12-21-98
Section 12-21-98 Certificates and transcripts as evidence of land title and facts. All certificates
issued pursuant to any Act of Congress by any county commission, register of a land office
or by anyone authorized by law to issue such certificate, upon any warrant or order of survey
or for any donation or preemption claim, vest the legal title in the holder or his assignee
and must be received as evidence of such title; and all transcripts of any official book,
official entry or other document pertaining to any land office in this state, certified by
the register of such land office, must be received as prima facie evidence of the facts contained
in such transcripts so certified in all the courts of this state. (Code 1852, §2292; Code
1867, §2691; Code 1876, §3043; Code 1886, §2782; Code 1896, §1813; Code 1907, §3980;
Code 1923, §7678; Code 1940, T. 7, §390.)...
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36-14-1
Section 36-14-1 Duties generally. It is the duty of the Secretary of State: (1) To keep the
state seal, the original statutes and public records of the state, and the records and papers
belonging to the Legislature, keeping the papers of each house separate. (2) To attest commissions
and all other public documents from the executive of the state and, when necessary, to affix
the seal of the state thereto and to certify the same in his or her official capacity. (3)
To record, in books proper for that purpose, all grants and patents issued by the state. (4)
To keep all books, maps, and other papers appertaining to the survey of lands belonging to
the state and the books and papers belonging to the land office. (5) To keep in his or her
office the books, maps, and field notes of the late surveyor general of the United States
for this state which are public archives of the state and, upon application, to give certified
copies of the same, which shall be received in evidence in any of the...
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45-8-90
Section 45-8-90 Economic Development Council - Creation; composition; powers and duties. (a)(1)
For the purposes of promoting industry and trade and economic development and to assist Calhoun
County and the municipalities located therein in their pursuits therefor and to provide for
the exercise by the county and the municipalities of certain powers and authority proposed
to be granted to them by an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama, the act proposing such
amendment being adopted at the same session of the Legislature at which the act adding this
section was adopted, there is hereby created an economic development council for Calhoun County,
which council shall constitute a public corporation under the name Calhoun County Economic
Development Council. (2) This section shall be liberally construed in conformity with the
purposes. (b)(1) The powers and authorities of the Calhoun County Economic Development Council
shall be vested in and performed by a board of directors. (2) The...
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40-22-1
Section 40-22-1 Deeds, bills of sale, etc. (a) Except as set out in subsection (b), no deed,
bill of sale, or other instrument of like character which conveys any real or personal property
within this state or which conveys any interest in any such property shall be received for
record unless the privilege or license tax is paid prior to the instrument being offered for
record as provided in subsection (c). (b) No privilege or license tax shall be required for
any of the following: (1) The transfer of mortgages on real or personal property within this
state upon which the mortgage tax has been paid. (2) Deeds or instruments executed for a nominal
consideration for the purpose of perfecting the title to real estate. (3) The re-recordation
of corrected mortgages, deeds, or instruments executed for the purpose of perfecting the title
to real or personal property, specifically, but not limited to, corrections of maturity dates
thereof, and deeds and other instruments or conveyances,...
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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence
in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with
tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to
requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer
has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among
other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal
within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of
resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and
fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those
specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing
shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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12-21-66
Section 12-21-66 Proof of land office deeds or written instruments for conveyance or sale of
land. Any deed or written instrument for the conveyance or sale of land purchased or entered
at any land office of the United States in this state made or signed in or upon any book or
record of such office may be proved by a copy thereof, certified by the register of such land
office under his hand to be a correct copy, and such copy shall be received in all courts
and proceedings under the laws of this state and may be recorded in the office of the probate
judge of the county in which the land may be. A transcript of such record in the office of
the probate judge may be certified and used in the same manner and in the same cases as transcripts
of such records of original deeds may be. (Code 1867, §2692; Code 1876, §3044; Code 1886,
§2783; Code 1896, §1814; Code 1907, §3981; Code 1923, §7679; Code 1940, T. 7, §391.)...

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22-9A-10
Section 22-9A-10 Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth. (a) If a delayed certificate
of birth is rejected under Section 22-9A-9, a petition signed and sworn to by the petitioner
may be filed with a circuit court of any county in this state in which he or she resides or
was born, for an order establishing a birth record. (b) The petition shall allege each of
the following: (1) The person for whom a delayed certificate of birth is sought was born in
this state. (2) No certificate of birth can be found in the Office of Vital Statistics. (3)
Diligent efforts by the petitioner have failed to obtain the evidence required in accordance
with Section 22-9A-9. (4) The State Registrar has refused to register a delayed certificate
of birth. (5) Other allegations as may be required. (c) The petition shall be accompanied
by a statement of the State Registrar made in accordance with Section 22-9A-9 and all documentary
evidence which was submitted to the State Registrar in support of the...
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40-1-16
Section 40-1-16 Copies of books, records, papers, etc., admitted in evidence. In any action
against any tax assessor, tax collector, judge of probate, or other officer charged with the
performance of any duties under this title and his sureties, or either, for failure to pay
over any money collected by him for the state or to perform any other duty required of him
by law, a copy of any bond, record, book, paper, contract, return, or other document, or of
the official statement of any account between him and the state in the Office of the Comptroller,
Treasurer, State Land Commissioner, or Department of Revenue properly certified by such officer,
if the original is in his office under seal of the office, shall be received as evidence in
any case in which the original would be competent, unless the defendant shall deny under oath
that he made or executed such original. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §895.)...

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40-10-127
Section 40-10-127 Issuance of certificates of redemption. Upon the payment of the amount required
by law for the redemption of the lands sold for taxes by a person entitled to redeem, the
judge of probate, or official who performs the same function, shall issue that person a certificate
of redemption describing the lands, setting forth the facts of the sale substantially as contained
in the certificate of purchase, the date of redemption, the amount paid, by whom the lands
were redeemed, and make the proper entries in the book of sales in his or her office and immediately
give notice of the redemption to the county treasurer or custodian of the county funds. The
judge of probate, or official who performs the same functions, shall sign the certificate.
Unless signed, no certificate shall be held as evidence of redemption, and it shall be the
duty of the judge of probate, or official who performs the same functions, to keep a book
of certificates of redemption, and every blank shall have...
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12-21-97
Section 12-21-97 Pre-1879 documents or certified copies executed by Governor as evidence of
sale or transfer of state lands. (a) All documents executed prior to February 12, 1879, by
the Governor, in person or in his name by his secretary, purporting to convey any of the state's
lands which are ineffective as patents or conveyances because of not being executed as provided
by law or for any other reason and which recite either the payment of the purchase money for
the lands attempted to be conveyed thereby or the deposit of a receipt or certificate of the
officer authorized to receive the money acknowledging that such payment has been made shall
be admissible in evidence in any case affecting the title to such lands and shall be prima
facie evidence of any sale or transfer of said lands there recited and of the payment of the
purchase money thereof. (b) A duly certified copy of the record of any such document which
has been recorded for as much as 10 years in the office of the probate...
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