HB437 By Representative Hanes RFD Local Legislation Rd 1 12-MAR-20

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT

Relating to Jackson County; to provide for the establishment, administration, and financing of the county law library; and to provide for the assessment of a law library fee in all cases in the Circuit and District Courts of Jackson County.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:

Section 1. This act shall apply only in Jackson County.

Section 2. The Jackson County Commission shall maintain a county law library in the county.

Section 3. In each case filed in the Circuit Court and District Court of Jackson County, there shall be assessed a law library fee in the amount of two dollars ($2). The fee shall be collected as other court costs and fees collected by the circuit clerk. Not later than the tenth day of the month, the fees collected during the preceding month shall be deposited by the circuit clerk in the county treasury to the credit of a special fund designated the County Law Library Fund.

Section 4. The presiding circuit judge of the Thirty-eighth Judicial Circuit composed of Jackson County shall administer the county law library and may authorize the expenditure of funds in the County Law Library Fund as provided in Section 11-25-13, Code of Alabama 1975.

Section 5. This act supersedes all prior local laws relating to the county law library in Jackson County. Act 472 of the 1976 Regular Session (Acts 1976, p. 587), Act 785 of the 1973 Regular Session (Acts 1973, p. 1199), and Act 511 of the 1965 Regular Session (Acts 1965, p. 751), are expressly repealed.

Section 6. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Jackson County

Court, Circuit

Law Library, County

Court Costs

Counties

County Commissions