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AL Code § 45-26-71.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Duties and Powers.|Section 45-26-71.01 - Levy of Motor Vehicle and Watercraft License Issuance Fees.

Section 45-26-71.01Levy of motor vehicle and watercraft license issuance fees. (a) This section shall apply only to Elmore County. (b) The County Commission of Elmore County may, in addition to all other charges, costs, taxes, or fees levied on the issuance of all motor vehicle license plates of any nature, levy a fee of up to ten dollars ($10) per license plate. The county commission may also levy a user fee of up to five dollars ($5) on each license decal issued for all watercraft of not more than 16 feet in length and a user fee of up to ten dollars ($10) for any watercraft more than 16 feet in length. The vehicle and watercraft license may be levied for a period beginning July 1, 1997, and continuing through June 30, 1998, and shall apply to any vehicle or watercraft subject to registration, or transfer of ownership, during that period. (c) If the county commission imposes a fee authorized by this section, the authority shall be exercised in the following manner: A proposed resolution shall be advertised for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Elmore County. The resolution shall then be introduced at a regularly scheduled meeting of the commission, and shall, without amendment, be approved at a subsequent regularly scheduled meeting. Should the advertised resolution require amendment, it cannot be approved at the same scheduled meeting at which it is amended, but must be enacted at a subsequent meeting. (d) All funds received from the fees authorized by this section shall be placed in a special fund in the county treasury to be called the Debt Reduction Fund. All funds deposited in the Debt Reduction Fund shall be used to reduce any general fund debt of the county which exists on June 30, 1997. (e) The county commission shall seek advice from persons or groups with expertise in county government budgeting and accounting in an effort to make its operation more efficient. The county commission shall devise, with considerable input from county residents, a permanent plan to eliminate the present funding crisis, and shall submit the plan to qualified electors of the county on the ballots with the candidates seeking nomination in the June 1998 party primary elections. (f) The county commission shall devise a simplified financial statement which it shall distribute quarterly. An accounting of the receipts and expenditures of the Debt Reduction Fund shall be made public monthly at a regularly scheduled commission meeting. (Act 97-465, p. 818, §§1-6.)
AL Code § 45-26-71.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 2 - Duties and Powers.|Section 45-26-71.02 - Taxation.

Section 45-26-71.02Taxation. (a) The Elmore County Commission may, by affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the commission, exercise all powers of taxation not denied or limited by the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or by general law. In the exercise of the taxing power, the commission may provide for the collection and enforcement of taxes not inconsistent with general law. The commission, however, shall not, under the authority granted in this section, levy a sales or use tax as defined in Chapter 23 of Title 40, nor a privilege or license tax on persons within the county engaged in the business of renting or furnishing a room or rooms, lodging, or accommodations. (b) The Elmore County Commission, in the exercise of the taxing authority granted in subsection (a), shall provide for public notice and hearings as follows: (1) The county commission shall hold an advertised public hearing on any tax proposed to be levied. (2) The public hearing shall be advertised in each paper published in Elmore County for two consecutive weeks and the advertisement shall be completed at least two weeks prior to the meeting at which the county commission will vote on the levy of the tax. (Act 2002-341, p. 918, §1.)
AL Code § 45-26-72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 7 - County Commission.|Part 3 - Membership.|Section 45-26-72 - Election.

Section 45-26-72Election. (a) The organization and composition of the County Commission of Elmore County is altered to comply with this section. The governing body shall continue to be known as the County Commission of Elmore County and shall have and exercise all of the powers, duties, limitations, and responsibilities conferred upon it by the general laws of Alabama relating to county commissions insofar as they are consistent with this section. For the purpose of transacting official business, a quorum shall consist of three commissioners. (b) Each member of the Elmore County Commission shall represent a separate district. Only the qualified electors residing in a district may vote to elect the commissioner representing the respective district. No person shall be eligible as a candidate for county commissioner unless he or she is a bona fide resident of the district he or she seeks to represent. Each member of the county commission shall reside in the district he or she represents during his or her term of office. (c) Beginning with the term of office which starts in January 1993, the five members of the Elmore County Commission shall elect from among themselves a chair who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The chair shall have and exercise all of the powers, duties, limitations, and responsibilities given to the chair of the county commission by general law or by local law relating to Elmore County. While serving in that office, the chair shall receive three thousand dollars ($3,000) annually in addition to his or her commissioner's salary. In the event of a vacancy in the office of chair during any term of office, the members of the commission shall elect a chair from among themselves to complete the term of office. Immediately upon election of a chair, the judge of probate shall cease to be an ex officio member and chair of the county commission. (d) Any vacancy occurring in the office of commissioner shall be filled in the manner otherwise provided by law concerning the filling of vacancies of county commissioners. (e)(1) For the purposes of this section, and for future elections for members of the county commission, Elmore County is hereby divided into five separate geographical districts, to be numbers one to five, inclusive, as set out in a map prepared by the Central Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission and officially approved by the Elmore County Commission at its meeting of January 13, 1992. (2) A map and legal description of the five districts shall be retained in the office of the judge of probate as a permanent public record and shall be filed by the judge of probate with the Secretary of State. (f) The county commission may, pursuant to a duly adopted resolution, establish voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts in order to create a voting center in order to facilitate, or reduce costs, for elections, pursuant to the authority provided 17-5A-5. (Act 92-219, p. 530, §§1-6.)
AL Code § 45-26-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 1 - Court Costs.|Section 45-26-80 - Juvenile Court Services Fund.

Section 45-26-80Juvenile Court Services Fund. (a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court cases in Elmore County, a fee of three dollars ($3) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of the court. This additional charge shall not be collected on small claims cases. When collected by the clerk of the courts, the additional three dollar ($3) fee shall be remitted monthly to the Juvenile Court Services Fund. (b) In addition to any other costs and charges now provided by law, a monthly supervision fee may be assessed in juvenile court cases at the discretion of the juvenile court judge. The supervision fee shall be collected by the juvenile court office and deposited in the Juvenile Court Services Fund. (c) There is established a Juvenile Court Services Fund for the deposit of the additional court costs levied by this section. The fund shall be maintained in an interest bearing account in a bank of known responsibility under the supervision of the juvenile court judge of Elmore County, expended solely for juvenile programs and for subsistence for the juvenile court staff in the county so as to aid the functions of the juvenile court and benefit of the children of Elmore County. Any funds expended shall be authorized by the juvenile court judge of Elmore County. (Act 89-260, p. 374, § 1; Act 93-564, p. 943, §1.)
AL Code § 45-26-80.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 1 - Court Costs.|Section 45-26-80.01 - Law Enforcement.

Section 45-26-80.01Law enforcement. In addition to the assessment and distribution of the additional court costs and charges for Elmore County circuit and district courts, there shall be assessed and collected in each case by the clerks of the circuit and district courts, except for the small claims cases, an additional fee of five dollars ($5). When collected by the clerks of the circuit and district courts, the additional five dollar ($5) fee shall be deposited in the county treasury and may be used only for law enforcement purposes at the discretion of the sheriff with approval of the county commission. (Act 99-530, p. 1156, §1.)
AL Code § 45-26-80.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 1 - Court Costs.|Section 45-26-80.02 - Additional Costs in Certain Cases; Elmore County Circuit Clerks Fund; Judicial Complex.

Section 45-26-80.02Additional costs in certain cases; Elmore County Circuit Clerks Fund; judicial complex. (a) This section shall apply only in Elmore County. (b) In addition to any court costs now authorized in the district, circuit, and juvenile courts of Elmore County, there shall be assessed and collected an additional court cost of thirty dollars ($30) in all civil and criminal cases, including traffic cases, in the district, circuit, and juvenile courts of the county except for protection from abuse cases pursuant to Chapter 5 of Title 30, and small claims cases. (c)(1) One half of the additional court costs collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Elmore County Circuit Clerks Fund and used for the same purposes as the fund is used on September 1, 2011. (2) One half of the additional court costs and fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the general fund of the county and appropriated by the Elmore County Commission to fund the operations of the Elmore County Judicial Complex. (d) Nothing in this section shall impair the authority of a circuit or district judge to waive or to remit the court costs and fees assessed pursuant to this section upon the sworn and valid showing of substantial financial hardship. (e) It is the intent of the Legislature that the assessment and collection of the additional court cost pursuant to this section not diminish or take the place of any other source of funds for the office of the circuit clerk or the operation of the judicial complex.  (Act 2011-595, §§1-5.)
AL Code § 45-26-80.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 8 - Courts.|Part 1 - Court Costs.|Section 45-26-80.03 - Additional Booking Fee in Certain Cases.

Section 45-26-80.03Additional booking fee in certain cases.  (a) In Elmore County, a booking fee in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be assessed by the clerk of the court as court costs against each defendant incarcerated in or booked in the Elmore County Jail if the defendant is convicted or pleads guilty in cases prosecuted in the circuit court or district court of the county. (b) The clerk of the court shall enter the booking fee on the docket sheet and collect the fee in the same manner and at the same time as other court costs are collected. The booking fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to all other fines, court costs, or other charges now or hereafter provided by law. The court costs provided by this section shall not be waived by any court unless all other fees, assessments, costs, fines, and charges associated with the case are waived. (c) The clerk of the court shall remit the booking fees collected pursuant to this section on a monthly basis to the Elmore County Commission to be deposited in the county general fund to be used for the operation of the Sheriff's Office to provide additional motor vehicles and information technology equipment and for other law enforcement purposes. (Act 2014-268, p. 871, §1.)
AL Code § 45-26-101 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 10 - Education.|Part 2 - Superintendent of Education.|Section 45-26-101 - Compensation.

Section 45-26-101Compensation. The county Superintendent of Education of Elmore County shall devote his or her entire time to the public school business of the county and shall receive as compensation a per annum salary in an amount to be established by the county board of education no later than March 31 in the year prior to the election of the superintendent. The board shall have discretion to grant expenses from time to time during the term of the superintendent. The compensation shall be payable from the public school funds of the county and shall be the total compensation. (Acts 1977, No. 481, p. 628, §1; Act 79-117, p. 148, §2; Act 95-350, p. 716, §1.)
AL Code § 45-26-141 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141 - Applicability.

Section 45-26-141Applicability. This part shall be operative only in Elmore County. (Act 95-393, p. 800, §1.)
AL Code § 45-26-141.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141.01 - Legislative Intent.

Section 45-26-141.01Legislative intent. It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the financing of a system for fire protection, fire prevention, emergency medical services, and related services and facilities for the benefit of the inhabitants of the county in areas in which the services and facilities might not otherwise be available. This part shall be liberally construed in conformity with this intent. (Act 95-393, p. 800, §2.)
AL Code § 45-26-141.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141.02 - Definitions.

Section 45-26-141.02Definitions. As used in this part, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:  (1) ASSOCIATION. The Elmore County Firefighters Association. (2) AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT. Amendment No. 567 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, proposed by Act No. 94-483 enacted at the 1994 Regular Session of the Legislature and ratified in the November 1994 General Election. (3) CODE. The Code of Alabama 1975, as amended. (4) COMMERCIAL BUILDING. Any building that contains one or more separate business enterprises that purchase and display a business license applicable to the business enterprise. In the case of a commercial building with more than one business located in a building, a separate fee shall be assessed on the building for each business located in the building, but in no case shall a fee be assessed more than one time on the same space. (5) COMMISSION. The Elmore County Commission or other governing body of the county. (6) COUNTY. Elmore County, Alabama. (7) DEPARTMENT. Any volunteer fire department with which the Elmore County Firefighters Association may enter into agreements with respect to providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities within the county. (8) DISTRICT. A fire fighting district established by the Elmore County Firefighters Association. (9) DWELLING. Any occupied or unoccupied building, structure, or other improvement to real property used or expected to be used as a dwelling for one or more persons, including specifically but not limited to the following: a. Any building, structure, or improvement assessed for purposes of state and county ad valorem taxation as single family owner occupied residential property. b. Any other residential building with each residential unit considered a separate dwelling. c. Any mobile home, house trailer, or unit of manufactured housing. (10) FIRE PROTECTION FEE. A fee for fire protection and emergency medical services levied by the commission pursuant to the authorizing amendment and this part. (11) JUDGE OF PROBATE. The Judge of Probate of Elmore County. (12) MUNICIPALITY. An incorporated city or town. (13) OWNER. A person owning one or more dwellings or commercial buildings. (14) REVENUE COMMISSIONER. The Revenue Commissioner of Elmore County. (15) STATE. The State of Alabama. (Act 95-393, p. 800, §3.)
AL Code § 45-26-141.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141.03 - Fire Protection Fee - Levy, Collection, and Administration.

Section 45-26-141.03Fire protection fee - Levy, collection, and administration. The commission is authorized to collect beginning October 1, 1995, and each successive year in all districts, a fire protection fee with respect to each dwelling and commercial building located within the boundaries of each district. The fee shall be levied, collected, and administered as closely as possible at the same time and in the same manner as state ad valorem taxes. The fee shall not exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) per dwelling and fifty dollars ($50) per commercial building, and it shall be paid by the owner of the dwelling or commercial building. (Act 95-393, p. 800, §4.)
AL Code § 45-26-141.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141.04 - Fire Protection Fee - Eligibility to Receive Proceeds.

Section 45-26-141.04Fire protection fee - Eligibility to receive proceeds. To be eligible to receive proceeds from the fire protection fee, each department shall be a member in good standing in the Elmore County Firefighters Association. For the purpose of this part, good standing is defined as being current on all association dues, being incorporated as a nonprofit organization, having a bonded official responsible for the use of any proceeds of the fire protection fee, and, except for municipal fire departments, being recognized by the Alabama Forestry Commission as a volunteer fire department. A municipal fire department may have paid employees provided the employees are not paid from the proceeds from the fire protection fee. Departments not in good standing may be subject to withholding of proceeds from the fire protection fee until their good standing status has been restored. Upon the dissolution or abandonment of any eligible department, remaining proceeds, assets purchased with proceeds, and future proceeds from the fire protection fee shall be divided among the departments that take over coverage of the territory of the dissolved department after all outstanding financial obligations have been satisfied. (Act 95-393, p. 800, §5; Act 2003-283, p. 679, §1.)
AL Code § 45-26-141.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141.05 - Fire Protection Fee - Use of Proceeds.

Section 45-26-141.05Fire protection fee - Use of proceeds. Proceeds from the fire protection fee shall be used at the discretion of the individual department for fire protection, fire prevention, and emergency medical services to include, but not be limited to, fire or emergency medical equipment, fire or emergency medical supplies, training, buildings, capital improvements, insurance, dues, and professional services. The proceeds shall not be used for salaries, entertainment, or fundraising purposes. Any proceeds from the fire protection fee that are unexpended or not appropriated at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the individual department's treasury for appropriation and use during any fiscal year thereafter. After receiving the proceeds, the departments will keep accurate records to verify that the funds are properly used. In January of each year that proceeds were received in the prior year, each department shall submit a financial report to the association detailing the expenditures of proceeds from the fire protection fee for the prior year. Forms for this report shall be provided by the association and shall be in compliance with requirements of the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The association will provide the same financial report on all proceeds from the fire protection fee that it has expended in the prior year. The association shall provide these records to the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts and the commission. The reports shall be public record. (Act 95-393, p. 800, §6.)
AL Code § 45-26-141.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141.07 - Alteration of District Boundaries.

Section 45-26-141.07Alteration of district boundaries. The association may, with the consent of the affected district or districts and approval by a two-thirds majority vote of member departments in good standing, alter the boundaries of any district. The alteration may include, but not be limited to, consolidation of territory of one or more districts, creation of a new district from one or more existing districts, or exclusion of territory from a district. No alteration shall be used to relieve any department of any financial obligations incurred or made prior to the change. Municipalities may alter their districts to include or exclude the police jurisdiction, at the discretion of the governing body of each municipality, and shall notify the association, in writing, for purposes of collection and distribution of the fire protection fee.  (Act 95-393, p. 800, §8.)
AL Code § 45-26-141.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 26 - Elmore County.|Article 14 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.|Part 2 - Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.|Section 45-26-141.08 - Effect of Annexation.

Section 45-26-141.08Effect of annexation. If the annexation of territory in a district by an existing municipality or the creation of a new municipality takes in the property on which an existing fire station is located or reduces the size of the district so that the association, after approval by a majority vote of member departments in good standing, determines that the remaining territory is not of sufficient size to continue to support a department, the association shall request the municipality to assume any indebtedness or financial obligations of the department, provided the department transfers ownership of the fire station and department-owned equipment to the municipality. (Act 95-393, p. 800, §9.)