Title 45

(a) This section shall only apply to Fayette County. (b) As used in this section, state sales and use tax means the tax imposed by the state sales and use tax laws, including, but not limited to, Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-3, 40-23-4, 40-23-60, 40-23-61, 40-23-62, and 40-23…

(a) There is hereby imposed upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in Fayette County a county privilege, license, or excise tax up to the following amounts: (1) Five cents ($.05) for eac…

Upon passage of this part there is levied on every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the purpose of distribution in Fayette County any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products shall add the amount of …

It shall be the duty of the county commission of Fayette County to enforce this part upon its imposing the tax thereunder, and it shall have the right itself, or its members or its agents, to examine the books, reports, and accounts of every dealer, storer, or distributor engaged…

The State Department of Revenue, if requested by resolution of the Fayette County Commission, to collect all county privilege licenses or taxes specified in Section 45-29-243, for as long as the department is requested to collect the levies, is hereby authorized to promulgate and…

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, requiring reports from dealers and prescribing penalties for violations shall apply with equal force to the …

(a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Fayette County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to the credit of either the Fayette County Wate…

(a) None of the provisions of this part 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 part shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco produ…

(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Franklin County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Franklin 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) In Franklin County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to each member of the jury commission, each member of the board of registrars, and each member of the board of equalization, an expense a…

(a) This section shall apply only to Franklin County. (b) Each constable, elected or appointed after August 1, 2001, shall have attended and completed a course of study at a police academy or similar institution and shall be in full compliance with minimum standards of the Peace …

The following words, terms, and phrases, wherever used herein, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, and shall include the singular as well as the plural: (1) ALLOCATION. The assignment of positions to a class on the basis of the nature, difficult…

(a) All offices and positions of the city shall be divided into the exempt service and the classified service. (b)(1) The exempt service shall include: a. The positions of all elected officials of the city. b. The positions of voluntary personnel and personnel appointed to serve …

All employees who have acquired permanent status, subject to this part, shall have permanent status in their present positions so long as such positions remain in the classified service. All other employees shall be eligible to acquire permanent status in their present positions …

The personnel program established by this part shall be administered by the board. The board shall consist of five members who are residents of the city and who shall be appointed by the governing body. No member of the board shall be employed by or be an official of the city, no…

In addition to the duties set forth elsewhere in this part, the board shall do all of the following: (1) Advise the governing body on matters of personnel administration, including the development of personnel rules, a job classification plan, and a systematic pay plan. (2) Repre…

So long as the same are not inconsistent with this part, the board shall have the power to recommend to the governing body the adoption of rules and regulations for the operation of the civil service system established hereby, including, but not limited to a job classification pl…

Any rule, determination, regulation, or plan may be amended or repealed in whole or in part in the same manner as is provided herein for the making of such rules, determinations, regulations, or plans. (Act 1973, No. 465, p. 663, §7.)

After the adoption by the governing body of a job classification plan, allocation of each position in the classified service shall be made by the board with the approval of the governing body to the end that all positions in the same class shall be sufficiently alike to permit us…

After the adoption by the governing body of a pay plan and any rules of its administration, the board, with the approval of the governing body, shall assign each position to one of the pay ranges provided in the pay plan to the end that the rate or range of compensation for each …

Eligibility for original appointment or promotion to vacancies in positions in the classified service occurring after August 22, 1973, shall be determined by the personnel board. The personnel board shall conduct such examinations as shall fairly test the abilities and aptitudes …

Pending the availability of a list of names certified as provided in Section 45-30A-50.12, positions may be filled by temporary appointment. The governing body by resolution adopted pursuant to a recommendation of the board may grant permanent status in a position in the classifi…

List of names of persons available for appointment to a vacancy in a position in the classified service shall be selected for certification as provided in Section 45-30A-50.12 in the order in which they appear from among the laid off persons on the reemployment list, promotional …

Except as hereinafter provided, vacancies in positions in the classified service shall be filled by the appointing authority by the appointment of a person whose name is certified, within 30 days after certification. Certification shall be made upon the request of the appointing …

Except as provided in Section 45-30A-50.01 and Section 45-30A-50.02, to acquire permanent status in a position in the classified service so long as such position remains in the classified service, employees shall be subject to a period of probation. The regular period of probatio…

Rules shall be adopted in the manner hereinbefore provided prescribing hours of work and the conditions and length of time for which leaves of absence with pay and leaves of absence without pay may be granted. These shall cover such matters as vacations, holidays, sick leaves, le…

Any employee may be separated from his or her position by being laid off. Reduction in the number of employees shall be made in such class or classes as the appointing authority may designate; provided, however, within each class affected by such reduction employees shall be laid…

Any employee may be dismissed, suspended without pay, or demoted by his or her appointing authority for, but not limited to, any violation of this part or whenever the good of the service shall be served thereby or the employee’s work, performance, conduct on or off the job, or i…

(a) An employee shall have the right to protest any disciplinary action taken against him or her by his or her appointing authority; provided, however, an employee serving by temporary appointment and an employee having probationary status shall have no right to protest any such …

Decisions of the board may be enforced in the court by mandamus, injunction, or other appropriate proceedings. The employee, the appointing authority, or the city may, within 10 days after the decision of the board is rendered, appeal to the court from any decisions of the board …

The board shall maintain adequate records of its proceedings, of its own official acts, the examination record of every candidate, and the employment record of every employee. (Act 1973, No. 465, p. 663, §20.)

No person holding a position in the classified service shall seek or attempt to use any political endorsement in connection with any appointment to a position in the classified service. No person holding a position in the classified service shall use or promise to use, directly o…

The governing body shall make necessary appropriations from the general fund to pay the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the board and its members in the administration of this part. (Act 1973, No. 465, p. 663, §22.)

Nothing herein shall be construed as restricting the right of the governing body to do any of the following: (1) Refuse employment and prohibit the further service of any person who is a member of an organization which is opposed to the basic purpose of local self government. (2)…

The following employees are excluded from this part: Employees of the gas board, water supply board, water and sewer board, janitors, and all employees of the electric department, except the supervisor of the department. (Act 1973, No. 465, p. 663, §24.)

The Mayor of the City of Russellville, Franklin County, shall receive an expense allowance of four hundred dollars ($400) per month, and each member of the governing body of the city shall receive an expense allowance of one hundred dollars ($100) per month; such expense allowanc…

(a) The Coroner of Franklin County shall receive an expense allowance in the amount of nine thousand seven hundred dollars ($9,700) per annum, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. The expense allowance shall be paid …

The members and the Chair of the Board of the Franklin County Commission have had added to their responsibilities the duty and obligation to maintain and oversee the road system for Franklin County. This has necessitated the members and chair to expend their funds in visiting, ov…

(a) The Franklin County Commission is authorized and empowered to construct and maintain driveways for schools, churches, and church owned cemeteries, and school bus turnarounds located within the county, at county expense. (b) The Franklin County Commission is further authorized…

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

The District Attorney of the Thirty-fourth Judicial Circuit, composed of Franklin County, may appoint a chief investigator and from time to time additional investigators. The investigators shall serve at the pleasure of the district attorney. The investigators shall meet the mini…

(a) In Franklin County, the judge of probate shall receive as compensation a salary in an amount equal to that received by the circuit judge, which shall be payable in equal monthly installments by proper warrant drawn on the general fund of the county. (b) Any compensation or ex…

This subpart applies only in Franklin County. The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Franklin County by providing for the installation of an improved system of recording, archiving, and retrieving instruments and documen…

The following words and phrases, including the plural of any thereof, whenever used in this subpart, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) GENERAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT. A real property instrument that affects the title to personal property as well as real property. (2)…

The judge of probate may provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved recording, archiving, and retrieval system in the probate offices of Franklin County. The initial installation of the improved recording, archival, and retrieval system shall i…

Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records provided herein to be recorded, archived, and retrieved with computer-generated files, to be stored and filed on either optical disk, or on paper, …