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12-19-150
Section 12-19-150 Legislative intent; assessment of fees in criminal cases; submission of cost
bill by municipal or district court clerk and making of final assessment of costs in circuit
court upon appeals from municipal or district courts to circuit courts. (a) It is hereby declared
to be the policy of the state that docket fees and other court costs in criminal cases shall
generally be assessed only upon conviction. It is further declared to be the policy of the
state that a creditor shall not use the criminal process in order to collect civil debts.
The state does recognize that situations will arise from time to time wherein justice may
best be served by allowing a judge to enter an order dismissing a case upon the payment of
costs by the defendant or by the complainant where the judge has determined that the criminal
process has been abused. (b) Docket fees and other court costs in criminal cases shall be
assessed upon conviction; provided that, in the interest of justice,...
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28-4-285
Section 28-4-285 Conveyances, vehicles of transportation or animals used for illegal conveyance
of prohibited liquors and beverages declared contraband and forfeited to state; seizure of
said conveyances, etc., and reporting thereof by sheriffs, etc., finding same; confiscation
and condemnation generally. All conveyances and vehicles of transportation of any kind, whether
on the waters of the state, under the waters, on land or in the air, including any animals
that may be used in such transportation, whether hitched or not hitched to any vehicle so
illegally used, together with all harness and other accessories employed in such illegal transportation,
which have been or are used for the illegal conveying of any prohibited liquors or beverages
into this state or from one point in the state to another point within the state shall be
contraband and shall be forfeited to the State of Alabama, and shall be seized by any sheriff
or any other person acting under authority of law in the...
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34-30-5
Section 34-30-5 Disciplinary proceedings - Procedure. The following procedure will apply to
revocation and suspension hearings and to judicial review of these hearings: (1) Hearings
are to be conducted by a five-person panel of the Board of Social Work Examiners with recommended
decisions to be by majority vote of the panel. (2) Reasonable notice (20 days' minimum) of
charges to be served personally or by registered mail. (3) Stenographic record of proceedings.
(4) A person licensed under this chapter whose license is subject to suspension or revocation
is entitled to: a. The presence of counsel at the hearing at his expense; b. The right to
cross-examination of witnesses; c. The right to call witnesses on his or her own behalf; and
d. The right to subpoena witnesses and documents. (5) Any person affected by the action of
the board in refusing his or her application or suspending or revoking his or her license,
or any other action of the board, may appeal the action of the board by...
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15-25-3
Section 15-25-3 Prosecution for physical or sexual offense or exploitation involving child
under age 16 - Use of closed circuit equipment; competence of victim as witness. (a) In those
criminal prosecutions set out in Section 15-25-1, the court, on motion of the state or the
defendant prior to the trial of the case, may order that the testimony of any alleged victim
of the crime or witness thereto who is under the age of 16 at the time of the order shall
be viewed and heard at trial by the court and the finder of fact by closed circuit equipment.
In ruling on the motion the court shall take into consideration those matters set out in Section
15-25-2. (b) If the court orders that the victim's or witness's testimony in court shall be
by closed circuit equipment, the testimony shall be taken outside the courtroom in the judge's
chambers or in another suitable location designated by the judge. (c) Examination and cross-examination
of the alleged child victim or witness shall proceed as...
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15-9-81
Section 15-9-81 Adoption and text of agreement on detainers. The agreement on detainers is
hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all jurisdictions
legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows: AGREEMENT ON DETAINERS The
contracting states solemnly agree that: Article I. The party states find that charges outstanding
against a prisoner, detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints and
difficulties in securing speedy trial of persons already incarcerated in other jurisdictions,
produce uncertainties which obstruct programs of prisoner treatment and rehabilitation. Accordingly,
it is the policy of the party states and the purpose of this agreement to encourage the expeditious
and orderly disposition of such charges and determination of the proper status of any and
all detainers based on untried indictments, informations or complaints. The party states also
find that proceedings with reference to such charges...
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2-11-38
Section 2-11-38 Proceedings for enforcement of provisions of chapter and rules or regulations
promulgated thereunder generally. (a) It shall be the duty of each district attorney to whom
any violation is reported to cause appropriate proceedings to be instituted and prosecuted
in a court of competent jurisdiction without delay. Before the commissioner reports a violation
for such prosecution, an opportunity shall be given the distributor or other affected person
to present his view to the commissioner. (b) The commissioner is hereby authorized to apply
for and the court to grant a temporary restraining order or permanent injunction restraining
any person from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this article or
any rule or regulation promulgated under this article, notwithstanding the existence of other
remedies at law. Said injunction shall be issued without bond. (c) Nothing in this article
shall be construed as requiring the commissioner to report for...
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24-9-8
Section 24-9-8 Quiet title and foreclosure action. (a) The authority may initiate a quiet title
action under this section to quiet title to real property held by the authority or interests
in tax delinquent property held by the authority by recording with the office of the judge
of probate in the county in which the property subject to quiet title action is located a
notice of pending quiet title action. The notice shall include the name of the taxpayer whose
interest was affected by the tax sale; the name of any other party as revealed by a search
and examination of the title to the property who may claim an interest in the property; a
legal description of the property; the street address of the property if available; the name,
address, and telephone number of the authority; a statement that the property is subject to
the quiet title proceedings under Act 2013-249; and a statement that any legal interests in
the property may be extinguished by a circuit court order vesting title to...
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45-28-81.01
Section 45-28-81.01 Incarceration in Etowah County Jail. (a) In Etowah County, additional court
costs in the amount of five dollars ($5) per day shall be assessed and collected against each
person incarcerated or booked in the Etowah County Jail. The court costs assessed pursuant
to this section shall be in addition to any other court costs or other costs and charges imposed
on persons incarcerated or booked in the Etowah County Jail. (b) The court costs imposed by
this section shall be assessed against a defendant upon conviction by the appropriate court
where the defendant is convicted. The sheriff shall be required to notify the appropriate
court clerk on a regular basis of the exact amount of the assessment to be collected for entry
on the docket sheet. (c) The revenues derived from the court costs shall be credited on a
monthly basis to a law enforcement fund to be used by the Sheriff of Etowah County for equipment
and professional development of the sheriff's department in the...
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45-49-170.22
Section 45-49-170.22 Investigations; impounding; judicial determination. (a) An animal control
officer or law enforcement officer of Mobile County shall investigate any incidents involving
any dog reported to be dangerous or a nuisance in the unincorporated areas of Mobile County.
(b) If a dog, which is unowned and has been reported to be dangerous, bites a person, the
dog may be quarantined and destroyed pursuant to subsection of Section 3-7A-9. For purposes
of this subsection, bites means the same as has been exposed as defined in subdivision (5)
of Section 3-7A-1. (c) If there is probable cause to believe that an owned dog is dangerous
or a nuisance and has caused serious physical injury or has caused damage to real or personal
property, the law enforcement officer or animal control officer shall impound the dog pending
disposition of a petition to declare a dog to be dangerous or a nuisance. The county may impound
the dog at the county pound as described in Section 3-7A-7, or may...
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8-6-18
Section 8-6-18 Criminal penalties for violations of article; enforcement; scienter. (a) A person
who willfully violates Section 8-6-3 or Section 8-6-4, upon conviction, shall be guilty of
a Class C felony. A person that willfully violates subsection (a), (b), or (c) of Section
8-6-17, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a Class B felony. The limitations period for any
prosecution under this section does not commence or begin to accrue until the discovery of
the facts constituting the deception, after which the prosecution shall be commenced within
five years. (b) A person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter, other than
those noted in subsection (a), or a rule adopted or order issued under this chapter, upon
conviction, shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (c) The enforcement of the provisions
of this article shall be vested in the commission. It shall be the duty of the commission
to see that its provisions are at all times obeyed and to take such measures and to...
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