compounds, or mixes any one or more products in the production of gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined. (7) RETAIL DEALER. Any person herein defined as a distributor who is also engaged in the selling of gasoline or motor fuel in this state at any place in this state in broken quantities. (8) STORER. Any person who ships or causes to be shipped or receives gasoline or motor fuel into this state in any quantities and stores the same in any manner and withdraws or uses the same for any purpose. (9) USER. Any person who uses or consumes gasoline or motor fuel in this state in any manner or for any purpose; provided, that the term user is not to include any refiner who has a refinery or refineries located within the State of Alabama when using gasoline or motor fuel in the manufacturing or refining process, or any person who holds a federal permit to blend motor fuels under the federal law and statutes and who pays the federal excise tax on such motor fuels directly to the federal government, when such person uses gasoline in this state in such blending process.  (Act 90-463, p. 655, §1.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.01 - Levy and Payment of Tax.

Section 45-30-241.01Levy and payment of tax. The Franklin County Commission is hereby authorized to levy, in addition to all other taxes imposed by law, an excise tax on persons selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose whatever, gasoline and motor fuel within Franklin County at a rate not to exceed three cents ($.03) per gallon and to require every distributor, retail dealer, or storer of gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined to pay such excise tax upon the selling, distributing, or withdrawing from storage for any use, gasoline and motor fuel as herein defined in such county; provided that the excise tax levied pursuant to this part shall not be levied upon the sale of gasoline or motor fuel in interstate commerce, and provided further that if the excise tax levied pursuant to this part upon the sale of such gasoline or motor fuel shall have been paid by a distributor or by retail dealer or storer, such payment shall be sufficient, the intention being that the tax shall not be paid but once. The excise tax levied pursuant to this part shall apply to persons, firms, corporations, dealers, or distributors storing gasoline or motor fuel and distributing the same or allowing the same to be withdrawn from storage, whether such withdrawal be for sale or other use, provided that sellers of gasoline or motor fuel and its substitutes paying the tax herein authorized may pay the same computed and paid on the basis of their sales as hereinafter required, and storers and distributors shall compute and pay such tax on the basis of their withdrawals or distributions. The tax herein authorized shall be in addition to any and all excise or other taxes imposed on gasoline or motor fuel or any device or substitute therefor, or on the business of selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose, gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined; however, such tax shall not be levied by the county commission upon any gasoline or motor fuel as herein defined when used in essential governmental functions by the State of Alabama or any agency thereof, or county governing agencies, municipalities, and boards of education. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §2.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.02 - Statement of Sales and Withdrawals.

Section 45-30-241.02Statement of sales and withdrawals. On or before the 20th day of each month after this part has become effective, every person upon whom the excise tax is levied shall render to the County Commission of Franklin County on forms prescribed by such county commission a true and correct statement of all sales and withdrawals of gasoline and motor fuels made by him or her or them during the next preceding month and a statement of all sales and withdrawals of gasoline and motor fuels made by him or her during the next preceding month of which he or she is liable for payment of the excise tax imposed pursuant to this part. He or she shall also furnish to the Franklin County Commission such additional information as the Franklin County Commission may require upon blanks to be formulated and furnished by the Franklin County Commission. At the time of making such reports, he or she shall pay to the Franklin County Commission an amount of money equal to the excise tax levied under this part. The statement herein required to be made by the distributor, storer, or retail dealer shall be sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §3.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.03 - Recordkeeping.

Section 45-30-241.03Recordkeeping. All distributors, storers, and retail dealers shall keep for not less than two years within the State of Alabama at some certain place or office such books, documents, or papers as shall clearly show the amount of sale or withdrawals of gasoline and motor fuel made in Franklin County taxed under this part. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §4.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.04 - Reports to the Commission.

Section 45-30-241.04Reports to the commission. Within 30 days after the effective date of the levy of the tax authorized by this part, every distributor, storer, or retail dealer engaged in the sale or withdrawal of gasoline or motor fuel in Franklin County shall make a report on blanks furnished under Section 45-30-241.02 to the Franklin County Commission, showing the place and post office address at which he or she is engaged in the business of distributor or storer or retail dealer in gasoline or motor fuel within Franklin County, which information shall be entered by the Franklin County Commission on a book kept for that purpose. Should such distributor, storer, or retail dealer move his or her place of business from one business address to another such distributor, storer, or retail dealer shall within 30 days thereafter notify the Franklin County Commission of such removal giving the former place and post office address and also the place and post office address to which his or her place of business has been moved. After the tax imposed under this part has become effective, no person shall become a distributor, storer, or seller of gasoline or motor fuel in Franklin County until he or she shall have made such reports to the Franklin County Commission. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §5.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.05 - Enforcement.

Section 45-30-241.05Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the County Commission of Franklin County to enforce this part upon its imposing the tax thereunder, and it shall have the right itself, or its members or its agents, to examine the books, reports, and accounts of every distributor, storer, or retail dealer of gasoline or motor fuel on which such tax has been imposed and to make any and all rules and regulations necessary and proper for the collection of such tax. Provided, however, upon resolution of the Franklin County Commission, the State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized and directed to collect all taxes now or hereafter levied by the county under this part. All persons, firms, businesses, and corporations subject to and owing such taxes shall be and hereby are directed to pay the same over to the department and such payment shall be a full and complete discharge of all liability therefor to the county. The department is authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to facilitate the orderly and efficient collection of the taxes. The department is authorized to recover all costs of collecting such taxes, not to exceed five percent of the proceeds thereof, from such proceeds and shall pay the net amount remaining thereafter to the county. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §6.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.06 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.06 - Delinquency of Payment of Tax.

Section 45-30-241.06Delinquency of payment of tax. If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer in gasoline or motor fuel shall fail to make monthly reports or shall fail to pay the tax imposed under authority of this part, the tax shall be deemed delinquent within the meaning of this part and there shall be added to the amount of the tax a penalty of 25 percent, provided, if in the opinion of the County Commission of Franklin County a good and sufficient cause or reason is shown for such delinquency, the penalty may be remitted. The Franklin County Commission shall be authorized and empowered to make returns for delinquent taxpayers upon such information as it may reasonably obtain and add to that the penalty as prescribed by this part. If any person shall be delinquent in the payment of any tax imposed pursuant to this part, the County Commission of Franklin County shall issue execution for the collection of the same, directed to the Franklin County Sheriff, who shall proceed to collect the same in the manner now provided by law for the collection of delinquent taxes by the county tax collector and make return of such execution to the Franklin County Commission. The tax herein authorized to be levied and the penalties herein provided for shall be held as a debt payable to Franklin County by the person against whom the same shall have been imposed or against whom the penalties shall have accrued, and all such taxes and penalties shall be a lien upon the property in Franklin County and elsewhere in this state of the person against whom the tax shall have been imposed and the penalties shall have accrued. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §7.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.07 - Actual Payment Deemed a Credit Against Amount Due.

Section 45-30-241.07Actual payment deemed a credit against amount due. The acceptance of any amount paid for the excise tax imposed under this part shall not preclude the collection of the amount actually due. However, the amount actually paid shall constitute a credit against the amount actually due. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §8.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.08 - Violations.

Section 45-30-241.08Violations. Any distributor, storer, or dealer who shall violate any provisions of this part or shall fail to comply with any reasonable rule or regulation promulgated hereunder, may be restrained, and proper prosecution instituted in the name of Franklin County by the Attorney General of the State of Alabama, or by such counsel as the County Commission of Franklin County shall direct, from distributing, selling, storing, or withdrawing from storage any gasoline or motor fuel the sale or withdrawal of which is taxable until such persons shall have complied with this part. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §9.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.09 - Report of Shipments.

Section 45-30-241.09Report of shipments. Each agent or any railroad company, bus or truck operator, or other transportation company or agency operating in Franklin County shall report to the County Commission of Franklin County on the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year all shipments of gasoline or motor fuel as defined in this part or substitutes therefor handled by him or her or through the station or office at which he or she is the agent, and delivered to any person in Franklin County during the preceding three months, giving the names and address of the consignor or consignee shipping and receiving the gasoline or motor fuel or substitute therefor and the number of gallons or pounds contained in each and every shipment. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §10.)
AL Code § 45-30-241.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 2 - Tax, Gasoline.|Section 45-30-241.10 - Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-30-241.10Disposition of funds. The proceeds of any tax received under authority of this part shall be paid over by the county within 10 days after its receipt to the county general fund and shall be expended for materials and supplies for road maintenance and construction. (Act 90-463, p. 655, §11.)
AL Code § 45-30-242 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 30 - Franklin County.|Article 24 - Taxation.|Part 3 - Tax, Lodging.|Section 45-30-242 - Levy of Tax; Collection and Disposition.

Section 45-30-242Levy of tax; collection and disposition. (a) This section shall be applicable only to Franklin County. (b) The county commission is authorized to levy, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, a privilege or license tax upon every person, firm, or corporation engaging in the business of renting or furnishing any room or rooms, lodging, or accommodations to transients in any hotel, motel, inn, or any other place in which rooms, lodgings, or accommodations are regularly furnished to transients for a consideration, in an amount of one dollar ($1) on the charge for the room, rooms, lodgings, or accommodations, including the charge for use or rental of personal property and services furnished in the room; provided, however, that there is exempted from the tax authorized to be levied under this section any rentals or services taxed under Division 1, commencing with Section 40-23-1, of Article 1 of Chapter 23 of Title 40. The tax shall not apply to tourist camps, tourist cabins, campgrounds, or to rooms, lodgings, or accommodations supplied for a period of 30 continuous days or more in any place. (c) The tax authorized to be levied shall be collected in the same manner as the state lodgings tax as provided in Chapter 26, Title 40, and the net proceeds from the tax shall be paid to the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce to be expended exclusively for the promotion of tourism in the county. (Act 2007-500, p. 1066, §§1-3; Act 2008-458, p. 892, §1.)