Title 45 — Title 45

(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Clarke County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Clarke 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…

In Clarke County, each member of the county board of education is hereby entitled to an additional monthly expense allowance of seventy-five dollars ($75) a month. The allowance shall be in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, or expense allowance heretofore provid…

(a) The County Board of Education of Clarke County shall consist of five members elected from five single-member school board districts as hereinafter provided. (b) For the purpose of this section, and for future elections of members of the county school board, and until otherwis…

(a) In Clarke County, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person shall be eligible for appointment by the county board of education or for any political party nomination, or for election to the office of county superintendent of education unless such person: …

Chief Clerk; Powers and Duties; Issuance of Licenses; Disposition of Funds. (a)(1) Effective October 1, 1991, there is hereby created the office of commissioner of licenses. The salary of the commissioner of licenses shall be in the amount of thirty-six thousand dollars ($36,000)…

Powers and Duties; Delinquency Fees. (a) In Clarke County, there is hereby created and established the office of county license inspector. With the approval of the county commission, the license commissioner shall appoint the license inspector, who shall serve at the pleasure of …

The county commission shall employ a county engineer, who shall be a qualified and competent civil engineer, possessing all of the qualities as specified for county engineers pursuant to law. The county engineer shall devote his or her time and attention to the maintenance and co…

No municipality in Clarke County whose corporate limits do not lie within or extend into and embrace and include a portion of Choctaw County shall have or exercise police jurisdiction within Choctaw County; nor shall any such municipality exercise police jurisdiction, police powe…

(a) The Clarke County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall set the fee to be charged for each service. The health department is hereby authorized to charge and collect such fees. All fees col…

(a) The Clarke County Health Department may enforce littering laws, and other laws relating to littering in Clarke County, in addition to health laws and regulations governing the control and disposal of solid waste in Clarke County, and shall be empowered with the authority of p…

Alcoholic Beverages. (a)(1) The Legislature of Alabama is cognizant of “Opinion of the Justices No. 376,” issued April 9, 2002, which states that a local bill for Cherokee County “purporting to allow by local law the creation of a traffic in alcohol that does not presently exist …

(a) This section shall only apply in Clarke County. (b)(1) For each motor vehicle as defined in Section 40-12-240, excluding any trailer qualifying for a utility trailer tag, the Clarke County Commission may levy an additional annual fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) to be collect…

(a) This section shall be operative only in Clarke County. (b) The Sheriff of Clarke County, Alabama, shall receive an annual salary equal to his or her current salary and expense allowances effective on the commencement of the next term of office of the sheriff beginning after A…

(a)(1) Effective beginning May 1, 2025, the Sheriff of Clarke County shall receive an annual expense allowance of thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($32,500), payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. (2) This expense allowance shall be in …

(a) The Sheriff of Clarke County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail canteen and inmate telephone system within the confines of the county jail to serve the needs of the jail population. After the costs and operating expenses are deducted from the income, e…

(a) This section shall apply only to Clarke County. (b) In Clarke County, the total fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol pursuant to Section 13A-11-75, shall be twenty dollars ($20) per year, which shall be collected by the sheriff. (c) The fees collected by the sheriff…

(a) The Sheriff of Clarke County may charge and collect a reasonable fee for services, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) Fingerprinting. (2) Reports. (3) Copies of various requested records. (4) Photo identification cards. (5) Funeral duties. (6) Court-orde…

(a) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court official in the district and circuit courts of Clarke County shall assess a reasonable service of process fee for service or attempted service of process o…

In Clarke County, the members of the Board of Equalization shall be entitled to an expense allowance of thirty dollars ($30) a day for each day’s service as provided by law. Such expense allowance shall be payable in equal monthly payments and be in addition to any other compensa…

Chief Clerk; Oath and Bond; Office Space, Equipment; Disposition of Funds. (a) On and after October 1, 1991, or if a vacancy occurs in either the office of tax assessor or the office of tax collector of Clarke County before such date, then immediately upon the occurrence of such …

In Clarke County, Alabama, the procedure for redeeming lands sold for taxes in the county shall be the same as provided in Article 5, Chapter 10, Title 40, except that all such duties as are required of and performed by the judge of probate shall be transferred to and be performe…

In Clarke County, Alabama, in addition to any and all other taxes heretofore levied, the county commission may, by resolution, impose an additional ad valorem tax in the amount of five mills on each dollar of taxable property in the county. All proceeds from such levy shall be ea…

(a) This section shall be applicable only to Clarke County. (b) There is levied and imposed, 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 r…

Operation, Etc., and for School Purposes. (a) This section shall only apply to Clarke County. (b) As used in this section, state sales and use tax means the tax imposed by the state sales and use tax statutes, including, but not limited to, Sections 40-23-1, 40- 23-2, 40-23-3, 40…

(a)(1) There is imposed on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in Clarke County, a county privilege, license, or excise tax in the following manner: a. Five cents ($0.05) for each package of ciga…

(a)(1) Upon adoption of a resolution by the Clarke County Commission, the county commission may impose on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in Clarke County, a county privilege, license, or exc…

Any bank, either incorporated or unincorporated, which is established in Clarke County, shall have the power to establish, to maintain, and to operate within the same city or town or within other communities, one or more branches or branch banks, branch offices, branch agencies, …

Activities; Violations. (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to all counties having a population of not less than 26,000 nor more than 26,800 inhabitants according to the 1970 or any subsequent federal decennial census. (b) The following words and terms as used in this …

The Coroner of Clarke County shall be entitled to receive a total expense allowance in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500) per month to be paid out of the county general fund. This expense allowance shall be in addition to any and all other compensation and salary provided …

(a) In Clarke County, in addition to any compensation paid to the coroner by law, the Clarke County Commission may pay any of the actual and necessary expenses for the operation of the office of the coroner, including paying mileage for the use of a personal motor vehicle by the …

In Clarke County, there is hereby created the office of deputy coroner who shall have the same qualifications, powers and duties, and shall receive the same salary as the county coroner. The county governing body is authorized to appoint not more than two such deputies coroner. H…

Plan of County Engineer and Annual Budget; Clerical Assistance; Recordkeeping; Inspection of Roads and Bridges. (a) Beginning with the term of office of any member of the county commission which commences on or after November 2000, the chair and each member of the county commissi…

(a)(1) Effective beginning May 1, 2025, the County Commissioners of Clarke County shall receive an annual expense allowance of eight thousand dollars ($8,000), payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. (2) This expense allowance shall be in additi…

(a) The county commission herein created shall consist of five members, one of whom shall serve as chairman as hereinafter provided. (b) The five members of the commission shall be elected from, be a qualified elector of, and reside in each of five single-member districts within …

Commencing June 1, 1980, all costs and charges of court in the Clarke County Division of the First Judicial Circuit of this state shall be increased by five dollars ($5) with the proceeds from such increase to be paid into the Pistol Permit Fund of Clarke County to be used exclus…

(a) In any case in which court costs are assessed in the district and circuit courts of Clarke County, or the municipal courts in the county, there shall be assessed and collected as other costs and charges are collected, an additional court cost as follows: (1) In all circuit co…

(a) The Probate Judge of Clarke County shall be entitled to receive total compensation in the form of an annual salary in the amount of forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($47,500) per annum. Such salary shall be paid in lieu of all other fees, allowances, and percentages …

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Clarke County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees shall be collected by the circuit clerk…

(a) In all civil cases in the circuit and district courts in Clarke County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The solicitor’s fee in civil cases shall be in the same amount as the docket fee or court cost which is assessed…