15-13-101
Section 15-13-101 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) APPEARANCE BOND. An appearance bond is an undertaking to pay the clerk of the circuit, district, or municipal court, for the use of the State of Alabama or the municipality, a specified sum of money upon the failure of a person released to comply with its conditions. (2) JUDICIAL OFFICER. Any supreme court, appellate court, circuit court, district court, or municipal court judge or any magistrate of any court in this state. (3) PROFESSIONAL BAIL COMPANY. A person, individual proprietor, partnership, corporation, or other entity, other than a professional surety company, that furnishes bail or becomes surety for a person on an appearance bond and does so for a valuable consideration. (4) PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN. An individual person or agent employed by a professional surety company or professional bail company to...
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15-5-8
Section 15-5-8 When executed; time of execution to be stated. In cases in which the property to be seized does not include a controlled substance, a search warrant must be executed in the daytime unless the affidavits state positively that the property is on the person or in the place to be searched, in which case it may be executed at any time of the day or night. Except in cases in which the property to be seized includes a controlled substance, the issuing judge or magistrate must state in the warrant, according to the character of the affidavits, whether it is to be executed by day or at any time of the day or night. In cases in which the property to be seized includes a controlled substance, a warrant may be executed at any time of the day or night. (Code 1852, §833; Code 1867, §4384; Code 1876, §4013; Code 1886, §4734; Code 1896, §5491; Code 1907, §7764; Code 1923, §5478; Code 1940, T. 15, §107; Acts 1987, No. 87-611, p. 1061, §2.)...
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45-37A-160
Section 45-37A-160 Establishment of pretrial diversion program. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the City of Fultondale may establish a pretrial diversion program for any defendant within the jurisdiction of the municipal court. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by a common law and provided by statutes and acts of this state or powers or discretion otherwise provided by law for the City of Fultondale shall be retained. (c) The pretrial diversion program shall be under the direct supervision and control of the city and the city may contract with any agency, person, or corporation for services related to this article. The city may employ necessary persons to accomplish this article and those persons shall serve at the pleasure of the city. (Act 2013-430, p. 1715, §1.)...
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45-37A-231
Section 45-37A-231 Ad valorem taxation. (a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AMENDMENT 56. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 383, H. 458, 1945 Regular Session. (2) AMENDMENT 325. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 116, H. 56, 1971 Third Special Session. (3) AMENDMENT 373. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 6, H. 170, 1978 Second Special Session. (4) CITY. Homewood, Alabama. (5) CONSTITUTION. The Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (6) COUNCIL. Homewood City Council. (7) SPECIAL TAX. The special ad valorem tax authorized in Amendment 56 and pursuant to an election held in the city on May 20, 1947, and levied and collected on taxable property in the city; being originally voted at the rate of 5 mills on each dollar of assessed value and, pursuant to proceedings heretofore taken under Amendment 325 and Amendment 373, presently levied at the rate of 9 mills on each dollar of...
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45-37A-240.20
Section 45-37A-240.20 Establishment of program. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the City of Hoover may establish a pretrial diversion program for any defendant within the jurisdiction of the municipal court. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by a common law and provided by statutes and acts of this state or powers or discretion otherwise provided by law for the City of Hoover shall be retained. (c) The pretrial diversion program shall be under the direct supervision and control of the city and the city may contract with any agency, person, or corporation for services related to this subpart. The city may employ necessary persons to accomplish this subpart and those persons shall serve at the pleasure of the city. (Act 2013-431, p. 1724, §1.)...
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45-37A-270.20
Section 45-37A-270.20 Establishment of program. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the City of Irondale may establish a pretrial diversion program for any defendant within the jurisdiction of the municipal court. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by a common law and provided by statutes and acts of this state or powers or discretion otherwise provided by law for the City of Irondale shall be retained. (c) The pretrial diversion program shall be under the direct supervision and control of the city and the city may contract with any agency, person, or corporation for services related to this subpart. The city may employ necessary persons to accomplish this subpart and those persons shall serve at the pleasure of the city. (Act 2013-429, p. 1707, §1.)...
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11-49-105
Section 11-49-105 Property rights in vacated portion of street. The fee of such vacated portion of a street shall remain in the city or town, but the council or other governing body may grant the right to maintain thereon a state, county, or municipal public building or a railroad station or depot or street railroad station or depot so long and only so long as the same shall be used for the purpose for which it was vacated. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2241; Code 1940, T. 37, §666.)...
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12-17-186
Section 12-17-186 Appointment of attorney to act for district attorney when office vacant, district attorney disqualified, etc. (a) The presiding judge of the circuit court, the district court or the municipal court, when the district attorney or assistant district attorney regularly required by law to prosecute criminal cases in such court is absent, or connected with the party against whom it is his duty to appear by consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree, or when there is a vacancy in the office from any cause, or when the district attorney refuses to act, may appoint a competent attorney to act in such district attorney's place, but such appointment shall in no event extend beyond the session of the court at which the appointment is made. (b) The attorney so appointed shall receive for his services the sum of $25.00 per day for the time he is actually engaged in court, to be paid on the warrant of the Comptroller if the district attorney for whom he is appointed to act...
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12-17-253
Section 12-17-253 Election by inferior court judges whose positions abolished by Constitution to become magistrates for duration of unexpired terms as judges; salaries of such judges. In the event that there exists within the State of Alabama a judge of a court inferior to the circuit court in any county, municipal judges excluded, who is not qualified under the provisions of Amendment 328 to the Constitution of Alabama to continue to be a judge and whose judgeship is abolished by said Amendment 328 prior to the expiration of his term, then said judge may elect to automatically become a magistrate under this title for the duration of his unexpired term as a judge; provided, that such election shall be made in writing prior to January 1, 1977, and filed with the Secretary of State. The salary of such magistrate, to be paid by the state, shall be equal to the salary such judge earned as such inferior court judge on September 1, 1975. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §4-106.)...
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12-19-153
Section 12-19-153 Imposition of court costs by municipal courts; collection of municipal court costs, fines, etc., by circuit court clerks upon appeals to circuit courts from municipal courts. (a) Municipal courts may impose court costs pursuant to law. (b) In cases of appeal de novo from a municipal court and conviction of the defendant in the circuit court, the clerk of the circuit court shall collect the municipal court costs, fines and forfeitures in addition to the municipal share of the docket fee in circuit court. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §16-124.)...
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