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AL Code § 12-17-260 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 8 - District Court Administrative Agency, Magistrates, and Supernumerarymagistrates.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Magistrates.|Section 12-17-260 - Who May Become Supernumerary Magistrate.

Section 12-17-260Who may become supernumerary magistrate. If there exists within the State of Alabama judges or former judges of a court inferior to the circuit court in any county, municipal judges excluded, who, elected to become a magistrate under Section 4-106(g)(4) of Act No. 1205, S. 400, 1975 Regular Session (Acts of 1975, p. 2384), now appearing as Section 12-17-253, and such former magistrates shall have served a total of 16 years as said magistrates, taking into consideration for purposes of computing said 16 years the time served by said former magistrates as judges of said inferior court or its predecessor inferior court and who have reached or passed the age of 65, they may elect to become a supernumerary magistrate. (Acts 1988, No. 88-313, p. 475, §2.)
AL Code § 12-17-261 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 8 - District Court Administrative Agency, Magistrates, and Supernumerarymagistrates.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Magistrates.|Section 12-17-261 - Filing of Written Declaration; Issuance of Commission.

Section 12-17-261Filing of written declaration; issuance of commission. Any former magistrate who is qualified to become a supernumerary magistrate under any of the provisions of this article may elect to become a supernumerary magistrate of the district court of the county in which said magistrate served as such official at any time within one year from April 28, 1988, by filing a written declaration to that effect with the Administrative Director of Courts at least 30 days prior to the time said former magistrate desires to become a supernumerary official. If the Administrative Director of Courts shall find that such applicant is qualified under any of the provisions of this article, a commission as supernumerary magistrate of the district court for the county in which he has served shall thereupon be issued to such applicant by the Secretary of State. (Acts 1988, No. 88-313, p. 475, §2.)
AL Code § 12-17-262 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 8 - District Court Administrative Agency, Magistrates, and Supernumerarymagistrates.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Magistrates.|Section 12-17-262 - Term of Office; Salary.

Section 12-17-262Term of office; salary. Every such supernumerary magistrate shall serve for life and receive in equal monthly installments on the first of each month an annual salary to be paid by the state in an amount equal to 50 percent of the salary paid from time to time to supernumerary district attorneys under Acts 1969, No.1050, p. 1965, or its successors, now appearing as Section 12-17-215, for the payment of which an appropriation shall be made from the State General Fund. (Acts 1988, No. 88-313, p. 475, §3.)
AL Code § 12-17-263 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 8 - District Court Administrative Agency, Magistrates, and Supernumerarymagistrates.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Magistrates.|Section 12-17-263 - Notice to Administrative Director of Courts of Intention to Become Supernumerary Magistrate; Payment of Percentage of Salary Earned as Judge or Magistrate; Oath of Office; Appointment of Supernumerary Magistrate to Fill Vacancy.

Section 12-17-263Notice to Administrative Director of Courts of intention to become supernumerary magistrate; payment of percentage of salary earned as judge or magistrate; oath of office; appointment of supernumerary magistrate to fill vacancy. A former magistrate electing to come under the provisions of this article shall notify the Administrative Director of Courts in writing of his intention to become a supernumerary magistrate. He must also pay to the State General Fund an amount equal to six percent of the salary earned each year in his capacity as magistrate or as a judge of an inferior court. Upon receipt of a former magistrate's application for a supernumerary appointment, the Administrative Director of Courts shall notify said applicant within 60 days of the receipt of said application and of the amount of the contribution due to be paid to the State General Fund. Such supernumerary magistrates of the district courts in the various counties of the State of Alabama shall take the oath of office prescribed for magistrates and if a vacancy shall occur in the office of magistrate in the county in which said supernumerary magistrate holds a commission, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may immediately appoint such supernumerary magistrate to fill said vacancy and such supernumerary magistrate so appointed shall immediately assume and exercise all of the duties, powers and authority of such official in said county, without further compensation, until a permanent successor is appointed or is otherwise selected. (Acts 1988, No. 88-313, p. 475, §4.)
AL Code § 12-17-264 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 8 - District Court Administrative Agency, Magistrates, and Supernumerarymagistrates.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Magistrates.|Section 12-17-264 - Prior Service Credit.

Section 12-17-264Prior service credit. Prior service credit may be obtained by any former magistrate who is entitled to take advantage of this article for years served in his individual capacity as magistrate or judge of any inferior court, municipal judges excluded, by contributing an amount equal to six percent of his then salary for each year for which prior service credit is sought. (Acts 1988, No. 88-313, p. 475, §5.)
AL Code § 12-17-265 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 8 - District Court Administrative Agency, Magistrates, and Supernumerarymagistrates.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Magistrates.|Section 12-17-265 - Benefit to Surviving Spouse of Supernumerary Magistrate.

Section 12-17-265Benefit to surviving spouse of supernumerary magistrate. In the event of the death of any supernumerary magistrate in whose favor a monthly retirement allowance is accruing, his spouse shall be entitled to a monthly allowance equal to 50 per centum of the retirement allowance the supernumerary magistrate was receiving when he died, as hereinafter specified, for a period of up to 25 years. No spouse shall receive any benefits under this article unless such spouse was married to the deceased supernumerary magistrate at the time of his death and any benefits of a spouse under this article shall terminate in the event the spouse remarries. (Acts 1988, No. 88-313, p. 475, §6.)
AL Code § 12-17-270 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-270 - Appointment; Qualifications; Term of Office; Removal.

Section 12-17-270Appointment; qualifications; term of office; removal. Each of the judges of the circuit courts of this state shall appoint a competent person to perform the duties of official court reporter of the courts in the circuit over which said judge presides. No two or more judges shall appoint the same court reporter. The official court reporter shall be an officer of the court and within his circuit shall have power to administer oaths and shall hold office at the pleasure of the judge, who shall have power to remove said official reporter at any time. The court reporter shall not be related to the trial judge within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity, and any appointment of a court reporter so related to the trial judge within the prohibited degree shall be void. The provisions of this section shall not apply to circuits which consist of only one county and have three or more than three judges. (Acts 1920, No. 124, p. 164; Code 1923, §6733; Code 1940, T. 13, §261.)
AL Code § 12-17-271 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-271 - Existing Positions Continued; Authorization of Additional Positions by Administrative Director of Courts.

Section 12-17-271Existing positions continued; authorization of additional positions by Administrative Director of Courts. Positions for court reporters existing on October 10, 1975, shall continue as provided by law. Additional positions for court reporters in the circuit and district court may be authorized by the Administrative Director of Courts upon recommendation of presiding circuit judges. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-107.)
AL Code § 12-17-272 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-272 - Special Roving Reporters.

Section 12-17-272Special roving reporters. Special roving reporters may be appointed and serve at the pleasure of the Administrative Director of Courts on either a part-time or full-time basis and shall perform duties at places and in such manner as prescribed by the Administrative Director of Courts. The rate of compensation of such special roving reporter shall be established by the Administrative Director of Courts. Special reporters may be employed by a circuit judge or district court judge, as the work of the court requires, subject to prior approval of the Administrative Director of Courts as to the need of such employment, length of employment, amount of compensation and use thereof. Transcript fees of special roving reporters and special reporters shall be paid at the rate set for court reporters, pursuant to Section 12-17-276. The Administrative Director of Courts shall promulgate regulations providing for use by judges of official court reporters or previously appointed special roving reporters and special reporters when these reporters are not otherwise officially engaged in order that special reporters only be appointed when official reporters and special roving reporters are not available. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-110.)
AL Code § 12-17-273 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-273 - Oath.

Section 12-17-273Oath. Before any official court reporter, special reporter or roving reporter shall enter upon the duties of his office, he must subscribe to an oath to support the constitution and laws of the State of Alabama and to faithfully perform all the duties of such office. (Acts 1919, No. 302, p. 268; Code 1923, §6740; Code 1940, T. 13, §268.)
AL Code § 12-17-274 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-274 - Compensation; Cost-of-Living and Merit Increases.

Section 12-17-274Compensation; cost-of-living and merit increases. (a) An official court reporter shall be paid a salary by the state in an amount as shall be established by law, to be paid as other state employees are paid. (b)(1) In addition to the salary paid by the state, each official court reporter shall be paid a salary by the counties composing the circuit in an amount as shall be established by law. (2) In circuits composed of more than one county, each county shall pay its pro rata part thereof, based on the assessed tax valuation of all property in the county for the preceding year. (3) The payments shall be made in favor of the official court reporter for the respective amounts due by the several counties each month and shall be paid by the treasurer of each county out of the general fund. (c) This section shall not be construed to repeal or amend any local law, special law, general law, or general law of local application providing extra allowances, compensation, or expenses, for any official court reporter paid from the funds of any county or counties. (d)(1) Beginning on October 1, 2018, the state salary of an official court reporter not covered by the Merit System of the State of Alabama shall conform to the pay scale established by the State of Alabama Personnel Department Pay Plan for state employees. (2) An official court reporter serving on October 1, 2018, shall receive a salary equivalent to step 8 of pay grade 77. (3) An official court reporter employed after October 1, 2018, shall receive a salary equivalent to step 1 of pay grade 77. (e) An official court reporter shall be entitled to any cost-of-living adjustments given to all state employees and shall also be entitled to any merit raises given to Unified Judicial System employees after March 1, 2018. (f) In the event of a break in service of an official court reporter paid under the pay scale established by the State of Alabama Personnel Department Pay Plan for state employees, should the official court reporter return to service, the official court reporter shall return to service under the same grade and step in effect at the separation date of the official court reporter. (Acts 1919, No. 302, p. 268; Code 1923, §6739; Acts 1927, No. 499, p. 599; Acts 1939, No. 70, p. 111; Code 1940, T. 13, §267; Acts 1943, No. 591, p. 596; Acts 1947, No. 392, p. 289; Acts 1951, No. 691, p. 1192; Acts 1953, No. 437, p. 544; Acts 1955, No. 431, p. 977; Acts 1957, No. 120, p. 171; Acts 1957, No. 294, p. 376; Acts 1959, No. 363, p. 951; Acts 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 75, p. 242; Acts 1963, No. 518, p. 1106; Acts 1969, No. 510, p. 978; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-110; Acts 1985, No. 85-654, p. 1023; Act 97-941, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 512, §1; Act 2018-148, §1.)
AL Code § 12-17-275 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-275 - Duties.

Section 12-17-275Duties. The official court reporter shall attend in person, except as otherwise herein provided, the sessions of court held in the circuit for which he is appointed, and in every case, where directed by the judge or requested by a party thereto, he shall take full stenographic notes of the oral testimony and proceedings, except argument of counsel, and note the order in which all documentary evidence is introduced, all objections of counsel, the rulings of the court thereon and exceptions taken or reserved thereto. When directed by the judge, he shall attend the investigations of the grand jury and there take such notes of the testimony as directed by the district attorney or foreman. The original stenographic notes of such court reporter in each case or proceeding officially reported shall be preserved by him and treated as a part of the records of the respective courts, and upon his retirement from office, shall be turned over to the clerks of such courts. In cases where the testimony is taken orally before the judge, the court reporter, whenever ordered by the judge, shall transcribe his stenographic notes of such oral testimony and file the same. (Acts 1919, No. 302, p. 268; Code 1923, §6734; Code 1940, T. 13, §262.)
AL Code § 12-17-276 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-276 - Transcript Fees.

Section 12-17-276Transcript fees. Notwithstanding any statutes existing on October 10, 1975, which prescribe fees to be paid to court reporters for producing transcripts of their stenographic notes, the amounts of these fees may be fixed and adjusted by the Supreme Court at such times as it shall determine. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-110.)
AL Code § 12-17-277 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-17-277 - Fee for Court Reporter Taxed as Costs in Cases Utilizing Reporter.

Section 12-17-277Fee for court reporter taxed as costs in cases utilizing reporter. In all cases reported by an official court reporter or special reporter, there shall be taxed, as part of the costs of the case, a fee of $5.00 for each day or fraction thereof that such reporter shall be engaged in reporting a case, to be collected as costs as in other cases and, when collected, paid by the clerk of the court into the county treasury of the county in which the case is tried. (Acts 1919, No. 302, p. 268; Code 1923, §6738; Code 1940, T. 13, §266.)
AL Code § 12-17-290 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Circuit Court Reporters.|Section 12-17-290 - Qualifications for Becoming Supernumerary Reporter.

Section 12-17-290Qualifications for becoming supernumerary reporter. While in service as an official circuit court reporter of the State of Alabama, any such reporter who is not a participating member of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama: (1) Who has a minimum of 12 years as a reporter of any probate court having equity jurisdiction or any circuit court of any one or more circuits of Alabama, the last 10 years of which must have been served as an official court reporter of any one or more circuits of Alabama, and who has become permanently and totally disabled, proof of such disability being made by certificate of three reputable physicians; or (2) Who has a minimum of 15 years service as official circuit court reporter in any one or more circuits of Alabama and who is not less than 60 years of age; or (3) Who has total service as an official circuit court reporter in any one or more circuit courts of Alabama of not less than 24 years, may elect to become a supernumerary circuit court reporter of the State of Alabama by filing a written declaration to that effect with the Chief Justice of the State of Alabama. If the Chief Justice of the State of Alabama shall find that any such declarant is qualified under either subdivision (1), (2) or (3) of this section, he shall notify the Secretary of State of such fact, who shall thereupon issue a commission as supernumerary circuit court reporter of the State of Alabama to such declarant. (Acts 1961, No. 817, p. 1204, §1; Acts 1965, No. 570, p. 1055; Acts 1967, No. 759, p. 1614; Acts 1987, No. 87-777, p. 1525, §2.)
AL Code § 12-17-291 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Circuit Court Reporters.|Section 12-17-291 - Oath, Powers and Duties of Supernumeraries.

Section 12-17-291Oath, powers and duties of supernumeraries. Such supernumerary circuit court reporter shall take the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution for judicial officers and shall have and exercise all the duties, power and authority of official circuit court reporters of the circuit courts of Alabama and shall, upon request of the circuit judge or presiding judge of the circuit wherein said supernumerary circuit court reporter resides, attend any regular, adjourned or special session of the circuit court thereof. (Acts 1961, No. 817, p. 1204, §2.)
AL Code § 12-17-292 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Circuit Court Reporters.|Section 12-17-292 - Term; Compensation.

Section 12-17-292Term; compensation. (a) Every supernumerary court reporter shall serve for life and receive annually a salary equal to 50 percent of the state salary payable to the highest paid official court reporter, unless the salary paid to the highest paid official court reporter becomes less than the salary of the official court reporter upon which the salary for a supernumerary court reporter was previously based, and then the salary paid to the supernumerary court reporter may not be reduced on account thereof. (b) The salary payable to a supernumerary court reporter shall be paid out of the State Treasury as other salaries are paid, but a supernumerary court reporter designated to perform services as a court reporter in court shall be compensated, in lieu of the salary specified in subsection (a), in like manner and as official court reporters are paid, for the duration of his or her services in court. (Acts 1961, No. 817, p. 1204, §3; Acts 1967, No. 753, p. 1607; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §7-110; Acts 1987, No. 87-777, p. 1525, §3; Act 2018-148, §1.)
AL Code § 12-17-293 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.|Article 9 - Court Reporters.|Division 2 - Supernumerary Circuit Court Reporters.|Section 12-17-293 - Appropriation for Salaries.

Section 12-17-293Appropriation for salaries. There is appropriated out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated such sum or sums as may be necessary to pay the salaries of supernumerary circuit court reporters provided for and commissioned under this division. (Acts 1961, No. 817, p. 1204, §5.)
AL Code § 12-19-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 19 - Court Finances.|Article 3 - Costs and Fees in Civil Cases.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-19-40 - Posting of Lists of Fees by Probate Judges and Furnishing of Copies Thereof.

Section 12-19-40Posting of lists of fees by probate judges and furnishing of copies thereof. (a) Probate judges must keep posted, in a conspicuous place in their respective offices, a complete list of all the fees allowed by law to them and must furnish a copy thereof on application. (b) Any probate judge who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not be authorized to collect or receive any fee for services rendered during such failure. (Code 1852, §§3064, 3065; Code 1867, §§3535, 3536; Code 1876, §§5018, 5019; Code 1886, §§3666, 3667; Code 1896, §§1354, 1355; Code 1907, §§3694, 3695; Code1923, §§7256, 7257; Code 1940, T. 11, §§2, 3; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §§16-136, 16-137.)
AL Code § 12-19-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 19 - Court Finances.|Article 3 - Costs and Fees in Civil Cases.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-19-41 - Preparation of Bills for Fees or Costs Generally - Officers.

Section 12-19-41Preparation of bills for fees or costs generally - Officers. All officers entitled to fees or costs must, on demand, make out a bill of such fees or costs, stating each item distinctly, and, except in cases where it is expressly authorized, no fee shall be charged for taxing costs or furnishing a copy of the bill. (Code 1852, §§3054, 3058; Code 1867, §§3525, 3529; Code 1876, §§5008, 5012; Code 1886, §3671; Code 1896, §1359; Code 1907, §3699; Code 1923, §7261; Code 1940, T. 11, §5.)
AL Code § 12-19-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 19 - Court Finances.|Article 3 - Costs and Fees in Civil Cases.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-19-42 - Preparation of Bills for Fees or Costs Generally - Probate Judges.

Section 12-19-42Preparation of bills for fees or costs generally - Probate judges. It shall be the duty of the several probate judges to make out an itemized account for their official services before their fees are due and collectible. (Code 1876, §5031; Code 1886, §3686; Code 1896, §1376; Code 1907, §3721; Code 1923, §7286; Code 1940, T. 11, §33.)