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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12-23A-4
Section 12-23A-4 Establishment of drug court; participation; incentives and sanctions; components; drug court team and advisory committee; coordinator. (a)(1) The presiding judge of each judicial circuit, with the consent of the district attorney of that judicial circuit, may establish a drug court or courts, under which drug offenders shall be processed, to appropriately address the identified substance abuse problem of the drug offender as a condition of pretrial release, pretrial diversion, probation, jail, prison, parole, community corrections, or other release or diversion from a correctional facility. The structure, method, and operation of each drug court may differ and should be based upon the specific needs of and resources available to the judicial district or circuit where the drug court is located, but shall be created and operate pursuant to this chapter and in compliance with rules promulgated by the Alabama Supreme Court. (2) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the...
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16-25-23
Section 16-25-23 Exemptions from execution; recovery actions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the right of a person to a pension; an annuity, or a retirement allowance; to the return of contributions; the pension, annuity or retirement allowance itself; any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter; and the monies in the various funds created by this chapter are hereby exempt from any state or municipal tax and exempt from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as in this chapter specifically otherwise provided. (b)(1) Restitution, fines, court costs, fees, or any other financial obligations in a criminal case ordered by a circuit or district court judge in this state are not subject to the exemption set out in subsection (a), provided all of the following are satisfied: a. The amount of the restitution ordered is in the amount of one thousand...
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28-4-276
Section 28-4-276 Forfeiture and condemnation proceedings generally - Appeals from judgment of district court - Authorization and procedure generally. Any party may appeal within 14 days from the date of final judgment or denial of a post-trial motion, whichever is later, any judgment entered under the provisions of this article in any district court, such appeal to be taken in behalf of the state to the circuit court by the district attorney by filing a notice of appeal with the judge of the district court. (Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4762; Code 1940, T. 29, §231.)...
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36-27-28
Section 36-27-28 Exemption from execution; recovery actions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the right of a person to a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance or to the return of contributions, the pension, annuity or retirement allowance itself and any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this article and the monies in the various funds created by this chapter are hereby exempt from any state or municipal tax and exempt from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment or any other process whatsoever and shall be unassignable except as in this article specifically otherwise provided. (b)(1) Restitution, fines, court costs, fees, or any other financial obligations in a criminal case ordered by a circuit or district court judge in this state are not subject to the exemption set out in subsection (a), provided all of the following are satisfied: a. The amount of the restitution ordered is in the amount of one thousand...
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45-36-84
Section 45-36-84 Establishment, administration, and financing of county law library; law library fee. (a) The Jackson County Commission shall maintain a county law library in the county. (b) In each case filed in the Circuit Court and District Court of Jackson County, there shall be assessed a law library fee in the amount of two dollars ($2). The fee shall be collected as other court costs and fees are collected by the circuit clerk. Not later than the tenth day of the month, the fees collected during the preceding month shall be deposited by the circuit clerk in the county treasury to the credit of a special fund designated the County Law Library Fund. (c) The presiding circuit judge of the Thirty-eighth Judicial Circuit composed of Jackson County shall administer the county law library and may authorize the expenditure of funds in the County Law Library Fund as provided in Section 11-25-13. (Act 2020-175, §§2-4.)...
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45-39-81.01
Section 45-39-81.01 Additional court costs - Criminal cases. In addition to all other fees and court costs, the clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the district court of Lauderdale County shall assess and collect a fee to be determined by the county commission, not exceeding thirty-five dollars ($35), in each criminal case, felony and misdemeanor, where costs or fees are assessed against the defendant. The fee is to be paid by the clerk to the county for the support of its work release program and for county jail purposes. (Act 96-315, p. 357, §1.)...
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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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12-22-170
Section 12-22-170 Stay of sentence when question of law reserved and admission to bail - Felonies. When any question of law is reserved in case of a felony and it shall be made known to the court that the defendant desires to take an appeal to the appropriate appellate court, judgment must be entered against the defendant, but execution thereof must be stayed pending the appeal and the defendant held in custody. If the sentence is for a term not exceeding 20 years, the judge must direct the clerk of the court in which the conviction is had to admit the defendant to bail in a sum to be fixed by the judge, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon his appearance at the court, from time to time thereafter, as fixed by the court to abide such judgement as may be entered on the appeal. All proceedings for forfeiture of bail and arrest under this section shall be had and conducted as is otherwise provided in this code for such proceedings. (Code 1852, §753; Code 1867, §4304; Code 1876,...
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15-6-24
Section 15-6-24 Requiring security to keep the peace by defendant; when court appearance required; form of undertaking. (a) If there is just reason to fear the commission of an offense, the defendant must be required to give security to keep the peace, in such sum as the circuit, district or municipal court judge may direct, towards all the people of this state, particularly the person against whom or whose property there is reason to fear the offense may be committed, for such time as the judge may direct, though not more than 12 nor less than six months; but the defendant must not be required to appear at any court unless he has actually committed an offense cognizable in such court. (b) The undertaking to keep the peace may be, in substance, as follows: "The State of Alabama,} We (here insert the names of the defendant and his sureties), agree to pay to the ___ County.} State of Alabama $1,000.00 (or such sum as the judge directs) if the said (here insert name of the...
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