11-65-10
Section 11-65-10 Powers and duties of commission. When authorized by one or more elections as provided in Section 11-65-4, a commission shall have the powers and duties necessary to license, regulate, and supervise horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon and greyhound racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon within the commission municipal jurisdiction, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the powers and duties hereinafter set forth in this section or in other sections of this chapter. (1) A commission shall have succession in perpetuity, subject only to the provisions of this chapter as it may be amended from time to time. (2) A commission shall have the power to sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and to defend suits against it. (3) A commission shall have the power to adopt and make use of an official seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (4) A commission shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, regulations and...
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE WHEREAS, with regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple states, the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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28-4-277
Section 28-4-277 Forfeiture and condemnation proceedings generally - Appeals from judgment of district court - Persons entitled to appeal; bond for costs of appeal required; right to jury trial; proceedings in circuit court. Any person appearing and becoming a party defendant as provided in this article may appeal from the judgment of forfeiture and condemnation as to the whole or any part of the liquors and beverages and vessels and receptacles claimed by him and adjudged forfeited to the circuit court as in other cases appealed from a district court to a circuit court, the appeal to be granted upon parties giving bond for the cost of appeal, that will be incurred in the circuit court. Upon written demand being made therefor endorsed on the appeal bond at the time said appeal is taken, the appellants may be entitled to a jury for the trial of the action in the circuit court. Said circuit court shall proceed with the case de novo and may cause suitable issues to be framed for the...
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12-22-193
Section 12-22-193 Examination of petitioner; subpoena of witnesses; ascertainment of financial information; estimate of costs and fees. Upon the filing of the petition with the clerk or the trial judge within the time prescribed in Section 12-22-92, the trial judge shall have the defendant or petitioner brought before him and shall examine the defendant or petitioner under oath concerning the required averment in the petition that the defendant or petitioner is without sufficient funds, and has no reasonable way to procure the same, to pay the court reporter all of his lawful fees for transcribing the evidence and other proceedings had at the trial or on the hearing of said case or the fees of the clerk which will accrue on appeal. The trial court, at such hearing, may issue subpoenas for witnesses as deemed necessary and may call upon the sheriff, the district attorney and other officers of the court to ascertain information relevant to the financial condition and ability of defendant...
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12-22-192
Section 12-22-192 Petition for appeal under division; contents thereof. In such criminal cases where the defendant has been adjudicated guilty by the trial court he may, if no motion for a new trial is filed within 10 days after the last day on which a motion for a new trial could have been filed or within 10 days after the ruling of the trial court upon a motion for a new trial, duly filed and ruled on adversely to defendant, file with the clerk or the trial judge of the court wherein such defendant was adjudicated guilty and sentenced a petition in writing, sworn to and subscribed by said defendant, stating that the defendant desires to take an appeal under the provisions of this division. Such petition must identify the style of the case, the offense for which the defendant was convicted, the plea made by the defendant, the date of the adjudication of guilt, the sentence and the punishment therefor and the name of the court imposing such punishment, together with the name of the...
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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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12-22-72
Section 12-22-72 Affirmation of stayed judgment - Generally. When a judgment or decree is entered or rendered for money, whether debt or damages, and the same has been stayed on appeal by the execution of bond, with surety, if the appellate court affirms the judgment of the court below, it must also enter judgment against all or any of the obligors on the bond for the amount of the affirmed judgment, and the costs of the appellate court; and, upon the appeal of any judgment or decree entered or rendered for any amount of commissions, fees or compensation fixed or determined by the trial court and taxed or allowed as costs, if the appellate court affirms the judgment or decree of the court below and the payment thereof has been stayed on such appeal, judgment shall be entered by the appellate court against all or any of the obligors on the bond for the amount affirmed, and the costs of the appellate court; provided, however, that if no supersedeas bond has been executed on such appeal,...
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12-22-73
Section 12-22-73 Affirmation of stayed judgment - Right of property. When an appeal is taken on a trial of the right of property and the judgment is stayed by the execution of a supersedeas bond, if the appellate court affirms the judgment of the court below, it must also enter judgment against the obligors in said bond for the amount of the costs of the appellate court. (Code 1852, §3024; Code 1867, §3494; Code 1876, §3935; Code 1886, §3663; Code 1896, §479; Code 1907, §2894; Code 1923, §6154; Code 1940, T. 7, §815; Acts 1987, No. 87-188, p. 259, §2.)...
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15-17-5
Section 15-17-5 Grounds for granting new trials; costs thereof. (a) On motion filed within 30 days from entry of judgment, a new trial may be granted for the following grounds: (1) Irregularity in the proceedings of the court, jury or state or any order of court or abuse of discretion by which the defendant was prevented from having a fair trial; (2) Misconduct of the jury or state; (3) Accident or surprise which ordinary prudence could not have guarded against; (4) That the verdict or decision is not sustained beyond a reasonable doubt or is contrary to law; (5) Newly discovered evidence, material for the party applying, which he could not with reasonable diligence have discovered and produced at the trial; and (6) Error of law occurring at the trial properly preserved by the party making the application. (b) The court, in granting new trials, may allow the same at the costs of the party applying therefor or in the costs abiding the event of the case, or a portion of the costs, as the...
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40-10-25
Section 40-10-25 Appeal from decree. From any decree rendered by the probate court for the sale of real estate for the payment of taxes, the defendant in the cause or the state, in behalf of itself and the county, may appeal to the circuit court of the county within 30 days after the rendition of the decree. If the defendant appeals, he must execute a bond in double the amount of the decree, payable to the State of Alabama, with sufficient surety to be approved by the judge of probate, and conditioned that he will prosecute the appeal to effect and pay such judgment as the appellate court may render thereon; but the state shall not be required to execute any bond. The district attorney shall represent the state on such appeal, and of the pendency thereof the judge of probate must give him notice in writing; and on appeal by the state, notice thereof shall be given the defendant, as in other cases of appeal from the court to the circuit court, such appeal must be tried de novo, upon an...
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