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6-6-334
Section 6-6-334 Failure of witnesses to attend or refusal to testify. (a) Any witness, duly
subpoenaed and failing to attend or refusing to testify may be fined by the district court
judge not exceeding $100, for the use of the county, for which he may issue execution directed
to the constable. (b) The judgment specified in subsection (a) of this section must not be
made absolute until 10 days after service of a written notice on such witness, informing him
of the entry of such judgment. (Code 1852, §§2869, 2870; Code 1867, §§3318, 3319; Code
1876, §§3715, 3716; Code 1886, §§3394, 3395; Code 1896, §§2141, 2142; Code 1907, §§4277,
4278; Code 1923, §§8018, 8019; Code 1940, T. 7, §§981, 982.)...
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45-17-232
Section 45-17-232 Day reporting system. (a) This section shall be applicable only in Colbert
County. (b) Any person who has been committed to the county jail in Colbert County under a
criminal sentence imposed by the Circuit or District Court of Colbert County, and who has
been released on a suspended sentence shall report to the probation office of Colbert County.
The probation officer at his or her discretion shall require the person to report at regular
intervals, for the sole purpose of the collection of court costs, fines, and other penalties
and fees assessed against the convicted person by the probation officer. (c) The probation
officers of Colbert County, Alabama, shall remit fines, assessments, court costs, and restitution
assessed against the persons to the Colbert County Circuit Clerk. The probation officers shall
be allowed to charge the convicted persons a day reporting fee of 20 percent of the net weekly
income of the person and may charge a minimum of ten dollars ($10)...
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45-21-233
Section 45-21-233 Methods of service. (a) In the service of summons and complaints or subpoenas
requiring the attendance of witnesses in any civil, criminal, equity, or other case or proceeding
in either the small claims court, district court, or Circuit Court of Crenshaw County, whether
civil, criminal or juvenile, or before the grand jury, may, in addition to any other mode
of service provided by law or rule, be served by the sheriff or constable personally or by
leaving a copy thereof at the place of residence of the witness, or the sheriff may serve
the same by placing a copy thereof in the United States mail, certified, return receipt requested,
enclosing the subpoena in an envelope properly stamped and addressed to the person or witness
to be served. Upon service by the sheriff upon any witness or person by anyone of the foregoing
methods, provided in this section, the sheriff shall immediately mark the process executed.
If the subpoena so mailed is not delivered to the address...
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45-34-80.20
Section 45-34-80.20 Summons; service. (a) Notices of the requirement of the attendance of jury
service in the Circuit Court of Henry County may be served by first class mail or may be served
as provided by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure and this code. If, in the discretion of
the sheriff, the service is made by first class mail, such service shall be made as follows.
It shall be the duty of the sheriff to enclose the summons in an envelope addressed to the
person to be served and place all necessary postage and a return address thereon with notice
to the postal authorities not to forward outside of the county. In the event the jury summons
is returned to the sheriff by the post office of the United States without delivery, the summons
shall be made by the sheriff returned NOT FOUND. All jury summons not returned by the post
office shall be considered for all purposes as sufficient personal and legal service. The
provisions of this subsection in reference to service by mail,...
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12-10A-3
Section 12-10A-3 Applicability to judicial retirement compensation. (a) Passage of this chapter
shall not repeal any law which, on June 10, 1999, provides for the retirement compensation
payable from the treasury of any county to a circuit or district judge. Any contribution required
by law to be made by a circuit or district judge to be entitled to retirement benefits shall
continue at the dollar amount required to be contributed on June 10, 1999, and for any judge
elected or appointed on or after June 10, 1999, any benefit paid from the treasury of any
county to judges who in the future shall retire shall be fixed at the dollar amount required
to be paid on June 10, 1999. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as reducing the benefits
payable from the county treasury to judges who have retired or to judges who are in active
service on June 10, 1999. (b) Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, any circuit
or district judge who is first elected or appointed after...
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12-9A-7
Section 12-9A-7 Temporary assignment of circuit or district judge to another circuit. (a) The
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, by order, shall assign a circuit or district
judge from a judicial circuit to serve within another judicial circuit for a reasonable period
of time to address court congestion, court delay, civil and criminal backlog of cases, or
for any other reason necessary for the prompt and thorough administration of justice. (b)
When considering the amount of time a judge may be assigned from his or her home circuit to
another circuit, the Chief Justice shall take into consideration all relevant circumstances
regarding the judicial needs of the circuits involved. (c) A judge assigned to serve another
circuit under subsection (a) shall be reimbursed for any necessary and reasonable expenses
of travel and the same maintenance expense allowances from the State Treasury that the judge
would be entitled to receive when attending court or transacting other...
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12-18-54
Section 12-18-54 Election as to withdrawal from retirement fund and refunding of contributions
or receipt of certificate of time of service accumulated toward retirement upon termination
of service of judge prior to eligibility for retirement benefits under article; filing of
certificate as proof of time of service for retirement benefits under article upon reaching
of retirement age or death of judge. Should the service of a district judge be terminated
prior to the time said judge is entitled to receive retirement benefits under this article,
such judge shall have the right to elect to withdraw from the Judicial Retirement Fund and
to have refunded his contributions to the Judicial Retirement Fund, plus accrued interest
thereon, under the same rules, regulations and rates applicable to similar refunds of contributions
under the Employees' Retirement System; provided, that should such judge not elect to withdraw
from the Judicial Retirement Fund he shall be entitled to receive a...
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15-6-40
Section 15-6-40 Appeal to circuit court; form of undertaking on appeal. (a) Any person required
to keep the peace under the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter by any judge other than
a judge of an appellate or circuit court is entitled, on entering into an undertaking with
sufficient sureties in a sum equal to that required of him to keep the peace for the prosecution
of an appeal and in the meantime to keep the peace, to an appeal to the circuit court of the
county. The judge from whose order the appeal is taken may require such witnesses as he thinks
necessary to enter into an undertaking, in the sum of $100.00 each, to appear at such court.
(b) Any person committed to jail by any such judge for failing to give security to keep the
peace may appeal to the circuit court and may thereupon be discharged from custody on giving
bond with surety, in such penalty as the judge may prescribe, conditioned for his appearance
at such court and to keep the peace towards all the people of the...
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17-16-40
Section 17-16-40 Grounds of contest. The election of any person declared elected to the office
of Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Commissioner of Agriculture
and Industries, Public Service Commissioner, senator or representative in the Legislature,
justices of the Supreme Court, judges of the courts of appeals, judge of the circuit court
or district court, or any office which is filled by the vote of a single county, or to the
office of constable may be contested by any person who was at the time of either of the elections
a qualified elector for any of the following causes: (1) Malconduct, fraud, or corruption
on the part of any inspector, clerk, returning officer, canvassing board, or other person.
(2) When the person whose election to office is contested was not eligible thereto at the
time of such election. (3) On account of illegal votes. (4) On account of the rejection of
legal votes. (5) Offers to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or other...
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45-17-234.01
Section 45-17-234.01 Additional fees; disposition of funds. (a) In addition to all existing
charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court
official in the civil division of the District and Circuit Courts of Colbert County shall
increase the fees by seventeen dollars and fifty cents ($17.50) per document personally served
by the sheriff's office, or its designee. For the purposes of this section, the term document
shall include multiple papers served on a party or entity at one time. (b) In addition to
all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate
court office in the civil division of the District and Circuit Courts of Colbert County, for
documents generated out-of-state, shall create a fee of fifty dollars ($50) per document served
by the sheriff's office, or its designee. For the purposes of this section, the term document
shall include multiple papers served on a party or entity at...
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