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17-16-20
Section 17-16-20 Recounts generally. (a) When, in a general election, the election returns
for any public office, including a judicial office, reflect that a candidate is defeated or
any ballot statewide measure is defeated by not more than one half of one percent of the votes
cast for the office, or the ballot measure, as certified by the appropriate election officer,
a recount shall be held unless the defeated candidate submits a written waiver for the recount
as provided herein: (1) In the case of an election for any federal, state, circuit, or district
office, or the state Senate, state House of Representatives, or any other office that is not
a county office, a written waiver for a recount may be submitted to the Secretary of State
within 24 hours after the certification of the results of the election. Upon receipt of the
waiver, the Secretary of State shall immediately order the recount to be cancelled. (2) In
the case of an election for any county office, a written waiver for a...
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11-3-1
Section 11-3-1 Qualifications of candidates for county commissioner; vacancies; composition
of commission; meetings. (a) Any person who is a qualified elector of the county and has resided
in the county for at least one year prior to the date upon which he or she would take office
is eligible to seek office as county commissioner. In counties where the county commissioners
represent a certain district, any person seeking office as county commissioner shall be a
qualified elector of and reside within the district which he or she seeks to represent upon
election or appointment for at least one year prior to the date that he or she would take
office. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the one-year residency requirement provided above shall
not apply to the first election following any redistricting of county commission districts
in a county. Any person serving as county commissioner, at all times while in office, shall
meet the qualified elector and residency requirements set out herein, and...
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15-12-5
Section 15-12-5 Determination of indigency and provision of defense services. (a) Judicial
role in determining indigency. The trial judge shall determine, in accordance with the policies
and procedures established by the Office of Indigent Defense Services, if a person in his
or her court is an indigent defendant, any time appropriate or necessary. Upon appeal from
the trial court to the state appellate court, the trial judge who presided over the proceedings
on appeal shall determine if the appellant is an indigent defendant in accordance with the
policies and procedures established by the Office of Indigent Defense Services. If an indigency
determination is necessary in any proceeding initiated originally in a state appellate court
, the presiding judge or chief justice of the appellate court shall determine if the appellant
or petitioner is an indigent defendant. (b) Criteria for determining indigency. In determining
indigency, the judge shall recognize ability to pay as a variable...
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36-26-5
Section 36-26-5 State Personnel Board - Composition; appointment, qualifications, terms of
office, removal and compensation of members; procedure for electing classified employee member.
(a) The State Personnel Board shall consist of five persons, as follows: (1) Two persons appointed
by the Governor, one of them whose term shall expire on February 1, 1985, and one of them
whose term shall expire on February 1, 1986, one person appointed by the Speaker of the Alabama
House of Representatives, whose term shall expire February 1, 1987, one person appointed by
the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alabama, whose term shall expire February 1, 1988,
and one person who shall be a classified employee elected as hereinafter provided, whose term
shall expire February 1, 1989. (2) The terms of the present members of the State Personnel
Board shall end on the last day of August, 1983. The new members of the personnel board shall
begin their terms on September 1, 1983. If any vacancy occurs on...
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45-27-81
Section 45-27-81 Escambia County Law Library and Judidcial Administration Fund. (a) In Escambia
County, in order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the law library
and for the purposes of judicial administration as further specified in this section, there
shall be taxed as additional court costs the sum of thirty dollars ($30) in each civil or
quasi-civil action at law, small claims case, suit in equity, criminal case, traffic case,
quasi-criminal case, juvenile court case, proceeding on forfeited bail bond, or a proceeding
on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment of conviction in any
district or municipal court to each circuit court or to the juvenile court hereinafter filed
in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise to the circuit court or district
court or to the juvenile court in Escambia County. The costs shall be collected as other costs
in cases are collected by the clerk of the court and shall be paid...
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45-36A-102
Section 45-36A-102 Historic preservation commission; architectural review board; review of
building plans. (a) The governing body of the City of Scottsboro in Jackson County may adopt
ordinances, pass resolutions, or take such appropriate action as necessary to promote the
general public welfare within the city, such ordinances to protect the historic character
of the city in the manner hereinafter described.. (b) The governing body of the city, upon
the recommendation of the historic preservation commission, as provided for below, may designate
as a historic district any area, site, building, or structure within the city having an overall
atmosphere of either historic or architectural distinction, or both (c) A historic preservation
commission with the following membership, duties, and powers may be created by the city governing
body: (1) The commission shall be composed of no less than seven members who shall be selected
by the city governing body in such a manner as to serve...
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12-23-4
Section 12-23-4 Court referral officers or contracting entities; appointment; supervision by
Administrative Director of Courts and circuit judges; compensation; duties. (a) The Administrative
Director of Courts is authorized to appoint court referral officers or contract with individuals
or entities to provide alcohol and drug assessment for courts and to conduct the court referral
programs in each court jurisdiction of the state. Such appointments or contracts shall be
made or entered into with the advice of the presiding circuit judge. The Administrative Director
of Courts shall designate the locations where said court referral programs, court referral
officers or contracting entities or individuals shall serve, which designations may be changed
from time to time; provided, however, that all appointed court referral officers and approved
court referral programs shall serve at the pleasure of the Administrative Director of Courts.
Any individual or entity which contracts to conduct...
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45-37-240.20
Section 45-37-240.20 Election procedures. (a)(1) Those deputy or assistant county officials
serving in the branch offices in the City of Bessemer in Jefferson County maintained as required
by Act No. 490, H. 1566, Regular Session, (General Acts of Alabama 1915, p. 549), hereinafter
listed, in lieu of being appointed by the principal county officers, shall be elected and
nominated in the same manner that the circuit judges sitting at Bessemer and the deputy district
attorney of the Bessemer Division of Jefferson County are nominated and elected, as follows,
by the qualified voters of the territory over which the Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial
Circuit sitting at Bessemer has and exercises jurisdiction, and each of such officials shall
at the time of his or her election and during his or her term of office reside within the
territory from which he or she is elected. a. The assistant tax collector shall be elected
at the general election held on the first Tuesday after the first...
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12-2-30
Section 12-2-30 Powers and duties as to supervision and administration of courts generally.
(a) The Chief Justice shall see that the business of the several courts of the state is attended
with proper dispatch and that cases, civil and criminal, are not permitted to become congested
or delayed, and he shall take care that prisoners are not allowed to remain in the jails without
a prompt trial. (b) In connection with these duties and other responsibilities, the Chief
Justice is authorized and empowered: (1) To maintain a roster of supernumerary circuit judges
who are willing and able to undertake special duties from time to time and to assign supernumerary
circuit judges in accordance with the provisions of law and, further, to assign supernumerary
circuit judges and circuit judges, provided they are agreeable, in connection with studies,
projects and functions designed to improve the administration of justice and the courts in
Alabama and in connection with projects, studies and...
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45-26-72
Section 45-26-72 Election. (a) The organization and composition of the County Commission of
Elmore County is altered to comply with this section. The governing body shall continue to
be known as the County Commission of Elmore County and shall have and exercise all of the
powers, duties, limitations, and responsibilities conferred upon it by the general laws of
Alabama relating to county commissions insofar as they are consistent with this section. For
the purpose of transacting official business, a quorum shall consist of three commissioners.
(b) Each member of the Elmore County Commission shall represent a separate district. Only
the qualified electors residing in a district may vote to elect the commissioner representing
the respective district. No person shall be eligible as a candidate for county commissioner
unless he or she is a bona fide resident of the district he or she seeks to represent. Each
member of the county commission shall reside in the district he or she represents...
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