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15-13-107
Section 15-13-107 Who may or shall accept, take, and approve bail and under what circumstances.
(a) Judges of any court within the State of Alabama may accept, take, and approve bail within
the jurisdiction of their respective courts. (b) Circuit, district, and municipal court clerks,
including magistrates, may accept, take, and approve bail within the jurisdiction of their
respective courts. (c) Only judicial officers and circuit, district, and municipal court clerks
or a designee of the court may accept and approve appeal bonds and cash bonds. Provided, however,
that any person designated by the court to receive cash bonds, shall be bonded to receive
court moneys and have the written approval of their chief administrative officer. Clerks of
the courts of Alabama may delegate to their employees the right to accept and approve appeal
bonds and cash bonds. (d) Sheriffs of the state and chiefs of police having custody of a defendant
may accept, take, and approve property or professional...
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15-13-152
Section 15-13-152 Qualification for property bail. The qualifications for property bail are
that each surety be a resident of the state, and an owner of real property therein, and that
any property pledged shall be worth, exclusive of all encumbrances and homestead exemptions
presently against the property, the amount expressed in the appearance bond. Any proper approving
officer, in approving property bail, may allow more than one person to justify severally as
bail in amounts less than that expressed in the appearance bond, provided the whole be equivalent
to the amount in the appearance bond. The worth shall not be determined by the assessed value
of the property but shall be calculated, determined, and evaluated in the manner set forth
in the affidavit described in part (A) of this section. If the property owner(s) claim a homestead
exemption in the affidavit then they shall also execute the waiver of a homestead exemption
form as provided in part (B) below. The affidavit shall be...
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32-1-5
Section 32-1-5 Depositing driver's license in lieu of bail in certain cases - Procedure. (a)
Whenever any person lawfully possessed of a chauffeur's or driver's license theretofore issued
to him or her by the Department of Public Safety of the State of Alabama, or under the laws
of any other state or territory, or the District of Columbia of the United States, shall be
arrested and charged with any violation of the provisions of this title for which under the
provisions of Sections 32-1-4 and 32-5-36 the arresting officer is directed to take a written
bond, he or she shall have the option of depositing his or her chauffeur's or driver's license
so issued to him or her with the arresting officer or the court, in lieu of any other security
which may be required for his appearance in any court in this state in answer to such charge
lodged in such court. (b) If such person arrested elects to deposit his or her license as
provided, the arresting officer or court shall issue such person a...
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15-6-40
Section 15-6-40 Appeal to circuit court; form of undertaking on appeal. (a) Any person required
to keep the peace under the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter by any judge other than
a judge of an appellate or circuit court is entitled, on entering into an undertaking with
sufficient sureties in a sum equal to that required of him to keep the peace for the prosecution
of an appeal and in the meantime to keep the peace, to an appeal to the circuit court of the
county. The judge from whose order the appeal is taken may require such witnesses as he thinks
necessary to enter into an undertaking, in the sum of $100.00 each, to appear at such court.
(b) Any person committed to jail by any such judge for failing to give security to keep the
peace may appeal to the circuit court and may thereupon be discharged from custody on giving
bond with surety, in such penalty as the judge may prescribe, conditioned for his appearance
at such court and to keep the peace towards all the people of the...
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15-23-60
Section 15-23-60 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) ACCUSED. A person who has been arrested for committing a criminal offense and
who is held for an initial appearance or other proceeding before trial. (2) APPELLATE PROCEEDING.
An oral argument held in open court before the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, the Supreme
Court of Alabama, a federal court of appeals, or the United States Supreme Court. (3) ARREST.
The actual custodial restraint of a person or his or her submission to custody. (4) COMMUNITY
STATUS. Extension of the limits of the places of confinement of a prisoner through work release,
supervised intensive restitution (SIR), and initial consideration of pre-discretionary leave,
passes, and furloughs. (5) COURT. All state courts including juvenile courts. (6) CRIME VICTIM
ADVOCATE. A person who is employed or authorized by a public entity or a private entity that
receives public funding primarily to provide...
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45-49-83.41
Section 45-49-83.41 Creation; procedures; collection and distribution of funds; enforcement.
The District Attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a Recovery
Unit of the Special Services Division. The district attorney, after electing to establish
the unit, shall assign sufficient staff and resources to effectively operate the unit. The
recovery unit shall be created for the purpose of the administration, collection, and enforcement
of court costs, fines, fines for failure to appear in court, victim compensation assessments,
bail bond forfeitures, restitution, or other payments which are ordered in any criminal proceeding,
quasi-criminal, or any other court proceeding by any court including, but not limited to,
municipal courts, district courts, and circuit courts payable to the state, the county, to
any municipality, or town within the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, to any crime victim on any
court order or judgment entered which has not been otherwise...
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12-1-11
Section 12-1-11 Appeal to appellate court by attorney or officer from judgment of contempt.
Any attorney or officer who is ordered to be punished for a contempt in the circuit court
may appeal to the appropriate appellate court and may stay the execution of any fine or sentence
imposed by the execution of a bond, payable to the state, with two sufficient sureties, to
be approved by the tribunal appealed from, in a penalty to be fixed by said tribunal, not
exceeding $300.00, conditioned to pay the fine and costs, in case of affirmance in whole or
in part. The appellant shall be entitled to bail in such cases upon the execution of an appearance
bond, with two or more such sureties, in the penalty of $300.00, payable to the state, conditioned
to appear in the court to which his appeal is prosecuted and to abide the result of such appeal,
which maybe approved by the sheriff or other officer in whose custody the appellant may be.
On such appeal the question shall be whether the appellant...
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32-6-31
Section 32-6-31 Terms of compact. The Driver License Compact is hereby enacted into law and
entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially
as follows: Driver License Compact Article I Findings and Declaration of Policy (a) The party
states find that: (1) The safety of their streets and highways is materially affected by the
degree of compliance with state and local ordinances relating to the operation of motor vehicles.
(2) Violation of such a law or ordinance is evidence that the violator engages in conduct
which is likely to endanger the safety of persons and property. (3) The continuance in force
of a license to drive is predicated upon compliance with laws and ordinances relating to the
operation of motor vehicles, in whichever jurisdiction the vehicle is operated. (b) It is
the policy of each of the party states to: (1) Promote compliance with the laws, ordinances
and administrative rules and regulations relating to the operation of...
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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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45-37A-331.02
Section 45-37A-331.02 Definitions. As used in this part, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) CITY. The City of Midfield, Alabama. (2) CIVIL FINE. The monetary
amount assessed by the city pursuant to this part for an adjudication of civil liability for
a traffic signal violation, including municipal court costs associated with the infraction.
(3) CIVIL VIOLATION. There is hereby created a noncriminal category of state law called a
civil violation created and existing for the sole purpose of carrying out the terms of this
part. The penalty for violation of a civil violation shall be the payment of a civil fine,
the enforceability of which shall be accomplished through civil action. The prosecution of
a civil violation created hereby shall carry reduced evidentiary requirements and burden of
proof as set out in Section 45-37A-331.05, and in no event shall an adjudication of liability
for a civil violation be punishable by a criminal fine or imprisonment. (4) COUNTY....
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