Title 45

(a)(1) The Shelby County Commission shall pay an annual county salary supplement to each circuit judge and the District Attorney of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit and to each Shelby County District Judge. Each county salary supplement shall be paid from the county general fund. …

The Shelby County Commission may provide an annual expense allowance to the circuit clerk in an amount not to exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per annum. The expense allowance provided by the county com-mission pursuant to this section shall be paid in equal monthly insta…

(a) In Shelby County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty dollars ($20) in 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 Sta…

(a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court cases in Shelby County, a court charge of eight dollars ($8) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of the court. When collected by the clerk of the court, five dollars ($5) of each charge shall be …

(a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court cases in Shelby County, a fee of three dollars ($3) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of court on each case except small claims cases. When collected by the clerk of the court, the proceeds sha…

(a) In addition to all other costs and charges in domestic relations cases in Shelby County, additional court costs in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be charged and collected on each domestic relations case by the clerk of the court. When collected by the clerk, these a…

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Shelby County in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when …

(a) In all civil cases in the district and circuit courts in Shelby County, except for small claims cases, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly as follows: Three dollars …

In Shelby County, in addition to any court costs provided for in the county, additional court costs shall be assessed in the circuit and district court in the amount of eight dollars ($8) for the issuance of each subpoena in a civil case and in the amount of two dollars ($2) for …

(a)(1) In addition to any court costs now authorized in the circuit, district, and juvenile courts of Shelby County, there shall be assessed and collected an additional court cost of twenty dollars ($20) in all civil and criminal cases except small claims, traffic cases, and prot…

(a) The following defendant service fees shall be collected in civil cases in circuit court and district court in Shelby County: For each defendant in excess of one, when personal service is required, there shall be collected a service fee of ten dollars ($10); provided, however,…

(a) In Shelby County, a booking and administration fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed by the clerk of the court or the municipal official assigned the responsibility for assessing, entering, and collecting costs of court as court costs against each defend…

The Shelby County Commission may, in its sole discretion, provide additional line item expenses for the district attorney’s office in lieu of other funding provided by the commission from year to year as part of its normal budgeting process. The additional expenses shall be based…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Shelby County is hereby authorized and empowered to delegate and assign to the chief clerk and other clerks and personnel in the probate office such duties and authority of supervision and ministerial functions, with which he or she is now authorized a…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Shelby County, Alabama, shall receive as compensation a salary of twenty-six thousand dollars ($26,000) per annum, which shall be payable in equal monthly installments by proper warrant drawn on the general fund of the county. (b) Any expense allowance…

The judge of probate is entitled to receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500) per month. The expense allowance shall be in addition to any and all other compensation and expenses heretofore provided by law and shall be payable out of the…

(a) Commencing with the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1997, in lieu of any other fees or expense allowances, the Judge of Probate of Shelby County shall receive a salary supplement in the amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) payable in equal monthly installments in the …

(a)(1) In Shelby County, if the Judge of Probate of Shelby County is licensed to practice law in Alabama, the judge of probate shall receive a salary equal to the salary of a district judge in the county. Any judge of probate covered by this section after June 18, 2003, shall beg…

The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Shelby County by providing for the installation of an improved system of filing and recording instruments and documents affecting the title to real and personal property that are re…

The following words and phrases, including the plural of any thereof, whenever used in this subpart, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) GENERAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT. A real property instrument that affects the title to personal property as well as real property. (2)…

(a) The Court of County Commissioners, Board of Revenue, or like governing body of the county may provide for the installation upon the recommendation, acceptance, and approval of the judge of probate and thereafter for the maintenance, of an improved recording system in the prob…

On and after the effective installation date, the microphotographic copies of all instruments and records provided herein to be microphotographed shall constitute the official record of the instruments for the purposes of this code and all other laws applicable to the recording o…

All provisions of the laws of Alabama with respect to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, general property instruments, miscellaneous instruments, and other instruments and records that may constitute part of an improved recording system ins…

No monies owned or controlled by the county, other than the special recording fees, shall be applied by the county for payment of any part of the initial installation costs; and the initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the special recording fees. Nothing conta…

A special index fee of sixteen dollars ($16) shall be paid to the county, and collected by the judge of probate with respect to each real property instrument and each personal property instrument filed for record in the office of the judge of probate and for the recording of othe…

The Judge of Probate of Shelby County shall not receive for record or permit the recording of any instrument in which the title to real property is conveyed, unless the instrument has endorsed on it a printed, typewritten, or stamped statement, stating the mailing address of the …

(a) The Shelby County Commission or other like governing body of Shelby County, Alabama, may adopt and implement rules and regulations including, but not limited to, advance permit requirements, as it deems necessary and in the best interests of the public for the adequate contro…

(a) Commencing on April 27, 2000, each member of the Shelby County Board of Education shall be entitled to receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500) per month, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or …

(a) In all general, municipal, special, and primary elections held in Shelby County, the compensation of certain election officials shall be as follows: (1) The chief inspector shall be paid one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per day. (2) The assistant chief inspector shall be paid…

All polling places within Shelby County shall remain open between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. for all state and local elections held in the county. (Act 79–373, p. 597, § 1.)

Each member of the Shelby County Board of Registrars shall receive compensation of thirty-five dollars ($35) for each day’s attendance of the registrar on a working day of the registrar. This compensation shall be paid out of the county general fund and shall be a supplement to a…

The Board of Registrars of Shelby County is directed to purge all lists of the qualified electors in the county to the end that the names of all persons who are deceased or nonresidents of the county or have otherwise become disqualified from voting in Shelby County, shall be rem…

The board of registrars shall omit and remove from the lists of qualified electors of the county the name of any person who fails to reidentify himself or herself, in the manner prescribed herein, before the last day of July 1981, and any tenth year thereafter. No person whose na…

Prior to the November General Election of 1980 and any tenth year thereafter, the Board of Registrars of Shelby County is authorized and directed to commence reidentification of qualified electors of the county. The members of the board of registrars shall meet as provided by law…

Each member of the board of registrars shall receive twenty dollars ($20) per diem compensation from the county general fund, for each day’s attendance upon the special sessions of the board required under this subpart; but if the special session is held on the same day a regular…

A voter may reidentify himself or herself in any one of the following ways: (1) He or she may reidentify himself or herself by appearing in person at the office of the board of registrars and answering such questions and submitting such proof as may reasonably be required by the …

The board of registrars shall meet on the first Monday in January 1981, and any tenth year thereafter, for the purpose of purging the registration lists and the names of all persons who have failed to appear and reidentify themselves in the manner herein prescribed shall be stric…

Any qualified elector of the county who shall have his or her name omitted or removed from the list of qualified electors in the county by failure to appear and reidentify himself or herself as herein provided shall be entitled to have his or her name restored to the list of qual…

The Court of County Commissioners of Shelby County is hereby authorized, directed, and required to furnish the board of registrars with the supplies, equipment, printed forms, stationery, and newspaper advertisements necessary for reidentification of voters as herein provided. (A…

The questionnaire to reidentify a voter shall be in substantially the following form: VOTERS REIDENTIFICATION QUESTIONNAIRE Date ______, 20______ Name ____________________________________________________ Legal Residence Address___________________________________________ (STREET) …

Any person who willfully makes a false statement to the board of registrars, or any duly authorized person, in reidentifying himself or herself as a qualified elector in the manner provided herein shall be guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by impris…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Shelby County is hereby directed to transfer all records and lists in his or her custody relating to electors or voting to the Board of Registrars of Shelby County. The board of registrars, upon request, shall supply to the judge of probate from time t…

The County Commission of Shelby County may make provisions for coverage of retired county employees by health, hospitalization, surgical, and medical insurance, and may pay all or any part of the cost thereof or the premiums thereon from any funds in the county treasury not other…

The County Commission of Shelby County, Alabama, is hereby authorized to provide for a three percent per annum increase in the amount of retirement benefits currently being paid to each retired county employee. The increase shall be paid from any funds in the county treasury not …

The Shelby County Commission shall allow employees of the Shelby County Legislative Constituents’ Office to participate in the same retirement system as other county employees, as long as the employees remain employed and otherwise meet all other eligibility standards and require…

This part shall apply only to Shelby County and shall be known as the Shelby County, Alabama, Civil Service Act. (Act 93–664, p. 1148, § 1.)