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12-17-121
Section 12-17-121 Punishment for contempt. The register, or the clerk if there is no register,
when holding a reference by order of the circuit court or when presiding on a show cause order
which by law may come before him, may punish for contempt, by fine not exceeding $10.00 and
by imprisonment not exceeding two days. (Code 1896, §668; Code 1907, §3086; Code 1923, §6517;
Code 1940, T. 13, §223.)...
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11-3-11
Section 11-3-11 Powers and duties generally. (a) The county commission shall have authority:
(1) To direct, control, and maintain the property of the county as it may deem expedient according
to law, and in this direction and control it has the sole power to locate the courts in the
rooms of the courthouse and to designate the rooms to be occupied by the officers entitled
to rooms therein, including the circuit judge if resident in the county, and to change the
location of the courts and the designation of the rooms for officers as it may deem best and
most expedient, and this shall be done by order of the county commission entered upon the
minutes of the county commission at a regular meeting of the county commission. In the event
the courthouse is inadequate to supply office rooms for such officers, the county commission
may lease such office rooms in a convenient location in the county site and pay the rental
from the county fund. (2) To levy a general tax, for general county...
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6-5-154
Section 6-5-154 Violations constituting contempt; proceedings thereon. (a) In case of the violation
of any injunction or closing order granted under the provisions of this division or of any
restraining order or the commission of any contempt of court in proceedings under this division,
the court or the judge thereof may try and punish the offender. The proceedings shall be commenced
by filing with the register or clerk of the court a complaint under oath setting out and alleging
facts constituting such violation, upon which the court or judge shall cause a warrant to
issue, under which the defendant shall be arrested; he may be released on bond, pending the
hearing, to be fixed by the judge. The trial may be had upon affidavits or either party may
demand the production and oral examination of witnesses. (b) A party found guilty of contempt
under the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor
more than $200, or by imprisonment in the county jail...
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12-14-31
Section 12-14-31 Powers generally; designation of other municipal officers to approve appearance
and appeal bonds. (a) A municipal judge may administer oaths, compel the attendance of witnesses
and compel the production of books and papers, punish by fine not exceeding $50.00 and/or
imprisonment not exceeding five days any person found and adjudged to be in contempt of court
and shall have power coextensive with the jurisdiction of the district court to issue writs
and other process and to approve and declare bonds forfeited. In contempt of court cases brought
pursuant to Section 12-19-311(c) and (d), a municipal judge may punish by a fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars ($500). (b) The municipal judge or, when there is more than one judge
in the municipality, the presiding judge shall designate any other municipal officers who
shall be authorized to approve appearance and appeal bonds. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384,
§8-108; Act 2013-193, p. 360, §1.)...
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17-16-70
Section 17-16-70 Commission has power to punish for contempt. If any witness, being summoned,
fails to attend, or being summoned with a subpoena duces tecum, fails and refuses to produce
the paper or document required to be produced by the subpoena, the commission shall have the
right and authority to punish the witness for contempt by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in any county jail in the state for a period not to exceed
30 days, one or both, and in case any witness shall fail to appear or produce any book or
document before any judge, clerk of court, or other person having a warrant from the commission,
the judge, clerk of court, or other person, must certify the fact to the commission, which
may thereupon punish such witness for contempt, as provided in this section. (Code 1896, §1679;
Code 1907, §485; Code 1923, §575; Code 1940, T. 17, §261; §17-15-57; amended and renumbered
by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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11-43-163
Section 11-43-163 Powers of council or committee as to witnesses, etc.; secretary of committee.
The council or a committee thereof duly authorized by resolution may summon witnesses and
compel their attendance and compel witnesses to testify and produce books and papers and may
punish them by imprisonment, not exceeding 10 days, for failure to attend or refusal to testify
or produce books or papers. The presiding officer of the council or of the committee may administer
oaths to witnesses. During a session of the council or of a committee any person who is guilty
of disorderly or contemptuous behavior in the presence of the council or the committee, may
be punished by the council or committee by arrest and imprisonment not exceeding 24 hours.
A committee may require any officer of the police force or any patrolman to act as secretary
of such committee. (Code 1907, §1177; Code 1923, §1893; Code 1940, T. 37, §454.)...
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12-13-9
Section 12-13-9 Powers of probate court as to punishment for contempt. (a) The probate court
may issue show cause orders and attachment for contempts offered to the court or its process
by any executor, administrator, guardian, or other person and may punish the person by a fine
not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) and imprisonment not exceeding 24 hours, or both. (b) In
all cases or other proceedings in the probate court of a county where the judge of probate
is a licensed attorney in this state, the judge of probate shall have the same power to punish
for civil contempt as granted to a judge of the circuit court pursuant to Section 12-11-30
or other law or as provided by the common law of this state. (Code 1852, §671; Code 1867,
§791; Code 1876, §694; Code 1886, §788; Code 1896, §3364; Code 1907, §5420; Code 1923,
§9580; Code 1940, T. 13, §279; Act 2017-388, §1.)...
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12-11-30
Section 12-11-30 Generally. (1) CIVIL. The circuit court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction
of all civil actions in which the matter in controversy exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000),
exclusive of interest and costs, and shall exercise original jurisdiction concurrent with
the district court in all civil actions in which the matter in controversy exceeds six thousand
dollars ($6,000), exclusive of interest and costs. (2) CRIMINAL. The circuit court shall have
exclusive original jurisdiction of all felony prosecutions and of misdemeanor or ordinance
violations which are lesser included offenses within a felony charge or which arise from the
same incident as a felony charge; except, that the district court shall have concurrent jurisdiction
with the circuit court to receive pleas of guilty in felony cases not punishable by sentence
of death. The circuit court may, on conviction of a defendant, upon a showing of inability
to make immediate payment of fine and costs,...
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12-17-114
Section 12-17-114 Duties generally. (a) It is the duty of the register, within his respective
county: (1) To administer oaths in all cases; to issue all processes from the circuit court
as to equitable cases; to make orders of publication for defendants; to grant default judgments
for want of answers; to issue attachments and processes of sequestration; to make all interlocutory
decrees and orders, not affecting the decision of the controversy between the parties, subject
at all times to the control, direction and supervision of the circuit court; and to exercise
such other duties as are, or may be, conferred by law, including administrative rules promulgated
by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. (2) To keep a consolidated docket sheet of all cases
filed, in which must be entered the names of plaintiffs and defendants, the names of the attorneys
of the several parties, a minute of the time when process issued and was returned, the return
thereon and note of all the orders and...
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28-4-310
Section 28-4-310 Governor charged with supervision, etc., of enforcement of prohibition laws;
Governor may require reports from officers charged with duty of enforcing laws; failure of
officer to make report, etc. In order for the Governor to perform the duties imposed upon
him by the Constitution, that he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, he
is made the executive head of the law-enforcement machinery of the state and is charged with
supervising and directing the enforcement of the laws of the state for the promotion of temperance
and the suppression of the evils of intemperance and he is authorized to supervise, direct
and give orders to any and all officers of the state or of any county in the state in regard
to the exercise of their powers in the performance of their duties in respect to the enforcement
of said laws. The Governor may, as he deems desirable, call upon said officers for reports
to be made directly to him concerning any action they may have or may...
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