Title 45

(a)(1) In Mobile County, in any case in which court costs are assessed in the circuit court of the county, both civil and criminal cases, there shall be assessed and collected by the clerk as other costs and charges are collected an additional court cost in the amount of ten doll…

In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Mobile County, there shall be levied and assessed a court cost of twenty-five dollars ($25) in all cases in which court costs are assessed which are determined by the judge to be domesti…

(a) In addition to any court costs currently provided by law in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in Mobile County, there shall be levied in all cases filed in circuit and district courts an additional court cost fee of two dollars ($2). When collected by the clerk of the court, th…

In addition to the salary paid to the District Attorney in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by the state, there also shall be paid to the district attorney from the general fund of the county treasury in equal monthly installments an annual supplement to his or her salary payable …

The governing body of any city or town in any county in the State of Alabama having, according to the last or any future federal census, a population in excess of 300,000 inhabitants and less than 600,000 inhabitants may, notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute of Ala…

(a) This subpart shall apply only in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in Mobile County. (b) The purpose of this subpart is to ensure that court-ordered restitution to crime victims, fines for failure to appear in court, victim compensation assessments, bail bonds forfeitures, cour…

The District Attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a Recovery Unit of the Special Services Division. The district attorney, after electing to establish the unit, shall assign sufficient staff and resources to effectively operate the unit. The recov…

In addition to this subpart, all other authorized methods to collect delinquent court fines, costs, victim compensation assessments, bail bonds, forfeitures, penalty payments, restitution, or like payments, shall remain in full force and effect. (Act 95-568, p. 1187, § 4.)

(a) The County Commission of Mobile County is authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the county and, to accomplish that purpose, may, from time to time, expend public funds of the county, as are not required by law to be expended for any other purpose or pur…

In Mobile County, in addition to any other compensation heretofore provided by law, the county law librarian is authorized to receive a salary supplement of nine thousand one hundred thirty-two dollars ($9,132) per annum upon approval by the county commission. The salary suppleme…

(a) The following words, phrases, and terms including the plural of any thereof, whenever used in this section, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) CODE. The Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended. (2) COMPUTERIZED METHODS OF INDEXING. The use of computer hardware and so…

(a) The judge of probate shall not receive for record or permit the recording of an instrument in which the title to real property, or of any interest therein, or lien thereon, is conveyed, granted, encumbered, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, unless such an instrument has end…

In Mobile County, notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the judge of probate is hereby authorized to sell, at the rate of five cents ($0.05) per name, the list of names and addresses of all qualified voters of requested wards and precincts within the county, to any candidate f…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Mobile County shall assess an additional surcharge at the rate of ten dollars ($10) per instrument for all documents submitted for recordation in probate court which are subject to a deed or mortgage tax. (b) The funds generated from these fees, and an…

(a) In Mobile County, a special recording fee of two dollars ($2) shall be collected by the judge of probate on each real or personal property, uniform commercial code, judicial, or other instrument recorded or filed for record in the probate court of the county. The special reco…

(a) In Mobile County, the judge of probate and chief clerk of the probate court may utilize a computer generated, digitized electronic signature of the judge of probate or the chief clerk of the probate court as the required signature of the judge of probate or the chief clerk fo…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Mobile County, may in his or her discretion, create and establish administrative divisions in his or her office as he or she may determine necessary or convenient in the efficient and expeditious performance of the functions and duties in his or her of…

The Mobile County Commission may appropriate funds from the county general fund in the annual budget of the judge of probate for expenditures by the judge of probate for reasonable and necessary miscellaneous expenses incurred in the discharge of the duties of the office of the j…

Upon the effective date of the repeal of Act 3, 1890 Regular Session, and Act 91-373, 1991 Regular Session, the Mobile County Commission may appropriate funds, not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) annually, from the county general fund in the annual budget of the judge of …

(a)(1) If the regularly elected Judge of Probate of Mobile County is incompetent from any legal cause, incapacitated, absent or will be absent from sickness, or otherwise disqualified from acting as judge, the judge of probate or the chief clerk shall certify the fact of incompet…

(a) That the probate courts in all counties of this state which now have or may hereafter have a population of over 300,000 and less than 500,000, according to the last or any subsequent federal census, shall have general and equity jurisdiction concurrent with that of the circui…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Mobile County shall divide the City of Prichard into five districts which shall be homogeneous in area and nearly equal in population, with the number of persons residing in each district, according to the last federal census, not to vary by over five …

Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor in the City of Prichard in Mobile County, Alabama, with six months or more remaining in the vacating mayor’s term, the president of the city council shall immediately instruct the city clerk to provide for holding a special electio…

The Prichard City Council shall meet not less than 48 times per year on dates and at times to be decided by the city council. (Act 96-309, p. 351, §1.)

For the purpose of this subpart, “interested parties” means the owner, heirs of the owner, any mortgagee or purchaser of the subject property or any part of the property, and any party with a legal or equitable interest in the property or any part of the property, in severalty or…

(a) The City of Prichard may initiate an expedited quiet title and foreclosure action under this section against a parcel of tax sale property within its municipal limits which the municipality purchased from the state land commissioner. The municipality shall record a notice of …

The municipality may file a single petition with the clerk of the circuit court, seeking an order to quiet title and expedite foreclosure of one or more parcels of property under this subpart. The petition shall identify each parcel by its tax parcel number and street address and…

Upon filing of the circuit court petition under Section 45-49A-80.22, the circuit court shall set the date, time, and place for a hearing on the petition. A hearing on the petition shall be no later than 90 days from the scheduling order. On the request of a party, the court may …

(a) No less than 30 days before the scheduled date of the hearing on the quiet title and foreclosure petition, the municipality shall do both of the following: (1) Send a notice of the hearing to the interested parties identified under Section 45-49A-80.21 for each parcel named i…

If the municipality is unable to identify the names and addresses of interested parties or to provide notice under Section 45-49A-80.24, it shall apply to the circuit court for an order authorizing notice by publication. If so ordered, the municipality shall publish a notice once…

Before the circuit court hearing on the expedited quiet title and foreclosure action, the municipality shall file with the clerk of the circuit court proof of notice to the interested parties by certified and regular mail, proof of posting on the property under Section 45-49A-80.…

(a) If an interested party appears at the hearing and asserts a right to redeem the property, the party may redeem the property in accordance with Chapter 10 of Title 40. (b) If an interested party appears and fails to redeem or if no person appears, the circuit court shall enter…

No later than 42 days after the judgment’s effective date, a municipality or interested party may appeal the circuit court’s judgment to the Court of Civil Appeals. Any party appealing from an order vesting title in the municipality, as a condition of the appeal, shall identify t…

The municipality shall record the court’s order in the probate court after the 42-day period following the entry of the order if no appeal is filed, or after a final judgment on appeal of the circuit court’s decision on the municipality’s petition for an expedited quiet title and…

There is hereby created and provided for in the City of Prichard, Alabama, a special fund to be known as the Municipal Employees Pension and Relief Fund, which shall exist and be maintained for the benefit of the persons hereinafter referred to and shall be derived and raised in …

Such funds shall be set apart by the city clerk or other person performing the duties of the City Clerk of the City of Prichard, Alabama, into separate funds which shall be held and maintained in trust as hereinafter provided. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §2; Acts …

(a) There shall be a pension and relief system which shall apply to and include all permanent employees of the City of Prichard, Alabama, and any permanent employee of the City of Prichard, who leaves the employment of the City of Prichard to become an elected official of the Cit…

Monies or other things of value may be donated to the fund by any person, firm, or corporation. Such donations or gifts may be outright, in which such event the corpus thereof shall become a portion of the fund, or may be held in trust by the person or persons responsible for the…

All monies properly belonging to the fund shall be kept in a separate account or accounts, and may, in the discretion of the persons charged with the duties of administering the fund, be invested in any securities provided by law to be a suitable investment for trust fund monies …

Every present active permanent employee of the City of Prichard shall come under the provisions and benefits of this part; provided, that no elected officials of the City of Prichard shall be entitled to the benefits thereof. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §6; Acts 1…

The City Council of the City of Prichard, Alabama, shall hear and decide all applications for pensions and relief under this part, and the decision upon such application shall be final and conclusive, and not subject to review or reversal except by such city council. The city cou…

Directions to the trustee for payments provided herein shall be signed by the regular constituted authorities of the City of Prichard, Alabama. The trustee shall be protected in acting upon any direction delivered to it which upon its face appears to be genuine. No portion of the…

(a) If any employee of the City of Prichard, Alabama, while in the performance of his or her duties, becomes and is found to be temporarily totally disabled, mentally or physically, for services to the City of Prichard, by reason of service therein, the City Council of the City o…

If any employee of the City of Prichard, Alabama, while in the performance of his or her duties, becomes or is found to be physically or mentally permanently disabled for service in his or her respective department, by reason of service therein, so as to render his or her retirem…

(a) Any employee of the City of Prichard, except as herein otherwise provided, who has been in the service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting a major fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and who is then employed by the …

(a) Any employee of the City of Prichard who has been in the service thereof for as long as 25 years, the last four years of which, counting a major fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, upon making written application to the City Council of the City of Prichar…