Title 45

The salaries of the deputy sheriffs of Clay County in an amount fixed by the Clay County Commission for the enforcement of motor vehicle and traffic laws may be paid from the public highway and traffic fund of the county. In addition, automobile purchases and expenses for the ope…

(a) The Sheriff of Clay County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail store for prisoners within the confines of the county jail. The jail store shall be operated to serve the needs of the jail population. (b)(1) The sheriff shall establish and maintain a Law …

(a) In Clay County, 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. (b) Any and all monies collected under subsection (a) …

(a) The Director of the Clay County Community Corrections Program and employees of the program shall constitute law enforcement officers of the State of Alabama with authority to make arrests and serve arrest and search warrants in the performance of their official duties to the …

(a)(1) The Sheriff of Clay County shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff’s office. These records shall state the description of the property, the date of recovery of the property, the serial or other ident…

(a) In Clay County, the sheriff may conduct fundraising events and may use the proceeds and profits from the events for any lawful purpose relating to the operation of the office of sheriff. (b) The provisions of this section are remedial and curative and any actions taken by the…

After September 30, 1991, or upon occurrence of a vacancy in either the office of tax assessor or tax collector, there shall be a county revenue commissioner in Clay County. A commissioner shall be elected at the general election in 1990 and at the general election every six year…

The county revenue commissioner shall do and perform all acts, duties, and functions required by law to be performed either by the tax assessor or by the tax collector of the county relative to the assessment of property for taxation, the collection of taxes, the keeping of recor…

Subject to the approval of the county commission, the county revenue commissioner shall appoint and fix the duties and compensation of a sufficient number of deputies, clerks, and assistants to perform properly the duties of his or her office. The acts of deputies shall have the …

Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, the county revenue commissioner shall take the oath of office prescribed by Article XVI of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and execute a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the county commission, giving as security thereo…

The county commission shall provide the necessary offices for the county revenue commissioner, and shall provide all stationery, equipment, and office supplies, not otherwise furnished by law, needed for the efficient performance of the duties of the office. (Act 87-393, p. 562, …

The county revenue commissioner shall collect and pay into the general fund of the county all fees, percentages, commissions, and other allowances which the tax assessor or the tax collector of the county are now or hereafter may be by law authorized and directed to charge or col…

The offices of the Tax Assessor and Tax Collector of Clay County are hereby abolished effective the first day of October 1991, or upon the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of tax assessor or tax collector. In the event that the office of tax assessor or tax collector becomes…

It is the purpose of this part to promote the public convenience in Clay County by consolidating the offices of tax assessor and tax collector into one office. (Act 87-393, p. 562, §9.)

In Clay 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 four mills on each dollar of taxable property. The tax shall be earmarked to the county general fu…

This part applies to Clay County. (Act 2001-569, p. 1144, §1.)

For the purposes of this part the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. Clay County. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The Clay County Commission. (3) DISTRIBUTOR. Any person who engages in the selling of gasoline or motor fuel in this state by wholesale domestic tr…

(a) The county commission may levy, in addition to all other taxes imposed by law, an excise tax on persons selling, distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage for any purpose whatever, gasoline or motor fuel within the county at a rate not to exceed two cents ($.02) per …

On or before the 20th day of each month after May 18, 2001, every person upon whom the excise tax is levied shall render to the county commission on forms prescribed by the county commission a true and correct statement of all sales and withdrawals of gasoline and motor fuel made…

It shall be the duty of the county commission to enforce the collection of any tax levied under the authority of this part, and it shall have the right, through its officers or its agents to examine the books, reports, and accounts of every distributor, storer, or retail dealer o…

If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer fails to make monthly reports or fails to pay any tax imposed pursuant to this part, the tax shall be delinquent and there shall be added to the amount of the tax a penalty of 25 percent, and if in the opinion of the county commission …

The acceptance of any amount paid for any excise tax imposed pursuant to this part shall not preclude the collection of the amount actually due. The amount actually paid shall constitute a credit against the amount actually due. (Act 2001-569, p. 1144, §7.)

Any distributor, storer, or dealer who violates this part, or fails to comply with any rule or regulation promulgated, may be restrained, and proper prosecution instituted in the name of the county by the county attorney or the Attorney General of the State of Alabama, or by such…

The proceeds of any tax imposed under authority of this part shall be paid into the County Special Road and Bridge Fund. (Act 2001-569, p. 1144, §9.)

The provisions of this part shall only apply to Clay County. (Act 89-298, p. 482, §1.)

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

(a) The county commission is hereby granted the authority, if they so desire or deem necessary, to levy and impose in addition to all other taxes, including municipal gross receipts license taxes now imposed by law, a special county one cent ($.01) privilege license tax paralleli…

All taxes levied in this part shall be paid to and collected by the State Department of Revenue at the same time and in the same manner as state sales taxes are paid. On or prior to the due dates of the tax herein levied each person subject to such tax shall file with the State D…

Each person engaging or continuing within Clay County in a business subject to the tax levied in Section 45-14-243.02, 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 of …

The tax imposed by this part shall constitute a debt due Clay County and may be collected 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 …

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

(a) The State Department of Revenue shall charge Clay County for collecting the special county tax levied under this part such amount or percentage of total collections as may be agreed upon by the Commissioner of Revenue and the Clay County Commission, but such charge shall not,…

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

Every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells, stores, or receives for the purpose of selling or storing in Clay County, any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and smoking tobacco products shall add the amount of the license or privilege tax levied and assessed to the …

It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in the business in Clay County for which the tax is levied to fail or refuse to add to the sales price and collect from the purchaser the amount due to Clay County on account of the tax herein pr…

All laws, rules, and regulations of the department relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Sections 40-25-1 to 40-25-28, inclusive, requiring reports from dealers and prescribing penalties for violations shall apply with equal force to the tax levied by th…

This part shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products stored by a wholesale dealer for the purpose of resale or reshipment outside of the county which are actually resold or reshipped. (Act 2003-220, p. 553, §7.)

(a) The proceeds from the tobacco tax authorized in Clay County pursuant to Section 45-14-244, and as further provided for in Sections 45-14-244.01 to 45-14-244.03, inclusive, and Section 45-14-244.06, less two percent of the actual cost of collection, which shall be retained by …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Section 11-98-5, the Clay County Commission may increase the emergency telephone service charges to an amount up to one dollar fifty cents ($1.50). (Act 92-459, p. 919, §1.)

(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Cleburne County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Cleburne County prior local laws that were amended or affected by a local law enacted after 1978. (b) It is the purpose of this chapter to state current applic…

(a) This section shall apply only in the City of Heflin in Cleburne County. (b) The City of Heflin in Cleburne County may, by ordinance, authorize the sale by licensed clubs and other retail alcoholic beverage licensees of draft or keg beer or malt beverages, or both, for on-prem…

Effective September 1, 2007, the Coroner of Cleburne County shall be entitled to receive the salary of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per month payable monthly from the general fund of the county. The salary provided by this section shall be the total compensation of the coroner a…

(a) In Cleburne County, in addition to any compensation paid to the coroner by law, the Cleburne County Commission may pay the actual and necessary expenses for the operation of the office of the coroner, including paying mileage for the use of a personal motor vehicle by the cor…

(a) At the general election to be held in 2004, and every four years thereafter, a county commissioner for the first and fourth districts shall be elected by the qualified voters of each of the two districts. At the general election to be held in 2006, and every four years therea…

(a) The Cleburne County Commission may sell driveway pipe to churches, schools, individuals, and nonprofit associations or corporations subject to this section. (b) The county commission shall adopt a written policy on the selling of driveway pipe pursuant to this section which s…

(a) In Cleburne County, in addition to all other fees there shall be taxed as costs the sum of three dollars ($3) in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in equity, criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited bon…