Title 45

(a) No later than 30 days immediately following June 26, 1995, all motor vehicles owned or leased by Jackson County shall be marked on the sides with decals or stencils identifying the vehicles as belonging to the county or being used as a county vehicle, except for the motor veh…

(a) The Jackson County governing body shall reimburse the office of tax collector and judge of probate from the general fund of the county the amount of any monetary loss, not to exceed a total of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, arising or caused by the acceptance of wor…

(a) Any payments coming into the treasury of Jackson County that are derived, directly or indirectly, from payments by the Tennessee Valley Authority in lieu of payment of taxes shall be appropriated as follows: (1) One percent to the Jackson County Economic Development Fund paid…

(a) The Jackson County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall set the fee to be charged for each service. Any fees to be charged under the authority of this section by the county health departm…

(a) This section shall apply only in Jackson County, Alabama. (b) The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. Jackson County. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The Jackson County Commission. (3) SWINE FARM or SWINE FARMING. Commercial concentrated animal feeding opera…

The Guntersville Reservoir Aquatic Plant Management Board of Jackson County is hereby created in Jackson County for the purpose of creating and implementing an aquatic plant management program for Lake Guntersville within the jurisdictional boundaries of Jackson County. (Act 2014…

(a) The Guntersville Reservoir Aquatic Plant Management Board of Jackson County shall be composed of the following nine members: (1) The Mayor of Scottsboro or his or her designee. (2) The Chair of the Jackson County Commission or his or her designee. (3) One member appointed by …

The Guntersville Reservoir Aquatic Plant Management Board of Jackson County shall develop and, to the extent feasible using available funding, implement an aquatic plant management program in the waters of Lake Guntersville in Jackson County. The program shall address both short …

There is hereby created a department of public works in Jackson County for the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads and bridges, and the supervision of solid waste systems. (Act 79-825, p. 1557, §1.)

The department of public works, subject to the approval of the Jackson County Commission, shall have the power and authority and shall be solely responsible for the construction, repair, and maintenance of the roads, bridges, and ferries and all such construction, repair, and mai…

Any unexpended monies remaining in the fund required by law to be maintained by the State Department of Transportation for the use in the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads, bridges, and ferries in Jackson County shall be paid over to the county department of p…

The county commission may request the Director of the State Department of Transportation to send names of candidates for the position of qualified registered engineer or the commission, without said names, may employ a person who is a qualified registered engineer and who has as …

It shall be the duty of the county engineer, subject to the approval of the majority of the Jackson County Commission: (1) To employ, supervise, and direct all such assistants as are necessary to properly maintain and construct the public roads, highways, bridges, and ferries of …

The county engineer is hereby designated as the person authorized to make requisitions in writing to the county commission for per diem and other expenses, provided, when contracts are to be let or when equipment is to be purchased, lease-purchased, or rented involving more than …

(a) The county commission shall furnish the county engineer office supplies and necessary transportation in connection with his or her duties under this article. The county engineer shall be the only department of public works employee authorized to drive a county vehicle to and …

The county engineer shall be the custodian of all road tools, machinery, supplies, and equipment of the county, and he or she shall be accountable for the same. It shall be the further duty of the county engineer to inspect all materials, machinery, equipment, and supplies purcha…

No materials, supplies, or equipment may be traded, loaned, leased, or rented by the county engineer without the approval of the county commission, and under no circumstance shall there be any county material, supplies, or equipment sold unless advertised for four consecutive wee…

The authority of the county engineer shall be limited to the expenditure of funds, as may be appropriated by the county commission, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, or repairing public roads, bridges, and ferries and the supervision of the solid waste system of the c…

All expenditures for salaries, labor, benefits, insurance, supplies, materials, and all other expenses related to the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads, bridges, and ferries shall come from the road fund. All monies designated for roads and bridges shall be ma…

Before entering upon his or her duties, the county engineer shall make and enter into a surety bond in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) payable to the county, conditioned for the faithful discharge and performance of his or her duties as such engineer, and for…

The chair and each member of the Jackson County Commission shall be paid an additional one hundred dollars ($100) per month for nine consecutive months following October 1, 1979. Thereafter, such allowance shall be decreased to one dollar ($1) per month and shall so continue for …

The county commission shall set the salary of the county engineer and the county’s portion of such salary shall be not less than seven thousand dollars ($7,000) per annum, which sum shall be payable from the funds of the county treasury designated for the department of public wor…

Members of the board of directors of any Jackson County Public Park Board may be permitted the use of its facilities in lieu of compensation or expenses for service as members of such board or boards. Authority to use facilities of such board or boards by board members in lieu of…

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the Jackson County Commission may transfer surplus funds over the operating costs of the Jackson County Public Parks System as determined by standard government fund accounting principles from the Jackson County Parks Fund to the Jac…

(a) In Jackson County, it shall be unlawful for any person, or one or more of a group of persons together, to willfully throw or cast, or cause to be thrown or cast, the rays of a spotlight, headlight, or other artificial light from any motor vehicle, with the aid of any motor ve…

(a) Commencing on June 1, 1993, the Sheriff of Jackson County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. T…

(a) Commencing on March 1, 2022, the Sheriff of Jackson County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation, or salary provided by law. …

(a) The Sheriff of Jackson County shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff’s office. These records shall state the description of the property, the date of recovery of the property, and the serial or other i…

If the abandoned or stolen personal property is of a perishable nature and reasonable attempts to locate and identify the owner of the property are not successful, the property may be sold at once without notice. The sheriff shall attempt to obtain the best possible price for the…

(a) The sheriff shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned or stolen firearms, not subject to disposition by general law. The records shall state the description of the firearm, the date of recovery of the firearm, and the serial or other identifying number, if a…

(a) As often as necessary, the sheriff shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder all abandoned or stolen personal property, other than firearms, which has been recovered by the sheriff’s office and has remained unclaimed by the rightful owner for a six-month period. (b) …

The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, including firearms, may claim the property at any time prior to its sale by submitting sufficient proof of ownership as determined by the sheriff and by paying any reasonable …

If property is sold at public auction, as provided in this subpart, a notation in the storage record shall be made of the sale and of the amount received for the property. The person making the sale may reject any and all bids if the amount bid is unreasonably low and may continu…

The proceeds from the sale of property at an auction conducted under the authority of this subpart, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale of property, shall be paid to the office of the Sheriff of Jackson County and shall…

In Jackson County, all interest earned on the Inmate Trust Fund Account shall be used by the sheriff for the operation or maintenance of that account or for law enforcement purposes. (Act 2015-92, §1; Act 2015-118, §1.)

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) CREDIT CARD. A line of credit issued by a domestic lender or credit card bank. (2) DEBIT CARD. A card issued by a bank in relation to a checking or savings account authorized by law to be expen…

(a) The Sheriff of Jackson County or his or her authorized agents shall operate a jail store within the confines of the county jail. The county commission shall contract for a telephone system to be used by the prisoners within the confines of the county jail and also for the hou…

Any person who has been committed to the county jail or to any city jail in Jackson County under a criminal sentence may be released therefrom at the discretion of the sentencing court, either on its own motion or upon the motion of the defendant, at the time of sentence or at an…

Any person who has been sentenced to the Jackson County jail or any city jail within Jackson County and who has been ordered released under Section 45-36-232.20, at the time of sentence or at any time while any part thereof remains unserved, may be required by the sentencing cour…

Any person released under Section 45-36-232.20, or ordered confined under Section 45-36-232.21, who willfully fails to report for confinement as ordered shall be deemed to have escaped from the institution to which he or she has been sentenced and upon conviction shall be subject…

For the purposes of this subpart, the term net income shall be defined as total salaries, wages, and other compensation received by a person committed to a jail in Jackson County for work performed while such person is released pursuant to this subpart, less all sums withheld for…

In any case in which the court having jurisdiction of the case determines that the collection and payment of the sums provided for in Section 45-36-232.23 will impose a definite and significant financial hardship on the dependents of the prisoner involved, the court, in its discr…

All sums collected under this subpart shall be expended for the implementation of this subpart, including, but not limited to, paying salaries and other expenses involved in making investigations and studies necessary to determine whether or not particular prisoners will be grant…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this subpart pertaining to pretrial release shall be a guide to judicial officers in Jackson County, as defined herein, to insure that no person be needlessly detained in the county because of his or her personal economic…

As used in this subpart, the term judicial officer means, unless otherwise indicated, any circuit judge or equivalent thereof in the Thirty-eighth Judicial Circuit, any judge of probate in Jackson County, and any district court judge or judge of any other court created in lieu th…

(a) Any person in Jackson County charged with an offense, at his or her appearance before a judicial officer, may be ordered released pending trial on his or her personal recognizance or upon the execution of an unsecured appearance bond in an amount specified by the judicial off…