Title 45 — Title 45

The county jail administrator for Chambers County shall operate and manage an inmate commissary at the Chambers County detention facility. Proceeds and profits derived by the inmate commissary shall be reinvested by the county jail administrator to operate and supply the county d…

(a) In Chambers County, except as provided in subsection (b), the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person as provided in Section 13A-11-75, shall be twenty dollars ($20), which shall be collected by the sheriff and deposited…

The members of the Chambers County Board of Equalization shall be paid fifty dollars ($50) per diem for each day’s attendance upon the sessions of the board. Any amounts in excess of the compensation provided by the state or a municipality as provided in Sections 40-3-7 and 40-3-…

(a) Effective October 1, 1991, upon the approval of a majority of the electors of Chambers County, there is hereby created the office of county revenue commissioner for Chambers County. Such revenue commissioner shall be elected at the general election in 1990 and at the general …

(a) The Revenue Commissioner of Chambers County may take the necessary action to merge the budgetary operations and functions of his or her office. The expenses of the office shall be financed on a pro rata share basis from the proceeds of any state, county, and municipal ad valo…

(a) Effective June 1, 2023, the Revenue Commissioner of Chambers County shall receive an additional expense allowance so that the expense allowance and the salary of the revenue commissioner is equal to eighty-four thousand dollars ($84,000) per year payable in equal monthly inst…

Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment No. 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the Chambers County Commission may levy for a period of 20 years, in addition to any other tax, an ad valorem tax in the amount of six mills on each dollar of taxable property in the county. T…

Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as subsection (f) of Section 217 of the Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama 1901, as amended, the Chambers County Commission may levy for a period of 20 years, in addition t…

(a) Chambers County may henceforth grant county ad valorem exemptions, including real estate, equipment, and supplies for any manufacturing firm or facility that purchases or leases property for site location in the county, as that location is defined by the county tax assessor, …

In Chambers County, in addition to any and all other taxes heretofore levied, the county commission is hereby authorized to levy and impose an additional ad valorem tax in the amount of two mills on each dollar of taxable property. The tax shall be earmarked to the county general…

(a) This section shall apply only to Chambers County, Alabama, and to no other county. (b) As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the meanings hereby ascribed to them: “the county” means Chambers County, Alabama; “person” includes any natural person, pa…

(a) This section shall be applicable only to Chamber County. (b) There is levied and imposed, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, a privilege or license tax upon every person, firm, or corporation engaging in the business of renting or furnishing any …

(a) The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) PERSON. Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, receiv…

(a) Upon adoption of the Legislature, there is hereby imposed on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in Chambers County, a county privilege, license, or excise tax in the following amounts: (1) T…

This part shall only apply to Chambers County. History: (Act 2006-396, p. 1000, §1.)

As used in this part, state sales and use tax means the tax imposed by the state sales and use tax statutes, including, but not limited to, Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-3, 40-23-4, 40-23-60, 40-23-61, 40-23-62, and 40-23-63. History: (Act 2006-396, p. 1000, §2.)

The County Commission of Chambers County may levy, in addition to all other taxes presently levied, an additional sales and use tax not to exceed the highest municipal rates collected in the county. These additional rates shall be as follows: General sales, sales and use tax rate…

The tax levied by this part may be collected by the State Department of Revenue, the county commission, or a private collection agency under contract with the county commission, at the same time and in the same manner as state sales and use taxes are collected. On or prior to the…

Each person engaging or continuing in a business subject to the tax levied pursuant to this part, shall add to the sales price or admission fee and collect from the purchaser or the person paying the admission for the amount due by the taxpayer because of the sale or admission. I…

The tax levied by this part shall constitute a debt due Chambers County. The tax, together with any interest and penalties, 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 collect the tax. The collection age…

All provisions of the state sales and use tax statutes with respect to the payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales and use tax, making of reports, keeping and preserving records, penalties for failure to pay the tax, promulgating rules and regulations with respect …

The collection agency may charge Chambers County for collecting the tax levied under this part in an amount or percentage of total collections as may be agreed upon by the collection agency and the Chambers County Commission. The charge shall not exceed two percent of the total a…

Proceeds from the additional taxes as prescribed by this part and deposited into the county’s general funds shall be utilized as follows: (1) Forty percent of all revenues generated from the additional sales tax shall be utilized for the public safety concerns of the citizens of …

(a) The County Commission of Chambers County, in addition to all other taxes presently levied, may levy the following additional sales and use taxes not to exceed the lowest municipal rates collected in the City of LaFayette, City of Lanett, or City of Valley: (1) AGRICULTURAL MA…

(a) In Chambers County, the county commission is hereby authorized to appoint members of the Chambers County Library Board. The board shall consist of not less than five nor more than seven members and shall serve staggered terms to be determined by the county commission. (b) Upo…

In Chambers County, effective at the end of the current term of office or immediately upon the written consent of all current Chambers County constables, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 36, is abolished. History: (Act 2…

(a) Pursuant to Amendment No. 103 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the coroner serving Chambers County shall receive a monthly salary of seven hundred dollars ($700) effective September 1, 2003. (b) The salary provided for in this section shall be paid in equal monthly ins…

The Coroner of Chambers County shall receive a monthly travel allowance of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) each month, in lieu of any mileage allowance heretofore prescribed by law, and such allowance shall be payable from the county general fund. History: (Act 81-466, p. 816, §…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide the following expense allowances in response to a resolution adopted by the County Commission of Chambers County on October 6, 1980. (b) Each member of the County Commission of Chambers County, except the chairman, shall receive …

(a) The Court of County Commission of Chambers County is hereby abolished, and there is created in lieu thereof the Chambers County Commission, to be composed of five commissioners as hereinafter provided. Each commissioner shall be a resident and qualified elector of a commissio…

(a) Each of the circuit judges of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of this state (as such circuit is now or hereafter constituted) shall be paid a local expense allowance, in addition to all compensation and expenses paid by the state, from the general funds of the counties composing s…

(a) That in the Circuit Court of Chambers County, Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the circuit court in such county on a sheet or sheets now commonly called case action summaries and that there shall be a case action sum…

Fund. (a) In Chambers County, in addition to all other fees, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty dollars ($20) in each criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a…

(a)(1) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Chambers County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The fees, when collected, shall be distribu…

The District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit shall be entitled to travel allowances in like amounts as are now provided by law to the circuit judges of the judicial circuit. Payment of these expenses are chargeable to and shall be paid from any funds accessible to the dist…

(a) The District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a pretrial diversion program. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by the common law and provided for by statutes and acts for this state or powers or discretion otherwise provided by law for the Dis…

For purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The elected District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit or any of his or her staff. (2) LAW ENFORCEMENT or LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. A person who is employed by an agenc…

(a) A person charged with a criminal offense specified in this section whose jurisdiction is in the Circuit or District Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit may apply to the District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit for admittance to the pretrial diversion program. (b) A per…

(a) Admittance to the pretrial diversion program shall be appropriate in any of the following instances: (1) The offender is 18 years of age or older, or 16 years of age or older, if the offense is a traffic citation at the time the alleged offense was committed. (2) There is a p…

(a) Prior to being admitted to the pretrial diversion program or as a part or the district attorney’s evaluation process, an applicant may be required by the district attorney to furnish information concerning past criminal history, educational history, work record, family histor…

(a) An offender who enters into the pretrial diversion program shall satisfy each of the following requirements: (1) Voluntarily waive, in writing, and contingent upon the successful completion of the program, his or her right to a speedy trial. (2) Agree, in writing, to the toll…

(a) An offender shall make application to the pretrial diversion program no later than 21 days after his or her first appearance or arraignment, whichever occurs first. In the case of traffic citations, application shall be made within 21 days of the issuance of the citation. (b)…

(a) An applicant may be assessed a fee when the applicant is approved for the program. The amount of the assessment for participation in the program shall be in addition to any court costs and assessments for victims or drug, alcohol, or anger management treatment required by law…

The district attorney and the offender may enter into an agreement as a part of the pretrial diversion program of an offender that the offender be admitted to a drug or alcohol program on an inpatient or outpatient basis or receive other treatment alternatives for substance abuse…

(a) In any case in which an offender is admitted into a pretrial diversion program, there shall be a written agreement between the district attorney and the offender. The agreement shall include the terms of the pretrial diversion program, the length of the program, and the perio…

The district attorney shall establish a Pretrial Diversion Program Fund. Fees paid by offenders pursuant to Section 45-9-82.27 shall be placed into the Pretrial Diversion Program Fund. The district attorney shall use the funds in the Pretrial Diversion Program Fund to pay costs a…

(a) If the offender violates the conditions of the pretrial diversion program agreed to in writing by the offender and the district attorney, the district attorney may terminate the participation of the offender. The offender shall be given written notice of the intent of the dis…