Title 45

(a) The Chair of the Lawrence County Commission shall be a resident of good moral character and a qualified elector of Lawrence County and shall reside in the county during his or her term of office. The Chair of the Lawrence County Commission shall have and exercise all of the p…

(a) The members of the County Commission of Lawrence County, excluding the chair, shall receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month in addition to any other compensation and allowance provided by law. The expense allowance p…

(a) The Lawrence County shall be composed of five , elected from single-member one through five, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The five districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she …

In addition to all other requirements of law, no municipality whose corporate limits or boundaries include lands outside of Lawrence County may annex lands within Lawrence County, or otherwise extend its corporate limits or boundaries in Lawrence County, without the consent of th…

Immediately upon October 1, 2001, the Circuit Judge for the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit shall receive a supplemental expense allowance, payable in equal monthly installments from the Lawrence County General Fund, in an amount equal to 40 percent of the prevailing salary paid to…

(a) The District Attorney of the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit shall be entitled to a supplemental allowance, paid from the county treasury of the county composing the judicial circuit, in a sum equal to the supplemental allowance paid from county funds to the District Attorney o…

(a) The circuit and district court judges of the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit who are holding office on May 29, 1984, shall have six months from May 29, 1984, to make an election, in writing, with the county commission of the county comprising the circuit to come within this sec…

Each court reporter of the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit composed of Lawrence County shall be paid three hundred fifty dollars ($350) per month total expense allowance which shall be in addition to any and all other compensation provided for by law. The expense allowances shall b…

(a) A supernumerary district attorney for the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit shall receive as additional compensation payable from the county general fund of the county within the circuit, an amount equal to the amount received by any retired circuit judge for the Thirty-sixth Jud…

(a) In addition to any and all other costs and charges of courts, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of two dollars ($2) in each civil or quasi civil action, criminal case, quasi criminal proceeding, or any other case of any kind whatsoever filed in the probate, municipal, dis…

(a) In Lawrence County, in addition to all other costs and charges in district and juvenile court cases with the exception of small claims cases, a fee of five dollars ($5) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of the district court. The monies derived from the additional f…

(a) In addition to any and all other costs and charges of court, there is hereby levied an additional court charge of one dollar fifty cents ($1.50) per case filed in the circuit and district courts of Lawrence County. The additional court charge shall be collected as other costs…

(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Lawrence County, the Lawrence County Commission may impose by resolution of the commission an additional fee in an amount not to exceed thirty-five dollars ($35) to be assessed and taxed as costs on each c…

In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Lawrence County, there shall be levied and assessed a court cost of twenty-five dollars ($25) in all cases in which court costs are assessed which are determined by the judge to be domes…

In addition to any court costs or fees now or hereafter authorized in Lawrence County, an additional court cost of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be charged and collected in each drug case charged under Article 5, commencing with Section 13A-12-20, of Chapter 12 of Title 13A, by…

(a) All investigators employed by the district attorney’s office of the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit shall have all the powers and authority and immunities of a deputy sheriff. All investigators employed by the district attorney’s office of the Thirty-sixth Judicial Circuit shal…

(a) This section shall apply only to Lawrence County. (b) Effective April 1, 2000, any Judge of Probate of Lawrence County who has served continuously as Judge of Probate of Lawrence County for a period of 20 years or more shall be entitled to receive as his or her compensation a…

(a) A recording fee of two dollars ($2) shall be collected by the judge of probate for each real property instrument and each personal property instrument filed for record in the office of the judge of probate. The county commission may, upon the adoption of a resolution, levy a …

(a) Pursuant to the authority granted by Amendment 321 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 and subsection (d) of Section 12-19-90, in Lawrence County, a recording fee of four dollars ($4) shall be paid to the judge of probate and collected by the judge of probate, with respect…

(a) There is created the Lawrence 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 including, but not limit…

(a) All power and authority granted to Lawrence County pursuant to Amendment 190 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or to any public authority or corporation created by Lawrence County pursuant to Amendment 190 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, shall be consolidated in…

The payment of an expense allowance in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100) per month being paid by the Lawrence County Commission to the members of the Lawrence County Board of Education, on September 1, 1981, shall be discontinued and thereafter such payment of the expense …

School District No. 2 in Lawrence County is abolished. All assets, liabilities, books, and records of School District No. 2 shall be transferred to and administered by School District No. 1 in Lawrence County. (Act 92-240, p. 588, §1.)

Beginning 30 days after February 10, 1994, the monthly compensation provided by law for the Lawrence County Superintendent of Education, shall never exceed by more than eight hundred sixty dollars ($860), the monthly amount of compensation being paid to the highest paid employee …

In addition to any compensation heretofore provided by law for the members of the board of registrars in Lawrence County, each member of such board shall be entitled to a ten dollar ($10) per meeting day increase in such board shall be entitled to a ten dollar ($10) per meeting d…

(a) In Lawrence County, the Lawrence County Commission may pay election officials who work at polling places an additional per diem allowance that together with the amount of compensation paid by the state equals up to sixty-five dollars ($65) for each day they work at the polls.…

(a) The Lawrence County Commission may adopt a new county personnel system for county employees pursuant to the authority granted in Amendment 909 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 43.02 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama o…

The Lawrence County Commission, or any succeeding county governing body performing the functions of the county governing body in the county, shall employ a county engineer, who shall be a thoroughly qualified and competent civil engineer, possessing all of the qualifications as s…

The county engineer shall be appointed by the county commission from a nomination made by the Director of Transportation. If the nomination is not acceptable to the county commission the Director of Transportation shall be requested to make additional nominations. Should the Dire…

It shall be the duty of the county engineer to do all of the following: (1) To employ, supervise, and direct all assistants as are necessary properly to maintain and construct the public roads, highways, bridges, and ferries of Lawrence County, and he or she shall have authority …

The county engineer is designated as the person authorized to make written requisition upon the duly designated purchasing agency, for all articles, materials, supplies, and equipment necessary for the maintenance and construction of roads, bridges, and ferries in Lawrence County…

It shall be the duty of the county commission to fix, from time to time, in accordance with prevailing economic conditions, the various scales of wages or salaries to be paid for labor necessary in the maintenance and construction of roads, bridges, and ferries, and the wage or s…

The county commission shall fix the amount of the salary of the county engineer, payable in equal monthly installments from the road and highway funds of Lawrence County. (Act 79-738, p. 1310, §6.)

Before entering upon his or her duties, the county engineer shall make and enter into a surety bond in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) payable to Lawrence County, conditioned for the faithful discharge and performance of his or her duties as such engineer, and for th…

The county engineer shall report on a day to day basis to the chair of the county commission and shall report regularly to the county commission as a whole. (Act 79-738, p. 1310, §8.)

The county commission shall furnish the county engineer with an office at the courthouse, or elsewhere, at the county seat, and all necessary office supplies, and shall furnish him or her with necessary transportation in connection with his or her duties under this article. (Act …

The county engineer shall be the custodian of all road tools, machinery, supplies, and equipment of Lawrence County, and he or she shall be accountable for the same, at all times. The county commission shall furnish the necessary storage facilities in which to keep the tools, mac…

The authority of the county engineer shall be limited to the expenditure of such funds for the purpose of construction, maintenance, or repairs of public roads, bridges, and ferries of Lawrence County as may be set aside and appropriated by the county commission, as hereinafter p…

The county engineer shall make written requisition to the chair of the county commission for all materials, machinery, equipment, and necessary supplies needed for the construction, maintenance, or repair of the public roads, bridges, and ferries of Lawrence County. The requisiti…

It shall be the further duty of the county engineer to inspect all materials, machinery, equipment, and supplies, purchased by Lawrence County for use on public roads, bridges, and ferries, when the same is delivered, and the same shall not be accepted and paid for without its fi…

In the event an emergency should arise, in which it would be impossible for the county commission to employ an engineer, as hereinabove provided for, then, in that event the county commission shall employ a competent road supervisor who need not be an engineer, but, when so emplo…

The county commission is prohibited from authorizing or performing any work on private property with the exception of work performed on church, school, or cemetery property. Any violation of this article shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred do…

The County Commission of Lawrence County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection against forest fires in Lawrence County by participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission’s fire protection program in the manner hereinafter specified. (Act 81-846, p. 1522, §1.…

(a) After the Lawrence County Commission has determined that such a need does exist in Lawrence County, the county commission, in the manner hereinafter specified, may provide for a financial charge or tax to be paid by the owners of forest lands located in Lawrence County for th…

The need for a financial charge or tax to provide forest fire protection within the county shall be determined by the county commission after a public hearing is held thereon. Notice of the public hearing shall be given by the county commission for a period of two consecutive wee…

Any financial charge or tax fixed as provided in Section 45-40-140.02 shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes and the owners of the forest lands, as herein defined, shall make report of same to the Tax Assessor of Lawrence County at the time fixed…