Title 45

In Covington County, effective March 1, 2006, the compensation of each member of the county commission, excluding the chair, shall be equalized so that each member of the county commission receives the same compensation as the highest paid member of the county commission, excludi…

On June 1, 1945, the Court of County Commissioners in and for Covington County, as provided for in Act No. 20, Local Acts of 1919, Page 8, be and the same is abolished and thereupon shall cease to exist. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §1.)

There is established and created in and for Covington County, Alabama, a court of record to be known and called the Board of Revenue of Covington County, hereinafter to be cited and, referred to in this part as the board. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §2.)

For the purposes of this part the County of Covington is divided into four subdivisions, to be known as districts, and to be numbered from 1 to 4, inclusive. District 1 shall embrace and be composed of beats numbered 3, 14, 4, 17, 8, and 23. District 2 shall embrace and be compos…

The board shall consist of a president and four associate members who shall be appointed or elected and shall have such authority as hereinafter provided. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §4.)

The president of the board and each associate member thereof shall be qualified electors of Covington County and shall be elected from the county at large. Each district as established in Section 45-20-71.02 shall be entitled to a member on the board and each candidate for electi…

The president of the board shall not be under the age of 25 on the date of the general election for such office and shall be a qualified elector of the county. Each associate member shall be a qualified elector and resident of the district from which he or she is elected. (Acts 1…

The president and associate members of the board shall be elected at the general election to be held in 1948, and every four years thereafter, in the manner now or hereafter provided under the general laws of Alabama for the election of county governing bodies, and shall take off…

The president and associate members so elected shall hold office for a period of four years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next succeeding their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §6.)

Pending the election of 1948 as provided herein, the president and members of the board shall be the same persons now constituting the membership of the court of county commissioners herein abolished, all of whom shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified.…

Should any vacancy occur in the presidency or associate membership of the board, the same shall be filled by appointment of the Governor who shall be governed by Section 45-20-71.04 and Section 45-20-71.05. Such appointment shall be for the unexpired term of the officer whose off…

The president and associate members of the board shall each receive an annual salary in the sum of four thousand two hundred dollars ($4,200), payable in equal monthly installments of three hundred fifty dollars ($350) by warrant issued by the board and signed by the president. S…

In addition to the compensation provided in Section 45-20-71.10 the president and associate members of the board shall each be paid a mileage allowance of ten cents ($0.10) per mile for each mile necessarily traveled by him or her within the county in the discharge of his or her …

Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, the president and each associate member of the board shall each give bond in the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), with some bonding company authorized to do business in Alabama as surety, which shall be payable to Covin…

The president of the board is made the presiding officer of the board, charged with the duty to preside at all the meetings of the board, but with no right to vote except in case of a tie, in which event he or she shall cast the deciding vote. Such president, except as otherwise …

The Covington County Commission shall meet in regular session in accordance with Section 11-3-8, and shall conduct an additional regular session each month in accordance with a policy to be established by the Covington County Commission, and amended from time to time. (Acts 1945,…

The presence of the regular president and three associate members, or three associate members without the regular president or the fourth associate member, shall constitute a quorum for any regular session. The presence of all the associate members at a special meeting called wit…

At the first or any subsequent meeting of the board, a president pro tempore of the board shall be elected by the board. He or she shall serve at the pleasure of the board. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §17.)

The president pro tempore of the board shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered, except as otherwise provided herein for the regular president, to perform all the duties imposed by law upon the regular president of the board, but only during the absence of the regular pres…

All business shall be valid if passed and approved by majority vote of the board quorum prescribed in this part. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §19.)

Except as herein otherwise provided, the board is clothed and impressed with all the powers, duties, responsibilities, and official rights that the general laws of Alabama now or may hereafter give and appoint unto the county governing bodies of the State of Alabama. (Acts 1945, …

Except as herein otherwise provided, each member of the board elected or appointed pursuant to the authority herein contained is constituted and appointed director and supervisor of all the public roads within the district which he or she represents, and shall have the authority,…

Should a majority of the membership of the board (not a majority of a quorum) deem such action necessary from any cause, they may withdraw from the individual member of the board the authority and power impressed by Section 45-20-71.20, and when such withdrawal is made, and until…

The board if it so desires may allocate to each district of the county a portion of the taxes and funds available or received for road and bridge purposes. Such allocation may be withdrawn at the pleasure of the board. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §23.)

If the board should be authorized lawfully to employ an engineer or supervisor for the roads of the entire county, such supervisor shall be subject to the jurisdiction of each board member so far as the maintenance, appointment, designation, and construction of roads and bridges …

Any contract, deed, or conveyance signed by the president of the board, and witnessed by the clerk of the board, on orders of and at the direction of the board, shall be valid and binding obligations of the county. Provided, further, that the president pro tempore may sign in lie…

The board shall have power and authority, under conditions herein set forth, to appropriate money from the general fund or from the gasoline fund for the construction and maintenance of any airport project within the county, and may participate in any such project sponsored by an…

The board shall have power and authority, as a group or as individual members, to affiliate with any state or national organization fostering the improvement of county government and its physical properties, and it shall be the duty of board to pay the dues of such board or the i…

The board shall forthwith appoint a clerk, fix his or her salary, and prescribe his or her bond. Such clerk shall perform such duties as may be required by the general laws of a clerk of a county governing body, and shall perform such other duties as the board may impose upon him…

It shall be the duty of the clerk to attend the meetings of the board and to issue all notices required by the board or any member thereof. He or she shall under the direction of the board keep the minutes of the records and proceedings of the board in well bound volumes (loose l…

The board shall have the authority to prescribe a bond for any employee, including the clerk, treasurer, and general road supervisor, the premiums for which shall be paid out of such fund of the county as the board may lawfully direct. The bond shall be payable to the county, app…

The commission may hereby appropriate annually out of the moneys in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), to be known and called the “Contingent Fund,” out of which any donation or expense may be paid that in the judgment of the…

The board may create the office of purchase agent (or agents), fix the salary therefor, and prescribe the fund out of which the same shall be paid in whole or in part, and shall appoint such person or persons as they may deem proper to serve in such capacity. Such purchasing agen…

The board shall have the power and authority to authorize the clerk to employ such clerical assistants as he or she may deem needful in keeping the records of the board, to prescribe such salary as they deem proper and to be paid from any fund as it may lawfully determine, such e…

The board shall classify all employees engaged in the construction and maintenance of roads in the county, and shall fix a uniform salary or wage scale for each such classification. (Acts 1945, No. 22, §34.)

Upon the trial by jury in the Circuit Courts of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or a felony or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors impaneled for the week who…

In Covington County, in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in equity, criminal, or quasi-criminal case or any other proceeding filed in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise in the circuit court, inferior court, or other court in the county, inclu…

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

(a) In Covington County, a booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed against and collected from each individual booked or incarcerated in the Covington County Detention Center as a county inmate and subsequently convicted. The fee assessed pursuant to th…

The District Attorney of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit in Covington County shall receive, in addition to any other compensation and in addition to any other supplement provided by law, an automobile expense allowance to be paid monthly in the amount of one percent of annual …

(a) The District Attorney of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit is authorized to provide a clerk-secretary to attend all grand jury sessions in the circuit at the request of the grand juries. The clerk-secretary shall perform such clerical and secretarial duties as the grand juri…

Investigators for the district attorney’s office in the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit are authorized and empowered to make arrests and serve search warrants in the performance of their official duties to the same extent as deputy sheriffs are so authorized and empowered. (Act 87…

(a) In Covington County there is created a fund to be designated the “District Attorney’s Fund” of the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit, which fund shall be at the disposal of the district attorney of the circuit, and shall be expended by him or her for the payment of any and all e…

This subpart shall apply only to the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit. (Act 94-807, p. 125, §1.)

The purpose of this subpart is to ensure that court-ordered restitution to crime victims, victim compensation assessments, bail bond forfeitures, court costs required by law, fines levied against criminals for wrongful conduct, and other court-ordered sums payable to the state or…

The district attorney may establish a special division designated the Restitution Recovery Division for the administration, collection, and enforcement of court costs, fines, penalty assessments, victim compensation assessments, bail bond forfeitures, restitution, or like assessm…