Title 45

(a) The Mobile County Commission shall cause to be printed and upon request be distributed to any newspapers within the county, and to any members of the electronic media or others, a monthly report of receipts and expenses of the county, detailing for each fund of the county tre…

(a) Whenever the Mobile County Commission deems it to be in the public interest to approve a landfill project to be established anywhere in the county, it shall call for a public hearing on such landfill project to be held at least 30 days prior to approving the project. The publ…

(a) The Mobile County Commission is authorized and empowered to borrow money in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the fiscal year subsequent to the fiscal year in which the money is borrowed, and may issue certificates covering such borrowed money and may pledge a suffi…

(a) Subject to any limitation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or of any general law of this state, the Mobile County Commission or other like governing body shall have the power to levy and collect additional privilege license taxes, excise taxes, and sales and use taxes.…

(a) The Mobile County Commission may donate money, property, equipment, services, or other things of value to any organized voluntary fire department or organized voluntary rescue squad and also to perform maintenance or repair of property owned by nonprofit public organizations,…

There is created, and shall be established on the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January, 1961, the County Commission of Mobile County, which shall be in lieu of the board of revenue and road commissioners of Mobile County and shall be composed of a president and two as…

(a) Members of the commission shall be elected at the general election to be held in November 1960, and every four years thereafter, by the qualified electors of the entire district which they are seeking. In all primary and general elections held to choose members of the commiss…

Except as otherwise provided in this subpart, the County Commission of Mobile County shall have all the jurisdiction and powers which are or may hereafter be by law vested in the courts of county commissioners, boards of revenue, or other county governing bodies of this state; an…

The president of the commission shall be its presiding officer and shall have the same powers and authority as other members in passing upon all questions, and shall sign the minutes of the proceedings of the commission, and shall sign all warrants drawn on the county treasury, u…

The members of the County Commission of Mobile County shall devote their full time to the discharge of their official duties. Effective for the term of office commencing on the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January 1969, and thereafter, the president of the commission …

The County Commission of Mobile County shall hold regular meetings on the second Monday of every month, and shall remain in session until all business before them is disposed of; and the commissioners may hold such special meetings, upon the call of its president or the two assoc…

Whenever a vacancy occurs in any seat on the Mobile County Commission with 12 months or more remaining on the term of the vacant seat, the judge of probate shall immediately make provisions for a special election to fill the vacancy with the election to be held no sooner than 60 …

The circuit judge assigned to the Department of Investigation and Recovery of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit may appoint a qualified person to serve as an administrative secretary in the department of investigation and recovery, provided that any such person employed under the t…

(a) In the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the circuit on a sheet or sheets now commonly called trial sheets or case action summary sheets. There shall be a trial sheet or case action summ…

In addition to the salaries paid to the bailiffs serving in the Circuit or District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there may also be paid to each of the bailiffs a supplemental salary not to exceed the sum equal to 40 percent of the salary paid to each of …

In addition to the salaries paid to the bailiffs serving in the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there shall also be paid to each of the bailiffs a supplemental salary in the sum of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month payable monthly as a cou…

The salaries of each the Register of the Circuit Court and the District Court Clerk of Mobile County, Alabama, of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, may be supplemented by the County of Mobile which makes up the judicial circuit in an amount up to six thousand dollars ($6,000) per …

(a) The Mobile County Commission is hereby allowed, at their discretion, to pay the circuit court clerk, the County Administrator of Estates, and the Register of the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, State of Alabama, an expense allowance in th…

The Mobile County Commission is hereby authorized, at its discretion, to pay the District Court Clerk of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit an expense allowance in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month; provided, that such expense allowance shall be in addition to…

In Mobile County, in addition to any and all other compensation provided by law, the several supernumerary clerks of the circuit court and the supernumerary register of the circuit court shall receive a supplement in the amount of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum. The su…

In addition to the salaries paid to the confidential secretaries serving in the circuit or district courts of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there may also be paid to each of the secretaries a supplemental salary not to exceed the sum equal to 40 percent of the sal…

In Mobile County in addition to the salary paid to the Circuit Clerk of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there shall also be paid to the circuit clerk a supplemental salary in the sum equal to 25 percent of the salary paid to the circuit clerk by the State of Alabama…

(a) In Mobile County in addition to the salaries paid to each of the Circuit Judges of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there shall also be paid to each of the judges a supplement salary in the sum equal to 45 percent of the salary paid each of the judges by the Stat…

The Mobile County Commission shall pay annual compensation to any circuit judge in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit who is entitled to purchase any prior service credit in the Judicial Retirement Fund under Section 12-18-8.2, in an amount equal to the total employer contributions …

In addition to the salary paid to each district court judge in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there also shall be payable to each district court judge from the general fund of the county treasury in equal monthly installments an annual supplement to his or her sala…

Any semiretired or retired district judge in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit shall commence 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 each y…

(a) Until January 20, 2031, the Mobile County Judge of Probate shall continue to receive the same base annual salary the judge of probate is receiving on February 1, 2025. (b) Beginning June 1, 2025, in addition to the base salary authorized in subsection (a), the judge of probat…

(a) In each civil action at law, suits in equity, criminal case, or any other proceeding which has originated or may hereafter originate in the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of two dollars ($2) which shall be in addition t…

(a)(1) In Mobile County, in any case in which court costs are assessed in the circuit court of the county, both civil and criminal cases, there shall be assessed and collected by the clerk as other costs and charges are collected an additional court cost in the amount of ten doll…

In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Mobile 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 domesti…

(a) In addition to any court costs currently provided by law in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in Mobile County, there shall be levied in all cases filed in circuit and district courts an additional court cost fee of two dollars ($2). When collected by the clerk of the court, th…

In addition to the salary paid to the District Attorney in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there also shall be paid to the district attorney from the general fund of the county treasury in equal monthly installments an annual supplement to his or her salary payable …

The governing body of any city or town in any county in the State of Alabama having, according to the last or any future federal census, a population in excess of 300,000 inhabitants and less than 600,000 inhabitants may, notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute of Ala…

(a) This subpart shall apply only in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in Mobile County. (b) The purpose of this subpart is to ensure that court-ordered restitution to crime victims, fines for failure to appear in court, victim compensation assessments, bail bonds forfeitures, cour…

The District Attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a Recovery Unit of the Special Services Division. The district attorney, after electing to establish the unit, shall assign sufficient staff and resources to effectively operate the unit. The recov…

In addition to this subpart, all other authorized methods to collect delinquent court fines, costs, victim compensation assessments, bail bonds, forfeitures, penalty payments, restitution, or like payments, shall remain in full force and effect. (Act 95-568, p. 1187, § 4.)

(a) The County Commission of Mobile County is authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the county and, to accomplish that purpose, may, from time to time, expend public funds of the county, as are not required by law to be expended for any other purpose or pur…

In Mobile County, in addition to any other compensation heretofore provided by law, the county law librarian is authorized to receive a salary supplement of nine thousand one hundred thirty-two dollars ($9,132) per annum upon approval by the county commission. The salary suppleme…

(a) The following words, phrases, and terms including the plural of any thereof, whenever used in this section, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) CODE. The Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended. (2) COMPUTERIZED METHODS OF INDEXING. The use of computer hardware and so…

(a) The judge of probate shall not receive for record or permit the recording of an instrument in which the title to real property, or of any interest therein, or lien thereon, is conveyed, granted, encumbered, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, unless such an instrument has end…

In Mobile County, notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the judge of probate is hereby authorized to sell, at the rate of five cents ($0.05) per name, the list of names and addresses of all qualified voters of requested wards and precincts within the county, to any candidate f…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Mobile County shall assess an additional surcharge at the rate of ten dollars ($10) per instrument for all documents submitted for recordation in probate court which are subject to a deed or mortgage tax. (b) The funds generated from these fees, and an…

(a) In Mobile County, a special recording fee of two dollars ($2) shall be collected by the judge of probate on each real or personal property, uniform commercial code, judicial, or other instrument recorded or filed for record in the probate court of the county. The special reco…

(a) In Mobile County, the judge of probate and chief clerk of the probate court may utilize a computer generated, digitized electronic signature of the judge of probate or the chief clerk of the probate court as the required signature of the judge of probate or the chief clerk fo…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Mobile County, may in his or her discretion, create and establish administrative divisions in his or her office as he or she may determine necessary or convenient in the efficient and expeditious performance of the functions and duties in his or her of…

The Mobile County Commission may appropriate funds from the county general fund in the annual budget of the judge of probate for expenditures by the judge of probate for reasonable and necessary miscellaneous expenses incurred in the discharge of the duties of the office of the j…