Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 16 - Coffee County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Section 45-16-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Coffee County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Coffee County prior...
- Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Article 5 Constables.
- Section 45-16-50 Office abolished
In Coffee County, effective at the end of the current term of office, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to...
- Article 6 Coroner.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Part 2 Deputy Coroners.
- Section 45-16-61 Deputy coroner
Each coroner of Coffee County may appoint a deputy coroner to serve at the pleasure of the appointing coroner. A deputy coroner shall take the...
- Part 3
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-16-70 Expense allowance
In addition to any other expense allowances provided by law for the members of the county commission of Coffee County, Alabama, each member of such...
- Part 2 Composition.
- Part 3 Meetings.
- Section 45-16-72 Location of meetings
Thirty days or more after August 8, 1991, all regular, special, and called meetings of the Coffee County Commission shall be held exclusively at the...
- Part 4 Powers.
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Circuit Court.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Division 2 Juries.
- Part 2 Court Costs.
- Section 45-16-81 Additional fee on civil and criminal cases; juvenile probation fund
(a) In Coffee County, in addition to all other costs and charges in the circuit and district courts a fee of three dollars ($3) shall...
- Section 45-16-81.01 Collection and use of additional fee; worthless check fee
(a) In the Twelfth Judicial Circuit the fee authorized by Section 12-17-224 to be collected by the special services division of the district attorney's office...
- Section 45-16-81.02 Additional court costs for certain municipal, district, and circuit court cases; Jail Fund
(a) In addition to any and all court costs now or hereafter authorized to be collected, there shall be assessed an additional court cost of...
- Section 45-16-81.03 Solicitor's fee
(a) In all juvenile cases, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Coffee County, a docket fee, hereinafter...
- Part 3 District Attorney.
- Division 1 Employees.
- Division 2 Pretrial Diversion Program.
- Section 45-16-82.20 Established; discretionary powers; supervision and control
(a) The District Attorney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a pretrial diversion program. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by the common...
- Section 45-16-82.21 Definitions
For the purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The District Attorney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit,...
- Section 45-16-82.22 Applicants for admittance
(a) A person charged with a criminal offense specified in this section whose jurisdiction is in the Circuit or District Court of the Twelfth Judicial...
- Section 45-16-82.23 Standards for admission
(a) Admittance to the pretrial diversion program shall be appropriate in any of the following instances: (1) The offender is 18 years of age or...
- Section 45-16-82.24 Admission into program
(a) Prior to being admitted to the pretrial diversion program or as a part of the district attorney's evaluation process, an applicant may be required...
- Section 45-16-82.25 Program requirements; records
(a) An offender who enters into the pretrial diversion program shall satisfy each of the following requirements: (1) Voluntarily waive, in writing, and contingent upon...
- Section 45-16-82.26 Time for application
(a) Except for traffic offenses, an offender shall make application to the pretrial diversion program no later than 21 days after his or her first...
- Section 45-16-82.27 Costs and fees
(a) An applicant may be assessed a fee when the applicant is approved for the program. The amount of the assessment for participation in the...
- Section 45-16-82.28 Treatment programs; drug testing
The district attorney and the offender may enter into an agreement as a part of the pretrial diversion program that the offender be admitted to...
- Section 45-16-82.29 Written agreement; other terms and conditions
(a) In any case in which an offender is admitted into a pretrial diversion program, there shall be a written agreement between the district attorney...
- Section 45-16-82.30 Pretrial Diversion Program Fund
The district attorney shall establish a Pretrial Diversion Program Fund. Except for the monies payable timely by the district attorney to the circuit clerk, county...
- Section 45-16-82.31 Violations; waiver
(a) If the offender violates any condition of the pretrial diversion program agreed to in writing by the offender, the district attorney may terminate the...
- Section 45-16-82.32 Liability of district attorney
The district attorney shall have no liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender while participating in the pretrial diversion program.
- Section 45-16-82.33 Funding
The pretrial diversion program may apply for and accept grant funding applicable to the aims of the program and may receive funding or appropriations from...
- Section 45-16-82.34 Advisory board
The district attorney may form an advisory board to assist in the determination of appropriate pretrial diversion candidates. The district attorney shall retain the final...
- Division 3 Restitution Recovery Division.
- Section 45-16-82.60 Applicability
This subpart shall apply only in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit.
- Section 45-16-82.61 Purpose
The purpose of this subpart is to ensure that court ordered restitution to crime victims, victim compensation assessments, bail bond forfeitures, court costs required by...
- Section 45-16-82.62 Establishment of Restitution Recovery Division
The district attorney may establish a special division designated the "restitution recovery division" for the administration, collection, and enforcement of court costs, fines, penalty payments,...
- Section 45-16-82.63 Notice of defaults; collection of funds
The court, the clerk of the court, or a probation officer shall notify the district attorney in writing when any bail bond forfeitures, court costs,...
- Section 45-16-82.64 Manner of enforcement
After notification, as provided in Section 45-16-82.63, the district attorney may take all lawful steps necessary in order to require compliance with the court ordered...
- Section 45-16-82.65 Collection fees; disposition of funds
(a) After a matter has been transferred to the district attorney under Section 45-16-82.63, a court shall assess a collection fee of 30 percent of...
- Section 45-16-82.66 Amnesty period
There shall be an amnesty period of 60 days after July 17, 1995, during which any person may voluntarily pay in full any duly assessed...
- Section 45-16-82.67 Civil judgments
In addition to the provisions of this subpart, all court costs, fines, victim compensation assessments, bail bond forfeitures, and restitution, and other court ordered charges...
- Part 4 Juries.
- Part 5 Probate Court.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-16-84 Compensation for judge of probate - Expense allowance
Repealed by Acy 2015-552, 2nd Sp. Sess., §4, effective September 22, 2015.
- Section 45-16-84.01 Compensation for judge of probate - Salary
(a) A Judge of Probate of Coffee County who is first elected or appointed on or after September 22, 2015, shall receive an annual base...
- Section 45-16-84.02 Compensation for revenue commissioner
(a) A Revenue Commissioner of Coffee County elected on or after September 22, 2015, shall receive an annual base salary of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000)...
- Section 45-16-84.03 Compensation for chief clerks
The chief clerks in the Elba and Enterprise offices of the judge of probate and revenue commissioner in Coffee County, Alabama, shall each be entitled...
- Division 2 License Division.
- Section 45-16-84.20 Assessment and collection of motor vehicle taxes; issuance of licenses
In Coffee County, the judge of probate shall perform all duties relative to the assessment and collection of taxes on motor vehicles in Coffee County,...
- Section 45-16-84.21 Bond of judge of probate
Before entering upon the additional duties imposed by this subpart, the judge of probate shall execute an additional bond in such penal sum as may...
- Section 45-16-84.22 Office space, equipment, personnel
The county governing body shall furnish suitable quarters or such additional space if any be necessary for the efficient performance of the additional duties of...
- Section 45-16-84.23 Assessment and collection of fees; disposition of funds
The judge of probate shall charge and collect the same fee that is prescribed in the general law for a like service when performed by...
- Section 45-16-84.24 Payment of tax required for issuance of license
To prevent motor vehicles from escaping taxation, and to provide for the more efficient assessment and collection of taxes due on same, no license shall...
- Section 45-16-85.25 Certificate of assessment; issuance of license tag; valuation; municipal taxes
(a) Every person, firm, or corporation residing in or owning a motor vehicle which is principally used in Coffee County who desires to operate a...
- Section 45-16-84.26 Books, records, and blanks
The Comptroller, the State Department of Revenue and the State Department of Finance are hereby required to furnish to the Coffee County Judge of Probate...
- Section 45-16-84.27 Fees and commissions
The judge of probate shall receive for the assessing and collecting of state and county ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles the same fees charged...
- Division 3 Recording System.
- Section 45-16-84.50 Recording fee
Upon the date of the adoption of a resolution of the Coffee County Commission declaring the implementation of the provisions of this section, a special...
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Article 10 Education.
- Article 11 Elections.
- Article 12 Employees.
- Article 13 Engineer, County.
- Section 45-16-130 Duties of county commission and engineer
In addition to all other authority now vested in the Coffee County Commission, the Coffee County Commission shall set the necessary policies and priorities for...
- Section 45-16-130.01 Appointment of county engineer; qualifications; requirements
The Coffee County Commission or any succeeding county governing body performing the functions of the county governing body in the county, shall appoint and employ...
- Section 45-16-130.02 Duties
It shall be the duty of the county engineer, in accordance with policy established by the Coffee County Commission, within the law of the State...
- Section 45-16-130.03 Wage or salary scale
It shall be the duty of the commission to fix, from time to time, in accordance with prevailing economic conditions, the various scales of wages...
- Section 45-16-130.04 Compensation
The commission shall fix the amount of the salary of the county engineer, payable in equal monthly installments from appropriate road and highway funds.
- Section 45-16-130.05 Bond
Before entering upon his or her duties, the county engineer shall make and enter into a surety bond in the amount of five thousand dollars...
- Section 45-16-130.06 Office space and equipment
The commission shall furnish the county engineer with an office within the county and all necessary office supplies, equipment, communication, utilities, and with necessary transportation...
- Section 45-16-130.07 Accountability for equipment; inventory
The county engineer shall be the custodian of all road machinery and equipment, tools, supplies, and repair parts, owned by Coffee County, and shall be...
- Section 45-16-130.08 Expenditure of funds; appropriation by commission
The authority of the county engineer shall be limited to the expenditure of such funds for the purpose of construction, maintenance, or repairs of public...
- Section 45-16-130.09 Requisition for materials, supplies, etc.; authority and accountability of county purchasing agent
The county engineer shall make written requisition to the county purchasing agent for all materials, machinery, equipment, and necessary supplies needed for the construction, maintenance,...
- Section 45-16-130.10 Inspection and approval of materials, supplies, etc., prior to payment
It shall be the further duty of the county engineer to inspect all materials, machinery, equipment, and supplies, purchased by Coffee County for use on...
- Section 45-16-130.11 Employment of road supervisor in emergency
In the event an emergency should arise, in which it would be impossible for the commission to employ an engineer, as hereinabove provided for, then,...
- Section 45-16-130.12 Implementation
The Coffee County Commission shall, within 60 days of July 18, 1973, provide the county engineer with the necessary facilities and budget to fully implement...
- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Services.
- Section 45-16-140 Applicability
This article shall apply to Coffee County.
- Section 45-16-140.01 Legislative findings
The Legislature declares that the Coffee County fire departments, emergency medical service squads contracted in writing with the Coffee County Commission, and the Coffee County...
- Section 45-16-140.02 Fire protection service fee. - Levy; definitions; exemption
(a) There is levied on the owner of each dwelling and commercial building located in Coffee County a fire protection and emergency medical service fee...
- Section 45-16-140.03 Fire protection service fee. - Collection, administration, and enforcement
The fire protection and emergency medical service fee shall be collected, administered, and enforced at the same time, in the same manner, and under the...
- Section 45-16-140.04 Eligible volunteer fire department
For the purposes of this article, an eligible fire department shall mean a fire department located in Coffee County outside of the City of Enterprise...
- Section 45-16-140.05 Disposition of funds
Funds distributed to the Coffee County Volunteer Firefighters Association and to eligible fire departments and emergency medical service squads with a written contract with the...
- Section 45-16-140.06 Transfer of funds upon dissolution or abandonment of volunteer fire department
Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible fire department or emergency medical service squad and after all lawful indebtedness has been satisfied, any remaining funds...
- Section 45-16-140.07 Liability of personnel
The personnel of the fire departments, emergency medical service squads, and volunteer firefighters association provided for in this article shall not be considered as employees,...
- Section 45-16-140.08 Purpose
The purpose and use of funds generated by this article are to enable all participating eligible volunteer fire departments in Coffee County to be better...
- Section 45-16-140.09 Regulatory control and supervision; forfeiture of funds
With regard to the collection of the fees levied by this article, including, but not limited to, the application for and granting of exemptions, the...
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges
- Section 45-16-180 Clowers Bridge
(a) The bridge over White Water Creek on Highway 167 in Coffee County is hereby officially designated "The Clowers Bridge." (b) The Coffee County Commission...
- Article 19 Legislature.
- Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
- Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
- Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
- Article 23 Sheriff.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-16-230 Salary
A Sheriff of Coffee County elected or appointed on or after September 22, 2015, shall receive an annual salary of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per...
- Section 45-16-230.01 Expense allowance; expiration
(a) The Sheriff of Coffee County shall receive an expense allowance of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per year, payable in equal monthly installments from the...
- Part 2 Jails.
- Part 3 Pistol Permit.
- Part 4 Work Release Fund.
- Section 45-16-233 Use of funds
(a) The Sheriff of Coffee County may expend funds accruing to the Sheriff's Work Release Fund for the betterment of law enforcement in Coffee County...
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Board of Equalization.
- Section 45-16-240 Expense allowance
In addition to all other compensation and allowances prescribed by general law, each member of the Board of Equalization of Coffee County shall be entitled...
- Part 2 Revenue Commissioner.
- Division 1 Redemption of Lands.
- Division 2 Compensation.
- Section 45-16-241.20 Salary
(a) The annual salary of the Revenue Commissioner of Coffee County holding office effective October 1, 2016, shall be ninety-two thousand, five hundred dollars ($92,500)....
- Part 3 Tax, Sales and Use.
- Division 1 Motor Vehicles.
- Division 2 Tobacco.
- Section 45-16-242.20 Imposition of tax
(a) The Coffee County Commission is hereby authorized to impose upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco...
- Section 45-16-242.21 Tax to be added to sales price of tobacco products
Upon adoption of a resolution by the Coffee County Commission, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the...
- Section 45-16-242.22 Failure to add or levy tax
It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in Coffee County in the business for which the tax is...
- Section 45-16-242.23 Disposition of funds
(a) The proceeds from the tax hereby authorized, less the actual cost of collection not to exceed five per centum, shall be paid by the...
- Section 45-16-242.24 Tobacco stamps
The tax hereby authorized shall be paid by affixing stamps as is required for the payment of the tax imposed by Section 40-25-1 through Section...
- Section 45-16-242.25 Rules and regulations
The State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to effectuate the purpose of this section. All such rules...
- Section 45-16-242.26 Application of Department of Revenue laws, rules, and regulations
All laws, and rules and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section...
- Section 45-16-242.27 Construction and application
(a) None of the provisions of this subpart shall be applied in such manner as to be in violation of the commerce or other clauses...
- Section 45-16-242.28 Relation to other laws
The provisions of this subpart shall be construed in pari materia with any and all other provisions of law, or parts of law, relating to...
- Part 4 Tax Lodging.
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
Last modified: May 3, 2021