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32-9-3
Section 32-9-3 Enforcement of chapter. Any peace officer, including sheriffs and their deputies,
constables and their deputies, police officers and marshals of cities or incorporated towns,
county police or patrols, state or county license inspectors and their deputies, state troopers
and special officers appointed by any agency of the State of Alabama for the enforcement of
its laws relating to motor vehicles, now existing or hereafter enacted, shall be authorized,
and it is hereby made the duty of each of them to enforce the provisions of this chapter and
to make arrests for any violation or violations thereof, without warrant, if the offense is
committed in his or her presence, and with warrant if he or she does not observe the commission
of the offense. If the arrest is made without warrant, the accused may elect to be immediately
taken before the nearest court having jurisdiction, whereupon it shall be the duty of the
officer to so take him or her. If the accused elects not to be...
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12-14-70
Section 12-14-70 Appeals to circuit courts from judgments of municipal courts and proceedings
thereon. (a) All appeals from judgments of municipal courts shall be to the circuit court
of the circuit in which the violation occurred for trial de novo. (b) The municipality may
appeal within 60 days, without bond, from a judgment of the municipal court holding an ordinance
invalid. (c) A defendant may appeal in any case within 14 days from the entry of judgment
by filing notice of appeal and giving bond, with or without surety, approved by the court
or the clerk in an amount not more than twice the amount of the fine and costs, as fixed by
the court, or in the event no fine is levied the bond shall be in an amount not to exceed
$1,000.00, as fixed by the court, conditioned upon the defendant's appearance before the circuit
court. The municipal court may waive appearance bond upon satisfactory showing that the defendant
is indigent or otherwise unable to provide a surety bond. If an appeal...
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12-17-251
Section 12-17-251 Magistrates deemed chief officers of agency; appointment and powers of magistrates.
(a) The magistrates shall be considered the chief officers of such administrative agency,
subject to the administrative direction of the clerk of the district court. (b) The Supreme
Court may, by rule, prescribe procedures for the appointment of magistrates by class or position.
In addition thereto, the Supreme Court may provide for the appointment of other magistrates
by the Administrative Director of Courts, upon recommendation and nomination by the judge
or judges and the clerk of the district court under whom such magistrates are to serve. (c)
The powers of a magistrate shall be limited to: (1) Issuance of arrest warrants and, where
such magistrate is licensed to practice law in Alabama or was serving as a full-time magistrate
or warrant clerk on September 1, 1976, and who continued in such capacity as a merit system
employee in the district court, search warrants; (2) Granting of...
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13A-11-161
Section 13A-11-161 Publication of certain documents considered privileged. The publication
of a fair and impartial report of the return of any indictment, the issuance of any warrant,
the arrest of any person for any cause or the filing of any affidavit, pleading or other document
in any criminal or civil proceeding in any court, or of a fair and impartial report of the
contents thereof, or of any charge of crime made to any judicial officer or body, or of any
report of any grand jury, or of any investigation made by any legislative committee, or other
public body or officer, shall be privileged, unless it be proved that the same was published
with actual malice, or that the defendant has refused or neglected to publish in the same
manner in which the publication complained of appeared, a reasonable explanation or contradiction
thereof by the plaintiff, or that the publisher has refused upon the written request of the
plaintiff to publish the subsequent determination of such suit,...
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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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40-10-140
Section 40-10-140 Certification of sale of lands bid in for state. When lands bid in by the
state have been sold by the state under any of the provisions of this chapter, the Land Commissioner
shall certify to the Comptroller the amount, and the Comptroller shall draw his warrant on
the Treasurer in favor of the judge of probate of the county in which the lands lie for the
county and school taxes and the fees and costs due to the different officers of the county,
specifying each separately; and, if the same cannot be ascertained from the records and papers
in his office, the judge of probate, on notice by the Land Commissioner of such redemption
or sale, must certify the same to him, and the judge of probate, upon the collection of such
warrant, shall pay the same over to the officers entitled thereto or authorized by law to
receive the same. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, ยง323.)...
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15-12-21
Section 15-12-21 Appointment and compensation of counsel - Trial court. (a) If it appears to
the trial court that an indigent defendant is entitled to counsel, that the indigent defendant
does not expressly waive the right to assistance of counsel, and that the indigent defendant
is not able financially or otherwise to obtain the assistance of counsel through another indigent
defense system for the circuit, the court shall appoint counsel to represent and assist the
defendant. It shall be the duty of the appointed counsel, as an officer of the court and as
a member of the bar, to represent and assist the indigent defendant to the best of his or
her ability. (b) If it appears to the trial court in a delinquency case, need of supervision
case, or other judicial proceeding in which a juvenile is a party, that the juvenile is entitled
to counsel and that the juvenile is not able financially or otherwise to obtain the assistance
of counsel or that appointed counsel is otherwise required by...
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9-13-24
Section 9-13-24 Fees of arresting officers, etc.; informers' fees. When an arrest for a violation
of the provisions of the forestry laws is made by a salaried officer or salaried employee
of the State Forestry Commission and the defendant is convicted, there shall be taxed as costs
the same fee as the sheriff in this state is entitled to for similar services and, if collected
from the defendant, shall be immediately remitted by the trial court directly to the State
Forester, and said fee shall be used for the purpose of the administration of the State Forestry
Commission. If the person making the arrest shall be a nonsalaried officer or not an employee
of the State Forestry Commission and if said fee is collected from the defendant, such person
shall be entitled to said fee and shall receive in addition thereto an informer's fee of one-half
the fine in each case where the information furnished by him results in a conviction and the
fine is collected and paid into court; provided,...
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15-12-25
Section 15-12-25 Reimbursement of fees of court appointed counsel by defendant; default. (a)(1)
A court may require a convicted defendant to pay the fees of court appointed counsel. Fees
of court appointed counsel for the purposes of this section, shall mean any attorney's fees
and expenses paid an appointed counsel, contract counsel, or public defender. (2) The court
shall not order a defendant to pay the fees of court appointed counsel unless the defendant
is or will be able to pay them. In determining the amount and method of payment of these fees,
the court shall take into account the financial resources of the defendant and the nature
of the burden that payment of the fees will impose. A defendant who has been ordered to pay
the fees of court appointed counsel and who is not in contumacious default in the payment
thereof may at any time petition the court which sentenced him or her for remission of the
payment of these fees or of any unpaid portion thereof. If it appears to the...
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28-3-14
Section 28-3-14 Procedure for collection of due and unpaid taxes and penalties imposed by chapter;
lien for taxes and penalties. If any taxes or penalties imposed by this chapter remain due
and unpaid for a period of 10 days, the board shall issue a warrant of execution directed
to any sheriff of the State of Alabama, commanding him to levy upon and sell the real and
personal property of the taxpayer found within his county for the payment of the amount thereof,
with penalties, if any, and the cost of executing the warrant and to return such warrant to
the board and to pay it the money collected by virtue thereof. Upon receipt of such execution,
the sheriff shall file with the clerk of the circuit court of his county a copy thereof and
thereupon the clerk of the circuit court shall enter in his abstract of judgments the name
of the taxpayer mentioned in the warrant and in proper columns the amount of tax with penalties
and costs for which the warrant is issued and the date and hour...
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