43-8-198
Section 43-8-198 Transfer of contest to circuit court; appeal from judgment of circuit court;
certification of judgment, etc., to probate court. Upon the demand of any party to the contest,
made in writing at the time of filing the initial pleading, the probate court, or the judge
thereof, must enter an order transferring the contest to the circuit court of the county in
which the contest is made, and must certify all papers and documents pertaining to the contest
to the clerk of the circuit court, and the case shall be docketed by the clerk of the circuit
court and a special session of said court may be called for the trial of said contest or,
said contest may be tried by said circuit court at any special or regular session of said
court. The issues must be made up in the circuit court as if the trial were to be had in the
probate court, and the trial had in all other respects as trials in other civil cases in the
circuit court. An appeal to the supreme court may be taken from the...
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45-20-82.20
Section 45-20-82.20 Clerk-secretary. (a) The District Attorney of the Twenty-second Judicial
Circuit is authorized to provide a clerk-secretary to attend all grand jury sessions in the
circuit at the request of the grand juries. The clerk-secretary shall perform such clerical
and secretarial duties as the grand juries and district attorney may prescribe and shall transcribe
the testimony and other matters being brought before the grand jury. (b) Either the secretary,
administrative assistant, or trial coordinator in the district attorney's office shall be
designated as the clerk-secretary by the district attorney. When directed by the district
attorney for such circuit, the clerk-secretary shall attend in person, except as otherwise
provided, the sessions of each grand jury held in such circuit and in every manner or proceeding
before such grand jury take stenographic notes of the oral testimony and proceedings and note
the order in which all documentary evidence is introduced. (c)...
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6-3-8
Section 6-3-8 Venue of actions - Breach of official bond. (a) At the election of the Attorney
General, all actions of summary proceedings by or for the use of the state founded on breach
of the official bond of a state officer or a former state officer, of a tax collector or former
tax collector, of a judge of probate or former judge of probate, of a tax assessor or former
tax assessor, or clerk of the circuit court or former clerk of the circuit court may be commenced
in the circuit court of Montgomery County or in a court of the county in which any one of
the obligors in such bond may reside. (b) An action on the official bond executed by a sheriff
or any deputy sheriff may be commenced only in the county of residence of the principal or
in the county in which he resided at the time of the execution of the same; provided, that
if the act complained of was committed in some county other than the county in which he resided,
then such action may be commenced in the county where such act...
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6-6-591
Section 6-6-591 Right of action and venue - Usurpation, etc., of office or franchise, etc.
(a) An action may be commenced in the name of the state against the party offending in the
following cases: (1) When any person usurps, intrudes into or unlawfully holds or exercises
any public office, civil or military, any franchise, any profession requiring a license, certificate,
or other legal authorization within this state or any office in a corporation created by the
authority of this state; (2) When any public officer, civil or military, has done or suffered
any act by which, under the law, he forfeits his office; or (3) When any association, or number
of persons, acts within this state as a corporation without being duly incorporated. (b) The
judge of the circuit court may direct the action to be commenced when he believes that any
of the acts specified in subsection (a) of this section can be proved and it is necessary
for the public good, or it may be commenced without the direction...
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12-17-340
Section 12-17-340 Judicial secretaries. (a) Classified positions of secretaries existing under
local government merit systems. Classified positions of secretaries existing under local government
merit systems in those circuits having 15 or more circuit judges, serving the courts on October
10, 1975, shall be subject to the provisions of the State Merit System and all other benefits
applicable to state employees; provided, that they shall have the retirement benefit options
described in subdivision (b) (2) of Section 12-17-4. (b) Additional confidential secretaries.
In circumstances other than those provided in subsection (a) of this section, each circuit
and district court judge may employ a confidential secretary without regard to civil service
qualifications or regulations, to serve at the pleasure of the judge. However, before the
appointment thereof, the Administrative Director of Courts shall certify to the state Comptroller
and presiding circuit judge of the respective circuit...
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14-4-4
Section 14-4-4 Report of hard labor sentence to probate judge. (a) All judicial officers shall,
immediately upon the sentence of any person to hard labor for any county, report in writing
to the judge of probate of the county for which such sentence is made, the name of such person,
the length of his sentence, the date of its commencement and the amount of costs. Any judicial
officer presiding over a court that has a clerk may order such report to be made by such clerk.
(b) Any judicial officer or clerk who fails to report in writing to the judge of probate,
as required by law, the name of any person sentenced to hard labor for the county, length
of such sentence, the date of its commencement and the amount of the costs therein must, on
conviction, be fined not less than $25.00. (Code 1896, §§4543, 5118; Acts 1907, No. 85,
p. 179; Code 1907, §§6592, 7462; Code 1923, §§3700, 5054; Code 1940, T. 45, §§79, 80.)...

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28-4-286
Section 28-4-286 Institution of proceedings for condemnation of vehicles, etc.; seized property
not to be retaken by replevin or detinue during pendency of action; intervention by parties
claiming superior right to seized property; powers of court to regulate proceedings to permit
parties claiming vehicles, etc., to assert rights. It shall be the duty of such officer in
the county or the Attorney General of the state to institute at once or cause to be instituted
condemnation proceedings in the circuit court by filing a complaint in the name of the state
against the property seized, describing the same, or against the person or persons in possession
of said vehicles of transportation, if known, to obtain a judgment enforcing the forfeiture.
No replevin or detinue writ may be employed to retake possession of such seized property pending
the forfeiture action, but any party claiming a superior right may intervene by motion in
said action and have his claim adjudicated. The judge...
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40-12-49
Section 40-12-49 Attorneys. (a) Each attorney engaged in the practice of law shall pay an annual
license tax to the state, but none to the county. On October 1, 2006, and each year thereafter,
the annual license tax shall be three hundred dollars ($300). On and after May 15, 2012, the
Board of Bar Commissioners shall by rule determine the amount of the annual license tax. If
business is conducted as a firm or as a corporation in which more than one lawyer is engaged,
each lawyer shall pay such license tax, but no lawyer shall be required to pay a license tax
until the first day of October following admission to the bar. The license tax shall be paid
to the Secretary of the Board of Bar Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar. The funds collected
for the issuance of the license tax levied shall constitute a separate fund to be disbursed
on the order of the Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar. As soon after the first
day of each November as practicable, the Secretary of the...
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45-36-81.02
Section 45-36-81.02 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2015 REGULAR
SESSION, EFFECTIVE. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. In addition to all other costs
and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Jackson County, there shall
be levied and assessed a court cost of thirty-five dollars ($35) in all cases in which court
costs are assessed which are determined by the judge to be domestic violence cases. The clerk
of the court shall collect the court costs and shall periodically remit the proceeds to the
Chief Presiding District Court Judge of Jackson County to be used to operate the domestic
violence shelter program serving Jackson County that is in compliance with the standards for
operation of the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence. (Act 2015-119, §1.)...
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45-36-81.03
Section 45-36-81.03 Domestic violence cases. THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER
IN THE 2015 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. In addition
to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Jackson
County, there shall be levied and assessed a court cost of thirty-five dollars ($35) in all
cases in which court costs are assessed which are determined by the judge to be domestic violence
cases. The clerk of the court shall collect the court costs and shall periodically remit the
proceeds to the Chief Presiding District Court Judge of Jackson County to be used to operate
the domestic violence shelter program serving Jackson County that is in compliance with the
standards for operation of the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence. (Act 2015-119,
§1.)...
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