Title 45

(a) The Sheriff of Morgan County may establish certain reasonable fees for services rendered by the sheriff including, but not limited to, making and providing copies of incident reports; making and providing where authorized by law criminal history investigations and reports the…

(a) The Sheriff of Morgan County or his or her authorized agents may operate a jail canteen for prisoners who are confined to the Morgan County Jail or its annex. The jail canteen shall be operated to serve the needs of the inmate population. (b)(1) The sheriff shall establish an…

Any individual who has been committed to the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections, the Morgan County Sheriff, or the jail of any municipality in Morgan County which elects to participate in the programs authorized by this subpart, may be released therefrom by the cour…

Any individual who is committed to the custody of the Morgan County Sheriff or the jail of any municipality in Morgan County may be required, as a condition of release, probation, or sentence, to serve weekends or such other times or intervals of time as directed by the court hav…

Any individual released under Section 45-52-234.20, or ordered confined under Section 45-52-234.21, who willfully fails to remain within the extended limits of his or her confinement or to return to the place of confinement as ordered shall be subject to conviction and punishment…

Any individual who is authorized or sentenced to participate in a work release program pursuant to this subpart shall pay a sum equal to 25 percent of his or her gross earnings from his or her work release employment to the commission established by Section 45-52-234.29. The sums…

In any case in which the court having jurisdiction of the case determines that the collection and payment of the sums provided for in Section 45-52-234.23 will impose a definite and significant financial hardship on the dependents of the defendant involved, the court, in its disc…

All sums collected and deposited in the fund established by Section 45-52-234.23 shall be expended for the implementation of this subpart, including, but not limited to, paying salaries and other expenses involved in making investigations and studies necessary to determine whethe…

The provisions of this subpart pertaining to pretrial release shall be applied in conformity with the principles and guidelines set forth in Rules 7.2(a) and (b), 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure. (Act 2004-544, p. 1150, § 7.)

(a) Any person in Morgan County charged with a non-capital, bailable offense, may, as a matter of right, be released pending trial on his or her personal recognizance or upon the execution of an appearance bond. However, if a judge having jurisdiction determines, in the exercise …

(a) An individual who is released on an appearance bond or other security pursuant to this subpart and who knowingly fails to appear before any court or judicial officer as required shall incur a forfeiture of such bond or any security which was given or pledged for his or her re…

(a) There is created a body to be known as the Morgan County Community Corrections and Court Services Commission, hereinafter called the commission. The commission shall be composed of 10 individuals, including the following: the Chair of the Morgan County Commission; the Sheriff…

The Morgan County Commission and any municipality in Morgan County are authorized to appropriate public funds and other public property and to make the same available, either by loan, grant, or otherwise, to the commission created by Section 45-52-234.29, to assist the commission…

Any municipality in Morgan County may elect to participate in the pro-grams authorized by this subpart. Such election shall be evidenced by a resolution adopted by the governing body of the municipality by which the municipality agrees to participate in the programs authorized by…

Nothing in this subpart shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of Alabama of its power to punish for contempt or any crime committed under the laws of Alabama. (Act 2004-544, p. 1150, § 13.)

The procedures prescribed in this subpart shall be cumulative and in addition to all other bail and release procedures provided by law. (Act 2004-544, p. 1150, § 14.)

(a) The Sheriff of Morgan County as part of his or her work release program may authorize inmates in the Morgan County Jail who have trustee status to wash and clean automobiles, trucks, and other motor vehicles for a fee to be established and received by the sheriff. Ten percent…

(a)(1) In the courts of Morgan County, subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses in any civil, criminal, or other case or proceeding, or before the grand jury, may be served by the sheriff or by the deputy sheriff or by leaving a copy thereof at the place of residence of th…

(a) In addition to all other costs, fees, and charges required by law to be paid and collected in civil cases filed or pending in the Circuit Court or the District Court of Morgan County, there shall be collected by the clerk of the circuit or district court and remitted as provi…

(a) The Morgan County Commission and any municipality located in Morgan County, if authorized by resolution and ordinance duly adopted by the Morgan County Commission and the governing body of the municipality, may enter into agreements by which the Morgan County Commission, or e…

Beginning October 1, 2019, after Morgan County retains five percent of the gross proceeds for administrative purposes, the remaining proceeds of the simplified seller use tax distributed to Morgan County pursuant to Section 40-23-197 shall be allocated by the county commission ea…

In Morgan County, the revenue commissioner shall receive the same compensation and expense allowance as the license commissioner. (Act 2000-784, p. 1845, § 1.)

(a) The provisions of this section shall apply only to those portions of Morgan County located outside the corporate boundaries of the City of Decatur and the City of Hartselle. (b) The Legislature declares that all volunteer fire departments and emergency medical technicians tha…

(a) In Morgan County, all funds generated by the statewide wholesale or retail gasoline tax provided by Article 6, commencing with Section 40-17-220, of Chapter 17, Title 40, and distributed pursuant to the provisions therein, shall be paid into the county treasury and a separate…

For the purpose of this subpart, the following terms shall have the respective meaning ascribed by this section: (1) COUNTY. Morgan County. (2) DISTRIBUTOR. Any person who engages in the selling of gasoline or motor fuel in this state by wholesale domestic trade, but shall not ap…

The Morgan County Commission is authorized to impose an additional excise tax on persons selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose whatever, gasoline and motor fuel within the counties not to exceed one cent per gallon and to require every distri…

On or before the 20th day of each month after any tax shall have been levied under this subpart, every person upon whom the excise tax is levied shall render to the Morgan County Commission on forms prescribed by the county commission, a true and correct statement of all sales an…

All distributors, storers, and retail dealers shall keep for not less than two years within the state at some certain place or office such books, documents, or papers as will clearly show the amount of sale or withdrawals of gasoline and motor fuel made in the county taxed under …

Within 30 days after any tax shall have been levied under this subpart, every distributor, storer, or retailer dealer engaged in the sale or withdrawal of gasoline or motor fuel in the county shall make a report on blanks furnished under Section 45-52-243.21 to the Morgan County …

If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer of gasoline or motor fuel in the county shall fail to make the reports or any of them as required in this subpart or shall fail to comply with any regulation adopted for the collection of the tax by the Morgan County Commission, within…

It shall be the duty of the Morgan County Commission to enforce this subpart upon its imposing the tax thereunder, and it shall have the right itself, or its members or its agents, to examine the books, reports, and accounts of every distributor, storer, or retail dealer of gasol…

If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer in gasoline or motor fuel shall fail to make monthly reports or shall fail to pay the tax imposed under authority of this subpart, the tax shall be deemed delinquent within the meaning of this subpart and there shall be added to the am…

The acceptance of any amount paid for the excise tax imposed under this subpart shall not preclude the collection of the amount actually due. However, the amount actually paid shall constitute a credit against the amount actually due. (Act 87-617, p. 1086, § 9.)

Any distributor, storer, or retail dealer who shall violate this subpart or shall fail to comply with any reasonable rule or regulation adopted hereunder, may be restrained, and proper prosecution instituted in the name of Morgan County by the Attorney General, or by such counsel…

Each agent or any railroad company, bus or truck operator, or other transportation company or agency operating in Morgan County shall report to the Morgan County Commission on the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year all shipments of gasoline or motor fuel …

(a) The proceeds of any tax imposed under authority of this subpart shall be paid into the county general fund with allocations of 50 percent to the county general fund; (b) The Morgan County Commission shall distribute the remaining 50 percent of the proceeds to all municipaliti…

All words, terms, and phrases as defined in Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-3, and 40-23-4, as amended, providing for the levy of a state sales tax, wherever used in this part, shall have the same meanings respectively ascribed to them in those sections, except where the context…

(a) There is levied and imposed within the county gross receipts tax area in Morgan County, in addition to all other taxes, including municipal gross receipts license taxes now imposed by law, a special county privilege license tax paralleling the state sales tax, such privilege …

Sales taxes levied in Section 45-52-244.01 shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the 20th day of the month next succeeding the month in which the tax accrues. All taxes levied in this part shall be paid to and collected by the Morgan County Commission, or …

Each person engaging or continuing within Morgan County in a business subject to the tax levied in Section 45-52-244.01, shall add to the sales price or admission fee and collect from the purchaser or the person paying the admission fee the amount due by the taxpayer on account o…

The tax imposed by this part shall constitute a debt due Morgan County as provided by law. The tax, together with interest and penalties with respect thereto, shall constitute and be secured by a lien upon the property of any person from whom the tax is due or who is required to …

All provisions of the state sales tax statutes with respect to the payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales tax statutes with respect to the payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales tax, making of reports, and keeping and preserving of records with res…

The Morgan County Commission may retain and deposit to the General Fund of Morgan County, for general fund purposes and uses, 10 percent of the total amount of the special county tax collected in the county under this part. Such amount shall be in lieu of any payment to Morgan Co…

(a) This section shall be known as the Morgan County Tennessee River Preservation Act. (b) The Legislature finds the following: (1) It is in the best interest of the State of Alabama and the people of Morgan County to protect the Tennessee River and its watershed to promote the b…

The Legislature finds and declares it to be the policy of the state, as it relates to Morgan County, consistent with its duty to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of Morgan County, to protect the water of public water supply systems from contamination by ha…

As used in this part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS. Any applicable federal, state, or local law, rule, regulation, ordinance, order, consent decree, or order of any governmental authority n…