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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17-16-76
Section 17-16-76 Execution for costs. After the determination of the contest, the Clerk of the House of Representatives must tax the costs accrued and certify the amount of each separate item, the name of the person entitled thereto, and the result of such contest and the names of the sureties on the bond for contest, to the clerk of the circuit court of Montgomery County, and the clerk must thereupon issue execution against the unsuccessful party, which execution must be made returnable in 30 days after its issue; and alias and pluries executions may be issued as often as may be necessary. And if it be certified that the determination of the contest was against the contestant, the execution must issue against the sureties on the bond for the contest as well as against the contestant. (Code 1896, §1685; Code 1907, §491; Code 1923, §581; Code 1940, T. 17, §267; §17-15-63; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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2-17-19
Section 2-17-19 Condemnation proceedings generally; disposition of condemned animals or articles; payment of costs, fees and expenses, etc. (a) Any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product or poultry food product of any of the animals or birds subject to inspection under this chapter or any such animal or bird that is dead, dying, disabled or diseased that is being transported in intrastate commerce or is held for sale in this state after such transportation and that is or has been prepared, sold, transported or otherwise distributed or offered or received for distribution in violation of this chapter or is capable of use as human food and is adulterated or misbranded or in any other way is in violation of this chapter shall be liable to be proceeded against and seized and condemned at any time by writ of attachment for condemnation in any proper court as provided in Section 2-17-30 within the jurisdiction of which the article or animal is found. Such writ of attachment...
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2-2-31
Section 2-2-31 Seizure and condemnation of adulterated, misbranded or substandard article. Any article, substance, material or product which is subject to the provisions of this article which is adulterated, misbranded or under the standard, grade, weight or measure claimed, within the meaning of any provision of law or rules and regulations under authority of law, and which is manufactured for sale, held in possession with intent to sell, offered or exposed for sale or sold or delivered within this state shall be liable to be proceeded against in the circuit court of the county where the same is found and seized for confiscation by writ of attachment for condemnation. Such writ shall issue upon the sworn complaint of the commissioner or his duly authorized agent, taken by an officer authorized to administer an oath, to the effect that such article or product is adulterated or misbranded or is under the standard, grade, weight or measure claimed, as the case may be, within the meaning...
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27-10-53
Section 27-10-53 Defense of action or proceeding by insurer. (a) Before an unauthorized insurer shall file, or cause to be filed, any pleading in any action or proceeding instituted against it under Sections 27-10-51 and 27-10-52, such insurer shall: (1) Procure a certificate of authority to transact insurance in this state; or (2) Deposit with the clerk of the court in which such action or proceeding is pending cash or securities or file with such clerk a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, in an amount to be fixed by the court sufficient to secure the payment of any final judgment which may be entered in such action. The court may, in its discretion, make an order dispensing with such deposit or bond where the insurer makes a showing satisfactory to the court that it maintains in a state of the United States funds or securities, in trust or otherwise, sufficient and available to satisfy any final judgment which may be entered in such action or...
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27-30-13
Section 27-30-13 Commissioner as agent for process; service of process; notice of change of address. (a) Every mutual aid association, at the time of filing application for its certificate of authority, shall, by a duly executed instrument filed with the commissioner, on a form as designated and furnished by the commissioner, designate the principal office of the association in this state and constitute and appoint the commissioner, and his successors in office, as its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in actions or legal proceedings against it may be served; and the association shall agree that any lawful process against it which may be served upon its said attorney shall be of the same force and validity as if served on the association itself and that the authority thereof shall continue in force irrevocably as long as any liability remains outstanding against it in this state. (b) Two copies of any process issued by any court of record in this state and served...
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45-37-121.19
Section 45-37-121.19 Dismissals, demotions, suspensions, and appeals. (a) An appointing authority may dismiss or demote an employee holding permanent status for just cause whenever he or she considers the good of the service will be served thereby, for reason stated in writing, served on the affected employee, and a copy furnished to the director, which action shall become a public record. The dismissed or demoted employee may within 10 days after notice, appeal from the action of the appointing authority by filing with the board and the appointing authority a written answer to the charges. The board shall order a public hearing of such charges. The hearing shall be before a panel of three attorneys randomly selected by the presiding Judge of Probate of Jefferson County from a list of attorneys who are licensed to practice law in this state and who are otherwise qualified in the opinion of the judge of probate to hear the appeal. The panel shall hear testimony offered in support and...
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6-6-45
Section 6-6-45 Execution of bond by plaintiff; discharge of levy. Such officer must, when the attachment is sued out otherwise than upon the ground that the defendant is a nonresident, further require the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney to execute a bond in double the amount claimed, with sufficient surety, payable to the defendant, with the condition that the plaintiff will prosecute the attachment to effect and pay the defendant all such damages as he may sustain by the wrongful or vexatious suing out of such attachment. When the attachment is sued out upon the ground that the defendant is a nonresident, such officer shall issue the writ with or without a bond being given, as the plaintiff may elect. If such attachment is issued without bond, that fact must be endorsed on the writ. Should the defendant before the return day thereof, in person or through his agent or attorney, make an unqualified appearance in the case, it is the duty of the clerk to issue notice to the plaintiff or...
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6-10-36
Section 6-10-36 Contest of exemption claim - Assessment of value of property and damages resulting from detention on bond; judgment and execution on bond. When bond has been executed by the plaintiff or defendant for the forthcoming of the property in contest, the value of the property, and the damages resulting from its detention must be assessed by the court or jury trying the contest. If the unsuccessful party fails for 20 days after judgment to deliver the property and pay the damages as required by the condition of the bond, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to make due return of that fact; and, upon such return being made, the bond shall have the force and effect of a judgment, and execution may issue thereon against the obligors on the bond for the value of the property and the damages assessed, or either, and costs. (Code 1876, §2836; Code 1886, §2532; Code 1896, §2058; Code 1907, §4185; Code 1923, §7907; Code 1940, T. 7, §650.)...
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8-3-30
Section 8-3-30 When surety on replevy bond may demand collateral security; seizure of property if collateral not given; disposition of seized perishable property. (a) When the principal in any replevy bond is wasting the replevied property or is removing or is about to remove himself or property out of the state, the surety or sureties on the replevy bond may demand of the principal adequate indemnity against loss by collateral security. (b) If such security is not given within five days after demand made, the surety may make affidavit thereof before the clerk of the court in which such bond is filed, setting forth the demand of the principal for collateral security, for some one or more of the causes mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, and that the principal has failed to give security. Thereupon, the clerk must issue a writ directed to the sheriff commanding him to seize the replevied property and hold the same until the decision of the civil action in which it was replevied...
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