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12-15-103
Section 12-15-103 Juvenile court judges may be circuit or district court judges; maintenance
of separate juvenile case action summaries; promulgation of rules of procedure for juvenile
courts; powers of judges of juvenile courts as to issuance of writs and processes and as to
equity generally. (a) A circuit or district court judge may be designated as a juvenile court
judge. (b) The juvenile court shall maintain a separate docketing and case filing system.
(c) The Supreme Court of Alabama shall promulgate rules governing procedure in the juvenile
court. (d) The juvenile court shall issue all writs and processes necessary to the exercise
of its jurisdiction and to fulfill the purposes of this chapter. (e) The judge of the juvenile
court shall issue warrants of arrest, pick-up orders, and writs of habeas corpus to have individuals
brought before the juvenile court pursuant to this chapter. (f) The juvenile court shall have
and exercise equity power. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384,...
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45-22-81.03
Section 45-22-81.03 Juvenile Day Treatment Fund. (a)(l) In addition to all other costs and
charges in circuit court, district court, and juvenile court cases in Cullman County, a fee
ranging from five dollars ($5) to five hundred dollars ($500) may be assessed at the discretion
of the judge upon the adjudication or dismissal of the case and collected by the clerk of
the court and shall be remitted monthly to the Juvenile Day Treatment Fund of the Cullman
County Commission. (2) Further, a monthly supervision fee not to exceed forty dollars ($40)
per month may be assessed in juvenile cases at the discretion of the juvenile court judge
and collected by the clerk of the court and shall be remitted monthly to the Juvenile Day
Treatment Fund of the Cullman County Commission. (3) There is established a Juvenile Day Treatment
Fund for the deposit of the assessment fees and supervision fees provided in subdivisions
(l) and (2). The fees shall be maintained in an interest-bearing account in a...
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12-21-225
Section 12-21-225 Testimony for state or defendant by convict. (a) The presiding judge of any
circuit court or district court having reason to believe that the testimony of any convict
serving a sentence in the penitentiary or to hard labor for the county is necessary in any
criminal prosecution for the state and that other evidence cannot be obtained on behalf of
the state may order a writ to be issued by the clerk, commanding the Board of Corrections
to have the convict before the court on a specified day to give testimony in the particular
case for the state. Moreover, upon the sworn petition of the defendant in a criminal prosecution
showing that a convict serving sentence in the penitentiary knows facts which would be beneficial
to him, the judge may, if he believes the ends of justice will be served thereby, order the
issuance of such a writ to secure the appearance of the convict to testify on behalf of the
defendant. The writ shall be served on the board at least one week...
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15-15-20.1
Section 15-15-20.1 Non-capital felony offense. (a) In any criminal proceeding for a non-capital
felony offense commenced by complaint, the defendant may give written notice three days after
his or her arrest to a judge of the district or circuit court of the county having jurisdiction
of the offense charged that the defendant desires to plead guilty as charged or as a youthful
offender upon the granting of youthful offender status. (b) Upon receipt of the written notice
from the defendant stating his or her desire to plead guilty, the court shall direct the district
attorney to prefer and file an information against the defendant. The information shall be
made under oath of the district attorney or a witness, and shall accuse the defendant with
the same specificity as required in an indictment of the offense or offenses for which the
defendant is charged. This section shall not be construed to preclude the district attorney
from amending or dismissing a pending charge against a...
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30-4-59
Section 30-4-59 Suspension of sentence; order of payment of support for wife or children; release
of defendant on probation; bond. At the trial on an entry of a plea of guilty, or after conviction
and after judgment and sentence has been imposed, as provided in this article, the judge of
the juvenile court in the first instance, or the judge of the circuit court on appeal and
trial de novo, may, in his discretion, suspend such judgment and sentence, and, having regard
to the circumstances and to the financial ability or earning capacity of the defendant, may
make an order, which shall be subject to change by the judge of the juvenile court, from time
to time, as circumstances may require, directing the defendant to pay a certain sum periodically
to the clerk of the juvenile court for the use of the defendant's wife or for the use of his
wife and child or children, or for the use of his child or children, and to release the said
defendant from custody on probation, upon his entering...
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12-11A-4
Section 12-11A-4 Trial without jury; powers of private judge; immunity; procedures. (a) A trial
conducted by a private judge shall be conducted without a jury. (b) A person who serves as
a private judge has, for each case the private judge hears, the same powers as the judge of
a circuit court in relation to the following: (1) Court procedure. (2) Deciding the outcome
of the case. (3) Attendance of witnesses. (4) Punishment of contempt. (5) Enforcement of orders.
(6) Administering oaths. (7) Giving all necessary certificates for the authentication of the
records and proceedings. (c) A person appointed as a private judge pursuant to the terms of
this chapter shall have immunity in the same manner and to the same extent as a judge in the
State of Alabama. (d) All proceedings in an action heard by a private judge are of record
and must be: (1) Filed with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of proper venue under
the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure. (2) Made available to the...
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12-15-203
Section 12-15-203 Transfer of cases from juvenile court. (a) A prosecutor, before a hearing
on a delinquency petition on its merits and after notifying, verbally or in writing, the juvenile
probation officer, may file a motion requesting the juvenile court judge to transfer a child
for criminal prosecution to the circuit or district court, if the child was 14 or more years
of age at the time of the conduct charged and is alleged to have committed an act which would
constitute a criminal offense as defined by this code if committed by an adult. (b) The juvenile
court judge shall conduct a hearing on all motions for the purpose of determining whether
it is in the best interests of the child or the public to grant the motion. Only if there
are no reasonable grounds to believe the child is committable to an institution, department,
or agency for individuals with an intellectual disability or mental illness, may the juvenile
court judge order the case transferred for criminal prosecution....
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45-2-80.81
Section 45-2-80.81 Costs taxes in cases filed in the circuit court or juvenile court. In order
to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the library and for the purposes
of judicial administration as further specified in this subpart, there shall be taxed as costs
the sum of fifteen dollars ($15) in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in equity,
criminal case, quasi-criminal case, juvenile court case, proceeding on a forfeited bond bail,
or a proceeding on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment of
conviction in any district or municipal court to each circuit court or to the juvenile court
hereinafter filed in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise to the Circuit
Court or to the Juvenile Court of Baldwin County. The costs shall be collected as other costs
in cases are collected by the clerk of the court and shall be paid to the Baldwin County Commission.
(Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 92, p. 138, ยง2; Act...
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45-35-81.01
Section 45-35-81.01 Additional court costs - Criminal and civil cases. (a) This section shall
apply only in Houston County. (b) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases
in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Houston County, an additional
docket fee of twenty dollars ($20) shall be assessed in each case. The fee shall be collected
in all criminal cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty, a bond forfeited, a penalty
imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capias warrant of arrest. (c) In all civil
cases filed in small claims court, district court, or circuit court, including child support
and domestic relations cases, an additional fee in the amount of twenty dollars ($20) per
case shall be assessed in each case. (d) Any fees collected pursuant to this section shall
be disbursed monthly as follows: (1) Ten dollars ($10) of the fee shall be distributed to
the Houston County General Fund for the operation of the county jail. (2) One...
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45-45-82.01
Section 45-45-82.01 District attorney's fee. (a) In all cases in the municipal, juvenile, district,
and circuit courts in Madison County and the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit, a docket fee,
hereinafter referred to as a district attorney's fee, shall be assessed in each case. The
fees, when collected, shall be distributed monthly to the District Attorney's Fund in the
county or to the fund that may be hereafter prescribed by law for the district attorney's
fee. The district attorney's fee shall be in an amount equal to all docket fees or court costs
which are assessed in cases and distributed to the Fair Trial Tax Fund. A three dollar ($3)
administrative fee from each assessed fee shall be retained by the circuit clerk pursuant
to Section 12-17-225.4(2), when the case originates in the juvenile, district, or circuit
court, or by the municipal court clerk to be deposited into a municipal court clerk fund and
used for administrative expenses when the case originates in the municipal...
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