Title 45

(a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court cases in Randolph County, an additional court charge of three dollars ($3) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of the court. This charge shall not be collected on small claims cases. When collect…

(a)(1) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Randolph County, the Randolph County Commission, by resolution of the commission, may impose an additional fee in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) to be assessed and taxed as costs on each ci…

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

(a) In Randolph County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of fifteen dollars ($15) in the service of any papers or documents by the sheriff or any deputy sheriff arising out of any civil or quasi-civil proceeding at law or in equ…

(a) In Randolph County, the clerk of court shall assess a booking fee of thirty dollars ($30) against each defendant incarcerated in or booked in the Randolph County Jail if the defendant is convicted of or pleads guilty in cases prosecuted in the circuit or district court in the…

(a)(1) Effective commencing on October 1, 2027, the Judge of Probate of Randolph County shall receive an annual salary of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) per year payable in equal bi-weekly installments. (2) The salary provided by this subsection shall be in lieu of any salary…

In Randolph County, the county commission may impose a special recording fee of up to four dollars ($4) to be paid to the county, and collected by the judge of probate, on each real property instrument and each personal property instrument that may be filed for record in the prob…

(a) The Randolph County Commission shall impose a special transaction fee of fifty dollars ($50) per map recorded and copied in the office of the judge of probate. (b) The special transaction fee shall be collected by the judge of probate and deposited into the county general fun…

The Judge of Probate of Randolph County shall not receive for record or permit the recording of any instrument in which the title to real property is conveyed, unless the instrument has endorsed on it a printed, typewritten, or stamped statement, stating the mailing address of th…

This subpart shall only apply in Randolph County. The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in Randolph County by providing for the installation of an improved system of recording, archiving, and retrieving instruments and doc…

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

(a) The judge of probate may provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved recording, archiving, and retrieval system in the probate offices of Randolph County. The initial installation of the improved recording, archival, and retrieval system sha…

Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records provided herein to be recorded, archived, and retrieved with computer-generated files, to be stored and filed on either optical disk, or on paper, …

All laws of Alabama with respect to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, general property instruments, miscellaneous instruments, and other instruments and records that may constitute part of an improved recording, archiving, and retrieving s…

The initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the the special recording fees. This section shall not prohibit the county from using any part of its own funds for the purpose of paying the cost of purchasing, operating, or maintaining, after the initial installation…

Effective immediately after May 6, 1998, a special recording and filing fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate, with respect to each real property instrument, each personal property instrument, and UCC that may be filed for record in the o…

Effective May 6, 1998, a special transaction fee of two dollars ($2) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate with respect to every transaction occurring in, or under the jurisdiction of the judge of probate. This amount shall be in addition to all other costs and f…

Effective May 6, 1998, any and all revenues generated either directly or indirectly due to the use of or access to the improved recording, archiving, and retrieving system shall be paid directly into the aforementioned special fund of the judge of probate created by Section 45–56…

(a) Pursuant to Amendment 701 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, there is created and established the Randolph County Industrial Development Council on April 1, 2017. The members of the council shall be appointed as follows: (1) The county commissioners for commission distri…

(a) The council may select a formal name for the council. The council may negotiate for the county on all industrial and economic development matters. The council shall formulate and implement plans to promote and foster the industrial development and economic growth of all areas…

(a) The council, as herein provided, may be financially supported, from time to time, by revenues from whatever source derived as appropriated to the council by a city governing body, the county commission, or the Legislature. (b) After March 6, 2017, all funds previously distrib…

(a) In Randolph County, the county board of education is prohibited from reacquiring the property described in subsection (c) which was purchased by the North Randolph County Development Association without repayment of the original purchase price of the property along with the c…

In Randolph County, election officials who work at polling places are entitled to an additional per diem allowance in an amount as will, together with any amount paid by the state, make the total paid to the officials thirty dollars ($30) for each day they work at the polls. If t…

In Randolph County, each member of the board of registrars shall be entitled to receive additional compensation in the amount of five dollars ($5) per day, payable out of the general fund of the county treasury. The amount shall be in addition to any and all other amounts provide…

In Randolph County, vacancies in municipal offices not otherwise provided by law and in the county offices of sheriff, county superintendent of education, county commissioner, tax collector, and tax assessor shall be filled by appointment of the Governor or by a special election …

(a) Pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 17–6–4, the Randolph County Commission may establish voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts in order to create voting centers in order to facilitate voting or reduce costs for elections and may otherwise provide for…

(a) Any individual who became a member of the Employees’ Retirement System through the participation of Randolph County in the system, who was a member of the system on October 1, 1975, and who prior to that date had been ineligible to receive credit for service rendered as an em…

The Randolph County Commission may determine the qualifications for the county engineer, provided that the qualifications meet the minimum requirements under state law regarding qualifications of engineers. It is further provided that the county engineer does not have to be quali…

(a) The County Commission of Randolph County, when the need exists, may provide protection against forest fires in the county by participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission’s fire protection program in the manner hereinafter specified. (b)(1) After the county commission has …

The holding of raffles, cake walks, turkey shoots, and other similar contests of skill, except bingo, for charitable purposes by nonprofit organizations in Randolph County shall be legal, subject to the provisions of any resolution or ordinance by the Randolph County Commission o…

(a) The Randolph County Commission shall reimburse the office of the judge of probate or license commissioner from the general fund of the county the amount of any monetary loss, not to exceed a total of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum, arising or caused by…

In Randolph County, all laws, rules, and regulations to the contrary notwithstanding, upon request by a property owner, the county health department or its agent, shall perform soil percolation tests for a fee of not more than fifty dollars ($50) when the tests are required for s…

In Randolph County, the county commission may enact a noise ordinance for the areas outside of the corporate limits of a municipality and outside the boundaries of any industrial park designated by the county pursuant to Sections 11–23–1 to 11–23–8, inclusive, and may provide tha…

(a) In Randolph County, any county health officer or administrator may issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required. Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on file for one year followi…

(a) The Randolph 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. The health department may charge and collect the fees. All fees collected shall be in …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the proceeds from any ad valorem tax distributed to the Randolph Health Care Authority shall be utilized to fund the pensions of the individuals who are retired from the health care authority on February 23, 2016. The remaining proceeds…

(a) Signs, markers, and advertising, pertaining to political campaigns, on the rights-of-way of state and county controlled highways are prohibited in Randolph County except those official signs or markers placed thereon by the state Department of Transportation or by Randolph Co…

Any person who, at the time of his or her retirement, is employed by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department shall receive, as part of his or her retirement benefits, without cost to him or her, his or her badge and pistol. (Act 90–458, p. 647, § 1.)

(a) Effective January 1, 2013, the Sheriff of Randolph County shall receive an additional expense allowance payable from the general fund of the county in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500) per month, which shall be in addition to all other expense allowances, compensation…

(a) On or after April 22, 2021, an individual qualifying for election to the office of sheriff in the county or any individual appointed to serve as a sheriff shall meet all of the following minimum qualifications, in addition to any other qualifications required by law: (1) Is a…

(a) The Sheriff of Randolph 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 …

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 Randolph 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. The sheriff may require the…

If property is sold at public auction, as provided in this part, 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 continue t…