Code of Alabama - Title 36: Public Officers and Employees - Chapter 15 - Attorney General

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 36-15-1 Duties generally
  The Attorney General shall keep his or her office at the capital city and perform the following duties: (1)a. He or she shall give his...
• Section 36-15-1.1 Retention of powers
  The Attorney General shall have and retain all of the powers, duties, and authority heretofore granted or authorized by the constitution, statutory law, or the...
• Section 36-15-3 Salary
  The salary of the Attorney General of Alabama shall be an amount equal to the salary of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of...
• Section 36-15-4.1 Grants, other sources of funds
  (a) For the purpose of performing any functions, duties or responsibilities of the office of the Attorney General or for the purpose of implementing any...
• Section 36-15-4.2 Attorney General's Litigation Support Fund
  (a) There is established in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Attorney General's Litigation Support Fund. (b) The fund shall...
• Section 36-15-5.1 Deputy attorneys general
  (a) The position of deputy attorney general of Alabama is created and established. (b) The Attorney General may appoint, in such a manner or number...
• Section 36-15-5.2 Chief Deputy Attorney General
  (a) The office of Chief Deputy Attorney General is hereby created and shall be established. The Chief Deputy Attorney General shall be appointed by the...
• Section 36-15-6 Appointment or employment of assistant attorneys general, investigators, and other employees
  (a) Subject to the Merit System, the Attorney General may appoint as many assistant attorneys general and other employees as the public interest requires by...
• Section 36-15-9 Private practice by assistant or full-time deputy attorneys general prohibited
  All assistant and full-time deputy attorneys general of the State of Alabama appointed by the Attorney General are hereby prohibited from engaging in the private...
• Section 36-15-10 Executive assistants to Attorney General
  (a) The position of executive assistant to the Attorney General of Alabama is created and established. The Attorney General may appoint up to five executive...
• Section 36-15-10.1 Special administrative assistants
  (a) The position of special administrative assistant to the Attorney General is created and established. (b) The Attorney General may appoint or employ in the...
• Section 36-15-11.1 Paralegal employees for Attorney General
  The Attorney General may employ within his or her office no more than 10 paralegal employees whose compensation, salaries, and expenses or benefits shall be...
• Section 36-15-12 Institution and prosecution of legal proceedings in name of state
  The Attorney General is authorized to institute and prosecute, in the name of the state, all civil actions and other proceedings necessary to protect the...
• Section 36-15-13 Attorney General may appear before grand juries
  The Attorney General, either in person or by assistant, may appear before any grand jury in this state and present any matter or charge to...
• Section 36-15-14 Attorney General may direct prosecution in criminal cases
  The Attorney General, either in person or by one of his or her assistants, at any time he or she deems proper, either before or...
• Section 36-15-15 Attorney General may advise or direct district attorney
  The Attorney General shall give the district attorneys of the several circuits any opinion, instruction or advice necessary or proper to aid them in the...
• Section 36-15-16 Payment of necessary expenses
  The Attorney General may incur such expenses as may be necessary in the investigation of violations of the criminal law, in the prosecution of crime...
• Section 36-15-17 Assistants to act in absence of Attorney General and chief deputy
  During the absence of the Attorney General and the chief deputy from the seat of government, or when so directed by the Attorney General, the...
• Section 36-15-19 Written opinion of Attorney General protects officer, governing body, etc
  The written opinion of the Attorney General, heretofore or hereafter secured by any officer, board, local governing body or agency legally entitled to secure such...
• Section 36-15-21 Litigation affecting state under direction and control of Attorney General; employment of certain assistant attorneys general
  All litigation concerning the interest of the state, or any department of the state, shall be under the direction and control of the Attorney General....
• Section 36-15-21.1 Notification of actions against state entities; maintenance of information
  (a) Any laws to the contrary notwithstanding, whenever any litigation is instituted against any state department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, institution, or officer or...
• Section 36-15-22 Attorney General to designate certain Merit System positions
  (a) Notwithstanding any other laws, in addition to the existing Merit System positions in the office of the Attorney General, no later than 30 days...
• Article 2 Investigators.
• Section 36-15-60 Appointment of investigators for the office of the Attorney General - Authority; service
  The Attorney General may appoint a chief investigator for his or her office and up to six additional investigators as the Attorney General may from...
• Section 36-15-61 Appointment of investigators for the office of the Attorney General - Funds for compensation
  The compensation, salaries, expenses and benefits for such investigators shall be provided from funds which may be now or hereafter available to the Attorney General.
• Section 36-15-62 Appointment of investigators for the office of the Attorney General - Compensation
  (a) The chief investigator and other investigators appointed pursuant to this article shall be compensated at a rate to be set by the Attorney General....
• Section 36-15-62.1 Providing false statements relating to any matter under investigation; penalties
  (a) Any person who knowingly commits any of the following in any matter under investigation by the Attorney General, or a prosecutor or investigator of...
• Section 36-15-63 Appointment of investigators for the office of the Attorney General - Powers
  Investigators appointed pursuant to the provisions of this article shall have all of the powers vested in deputy sheriffs and all other law enforcement officers...
• Section 36-15-64 Appointment of investigators for the office of the Attorney General - Investigators to meet minimum standards established for law enforcement officers
  No person shall serve as an Attorney General's investigator who has not met the minimum standards established for law enforcement officers by the Alabama Peace...

Last modified: May 3, 2021