Title 45

(a) Beginning on May 24, 2023, the Coroner of Lamar County shall receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200) per month to be paid out of the county general fund. The expense allowance shall be in addition to any and all other compensation, …

(a) Each member of the Lamar County Commission shall devote his or her full time to the business of the commission, effective upon the next term of office of any of the members. (b) The members of the Lamar County Commission shall receive an additional expense allowance of three …

(a) The Lamar County Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, within Lamar County, to go upon private property and perform work or services for churches or individuals, and to sell materials to churches, schools, individuals, and nonprofit associations or corporations. (b) …

(a) This section shall only apply in Lamar County. (b)(1) All contracts for the sale or disposal of real property or tangible personal property owned by or under the control of the county commission shall be let by free and open competitive sealed bids. The chair of the county co…

The Lamar County Commission may maintain driveways for schools, churches, and church-owned cemeteries, and school bus turnarounds located within the county, at county expense. The county commission also may provide normal maintenance at county expense on any gravel road or drivew…

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Lamar 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 mo…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Lamar County shall receive as his or her compensation an amount equal to 90 percent of the total amount paid the presiding circuit judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit. The compensation shall be paid out of the General Fund of Lamar County. (b) …

(a) Effective beginning the next term of office after June 1, 2024, the Judge of Probate of Lamar County shall receive as his or her total compensation a salary of one hundred ten thousand one hundred sixteen dollars ($110,116) per year. The compensation provided by this section …

(a) The offices of probate judge, tax assessor, and tax collector in Lamar County are each hereby authorized to hire a chief clerk. The chief clerks’ salaries shall be fixed by the Lamar County Commission and paid from the general fund of the county. (b) The office of probate jud…

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

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 indexing and recording system in the probate offices of the county. The initial installation of the improved indexing system shall include the following: (1) The acquisition of…

Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records and indexes thereto shall constitute the official records of the instruments for the purpose of Section 12-13-43. (Act 93-491, p. 785, §4.)

All provisions of the 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 indexing and recordi…

The initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the special indexing and 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 operating and maintaining, after …

Thirty days after May 13, 1993, a special indexing and recording fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to the judge of probate with respect to each real property instrument and each personal property instrument that may be filed for record in the office of the judge of probate a…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Lamar County may set and collect a mail fee from any person renewing a motor vehicle registration, business license, boat license, or any other license deliverable by mail or over the Internet to offset the costs of the renewal, including the costs of …

There is created the Lamar County Industrial Development Authority which shall be composed of 13 members for the purpose of promoting economic growth and development and assisting the county commission and the city councils of Beaverton, Detroit, Kennedy, Millport, Sulligent, and…

All members of the Lamar County Board of Education, excluding the superintendent of education, shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per month expense allowance and twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day’s attendance at official meetings of the board. The expense allowance sha…

Beginning with the next term of office, the county superintendent of education in Lamar County shall receive an annual salary that shall be fixed by the county board of education and shall be payable in equal monthly installments out of the county funds available for that purpose…

The County Commission of Lamar County shall provide such additional amount of daily compensation as is necessary to grant each election clerk, inspector, and returning officer of elections a total compensation of twenty-five dollars ($25), and shall increase the mileage allowance…

Relating to Lamar County, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, on July 18, 1991, any funds held in escrow which were to be distributed to the Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority, which was to be incorporated pursuant to Part 2, and which funds were n…

When used in this part, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) AUTHORITY. The Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority, a public corporation organized pursuant to th…

This part is intended to aid the state and county in the execution of its duties by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of the state and of the county with full and adequate powers to fulfill its functions. It is the further legislative intent that the Lamar …

(a) Within 45 days after May 4, 1989, or the passage and approval of a constitutional amendment authorizing the creation of the authority, three applicants shall be appointed to proceed to incorporate the Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority by filing for…

(a) The certificate of incorporation of the authority incorporated under this part may at any time and from time to time be amended in the manner provided in this section. (b)(1) The board of directors of the authority shall first adopt a resolution proposing an amendment to the …

(a) The Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority shall be governed by a board of directors. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by the board or pursuant to its authorization. (b) The initial board of directors shall consist of the three citizens ap…

(a) The authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time specified in its certificate of incorporation. (2) To sue …

(a) The authority organized or operating pursuant to this part, in addition to all other powers now or hereafter granted by law, shall have the following powers and rights: (1) To borrow money for use for any of its corporate purposes. (2) To sell, transfer, convey, grant options…

(a) As security for payment of the principal of and interest on bonds or obligations assumed by it, the authority may enter into a contract or contracts binding itself for the proper application of the proceeds of bonds and other funds, for the continued operation and maintenance…

Rates, fees, and charges for water service and fire protection service rendered by the authority from any of its water systems or fire protection facilities shall be so fixed and from time to time revised as at all times to provide funds at least sufficient to do all of the follo…

For the purpose of securing water service and fire protection facilities or aiding or cooperating with the authority in the planning, development, undertaking, construction, extension, improvement, operation, or protection of water systems and fire protection facilities, any coun…

The authority is hereby authorized to use the rights-of-way of all public roads in the state without securing the prior approval of the state or of its agencies or departments or the county commission of any county and subject only to the necessity of obtaining the municipal cons…

(a) The furnishing of fire protection facilities in conjunction with the water services by the authority as well as the furnishing of water services are hereby declared to be a governmental function. (b) The authority shall not be liable for any tort, whether negligent or wilful,…

(a) The authority, the property and income of the authority, the income from bonds, conveyances by or to the authority, and leases, mortgages, and deeds of trust by or to the authority shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama. (b) The authority shall not be oblig…

The authority now or hereafter organized under this part is hereby exempted from the laws of the State of Alabama governing usury and prescribing or limiting interest rates, including, without limitation, Chapter 8 of Title 8. (Act 89-472, p. 975, §14.)

At any time when no bonds or obligations theretofore assumed by the authority are outstanding, the board may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon its minutes, declaring that the authority shall be dissolved. Upon the filing for record of a certified copy of the re…

In all cases where there is an attempt to incorporate a public corporation under this part, and a certificate of incorporation with respect to such corporation has been filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which such corporation was sought to be incorporat…

(a) Except as expressly otherwise provided in this part, no proceeding, notice, or approval shall be required for the incorporation of the authority or the amendment of its certificate of incorporation, the acquisition of any property, water system, or fire protection facility, o…

The Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority shall be audited similar to and in accordance with any audit required to be performed upon the Lamar County Commission and the operations of the County of Lamar. (Act 89-472, p. 975, §18.)

(a) The county governing body of Lamar County shall establish a special beaver fund in the county treasury with an initial deposit of five thousand dollars ($5,000) from the county general fund. The beaver fund shall be used to pay bounties to any resident of the county in the am…

(a) The Lamar 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 coll…

The Lamar County Hospital Association Health Trust Fund may pay from the trust fund an expense allowance in an amount to be set by the board to those persons serving as members of the governing board, members of the executive committee, and the chair of the executive committee. (…

In Lamar County, notwithstanding Section 40-12-10, and any other general or local law of this state, no person shall be appointed to the position of county license inspector of or for Lamar County. The position of county license inspector in the county is hereby abolished and the…

(a) The Sheriff of Lamar County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail store for prisoners within the confines of the county jail. The jail store shall be operated to serve the needs of the jail population. (b)(1) The sheriff shall establish and maintain a law…

Upon successfully completing the minimum standards of training and other requirements for law enforcement officers of the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission, a community corrections officer employed by the Community Punishment and Corrections Authority of the 24th …