Title 45 — Title 45

(a) This section shall be operative only in Clarke County. (b) The Sheriff of Clarke County, Alabama, shall receive an annual salary equal to his or her current salary and expense allowances effective on the commencement of the next term of office of the sheriff beginning after A…

(a)(1) Effective beginning May 1, 2025, the Sheriff of Clarke County shall receive an annual expense allowance of thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($32,500), payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. (2) This expense allowance shall be in …

(a) The Sheriff of Clarke County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail canteen and inmate telephone system within the confines of the county jail to serve the needs of the jail population. After the costs and operating expenses are deducted from the income, e…

(a) This section shall apply only to Clarke County. (b) In Clarke County, the total fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol pursuant to Section 13A-11-75, shall be twenty dollars ($20) per year, which shall be collected by the sheriff. (c) The fees collected by the sheriff…

(a) The Sheriff of Clarke County may charge and collect a reasonable fee for services, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) Fingerprinting. (2) Reports. (3) Copies of various requested records. (4) Photo identification cards. (5) Funeral duties. (6) Court-orde…

(a) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court official in the district and circuit courts of Clarke County shall assess a reasonable service of process fee for service or attempted service of process o…

In Clarke County, the members of the Board of Equalization shall be entitled to an expense allowance of thirty dollars ($30) a day for each day’s service as provided by law. Such expense allowance shall be payable in equal monthly payments and be in addition to any other compensa…

Chief Clerk; Oath and Bond; Office Space, Equipment; Disposition of Funds. (a) On and after October 1, 1991, or if a vacancy occurs in either the office of tax assessor or the office of tax collector of Clarke County before such date, then immediately upon the occurrence of such …

In Clarke County, Alabama, the procedure for redeeming lands sold for taxes in the county shall be the same as provided in Article 5, Chapter 10, Title 40, except that all such duties as are required of and performed by the judge of probate shall be transferred to and be performe…

In Clarke County, Alabama, in addition to any and all other taxes heretofore levied, the county commission may, by resolution, impose an additional ad valorem tax in the amount of five mills on each dollar of taxable property in the county. All proceeds from such levy shall be ea…

(a) This section shall be applicable only to Clarke 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 r…

Operation, Etc., and for School Purposes. (a) This section shall only apply to Clarke County. (b) As used in this section, 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…

(a)(1) There is imposed on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in Clarke County, a county privilege, license, or excise tax in the following manner: a. Five cents ($0.05) for each package of ciga…

(a)(1) Upon adoption of a resolution by the Clarke County Commission, the county commission may impose on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in Clarke County, a county privilege, license, or exc…

Any bank, either incorporated or unincorporated, which is established in Clarke County, shall have the power to establish, to maintain, and to operate within the same city or town or within other communities, one or more branches or branch banks, branch offices, branch agencies, …

Activities; Violations. (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to all counties having a population of not less than 26,000 nor more than 26,800 inhabitants according to the 1970 or any subsequent federal decennial census. (b) The following words and terms as used in this …

The Coroner of Clarke County shall be entitled to receive a total expense allowance in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500) per month to be paid out of the county general fund. This expense allowance shall be in addition to any and all other compensation and salary provided …

(a) In Clarke County, in addition to any compensation paid to the coroner by law, the Clarke County Commission may pay any of 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 …

In Clarke County, there is hereby created the office of deputy coroner who shall have the same qualifications, powers and duties, and shall receive the same salary as the county coroner. The county governing body is authorized to appoint not more than two such deputies coroner. H…

Plan of County Engineer and Annual Budget; Clerical Assistance; Recordkeeping; Inspection of Roads and Bridges. (a) Beginning with the term of office of any member of the county commission which commences on or after November 2000, the chair and each member of the county commissi…

(a)(1) Effective beginning May 1, 2025, the County Commissioners of Clarke County shall receive an annual expense allowance of eight thousand dollars ($8,000), payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county. (2) This expense allowance shall be in additi…

(a) The county commission herein created shall consist of five members, one of whom shall serve as chairman as hereinafter provided. (b) The five members of the commission shall be elected from, be a qualified elector of, and reside in each of five single-member districts within …

Commencing June 1, 1980, all costs and charges of court in the Clarke County Division of the First Judicial Circuit of this state shall be increased by five dollars ($5) with the proceeds from such increase to be paid into the Pistol Permit Fund of Clarke County to be used exclus…

(a) In any case in which court costs are assessed in the district and circuit courts of Clarke County, or the municipal courts in the county, there shall be assessed and collected as other costs and charges are collected, an additional court cost as follows: (1) In all circuit co…

(a) The Probate Judge of Clarke County shall be entitled to receive total compensation in the form of an annual salary in the amount of forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($47,500) per annum. Such salary shall be paid in lieu of all other fees, allowances, and percentages …

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

(a) In all civil cases in the circuit and district courts in Clarke County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in each case. The solicitor’s fee in civil cases shall be in the same amount as the docket fee or court cost which is assessed…

(a) That in addition to all court costs which are presently authorized to be imposed in the Municipal Court of the Town of Grove Hill, Alabama, under Section 12-14-14, the governing body of the Town of Grove Hill is hereby authorized to impose, by enactment of an ordinance, addit…

(a) This section shall apply to the regulation of the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the City of Jackson in Clarke County. (b) The City Council of the City of Jackson, by resolution or ordinance, may authorize the sale and distribution of draft or keg beer by ret…

(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Clay County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Clay 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 applicable law…

Each election official of Clay County shall receive the rate of the minimum wage for each hour, or fraction thereof, that the polls are open per day for the performance of his or her official duties. The county governing body of Clay County shall supplement the compensation alrea…

Pursuant to Section 17-5-5, to facilitate or reduce election costs, the Clay County Commission may adopt a resolution which establishes voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts. History: (Act 93-518, p. 852, §1.)

In Clay County, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 40-12-10, and any other general or local law of this state, no person shall be appointed to the position of county license inspector of or for Clay County. The position of county license inspector in the county is hereby a…

In addition to all other authority now vested in the Clay County Commission, the commission shall be authorized to set the necessary policies and priorities for the construction, maintenance, and repair of all public roads, county highways, bridges, ferries, and public facilities…

The county commission shall appoint and employ a county engineer, who shall be a thoroughly qualified and competent professional engineer not required to be a land surveyor, but otherwise possessing all of the qualifications as specified for county engineers under the general law…

It shall be the duty of the county engineer, in accordance with policy established by the commission, within the law of the State of Alabama to: (1) employ, supervise, and direct all such assistants as are necessary to properly maintain and construct the public roads, highways, b…

It shall be the duty of the commission to fix, from time to time, in accordance with prevailing economic conditions, the various scales of wages or salaries to be paid for labor necessary in the maintenance and construction of roads, bridges, ferries, and public facilities; and t…

The commission shall fix the amount of the salary of the county engineer, payable in equal monthly installments from appropriate road and highway funds. History: (Act 90-460, p. 649, §5.)