Title 45

(a) The Coroner of Jackson County is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a deputy coroner who shall have authority to exercise all the functions pertaining to the office of the coroner and who shall serve at the pleasure of the coroner. (b) The compensation of the deputy c…

(a) The Chair of the Jackson County Commission shall receive an annual salary as provided by current law. The amount shall be paid in equal biweekly installments from the general fund in the county treasury. (b) The chair of the county commission shall serve full time. (Act 80-53…

The Chair of the Jackson County Commission shall be paid a monthly expense allowance of five hundred dollars ($500). Each associate member of the Jackson County Commission shall be paid a monthly expense allowance of three hundred dollars ($300). Such amounts shall be paid from t…

Notwithstanding Act 65, 1950 Fifth Special Session (Acts 1950-1951 Special and Regular Sessions, p. 126), as amended, the terms of members of the Jackson County Commission shall be staggered as follows: Effective for the general election in 2012, two members of the county commiss…

(a) The County Commission of Jackson County is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the purchase, lease, or contractual services for providing data processing, computerized services, or other modern or updated electronic based systems for bookkeeping, recording, indexing…

(a) In Jackson County, in addition to any and all court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized, the following fees shall be charged and collected by the circuit court clerk on the following cases: (1) Additional court costs in the amount of twenty dollars ($20) shall be asses…

(a) This section shall only apply to Jackson County. (b) In addition to all other fees or costs levied, the county commission may require that there shall be taxed as costs the sum of ten dollars ($10), for the service of each paper or document by the sheriff or any deputy sherif…

(a) In Jackson County, in addition to any and all court costs, fees, and charges now or hereafter authorized, there shall be assessed by the Circuit Court Clerk a one hundred dollars ($100) charge on the service of all failure to appear warrants issued and executed by the Jackson…

(a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Jackson County, there shall be levied and assessed by the clerk of the court a court cost of thirty-five dollars ($35) in the following domestic violence cases: (1) Any case in which…

SECTION 4 OF ACT 2019-215 WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2020-119 IN THE 2020 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE MAY 18, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) This section shall be known and cited as the Jackson County Preservation of Justice Act. (b) The Legislature hereby finds and…

The District Attorney of the Thirty-eighth Judicial Circuit for Jackson County, Alabama, shall be entitled to receive as an expense allowance, payable from the general fund of such county, a sum equal to thirty percent of the compensation paid such district attorney by the State …

(a) The jury commission of Jackson County shall receive compensation of twenty dollars ($20) per day for up to a maximum of 60 days. The compensation shall be the total compensation, salary, and expense allowance received by the jury commission. (b) The clerk of the Jackson Count…

(a) In Jackson County, beginning October 1, 2025, the salary of the judge of probate shall be one hundred thirty-two thousand dollars ($132,000) per year payable in installments from the general fund of the county. The salary provided in this subsection shall be in lieu of any ot…

Pursuant to the authority granted in subsection (d) of Section 12-19-90, the Judge of Probate of Jackson County shall set the fee for supplying a copy of an instrument. The fee shall be in lieu of any other fee prescribed by law for the service. The money shall be charged and dep…

The Jackson County Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to set the fee schedule for mailing out motor vehicle license plates or any other licenses or notices issued by the probate office. The county governing body shall also be responsible for any err…

The Judge of Probate of Jackson County may charge an additional fee when performing the rites of matrimony if the ceremony is not performed on county property. The amount of any additional fee shall be at the discretion of the judge of probate. The fee authorized by this section …

In Jackson County, effective at the beginning of the next term of office, the judge of probate shall receive no compensation or fees for publishing the list of qualified electors in the county pursuant to Section 17-4-1. (Act 94-382, p. 636, §1.)

This subpart shall only apply in Jackson County. The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Jackson County by providing for the installation of an improved system of indexing of instruments and documents affecting the title …

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 is hereby authorized to provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved indexing system in the probate offices of the county. The initial installation of the improved indexing system shall include all of the following: (1) The a…

All laws of Alabama with respect to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other instruments and records that may constitute part of an improved indexing system installed hereunder including, but without limitation to, Section 12-13-43, and…

Nothing contained in this subpart, however, shall prohibit the county from using any part of its own funds for the purpose of paying the cost of installing, operating, and maintaining any improved system installed pursuant to this subpart. (Act 89-192, p. 234, §5.)

Immediately on May 10, 1993, this section becomes applicable to Jackson County. A special indexing fee of four dollars ($4) shall be paid to the county and collected by the judge of probate, with respect to each real property instrument and each personal property instrument that …

(a) The Jackson County Commission shall maintain a county law library in the county. (b) In each case filed in the Circuit Court and District Court of Jackson County, there shall be assessed a law library fee in the amount of two dollars ($2). The fee shall be collected as other …

(a) There is hereby created the Jackson County Economic Development Authority for Jackson County, Alabama. The authority is created for the purpose and has the responsibility of aiding and assisting current industries and coordinating efforts of all municipal and county agencies …

(a) The Jackson County Superintendent of Education and several members of the Jackson County Board of Education shall hereafter be elected by only those qualified electors in the county who are residing outside the city limits of Scottsboro, Alabama. (b) Any candidate for a seat …

(a) The Jackson County Commission may provide compensation to election officials in addition to that now provided by law, in an amount not exceeding ten dollars ($10) per day. (b) This additional compensation shall be appropriated from the county general fund. (Act 81-175, p. 201…

(a) The Jackson County Commission is hereby authorized to fix a county fire protection tax at a rate of 2 mills on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assessed value on all taxable real estate outside the incorporated municipalities of Jackson County, excluding row crops and p…

(a) The board of county commissioners or other like governing body of Jackson County, in its discretion, may appropriate and pay county funds, within the financial means of the county, in such amounts as may seem reasonable and necessary to the commissioners or other like governi…

(a) The County Commission of Jackson County is hereby authorized to contribute public funds in an amount not to exceed four thousand dollars ($4,000) in any fiscal year to an organized and established rescue squad operating within the county which shall have been in existence for…

(a) No later than 30 days immediately following June 26, 1995, all motor vehicles owned or leased by Jackson County shall be marked on the sides with decals or stencils identifying the vehicles as belonging to the county or being used as a county vehicle, except for the motor veh…

(a) The Jackson County governing body shall reimburse the office of tax collector and judge of probate from the general fund of the county the amount of any monetary loss, not to exceed a total of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, arising or caused by the acceptance of wor…

(a) Any payments coming into the treasury of Jackson County that are derived, directly or indirectly, from payments by the Tennessee Valley Authority in lieu of payment of taxes shall be appropriated as follows: (1) One percent to the Jackson County Economic Development Fund paid…

(a) The Jackson 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. Any fees to be charged under the authority of this section by the county health departm…

(a) This section shall apply only in Jackson County, Alabama. (b) The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. Jackson County. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The Jackson County Commission. (3) SWINE FARM or SWINE FARMING. Commercial concentrated animal feeding opera…

The Guntersville Reservoir Aquatic Plant Management Board of Jackson County is hereby created in Jackson County for the purpose of creating and implementing an aquatic plant management program for Lake Guntersville within the jurisdictional boundaries of Jackson County. (Act 2014…

(a) The Guntersville Reservoir Aquatic Plant Management Board of Jackson County shall be composed of the following nine members: (1) The Mayor of Scottsboro or his or her designee. (2) The Chair of the Jackson County Commission or his or her designee. (3) One member appointed by …

The Guntersville Reservoir Aquatic Plant Management Board of Jackson County shall develop and, to the extent feasible using available funding, implement an aquatic plant management program in the waters of Lake Guntersville in Jackson County. The program shall address both short …

There is hereby created a department of public works in Jackson County for the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads and bridges, and the supervision of solid waste systems. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §1.)

The department of public works, subject to the approval of the Jackson County Commission, shall have the power and authority and shall be solely responsible for the construction, repair, and maintenance of the roads, bridges, and ferries and all such construction, repair, and mai…

Any unexpended monies remaining in the fund required by law to be maintained by the State Department of Transportation for the use in the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads, bridges, and ferries in Jackson County shall be paid over to the county department of p…

The county commission may request the Director of the State Department of Transportation to send names of candidates for the position of qualified registered engineer or the commission, without said names, may employ a person who is a qualified registered engineer and who has as …

It shall be the duty of the county engineer, subject to the approval of the majority of the Jackson County Commission: (1) To employ, supervise, and direct all such assistants as are necessary to properly maintain and construct the public roads, highways, bridges, and ferries of …

The county engineer is hereby designated as the person authorized to make requisitions in writing to the county commission for per diem and other expenses, provided, when contracts are to be let or when equipment is to be purchased, lease-purchased, or rented involving more than …

(a) The county commission shall furnish the county engineer office supplies and necessary transportation in connection with his or her duties under this article. The county engineer shall be the only department of public works employee authorized to drive a county vehicle to and …

The county engineer shall be the custodian of all road tools, machinery, supplies, and equipment of the county, and he or she shall be accountable for the same. It shall be the further duty of the county engineer to inspect all materials, machinery, equipment, and supplies purcha…