Title 45

The Constable of the District Court of Etowah County shall be paid an expense allowance of seven hundred dollars ($700) per month. The expense allowance shall be in addition to the expense allowance provided by Act No. 88-787, H. 302, 1988 First Special Session until it is repeal…

In Etowah County, effective at the end of the current term or upon the occurrence of a vacancy for any reason in the office of constable in any election precinct, the office of constable as provided for in Chapter 23 of Title 36 is abolished. (Act 2022-105, §1.)

(a) This section shall apply only to the City of Glencoe in Etowah and Calhoun Counties. (b) The voters of the City of Glencoe may authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages within the city on Sunday by an election pursuant to this section, in the following manner: The governing b…

(a) The Etowah County Commission shall provide the coroner with the use of a county vehicle in order to assist the coroner in the performance of his or her official duties. The county commission may otherwise regulate the use of the vehicle to assure that the vehicle is available…

(a) The coroner of Etowah County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance so that the total compensation of the coroner including expense allowances and salary equals twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per year payable from the general fund of the county. (b) Effe…

The coroner may appoint a qualified person to serve as deputy coroner to perform the duties of the coroner when the coroner is unavailable or absent or when the coroner is incapacitated. When called upon to serve, the deputy coroner shall have the same legal authority and respons…

(a)(1) The voters of the City of Hokes Bluff in Etowah County may authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages within the city on Sunday by an election pursuant to this section, in the following manner: The governing body of the City of Hokes Bluff, by resolution, may call an electi…

(a) The intent of this section is to implement, by local act for Etowah County, the Joint Remedy Proposal in the court order dated January 30, 1995, and related orders, in Civil Action No. 89-T-459-E, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Eastern…

(a)(1) In addition to any penalty imposed by law for the late payment of ad valorem taxes in Etowah County, the Etowah County Commission, by ordinance, may impose an additional administrative late payment penalty in an amount not to exceed two dollars ($2) per day and not to exce…

Beginning with the term of office commencing on October 6, 1992, the office of Mayor of Rainbow City in Etowah County shall be full-time. Prior to that date, the City Council of Rainbow City shall establish the amount of compensation to be received by the mayor. (Act 92-477, p. 9…

(a) There is hereby established a monthly compensation schedule for the chair and two board members of the Rainbow City Gas, Water, and Sewer Board in Etowah County, to be paid as follows: The chair of the board shall receive three hundred dollars ($300) per month; the two board …

(a) The voters of the City of Rainbow City in Etowah County may authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages within the municipality on Sunday by an election pursuant to this section, in the following manner: The governing body of the City of Rainbow City, by resolution, may call an…

In addition to all other allowances and compensation now provided by law, there shall be paid to each of the official court reporters for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit an allowance of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such o…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no circuit judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit shall receive any increase in the local county salary supplement that the judge is receiving on May 21, 1992 unless the increase is provided hereafter by local law. (b) The county …

(a) Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit the circuit clerk shall receive a monthly judicial supplement allowance in the amount of two percent of the annual total state compensation for circuit clerks. Such judicial supplement shall be paid, i…

(a) In Etowah County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to each part-time bailiff in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, an increase in salary in such an amount as will, together with any amount paid…

(a) In Etowah County all orders and decrees shall be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the county on a sheet or sheets now commonly called trial sheets. There shall be a trial sheet or sheets for each case docketed in such courts properly identified by the sty…

(a) In Etowah County all final orders and judgments of the court in criminal cases shall be entered by the circuit judges sitting in and for the county on a sheet or sheets separate from the case action summary sheets. These orders shall be properly identified by the style of the…

In Etowah County, all funds collected pursuant to Section 12-17-224, which are presently deposited in the Worthless Check Fund which is maintained by the Etowah County Commission, shall, upon the application by the District Attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit to the Etowa…

(a) In Etowah County, additional court costs in the amount of five dollars ($5) per day shall be assessed and collected against each person incarcerated or booked in the Etowah County Jail. The court costs assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any other court …

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

(a) In Etowah County, a booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed against and collected from each person booked or incarcerated into the Etowah County Detention Center and subsequently convicted. The fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addi…

Persons who have served as district attorneys in Etowah County and who are in all manner and respects entitled to status as supernumerary district attorneys under the general law of the state and who have elected to become supernumerary district attorneys pursuant to such general…

(a) In Etowah County, there shall be three part-time deputy district attorneys. The part-time deputy district attorneys shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the district attorney, shall perform such duties as the district attorney shall direct, and each shall receiv…

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

(a) The district attorney may establish a pretrial diversion program within the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit in Etowah County. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by the common law, provided for by statute and acts of this state, or otherwise provided by law for the district attor…

(a) An offender charged with any of the following criminal offenses in a circuit court or district court may apply to the district attorney for admittance to the pretrial diversion program: (1) A drug offense, excluding trafficking in controlled substances or cannabis as provided…

(a) In determining whether an offender may be admitted into the pretrial diversion program, it shall be appropriate for the district attorney to consider any of the following circumstances: (1) The offender is 18 years of age or older at the time the offense was committed. (2) Th…

(a) Admittance into the pretrial diversion program shall be in the sole discretion of the district attorney. To assist the district attorney in the decision to admit the offender into the pretrial diversion program, the district attorney, prior to the offender being admitted into…

(a) An offender who enters into the pretrial diversion program shall satisfy each of the following requirements: (1) Voluntarily waive, in writing, his or her right to a speedy trial. (2) Agree, in writing, to the tolling of periods of limitations established by statutes or rules…

An offender shall make application to the pretrial diversion program at a time to be determined by the district attorney. (Act 2011-606, p. 1342, §7.)

(a) An offender may be assessed an application fee when he or she is approved for the program. The amount of the fee for participation in the program shall be in addition to any court costs, assessments for crime victim’s compensation fund, Department of Forensic Science assessme…

The district attorney and the offender may enter into an agreement, as a part of the pretrial diversion program, 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. The distric…

(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…

All fees paid to the district attorney by offenders pursuant to this subpart shall be paid into the District Attorney’s Solicitor Fund. The district attorney shall disburse 10 percent to the Sheriff of Etowah County to be deposited into the Law Enforcement Fund, and 10 percent, i…

(a) If the offender violates the conditions of the pretrial diversion program, the district attorney may terminate the participation of the offender in the program. The offender shall be given written notice of the intent of the district attorney to terminate him or her from the …

The district attorney or his or her staff shall have no liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender while participating in the pretrial diversion program or of any service provider or their agents that are contracted to or who have agreed to provide services to …

The pretrial diversion program may apply for grants, may accept gifts from individuals or corporations, and may receive funding or appropriations from city, county, or state agencies or departments to be used in the maintenance or expansion of the pretrial diversion program. (Act…

The district attorney may form an advisory board within the county or judicial circuit named the Citizens Advisory Board for Pretrial Diversion to assist the district attorney in the determination of appropriate pretrial diversion candidates. The district attorney shall retain th…

The district attorney, to the extent practicable, may utilize the services of an existing community corrections program established pursuant to Section 15-18-170, to provide for the supervision of a defendant participating in the pretrial diversion program. The district attorney …

The Clerk of the Jury Commission of Etowah County shall receive for the performance of his or her official duties, in lieu of all other compensation heretofore provided for salary and all other compensation for such clerk, the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month. Su…

(a) The Probate Judge of Etowah County shall charge a fee of two dollars ($2) for filing for record or for recording each and every instrument, paper, writing, document, or decree in his or her office, including each real estate instrument, real estate mortgage, warranty deed, po…

Pursuant to the authority granted in subsection (d) of Section 12-19-90, the Probate Judge of Etowah County shall set the fee for supplying a copy of an instrument. The fee shall be in lieu of any other fee prescribed by law for the service. The money shall be charged and deposit…

(a) In Etowah County, a special recording fee of three dollars ($3) shall be paid to the county, and collected by its judge of probate, with respect to each real property instrument and each personal property instrument that may be filed for record in the office of the judge of p…

(a) The Etowah County Probate Judge shall mail forms to all registered boat owners within the county to allow boat owners to complete such application forms for ordering the annual certificate of registration and pay for any taxes and tags or decals by mail so that the tag or dec…

The Judge of Probate of Etowah County may charge an additional fee when celebrating the rites of marriage. The amount of the additional fee shall be in the discretion of the judge of probate. The fee authorized by this section shall be in addition to the fee imposed pursuant to S…