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17-12-24
Section 17-12-24 Penalty for failure to make returns. If any officer required to make returns
of any election to the Secretary of State or to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
fails to make such returns within the time prescribed, he or she forfeits to the state five
hundred dollars ($500), recoverable by motion to be made by the district attorney of the proper
circuit, in the name of the state in the circuit court of the county of such officer required
to make the returns, upon three days' notice of such motion; and the certificate of the Secretary
of State or of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, setting forth
that such return has not been received is presumptive evidence of the failure of such officer
to make such return. (Code 1852, §357; Code 1867, §406; Code 1876, §3372; Code 1886, §448;
Code 1896, §1665; Code 1907, §433; Code 1923, §523; Code 1940, T. 17, §207; §17-14-26;
amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §56.)...
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41-21-6
Section 41-21-6 Taking of receipts from officers, etc., to whom sets of code distributed; maintenance
by Secretary of State of record book as to distribution of sets of code. It shall be the duty
of the Secretary of State to take receipts from each public official of the state and of the
several counties to whom he distributes sets of said annotated code. And, in the event that
the Secretary of State shall transmit sets for the use of all of the officers of a county
to one officer of the county for distribution to the several officers in said county entitled
thereto, the officer making such distribution shall take receipts from the officers, agents
or employees in said county to whom he distributes said sets, showing the number of sets distributed
and the date of distribution, which said receipts must be witnessed by the officer distributing
the same, and said receipts shall forthwith be sent by registered mail to the office of the
Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall...
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17-1-2
Section 17-1-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall have
the definitions ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING BOARD. In all elections the appointing board
consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and sheriff of the county. (2) BALLOT. The
term includes paper ballots and electronic ballots. (3) BALLOT CONFIGURATION. The particular
combination and arrangement of offices, candidates, and questions for a precinct or subdivision
thereof. (4) BEAT. Has the same meaning as precinct. (5) BOX. The voting place in a precinct
or subdivision of a precinct for voting purposes. (6) CANVASSING BOARD. In all elections except
primary elections, the canvassing board consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and
sheriff of the county. In primary elections, the county executive committee of the party is
the canvassing board for the primary of the party. (7) CENSUS BUREAU. The Bureau of the Census
of the United States Department of Commerce, or any successor...
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17-16-40
Section 17-16-40 Grounds of contest. The election of any person declared elected to the office
of Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Commissioner of Agriculture
and Industries, Public Service Commissioner, senator or representative in the Legislature,
justices of the Supreme Court, judges of the courts of appeals, judge of the circuit court
or district court, or any office which is filled by the vote of a single county, or to the
office of constable may be contested by any person who was at the time of either of the elections
a qualified elector for any of the following causes: (1) Malconduct, fraud, or corruption
on the part of any inspector, clerk, returning officer, canvassing board, or other person.
(2) When the person whose election to office is contested was not eligible thereto at the
time of such election. (3) On account of illegal votes. (4) On account of the rejection of
legal votes. (5) Offers to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or other...
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17-4-2
Section 17-4-2 State voter registration lists. The board of registrars, when registration is
closed before a primary, general, or special election, shall certify to the Secretary of State
any additions, deletions, corrections, or changes to the state voter registration list. Except
as provided in Section 17-4-2.1, after registration has closed and within the 10-day period
before an election, the judge of probate and municipal election officials shall prepare and
print a report from the state voter registration list of the correct alphabetical lists of
the qualified electors registered by precincts, districts, or subdivisions of a precinct where
the precinct has been divided or subdivided, if not within a city or incorporated town, and
by wards and other subdivisions, if within a city or incorporated town, and no others. An
electronic archive in the database for the state voter registration list shall be recorded
simultaneously with the printing of each county's list of qualified...
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17-12-16
Section 17-12-16 Certification of results. Immediately after ascertaining the results of an
election for county officers, including members of the House of Representatives of the Legislature,
the canvassing board must make in writing a public certification of the result, stating the
name of each officer elected and the office to which elected. The certification must be signed
by at least two of the members of the canvassing board and must be published by filing the
original in the office of the judge of probate, by posting a copy thereof at the courthouse
door, and by immediately transmitting a copy to the Secretary of State by fax or electronic
transmission. The original certificate shall be recorded by the judge of probate in a book
to be provided for the purpose; and the record, or a duly certified copy thereof, shall constitute
prima facie evidence of the result of the election and the certification thereof as provided
by law. (Code 1876, §292; Code 1886, §388; Code 1896, §1645;...
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40-3-20
Section 40-3-20 Publication of notice of valuation of property. Immediately upon the completion
of the work of reviewing and adjusting assessed valuation under the provisions of this chapter,
the assessing official shall give notice by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks
in a newspaper published in the county. If no newspaper is published in the county, the notices
shall be posted in three public places in each precinct of the county. The notices shall state
that the assessed valuations of all property listed for taxation have been fixed as provided
by law, that the tax return lists showing the assessed valuations are in his or her office
and open for public inspection, that the board of equalization will sit at the courthouse
of the county on the date specified by the Department of Revenue to consider any protests
that may be filed by any taxpayer as herein provided, and that any taxpayer, who is not satisfied
with the valuations of his or her property as fixed and...
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40-10-4
Section 40-10-4 Notice to taxpayer - Service generally. (a) On receiving such book, as speedily
as practicable the judge of probate shall issue a notice addressed to each person against
whom any unpaid taxes are assessed as shown by such book, substantially in the following form:
"State of Alabama, (give name of county) county, to (give name of taxpayer): The tax
collector has filed in my office a list of delinquent taxpayers, and of real estate upon which
taxes are due. You are reported as delinquent, and your tax amounts to (here give amount of
taxes) with costs added. This is to notify you to appear before the probate court of said
county at the next term thereof, commencing on Monday, the _____ day of _____, 2__, then and
there to show cause, if any you have, why a decree for the sale of property assessed for taxation
as belonging to you should not be made for the payment of the taxes thereon and fees and costs.
(Here probate judge's signature). Judge of probate." Such notice must...
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40-2-16
Section 40-2-16 Equalization of valuation generally. It shall be the duty of the Department
of Revenue to examine such of the tax records of the several counties as will enable it to
ascertain whether the tax valuation of the various classes of property as made in the respective
counties of the state, is reasonably uniform as between the respective counties and is in
proportion to the fair and reasonable market value of the property assessed. The purpose and
intent of this title is to bring about as far as practicable an equalization throughout the
state of the value of the various classes of property subject to taxation, so that the proportion
of the fair and reasonable market value of the property as fixed for assessment in one county
shall be in due proportion to the fair and reasonable market value of the same classes of
property in other counties, fixed on the same basis for assessment, and that such classes
of property in every county shall bear their proportion of the tax...
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36-15-1
Section 36-15-1 Duties generally. The Attorney General shall keep his or her office at the
capital city and perform the following duties: (1)a. He or she shall give his or her opinion
in writing, or otherwise, on any question of law connected with the interests of the state
or with the duties of any of the departments, when required by the Governor, Secretary of
State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Education, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
Director of Finance, Comptroller, State Health Officer, Public Service Commissioners, Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources, or the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue or
any other officer or department of the state when it is made, by law, his or her duty so to
do, and he or she shall also give his or her opinion to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
of either house, when required, upon any matter under the consideration of the committee.
b. The Attorney General shall give his or her opinion, in writing...
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