12-14-54
Section 12-14-54 Certification program; continuing education requirements. (a) Each municipal
court clerk, within six months after taking office, shall enroll in a municipal court magistrates'
certification program approved by the Administrative Director of Courts. Each municipal court
magistrate who is not a municipal court clerk shall enroll in the certification program not
later than six months from the date of his or her appointment. Each municipal court magistrate
and municipal court clerk shall complete the program in the manner and within the time prescribed
by the director and the Administrative Office of Courts. The director shall appoint a Municipal
Magistrates' Certification Program Oversight Committee which shall make educational recommendations
to the director for his or her approval. The director shall determine the appropriate administrative
sanctions for noncompliance with this section. (b) After completing the certification program,
each municipal court clerk and...
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12-14-50
Section 12-14-50 Municipal court administrative agency authorized; powers and duties thereof;
persons deemed officials of agency; judicial powers thereof generally. The municipal court
may have under its supervision a municipal court administrative agency empowered to provide
expeditious service in connection with administrative adjudication of ordinance violations,
the handling of uniform traffic tickets and complaints, the issuance of arrest warrants and
other powers provided by law. The personnel designated by the judge or judges of the municipal
court for the accounting of uniform traffic tickets or complaints and magistrates shall be
considered as officials of such administrative agency. Such officials shall be vested with
judicial power reasonably incident to the accomplishment of the purposes and responsibilities
of the administrative agency. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §8-110.)...
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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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45-37A-240.01
Section 45-37A-240.01 Prisoner transport fee. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,
the Municipal Court of the City of Hoover, Alabama, may assess a prisoner transport fee against
a defendant for expenses incurred in transporting the defendant on a Hoover Municipal Court
misdemeanor warrant from another municipal jail, county jail, or a state detention facility
to the Hoover Municipal Detention Facility. (2) The fee provided in this section may be assessed
in all criminal cases by the municipal judge when a transport is required as described in
subdivision (1), and may be collected only when a defendant is adjudicated guilty or pleads
guilty on or after May 24, 2005. The prisoner transport fee shall be collected from the defendant
as court costs and other fees are collected. (3) Assessment of a prisoner transport fee by
the municipal court is permitted only when transport of a defendant is required from outside
the police jurisdiction of the City of Hoover, but within the...
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12-17-264
Section 12-17-264 Prior service credit. Prior service credit may be obtained by any former
magistrate who is entitled to take advantage of this article for years served in his individual
capacity as magistrate or judge of any inferior court, municipal judges excluded, by contributing
an amount equal to six percent of his then salary for each year for which prior service credit
is sought. (Acts 1988, No. 88-313, p. 475, §5.)...
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15-6-22
Section 15-6-22 Hearing; discharge of defendant; continuation of hearing. When a person complained
of is brought before the circuit, district or municipal court judge, he and his witnesses
must be heard in his defense; and, if on hearing the witnesses on both sides it appears that
there is no just reason to fear the commission of the offense, the defendant must be discharged.
If the hearing is continued, the judge shall require the defendant to give bail for his appearance,
and, failing to furnish the bail, the defendant must be committed to jail. (Code 1852, §412;
Code 1867, §3961; Code 1876, §4030; Code 1886, §4684; Code 1896, §5165; Code 1907, §7525;
Code 1923, §5143; Code 1940, T. 15, §406.)...
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45-37A-270
Section 45-37A-270 Prisoner transport fee. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,
the Municipal Court of the City of Irondale in Jefferson County may assess a prisoner transport
fee against a defendant for expenses incurred in transporting the defendant on an Irondale
Municipal Court misdemeanor warrant from another municipal jail, county jail, or a state detention
facility to the municipal jail for the City of Irondale. (2) The fee provided in this section
may be assessed in all criminal cases by the municipal judge when a transport is required
as described in subdivision (1), and may be collected only when a defendant is adjudicated
guilty or pleads guilty on or after May 22, 2013. The prisoner transport fee shall be collected
from the defendant as court costs and other fees are collected. (3) Assessment of a prisoner
transport fee by the municipal court is permitted only when transport of a defendant is required
from outside the police jurisdiction of the City of Irondale,...
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15-26-1
Section 15-26-1 Conduct of pre-trial proceeding by audio-video communication device. Whenever
the law requires a defendant in a criminal case to appear before any judge or magistrate for
a first or subsequent appearance, bail, arraignment, or other pre-trial proceeding, at the
discretion of the court, the proceeding may be conducted by an audio-video communication device,
in which case the defendant shall not be required to be physically brought before the judge
or magistrate. The audio-video communication shall enable the judge or magistrate to see and
converse simultaneously with the defendant or other person and operate so that the defendant
and his or her counsel, if any, can communicate privately, and so that the defendant and his
or her counsel are both physically present in the same place during the audio-video communication.
The signal of the audio-video communication shall be transmitted live and shall be secure
from interception through lawful means by anyone other than the...
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15-6-25
Section 15-6-25 Discharge of defendant; commitment to jail; contents of commitment warrant.
(a) Upon an undertaking, with sufficient sureties being given, the defendant must be discharged;
and, if not given, the circuit, district or municipal court judge must commit him to jail
until he gives the same, specifying in the warrant of commitment the cause thereof, the time
he is required to keep the peace, towards whom particularly and the sum in which security
is required. (b) Any person committed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section
may be discharged by the sheriff of the county in which he is detained upon entering into
an undertaking to keep the peace, with sufficient sureties, in the sum and for the term required
by the circuit, district or municipal court judge. (Code 1852, §§416, 417; Code 1867, §§3965,
3966; Code 1876, §§4035, 4036; Code 1886, §§4689, 4690; Code 1896, §§5170, 5171; Code
1907, §§7529, 7530; Code 1923, §§5147, 5148; Code 1940, T. 15,...
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45-35-232.26
Section 45-35-232.26 Judicial officer. As used in this subpart, the term judicial officer means,
unless otherwise indicated, any circuit judge or equivalent thereof in the Twentieth Judicial
Circuit, any district court judge or equivalent, any district or municipal magistrate whose
duties are authorized by law, and any municipal judge or any judge specially sitting by designation
of the presiding judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, or equivalent in the county. (Act
93-693, p. 1324, §7.)...
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