Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 21 - Crenshaw County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Section 45-21-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Crenshaw County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Crenshaw County prior...
- Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Article 5 Constables.
- Section 45-21-50 Office abolished
In Crenshaw County the office of constable shall be abolished pursuant to Section 36-23-1. All assets, money, property, real or personal, equipment, and supplies belonging...
- Article 6 Coroner.
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Section 45-21-70 Expense allowance
(a) The Crenshaw County Commission is hereby authorized to increase the expense allowance of the members of the commission up to an additional three hundred...
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Circuit Court.
- Part 2 Court Costs.
- Section 45-21-81 Additional fee
In addition to any court costs currently provided by law in Crenshaw County, there shall be levied in all cases filed in circuit and district...
- Part 3 District Attorney.
- Part 4 Jury Commission.
- Section 45-21-83 Compensation
(a) In Crenshaw County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to...
- Part 5 Probate Court.
- Division 1 License Division.
- Section 45-21-84 Assessment and collection of motor vehicle taxes, etc.; titles and licenses
The Judge of Probate of Crenshaw County shall perform all duties relative to the assessment and collection of taxes on motor vehicles, motor vehicle titles,...
- Section 45-21-84.01 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 a sum prescribed by a...
- Section 45-21-84.02 Office space, equipment, personnel
The Crenshaw County Commission shall furnish suitable quarters or additional space as it deems necessary for the efficient performance of the additional duties of the...
- Section 45-21-84.03 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 45-21-84.04 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 motor vehicles, no license...
- Section 45-21-84.05 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 Crenshaw County who desires to operate a...
- Section 45-21-84.06 Books, records, and blanks
The Comptroller, the State Department of Revenue, and the State Department of Finance shall furnish the judge of probate all books, records, and blanks now...
- Section 45-21-84.07 Fees and commissions
The judge of probate shall receive for the assessing and collecting of state and county ad valorem taxes and sales taxes on motor vehicles, motor...
- Section 45-21-84.08 Renewal of license by mail
The judge of probate may mail to any person to whom a motor vehicle license has been previously issued an application for renewal of a...
- Section 45-21-84.09 Construction
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this subpart shall be construed to increase the taxes and fees of motor vehicles, motor vehicle titles, and non-motorized vehicles...
- Section 45-21-84.10 Operative date
This subpart shall become operative on January 1 of any year after June 6, 2007, only upon the approval of implementation by a resolution of...
- Division 2 Recording System and Fees.
- Section 45-21-84.30 Purpose
This subpart shall apply only in Crenshaw County. The purpose of the subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in...
- Section 45-21-84.31 Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this subpart shall have the following meanings: (1) GENERAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT. A real property instrument that affects...
- Section 45-21-84.32 Recording, archiving, and retrieval system
The judge of probate may provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved recording, archiving, and retrieval system in the probate...
- Section 45-21-84.33 Official record of instruments
Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records to be recorded, archived, and retrieved with computer-generated files...
- Section 45-21-84.34 Construction with other laws
All laws of Alabama relating to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, general property instruments, miscellaneous instruments, and other instruments and records...
- Section 45-21-84.35 System costs
The initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the special recording fees. Nothing contained in this section, however, shall prohibit the county from...
- Section 45-21-84.36 Recording and filing fee - Certain instruments
Effective September 1, 2007, and upon approval of the county commission, a special recording and filing fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to...
- Section 45-21-84.37 Recording fee - Every case
Effective September 1, 2007, and upon approval of the county commission, a special recording fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid to and collected...
- Section 45-21-84.38 Transaction fee - Certain transactions
Effective September 1, 2007, and upon approval of the county commission, a special transaction fee of four dollars ($4) shall be paid to and collected...
- Section 45-21-84.39 Expiration and repeal
This subpart shall expire and shall be repealed July 1, 2027.
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Article 10 Education.
- Article 11 Elections.
- Part 1 Board of Registrars.
- Section 45-21-110 Compensation
Each member of the Board of Registrars of Crenshaw County shall be entitled to receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of twenty dollars...
- Part 2 Election Officials.
- Section 45-21-111 Compensation
(a) In Crenshaw County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to...
- Article 12 Employees.
- Article 13 Engineer, County.
- Section 45-21-130 Employment of county engineer; qualifications; requirements
The Crenshaw County Commission, or any succeeding county governing body performing the functions of the county governing body in the county, shall employ a county...
- Section 45-21-130.01 Appointment
The county engineer shall be appointed by the county commission from a nomination made by the Director of Transportation. If the nomination is not acceptable...
- Section 45-21-130.02 Duties
It shall be the duty of the county engineer, (1) to employ, supervise, and direct all such assistants as are necessary properly to maintain and...
- Section 45-21-130.03 Requisitions
The county engineer is the person authorized to make written requisition upon the duly designated purchasing agency, for all articles, materials, supplies, and equipment necessary...
- Section 45-21-130.04 Wage or salary scale
It shall be the duty of the board to fix, from time to time, in accordance with prevailing economic conditions, the various scales of wages...
- Section 45-21-130.05 Compensation
The board shall fix the amount of the salary of the county engineer, payable in equal monthly installments from the road and highway funds of...
- Section 45-21-130.06 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 45-21-130.07 Office space and equipment
The board shall furnish the county engineer with an office at the courthouse, or elsewhere, at the county seat, and all necessary office supplies, and...
- Section 45-21-130.08 Custodian of equipment; storage facilities
The county engineer shall be the custodian of all road tools, machinery, supplies, and equipment of Crenshaw County, and he or she shall be accountable...
- Section 45-21-130.09 Requisition for 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 45-21-130.10 Requisition for materials, supplies, etc
The county engineer shall make written requisition to the chair of the county commission for all materials, machinery, equipment, and necessary supplies needed for the...
- Section 45-21-130.11 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 Crenshaw County for use on...
- Section 45-21-130.12 Employment of road supervisor in emergency
In the event an emergency should arise, in which it would be impossible for the county commission to employ an engineer, as hereinabove provided for,...
- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Section 45-21-150 Reserved
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- Article 16 Government Operations.
- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Part 1 Environment.
- Part 2 Health.
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
- 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 Funding.
- Part 2 Jails.
- Part 3 Pistol Permit.
- Part 4 Service of Process.
- Section 45-21-233 Methods of service
(a) In the service of summons and complaints or subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses in any civil, criminal, equity, or other case or proceeding...
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Revenue Commissioner.
- Section 45-21-240 Establishment of office; election of commissioner
At the expiration of the terms of office, or if a vacancy occurs in either the office of tax assessor or the office of tax...
- Section 45-21-240.01 Duties of commissioner
The county revenue commissioner shall do and perform all acts, duties, and functions required by law to be performed either by the tax assessor or...
- Section 45-21-240.02 Deputies, clerks, and assistants
Subject to the approval of the county commission or other like governing body of the county, the county revenue commissioner shall appoint and fix the...
- Section 45-21-240.03 Oath of office; bond
Before entering upon the duties of office, the county revenue commissioner shall take the oath of office prescribed by Article XVI of the Constitution of...
- Section 45-21-240.04 Facilities and equipment
The county commission or other like governing body of the county shall provide the necessary offices for the county revenue commissioner in the courthouse, and...
- Section 45-21-240.05 Collection and disposition of funds; compensation of county revenue commissioner
The county revenue commissioner shall collect and pay into the general fund of the county all fees, percentages, commissions, and other allowances which the tax...
- Section 45-21-240.06 Office of tax assessor and tax collector abolished
The offices of Tax Assessor and Tax Collector of Crenshaw County are hereby abolished effective on the first day of the term to which he...
- Section 45-21-240.07 Purpose
It is the purpose of this part to conserve revenue and promote the public convenience in Crenshaw County by consolidating the offices of tax assessor...
- Part 2 Tax, Sales and Use.
- Division 1 Exemptions.
- Division 2 Paralleling State Tax.
- Section 45-21-241.20 Definitions
All words, terms, and phrases as defined in Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-3, and 40-23-4, providing for the levy of a state sales tax shall, wherever...
- Section 45-21-241.21 Authorization to levy tax; referendum; exemptions
(a) The county commission is authorized to levy and impose, in addition to all other taxes, including municipal gross receipts license taxes now imposed by...
- Section 45-21-241.22 Payment of tax
All taxes levied in this subpart shall be paid to and collected by the State Department of Revenue at the same time and in the...
- Section 45-21-241.23 Addition of tax to sales price or admission fee
Each person engaging or continuing within Crenshaw County in a business subject to the tax levied in Section 45-21-241.21, shall add to the sales price...
- Section 45-21-241.24 Collection and enforcement
The tax imposed by this subpart shall constitute a debt due Crenshaw County and may be collected as provided by law. The tax, together with...
- Section 45-21-241.25 Application of state statutes
All provisions of the state sales and use tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state tax, making of reports, and...
- Section 45-21-241.26 Charge for collection; disposition of funds
The State Department of Revenue shall charge Crenshaw County for collecting the special county tax levied under this subpart. The amount of percentage of total...
- Part 3 Tax, Tobacco
- Section 45-21-242 Short title
This part shall be known and may be cited as "Crenshaw 1st," an act of Crenshaw countians helping Crenshaw countians.
- Section 45-21-242.01 Authorization
The county commission is authorized to levy and impose, as specified under this part, upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses,...
- Section 45-21-242.02 Addition of tax to purchase price
After May 21, 1996, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells, stores, or receives any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and other tobacco...
- Section 45-21-242.03 Violations
It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor to fail or refuse to add to the sales price and collect from the purchaser...
- Section 45-21-242.04 Collection and enforcement; tobacco stamps; monthly report
It shall be the duty of the Crenshaw County Commission to enforce this part and it shall have the right to examine the books, reports,...
- Section 45-21-242.05 Rules and regulations
The State Department of Revenue is authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to effectuate this part.
- Section 45-21-242.06 Manner and time of payment
All laws, rules, and regulations of the Department of Revenue relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Sections 40-25-1...
- Section 45-21-242.07 Disposition of funds
The proceeds from the tax authorized less the actual cost of collection, not to exceed five per centum shall be paid by the State Department...
- Section 45-21-242.08 Eligible fire departments and rescue squads - Defined
For purposes of this part, an eligible fire department means a fire department in Crenshaw County that maintains an ISO-approved rating of at least Class...
- Section 45-21-242.09 Eligible fire departments and rescue squads - Use of funds
Funds paid to eligible fire departments and rescue squads shall only be expended for fire protection and emergency medical and rescue services including training, supplies,...
- Section 45-21-242.10 Eligible fire departments and rescue squads - Dissolution or abandonment
Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible fire department or rescue squad, any remaining funds derived from this part or any assets purchased with funds...
- Section 45-21-242.11 Eligible fire departments and rescue squads - Personnel; liability
The personnel of the fire departments and rescue squads provided for in this part shall not be considered employees, servants, or agents of the county,...
- Section 45-21-242.12 Paralleling privilege license tax
(a) The county commission is authorized to levy and impose as provided for in this part, in addition to all other taxes, including municipal gross...
- Section 45-21-242.13 Definitions
All words, terms, and phrases as defined in Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-3, and 40-23-4 providing for the levy of a state sales tax shall, wherever...
- Section 45-21-242.14 Payment of taxes herein levied; reports by taxpayers
All taxes levied in this part shall be paid to and collected by the State Department of Revenue at the same time and in the...
- Section 45-21-242.15 Addition of tax to sales price or admission fee
Each person engaging or continuing within Crenshaw County in a business subject to the tax levied in Section 45-21-242.11 shall add to the sales price...
- Section 45-21-242.16 Enforcement of liens for license taxes due
The tax imposed by this part shall constitute a debt due Crenshaw County and may be collected as provided by law. The tax, together with...
- Section 45-21-242.17 Applicability of state statutes
All provisions of the state sales and use tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state tax, making of reports and...
- Section 45-21-242.18 Charge for collection; disposition of funds
(a) The State Department of Revenue shall charge Crenshaw County for collecting the special county tax levied under this part an amount or percentage of...
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
Last modified: May 3, 2021