Title 45

(a) An offender may be assessed a nonrefundable application fee when the offender is approved by the municipal judge for the pretrial diversion program. The amount of the assessment for participating in the program shall be in addition to any court costs, fees, and assessments fo…

Application fees required by this part shall be collected by the court clerk of the Alabaster Municipal Court. The fees shall be disbursed to each entity or department as allocated by Section 45–58A–10.07. (Act 2013–317, p. 1123, § 9.)

(a) Upon acceptance of an offender into the pretrial diversion program by the city prosecutor, the city prosecutor and the offender shall submit the written application of the offender together with the statement of facts of the offender, the acceptance of the offender by the cit…

(a) After any violation of any program terms or conditions or upon any breach of any program agreement by the offender, the city prosecutor may do any of the following: (1) Continue the agreement with or without modification. (2) Terminate the offender from the pretrial diversion…

In no event shall the city or its employees and agents or any city prosecutor, magistrate, municipal court judge, or any other agency or service provider have any liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender while participating in the pretrial diversion program o…

This part shall apply only to the City of Alabaster in Shelby County and shall be known and may be cited as the City of Alabaster Civil Service System Act. (Act 2013–316, p. 1100, § 1.)

The purpose of this part includes all of the following: (1) To promote the greater efficiency and economy in the administration of the government of the City of Alabaster. (2) To prohibit political and personal retaliation. (3) To promote longevity and equal treatment of all empl…

For the purposes of this part, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTING AUTHORITY. The mayor, the city council, the city manager, or any employee of the city duly authorized to make appointments to the regular service by virtue of his or her superviso…

(a)(1) There is created a personnel board which shall be composed of three members to be selected as follows: a. One member shall be elected by the employees of the regular service to serve for a term of four years. b. One member shall be appointed by the mayor and the council to…

(a) The mayor or city manager shall appoint a personnel director. The director shall be experienced in the field of personnel administration and shall administer an efficient and economical merit system in accordance with the rules arising therefrom, and shall carry out the polic…

On May 22, 2013, all employees holding regular full-time positions in the service of the city shall continue in their regular status in the classified service as provided in this section, unless the position to which they are appointed or elected is otherwise exempted by this par…

(a) Public records are those records as defined in Section 41–13–1. The records may be reviewed in a manner prescribed by the city, taking into account confidentiality, convenience, and related factors. (b) Minutes of board meetings, active employment rosters, and financial recor…

(a) The classification plan shall provide a complete inventory of all employee positions in the service of the city and an accurate description and specifications for each class of work, and all other employee positions in the city for which salary and benefits are set out by the…

(a) The city, after recommendation of the mayor and resolution of the council, shall adopt rules, policies, and procedures for employees and compile same in an employee handbook, which may be amended from time to time in the discretion of the city. At a minimum, the employee rule…

(a) The city council, with the aid of the director, mayor, or city manager, and other city personnel it deems necessary, shall adopt by resolution a pay plan as the basis of compensation for employees in the service of the city. The plan shall be constructed to provide fair compe…

(a)(1) Vacancies and newly created positions in the regular service shall be filled either by open-competitive, transfer, promotion, appointment, reappointment, or demotion as determined by the appointing authority. (2) When a vacancy exists for a regular position that is not oth…

(a) The tenure of every employee in the regular service shall be conditioned on the satisfactory conduct of the employee and the continued efficient performance of assigned duties and responsibilities. A regular employee may be dismissed, demoted, or suspended for cause or for an…

(a) An employee with regular status may appeal disciplinary action of dismissal, demotion, or suspension. The discipline imposed shall not be otherwise set aside during the pendency of the appeal. An employee desiring to appeal, within 10 calendar days after notice of disciplinar…

(a) Activities prohibited shall include the following: (1) No person shall be appointed or promoted to, or dismissed from any position, or in any way favored or discriminated against with respect to employment on the basis of gender, race, national origin, political activity, or …

(a) In Shelby County, pursuant to subsection (f) of Section 217 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, and a resolution heretofore adopted by the City of Alabaster governing body after a public hearing, the governing body is hereby authorized to levy, in addition to any and all …

(a) The Alabaster City Council, by ordinance, may provide for the establishment of not more than two entertainment districts in the city, as those districts are defined in the Alabaster City Code. The entertainment districts may contain one or more Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Cont…

(a) The Mayor of the City of Alabaster shall designate a city official or employee to serve as the enforcing official for public nuisances related to plants in the city. (b) The enforcing official may serve written notice upon the owner of any property in the city informing the o…

(a) The city council shall designate an individual other than the enforcing official to serve as the administrative official for the purposes of this subpart. (b) Upon receipt of an owner’s intent to appear at a hearing, the administrative official shall suspend the order to abat…

(a) If a nuisance is not abated within the time permitted by the enforcing official’s non-suspended notice or, following a hearing attended by the owner, within the time permitted by the administrative official’s determination, then the city may enter upon the property and abate …

When a weed lien has been filed with the revenue commissioner against a lot or parcel of land pursuant to this subpart, a subsequent redemption of the lot or parcel by a person authorized to redeem, or a sale of the lot or parcel by the state, shall include payment of any outstan…

In Shelby County, notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, outside the corporate limits of any municipality within the county, no lounge retail Class II liquor license permitting the sale of liquor for off-premises consumption shall be issued for the retail s…

(a) The retail sale of draft or keg beer by retail licensees of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall be lawful in Shelby County. (b) Words or phrases whenever they appear in this section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meaning ascribe…

This part shall be known as the Shelby County Wine Franchise Jobs Protection Act. (Act 2014–209, p. 626, § 1.)

This part shall be operative only in Shelby County. (Act 2014–209, p. 626, § 2.)

The legislative intent and purpose of this part is to provide a structure for the business relations between a wholesaler and a supplier of wine in Shelby County. Regulation in this area within the county is considered necessary for the following reasons: (1) To maintain stabilit…

(a) The following words or phrases, or the plural thereof, whenever they appear in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section: (1) AGREEMENT. Any agreement between a wholesaler and a supplier, whether oral or …

Each supplier of wine licensed by the board authorizing the licensee to sell its wine within the State of Alabama shall sell its wine through wholesaler licensees of the board and shall grant in writing to each of its wholesalers an exclusive sales territory in accordance with Ch…

A supplier shall not: (1) Fail to provide each wholesaler of the supplier’s brand or brands with a written agreement which contains in total the supplier’s agreement with each wholesaler, and designates a specific exclusive sales territory. Any agreement which is in existence on …

A wholesaler shall not: (1) Fail to devote reasonable efforts and resources, within supplier’s designated sales territory, to the sale and distribution of all the supplier’s brands of wine which the wholesaler has been granted the right to sell or distribute. (2) Sell or deliver …

(a) Notwithstanding any agreement and except as otherwise provided for in this part, a supplier shall not amend or modify an agreement; cause a wholesaler to resign from an agreement; or cancel, terminate, fail to renew, or refuse to continue under an agreement, unless, in any of…

(a) Upon written notice of intent to transfer the wholesaler’s business, any individual owning or deceased individual who owned an interest in a wholesaler may transfer the wholesaler’s business to a designated member, or any other person who meets the nondiscriminatory, material…

(a) Except as provided for in this part, a supplier that has amended, modified, cancelled, terminated, or refused to renew any agreement; or has caused a wholesaler to resign from any agreement; or has interfered with, prevented, or unreasonably delayed, or where required by this…

A wholesaler may not waive any of the rights granted in this part and the provisions of any agreement which would have such an effect shall be null and void. Nothing in this part shall be construed to limit or prohibit good faith dispute settlements voluntarily entered into by th…

(a) This part shall apply to agreements in existence on April 2, 2014, as well as agreements entered into or renewed after April 2, 2014. (b) A transferee of a wholesaler that continues in business as a wholesaler shall have the benefit of and be bound by all terms and conditions…

(a) If a supplier engages in conduct prohibited under this part, a wholesaler with which the supplier has an agreement may maintain a civil action against the supplier to recover actual damages reasonably incurred as the result of the prohibited conduct. If a wholesaler engages i…

Any area situated entirely within Shelby County may be established as a district for providing public library service in the manner hereinafter provided for; provided, however, no land lying within the boundaries of a municipality or an existing library district at the time of th…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Shelby County shall order an election to be held in the proposed district on the question or questions when a petition is filed in the office of the judge of probate requesting an election. (b) The petition shall be signed by at least 100 persons who a…

(a) When a petition for the holding of any election pursuant to this part is filed with the judge of probate, the judge of probate shall order the election sought by the petition to be held on a day not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days from the date on which the judge of p…

(a) Any election held pursuant to this part shall be conducted in all respects as provided by the general election laws except as otherwise provided by this part. Provided, however, that an official ballot need not be provided, and that it shall not be necessary for the ballots t…

Notice of any election held under this part shall be given by publishing for three weeks at least once a week, on the same day of each week, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the election is to be held, that on the day fixed for the election the questions …

(a) Where an election is held on the question of the establishment of a district, the governing body of the county shall pay for the necessary expense of advertising and conducting the election out of the general funds of the county, provided, however, that if the district is est…