Code of Alabama - Title 36: Public Officers and Employees - Chapter 2 - Eligibility for Office, Residence; Commissions

• Section 36-2-1 Persons not eligible to hold state office; holding of state and federal offices of profit or two state offices of profit
  (a) The following persons shall be ineligible to and disqualified from holding office under the authority of this state: (1) Those who are not qualified...
• Section 36-2-2 Entering into public office of person disqualified by law
  Any person, being disqualified by law, who by election or appointment enters upon any public office must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00.
• Section 36-2-3 Residence of officers generally; location of offices
  All officers must reside in this state and keep their offices in such places as are or may be designated by law.
• Section 36-2-4 Residency of state officers
  Every state official or officer holding office under the authority of this state and who is paid a salary or receives pecuniary profit for his...
• Section 36-2-5 Failure to comply with Section 36-2-4 deemed ground for impeachment or removal
  The failure of any such official to comply with the requirements of Section 36-2-4 shall be ground for impeachment or removal of such official from...
• Section 36-2-6 Officers required to obtain commissions
  The judges of the several courts, the Attorney General, district attorneys, the Secretary of State, the Auditor, the Treasurer, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,...
• Section 36-2-7 Issuance and execution of commissions generally
  The commission must issue in the name and by the authority of the State of Alabama, must be sealed with the Great Seal and signed...
• Section 36-2-8 When commissions to be issued
  No commissioned officer of this state required by law to give bond shall receive his commission until he has made his bond and had the...
• Section 36-2-9 Exercise of duties of office by state official without first obtaining commission
  Any state officer required by law to be commissioned who exercises any of the duties of the office to which he has been elected or...
• Section 36-2-10 When county officers, etc., may begin to exercise duties and functions of offices to which elected
  All county officers and officers chosen for any portion or district of a county shall be authorized to exercise the duties and functions of the...

Last modified: May 3, 2021