12-14-31
Section 12-14-31 Powers generally; designation of other municipal officers to approve appearance
and appeal bonds. (a) A municipal judge may administer oaths, compel the attendance of witnesses
and compel the production of books and papers, punish by fine not exceeding $50.00 and/or
imprisonment not exceeding five days any person found and adjudged to be in contempt of court
and shall have power coextensive with the jurisdiction of the district court to issue writs
and other process and to approve and declare bonds forfeited. In contempt of court cases brought
pursuant to Section 12-19-311(c) and (d), a municipal judge may punish by a fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars ($500). (b) The municipal judge or, when there is more than one judge
in the municipality, the presiding judge shall designate any other municipal officers who
shall be authorized to approve appearance and appeal bonds. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384,
§8-108; Act 2013-193, p. 360, §1.)...
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11-3-11
Section 11-3-11 Powers and duties generally. (a) The county commission shall have authority:
(1) To direct, control, and maintain the property of the county as it may deem expedient according
to law, and in this direction and control it has the sole power to locate the courts in the
rooms of the courthouse and to designate the rooms to be occupied by the officers entitled
to rooms therein, including the circuit judge if resident in the county, and to change the
location of the courts and the designation of the rooms for officers as it may deem best and
most expedient, and this shall be done by order of the county commission entered upon the
minutes of the county commission at a regular meeting of the county commission. In the event
the courthouse is inadequate to supply office rooms for such officers, the county commission
may lease such office rooms in a convenient location in the county site and pay the rental
from the county fund. (2) To levy a general tax, for general county...
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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence
in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with
tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to
requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer
has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among
other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal
within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of
resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and
fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those
specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing
shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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12-17-184
Section 12-17-184 Powers and duties generally. It is the duty of every district attorney and
assistant district attorney, within the circuit, county, or other territory for which he or
she is elected or appointed: (1) To attend on the grand juries, advise them in relation to
matters of law, and examine and swear witnesses before them. (2) To draw up all indictments
and to prosecute all indictable offenses. (3) To prosecute and defend any civil action in
the circuit court in the prosecution or defense of which the state is interested. (4) To inquire
whether registers have performed the duty required of them by Section 12-17-117 and shall,
in every case of failure, move against the register as provided by subsection (b) of Section
12-17-114. (5) If a criminal prosecution is removed from a court of his or her circuit, county,
or division of a county to a court of the United States, to appear in that court and represent
the state; and, if it is impracticable, consistent with his or her...
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15-13-107
Section 15-13-107 Who may or shall accept, take, and approve bail and under what circumstances.
(a) Judges of any court within the State of Alabama may accept, take, and approve bail within
the jurisdiction of their respective courts. (b) Circuit, district, and municipal court clerks,
including magistrates, may accept, take, and approve bail within the jurisdiction of their
respective courts. (c) Only judicial officers and circuit, district, and municipal court clerks
or a designee of the court may accept and approve appeal bonds and cash bonds. Provided, however,
that any person designated by the court to receive cash bonds, shall be bonded to receive
court moneys and have the written approval of their chief administrative officer. Clerks of
the courts of Alabama may delegate to their employees the right to accept and approve appeal
bonds and cash bonds. (d) Sheriffs of the state and chiefs of police having custody of a defendant
may accept, take, and approve property or professional...
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12-1-11
Section 12-1-11 Appeal to appellate court by attorney or officer from judgment of contempt.
Any attorney or officer who is ordered to be punished for a contempt in the circuit court
may appeal to the appropriate appellate court and may stay the execution of any fine or sentence
imposed by the execution of a bond, payable to the state, with two sufficient sureties, to
be approved by the tribunal appealed from, in a penalty to be fixed by said tribunal, not
exceeding $300.00, conditioned to pay the fine and costs, in case of affirmance in whole or
in part. The appellant shall be entitled to bail in such cases upon the execution of an appearance
bond, with two or more such sureties, in the penalty of $300.00, payable to the state, conditioned
to appear in the court to which his appeal is prosecuted and to abide the result of such appeal,
which maybe approved by the sheriff or other officer in whose custody the appellant may be.
On such appeal the question shall be whether the appellant...
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11-43C-66
Section 11-43C-66 Head of division of finance - Powers and duties. The head of the division
of finance shall have general management and control of the division and of finance. He shall
have charge, subject to the direction and control of the mayor, of the administration of the
financial affairs of the city, and to that end shall have authority and be required to: (1)
Cooperate with the mayor in compiling estimates for the general fund, public utility, and
capital budgets; (2) Supervise and control all encumbrances, expenditures, and disbursements
to insure that budget appropriations are not exceeded; (3) Prescribe and install systems of
accounts for all departments, offices, and agencies of the city and provide instructions for
their use; and prescribe the form of receipts, vouchers, bills, or claims to be used and of
accounts to be kept by all departments, offices, and agencies of the city; (4) Require daily,
or at such other intervals but no longer than weekly, a report of receipts...
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12-19-311
Section 12-19-311 Bail bond fees. (a)(1) In addition to all other charges, costs, taxes, or
fees levied by law on bail bonds, additional fees as detailed in paragraph a. and paragraph
b. shall be imposed on every bail bond in all courts of this state. The fee shall not be assessed
in traffic cases, except for those serious traffic offenses enumerated in Title 32, Chapter
5A, Article 9. Where multiple charges arise out of the same incident, the bond fee pursuant
to this section shall only be assessed on one charge. For the purposes of this section, the
term same incident shall be defined as the same date, location, and proximate time. Where
the charge is negotiating a worthless negotiable instrument, the fee shall not be assessed
more than three times annually per person charged. The fees shall be assessed as follows:
a. A filing fee in the amount of thirty-five dollars ($35) on each bond executed. b. For a
misdemeanor offense, a bail bond fee in the amount of 3.5 percent of the total...
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45-9-81
Section 45-9-81 Additional costs and fees; disposition of funds; Judicial Administration Fund.
(a) In Chambers County, in addition to all other fees, there shall be taxed as costs the sum
of twenty dollars ($20) in each criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited
bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment
or conviction in any inferior or municipal court of the county, in the Circuit Court of Chambers
County, or the District Court of Chambers County, hereinafter filed in or arising in the Circuit
Court of Chambers County, or the District Court of Chambers County, or brought by appeal,
certiorari, or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Chambers County, or the District Court of
Chambers County, which costs shall be collected as other costs in such cases are collected
by the clerk, or ex officio clerk, of the courts or the register of the Circuit Court of Chambers
County as the case may be. Such fees, when collected by...
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45-37A-52.163
Section 45-37A-52.163 Director of finance - Powers and duties. The director of finance shall
have general management and control of the several divisions and units of the department of
finance. He or she shall have charge, subject to the direction and control of the mayor, of
the administration of the financial affairs of the city, and to that end shall have authority
and be required to: (1) Cooperate with the mayor in compiling estimates for the general fund,
public utility, and capital budgets. (2) Supervise and control all encumbrances, expenditures,
and disbursements to insure that budget appropriations are not exceeded. (3) Prescribe and
install systems of accounts for all departments, offices, and agencies of the city and provide
instructions for their use; and prescribe the form of receipts, vouchers, bills, or claims
to be used and of accounts to be kept by all departments, offices, and agencies of the city
(4) Require daily, or at such other intervals as he or she may deem...
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