Title 45

(a)(1) Commencing on August 1, 1995, the Chair of the Morgan County Commission shall receive an annual expense allowance that will make the total compensation for the chair fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000), pay-able in equal monthly installments from the county general fund.…

(a) The Morgan County Commission may appropriate from the county general fund an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for a contingent fund to be used for such purposes as the commission may deem appropriate, a…

(a) The Morgan County Commission is authorized to appropriate county funds to pay the actual costs of replacing any clothing or equipment to a deputy sheriff, probation officer, or juvenile detention officer of the county that is damaged or destroyed while such officer of the cou…

(a) In Morgan County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to each bailiff an increase in salary in such an amount as will, together with any amount paid by the state as salary, compensation, or exp…

The bailiffs or other court attendants serving the district or circuit court in Morgan County shall be entitled to receive an additional salary supplement in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day to be paid out of the county general fund. This salary supplement shall be…

(a) Effective October 1, 1988, the county salary supplement of the circuit judges of Morgan County, Alabama, shall be an amount equal to 40 percent of the prevailing salary paid to such judges by the state. Such supplement shall be paid in lieu of all other supplemental or expens…

Commencing October 1, 1981, the Circuit Clerk of the Eighth Judicial Circuit shall be paid, in addition to any other salary or expense allowance provided by law, an additional expense allowance of one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum. Such additional expense allowa…

In Morgan County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided by law, the supernumerary clerk of the circuit court shall receive a supplemental salary of four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800) per annum. Such supplemental salary sh…

(a) Each court reporter of the Eighth Judicial Circuit shall be paid an expense allowance of one hundred dollars ($100) per month. Such expense allowances shall be paid out of the general funds of the counties comprising the circuit. Each county shall pay the portion of such allo…

In addition to any and all other compensation and expense allowances, each court reporter for the Eighth Judicial Circuit shall be allowed and paid an additional one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum as salary, which shall be in addition to any and all other pay, c…

Each supernumerary court reporter of the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Morgan County, Alabama, is hereby entitled to and shall be paid a county salary supplement in an amount equal to 40 percent of his or her annual salary as paid by the state. Such county supplement shall be in add…

(a) The Morgan County Commission may appropriate county funds to supplement the salary paid by the State of Alabama to the confidential employee assigned to the presiding judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit. (b) The supplemental funds the Morgan County Commission appropriates fo…

(a) The governing body of Morgan County, Alabama, shall hereafter establish and maintain a public law library in the county and, to accomplish that purpose, shall from time to time expend such public funds of the county as are hereinafter provided for that purpose and shall provi…

(a) In addition to any and all other costs and charges of courts, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of two dollars ($2) in each civil or quasi civil action, criminal case, quasi criminal proceeding, or any other case of any kind whatsoever filed in the probate, district, or c…

(a) In addition to all other costs, fees, and charges required by law to be paid and collected in criminal or civil cases filed or pending in the circuit court or the district court of Morgan County, there shall be collected by the clerk of the circuit or district court the follo…

(a) In Morgan County, in all criminal and civil cases in the circuit and district courts, the clerk of the respective court shall charge and collect a fee of ten dollars ($10) in addition to all other current costs and charges. (b) The revenues derived from the fees collected pur…

(a) In Morgan County, a booking fee in the amount of twenty dollars ($20) shall be assessed as court costs against each criminal defendant incarcerated in or booked into the Morgan County Jail, such booking fee to be assessed pursuant to this section in addition to all other fine…

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

(a) In addition to any other court costs and fees currently assessed in Morgan County, the following court costs shall be assessed: (1) In all civil cases filed in the district court, including child support, a docket fee of fifteen dollars ($15) in each case. (2) In all juvenile…

(a) The Jury Commission of Morgan County provided for by Chapter 2 of Title 30, Code of Alabama 1940, as presently constituted is hereby abolished. (b) Hereafter, the Jury Commission of Morgan County shall be composed of the circuit court judges of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of …

(a) Commencing October 1, 1981, the Clerk of the Jury Commission of Morgan County shall be entitled to compensation at a rate per day, but not exceeding an annual amount of four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800) per annum as prescribed by the county governing body. (b) The …

Each member of the Jury Commission of Morgan County shall be paid an expense allowance of three hundred dollars ($300) per month. Such expense allowance shall be in lieu of any other expense allowances payable from the county and shall be paid from the general fund of the county.…

(a) On and after October 1, 1943, the judge of probate shall collect all moneys, fees, compensation, commissions, allowances, costs, percentages, emoluments, and other items allowed to and provided for a judge of probate by the general laws of Alabama then and thereafter in force…

(a) The Judge of Probate of Morgan County shall be entitled to an expense allowance, payable from the county treasury, not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500) per annum. Such allowance shall be paid in the same manner as are other county supplements. (b) At the …

It shall not be necessary for the Judge of Probate or the License Commissioner of Morgan County to retain on file the records of fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses, boat registrations, drivers’ licenses, and vehicle tag receipts for longer than five years from the date of is…

The Judge of Probate of Morgan County is hereby authorized to charge a reasonable fee for celebrating the rites of matrimony after normal courthouse hours, and he or she may retain the fee for his or her personal use. This fee is in addition to any salary provided by law. (Act 79…

The Judge of Probate of Morgan County shall not receive for record or permit the recording of any real property deed, unless such instrument has endorsed on it a printed, typewritten, or stamped statement, stating the mailing address of the grantor or grantee, respectively, or co…

(a)(1) In Morgan County, an additional recording fee of five dollars ($5) shall be charged and collected on each instrument filed for record in the office of the judge of probate. The office of the judge of probate shall not receive an instrument for filing unless the filing fee …

The Priceville City Council, by ordinance, may regulate and permit the sale of draft or keg beer by properly licensed retail licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for on-premises consumption and for off-premises consumption provided the beer sold for off-premises cons…

Every annexation heretofore undertaken under any statutory procedure for annexation, by the Town of Priceville, Alabama, and which the annexation procedure has been completed, and notwithstanding any irregularity or defect in the procedure, shall be, and is hereby, ratified and c…

(a) In Morgan County, there is created the Morgan County 2015 Commission (hereinafter called the commission), for the long-term planning of economic development, business, and education in the county, whose members serve on a voluntary basis and without compensation. (b)(1) The c…

(a) The Rural Morgan County Industrial Development Board, hereinafter referred to as the board, is created for the purpose of coordinating, encouraging, and planning for industrial development in rural Morgan County. The board shall be the successor to the East Morgan County Indu…

(a) The Morgan County Board of Education shall be composed of seven members elected from districts as follows: One member shall be elected from each of the board of education districts hereinafter described and shall be a qualified elector thereof, and shall reside in the distric…

The Board of Education of Morgan County, by resolution duly adopted and entered upon the minutes of the board, may fix and provide for an annual allowance for expenses to be provided each member of the board. Such allowance shall not, however, exceed one thousand eight hundred do…

(a) Effective with the next term of office, the Superintendent of Education of Morgan County shall be paid an annual salary to be set by the Morgan County Board of Education. The salary of the superintendent of education shall be an amount not less than 115 percent of the annual …

The chair and each member of the Morgan County Board of Registrars shall be entitled to a daily salary allowance from the county in the amount of thirty-five dollars ($35) per day for each day’s attendance upon business of the board. The amounts shall be paid out of the county ge…

(a)(1) The Morgan County Commission may establish and set the compensation of election officers, the return officer, and the inspector and clerks, in the amounts as the county commission shall determine. (2) Notwithstanding subdivision (1), the compensation established and set by…

(a) The board of registrars in Morgan County shall have authority to omit and remove from the list of qualified electors in the county the name of any person who fails to vote at least once in six years in any general election, primary election, municipal election, or special ele…

In Morgan County, election officials who work at polling places shall receive an additional expense allowance in an amount as, together with any amount paid by the state pursuant to Section 17-6-13, will make the total amount paid to each inspector seventy-five dollars ($75) for …

All employees of Morgan County whose compensation is provided for by local act shall be paid on a biweekly basis rather than on a semimonthly basis. (Act 87-283, p. 393, § 1; Act 87-654, p. 1159, § 1.)

(a)(1) The Morgan County Commission, upon such terms as it deems proper, may contribute money and materials to volunteer rural fire departments organized in Morgan County according to law. Monies budgeted shall be contributed when matched by the recipient by an equal amount. Such…

As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BINGO. For purposes of bingo games operated within the boundaries of Morgan County, the term game of bingo or bingo shall mean: A game of chance that is played by groups of people seated in a duly…

The operation of bingo games for prizes or money by qualified organizations or qualified clubs for bona fide charitable, educational, or other lawful purposes shall be legal within the Cities of Hartselle, Falkville, and that area of the City of Decatur within the boundaries of M…

(a) No qualified organization or club shall be permitted to operate a bingo game unless the bingo game is located in the confines of Morgan County and only then the City of Hartselle, the City of Falkville, and that area of the City of Decatur within the boundaries of Morgan Coun…

(a) Each bingo permit shall contain the name and address of the permit holder, the location at which the permit holder is permitted to conduct bingo, and the day or days of the week on which the permit holder is permitted to conduct bingo. (b) The bingo permit holder shall displa…

(a) It is the intention of the Legislature that only qualified organizations or qualified clubs which are properly issued permits or licenses pursuant to this article, shall be allowed to operate bingo games. A qualified organization or qualified club shall not lend its name or a…