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12-13-14
Section 12-13-14 Chief clerk of probate court - Powers generally; authority for performance
of official acts of chief clerk generally. (a) The chief clerk shall have the following powers:
(1) To issue letters testamentary, of administration and of guardianship, where there is no
contest. (2) To administer oaths relating to the business of the court and to take and certify
acknowledgments and proof of instruments authorized to be recorded. (3) To solemnize matrimony,
approve bonds and appoint guardians ad litem. (4) To admit wills to probate and record and
to pass and allow accounts of executors, administrators and guardians, where there is no contest.
(5) To do all other acts and things and perform all other duties, ministerial and judicial,
where there is no contest, that the probate judge may do and perform. (b) All of the official
acts of such chief clerk must be performed in the name of the probate judge, except when there
is a vacancy in that office. (Code 1852, ยง674; Code 1867,...
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12-13-15
Section 12-13-15 Chief clerk of probate court - Acts which may be performed by chief clerk
during vacancy in office of probate judge; authority, compensation and liability of chief
clerk for acts performed during such vacancy. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office
of the probate judge, the chief clerk in that office, appointed and qualified as authorized
by law, shall, during such vacancy and until the qualification of a lawful successor, perform
all the duties of that office which he is authorized by law to perform when there is no vacancy,
but must not receive money on decrees or executions or become the custodian of trust funds
pertaining to the court. He may make all necessary orders for the continuances of cases and
proceedings pending in the court. All such duties are to be performed, during such vacancy,
by such chief clerk in his own name as clerk of the probate court, and he is entitled to the
lawful fees therefor. For his official acts under this article, such chief...
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12-13-40
Section 12-13-40 Powers of probate judges generally. The probate judge shall have authority:
(1) To administer oaths and take and certify the same in all cases in which administering
such oath and taking such affidavit is not confined expressly to some other officer; (2) To
cause jurors to be impaneled and sworn in any matter of fact pending before him in which the
right to a jury trial is given by law; (3) To appoint guardians ad litem for minors and persons
of unsound mind, when necessary, but he must not appoint as such guardian any clerk, employee
or other person connected with his office or related to him by consanguinity or affinity;
(4) To employ, at his own expense a chief clerk and such other clerks as he deems necessary,
for whose official acts he shall be responsible; (5) To complete the minute entries and decrees
of the court when the same are incomplete on account of the failure to make necessary entries
at the time when they should have been made, but the necessary...
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45-13-241
Section 45-13-241 Consolidation of offices and duties of tax assessor and tax collector; chief
clerk; oath and bond; office space, equipment; disposition of funds. (a) On and after October
1, 1991, or if a vacancy occurs in either the office of tax assessor or the office of tax
collector of Clarke County before such date, then immediately upon the occurrence of such
vacancy there shall be the office of county revenue commissioner in Clarke County. If such
office is established upon the occurrence of a vacancy in either the office of tax assessor
or tax collector, then the tax assessor or tax collector, as the case may be, remaining in
office shall be the county revenue commissioner for the remainder of the term for which elected
tax assessor or tax collector, as the case may be. A revenue commissioner shall be elected
in the primaries and the general election in November 1990, and in the general election every
six years thereafter. He or she shall serve for a term of office of six...
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36-15-1
Section 36-15-1 Duties generally. The Attorney General shall keep his or her office at the
capital city and perform the following duties: (1)a. He or she shall give his or her opinion
in writing, or otherwise, on any question of law connected with the interests of the state
or with the duties of any of the departments, when required by the Governor, Secretary of
State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Education, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
Director of Finance, Comptroller, State Health Officer, Public Service Commissioners, Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources, or the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue or
any other officer or department of the state when it is made, by law, his or her duty so to
do, and he or she shall also give his or her opinion to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
of either house, when required, upon any matter under the consideration of the committee.
b. The Attorney General shall give his or her opinion, in writing...
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17-16-56
Section 17-16-56 Contest of election of judge of probate court and other county and municipal
officers - Generally. If the contest is of an election to the office of judge of the probate
court, sheriff, tax assessor, tax collector, county treasurer, clerk of the circuit court,
or any other office filled by the vote of a single county or any subdivision thereof, or any
office of a city or town not in this article otherwise provided for, the party contesting
must file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the election
was held, a statement in writing, verified by affidavit, of the grounds of the contest as
provided in this article and must give good and sufficient security for the costs of the contest,
to be approved by the clerk. On the filing of the statement and the giving of the security,
the clerk must enter the contest on the trial docket as a civil action pending in the court
for trial, and, after having made such entry, the clerk must issue a...
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45-42-241
Section 45-42-241 County revenue commissioner. (a) After September 30, 1987, there shall be
a county revenue commissioner for Limestone County. A county revenue commissioner shall be
elected at the general election in 1986 and at the general election every six years thereafter.
The county revenue commissioner shall serve a term of six years commencing the first day of
October next after his or her election and until his or her successor is elected and has qualified.
(b) The county revenue commissioner shall perform all acts, duties, and functions required
by law to be performed either by the tax assessor or the tax collector of the county, including,
but not limited to, the assessment of all real property for taxation, the collection of taxes
and distribution of taxes according to law, the keeping of records, and the making of reports
concerning assessments. (c) Subject to the approval of the Limestone County Commission, the
county revenue commissioner shall establish the duties and...
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12-13-37
Section 12-13-37 Appointment of special judge when probate judge incompetent, absent, sick,
etc., generally; powers and duties of special judge and force, effect, etc., of judgments,
orders and decrees thereof. If in any matter or proceeding arising in the probate court or
in reference to which the judge thereof is required to exercise jurisdiction or authority
or to perform a duty the judge is incompetent for any legal cause or shall be absent, sick
or otherwise disqualified from acting, he or his chief clerk must certify the fact of incompetency,
absence, sickness or disqualification to the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, and
the Supreme Court shall, upon such certificate, appoint a person possessing the qualifications
of a probate judge to act as special probate judge. Such special judge in relation to such
matter or proceeding shall have the jurisdiction and authority and discharge the duties of
the probate judge, and the judgments, orders and decrees made or rendered...
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45-49-85.42
Section 45-49-85.42 Temporary judges of probate. (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 incompetency, incapacity, absence, sickness, or disqualification
to the presiding judge of the circuit court of the county and the presiding judge of the circuit
court, upon that certificate, shall appoint a person learned in the law, practicing and residing
in the county, to act as temporary judge of probate. At any time when the regularly elected
judge of probate of the county files a certificate in the office of the circuit clerk of the
county that he or she is no longer incompetent, from any legal cause, incapacitated, absent,
absent from sickness, or otherwise disqualified from acting as judge, then the regularly elected
judge of probate of the county shall...
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36-17-3
Section 36-17-3 Duties generally. The powers, functions, and duties of the Treasurer shall
be: (1) To receive all moneys due the state and deposit them in the proper accounts. (2) To
perform the functions and duties now authorized by law with respect to state depositaries.
(3) To pay all warrants duly executed by the Comptroller, and to pay for funds electronically
transferred by the Comptroller in accordance with Section 41-4-50, upon the determination
that there is sufficient money for the payment thereof in the fund upon which they are drawn.
No warrant executed by any other person shall be honored. All checks drawn on the state funds
shall be signed by the Treasurer, or the chief clerk in the office, and countersigned by the
special assistant in the office of the Treasurer, who is appointed by the Treasurer with the
approval of the Governor. Another employee may be designated by the Treasurer, with the approval
of the Governor, to countersign checks in the absence of the special...
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