45-23A-21
Section 45-23A-21 City council. (a) Notwithstanding any law, whether special, local, general,
or municipal ordinance, to the contrary, pursuant to Civil Action No. 85-T-1332-N, U.S. District
Court for the Middle District Northern Division Federal Court Order, the City of Daleville
in Dale County, shall not designate by place number or by other similar method seats for its
city council. (b) The City Council of the City of Daleville, Alabama, shall consist of five
members elected at large, without designated or numbered places. In the election of members
of the city council, the five candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected
to the council. There shall be no runoff election. In the event of a tie vote for the fifth
highest receiving votes, the winner shall be selected by a majority vote of the newly elected
mayor and council. In the election for members of the city council, each qualified voter shall
be entitled to vote for any number of candidates from one to...
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45-48-83.01
Section 45-48-83.01 Filing and venue of civil and criminal cases. (a) Any civil or criminal
action filed in the district or circuit court in Marshall County, including the juvenile and
family court, after January 1, 2009, for which venue is otherwise appropriate in the county,
may be filed at the Guntersville or Albertville Courthouses, and venue shall be determined
on a countywide basis without regard to any courthouse or division lines. (b) After January
1, 2009, any case filed in district or circuit court in the county, including the juvenile
and family court, may be tried in either courthouse in the county or at another location designated
by the presiding circuit judge. (Act 2008-421, p. 821, § 2.)...
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12-19-10
Section 12-19-10 Local purchasing procedures. In order to facilitate the prompt purchase and
delivery of equipment, clerical office supplies, court forms, stationery and other printed
court supplies, hereinafter referred to as "clerical office supplies," used by and
in the offices of circuit judges, district judges, circuit clerks, district clerks, registers,
court administrators, official court reporters, magistrates and jury commissions, the presiding
circuit judge of each judicial circuit is hereby authorized to administer local purchasing
procedures within such judicial circuit and each county thereof as provided in this section.
(1) Not more than 90 days prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, each circuit judge,
district judge, circuit clerk, district clerk, register, court administrator, official court
reporter, magistrate and each jury commission shall submit to the Administrative Director
of Courts a written estimate of the costs of clerical office supplies anticipated to...
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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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15-16-22
Section 15-16-22 Duty of judge to order examination of defendant in capital cases; observation
and examination of defendant by commission on lunacy; report by commission; order of clerk
of court; expenses of removal of defendant. (a) Whenever it shall be made known to the presiding
judge of a court by which an indictment has been returned against a defendant for a capital
offense, that there is reasonable ground to believe that such defendant may presently lack
the capacity to proceed or continue to trial, as defined in Section 22-52-30, or whenever
said judge receives notice that the defense of said defendant may proceed on the basis of
mental disease or defect as a defense to criminal responsibility; it shall be the duty of
the presiding judge to forthwith order that such defendant be committed to the Department
of Mental Health and Mental Retardation for examination by one or more mental health professionals
appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Mental...
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31-2-52
Section 31-2-52 Commander in Chief - Powers and duties generally. (a) The Governor of Alabama,
as Commander in Chief, shall have power and is hereby authorized and directed to alter, increase,
divide, annex, consolidate, disband, organize, or reorganize any organization, department,
or unit, so as to conform as far as practicable to any organization, system, drill, instruction,
type of uniform or equipment, or period of enlistment now or hereafter prescribed by the laws
of the United States and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Secretary of
Defense for the organization, armament, training, and discipline of the militia or National
Guard, or by the Secretary of the Navy for the organization, armament, training, and discipline
of the Naval Militia. For that purpose, the number of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted
men of any grade in any organization, corps, detachment, headquarters, or staff may be increased
or diminished and the grade and number of such...
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35-6-122
Section 35-6-122 Trial by jury. Either party shall be entitled to a trial by jury, on demand
made therefor at any time before the hearing, and the jury shall decide the facts under the
charge of the judge. When a jury is demanded, the court shall order the sheriff to summon
12 men, or, by agreement of the parties, any less number, competent to serve as jurors; and
the mode of swearing, impaneling, challenging, and supplying the places of jurors shall be
the same, so far as practicable, as in the circuit court, on the trial of civil actions. (Code
1876, §3531; Code 1886, §3277; Code 1896, §3202; Code 1907, §5248; Code 1923, §9352;
Code 1940, T. 47, §245.)...
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36-11-4
Section 36-11-4 Duty of Attorney General and district attorneys to institute and prosecute
impeachment proceedings. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute proceedings
under this chapter and prosecute the same against any officer included in Section 174, Article
7, of the constitution, when the Supreme Court shall so order or when the Governor shall,
in writing, direct the same or when it appears from the report of any grand jury that any
such officer ought to be removed from office, for any cause mentioned in this chapter. It
shall be the duty of the district attorney to institute proceedings under this chapter and
prosecute the same against any officer included in Section 175, Article 7, of the constitution
when the circuit court of the county shall so order or when the Governor, in writing, shall
direct the same or whenever it appears from the report of the grand jury that any such officer
ought to be removed from office for any cause mentioned in this chapter....
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39-7-5
Section 39-7-5 Summary proceedings for review, etc., of sufficiency of petition. The probate
or circuit court or any judge thereof within the county shall have summary jurisdiction upon
complaint of an elector to determine the sufficiency of the petition and shall make such order
as justice may require as to such sufficiency. Such summary proceeding shall be instituted
within 10 days after the petition is filed with the clerk or probate judge. (Acts 1935, No.
40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, §21.)...
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45-39-81.02
Section 45-39-81.02 Additional court costs - District court cases. (a) In addition to any court
costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Lauderdale County, an additional fee of four
dollars ($4) shall be charged and collected by the clerk of the court on each district court
case in the county in order to further provide for the protection and welfare of children
in Lauderdale County who are alleged to be or have been found by the juvenile court of the
county to be abused or neglected or otherwise dependent pursuant to Section 12-51-1. (b) The
clerk of the court shall collect the fee in the same manner as other costs in district court
and shall remit the fee to the Child Protection Fund in the county treasury to be administered
by the Presiding Juvenile Judge of Lauderdale County. Any money distributed from the Child
Protection Fund shall be used for the Court Appointed Special Advocate Program and as approved
by the Presiding Juvenile Judge of Lauderdale County. (Act 2003-162, p....
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