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AL Code § 45-36-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 1 - General and Miscellaneous Provisions.|Section 45-36-10 - Disclaimer.

Section 45-36-10Disclaimer. (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Jackson County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Jackson County prior local laws that were amended or affected by a local law enacted after 1978. (b) It is the purpose of this chapter to state current applicable law. To this end: (1) This chapter shall not affect the compensation, terms, pension and retirement benefits and rights, and other benefits and rights otherwise provided by law enacted prior to the codification of this chapter. (2) A condition or requirement for operation or effect of a law included in this chapter, including, but not limited to, voter approval at a referendum, is not superseded by the inclusion of the law in this chapter, and such condition or requirement remains applicable. (3) This chapter shall not be construed as validating, reenacting, or enacting laws otherwise superseded or repealed by a legislative enactment. (4) This chapter shall have no effect on any law that is not included or otherwise treated and that law shall have the same effect as the law had prior to the codification of this chapter. The inclusion or exclusion of a law in this chapter is not an implication, inference, or presumption affecting the validity of that law. (5) This chapter shall not affect any existing right, remedy, or defense. As to all such cases, the applicable laws in force at the adoption of this chapter shall continue in force and application. (c)(1) The classification and organization of this chapter, the parts, subparts, sections, and other hierarchy units of this chapter, and the headings thereto, are made for the purpose of convenient reference and orderly arrangement, and no implication, inference, or presumption of a legislative construction shall be drawn therefrom. (2) Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the descriptive headings or catchlines immediately preceding or within the text of the various hierarchy units, except the hierarchy unit numbers included in the headings or catchlines immediately preceding the text of such units, do not constitute part of the law, and shall in no manner limit or expand the construction of any such unit. All historical citations and effective notes set out in this chapter are given for the purpose of convenient reference, and do not constitute part of the law.
AL Code § 45-36-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 5 - Constables.|Section 45-36-50 - Office of Constable Abolished.

Section 45-36-50Office of constable abolished. In Jackson County, effective at the end of the current term of office, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 36, is abolished. (Act 99-379, p. 605, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36-100 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 10 - Education.|Section 45-36-100 - Election of Superintendent and Board Members.

Section 45-36-100Election of superintendent and board members. (a) The Jackson County Superintendent of Education and several members of the Jackson County Board of Education shall hereafter be elected by only those qualified electors in the county who are residing outside the city limits of Scottsboro, Alabama. (b) Any candidate for a seat on the Board of Education of Jackson County shall be a resident of the district which he or she seeks to represent and any candidate for county superintendent of education shall reside in Jackson County. (c) The provisions of this section are supplemental. It shall be construed in pari materia with all other laws relating to the Jackson County Superintendent of Education and County Board of Education. However, all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this section are hereby repealed. (Act 80-540, p. 839, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 45-36-110 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 11 - Elections.|Section 45-36-110 - Compensation for Election Officials.

Section 45-36-110Compensation for election officials. (a) The Jackson County Commission may provide compensation to election officials in addition to that now provided by law, in an amount not exceeding ten dollars ($10) per day. (b) This additional compensation shall be appropriated from the county general fund. (Act 81-175, p. 201, §§1, 2; Act 81-638, p. 1056, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 45-36-180 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180 - Department of Public Works - Created.

Section 45-36-180Department of public works - Created. There is hereby created a department of public works in Jackson County for the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads and bridges, and the supervision of solid waste systems. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.01 - Department of Public Works - Powers.

Section 45-36-180.01Department of public works - Powers. The department of public works, subject to the approval of the Jackson County Commission, shall have the power and authority and shall be solely responsible for the construction, repair, and maintenance of the roads, bridges, and ferries and all such construction, repair, and maintenance shall be done on the basis of the county as a unit, without regard to district or quadrant lines. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §2; Act 88-293, p. 451, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.02 - Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-36-180.02Disposition of funds. Any unexpended monies remaining in the fund required by law to be maintained by the State Department of Transportation for the use in the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads, bridges, and ferries in Jackson County shall be paid over to the county department of public works and deposited to the account of the county treasury, except as otherwise provided by this article. Thereafter, all funds and monies designated by law for use in the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads, bridges, and ferries, to which the county may be entitled, whether from the proceeds of the state gasoline tax, the motor vehicle license tax, or other state tax, or any federal aid accruals, or from any other source whatsoever, shall be paid to the county treasury designated for the county department of public works. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §3.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.03 - Employment of County Engineer.

Section 45-36-180.03Employment of county engineer. The county commission may request the Director of the State Department of Transportation to send names of candidates for the position of qualified registered engineer or the commission, without said names, may employ a person who is a qualified registered engineer and who has as least five years’ experience in the construction and maintenance of roads and highways. The person may be a Jackson County resident. This person shall head the department of public works in Jackson County and shall be referred to as the county engineer. During his or her employment, the engineer shall devote his or her entire time and attention to the maintenance and construction of county roads, bridges, and ferries and he or she shall reside in Jackson County. He or she shall select for the transfer to the county department of public works up to 75 percent of the state employees, at their option, who presently are employed by the State Department of Transportation, and who in the 12 calendar months immediately preceding October 1, 1979, have spent more than 50 percent of their productive work time, according to the official payroll records of the State Department of Transportation, in the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads and bridges in the county. Any state employee who meets this criteria and who wishes to be employed by the county shall receive the same salary and benefits he or she received at the beginning of January 1979, and shall remain a member of the state retirement system. Monies for retirement payments of the employees of the department of public works may come out of the road fund. The county commission shall set the classification and salary of the assistant engineer and all other department of public works employees. There shall exist a six-month probationary period before any new employee may become a certified employee of the department of public works. Seventy percent of the county engineer’s salary shall be paid by the state as set forth in Section 11-6-4. Subject to the approval of the Jackson County Commission, the county engineer shall appoint an engineer trainee. The state shall provide 50 percent of the salary of the trainee as provided in Section 11-6-23. The county commission may discharge the county engineer after notifying the Director of the State Department of Transportation 30 days prior to termination. In the event an emergency should arise, in which it would be impossible for the county commission to employ an engineer, as herein provided, the county commission shall employ a competent road supervisor who need not be an engineer but, when so employed, he or she shall have all the duties and authority of the engineer. Provided, however, a county engineer shall be hired no later than 90 days after such position becomes vacant. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §4; Act 88-293, p. 451, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.04 - Duties of County Engineer.

Section 45-36-180.04Duties of county engineer. It shall be the duty of the county engineer, subject to the approval of the majority of the Jackson County Commission: (1) To employ, supervise, and direct all such assistants as are necessary to properly maintain and construct the public roads, highways, bridges, and ferries of the county, and he or she shall have authority to describe their duties, and to discharge employees for cause, or when not needed. (2) To perform such engineering and surveying services as may be required, and to repair and maintain the necessary maps and records. (3) To maintain the necessary accounting records to reflect the cost of the county highway system. (4) To build or construct any roads, or change old roads and specifications. (5) It shall be his or her further duty, insofar as it is feasible, to construct and maintain all county roads on the basis of the county as a unit, without regard to any district, quadrant, or beat lines. (6) To utilize the county convict labor. (7) To construct and maintain driveways to and within active public cemeteries within Jackson County. The Jackson County Commission shall have the authority to determine whether cemeteries are an active public cemetery in which driveways to and within may be constructed and maintained. The total repair or construction cost shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per active cemetery per year, nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in any 10-year period beginning on March 1, 1990. (8) To receive, maintain, and keep current subdivision plats and all buried utility maps. (9) To weigh vehicles on county highways. (10) To grant authority for any excavation on the rights-of-way along county highways. (11) To prescribe and enforce specifications for the construction of any new roads. (12) To actively seek available state and federal funds at the request of the county commission. (13) To supervise the county garbage system. (14) To report on a weekly basis to the chair of the county commission and report regularly to the county commission as a whole. (15) To construct and maintain school bus turn-arounds upon the recommendation of and approval of the Jackson County Commission. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §5; Act 88-293, p. 451, §1; Act 90-100, p. 110, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.05 - Requisitions.

Section 45-36-180.05Requisitions. The county engineer is hereby designated as the person authorized to make requisitions in writing to the county commission for per diem and other expenses, provided, when contracts are to be let or when equipment is to be purchased, lease-purchased, or rented involving more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), the engineer shall notify the county commission two weeks in advance and shall obtain approval and signatures of the majority of the commissioners for such transactions. The engineer shall purchase all articles, materials, supplies, and equipment when possible through the State Department of Transportation; he or she shall at all times obtain at least three bids on such items; and he or she shall use standardized equipment where possible, so that more companies may bid on such. The engineer shall post a monthly ledger on the wall of the entry of the office of the department of public works, visible to the public, with a statement of all articles, material, and equipment purchased in the prior month, stating both the price and from whom the purchases were made. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §6; Act 88-293, p. 451, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.06 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.06 - Office Supplies and Transportation; Limitations on Private Property.

Section 45-36-180.06Office supplies and transportation; limitations on private property. (a) The county commission shall furnish the county engineer office supplies and necessary transportation in connection with his or her duties under this article. The county engineer shall be the only department of public works employee authorized to drive a county vehicle to and from the job. The county engineer shall be prohibited from using a county vehicle for strictly personal reasons. (b) When county vehicles are long distances from the central county shop, such vehicles may be left overnight in the custody of a trustworthy person until the next work day. (c) It shall be unlawful for any person to use any county equipment or material on any private property and any person upon conviction therefor shall be punished as for a Class C misdemeanor as provided by state law. (d) The department of public works is prohibited from authorizing or performing any work on private property with the exception of work performed on school, volunteer fire department, or cemetery property including roads to an active public cemetery. In cases where the department of public works does work for other county agencies or schools, it shall keep records of such and charge them as though they were of the private sector. The county commission may reimburse such agencies or schools in its discretion. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §7; Act 88-293, p. 451, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.07 - Accountability for Equipment; Inventory.

Section 45-36-180.07Accountability for equipment; inventory. The county engineer shall be the custodian of all road tools, machinery, supplies, and equipment of the county, and he or she shall be accountable for the same. It shall be the further duty of the county engineer to inspect all materials, machinery, equipment, and supplies purchased for use on public roads, bridges, and ferries and the garbage system, when the same is delivered, and the same shall not be accepted and paid for without first having been approved by him or her. The county engineer shall keep on file in his or her office, at all times, an up-to-date inventory, containing a list of all tools, machinery, equipment, and supplies belonging to Jackson County. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §9.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.08 - Sale, Trade, etc., of Equipment.

Section 45-36-180.08Sale, trade, etc., of equipment. No materials, supplies, or equipment may be traded, loaned, leased, or rented by the county engineer without the approval of the county commission, and under no circumstance shall there be any county material, supplies, or equipment sold unless advertised for four consecutive weeks in a local newspaper and sold at a public auction to the highest bidder. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §10.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.09 - Appropriation and Use of Funds.

Section 45-36-180.09Appropriation and use of funds. The authority of the county engineer shall be limited to the expenditure of funds, as may be appropriated by the county commission, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, or repairing public roads, bridges, and ferries and the supervision of the solid waste system of the county. The county commission, however, is authorized from time to time within such period to increase the amount so appropriated, to be expended by the county engineer during the period, and may deposit such to the account of the department of public works, when such authorization does not conflict with Section 11-8-3, and provided further that, if such funds are then available, and are not set aside by the State Department of Transportation or by the present county commission, upon October 1, 1979, it shall be the duty of the county commission to set aside a sufficient portion of the funds for the maintenance of roads, bridges, and ferries and supervision of the garbage system until after the first meeting in October of 1980. All monies designated for roads shall be kept in a separate account. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §11.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.10 - Road Fund; Separate Account.

Section 45-36-180.10Road fund; separate account. All expenditures for salaries, labor, benefits, insurance, supplies, materials, and all other expenses related to the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads, bridges, and ferries shall come from the road fund. All monies designated for roads and bridges shall be maintained in a separate account entitled, the account of the department of public works. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §2.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.11 - Surety Bond.

Section 45-36-180.11Surety bond. Before entering upon his or her duties, the county engineer shall make and enter into a surety bond in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) payable to the county, conditioned for the faithful discharge and performance of his or her duties as such engineer, and for the faithful accounting of all monies or property of the county, which may come into his or her possession or custody. The bond shall be executed by a surety company authorized and qualified to do business in Alabama, and shall be approved by each county commission. The premiums on the bonds shall be paid by the county. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §13.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.12 - Expense Allowance.

Section 45-36-180.12Expense allowance. The chair and each member of the Jackson County Commission shall be paid an additional one hundred dollars ($100) per month for nine consecutive months following October 1, 1979. Thereafter, such allowance shall be decreased to one dollar ($1) per month and shall so continue for each commissioner until the expiration of the terms of office of the respective members. Upon the expiration of the terms of office of the respective members of the county commission the expense allowance for each member shall be in the same amount provided by law prior to October 1, 1979. Such expense allowance shall be paid on the same basis as now provided by law for expense allowances. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §14.)
AL Code § 45-36-180.13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36 - Jackson County.|Article 18 - Highways and Bridges.|Section 45-36-180.13 - Salary.

Section 45-36-180.13Salary. The county commission shall set the salary of the county engineer and the county’s portion of such salary shall be not less than seven thousand dollars ($7,000) per annum, which sum shall be payable from the funds of the county treasury designated for the department of public works. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §15.)
AL Code § 45-36A-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36A - Jackson County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Bridgeport.|Section 45-36A-20 - Regulation of Alcoholic Beverage Sales on Sunday.

Section 45-36A-20Regulation of alcoholic beverage sales on Sunday. The city council or other governing body of the City of Bridgeport in Jackson County, by resolution adopted by a majority of the council, may regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours on Sunday as determined by the city council by properly licensed retail licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and the City of Bridgeport serving the general public in the city. (Act 2018-131, §1; Act 2018-223, §1.)
AL Code § 45-36A-120 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 36A - Jackson County Municipalities.|Article 12 - Stevenson.|Section 45-36A-120 - Regulation of Sale and Distribution of Alcoholic Beverages on Sunday.

Section 45-36A-120Regulation of sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages on Sunday. The city council or other governing body of the City of Stevenson in Jackson County, by resolution adopted by a majority of the council, may regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours on Sunday as determined by the city council by properly licensed retail licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and the City of Stevenson serving the general public in the city. (Act 2017-144, §1, Act 2017-250, §1.)