Title 45

(a) There is created the Lauderdale County Council for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. The members of the council shall include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Each member of the local legislative delegation, or his or her designee. (2) Members of the Alabama Silver Ha…

The council shall have the following duties and authority: (1) To define the roles and responsibilities of all participating departments. (2) To adopt rules for the internal operation of the council. (3) To recommend to the lead agency the appointment of additional members to ser…

The lead agency shall be responsible for the general administration, supervision, and monitoring of all council activities. (Act 2012-420, p. 1134, §6.)

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Lauderdale County Barber Act. (Act 88-144, p. 223, §1.)

This article is applicable only in Lauderdale County. It is enacted for the purpose of safeguarding the public health, safety, and welfare by providing for county administrative control, supervision, and regulation, including certain registration and licensing, of the practice of…

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) BARBER. Any person who practices barbering. (2) BARBER APPRENTICE. Any person who practices barbering under the constant and direct supervision of a …

It shall be unlawful for any person in this county to engage in or follow or to attempt to engage in or to follow or to hold himself or herself out as engaging in or following, or to advertise or to assume to engage in or follow the practice of barbering as a barber, manager, app…

It shall be unlawful for any person, copartnership, association, or corporation, foreign or domestic, to engage in or to follow, or to hold himself, herself, or itself out as engaging in or following, or to advertise or to assume to engage in or to follow the conducting and opera…

(a) No person shall be admitted to examination or receive a license under this article, except as otherwise provided for in this article, unless such person shall possess the following qualifications: (1) BARBER. Except as otherwise provided for in this article, no person may be …

(a) It shall be necessary for any person, firm, corporation, or association to apply to the board for a certificate of registration as a registered barbershop or school of barbering, within the meaning of this article, the application to be upon a form prescribed by the board and…

No school of barbering shall be granted a certificate of registration unless it shall employ and maintain a sufficient number of competent instructors, at least one for every 20 students in attendance at any one time; shall possess apparatus and equipment sufficient for the prope…

(a) Every person who desires to engage in any of the practices designated to be within the meaning of this article shall file with the secretary of the board a written application for a certificate to practice or for an examination and license to practice, as the case may be, as …

(a) The examination of applicants for a license to practice a classified profession as designated under this article shall be conducted under rules prescribed by the board and shall include both practical demonstrations, written and oral tests in reference to the practices for wh…

If an applicant for examination to practice barbering passes the examination to the satisfaction of the board and has paid the required fee as provided in Section 45-39-40.12 and otherwise complies with the requirements provided in this article, or any applicant who otherwise qua…

Any person who can establish after April 4, 1988, that he or she is a barber or an apprentice and can establish reasonable proof that he or she is practicing barbering in a barbershop or school of barbering under sanitary conditions shall be given a certificate or license to prac…

The various fees to be paid by the applicants for original registrations, licenses, biennial renewals, temporary permits, licenses issued upon reciprocity, and examinations, as required under this article, shall be established by the board, not to exceed the following amounts: (1…

The board may dispense with examinations of applicants as provided in this article and may grant certificates of registration or licenses under the respective sections, upon the payment of the required fee as provided in this article; provided, that such applicant is currently li…

The fees for examination, licenses, and certificates, as provided for in this article, shall be paid in advance to the secretary of the board and by him or her paid each month into the county treasury to the credit of a fund for the use of the board. On failure to pass an examina…

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to practice barbering except in a bona fide established barbershop or school of barbering wherein the requirements of laws as to proper and sanitary practices of barbering are complied with. Provided that nothing contained…

(a) The board may issue a temporary license to any person who otherwise is subject to examination, as provided in this article, upon documentary or other satisfactory evidence that the applicant therefor has the necessary qualifications to practice any one or any combination of p…

Every holder of a certificate or license granted by the board as provided in this article shall display it in a conspicuous place in his or her principal office, place of business, or employment, and each such license certificate shall have attached thereto a picture of the licen…

No license issued by the board shall be for a period longer than two years. All licenses shall expire on September 30 of odd-numbered years. Renewal applications must reach the office of the board on or before November 1 of the odd-numbered years. Applicants shall be required to …

(a) The board shall have the power to refuse, revoke, and suspend licenses and certificates, strictly in accordance with this article, upon proof of violation of any of the rules and regulations promulgated by the board, or upon proof of violation of any of the sections of this a…

(a) Nothing in this article shall prohibit service in case of emergency or domestic administration, without compensation, nor services by persons authorized under the laws of this county to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, chiropody, osteopathy, or chiropractic. This articl…

(a) There is hereby created a barbers commission for the county to which his article applies. The Governor shall appoint three persons, each of whom immediately prior to the date of his or her appointment has been a resident of the county for three years, and who has had at least…

The board shall meet at such times and places as the members shall agree upon. The majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall prescribe rules for its government and have a seal with which to authenticate its act…

The board shall keep a permanent record of its proceedings. It shall keep a register of applicants for certificates or licenses showing: The name of the applicant, the name and location of his or her place of occupation or business, and whether the applicant was granted or refuse…

The board shall have authority to employ inspectors and to employ and fix the compensation of such regular or special counsel, clerks, and other assistants as it may deem necessary in order to carry out this article. Inspectors shall be paid the same mileage and per diem as other…

Any investigation, inquiry, or hearing which the board is empowered by this article to hold or undertake may be held or undertaken by, or held before, a majority of the board, and shall be deemed to be the finding or order of the board when approved and confirmed by a majority of…

(a) Findings made by the board are deemed conclusive, unless within 30 days after notice of the decision of the board has been given an aggrieved party, the aggrieved person shall appeal the finding or ruling to the circuit court of the county of his or her residence or to the Ci…

This article and the rules and regulations established by the board under this article shall apply throughout the county. (Act 88-144, p. 223, §28.)

This article shall not apply in any county except Lauderdale. (Act 88-144, p. 223, §30.)

(a) The office of constable is hereby abolished in Lauderdale County. (b) Any person now serving in such office in Lauderdale County shall be entitled to any vested rights accrued. (Act 87-259, p. 365, §§1, 2.)

The County Commission of Lauderdale County, in its sole discretion, may set the monthly expense allowance for the county coroner payable from county funds not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per month total expense allowance. (Act 79-682, p. 1213, §1; Act 99-334, p. 466, …

(a) Commencing with the next term of office, the salary of the Coroner of Lauderdale County shall be twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per annum, which shall be paid in the same manner and at the same time as other county employees. (b) The salary provided in this section shall b…

(a)(1) The Chair of the Lauderdale County Commission shall be elected on a countywide basis. The chair shall take office at the same time as members of the Lauderdale County Commission take office and shall serve a four-year term or until a successor is elected and qualified. The…

Each County Commissioner of Lauderdale County shall receive a further and additional expense allowance of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month which shall be paid in addition to any and all other expense allowances and compensation provided by law. (Act 79-352, p. 565, §1.)

(a) The County Commission of Lauderdale County may establish and administer a program of revenue collection for all legally authorized fees, taxes, licenses, and other revenues not presently being collected locally. (b) The County Commission of Lauderdale County, within 30 days’ …

(a) Any semi-retired or retired circuit judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit shall be entitled to receive as additional compensation payable from the treasury of the county, a sum equal to one and one half percent of the compensation paid the judge by the State of Alabama for e…

In Lauderdale County, when the compensation of the circuit judge is increased, the compensation of the circuit clerk shall also be increased in an amount sufficient to maintain his or her total salary at the same relationship which the salary of the circuit clerk of the county be…

Upon the trial by jury in the circuit courts of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or a felony not punished capitally, or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors empanel…

(a) The governing body of Lauderdale County, Alabama, by whatever named called, is hereby authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the county, and to accomplish that purpose, may from time to time, expend such public funds of the county, as are not required by…

In addition to all other fees and court costs, the clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the district court of Lauderdale County shall assess and collect a fee to be determined by the county commission, not exceeding thirty-five dollars ($35), in each criminal case, felony …

(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Lauderdale County, an additional fee of four dollars ($4) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of the court on each district court case in the county in order to further provide for the protection a…

In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Lauderdale County, there shall be levied and assessed a court cases in Lauderdale County, there shall be levied and assessed a court cost of twenty-five dollars ($25) in all cases in whi…