Title 45

(a) This section only applies in Lee County. (b) The sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours after 12:00 p.m. on Sundays is authorized within the areas of Lee County that are outside of the corporate limits of the Cities of Auburn and Opelika. The governing body of Lee C…

(a) This section shall apply only in Lee County. (b) There is created and established the Lee County Cemetery Preservation Commission to be composed of five members to be appointed by the Lee County Commission of Lee County for terms of four years. (c) The chair and vice chair of…

Any state or national bank whose principal place of business is located in Lee County, Alabama, may establish, maintain, and operate additional offices or additional branch banks for the receipt of deposits, payment of checks, lending of money, and conduct of a general banking bu…

No child care or day care center, nor child care institution or institution for child care, in Lee County, shall be allowed to operate on a 24 hour basis unless the Department of Human Resources shall first approve of such operation. (Act 85-47, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 71, §1.)

In Lee County, effective at the end of the current term of office, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 36, is abolished. (Act 2011-204, p. 384, §1.)

(a) Pursuant to Amendment 362 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the coroner serving Lee County shall receive an annual salary of seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars ($17,800) on June 1, 2001. (b) The annual salary of the chief deputy coroner shall be six thousand dolla…

The chair and each member of the county commission or like governing body of Lee County shall be entitled to an allowance for expenses payable from any funds in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300) per month. The expense all…

When traveling in performance of their duties, the members of the Lee County Commission shall be entitled to travel expense allowances based on the same rate per mile as is in effect from time to time for state employees. Such mileage allowances shall be paid in the usual manner …

(a) The Lee County Commission shall be composed of five commissioners, elected from single-member districts one through five, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district and the judge of probate, who shall serve as chair. The five districts shall be apportion…

(a) The Lee County Commission shall have authority to construct or cause to be constructed, design or caused to be designed, contract for and execute or cause to be executed a contract for the construction, repair, maintenance, or improvement of any type of public improvement whi…

When any assessment for project costs is made under this subpart, the chair of the county commission shall cause to be prepared a roll or list showing the names of the property owners so assessed and opposite each name a description of the lot or parcel of land belonging to the o…

The list shall be entered in a well-bound book or loose-leaf book firmly bound, prepared for that purpose, and shall contain appropriate columns in which payments may be credited and the lien of the assessment satisfied by the tax collector of the county. The book shall be known …

After the completion of the proper entries of each improvement, the assessment book shall be delivered to the county commission for its consideration and if the commission is satisfied that assessments have been properly made, it shall adopt a resolution approving the assessments…

The notice provided for in Section 45-41-72.03 shall state that, at a time and place therein specified, not less than 20 days from the first date of publication, the Lee County Commission shall meet to hear and determine any objections or defense that may be filed to the assessme…

Any defect in the notice or proceedings before or subsequent to the notice, with respect to one or more interested persons, shall not affect the notice or proceedings, except insofar as it may touch the interest or property of that person or persons, and shall not avail any other…

The owner, or owners, or any person who has an interest in real estate against which it is proposed to assess the cost, or any part thereof, of the construction, repair, maintenance, or improvement, or his or her agent or attorney, may appear at any time on or before the date nam…

The county commission shall hear and pass upon all objections to and protests against the proposed assessment under any reasonable rules and regulations it may adopt. After the hearing, the commission shall have the power to reduce or abate assessments, including the power to aba…

The costs and expenses of materials and labor used in the construction, repair, maintenance, or improvement of the public improvements, which are assessed by the county commission against property pursuant to this subpart, shall be paid to the county tax collector at the time or …

Assessment liens for charges and expenses authorized in this subpart, except as herein provided, shall insofar as feasible be governed by laws governing assessment liens for municipal improvements. All powers, duties, and authority relative to municipal improvements vested by the…

(a) The Lee County Commission may adopt supplemental purchasing processes for the purchase of personal property otherwise authorized to be purchased by the county. The supplemental purchasing process may provide for the use of vendor cards and procurement cards providing for the …

(a)(1) The Lee County Commission shall employ sufficient appraisers, mappers, and clerical personnel to maintain on a current basis the appraisal and mapping of all real property and valuation of personal property within Lee County. (2) The cost of the maintenance program for the…

There shall be created an additional circuit judgeship for the 37th Judicial Circuit, which shall be numbered circuit judgeship number 3. (Act 97-407, p. 667, §1.)

Judgeship number 3 for the circuit court shall be filled at the general election held in the year 1998, provided the judgeship has been precleared under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C., Section 1973c, at least 60 days prior to the opening of candidate qualif…

(a) The judge filling judgeship number 3 shall take the same oath of office, shall have the jurisdiction, power, rights, and authority, and shall possess all of the qualifications, perform all of the duties, and be subject to all of the responsibilities, obligations, and penaltie…

(a) A Family Court Division of the Circuit Court of the 37th Judicial Circuit is hereby established and shall become effective upon initiation of the first term of office of circuit judgeship number 3. The judge occupying judgeship number 3 shall preside over the family court div…

The county governing body of the county comprising the Thirty-seventh Judicial Circuit is hereby authorized, and empowered to pay, in the discretion of the county governing body, an annual county salary supplement of an amount equal to one thousand dollars ($1,000) less than the …

(a) Immediately upon October 1, 1979, as hereinafter provided, the judge of the district court for Lee County, Alabama, shall receive an annual supplemental salary payable in equal monthly installments from the General Fund of Lee County, in an amount of ten thousand dollars ($10…

The county governing body of the county comprising the Thirty-seventh Judicial Circuit is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to pay, in the discretion of the county governing body, a county salary supplement of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum to each circuit judg…

Each court reporter of the judicial circuit composed of Lee County shall be allowed and paid an additional supplement in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300) per month which shall be in addition to any and all other compensation or expense allowances heretofore provided by …

(a) In Lee County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty dollars ($20), for the service of any papers or documents by the sheriff or any deputy sheriff arising out of any civil or quasi-civil proceeding in any court in Lee …

(a) In Lee County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25) for the service of any papers or documents by the sheriff or any deputy sheriff arising out of any civil or criminal action instituted outside the …

(a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court cases in Lee County, a fee of three dollars ($3) shall be charged and collected by the clerks of the courts. This charge will not be collected on small claims cases. When collected by the clerks of the c…

(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Lee County, the Lee County Commission, upon adoption of a resolution by the commission, may impose an additional court cost in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) to be assessed and taxed as costs …

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

(a) This section shall apply only in Lee County. (b) In addition to any court costs now authorized in the district, circuit, and juvenile courts of Lee County, there shall be assessed and collected an additional court cost of fifty dollars ($50) in all civil and criminal cases, i…

This part shall be known as the Lee County Alternative Sentencing Program Act. (Act 2009-330, p. 558, §1.)

As used in this part, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ASSESSMENT. A standardized diagnostic evaluation for placement in a treatment program. (2) BOARD. The Lee County Alternative Sentencing Board. (3) DRUG. Includes all of the following: a. A controlled…

The Lee County Alternative Sentencing Board is created. The board shall oversee and operate all programs, services, and administrative functions of the Lee County Alternative Sentencing Program, including, but not limited to, drug court, the court referral officer program, and di…

The number of members comprising the board shall be seven, two of whom shall be nonpermanent members appointed by the Lee County Commission, and the remaining five being permanent members consisting of the presiding circuit judge for the 37th Judicial Circuit, a Lee County distri…

(a) Each nonpermanent member shall hold office until his or her successor has been appointed by the Lee County Commission and shall be a resident of Lee County. (b) The nonpermanent members shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed actual and reasonable expenses incu…

The board may implement this part and superintend all administrative functions and services for programs designed to assist individuals charged or adjudicated with an offense that is not a violent offense as defined in Section 45-41-83.05, which programs include the following: (1…

Creation of any additional alternative sentencing programs not specifically identified in subdivisions (1), (2), and (3) of Section 45-41-83.05 requires unanimous approval by the board. (Act 2009-330, p. 558, §7.)

Regardless of the authority granted to the board, the authority of the Lee County Sheriff to continue to conduct a work release program for persons detained or sentenced to the custody of the Lee County Sheriff may not be abrogated or curtailed in any manner without the prior app…

Regardless of the authority granted to the board, this part shall not interfere with or change in any manner the authority of the Lee County District Attorney to nolle prosequi any charges, to lawfully establish and operate a deferred prosecution program or a pretrial diversion p…

Regardless of the authority granted to the board, the program shall not interfere with, abrogate, or change in any manner the duties and responsibilities of juvenile or adult probation officers. (Act 2009-330, p. 558, §10.)

The board shall be vested with all authority necessary to implement the purposes of this part, including, but not limited to, the authority necessary to do all of the following: (1) Create or remove employment positions, set or alter pay scales, employ, direct, regulate, supervis…