Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 1 - Autauga County

• Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
• Section 45-1-10 Disclaimer,
  (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Autauga County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Autauga County prior...
• Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Section 45-1-20 Licensing and regulation; violations
  (a) Each local government entity within Autauga County, whether it be a municipality or the county commission, shall have the right and authority to suspend...
• Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
• Section 45-1-30 Reserved
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• Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
• Section 45-1-40 Reserved
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• Article 5 Constables.
• Section 45-1-50 Office of constable abolished
  In Autauga 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
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-1-60 Salary of coroner
  (a) Commencing with the next term of office, the salary of the Coroner of Autauga County shall be fourteen thousand six hundred dollars ($14,600) per...
• Section 45-1-60.01 Benefits and allowances; additional expenses
  (a) In addition to the salary provided by law, the coroner shall be entitled to the same benefits and allowances as are provided by the...
• Part 2 Employees.
• Section 45-1-61 Deputy coroners
  The Coroner of Autauga County may appoint deputy coroners to serve without compensation and to serve at the pleasure of the county coroner. The deputy...
• Article 7 County Commission.
• Section 45-1-70 Regular and special meetings
  (a) Beginning June 1993, the County Commission of Autauga County shall meet regularly at the courthouse on the first Thursday of each month unless this...
• Article 8 Courts.
• Part 1 Court Costs.
• Section 45-1-80 Juvenile Court Services Fund
  (a) In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court cases in Autauga County, a fee of ten dollars ($10) shall...
• Section 45-1-80.01 Service of Process Serving Fund
  (a) This section shall only apply to Autauga County. (b) The Autauga County Sheriff Service of Process Serving Fund is created and hereinafter referred to...
• Section 45-1-80.02 Docket fee; Solicitor's Fund
  (a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Autauga, Chilton, and Elmore Counties, a docket...
• Part 2 Probate Court.
• Division 1 License Division.
• Section 45-1-81 License division created
  There is hereby created within the judge of probate's office of Autauga County license division which shall issue all licenses issued through the judge of...
• Section 45-1-81.01 Assessment and collection of certain motor vehicle taxes; license records
  (a) The judge of probate shall perform all duties relating to the assessment and collection of ad valorem taxes and casual sales and use taxes...
• Section 45-1-81.02 Collection and disposition of fees
  Except as hereinafter provided, the judge of probate shall be entitled to charge and collect the same fees that are provided for by law. All...
• Section 45-1-81.03 Payment of ad valorem vehicle tax prerequisite to issuance of license or transfer; certificate of assessment
  To prevent motor vehicles from escaping taxation and to provide for a more efficient procedure for assessment and collection of taxes due on same, no...
• Section 45-1-81.04 Vehicle information required for assessment
  Before any vehicle can be assessed, the judge of probate shall be furnished the tag number presently on the vehicle unless such vehicle is new,...
• Section 45-1-81.05 Renewal of license by mail; mail order fee
  The judge of probate may, at his or her discretion, mail an application for renewal of licenses to whom such license has been previously issued,...
• Division 2 Recording System.
• Section 45-1-81.30 Purpose
  This subpart shall apply only in Autauga County. The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in...
• Section 45-1-81.31 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 45-1-82.32 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 45-1-81.33 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 45-1-81.34 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 45-1-81.35 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 45-1-81.36 Recording and filing fee - Certain instruments
  Effective September 1, 2003, a special recording and filing fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by the Judge of Probate...
• Section 45-1-81.37 Recording fee - Every case
  Effective September 1, 2003, a special recording fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate with respect...
• Section 45-1-81.38 Transaction fee - Certain transactions
  Effective September 1, 2003, a special transaction fee of two dollars ($2) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate on any...
• Section 45-1-81.39 Transaction fee - Marriage
  Effective September 1, 2003, a special transaction fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate with respect...
• Section 45-1-81.40 Control and audit of fees; availability of records
  The fees collected pursuant to this subpart shall be controlled by the sole discretion of the judge of probate and shall be audited by the...
• Part 3 District Attorney.
• Division 1 Pretrial Diversion Program.
• Section 45-1-82 Definitions
  For the purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The District Attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit,...
• Section 45-1-82.01 Establishment of pretrial diversion program; discretionary powers; supervision and control
  (a) The district attorney may establish a pretrial diversion program. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by the common law and provided for by statutes and...
• Section 45-1-82.02 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 Nineteenth Judicial...
• Section 45-1-82.03 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 45-1-82.04 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 45-1-82.05 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 45-1-82.06 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 45-1-82.07 Cost and fees
  (a) An applicant may be assessed a fee to be established by the district attorney when the applicant is approved for the program. The amount...
• Section 45-1-82.08 Self-improvement or self-help programs; drug testing
  The district attorney and the offender may enter into agreement as a part of the pretrial diversion program that the offender be admitted to a...
• Section 45-1-82.09 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 45-1-82.10 Pretrial Diversion Program Fund
  The district attorney shall establish a Pretrial Diversion Program Fund. The district attorney shall use the funds in the Pretrial Diversion Program Fund to pay...
• Section 45-1-82.11 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 45-1-82.12 Liability of district attorney
  The district attorney shall have no liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender participating in the pretrial diversion program.
• Section 45-1-82.13 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 45-1-82.14 Advisory board
  The district attorney may form an advisory board to assist in the determination of appropriate pretrial diversion candidates and conditions for participation in the program....
• Division 2 Employees.
• Section 45-1-82.30 Investigators
  The District Attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit composed of Autauga, Chilton, and Elmore Counties may appoint a chief investigator and from time to time...
• Part 4 Circuit Court.
• Section 45-1-83 Salary of court reporters
  In the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, the official court reporters appointed and holding office under the provisions of law applicable thereto, in addition to any other...
• Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
• Section 45-1-90 Reserved
• Article 10 Education.
• Section 45-1-100 Board of education - Meetings; compensation
  The Board of Education of Autauga County may, in its discretion, meet such number of days as its members may deem necessary for the orderly...
• Section 45-1-100.01 Superintendent of education
  (a) The Autauga County Board of Education shall appoint the Superintendent of Education of Autauga County pursuant to the general law of the state. The...
• Article 11 Elections.
• Section 45-1-110 Compensation of poll workers
  In Autauga County, election officials who work at polling places shall receive an additional expense allowance in an amount as will, together with any amount...
• Article 12 Employees.
• Section 45-1-120 Reserved
• Article 13 Engineer, County
• Section 45-1-130 Duties of county engineer
  Effective April 23, 1992, all functions, duties, and responsibilities for the construction, maintenance, and repair of public roads, highways, bridges, and ferries in Autauga County...
• Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
• Section 45-1-140 Reserved
• Article 15 Gambling.
• Section 45-1-150 Reserved
• Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
• Section 45-1-160 Reserved
• Article 17 Health and Environment.
• Section 45-1-170 Collection and disposition of fees; ability to pay
  (a) The Autauga County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall...
• Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
• Section 45-1-180 Reserved
• Article 19 Legislature
• Section 45-1-190 Reserved
• Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
• Section 45-1-200 License requirements for door-to-door sales
  (a) All persons engaged in the business of selling products door-to-door for profit in Autauga County shall have a state transient business license, governed by...
• Section 45-1-200.01 Definitions; purpose; fees authorized
  (a) As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BUSINESS. Includes all activities engaged in, or caused...
• Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
• Section 45-1-210 Motor vehicle licenses voided upon non-collectibility of payment
  In Autauga County, when a personal check given for a motor vehicle license is found to be noncollectible for any reason, the judge of probate...
• Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
• Section 45-1-220 Reserved
• Article 23 Sheriff.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-1-230 Expense allowance; compensation
  (a) The Sheriff of Autauga County shall receive an additional expense allowance of thirteen thousand dollars ($13,000) per annum, payable in equal monthly installments. The...
• Section 45-1-230.01 Additional expense allowance; salary increases
  (a) The Sheriff of Autauga County shall receive an annual expense allowance of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000), payable in equal biweekly installments from the general...
• Part 2 Pistol Permit.
• Section 45-1-231 Collection and disposition of pistol permit fee
  In Autauga County, the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person as...
• Part 3 Prisons.
• Division 1 Prisons.
• Section 45-1-232 Operation of jail store; inmate telephone service; Sheriff's Jail Fund
  (a) The Sheriff of Autauga County is hereby authorized to operate a jail store and contract telephone installation for inmates within the confines of the...
• Division 2 Work Release.
• Section 45-1-232.20 Applicability
  This subpart shall apply only to Autauga County.
• Section 45-1-232.21 Definitions
  For purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Autauga County Work Release Board, which shall be composed...
• Section 45-1-232.22 Autauga County Work Release Board
  The Autauga County Work Release Board is established to develop, promulgate, and adopt rules for the operation and maintenance of the Autauga County Work Release...
• Section 45-1-232.23 Release of inmates for employment
  Any inmate qualified and eligible to participate in the program may be released from housing at the Autauga County Metro Jail during the hours of...
• Section 45-1-232.24 Autauga County Work Release Fund; disposition of wages
  (a) The sheriff may establish the Autauga County Work Release Fund at a bank selected by the sheriff located in Autauga County, Alabama. The employer...
• Section 45-1-232.25 Escape from custody
  The willful failure of an inmate to remain within the extended limits of his or her confinement or to return within the time prescribed by...
• Section 45-1-232.26 Investigations and recommendations
  Employees of the board, or its designees, may make investigations and recommendations pertaining to the validity of requests for job opportunities for inmates and to...
• Section 45-1-232.27 Employment criteria
  The board, or its designee, shall endeavor to secure employment for eligible inmates under this subpart, subject to all of the following: (1) Employment must...
• Section 45-1-232.28 Employment status of inmate
  No inmate granted privileges under this subpart shall be deemed to be an agent, employee, or involuntary servant of the board, state, county, or municipality...
• Section 45-1-232.29 Liability for negligence
  Autauga County, its commission, sheriff, and board members or their designated agents shall be immune from any claims of negligence that may be made against...
• Section 45-1-232.30 Audit of fund
  The sheriff shall keep an account of all fund transactions for audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The fund shall be audited...
• Section 45-1-232.31 Ratification of prior actions
  Any actions relating to the operation of the program prior to April 29, 2010, are ratified and confirmed. Any existing proceeds derived from the operation...
• Part 4 Police Jurisdiction.
• Section 45-1-233 Police jurisdiction within Autauga County
  No municipality whose corporate limits do not lie within or extend into and embrace and include a portion of Autauga County shall have or exercise...
• Part 5 Retirement.
• Section 45-1-234 Receipt of badge, pistol, etc., upon retirement
  (a) Any individual employed by the Autauga County Sheriff's office as a law enforcement officer for a period of 10 years or more who retires...
• Part 6 Sale of Abandoned, Stolen and Unclaimed Property.
• Section 45-1-235 Records of abandoned and stolen property; storage
  (a) The Sheriff of Autauga County shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff's office....
• Section 45-1-235.01 Sale of perishable property
  If the abandoned or stolen personal property is of a perishable nature and reasonable attempts to locate and identify the owner of the property are...
• Section 45-1-235.02 Records of abandoned and stolen firearms; sale or destruction
  (a) The sheriff shall keep and maintain a separate permanent record of all abandoned or stolen firearms, not subject to disposition by general law. The...
• Section 45-1-235.03 Notice and sale of stolen or abandoned property
  (a) At least every six months, the sheriff may sell at public auction or Internet auction provider, such as "GOVDeals.com," to the highest bidder for...
• Section 45-1-235.04 Claim of property
  The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Autauga County Sheriff's Office, including firearms, may claim the property at any time...
• Section 45-1-235.05 Record of sale; rejection of bid
  If property is sold at public auction, as provided in this part, a notation in the storage record book shall be made of the sale...
• Section 45-1-235.06 Disposition of sale proceeds
  The proceeds from the sale of property at an auction conducted under the authority of this part, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in...
• Part 7 Funding.
• Section 45-1-236 Purchasing procedures using credit or debit card
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) CREDIT CARD. A line of credit issued by a domestic lender...
• Part 8 Qualifications.
• Section 45-1-237 Minimum qualifications for sheriff; continuing education
  (a) After March 7, 2016, any person qualifying for election to the office of Sheriff of Autauga County or any person appointed to serve as...
• Article 24 Taxation.
• Part 1 Board of Equalization.
• Section 45-1-240 Expense allowance
  The chairman and members of the County Board of Equalization of Autauga County shall each be entitled up to twenty-five dollars ($25) a day for...
• Part 2 Revenue Commissioner.
• Section 45-1-241 Election of commissioner
  On September 30, 1997, or upon occurrence of a vacancy in either the office of tax assessor or tax collector, there shall be a county...
• Section 45-1-241.01 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 45-1-241.02 Deputies, clerks, and assistants
  Subject to the approval of the county commission, the county revenue commissioner shall appoint and fix the duties and compensation of a sufficient number of...
• Section 45-1-241.03 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 45-1-241.04 Facilities and equipment
  The county commission shall provide the necessary offices for the county revenue commissioner, and shall provide all stationery, equipment, and office supplies, not otherwise furnished...
• Section 45-1-241.05 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 45-1-241.06 Offices of tax assessor and tax collector abolished
  The offices of the tax assessor and tax collector of Autauga County are hereby abolished effective the first day of October 1997, or upon the...
• Section 45-1-241.07 Purpose
  It is the purpose of this part to promote the public convenience in Autauga County by consolidating the offices of tax assessor and tax collector...
• Section 45-1-241.08 Tax sales, redemption duties transferred
  In Autauga County, all duties, responsibilities, and liabilities regarding real property sales for failure to pay taxes and subsequent redemption heretofore performed by the judge...
• Section 45-1-241.09 Expense allowance; salary
  (a) Commencing April 1, 2017, the Revenue Commissioner of Autauga County shall receive an annual expense allowance of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) payable in equal...
• Part 3 Tax, Ad Valorem.
• Division 1 Emergency Services.
• Section 45-1-242 Reserved
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• Division 2 Firefighters Association.
• Section 45-1-242.20 Applicability of Subpart 2
  The provisions of this subpart shall apply only to those portions of Autauga County located outside the corporate boundaries of the City of Prattville.
• Section 45-1-242.21 Legislative findings
  The Legislature declares that the fire association and the volunteer fire departments that receive funds pursuant to this subpart are organizations which are public in...
• Section 45-1-242.22 Special property tax for fire, emergency medical, and rescue services
  The County Commission of Autauga County may levy and collect a special property tax, in addition to all other taxes now or hereafter authorized by...
• Section 45-1-242.23 Assessment and collection of tax; distribution of funds
  The Revenue Commissioner of Autauga County shall assess the tax provided for in this subpart and shall collect the tax in the same manner and...
• Section 45-1-242.24 Eligible volunteer fire department under Subpart 2
  An eligible volunteer fire department, for the purposes of this subpart, shall mean a volunteer fire department located in Autauga County which maintains an ISO...
• Section 45-1-242.25 Use of funds; accounting forms
  Funds paid to eligible volunteer fire departments shall only be expended for fire protection and emergency medical and rescue services, including training, supplies, and equipment....
• Section 45-1-241.26 Disposition of funds upon dissolution or abandonment of eligible volunteer fire department
  Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible volunteer fire department, any remaining funds derived from this subpart or any assets purchased with funds derived from...
• Section 45-1-242.27 Liability of personnel
  The personnel of volunteer fire departments provided for in this subpart shall not be considered as employees, servants, or agents of the county and the...
• Part 3 School Purposes.
• Section 45-1-242.50 Reserved
• Part 4 Tax, General.
• Section 45-1-243 Definitions
  (a) The following words, terms, and phrases where used in this subpart shall have the following respective meanings except where the context clearly indicates a...
• Section 45-1-243.01 Authorization of levy of sales tax
  (a) The governing body of the county is hereby authorized to levy and impose in the county, in addition to all other taxes of every...
• Section 45-1-243.02 Authorization of levy of use tax
  (a) The governing body of the county is hereby authorized to levy and impose excise taxes on the storage, use, or other consumption of property...
• Section 45-1-243.03 Payment of taxes herein levied; reports by taxpayers
  The sales taxes authorized to be levied in Section 45-1-243.01 shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of...
• Section 45-1-243.04 Sales tax to be added to sales price or admission fee
  Each person engaging or continuing within the county in a business subject to the sales taxes authorized to be levied in Section 45-1-243.01 shall add...
• Section 45-1-243.05 Special provisions respecting payment of use tax; receipts and returns by registered sellers
  Every registered seller making sales of tangible personal property for storage, use, or other consumption in the county (which storage, use, or other consumption is...
• Section 45-1-243.06 Enforcement of this subpart; taxes a lien
  The taxes authorized to be imposed by this subpart shall constitute a debt due the county and may be collected by civil suit, in addition...
• Section 45-1-243.07 Applicability of state sales and use tax statutes
  All provisions of the state sales tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales tax, making of monthly reports and...
• Section 45-1-243.08 Charge of State Department of Revenue; disposition of tax proceeds
  The State Department of Revenue shall charge the county, for collecting the taxes authorized to be levied herein, the costs of the department in collecting...
• Section 45-1-243.09 Use of tax proceeds
  The proceeds of any taxes authorized to be levied in this subpart shall be paid over by the county within 10 days after their receipt...
• Section 45-1-243.10 Effective date of levy
  If the governing body of the county elects to levy or impose any of the taxes herein authorized to be levied and imposed, it shall...
• Part 5 Tax, Sales and Use.
• Section 45-1-244 The Crime Prevention Inc. and Spinners Inc
  In Autauga County, The Crime Prevention Inc. and Spinners Inc. are hereby exempted from the payment of any and all county and municipal sales and...
• Part 6 Tax, Lodging.
• Section 45-1-245 Levy of tax
  In Autauga County, in addition to all other taxes imposed by law, the Autauga County Commission may levy a privilege or license tax in the...
• Section 45-1-245.01 Exemptions
  (a) There are exempted from the provisions of the tax levied by this part and from the computation of the amount of the tax levied...
• Section 45-1-245.02 Monthly report; recordkeeping; penalties
  (a) The tax levied by this part, except as otherwise provided, shall be due and payable to the Department of Revenue on or before the...
• Section 45-1-245.03 Application of state statutes
  All provisions of the state lodging tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state lodging tax, making of reports and keeping...
• Section 45-1-245.04 Cost of collection
  The Department of Revenue shall charge and deduct from the proceeds of the tax levied an amount equal to the cost to the department of...
• Section 45-1-245.05 Disposition of funds
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the balance of the proceeds from the tax levied by this part shall be deposited into the Autauga...
• Section 45-1-245.06 Severability
  The provisions of this part shall not be applied in a manner to violate the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. If a provision...
• Article 25 Utilities.
• Section 45-1-250 Reserved
• Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
• Section 45-1-260 Reserved

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