Title 45

The court may grant reasonable incentives to participants pursuant to the waiver and agreement to participate in the program if the court finds that the participant has done all of the following: (1) Is performing satisfactorily in the program. (2) Is benefitting from education, …

Any jail credit shall be calculated in the customary manner and deducted from the time ordered for participation in the program, unless otherwise ordered by the court. In no event shall the number of days spent incarcerated for violation of the rules of the program exceed the num…

Any and all fees collected from any participant, whether by payroll deduction, garnishment, or otherwise, shall be paid over to and collected by employees or agents of the board and deposited into its accounts for the purposes set out in this part. The sums shall be expended only…

Where it is determined by the court that payment of the fees and sums mandated by operation of this part imposes a definite and substantial financial hardship on the participant, or his or her dependents, the collection and payment of the fees or sums may be deferred or waived in…

The program shall maintain a complete and accurate record of all sums collected and expended and there shall be an audit of the same by an appropriate authority at least every three years. (Act 2009-330, p. 558, §21.)

The program shall maintain information in accordance with state and federal confidentiality laws for anyone receiving drug test results, a screening an assessment, or other personal medical information. (Act 2009-330, p. 558, §22.)

Upon the voluntary dissolution of the Lee County Alternative Sentencing Program and the board, or upon its termination by law or rule of a court, all of its assets, other than those assets held for the benefit of some other person or entity, whether real or personal, tangible or …

The procedures described in this part shall be cumulative and in addition to all other bail and release procedures provided by law or rule. (Act 2009-330, p. 558, §24.)

This part shall only apply in Lee County. The purpose of this part is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Lee County by providing for the installation of an improved system of indexing of instruments and documents affecting the title to real and pe…

The following words and phrases, including the plural of any thereof, whenever used in this part, 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) IM…

The judge of probate is authorized to provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved indexing system in the probate offices of the county. The initial installation of the improved indexing system shall include the following: (1) The acquisition of …

Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records provided herein to be indexed with computer-generated indexes to be filed in binders, and shall constitute the official record of such instruments …

All provisions of the laws of Alabama with respect to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other instruments and records that may constitute part of an improved indexing system installed hereunder, including, but without limitation to Sec…

The initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the special indexing fees. Nothing contained in this section, however, shall prohibit the county from using any part of its own funds for the purpose of paying the cost of operating and maintaining, after the initial in…

Thirty days after April 30, 1986, a special indexing fee of four dollars ($4) 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 …

(a) This section shall apply only to the 37th Judicial Circuit of Alabama. (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 her arraignment such plea shall constitute…

(a) That in the 37th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the circuit on a sheet or sheets now commonly called case action summaries and that there shall be a case action summary for each case docketed in…

(a) The several members of the Lee County Board of Education shall hereafter be elected by only those qualified electors in the county who reside outside of the city limits of any municipality in the county that has its own school system. (b) Nothing in this section shall affect …

In Lee County each member of the board of registrars shall receive an additional five dollars ($5) per day for each day’s attendance of the sessions of the board. Such compensation shall be in addition to any and all compensation for such members and shall be payable from the cou…

(a) Beginning October 1, 2005, each member of the Lee County Board of Registrars shall receive thirty-five dollars ($35) per day from the county in addition to any compensation received from the state. (b) The county per diem compensation provided in subsection (a) for members of…

(a)(1) In Lee County, all chief election inspectors who work at polling places are entitled to an additional per diem allowance in an amount, together with any other allowances, which shall total one hundred dollars ($100) per day, plus fifteen dollars ($15) per day for actual at…

The Lee County Commission shall set the allocations for clerk hire allowances in the offices of the judge of probate, the tax assessor, and the tax collector, respectively. However, the clerk hire allocation for the tax collector’s office shall be no less than twenty-five thousan…

(a) The Lee County Commission shall employ a county engineer who shall be a thoroughly qualified and competent civil engineer possessing all of the qualifications as specified for county engineers under the general laws of the State of Alabama and who shall reside in Lee County d…

Before commencing his or her duties, the county engineer shall enter into a bond for faithful performance of his or her duties in such amount and with such sureties as shall be approved by the commission. In carrying out his or her duties, he or she shall report to the county com…

(a) All functions, duties, and responsibilities for the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads, highways, bridges, and ferries in Lee County shall be delegated to the county engineer, who shall, insofar as possible, construct and maintain the roads, highways, bridg…

It shall be the duty of the county engineer to carry out the following as determined by the county commission or its designee: (1) To employ, supervise, and direct all personnel and assistants as are necessary and authorized to properly maintain and construct the county roads, hi…

It shall be the duty of the county commission to fix, from time to time, in accordance with prevailing economic conditions, the various scales of wages or salaries to be paid for labor necessary in the maintenance and construction of roads, highways, bridges, and ferries; and the…

The county commission shall fix the amount of the salary of the county engineer payable in biweekly installments from the road and highway funds of the county. (Act 90-195, p. 226, §6.)

The county commission and the county engineer are prohibited from authorizing or performing any work on private property. (Act 90-195, p. 226, §7.)

The County Commission of Lee County is authorized, when the need exists to provide protection of forest from fires, insects, disease, and other pests in Lee County by participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission’s forest protection program in the manner hereinafter specified.…

(a) After the Lee County Commission has determined that such a need does exist in Lee County, the county commission, in the manner hereinafter specified, may provide for a financial charge to be paid by the owners of forest lands located in Lee County for the use of the land for …

The county governing body of Lee County is authorized to appoint agents and delegate authority to individuals to search out forest lands in Lee County, to determine the area and owners thereof, and report the same to the Tax Assessor of Lee County who shall be authorized, after n…

The financial charge herein imposed shall be due and payable to the Tax Collector of Lee County, and shall, when collected, be paid to the Treasurer of Lee County. All monies collected in accordance with this part shall be spent in participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission…

The County Commission of Lee County is authorized to remove the financial charge after the county commission has determined that the financial charge is no longer needed. The county commission shall hold public hearings to determine whether or not the financial charge is still ne…

(a) The following words and phrases used in this part, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, shall be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) AMENDMENT 392. That certain amendment to the C…

It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this part to implement the authorizing amendment and Amendment 392 in order to provide for the operation and financing of a system for providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities for the …

(a) The commission is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time to establish one or more districts within the boundaries of the county, to fix the boundaries of any such district, and, subject to applicable provisions of this part, to alter the boundaries of any such di…

Subject to the provisions of Section 45-41-141.09 (providing for the exemption of certain dwellings from the levy of financial charges hereunder), the commission is hereby authorized to levy, for each fiscal year of the county commencing with such fiscal year beginning October 1,…

(a) The commission, at any time and from time to time, may without the necessity of calling or holding any special election (whether under and pursuant to this part or other applicable law or laws, if any) and otherwise on such terms and conditions as the commission may in its di…

(a) In the event that any territory then within the boundaries of one or more districts is (as the result of the incorporation of a municipality subsequent to the establishment of such district or districts or subsequent to the then most recent alteration, if any, of the boundari…

(a) In the event any territory then within the boundaries of one or more districts shall be annexed to any municipality, then, from and after the date that is 30 days after the date such annexation becomes effective, but in all events subject to Section 45-41-141.07, (1) Such ter…

(a) In the event that any territory lawfully included within the boundaries of a district shall thereafter be excluded therefrom at the instance of the governing body of a municipality pursuant to Section 45-41-141.02, or as a result of the incorporation or annexation of such ter…

(a) Any financial charge levied as provided in Section 45-41-141.03 shall become due and payable on October 1 in the fiscal year of the county next succeeding the fiscal year during and for which such financial charge is so levied and shall become delinquent if not paid before th…

(a) Any person who is: (1) The owner of a dwelling that constitutes part of a homestead or a principal residence as those terms are used in subsection (d) of Section 40-9-19, and in Section 40-9-21, respectively, and (2) A person authorized, by virtue of any qualification of age,…

The commission may appoint such agents as it, with the advice of the tax assessor, may deem advisable to assist the tax assessor in ascertaining the location and fair market value of units of property within any district and the owners thereof. The tax assessor may establish such…

(a) The treasurer shall establish or cause to be established in the county treasury a district fire protection fund for each district in which a financial charge is then being levied and collected, and shall maintain such district fire protection fund, or cause it to be maintaine…