Title 45

(a)(1) This section only applies to Madison County. (2) This section applies to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday by retail licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of Alabama. (b)(1) The governing body of any municipality within the county, by ordinance adopted …

(a) In Madison County, notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary, the annual compensation payable to the officers and directors of the airport authority shall not exceed the following amounts: (1) Chair $3,600 (2) Secretary/treasurer $3,300 (3) All other directors …

The court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or other like governing body of Madison County may require the photographing or microphotographing, on plate or film, of any record, document, plat, court file, book, map, paper, or writing made, acquired, or received as requir…

The court or board is authorized to charge to any office, court, board, institution, department, or agency of the county the cost of photographing or microphotographing of public records belonging to that office, court, board, institution, department, or agency, by the charging o…

The court or board may from time to time appropriate amounts out of the general fund of the county sufficient to pay the cost of photographing or microphotographing the public records belonging to the county, and may from time to time appropriate amounts sufficient to purchase ne…

There is created a county records commission consisting of 12 members as follows: The director, or deputy director if designated by the director, of the State Department of Archives and History; the senior presiding judge of the Circuit Court of Madison County; the judge of the P…

The county records commission shall be charged with the responsibility of determining which county records shall be permanently preserved because of their historical value, and which records may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of after they have been microfilmed. No record of …

No county official or employee shall destroy, dispose of, or cause to be destroyed or disposed of, any public record that has been microfilmed under this part until the records custodian has certified that the microfilm copy has been processed and checked for clarity. (Acts 1959,…

The county records commission is empowered to conduct surveys of public records in carrying out this part. The commission shall from time to time issue regulations classifying all public records, and prescribe the period for which records of each class shall be retained, either p…

(a) The governing body of Madison County is hereby authorized to establish a reproduction department for Madison County and to employ a records custodian who shall be chosen by the Chair of the Madison County governing body, which custodian shall have charge of all reproduction w…

A fee of twenty-five cents ($0.25) shall be charged in addition to all filing and recording fees now charged for each instrument, document, plat, court file, map, paper, or writing photographed or microphotographed and each official receiving instruments to be photographed or mic…

(a) Upon the adoption of an ordinance by the Huntsville City Council authorizing the appointment of two additional members to the library board established by the City of Huntsville, two additional board members may be appointed to the library board of the city as follows: (1) On…

In Madison County, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 36, is abolished. (Act 92-665, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 44, § 1.)

(a) Effective beginning the next term of office of the coroner in January 2023, the Coroner of Madison County shall receive an annual salary of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). The salary shall be paid from the general fund of the county and shall be paid in the same manner as c…

(a) In Madison County, the county commission shall adopt building laws and codes by ordinance which shall apply to all commercial or industrial improvements in the county. The building laws and codes of the county commission shall not apply to any municipality which is enforcing …

(a) Effective on the first day of the next term of office, the Chair of the Madison County Commission shall receive an annual salary of fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) and on that date, the annual expense allowance now received by the Chair of the Madison County Commission …

(a) The Madison County Work Release and Pre–Trial Release Commission may establish administrative fees to fund alternative sentencing programs, educational programs, intervention programs, treatment programs, and other programs to serve the courts of the Twenty-third Judicial Cir…

(a) In Madison County, after June 13, 2003, the Madison County Work Release and Pre-Trial Release Commission shall be known as the Madison County Alternative Sentencing and Release Commission, or any successor name the members of the commission may adopt by resolution of the comm…

In Madison County, the Madison County Judicial Commission before submitting nominations to the Governor to fill a judicial vacancy pursuant to Amendment 334 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, shall make the list of judicial nominees public and vote on the list of judicial no…

(a) In Madison County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to each member of the jury commission an expense allowance in such an amount as, together with any amount paid by the state, as salary, co…

The office of Register in Chancery of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit of Alabama is hereby abolished and all duties and functions of the office, as heretofore provided by law, or as may hereafter be provided by general law for registers in chancery, are transferred to the Circu…

The circuit court clerk shall appoint the person now serving as Register of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit as a deputy circuit court clerk. The person shall serve as deputy circuit court clerk and shall be compensated from the general funds of Madison County under the Madison …

The office of Clerk of the Madison County Court and clerk of any court successor to the jurisdiction of the Madison County Court is hereby abolished. The Clerk of the Circuit Court, Twenty-third Judicial Circuit shall be ex-officio Clerk of the Madison County Court or of any cour…

The Clerk of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit shall appoint the person now serving as Clerk of the Madison County Court as a deputy circuit court clerk. The person shall serve as a deputy circuit court clerk under the Madison County Personnel Act, provided that the compensation …

(a) The office of Court Administrator of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit of Alabama is redefined as provided in this section. On May 10, 2012, but not less than five days thereafter, the presiding circuit judge of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit shall nominate for appointment…

All fees, commissions, and other compensation of every nature heretofore paid to or collected by the Circuit Court Clerk, Register in Chancery, or Clerk of the Madison County Court in Madison County, except the compensation herein provided for or fixed by the Madison County Perso…

The three deputy circuit court clerks herein provided for shall work under the supervision of the circuit court clerk. (Acts 1973, No. 1040, p. 1627, § 7.)

The purposes of this subpart are to effect efficiency and economy in the operation of the courts of Madison County, but it is the will of the Legislature that this subpart be implemented in a spirit of understanding and compassion for the capable and loyal personnel now serving i…

The Clerk of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit of Alabama shall receive an annual salary of seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars ($17,700) per annum for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1973, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars ($18,900) per annum for the fiscal year b…

Of the fifteen dollar ($15) execution fee on each application for a passport allowed under the provisions of 22 U.S.C. § 214, as implemented by regulations of the United States Department of State, the Circuit Clerk of Madison County may collect and retain five dollars ($5) and s…

Every person engaged in the business of making bail bonds in Madison County, Alabama, in addition to the twenty-five thousand dollar ($25,000) surety requirement of Section 15-13-22, shall be required to furnish a bond with corporate surety in an amount to be set by the Clerk of …

(a) Any law enforcement agency of Madison County that is in possession of seized currency which it intends to make part of a forfeiture proceeding in the circuit court, at the election of the law enforcement agency, may deliver the currency to the circuit clerk for deposit with a…

Each supernumerary court reporter of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit in Madison County, Alabama, is hereby entitled to and shall be paid a county salary supplement in an amount equal to 40 percent of his or her annual salary as paid by the State of Alabama. Such county suppleme…

Each of the court reporters of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit in Madison County, Alabama, is hereby entitled to receive a county supplement in an amount equal to 42 percent of his or her annual salary as paid by the state effective October 15, 1991. When applicable, the supple…

(a) The presiding circuit judge of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit may establish, by means of a written order, a family court division or divisions of the judicial circuit. The presiding circuit judge shall assign one or more of the existing circuit or district judges to presid…

(a) Any circuit judge or retired circuit judge in the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit shall have the right of election to come under this section. Any judge who elects to make the contributions provided in subsection (b) shall upon retirement be entitled to receive as additional co…

(a) In order to provide for the protection and welfare of children in Madison County who are alleged to be or have been found by the juvenile court of the county to be abused or neglected or otherwise dependent as defined by Section 12-15-102, there is levied and imposed a court …

(a) In all cases in the municipal, juvenile, district, and circuit courts in Madison County and the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a district attorney’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when collected, shall be distributed mo…

(a) The governing body of Madison County, by resolution thereof, shall have the power to maintain and provide parking for the use of the jurors; and shall have the power to appropriate such funds as are necessary and appropriate for such purpose. All resolutions providing parking…

(a) In all criminal and juvenile delinquency cases in the circuit and district courts of Madison County wherein the defendant or the juvenile is charged with a violation of the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act the clerk of the respective court shall charge and collect a …

The governing body of Madison County by resolution thereof shall have the power to establish and maintain a county law library in the Madison County courthouse for the use and benefit of the county and state officials, court system, and the public; and shall have the power to app…

The governing body of Madison County having a county law library under existing laws on July 24, 1991, may come under this subpart by resolution thereof, upon request of the presiding circuit judge, and the filing of the copy of the resolution with the Secretary of State and the …

In return for the Madison County Law Library serving the legal materials needs of the county, and of court officials, and of the citizens of the county, the Madison County governing body may furnish adequate space and utilities for the Madison County Law Library established under…

Municipal governing bodies in Madison County may appropriate funds or property to the Madison County Law Library in consideration of the law library making its holdings available to the citizens of the municipalities. (Act 91-336, p. 654, § 4.)

Upon the establishment of the Madison County Law Library, or the continuance of the present county law library under this subpart, the presiding judge of the circuit, or a district or circuit judge designated by him or her, may appoint a full or part-time county law librarian or …

The presiding circuit judge for the county, or the county law librarian by designation of the presiding circuit judge, shall administer the county law library and shall disburse the law library funds, and shall appoint such librarians and assistants as are necessary for the prope…