12-1-24
Section 12-1-24 Pretrial hearings in certain cases to be conducted by audio-video communications.
(a) The presiding judge of each judicial circuit may authorize pretrial motion hearings in
civil and criminal matters in the circuit courts, district courts, and probate courts to be
conducted by telephone conferencing or other audio-video telecommunications means. The presiding
judge shall develop and publish procedures for the conduct of the civil and criminal hearings
in the circuit courts, districts courts, and probate courts in his or her judicial circuit.
(b) The telephone or audio-video telecommunications device used in the hearing shall enable
the judge and all parties to converse simultaneously with each other. (Act 2012-499, p. 1470,
§1.)...
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12-17-186
Section 12-17-186 Appointment of attorney to act for district attorney when office vacant,
district attorney disqualified, etc. (a) The presiding judge of the circuit court, the district
court or the municipal court, when the district attorney or assistant district attorney regularly
required by law to prosecute criminal cases in such court is absent, or connected with the
party against whom it is his duty to appear by consanguinity or affinity within the fourth
degree, or when there is a vacancy in the office from any cause, or when the district attorney
refuses to act, may appoint a competent attorney to act in such district attorney's place,
but such appointment shall in no event extend beyond the session of the court at which the
appointment is made. (b) The attorney so appointed shall receive for his services the sum
of $25.00 per day for the time he is actually engaged in court, to be paid on the warrant
of the Comptroller if the district attorney for whom he is appointed to act...
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15-13-163
Section 15-13-163 Revocation by circuit judges. The presiding judge of the circuit court may,
and on verified motion of the prosecutor shall, subpoena the representatives of the professional
surety company or professional bail company or other persons for examination under oath concerning
matters relating to any affidavit or certificate filed, outstanding forfeitures, and all relevant
books, tax returns, and financial data. Authority to act as a professional surety company
or a professional bail company may be revoked or withheld by the court for violation of this
chapter, any rule promulgated by the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama, in accordance
with this chapter, for failure to submit subpoenaed documents, for failure to answer truthfully
all relevant questions asked by the court, or in the event the professional surety company
or professional bail company has outstanding and unpaid final forfeitures anywhere, or in
any court in the State of Alabama. As used herein, outstanding...
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12-17-24
Section 12-17-24 Presiding judges - Supervision of judges and other court personnel. The presiding
circuit judge shall exercise a general supervision of the judges, clerks, registers, court
reporters, bailiffs, sheriffs and other court employees of the circuit and district courts
within the circuit, except employees of the clerk, and see that they attend strictly to the
prompt, diligent discharge of their duties. (Acts 1915, No. 712, p. 809; Code 1923, §6698;
Code 1940, T. 13, §172; Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §2-103.)...
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45-29-83
Section 45-29-83 Compensation; disposition of funds. (a) Beginning with the next term of office
after August 1, 2016, the Judge of Probate of Fayette County shall receive as his or her compensation
an amount equal to 75 percent of the starting total compensation paid the presiding circuit
judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit. The Judge of Probate of Fayette County shall
be subject to the same compensation increases at the same time and in the same manner as the
presiding circuit judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit. The compensation shall be paid
out of the General Fund of Fayette County. (b) All fees and monies received by the judge of
probate or his or her office shall be deposited into the county general fund. (Act 88-276,
p. 432, §§1, 2; Act 2016-252, §1.)...
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45-41-83.03
Section 45-41-83.03 Alternative Sentencing Board - Composition. The number of members comprising
the board shall be seven, two of whom shall be nonpermanent members appointed by the Lee County
Commission, and the remaining five being permanent members consisting of the presiding circuit
judge for the 37th Judicial Circuit, a Lee County district judge appointed by the presiding
circuit judge, the Lee County Sheriff, the District Attorney for the 37th Judicial Circuit,
and the Lee County Circuit Clerk. If none of the permanent members is a minority, then the
county commission shall appoint at least one nonpermanent member who reflects the racial,
gender, geographic, economic, urban, rural, and ethnic diversity of Lee County. (Act 2009-330,
p. 558, §4.)...
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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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12-21-225
Section 12-21-225 Testimony for state or defendant by convict. (a) The presiding judge of any
circuit court or district court having reason to believe that the testimony of any convict
serving a sentence in the penitentiary or to hard labor for the county is necessary in any
criminal prosecution for the state and that other evidence cannot be obtained on behalf of
the state may order a writ to be issued by the clerk, commanding the Board of Corrections
to have the convict before the court on a specified day to give testimony in the particular
case for the state. Moreover, upon the sworn petition of the defendant in a criminal prosecution
showing that a convict serving sentence in the penitentiary knows facts which would be beneficial
to him, the judge may, if he believes the ends of justice will be served thereby, order the
issuance of such a writ to secure the appearance of the convict to testify on behalf of the
defendant. The writ shall be served on the board at least one week...
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30-3-112
Section 30-3-112 Filing of action in juvenile or family court division. An action for retroactive
support shall be filed in the juvenile or family court division of the district or circuit
court in the county in which the parent or guardian resides or in the county in which the
child resides. There shall be no right to a jury trial. (Acts 1994, No. 94-213, p. 298, §3.)...

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45-37A-100.07
Section 45-37A-100.07 Petition for judicial review. The circuit court hearing a petition for
judicial review shall utilize the procedures applicable to proceedings in the Jefferson County
District Court with all of the following qualifications: (1) The proceedings shall retain
their civil nature with the circuit court applying the preponderance of the evidence standard.
(2) If the person is adjudicated by the circuit court to be responsible for payment of the
fine, circuit court costs shall be owed by the person adjudicated responsible, with 100 percent
of those court costs collected to be retained by the circuit court, which costs shall be calculated
in the same manner as court costs for criminal appeals from the Jefferson County District
Court, provided that, in the event the circuit court finds the person petitioning for judicial
review to not be responsible, any fine or fee paid, related to that citation, shall be refunded
by the city. (3) Regardless of the civil nature of the...
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