12-14-70
Section 12-14-70 Appeals to circuit courts from judgments of municipal courts and proceedings thereon. (a) All appeals from judgments of municipal courts shall be to the circuit court of the circuit in which the violation occurred for trial de novo. (b) The municipality may appeal within 60 days, without bond, from a judgment of the municipal court holding an ordinance invalid. (c) A defendant may appeal in any case within 14 days from the entry of judgment by filing notice of appeal and giving bond, with or without surety, approved by the court or the clerk in an amount not more than twice the amount of the fine and costs, as fixed by the court, or in the event no fine is levied the bond shall be in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00, as fixed by the court, conditioned upon the defendant's appearance before the circuit court. The municipal court may waive appearance bond upon satisfactory showing that the defendant is indigent or otherwise unable to provide a surety bond. If an appeal...
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11-45-9.1
schedule of fines; additional penalty for failure to appear; disposition of fines. (a) By ordinance, the governing body of any municipality may authorize any law enforcement officer of a municipality or any law enforcement officer of the state, in lieu of placing persons under custodial arrest, to issue a summons and complaint to any person charged with violating any municipal littering ordinance; municipal ordinance which prohibits animals from running at large, which shall include leash laws and rabies control laws; or any Class C misdemeanor or violation not involving violence, threat of violence or alcohol or drugs. (b) Such summons and complaint shall be on a form approved by the governing body of the municipality and shall contain the name of the court; the name of the defendant; a description of the offense, including the municipal ordinance number; the date and time of the offense; the place of the offense; signature of the officer issuing the citation; the scheduled...
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12-14-13
Section 12-14-13 Probation. (a) Municipal courts may suspend execution of sentence and place a defendant on probation for varying periods of time, not to exceed two years. (b) The court may require such investigations as may be deemed necessary and desirable to be made by a probation officer or such other suitable person or persons as the court may designate as to the circumstances of the offense and the criminal record, social history and present condition of the defendant. (c) The court may suspend the execution of sentence and continue the defendant under an existing bond or may require such additional bail as it deems necessary pending the disposition of the application for probation. (d) The court shall determine and may, at any time, modify the conditions of probation and may require the probationer to comply with the following or any other conditions: (1) To avoid injurious or vicious habits; (2) To avoid persons or places of disreputable or harmful character; (3) To report to...
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32-5A-195
Section 32-5A-195 Cancellation, suspension, or revocation of driver's license; grounds, procedure, etc. (a) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is authorized to cancel any driver's license upon determining that the licensee was not entitled to the issuance thereof or that the licensee failed to give the correct or required information in his or her application. Upon such cancellation, the licensee must surrender the license so cancelled. If the licensee refuses to surrender the license, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state given to a nonresident shall be subject to suspension or revocation by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency in like manner and for like cause as a driver's license issued may be suspended or revoked. (c) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is further authorized, upon receiving a record of the conviction in this state of a...
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34-9-18
Section 34-9-18 Grounds for disciplinary action. (a) The board may invoke disciplinary action as outlined in subsection (b) whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction of the board, after a hearing as hereinafter provided, that any dentist or dental hygienist has been guilty of the following: (1) Fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in obtaining any license, license certificate, annual registration certificate, money, or other thing of value. (2) Gross immorality. (3) Is a menace to the public health or to patients or others by reason of a disease. (4) Is an habitual user of intoxicants or drugs rendering him or her unfit for the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene. (5) Has been convicted for violation of federal or state narcotics or barbiturate laws. (6) Is guilty of negligence or gross negligence. a. For the purposes of this subdivision, negligence is defined as the failure to do what a reasonably prudent dentist or dental hygienist would have done under the same or...
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5-18-15
Section 5-18-15 Interest rates, charges, and fees. (a) Maximum rates of interest and charge. Every licensee under this chapter may contract for and receive as interest on any loan of money less than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) an amount at a rate not exceeding three percent a month on that part of the unpaid principal balance not in excess of two hundred dollars ($200), and two percent a month on that part of the unpaid principal balance in excess of two hundred dollars ($200) but less than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500). (b) Account maintenance fee. In addition to the maximum rate of interest and charges pursuant to subsection (a), a licensee may enter into a contract of loan under this chapter in which the borrower agrees to pay an account maintenance fee of not more than three dollars ($3) for each month of the scheduled period of repayment of the loan provided that the scheduled monthly payments are equal to or greater than thirty dollars ($30). Such...
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12-14-11
Section 12-14-11 Acceptance of defendant's bond upon showing of inability to make immediate payment of fines and costs; issuance of execution on bond upon nonpayment of fines and costs. Upon conviction, the court may, upon a showing of inability to make immediate payment of fines and costs, accept defendant's bond with or without surety and with waiver of exemptions as to personalty, such fines and costs to be payable within 90 days and, upon nonpayment of which execution may issue upon the bond as upon judgments in state courts. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §8-104.)...
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12-22-172
Section 12-22-172 Stays of execution on confessed judgments in misdemeanors. In the case of a misdemeanor, the defendant may confess judgment, with sufficient sureties, for a fine and costs as if no appeal were taken, but execution thereon must be stayed pending the appeal, pursuant to the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure. If the judgment of conviction is reversed, the confessed judgment is thereby vacated, but if the judgment of conviction is affirmed or the appeal is dismissed, execution on such confessed judgment may issue at once. (Code 1896, §4320; Code 1907, §6251; Code 1923, §3244; Code 1940, T. 15, §375.)...
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14-4-10
Section 14-4-10 Sentencing of convicts - Sentences for costs. Whenever any convict is sentenced by the court and required to do hard labor for the county, an additional sentence not to exceed 10 months in any case for the payment of costs of conviction may be imposed, and the court must determine a reasonable time required to work out such costs. The costs of conviction of county convicts shall be the same as provided by law now in force in the respective counties. (Code 1896, §4532; Acts 1907, No. 85, p. 179; Code 1907, §6584; Code 1923, §3688; Code 1940, T. 45, §84; Acts 1961, No. 1017, p. 1596, §2.)...
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14-6-22
Section 14-6-22 Misdemeanant required to pay costs of incarceration; remission of costs; amount and method of payment; payment of costs as condition of probation, etc., authorized; procedure upon default; disposition of costs. (a)(1) A court shall require a convicted defendant in a misdemeanor case to pay housing, maintenance and medical costs associated with the defendant's incarceration in a county or city jail except as otherwise provided herein. Such costs shall not exceed $20.00 per day that the defendant has been incarcerated plus actual medical expenses incurred on behalf of the defendant. Such costs shall be taxed as costs of court and shall be in addition to any and all other costs of court. (2) At the time of sentencing such defendant may petition the court for remission of the payment of these costs or of any portion thereof. If it appears to the satisfaction of the court that payment of the amount due will impose manifest hardship on the defendant or his immediate family,...
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