13A-3-27
Section 13A-3-27 Use of force in making an arrest or preventing an escape. (a) A peace officer is justified in using that degree of physical force which he reasonably believes to be necessary, upon a person in order: (1) To make an arrest for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance, or to prevent the escape from custody of a person arrested for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance, unless the peace officer knows that the arrest is unauthorized; or (2) To defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of physical force while making or attempting to make an arrest for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance, or while preventing or attempting to prevent an escape from custody of a person who has been legally arrested for a misdemeanor, violation or violation of a criminal ordinance. (b) A peace officer is justified in using deadly physical force upon another person when...
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15-22-33
Section 15-22-33 Discharge from parole; relief from reports; permission to leave state or county. No person released on parole shall be discharged from parole prior to the expiration of the full maximum term for which he or she was sentenced unless the Board of Pardons and Paroles chooses to discharge the parolee earlier based on review of the parolee under guidelines established pursuant to subdivision (6) of subsection (b) of Section 15-22-37 and the parolee was not convicted of a violent offense, as defined in Section 12-25-32, or a violation of Section 13A-8-2.1. The Board of Pardons and Paroles, however, may relieve a prisoner on parole from making further reports and may permit such prisoner to leave the state or county if satisfied that this is for the best interests of society. (Acts 1939, No. 275, p. 426; Code 1940, T. 42, §13; Acts 1951, No. 599, p. 1030; Act 2015-185, p. 476, §3; Act 2019-513, §2.)...
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15-5-50
Section 15-5-50 Warrant for tracking device installation; requirements; procedures. (a) Any circuit or district court judge in this state is authorized to issue a warrant to install a tracking device. The term tracking device means an electronic or mechanical device which permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object. (b) Upon the written application, under oath, of any law enforcement officer as defined in Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure 1.4, district attorney, or Attorney General of the state, including assistant and deputy district attorneys and assistant and deputy attorneys general, any authorized judge may issue a warrant for the installation, retrieval, maintenance, repair, use, or monitoring of a tracking device. The warrant application shall do all of the following: (1) State facts sufficient to show probable cause that a crime is being, has been, or is about to be committed in the jurisdiction of the issuing judge. (2) Identify the person, if reasonably...
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27-31A-5
Section 27-31A-5 Compulsory associations. (a) No risk retention group shall be required or permitted to join or contribute financially to any insurance insolvency guaranty fund, or similar mechanism, in this state, nor shall any risk retention group, or its insureds, or claimants against its insureds, receive any benefit from any fund for claims arising under the insurance policies issued by that risk retention group. (b) When a purchasing group obtains insurance covering its members' risks from an insurer, not authorized in this state or a risk retention group, no risk, wherever resident or located, shall be covered by any insurance guaranty fund or similar mechanism in this state. (c) When a purchasing group obtains insurance covering its members' risks from an authorized insurer, only risks resident or located in this state shall be covered by the Alabama Insurance Guaranty Association, subject to Chapter 42 (commencing with Section 27-42-1), Title 27. (d) Notwithstanding Article 2...
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32-5A-195
Section 32-5A-195 Cancellation, suspension, or revocation of driver's license; grounds, procedure, etc. (a) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is authorized to cancel any driver's license upon determining that the licensee was not entitled to the issuance thereof or that the licensee failed to give the correct or required information in his or her application. Upon such cancellation, the licensee must surrender the license so cancelled. If the licensee refuses to surrender the license, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state given to a nonresident shall be subject to suspension or revocation by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency in like manner and for like cause as a driver's license issued may be suspended or revoked. (c) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is further authorized, upon receiving a record of the conviction in this state of a...
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36-13-11
Section 36-13-11 Retirement allowance for former governors. (a) All former governors of the State of Alabama upon reaching the age of 60 shall be entitled to a monthly retirement payment out of the General Fund in the State Treasury which shall equal 68 percent of the Governor's salary if said former governor had served for one full term or less; the amount paid shall equal 100 percent of the Governor's salary if he has served two full terms or more. (b) All former governors of the State of Alabama, regardless of age, who sustain permanent total physical or mental disability during their terms of office, by accident or otherwise, shall be entitled to their full salary for life upon leaving office. (c) Said payments shall be paid out of the General Fund in the State Treasury on a monthly basis each and every month once a former governor becomes eligible for such payments. A former governor eligible for compensation under subsection (b) of this section shall not receive payment under...
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45-20-231
Section 45-20-231 Jail concessions; concession fund. (a) The Sheriff of Covington County may operate a jail concession. The sheriff, sheriffs deputies, or agents or employees of the sheriff, or any combination of these persons, may sell soft drinks, cigarettes, personal items, and other concession items to county prisoners and state prisoners in county custody. The sheriff shall be responsible for the operation of the concession. (b)(1) The sheriff shall establish and maintain a concession fund in a bank licensed to do business in the state. All monies collected under this section shall be deposited by the sheriff into the concession fund. (2) The sheriff shall keep an account of all concession sales and transactions of the concession fund for annual audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The concession account and fund shall be audited at the same time other accounts of the sheriff are audited. The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts shall submit a copy of the...
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45-34-232
Section 45-34-232 Jail concession ; disposition of funds. (a) The Sheriff of Henry County may operate a jail concession. The sheriff, sheriff's deputies, or agents or employees of the sheriff, or any combination of these persons, may sell soft drinks, cigarettes, personal items, and other concession items to county prisoners and state prisoners in county custody. The sheriff shall be responsible for the operation of the concession. (b)(1) The sheriff shall establish and maintain a concession fund in a bank licensed to do business in the state. All monies collected under this section shall be deposited by the sheriff into the concession fund. (2) The sheriff shall keep an account of all concession sales and transactions of the concession fund for annual audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The concession account and fund shall be audited at the same time other accounts of the sheriff are audited. The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts shall submit a copy of...
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14-3-38
Section 14-3-38 How sentences to be served on two or more convictions; effect of convict's conduct thereon. (a) When a convict is sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary on two or more convictions, unless it is specifically ordered in the judgment entry that such sentences be served concurrently, such sentences shall be cumulative and shall be served consecutively, the first term thereof beginning to run from the date on which such prisoner is received at the penitentiary, reformatory or jail for service of the sentence or at some place of detention to await transportation to the place where his sentences are to be served and his second and subsequent terms, each, beginning on the expiration of the preceding term. When the judgment sentence contains a fixed order that the term shall run concurrently, such sentences shall run concurrently from the date on which such convict is received for serving of the sentences as prescribed above. (b) In case the prison record of a convict...
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14-4-9
Section 14-4-9 Sentencing of convicts - How sentence served on two or more convictions; effect of convict's conduct thereon. (a) When a convict is sentenced on two or more convictions, unless specifically ordered in the judgment entry that such sentences shall run concurrently, such sentences shall be cumulative and such terms and imprisonments shall be served consecutively, the first term thereof beginning to run from the date such convict is received at the county jail or other place of confinement for the service of his sentences, the second and subsequent terms each beginning on the expiration of the preceding term. When it is specifically ordered in the judgment entry that sentences shall run concurrently, such sentences shall run from the date on which such convict is received at the county jail or other place of confinement for service of the sentence. However no person shall be sentenced to hard labor for the county so that the aggregate of the sentences on two or more...
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