Title 45 — Title 45

(a) This section shall only be operative in Coffee County. (b) In Coffee County, if a check given for a license is found to be non-collectible for any reason, the judge of probate will notify the worthless check unit of the district attorney’s office, who shall make a reasonable …

(a) A Sheriff of Coffee County elected or appointed on or after March 8, 2021, shall receive an annual salary of eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) per year. Except as provided in subsection (b), the salary shall constitute the total compensation payable to the sheriff, and s…

(a) The Sheriff of Coffee County shall receive an expense allowance of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per year, payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county as other county employees are paid. The expense allowance shall be in addition to all other…

Proceeds. (a) The Sheriff of Coffee 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 mai…

(a) In Coffee 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 or his or her appointed agent. (b)(1) All fees collec…

(a) The Sheriff of Coffee County may expend funds accruing to the Sheriff’s Work Release Fund for the betterment of law enforcement in Coffee County that is in the interest of the public and in the discharge of the sheriff’s office as the sheriff sees fit. (b)(1) The sheriff shal…

(a) Any municipality within Coffee County may contract with the Sheriff of Coffee County for police services. The contract may include enforcement by the sheriff, or his or her duly commissioned deputies, of all laws within the corporate limits and police jurisdiction of the muni…

In addition to all other compensation and allowances prescribed by general law, each member of the Board of Equalization of Coffee County shall be entitled to an expense allowance of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month for six months, payable monthly from October through M…

(a) The provisions of this section shall apply to Coffee County. (b) The procedure for redeeming lands for taxes in such county shall be the same as provided in Article 5, commencing with Section 40-10-120, of Chapter 10, Title 40, as amended, except that all such duties as are r…

(a) The annual salary of the Revenue Commissioner of Coffee County holding office effective October 1, 2016, shall be ninety-two thousand, five hundred dollars ($92,500). (b) The annual salary provided in subsection (a) shall continue to be adjusted thereafter as authorized in Ch…

Commissioner Transferred. (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to Coffee County. (b) The procedures for the collection and distribution of sales and use taxes on automotive vehicles, truck trailers, and semi-trailers in Coffee County shall be the same as provided in Art…

(a) The Coffee County Commission is hereby authorized to impose upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in Coffee County a county privilege, license, or excise tax in the following amount…

Upon adoption of a resolution by the Coffee County Commission, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the purpose in Coffee County any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products shall add the amount of…

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

(a) The proceeds from the tax hereby authorized, less the actual cost of collection not to exceed five per centum, shall be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Coffee County Commission, on a monthly basis. Five percent of the revenue shall be paid into the county gener…

The tax hereby authorized shall be paid by affixing stamps as is required for the payment of the tax imposed by Section 40-25-1 through Section 40-25-28. The State Department of Revenue shall have the same duties relative to the preparation and sale of stamps to evidence the paym…

The State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to effectuate the purpose of this section. All such rules and regulations duly promulgated shall have force and effect of law. History: (Act 87-337, p. 491, §6.)

All laws, and rules and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section 40-25-1 through Section 40-25-28, as amended, requiring reports from dealers and prescribing penalties for violations, shall apply with equal …

(a) None of the provisions of this subpart shall be applied in such manner as to be in violation of the commerce or other clauses of the federal or state constitution. (b) This subpart shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco…

The provisions of this subpart shall be construed in pari materia with any and all other provisions of law, or parts of law, relating to taxes, tobacco products, or firefighting departments; provided, however, that all laws or parts of laws which are in direct conflict herewith a…

In addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, the Coffee County Commission may levy a privilege or license tax upon every person, firm, or corporation engaging in the business of renting or furnishing any room or rooms, lodging, or accommodations to a transient…

The tax authorized to be levied by this part shall be collected by Coffee County in the same manner and subject to the same exemptions as the state lodging tax as provided in Chapter 26, Title 40. The tax herein levied shall constitute a debt due the county. The tax, together wit…

The proceeds from the tax collected pursuant to this part shall be distributed as follows: (1) One-half of the proceeds collected within the corporate limits of the City of Enterprise shall be distributed to the City of Enterprise. The proceeds distributed to the City of Enterpri…

In Coffee County, effective at the end of the current term of office, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 36, Code of Alabama 1975, is abolished. History: (Act 2017-255, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2015-552, 2nd Sp. Sess., §4, effective September 22, 2015. History: (Act 79-260, p. 400, §1.)

REPEALED BY ACT 2023-406, EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2023. Each coroner of Coffee County may appoint a deputy coroner to serve at the pleasure of the appointing coroner. A deputy coroner shall take the oath of office required by Section 279 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, shall se…

Expenses. (a) The coroner shall be elected at the general election and every four years thereafter, and shall serve for a term of four years. (b) The coroner shall appoint a chief deputy coroner from the judicial circuit division of the county where the elected coroner does not r…

In addition to any other expense allowances provided by law for the members of the county commission of Coffee County, Alabama, each member of such commission is entitled to and shall receive a monthly expense allowance not to exceed four hundred fifty dollars ($450). The exact a…

(a) The Coffee County Commission shall be composed of seven members, elected from single-member districts one through seven, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The seven districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall resi…

Thirty days or more after August 8, 1991, all regular, special, and called meetings of the Coffee County Commission shall be held exclusively at the New Brockton Farm Complex located on U. S. Highway 84 in New Brockton, Alabama. History: (Act 91-706, p. 1375, §1.)

(a) It is the legislative intent of this section that the Coffee County Commission may construct a jail or renovate existing property for a jail in New Brockton, Alabama, and that the jail shall be used by both county divisions of the judicial circuit encompassing Coffee County. …

Commencing October 1, 1985, the circuit clerk in Coffee County shall be entitled to receive a total expense allowance in an amount which when added to the salary paid by the state will make the total compensation thirty-three thousand dollars ($33,000) per annum. Such expense all…

(a) Commencing July 1, 1987, the circuit judges and District Attorney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit shall each receive a local salary supplement in the amount of one thousand one hundred seventy dollars ($1,170) per month to be paid on a share and share alike basis from county …

Upon the trial by jury in the Circuit Courts of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of any person indicted for a misdemeanor, or a felony not punished capitally, or upon appeals to the circuit courts from lower courts, the court shall require two lists of all the regular jurors empanele…

(a) In Coffee County, in addition to all other costs and charges in the circuit and district courts a fee of three dollars ($3) shall be charged and collected by the clerks of such courts on both civil and criminal cases. The monies derived from the charges hereinabove prescribed…

(a) In the Twelfth Judicial Circuit the fee authorized by Section 12-17-224 to be collected by the special services division of the district attorney’s office shall be fifty dollars ($50). This fee shall be distributed by the division as follows: The amount collected by both coun…

Cases; Jail Fund. (a) In addition to any and all court costs now or hereafter authorized to be collected, there shall be assessed an additional court cost of thirty-five dollars ($35) in all civil cases filed in the Circuit Court of Coffee County and in district court the sum of …

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

Investigators for the District Attorney’s office in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit are hereby authorized and empowered to make arrests and serve search warrants in the performance of their official duties to the same extent as deputy sheriffs are so authorized and empowered. Histor…

Sessions. All court bailiffs and employees of the District Attorney’s Office in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit shall be entitled to be present in the courtroom during sessions of the grand jury except when the jury is deliberating. History: (Act 81-1053, p. 299, §2.)

(a) The District Attorney of the Twelfth 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 of this state or powers or discretion otherwise provided by law for the Di…

For the purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The District Attorney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, State of Alabama, or any of his or her staff. (2) LAW ENFORCEMENT or LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. Any person who is e…

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

(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…