Title 45

In Baldwin County, the office of constable shall be abolished, pursuant to Section 36-23-1. All assets, money, property, real or personal, equipment, and supplies belonging to the office shall be transferred to the county governing body for use or disposition as deemed proper for…

(a) The coroner of Baldwin County shall receive an additional expense allowance of five hundred dollars ($500) per month which shall be paid from the county general funds. The expense allowance shall be in addition to any salary and other expense allowance heretofore provided to …

A coroner’s investigation shall mean a process of collecting pertinent information concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of an individual, and background information, including all, but not limited to, medical information, which may be helpful in determining the caus…

The county coroner must have a high school education or an equivalent degree. The county coroner prior to beginning his or her first term and all deputy coroners prior to their first such appointment shall complete at least a 20-hour coroner’s death investigation course comparabl…

(a) A coroner’s investigation is limited to inquiries for determining the cause and manner of death, the identity of the deceased, and circumstances surrounding death. (b) If the coroner’s investigation reveals any evidence or suspicion of foul play in regard to the death, he or …

The county coroner may conduct a coroner’s investigation of any death in Baldwin County when the death shall fall within one or more of the following categories: (1) Any death that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, that is, when the person has not been under medical care for sign…

When the Baldwin County Coroner determines a death under investigation is one described in Section 45-2-61.03, the coroner may, and upon request, shall be assisted by a state medical examiner in the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, as necessary, to help determine the caus…

While conducting a coroner’s investigation of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or state medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and he or she or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction may take possession and examine or have examin…

If after conducting a coroner’s investigation of a death, the Baldwin County Coroner or the designated deputy coroner is satisfied that the death was not caused by a criminal act or omission, that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, that the law enforcement age…

While conducting a coroner’s investigation of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or a state medical examiner or the director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences is authorized to issue subpoenas for the production of pertinent medical records, radiographs, an…

It shall be the duty and responsibility of any person in the county having knowledge concerning a death occurring under the categories defined in Section 45-2-61.03 to report such death promptly to the Baldwin County Coroner or to any law enforcement agency who, in turn, shall pr…

The county coroner or any law enforcement officer having jurisdiction and with approval of the county coroner shall take possession of personal effects on or about the dead body and ascertain that the next of kin is notified in regard to the death. Such personal effects may: (1) …

The assistance provided by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences through its state medical examiners or other scientists, employees, or agents shall be provided without fee to Baldwin County unless otherwise provided for by the law or agreement between the county governing …

The reports of death investigations conducted by the county coroner or by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, or true copies thereof duly certified by the county coroner or the director of the department, respectively, are admissible in any court in the county with or wi…

Neither the Baldwin County Coroner nor any member of his or her staff, the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, the state medical examiners or any member of the department’s staff or agents, shall incur any civil or criminal liability for the proper and reason…

(a) This section shall apply only within the police jurisdictions of the Town of Summerdale, the City of Gulf Shores, the City of Orange Beach, and the City of Foley in the unincorporated areas of Baldwin County. (b)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2), in the unincorporated…

(a) The police jurisdiction boundary between the City of Gulf Shores and the City of Foley is fixed along the line lying in Baldwin County, Alabama, described as follows: Begin at the point of confluence of the midline of Bon Secour River with Mobile Bay; thence northeasterly alo…

As used in this part the words “utilities board” shall mean the Utilities Board of the City of Foley in Baldwin County, a corporation organized and existing under the authority of Sections 11-50-310 through 11-50-318 and 11-50-320 through 11-50-324. (Act 80-441, p. 671, §1.)

In addition to all other powers, rights, and authority heretofore granted by law: (1) Such utilities board is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, purchase, construct, lease, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve a cable television system which may be defined, wi…

For the purposes of this part, such utilities board may exercise the right of eminent domain. Such eminent domain proceedings shall be conducted in the manner now provided by law. (Act 80-441, p. 671, §3.)

(a) In payment for the purchase, lease, construction, acquisition, extension, or maintenance of such television cable system, the utilities board may issue its bonds in the manner provided by law. (b) Such utilities board, in order to secure the prompt and faithful payment of the…

The utilities board furnishing television cable service pursuant to this part shall have the right to require any person furnishing television cable service to the public within its jurisdiction to interconnect the television cable, lines, facilities, or systems furnishing such s…

The utilities board shall have all the power and authority necessary and proper to the exercise of the powers conferred on it by this part and in effectuating the purposes of this part. (Act 80-441, p. 671, §6.)

For the transaction of business pursuant to this part, the utilities board shall be exempt from the jurisdiction and control of the Alabama Public Service Commission with respect to such business. (Act 80-441, p. 671, §7.)

No provision of this part shall be used to constitute the incurring of a debt by the utilities board within the state constitutional provisions or statutory limitations on debts of the City of Foley. (Act 80-441, p. 671, §8.)

(a) In Baldwin County, each member of the county commission, at the discretion of the county commission, shall be entitled to receive a mileage allowance in the same amount as the mileage allowance authorized by the Internal Revenue Service. (b) The provisions of this section sha…

(a) In Baldwin County, effective beginning the next term of office, the annual basic compensation of each member of the county commission shall be an average of the median annual household income in Baldwin County for the previous four years as ascertained and adjusted each four-…

(a) This section shall apply only to Baldwin County. (b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the Baldwin County Commission may contract for the codifying, printing, and publication of the laws, resolutions, bylaws, ordinances, court orders, constitutional laws, rules and reg…

In Baldwin County, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the county commissioners elected in November whose terms of office commence January 1985, shall serve two years, and each commissioner elected thereafter shall serve for a term of four years each. Elections shall be held…

(a) Effective beginning the next term of office, the position of Chair of Baldwin County Commission shall rotate from among the members of the commission on an annual basis. At its organizational meeting required in Section 11-3-1, the commission, by majority vote of its members,…

In addition to the assessment and distribution of the additional court costs and charges for Baldwin County circuit, district, and municipal courts, there shall be assessed and collected in each case, excluding parking violations, by the clerks of the courts an additional fee of …

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

(a) In Baldwin County, a supervision fee of twenty dollars ($20) per month shall be levied against any person placed under supervised probation status of the Juvenile Court of Baldwin County, and shall be assessed, collected, waived, or determined as provided for in subsection (b…

(a) In Baldwin County, in addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in the county, additional court costs in the amount of ten dollars ($10) shall be assessed and collected as costs on each criminal case, including traffic cases, filed in the circuit court …

In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Baldwin County, there shall be levied and assessed a court cost of twenty-five dollars ($25) in all cases in which court costs are assessed which are determined by the judge to be domest…

In Baldwin County, in addition to all other fees and costs prescribed by law, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty dollars ($20) in each juvenile case, criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on forfeited bail bond or original conviction in any inferior or muni…

(a) In Baldwin County, additional court costs in the amount of up to twenty dollars ($20) per day to be set by the sheriff shall be assessed and collected against each person incarcerated in the Baldwin County jail. The court costs assessed pursuant to this section shall be in ad…

The Baldwin County Commission, the governing body of Baldwin County, Alabama, is hereby fully authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the courthouse of the county and to accomplish such purpose may, from time to time, expend such public funds of the county as…

In order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the library and for the purposes of judicial administration as further specified in this subpart, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of fifteen dollars ($15) in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit…

There also shall be taxed as costs the sum of fifteen dollars ($15) in each criminal case and civil case, including any juvenile court case, hereafter filed in the District Court of Baldwin County, including any case in which the district court sits as the juvenile court. The cos…

(a) The sums to be paid to the Baldwin County Commission, as herein provided, shall be kept in a special fund designated as the Baldwin County Law Library and Judicial Administration Fund and shall be expended by the Presiding Circuit Judge of the Circuit Court of Baldwin County,…

The items of cost referred to above shall be designated in the respective courts as “Law Library and Judicial Administration Fee” and when any part of the costs in such a case or proceeding shall have been paid, the amount necessary for the payment of the fee shall be applied the…

This subpart shall be construed together with other laws relating to court costs in Baldwin County. (Act 96-619, p. 985, §2.)

Any actions by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baldwin County arising out of the collection of court costs in Baldwin County are hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved retroactively to January 1, 1977. (Act 96-619, p. 985, §3.)

(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Baldwin County, excluding all municipal courts, additional court costs in an amount not to exceed fifteen dollars ($15) shall be assessed and taxed as costs on each civil case and on each criminal case, in…

(a) The district attorney’s office in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit is hereby authorized to employ such investigators as it deems necessary from time to time. (b) All court bailiffs and employees of the district attorney’s office in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit shall b…