12-16-89
Section 12-16-89 Negligent failure of sheriff or deputy to summon juror. If the sheriff or any deputy shall negligently fail to summon any person to serve as a juror whom he is commanded to summon, he shall be held and deemed guilty of a contempt of court and shall be fined not more than $100.00 in every case where the person is not so served, and he may also be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than five days. The return of any such person as "not found" shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of the sheriff or deputy making the return, and he shall be punished by the court unless the court is reasonably satisfied from evidence produced that he was not negligent. (Acts 1909, No. 227, p. 305; Code 1923, §§8620, 8621; Code 1940, T. 30, §§36, 37.)...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment set forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient, and analogous forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY. The State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county charge that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the following forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney of the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary to law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised), which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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12-16-73
Section 12-16-73 Execution and return of order to summon jurors by sheriff. (a) Every order to summon jurors, except as otherwise provided in this article, shall be executed by the sheriff by either of the following methods at the election of the sheriff: (1) By giving personal notice to every such person or by leaving a written notice at the place of residence of the summoned juror with some family member of the juror or with some person residing at the same residence, at least two days before the day appointed for the service of the juror in court; or (2) By placing a written notice to a person named in the order to summon jurors in the United States mail, first class, postage prepaid and addressed to the residence of the person summoned. The envelope in which such notice is mailed shall indicate the return address of the sheriff and shall bear a proper notice that if it cannot be delivered at the indicated address it shall be returned to the sheriff. Such notice must be deposited in...
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15-4-1
Section 15-4-1 Duty of coroner to take sworn statement on death; direction to summon jury; service, compensation, and oath of jurors. (a) When a coroner has been informed that a person has been killed or suddenly died under such circumstances as to afford a reasonable ground for belief that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means, he must forthwith make inquiry of the facts and circumstances of such death by taking the sworn statement in writing of the witnesses having personal knowledge thereof and submit the same to a judge of a court of record or a district attorney. (b) If, upon such preliminary inquiry, the judge or district attorney is satisfied from the evidence that there is reasonable ground for believing that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means, he must direct the coroner to forthwith summon a jury of six qualified jurors of the county to appear before him forthwith at a specified place and inquire into the...
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11-47-172
Section 11-47-172 Procedure for condemnation and appeal; asssessment of value, etc. (a) Whenever the proprietor or proprietors or any of them of any of the lands necessary for any of the purposes provided in Section 11-47-171 or necessary for opening new streets or widening old streets and the mayor or other chief executive officer cannot agree on a price of said lands or cannot agree as to the amount to be paid for changing the grade of any street, sidewalk, or public place and whenever the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall be an infant, non compos mentis, a nonresident, or unknown, then the mayor or other chief executive officer shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for a writ of ad quod damnum to be directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon three freeholders of the county to appear before the sheriff on a day named, not less than two days from the date of the writ, and to proceed under his direction to assess a value of the lands of...
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15-22-32
Section 15-22-32 Parole court; hearing officers; sanctions; delegation of authority. (a) Whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that a prisoner who has been paroled has violated his or her parole, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, at its next meeting, may declare the prisoner to be delinquent, and time owed shall date from the delinquency. The Department of Corrections, after receiving notice from the sheriff of the county jail where the state prisoner is being held, shall promptly notify the board of the return of a paroled prisoner charged with violation of his or her parole. Thereupon, the board, a single member of the board, a parole revocation hearing officer, or a designated parole officer shall hold a parole court at the prison or at another place as it may determine within 20 business days and consider the case of the parole violator, who shall be given an opportunity to appear personally or by counsel before the board or the parole court and produce witnesses and...
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27-10-24
Section 27-10-24 Licensing of surplus line brokers. (a) Any person, while licensed as a resident insurance producer in this state for the property lines of authority and who is deemed by the commissioner to have had sufficient experience in the insurance business to be competent for the purpose may be licensed as a surplus line broker for the types and kinds of insurance that he or she as a resident producer is licensed to handle as follows: (1) Application to the commissioner for the license shall be made on forms as designated and furnished by the commissioner. (2) License fee in the amount stated in Section 27-4-2 shall be paid to the commissioner. The license shall expire on December 31 next after its issue. (3) Prior to the issuance of the license, the applicant shall file with the commissioner, and thereafter for as long as any license remains in effect he or she shall keep in force and unimpaired, a bond in favor of the State of Alabama in the penal sum of at least fifty...
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45-5-120
Section 45-5-120 Merit system; board; violations. (a) This section shall apply only in Blount County, Alabama. (b) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (1) "County" means Blount County; (2) "Municipality" means any municipality in Blount County; (3) "Employee" means any person, including law enforcement officers, not excepted by subsection (c), who is employed in the service of Blount County or any municipality of Blount County or any board, agency, or instrumentality thereof; (4) "Merit employee" means any such employee who shall have completed one year of probationary employment; (5) "Board" means the merit system board created by this section; (6) "Appointment authority" means in the case of employees in the offices of the elected officials of the county or of a municipality, such elected officials, and means, in the case of all other county or municipal employees, the county or municipal governing body, or the board or other agency...
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44-2-10
Section 44-2-10 Text of compact. The Interstate Compact for Juveniles is enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: THE INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR JUVENILES Article I. Purpose. The compacting states to this interstate compact recognize that each state is responsible for the proper supervision or return of juveniles, delinquents and status offenders who are on probation or parole and who have absconded, escaped or run away from supervision and control and in so doing have endangered their own safety and the safety of others. The compacting states also recognize that each state is responsible for the safe return of juveniles who have run away from home and in doing so have left their state of residence. The compacting states also recognize that Congress, by enacting the Crime Control Act, 4 U.S.C. Section 112 (1965), has authorized and encouraged compacts for cooperative efforts and mutual assistance in the...
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15-5-50
Section 15-5-50 Warrant for tracking device installation; requirements; procedures. (a) Any circuit or district court judge in this state is authorized to issue a warrant to install a tracking device. The term tracking device means an electronic or mechanical device which permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object. (b) Upon the written application, under oath, of any law enforcement officer as defined in Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure 1.4, district attorney, or Attorney General of the state, including assistant and deputy district attorneys and assistant and deputy attorneys general, any authorized judge may issue a warrant for the installation, retrieval, maintenance, repair, use, or monitoring of a tracking device. The warrant application shall do all of the following: (1) State facts sufficient to show probable cause that a crime is being, has been, or is about to be committed in the jurisdiction of the issuing judge. (2) Identify the person, if reasonably...
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