12-11A-2
Section 12-11A-2 Qualifications; requirements. (a) Persons who may act as private judges shall: (1) Have been, but are not actively serving as, a judge of a district, circuit, or probate court and have served in the capacity of judge for at least six consecutive years. (2) Be admitted to the practice of law in Alabama. (3) Be an active member in good standing of the Alabama State Bar Association. (4) Be a resident of Alabama. (b) A person may act as a judge of a case under this chapter only if all of the following occur: (1) All parties to the action file a written petition with the circuit clerk of the court in which the action is pending requesting a private judge and naming the person whom the parties wish to have as private judge. The petition shall be accompanied by a form signed by the private judge selected consenting to the appointment. (2) The case is one over which the court in which the former judge served would have had subject matter and monetary jurisdiction. (3) The case...
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15-22-36.2
Section 15-22-36.2 Victim Notification Implementation Task Force. (a) There is hereby created the Victim Notification Implementation Task Force to guide and support the implementation of a statewide automated victim notification system in Alabama. The task force shall be composed of four crime victims' rights advocates designated by the Attorney General and one designee from each of the following: The Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Department of Corrections, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission, the District Attorneys Association or a district attorney representative, the Attorney General, the Administrative Office of Courts, the Alabama Circuit Judges' Association, the Office of Prosecution Services, the Alabama Circuit Clerk's Association, and any other entity or organization as deemed appropriate by a majority vote of the current representatives composing the task force. The task force shall elect a chair to function as the...
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15-13-203
Section 15-13-203 Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board - Creation; composition; adoption and enforcement of rules; compensation. (a) The Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board is created to administer and enforce this article. The board shall consist of all of the following members: (1) Seven professional bondsmen, one from each of the seven congressional districts of the state, nominated by the Alabama Bail Bond Association and appointed by the Governor from a list of not more than four nominees for each position on the board. For the initial terms of office, the President of the Alabama Bail Bond Association shall be the professional bondsman member of the board who represents the congressional district in which he or she resides. The nominating and appointing authorities shall coordinate their nominations and appointments to ensure that one of the professional bondsman members is the owner of a professional bail bond company with at least 10 years of experience. Except as...
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29-2-20
Section 29-2-20 Creation; composition; duties. (a) A permanent legislative committee which shall be composed of eight members, two of whom shall be ex officio members and six of whom shall be appointed members, three each to be appointed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, who shall both serve as the ex officio members, shall be formed to assist in realizing the recommendations of the Legislative Prison Task Force and examine all aspects of the operations of the Department of Corrections. The chairman of the committee shall be selected by and from among the membership. The committee shall make diligent inquiry and a full examination of Alabama's present and long term prison needs and they shall file reports of their findings and recommendations to the Alabama Legislature not later than the fifteenth legislative day of each regular session that the committee continues to exist. (b) The committee shall study and address mental health issues for prisoners reentering...
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34-3-43
Section 34-3-43 Powers generally. (a) The Board of Commissioners shall have power: (1) To determine, by rules, the qualifications and requirements for admission to the practice of law; (2) To conduct through a Board of Examiners the examination of applicants; and such Board of Examiners shall certify to the Supreme Court the names of the applicants found to be qualified; such certifications shall entitle such persons to be enrolled in the bar of the state and to practice law; provided, that the fees required are paid; (3) Subject to the approval of the supreme court, to formulate rules governing the conduct of all persons admitted to practice and to investigate, or cause to be investigated, and to pass upon all complaints that may be made concerning the professional conduct of any person who has been, or may hereafter be, admitted to the practice of the law; (4) Subject to the approval of the supreme court, to formulate rules governing the reinstatement of members of the bar who have...
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12-17-216
Section 12-17-216 Oath of office; powers and duties. Supernumerary district attorneys shall take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution for judicial officers and shall have and exercise all the duties, power and authority of district attorneys of the judicial circuits or circuit courts and shall, upon request of the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or the Attorney General, conduct investigations, attend any regular, adjourned or special session of any circuit court in any of the judicial circuits of Alabama for the investigation of or the prosecution of any criminal case or the prosecution or defense of any case in which the state is interested. The Governor, any member of the Supreme Court or courts of appeals or the Attorney General may request a supernumerary district attorney to perform duties as those prescribed for assistant attorneys general, either in their respective offices or at such other places within or without the state as such officials may...
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12-5-12
Section 12-5-12 Study of applications for funds, grants, etc., from federal governmental agencies or entities, direction of disbursement of funds, grants, etc.; designation of moneys previously appropriated to certain state agencies as matching funds; application for federal funds, grants, etc., and use of certain moneys as matching funds in connection therewith by circuit courts, district courts, etc. (a) In connection with any federal legislation hereafter passed or presently in force and effect, designed, directly or indirectly, to assist or aid in the administration of justice, criminal or otherwise, or the improvement of courts and the judicial system, the Administrative Director of Courts is authorized and empowered to study any and all applications for funds and grants directed to his office from any federal governmental agency or entity and the disbursement of such aid, assistance, subgrants, funds or money to any office or agency of the judicial branch of state government and...
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45-24-80
Section 45-24-80 Dallas County Law Library Fund; board. (a)(l) There is created a fund to be designated the Dallas County Law Library Fund, which fund shall be expended as hereinafter provided for the sole purpose of establishing, maintaining, equipping, administering, and operating the law library at the courthouse of Dallas County. (2) In each criminal or quasicriminal or civil case or any other proceeding filed in, arising in, or brought by appeal, on certiorari or otherwise in the Circuit Court, District Court, or Small Claims Court of Dallas County, there shall be taxed as part of the costs the sum of six dollars ($6) to be designated as a law library fee. (3) Such fees when collected by the clerks or other collecting officers of such courts shall be paid to the treasurer or depository of Dallas County for the deposit in the county treasury in a separate account to be designated the Dallas County Law Library Fund. (b)(l) There is created a board to administer the Dallas County Law...
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12-18-150
Section 12-18-150 (Effective November 8, 2016, subject to contingencies) Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ACCUMULATED CONTRIBUTIONS. The sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member credited to his or her individual account in the Judges' and Clerks' Plan, together with regular interest thereon. (2) ACTUARIAL EQUIVALENT. A benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted by the Board of Control and regular interest. (3) ANNUITY. Payments for life derived from the accumulated contributions of a member. All annuities shall be payable in equal monthly installments. (4) AVERAGE FINAL COMPENSATION. The average annual compensation of a judge or clerk with respect to which he or she had made contributions pursuant to Section 12-18-152 during the five years in his or her last 10 years of membership service for...
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33-18-1
of the ACT Basin, and to share this information among the commission members and with others; (10) To cooperate with appropriate state, federal, and local agencies or any other person in the development, ownership, sponsorship, and operation of water resource facilities in the ACT Basin; provided, however, that the commission shall not own or operate a federally-owned water resource facility unless authorized by the United States Congress; (11) To acquire, receive, hold and convey such personal and real property as may be necessary for the performance of its duties under the compact; provided, however, that nothing in this compact shall be construed as granting the ACT Basin Commission authority to issue bonds or to exercise any right of eminent domain or power of condemnation; (12) To establish and modify an allocation formula for apportioning the surface waters of the ACT Basin among the States of Alabama and Georgia; and (13) To perform all functions required of it by this...
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