Title 45

The members and the Chair of the Board of the Franklin County Commission have had added to their responsibilities the duty and obligation to maintain and oversee the road system for Franklin County. This has necessitated the members and chair to expend their funds in visiting, ov…

(a) The Franklin County Commission is authorized and empowered to construct and maintain driveways for schools, churches, and church owned cemeteries, and school bus turnarounds located within the county, at county expense. (b) The Franklin County Commission is further authorized…

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

The District Attorney of the Thirty-fourth Judicial Circuit, composed of Franklin County, may appoint a chief investigator and from time to time additional investigators. The investigators shall serve at the pleasure of the district attorney. The investigators shall meet the mini…

(a) In Franklin County, the judge of probate shall receive as compensation a salary in an amount equal to that received by the circuit judge, which shall be payable in equal monthly installments by proper warrant drawn on the general fund of the county. (b) Any compensation or ex…

This subpart applies only in Franklin County. The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Franklin County by providing for the installation of an improved system of recording, archiving, and retrieving instruments and documen…

The following words and phrases, including the plural of any thereof, whenever used in this subpart, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) GENERAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT. A real property instrument that affects the title to personal property as well as real property. (2)…

The judge of probate may provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved recording, archiving, and retrieval system in the probate offices of Franklin County. The initial installation of the improved recording, archival, and retrieval system shall i…

Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records provided herein to be recorded, archived, and retrieved with computer-generated files, to be stored and filed on either optical disk, or on paper, …

All laws of Alabama with respect to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, general property instruments, miscellaneous instruments, and other instruments and records that may constitute part of an improved recording, archiving, and retrieving s…

The initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the special recording fees. Nothing contained in this section, however, shall prohibit the county from using any part of its own funds for the purpose of paying the cost of purchasing, operating, or maintaining, after t…

Effective September 16, 1997, a special recording and filing fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by its judge of probate, with respect to each real property instrument, each personal property instrument, and each UCC filing that may be filed for record in the …

Effective September 16, 1997, a special recording fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate with respect to every court case filed in the Probate Court of Franklin County. The special recording fee shall be in addition to all other costs and …

Effective September 16, 1997, a special transaction fee of two dollars ($2) shall be paid to and collected by its judge of probate with respect to every transaction not covered by Section 45-30-82.26 or Section 45-30-82.27 occurring in, or under the jurisdiction of, the office of…

Effective September 16, 1997, any and all revenues generated either directly or indirectly due to the use of or access to the improved recording, archiving, and retrieving system shall be paid directly in the aforementioned special fund of the judge of probate. These funds shall …

(a) There is hereby created the Franklin County Community Development Commission which shall be authorized to receive and by majority vote to distribute any funds in the Community Development Fund created herein for the purposes of promoting economic development, education, conse…

In Franklin County, any funds in the severed material severance tax fund remitted to the county pursuant to Section 40-13-58, for economic development, shall be distributed to the Franklin County Development Authority and used exclusively for economic development. (Act 2012-453, …

(a) This section shall only apply to Franklin County. (b) When used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively: (1) EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITY or EMPLOYER. The county school system; any public city school system; any school, college, or instit…

There shall be established a scholarship program for the benefit of residents of Franklin County. The revenue derived from the county tax levied by Subpart 1, Part 6, Article 24, is appropriated to the program and is deposited into the Franklin County Educational Board Account, w…

(a) The Franklin County Educational Board is created to administer this part. (b) The board shall consist of 11 members. The county superintendent of education, the City of Russellville Superintendent of Education, and the county judge of probate shall be ex officio members of th…

To be eligible to receive a scholarship adopted pursuant to Subpart 1, Part 6, Article 24, as amended in 1998, a person shall meet the requirements of this part and satisfy the policies and procedures promulgated by the board. (Acts 1965, No. 54, p. 75, §3; Act 89-502, p. 1039, §…

(a) Commencing with the 1998-1999 academic year, the board may award from the Franklin County Educational Board Account as many scholarships for each school year as its funds will allow to eligible recipients, subject to the limitations of this part and the policies and procedure…

(a) Each scholarship awarded pursuant to this part shall only be used for a student’s tuition at an in-state institution of higher learning. (b) Scholarship funds shall be distributed equally among all undergraduate college students of any institution of higher education who meet…

(a) The Legislature finds that Amendment 578 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, was approved by an overwhelming majority of the voters of Franklin County and the Franklin County School District at the election held for that purpose. The Legislature further finds and declares…

(a) Upon a determination by the principal of any Franklin County public K-12 school that the safety of the students at the school is not adequately protected or that additional security is necessary to ensure the safety of the students or employees, he or she may request voluntee…

(a) In Franklin County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to each member of the board of registrars an expense allowance in an amount of five dollars ($5) per day. It is the intent of this sectio…

(a) The Franklin County Board of Registrars shall be available at the county courthouse, or at other locations provided by law, for the registration and reidentification of voters during the hours of 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on regular business days or on any additional days on any…

Each election official of Franklin County shall receive twenty dollars ($20) per day for the performance of his or her official duties and five dollars ($5) for one day election school attendance. The County Commission of Franklin County shall supplement the compensation already …

(a) Pursuant to the authorization under Section 17-6-4(c), the Franklin County Commission may establish voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts in order to facilitate or reduce costs for elections. (b)(1) The Franklin County Commission shall hold a public he…

This article shall apply only in Franklin County. (Act 2015-513, 1st Sp. Sess., §1.)

The Legislature declares that volunteer fire districts which receive funds pursuant to this article are organizations which are public in nature as they protect the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the county. (Act 2015-513, 1st Sp. Sess., §2.)

The Franklin County Commission may establish one or more volunteer fire districts within the geographic boundaries of the county. No land lying within the boundaries of a municipality at the time a district is formed shall be included in a district unless the municipality adopts …

(a) Existing volunteer fire departments with their respective geographic service coverage area, as defined by Franklin County E911 on August 14, 2015, and the City of Russellville, are established as fire districts pursuant to this article. The volunteer fire departments shall be…

(a) The qualified electors of a fire district may file a petition, signed by at least 50 registered voters in the fire district, with the office of the judge of probate, who shall then order a referendum to be held in the fire district on the question of establishing a fire prote…

(a) If a majority of the votes cast at the election are affirmative votes, the fire protection service fee on each residence, dwelling, and business within the geographic boundaries of the fire district shall become effective on the first day of the next month following approval …

Any person who meets the requirements of Sections 40-9-19 and 40-9-21 for the over 65 disability special homestead exemption shall be exempt from paying the fire protection service fee. (Act 2015-513, 1st Sp. Sess., §7.)

(a) The fire protection service fee shall be collected with taxes and shall be collected, administered, and enforced as closely as possible at the same time, in the same manner, and under the same requirements and laws as are the ad valorem taxes of the state. In the case of mobi…

(a) The election laws governing the registration of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment of election officers, voting, and canvassing returns at a general election shall apply to the elections for fire district funding. (b) When a petition for …

Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible volunteer fire district, any remaining funds derived from this article or any assets purchased with the funds derived from this article, after all indebtedness has been satisfied, shall be transferred to the association. The funds a…

A fire district shall be exempt from all taxes levied by any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state, including, but not limited to, license, utility, and excise taxes imposed for engaging in any of the activities of the district. The district shall be e…

The personnel of volunteer fire districts provided for in this article may not be considered as employees, servants, or agents of the county and the members of the county commission and the employees of the county may not be liable in either their official capacity or private cap…

This article is supplemental and may not be construed to repeal any law not in conflict with this article. The county commission of Franklin County shall retain the right to set district lines, except as provided in this article. (Act 2015-513, 1st Sp. Sess., §13.)

In Franklin County, the payments made to the county commission as authorized in Section 40-28-2, shall be distributed by the county commission as follows: (1) Each local government shall first receive the same amount of funds which it received from the Alcoholic Beverage Control …

(a) The county Board of Health of Franklin County, which is a part of the Northwest Alabama Regional Health Department, is hereby authorized to recommend reasonable fees or charges to the governing body of the county and the governing body shall establish the actual amount of the…

(a) In Franklin County, it shall be unlawful for any person or group of persons to willfully throw or cast, or cause to be thrown or cast, in a continuous and repeated manner, the rays of a spotlight, headlight, or other artificial light from any motor vehicle, with the aid of an…

(a) This section shall be operative in Franklin County. (b) Commencing on June 1, 1995, the Sheriff of Franklin County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance equal to the difference between the salary currently being paid to the sheriff and the salary of fifty-two t…