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45-45-82.51
Section 45-45-82.51 Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following:
(1) The Madison County Judicial System faces a severe crisis. The Twenty-third Judicial Circuit
has the highest caseload in Alabama. The number of criminal cases has doubled during the last
five years, resulting in a backlog of almost 4,500 cases, including approximately 18 capital
murder cases. Some defendants have been awaiting trial for almost five years. The caseload
facing prosecutors is staggering. Individual drug crime prosecutors are assigned in excess
of 500 cases and it is not uncommon for each prosecutor to prepare to try 60 cases on a single
week's docket. The sheer number of criminal defendants is so large that judges cannot bring
them all into the courtroom without violating an order of the Madison County Fire Marshal.
(2) While faced with these virtually insurmountable problems, the state budget for fiscal
year 2004 has required the system to bear cuts so draconian that the...
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12-17-224
Section 12-17-224 Special services division; worthless check unit; guidelines for processing
worthless check complaints; fees and restitution; collection and distribution. (a) Each district
attorney may establish a special services division which shall be under the direction and
control of the district attorney, and shall be organized for the following uses and purposes:
(1) A section of the special services division of each district attorney's office may be organized
as a worthless check unit. Each district attorney who elects to establish the unit shall assign
sufficient staff and resources to effectively operate the unit. The worthless check unit of
the special services division of the district attorney's office shall be created for the purpose
of processing worthless checks. (2) Procedures: a. COMPLAINT REFERRALS. After following the
requisites of Section 13A-9-13.1, any party holding a worthless negotiable instrument may
present a "complaint" to the worthless check unit of the...
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32-5A-191
Section 32-5A-191 (Effective until July 1, 2023) Driving while under influence of alcohol,
controlled substances, etc. (a) A person shall not drive or be in actual physical control
of any vehicle while: (1) There is 0.08 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her
blood; (2) Under the influence of alcohol; (3) Under the influence of a controlled substance
to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving; (4) Under the combined influence
of alcohol and a controlled substance to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely
driving; or (5) Under the influence of any substance which impairs the mental or physical
faculties of such person to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving.
(b) A person who is under the age of 21 years shall not drive or be in actual physical control
of any vehicle if there is 0.02 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her blood.
The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall suspend or revoke the...
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11-65-10
Section 11-65-10 Powers and duties of commission. When authorized by one or more elections
as provided in Section 11-65-4, a commission shall have the powers and duties necessary to
license, regulate, and supervise horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon and greyhound
racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon within the commission municipal jurisdiction, including,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the powers and duties hereinafter set forth
in this section or in other sections of this chapter. (1) A commission shall have succession
in perpetuity, subject only to the provisions of this chapter as it may be amended from time
to time. (2) A commission shall have the power to sue and be sued in its own name in civil
suits and actions and to defend suits against it. (3) A commission shall have the power to
adopt and make use of an official seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (4) A commission
shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, regulations and...
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45-45-82.54
Section 45-45-82.54 Judicial Administration Fund. (a) The additional court costs or fees collected
by the Circuit Court Clerk of Madison County shall be deposited into the Judicial Administration
Fund, which is hereby created. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Madison County
Commission use the proceeds from the Judicial Administration Fund to maintain current staffing
levels in the District Attorney's Office and Judicial Branch of government in Madison County.
(c) For the fiscal year commencing on October 1, 2004, the Madison County Commission shall
appropriate from the Judicial Administration Fund one hundred fourteen thousand four hundred
six dollars ($114,406) to the Madison County District Attorney's Office to hire two staff
attorneys and support services for those attorneys. The Madison County Commission shall enter
into a memorandum of understanding with the Administrative Office of Courts, effective November
27, 2003, that is necessary to maintain the current...
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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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45-41-82.02
Section 45-41-82.02 Additional fees - Small claims cases; monthly supervision fee in juvenile
court cases. (a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court
cases in Lee County, a fee of three dollars ($3) shall be charged and collected by the clerks
of the courts. This charge will not be collected on small claims cases. When collected by
the clerks of the courts, two dollars ($2) shall be remitted monthly to the Juvenile Court
Services Fund and one dollar ($1) shall be remitted monthly to the Judicial Administration
Fund. (b) Further, a monthly supervision fee may be assessed in juvenile court cases at the
discretion of the juvenile court judges. The supervision fee shall be collected by the juvenile
court office and deposited in the Juvenile Court Services Fund. (c) There is hereby established
a Juvenile Court Services Fund for the deposit of the above described court cost monies. The
fund shall be maintained in an interest bearing account in a bank of...
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3-6A-4
Section 3-6A-4 Sworn statement; dangerous dog investigation; hearing; procedures. (a)(1) When
a person claims that a dog is dangerous, the person shall make a sworn statement before a
city magistrate or sheriff setting forth the name of the dog owner, if known, the location
where the dog is being kept in the city or county, and the reason he or she believes the dog
to be dangerous. (2) The sworn statement shall be delivered to an animal control officer who
shall complete a dangerous dog investigation.When the sworn statement claims that a dog has
caused serious physical injury or death to a person, the duties of the animal control officer,
including but not limited to the dangerous dog investigation, shall be carried out by a law
enforcement officer. (b) An animal control officer may initiate a dangerous dog investigation
in cases where a complaint has been made pursuant to subsection (a) and a person has been
bitten, received physical injury or serious physical injury, or has died....
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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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45-41-82.05
Section 45-41-82.05 Additional court cost - Circuit, district, and juvenile courts. (a) This
section shall apply only in Lee County. (b) In addition to any court costs now authorized
in the district, circuit, and juvenile courts of Lee County, there shall be assessed and collected
an additional court cost of fifty dollars ($50) in all civil and criminal cases, including
traffic cases in the district, circuit, and juvenile courts of the county except for protection
from abuse cases pursuant to Chapter 5, Title 30. (c)(1) Fifty percent of the additional court
costs collected pursuant to subsection (b) shall be deposited into the Lee County Circuit
Clerk's Fund and used for the same purposes as the fund is used on August 1, 2012. (2) Forty
percent of the additional court costs collected pursuant to subsection (b) shall be deposited
into the District Attorney's Fund and used for the payment of any and all expenses incurred
by the district attorney for law enforcement purposes and in the...
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