Title 45

Attached to the budget message shall be such supporting schedules, exhibits, and other explanatory material, in respect to both current operations and capital improvements, as the city manager shall believe useful to the council. (Acts 1977, No. 71, p. 78, § 5.15.)

(a) The budget and budget proposal shall provide a complete financial plan for the budget year. It shall contain in tabular form: (1) A general summary. (2) Detailed estimates of all anticipated revenues. (3) Detailed estimate of all proposed expenditures. (b) The total of antici…

In the budget and budget proposal, anticipated revenues shall be classified as miscellaneous revenues and amount to be raised by property tax; miscellaneous revenues shall be subclassified by sources and shall be estimated as prescribed in this part. (Acts 1977, No. 71, p. 78, § …

In the budget and budget proposal in parallel columns opposite the several items of anticipated revenues there shall be placed the amount of each item in the budget of the last completed fiscal year, the amounts of the items actually received during the last completed budget year…

Miscellaneous revenues shall include anticipated revenues from the collection of taxes other than the general property tax; the amount of state aid to be received; the amount by which the city is expected to benefit from taxes collected by the state; the amounts estimated to be r…

The anticipated revenues and proposed expenditures of each utility or other public service enterprise owned, or operated, by the city, shall be stated in a separate section of the budget (each bearing the name of the utility); and as to each utility, any anticipated surplus, if l…

(a) Each person, company, or corporation, making bonds and charging therefor, within the City of Phenix City, for the release of persons held by the city shall be required as a part of the qualification to do business to post a cash deposit with the City of Phenix City or to take…

(a) The Chief of Police of Phenix City shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the Phenix City Police Department. These records shall state the description of the property, the date of recovery of the property, the ser…

If the abandoned and stolen personal property is of a perishable nature and reasonable attempts to locate and identify the owner of the property are not successful, the property may be sold at once without notice. The chief of police shall attempt to obtain the best possible pric…

(a) The chief of police shall keep and maintain a separate permanent record of all abandoned and stolen firearms, not subject to disposition by general law. The records shall state the description of the firearm, the date of recovery of the firearm, the serial or other identifyin…

(a) At least every six months, the chief of police shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash all abandoned or stolen personal property, other than firearms, which has been recovered by the police department and has remained unclaimed by the rightful owner during…

The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Phenix City Police Department, including firearms, may claim the property at any time prior to its sale by submitting sufficient proof of ownership as determined by the chief of police and by paying any reaso…

If property is sold at public auction, as provided in this subpart, a notation in the storage record book shall be made of the sale and of the amount received for the property. The person making the sale may reject any and all bids if the amount bid is unreasonably low and may co…

The proceeds from the sale of property at an auction conducted under the authority of this subpart, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale of property, shall be paid to the office of the Chief of Police of Phenix City. (Ac…

(a) This subpart shall be known and may be cited as the Phenix City Red Light Safety Act. (b) The City of Phenix City, Alabama, by ordinance, may adopt the procedures set out in this subpart. (Act 2012–326, p. 758, § 1.)

The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Accident data establishes that vehicles running red lights have been and are a dangerous problem in the City of Phenix City. (2) Studies have found that automated traffic camera enforcement in a municipal area is a highly accu…

As used in this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CITY. The City of Phenix City. (2) CIVIL FINE. The monetary amount assessed by the city pursuant to this subpart for an adjudication of civil liability for a traffic signal violation, including mu…

(a) The city may utilize an automated photographic traffic signal enforcement system to detect and record traffic signal violations, to issue notices of civil violations by mail, and to prosecute civil violations for the recorded traffic signal violations which may occur within t…

(a) Prior to imposing a civil penalty under this subpart, the city shall first mail via first class United States mail a notice of violation to the owner of the motor vehicle which is recorded by the photographic traffic signal enforcement system while committing a traffic signal…

(a) The Phenix City Municipal Court is vested with the power and jurisdiction to hear and adjudicate the civil violations provided for in this subpart, and to issue orders imposing the civil fines and costs set out in this subpart. (b) A person who receives a violation may contes…

(a) Following an adjudicative hearing, the municipal court judge shall issue an order stating: (1) Whether the person charged with the civil violation is liable for the violation. (2) If the person is found to be liable, the amount of the civil fine assessed against the person, a…

The circuit court hearing an appeal shall use the procedures that apply to criminal convictions in municipal court with the following qualifications: (1) The proceedings shall retain their civil nature on appeal with the circuit court applying the preponderance of the evidence st…

In the event the evidence produced by a photographic traffic signal enforcement system does not produce an image of the license plate with sufficient clarity for a trained technician to determine the identity of the owner, and if the identity cannot otherwise be reliably establis…

The city may provide by ordinance that late fees not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) per month for each month after the issuance of the order imposing the civil fine shall attach to untimely paid civil fines that are authorized in Russell County and this subpart. No person ma…

The city shall adopt the procedures authorized by this subpart, and shall keep statistical data regarding the effectiveness of photographic traffic signal enforcement systems in reducing traffic-control device violations and intersectional collisions and shall communicate the dat…

The placement of control devices and timing of yellow lights and red light clearance intervals, adopted by the city, shall conform to the most recent edition of the Traffic Engineering Handbook. It shall be presumed that the city is in compliance with this section unless the cont…

No civil penalty may be imposed and no adjudication of liability for a civil violation may be made under this subpart if the operator of the vehicle was arrested or was issued a citation and notice to appear by a sworn police officer for a criminal violation of any portion of Art…

Any person against whom an adjudication of liability for a civil violation is made under this subpart, or the ordinance passed pursuant hereto, and who actually pays the civil fine imposed thereby shall have a cause of action against any person who may be shown to have been opera…

(a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AMENDMENT 8. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 650, S. 593, 1919 Regular Session. (2) AMENDMENT 373. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 6, H. 170, 1978 Se…

Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the police and planning jurisdiction of Phenix City shall not extend beyond the corporate limits of the city. (Act 2002–509, p. 1314, § 1.)