Title 45

There shall be established the Coroner-Medical Examiners’ Commission, with the following powers: (1) To consult with the county governing body on the selection, appointment, and retention of the coroner-medical examiner, and such associate coroner-medical examiners as may be nece…

(a) The Coroner-Medical Examiners’ Commission shall be composed of the following: (1) The county health officer. (2) The District Attorney of Jefferson County, or his or her designated representative. (3) A representative of the Jefferson County Medical Society selected by the so…

Pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the Coroner-Medical Examiners’ Commission, it shall be the duty of the chief and associate coroner-medical examiners to review or investigate and determine, the cause and manner of any death, when such death may fall within one or …

In investigating a death hereunder, the coroner-medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, to investigate the circumstances of the death, to conduct or have conducted an autopsy, and whether or not there is an autopsy, to take and retain whatever tissue…

There shall be vested in coroners-medical examiners all the authority now or hereafter vested in coroners by the laws of Alabama, including the authority which Section 15-4-1, vests in coroners and to make inquiry of the facts and circumstances of the death of any person who has …

The Coroner-Medical Examiners’ Commission, members of the Coroner-Medical Examiners’ Commission, the county governing body, members of the county governing body, the coroner-medical examiner, associate coroner-medical examiners, and their deputies shall incur no civil or criminal…

Pursuant to rules and regulations recommended by the Jefferson County Medical Examiner and adopted by the Coroner-Medical Examiners’ Commission, the coroner-medical examiner and any associate coroner-medical examiner shall be authorized to take corneal tissue on behalf of any eye…

(a) This section shall apply to Jefferson County and to no other county. (b) As used herein these terms have the meanings hereby given them: (1) COUNTY. Jefferson County. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The County Commission of Jefferson County, Alabama. (c) Commencing at the next term of…

(a) The Jefferson County Commission is hereby authorized to employ for and on behalf of the county three employees for each duly elected county commissioner. One of the employees for each commissioner is to be known as administrative assistant to the commissioner. The compensatio…

(a) It is the intent of this section to implement the amended federal court order, and related orders, dated October 31, 1985, Civil Action No. 84-C-1730-S, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, in the case of Taylor, et al. …

As herein used, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. Jefferson County, Alabama. (2) COUNTYWIDE ELECTION. Any election, whether general, special, or primary, including runoff elections, where qualified electors throughout the county are entitled to vote and…

(a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (b), within seven days from the occurrence of any vacancy, the election commission, by a majority vote thereof, shall adopt a resolution stating the date of the first primary election which shall be held not less than 45 days nor more than …

THIS SECTION WAS REPEALED BY ACT 2025-295, EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2025. If when the resolution, provided for in Section 45-37-72.21, is adopted, a countywide election is scheduled to be held not less than three weeks and not more than eight weeks from the date on which the resolution …

Any person elected to fill a vacancy shall serve the unexpired portion of the term which the person occupying the office when the vacancy occurred would have served if the vacancy had not occurred. (Act 2009-777, p. 2427, §5.)

The first election and the runoff election, if a runoff election is required, shall be held on the dates provided for in the resolution adopted under Section 45-37-72.21. The provisions of the election laws governing the registration of voters, equipment at polling places, furnis…

The failure of the election commission to provide for the first election, or the runoff election, within seven days from the occurrence of a vacancy shall not terminate the jurisdiction and the duty of the election commission to provide for such first election or such runoff elec…

(a) No primary election shall be held to nominate a candidate to fill a vacancy under this subpart. At any election held under this subpart no person’s name shall appear on the ballot as a candidate for the office to be filled at the election unless such person has filed in the o…

(a) The Jefferson County Commission may regulate and restrict the activity of minors under 17 years of age in the unincorporated areas of the county, by resolution or ordinance, in public places and establishments. (b) The resolution or ordinance may include any one or more of th…

(a) This section shall apply to any subject county of the State of Alabama having a population of 500,000 or more according to the last or any subsequent federal census, and to no other county. (b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any officer or unit…

Beginning July 1, 2014, the Jefferson County Commission shall submit to each member of the Jefferson County Legislative Delegation and the public on their Internet website a quarterly accounting of the collections and disbursement of the proceeds from the Indigent Health Care Fun…

In addition to any salary paid by the state, the Circuit Clerk of the Tenth Judicial Circuit shall be paid a supplemental salary from the county at a rate of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per annum. The county commission shall pay such supplemental salary in equal biweekly i…

In addition to the salaries to each of the Circuit Judges of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of the state, there shall be paid to each of the judges a supplement salary in the sum equal to 40 percent of the salary paid each of the judges by the State of Alabama. The supplement salary …

In addition to any salary paid by the state, the elected deputy circuit clerk serving the Bessemer Cut-Off Division of the Tenth Judicial Circuit shall be paid a supplemental salary from the county at the rate of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per annum. The county commission …

All full-time court referees and full-time standing masters in Jefferson County shall receive a county supplemental salary equal to 50 percent of any county supplemental salary payable to their respective appointing judges. The county supplemental salary shall be payable in equal…

(a) A supernumerary circuit district attorney of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama shall be entitled to receive as additional compensation payable from the treasury of the county within the circuit, a sum equal to 40 percent of the compensation paid the supernumerary district…

(a) That each of the judges of such circuit courts of this state shall appoint a competent shorthand writer to perform the duties of official court reporters over the court in the circuit over which the judge presides; that such official court reporter shall not be subject to the…

(a) This section shall apply only to the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, including the Bessemer Division thereof. (b) If a defendant in a criminal case pending in a court of competent jurisdiction shall enter a written plea of not guilty at any time prior to the day of his or …

(a) This section shall be operative only in Jefferson County. (b)(1) Notwithstanding any special, local, or general law to the contrary, there is levied on all cases in district court, an additional fee of seven dollars ($7) and in circuit court, an additional fee of two dollars …

(a) This section shall be operative only in Jefferson County, Bessemer Division, commonly known as the Bessemer Cut-Off. (b)(1) Notwithstanding any special, local, or general law to the contrary, there is levied on all cases in district and circuit courts, an additional fee of fi…

(a) This section shall be operative only in Jefferson County. (b) Notwithstanding any special, local, or general law to the contrary, there is levied on all cases filed in circuit and district court in the Birmingham Division of the Tenth Judicial Circuit an additional court cost…

(a) This section shall be operative only in Jefferson County. (b) Notwithstanding any special, local, or general law to the contrary, there is levied on all cases filed in circuit and district court in the Tenth Judicial Circuit, the Bessemer Division, an additional court cost of…

(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in the Birmingham Division and the Bessemer Division of Jefferson County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a solicitor’s fee, shall be assessed in eac…

Effective immediately after the expiration of the present term of office which expires in 1986, the elected Deputy District Attorney of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bessemer Division, shall serve a term of office of six years. (Act 84-624, p. 1273, §1.)

(a) In the Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bessemer Division, the elected assistant district attorney of the circuit may appoint 16 deputy district attorneys. The deputy district attorneys appointed pursuant to this section shall be qualified to practice law in the courts of this state a…

(a) In the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, Birmingham Division, the district attorney of the circuit may appoint 43 deputy district attorneys. The deputy district attorneys appointed pursuant to this section shall be qualified to practice law in the courts of this state and sh…

The salaries of each judge of the District Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit shall be supplemented by the county which makes up the judicial circuit in an amount so that the total annual salary from the state and the county of each judge of the district court shall be equal to …

Any retired district judge in the Tenth Judicial Circuit shall commence to receive as additional compensation payable from the treasury of the county on an annual basis, a sum equal to 40 percent of the annual compensation or retirement benefit paid the judge by the State of Alab…

(a) In Jefferson County, in addition to all other costs and charges in district court cases, a fee of four dollars ($4) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of the district court. This charge shall not be collected on traffic cases. The net monies derived from the charges …

In Jefferson County, the Deputy Judge of Probate for the Bessemer Division of the Probate Court shall receive a salary of fifty thousand two hundred twenty dollars ($50,220) per annum. The salary shall be paid out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments or equal biwe…

In Jefferson County, where the chief clerk of the probate court appointed pursuant to Section 12-13-40, is also serving in a civil service position with the probate court, the chief clerk shall receive a salary in the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per year for the appo…

In Jefferson County, any conveyance of property that is required to be recorded in the office of the judge of probate shall state the full legal name and complete address of the person to receive the tax notice of the property. (Act 80-450, p. 704, §1; Act 80-610, p. 1037, §1.)

In Jefferson County, in addition to any other duties prescribed by law and any provision in any law, whether special, local, or general, to the contrary notwithstanding, the office of the judge of probate, and any branch thereof, shall make available all forms for change of name …

This subpart shall apply only in Jefferson County. (Act 2012-547, p. 1616, §1.)

The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Jefferson County by providing for the installation of an improved system of indexing, recording, archiving, and retrieving instruments and documents affecting the title to real and …

(a) The judge of probate may index and retain all or parts of the records of the probate court for archival and access purposes utilizing optical disks, magnetic tapes, solid state memory devices, or other computerized or electronic methods for records indexing, storage, and retr…

(a) Effective June 1, 2012, a special indexing and filing fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate with respect to each real property instrument or personal property instrument and for the recording of other instruments and documents in t…