12-25-12
Section 12-25-12 Director; employees. (a) The Chief Justice shall appoint a director for the
commission. The Chief Justice may also authorize other employee positions for the commission.
The director and employees of the commission shall be paid from any funds appropriated to
the commission and shall be employed in the same manner as employees of the Supreme Court.
(b) The executive committee of the commission may employ and fix the compensation of consultants
and experts to assist the commission as may be necessary to carry out its responsibilities.
(Act 2000-596, p. 1192, §12.)...
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12-2-1
Section 12-2-1 Composition of court; election and terms of office of justices. (a) The Supreme
Court, except as otherwise provided, shall consist of a chief justice and eight associate
justices, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state at the general elections
as provided by law for the election of members of the House of Representatives in Congress
and who shall hold their offices for the term of six years from the first Monday after the
second Tuesday in January next succeeding their election and until their successors are elected
and qualified. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution respecting filling of vacancies
in judicial offices, members of the Supreme Court shall be elected as follows: The Chief Justice
and three associate justices shall be elected at the general election in November, 1976, two
associate justices shall be elected at the general election in November, 1978, and three associate
justices shall be elected at the general election in...
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12-18-5
Section 12-18-5 Applicability of article to justices and judges; contributions to retirement
fund; granting of credit for military service. (a) Every justice of the Supreme Court, judge
of the Court of Civil Appeals, judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and judge of the circuit
court of the state holding office on September 18, 1973, shall have the right of election
to come under this article. Each justice or judge holding office on September 18, 1973, shall
have the right, within three years from September 18, 1973, to file with the clerk of the
Supreme Court of Alabama, an instrument in writing electing to come under this article. Each
justice or judge of such courts elected or appointed to office after September 18, 1973, shall
come under this article as a matter of law. After September 18, 1973, each justice and each
judge who has elected to come under this article as provided by this section or who comes
under this article by operation of law shall contribute to the Judicial...
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12-2-131
Section 12-2-131 Confidential secretaries for associate justices and supernumerary justices
- Appointment, compensation, etc. Each associate justice of the Supreme Court and each supernumerary
justice of said court, while serving at the request of the Governor or Chief Justice, is hereby
authorized to appoint and employ a confidential secretary, who shall serve at the pleasure
of the associate justice or supernumerary justice. Such confidential secretary shall be subject
to the Merit System Act only as to the pay plan. (Code 1896, §3842; Code 1907, §5968; Code
1923, §10304; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 207, p. 246; Code 1940, T. 13, §47; Acts 1955,
No. 165, p. 412.)...
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12-5-15
Section 12-5-15 Delegation to Administrative Director of Courts, court administrator, etc.,
of authority to act for Chief Justice. The Chief Justice may, by power of attorney or other
writing, authorize and empower the Administrative Director of Courts, the court administrator
and any other officer in the Administrative Office of Courts or the Department of Court Management
or the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court to sign the name of the Chief Justice to any instruments
and documents that he is required to sign, including, but not limited to, the approval of
expense accounts of trial judges and supernumerary or retired judges and approval of fees
for attorneys for services rendered in defense of indigents in criminal cases. Such instrument
of authorization shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court. (Acts 1975,
No. 1205, p. 2384, §11-107.)...
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12-5-17
Section 12-5-17 Attendance at colleges, conferences, etc., pertaining to administration of
courts by Chief Justice, officers, employees, etc., of Administrative Office of Courts and
Department of Court Management, members of judiciary and court-supportive personnel authorized;
reimbursement for expenses thereof. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating
to reimbursement of traveling expenses of public officers and employees, the Chief Justice,
officers, officials, personnel and employees of the Administrative Office of Courts and Department
of Court Management are authorized to attend colleges, schools, conferences, seminars and
other meetings pertaining to the administration of justice and courts, as well as performing
the duties of their office, in or outside the State of Alabama, provided the chief justice
requests them to do so, and are entitled to be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses,
including, but not limited to, travel expenses, lodging,...
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12-5-21
Section 12-5-21 Appointment, compensation, etc., of confidential secretaries for retired justices
or judges performing active duty for Supreme Court or courts of appeals. The Administrative
Director of Courts, with the approval of the Chief Justice, is hereby authorized to appoint
and employ not more than two confidential secretaries who shall serve at the pleasure of the
Chief Justice. Said secretary or secretaries shall be subject to the Merit System Act only
as to pay plan, and shall be assigned to assist retired justices or judges who perform active
duty for the Supreme Court or one or both of the courts of appeals. (Acts 1977, No. 207, p.
274.)...
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12-17-24.1
Section 12-17-24.1 Family court divisions; implementation plan. (a) Except as provided in subsection
(c), the presiding circuit judge of any judicial circuit may establish by means of a written
order, a family court division or divisions of the judicial circuit. The presiding circuit
judge shall assign one or more of the existing circuit or district judges to preside in the
family court division. The circuit or district court judges assigned to the family court division
shall handle all cases and proceedings involving domestic relations, divorces, annulments
of marriage, legal separations, custody and support of children, granting and enforcement
of alimony, proceedings under any uniform interstate support or custody act, and all other
domestic and marital matters over which the circuit courts have jurisdiction, including non-support
cases arising in the circuit court under Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, Title 30, as well as other
matters within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. In the...
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12-18-131
Section 12-18-131 Eligibility to retire regardless of age. Notwithstanding Section 12-18-40
or 12-18-55, any justice of the Supreme Court, any judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, any
judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, any circuit judge, or any district judge who has served
for not less than 25 years on any one or more of such courts or has 25 years of creditable
service in the Judicial Retirement System shall be eligible to retire under this chapter regardless
of age. (Act 98-295, p. 481, §2.)...
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12-18-40
Section 12-18-40 Retirement at age 60; computation; cost-of-living; prior service. On or after
July 30, 1979, any person assuming office for the first time as a justice of the Supreme Court,
judge of a court of appeals or a circuit judge, shall receive and be entitled to all retirement
benefits prescribed in Title 12, Chapter 18, Articles 1 and 2, except as follows: (1) The
provisions of subdivisions (3) and (5) of both subsections (a) and (b) of Section 12-18-6,
to the contrary notwithstanding, except for disability, no such justice or judge shall be
eligible to receive judicial service retirement pay prior to attaining 60 years of age. (2)
The retirement pay or benefit of each such justice or judge shall be based and computed pursuant
to the provisions of Section 12-18-10, at the percentage rate therein prescribed of his final
salary received from the state at the time of retirement. Retired justices and judges coming
under this article shall be entitled to receive cost-of-living...
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