Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 15 - Cleburne County

• Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
• Section 45-15-10 Disclaimer
  (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Cleburne County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Cleburne County prior...
• Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Section 45-15-20 Reserved
• Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
• Section 45-15-30 Reserved
• Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
• Section 45-15-40 Reserved
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• Article 5 Constables.
• Section 45-15-50 Reserved
• Article 6 Coroner.
• Section 45-15-60 Expense allowance; salary
  Repealed by Act 2007-243, p. 328, §2, effective September 1, 2007.
• Section 45-15-60.01 Additional expense allowance
  Repealed by Act 2007-243, p. 328, §2, effective September 1, 2007.
• Section 45-15-60.02 Compensation
  Effective September 1, 2007, the Coroner of Cleburne County shall be entitled to receive the salary of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per month payable monthly...
• Section 45-15-60.03 Expenses for operation
  (a) In Cleburne County, in addition to any compensation paid to the coroner by law, the Cleburne County Commission may pay the actual and necessary...
• Section 45-15-61.03
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• Article 7 County Commission.
• Part 1 Election/Membership.
• Section 45-15-70 Election of members; commission districts
  (a) At the general election to be held in 2004, and every four years thereafter, a county commissioner for the first and fourth districts shall...
• Part 2 Powers.
• Section 45-15-71 Sale of driveway pipe
  (a) The Cleburne County Commission may sell driveway pipe to churches, schools, individuals, and nonprofit associations or corporations subject to this section. (b) The county...
• Article 8 Courts.
• Part 1 Court Costs.
• Section 45-15-80 Collection and disposition of additional costs
  (a) In Cleburne County, in addition to all other fees there shall be taxed as costs the sum of three dollars ($3) in each civil...
• Section 45-15-80.01 Service of papers or documents
  (a)(1) In Cleburne County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty dollars ($20)...
• Section 45-15-80.02 Enforcement of controlled substance laws
  (a) In Cleburne County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of five dollars ($5)...
• Section 45-15-80.03 County jail building
  (a) In Cleburne County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of five dollars ($5)...
• Section 45-15-80.04 Service of civil papers or documents
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• Section 45-15-80.05 Additional court costs
  In Cleburne County there shall be collected an additional court cost of ten dollars ($10) in each criminal or civil case filed in any court...
• Section 45-15-80.06 Additional court costs - Circuit and district court cases
  In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit and district court cases in Cleburne County, an additional court cost of ten dollars ($10)...
• Section 45-15-80.07 Additional court costs - Criminal cases
  (a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Cleburne County, the Cleburne County Commission may impose by resolution of...
• Section 45-15-80.08 Solicitor's fee
  (a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Cleburne County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred...
• Section 45-15-80.09 Additional court costs - Traffic cases
  (a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Cleburne County, the Cleburne County Commission may impose by resolution of...
• Section 45-15-80.10 Additional court costs - Domestic relations cases
  (a) In addition to all other costs and charges of court in domestic relations cases filed in the Circuit Court of Cleburne County there shall...
• Section 45-15-80.11 Drug and violent crime reduction fee
  (a) In addition to all other fees and court costs, in all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, and circuit courts...
• Part 2 District Attorney.
• Section 45-15-81 Reserved
• Part 3 Probate Court.
• Division 1 Licenses Division.
• Section 45-15-82 License division created
  There is hereby created within the office of the Judge of Probate of Cleborne County a license division which shall issue all licenses issued through...
• Section 45-15-82.01 Assessment and collection of certain motor vehicle taxes
  The judge of probate shall perform all duties relating to the assessment and collection of ad valorem taxes and casual sales and use taxes on...
• Section 45-15-82.02 License records
  The judge of probate shall keep at all times an accurate record of all licenses received by him or her from the state Comptroller and...
• Section 45-15-82.03 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. For...
• Section 45-15-82.04 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 45-15-82.05 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 45-15-82.06 Renewal of license by mail; Mail Order Fee
  The judge of probate may mail an application for renewal of licenses to whom such license has been previously issued, such renewal forms required to...
• Division 2 Fees.
• Section 45-15-82.30 Renewal of business license by mail
  The judge of probate may mail an application for renewal of business licenses to whom such license has been previously issued, such renewal forms required...
• Section 45-15-82.31 Registration of boats by mail
  The Cleburne County judge of probate shall mail forms to all registered boat owners within the county to allow boat owners to complete such application...
• Section 45-15-82.32 Matrimony fees
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Cleburne County may increase the fee for celebrating the rites of matrimony for nonresidents of Cleburne County to fifty-four...
• Section 45-15-82.33 Additional fees - Marriage license; petition for adoption
  (a) In addition to all other costs, fees, and charges assessed pursuant to current applicable law in the Probate Court of Cleburne County, a fee...
• Division 3 Recording System.
• Section 45-15-82.60 General register of transactions
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Cleburne County in conformity to the duties set out in Section 12-13-41, shall maintain a general register for all...
• Section 45-15-82.61 Real property conveyances; grantee address required
  The Judge of Probate of Cleburne County shall not receive for record or permit the recording of any instrument in which the title to real...
• Section 45-15-82.62 Real and personal property instruments
  In Cleburne County, there is levied a total recording fee of three dollars ($3) on each real property instrument and each personal property instrument filed...
• Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
• Section 45-15-90 Reserved
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• Article 10 Education.
• Section 45-15-100 Reserved
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• Article 11 Elections.
• Section 45-15-110 Compensation - Election officials
  Each election official of Cleburne County shall receive the rate of the minimum wage for each hour, or fraction thereof, that the polls are open...
• Article 12 Employees.
• Section 45-15-120 Reserved
• Article 13 Engineer, County.
• Section 45-15-130 Policies and priorities set by County Commission
  The Cleburne County Commission shall set the necessary policies and priorities for the construction, maintenance, and repair of all public roads, county highways, bridges, ferries,...
• Section 45-15-130.01 Appointment of county engineer; qualifications; requirements
  The Cleburne County Commission, or any succeeding county governing body, shall appoint and employ a county engineer, who shall be a thoroughly qualified and competent...
• Section 45-15-130.02 Duties
  It shall be the duty of the county engineer to: (1) Employ, supervise, and direct all assistants to properly maintain and construct the public roads,...
• Section 45-15-130.03 Wage or salary scale
  It shall be the duty of the county commission to fix, from time to time, in accordance with prevailing economic conditions, the various scales of...
• Section 45-15-130.04 Compensation
  The county commission shall fix the amount of the salary of the county engineer, payable in equal monthly installments from appropriate road and highway funds.
• Section 45-15-130.05 Bond
  Before entering upon his or her duties, the county engineer shall make and enter into a surety bond in the amount set from time to...
• Section 45-15-130.06 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 necessary transportation to...
• Section 45-15-130.07 Accountability for equipment; inventory
  The county engineer shall be the custodian and accountable to the county commission for all road machinery and equipment, tools, supplies, and repair parts owned...
• Section 45-15-130.08 Requisition for expenditure of funds; appropriation by commission
  The authority of the county engineer to expend funds shall be limited to the requisition for the expenditure of funds for the purpose of construction,...
• Section 45-15-130.09 Requisition for materials, supplies, etc.; authority and accountability of county purchasing agent
  The county engineer shall make written requisition to a county purchasing agent for all materials, machinery, equipment, and necessary supplies needed for the construction, maintenance,...
• Section 45-15-130.10 Inspection and approval of materials, supplies, etc., prior to payment
  It shall be the further duty of the county engineer to inspect and approve on delivery all materials, machinery, equipment, and supplies, purchased by the...
• Section 45-15-130.11 Employment of road supervisor in emergency
  In the event of an emergency in which it would be impossible for the commission to employ an engineer, the commission shall employ a competent...
• Section 45-15-130.12 Inspection of roads and bridges; public relations
  Each member of the county commission shall inspect the roads and bridges of his or her district, from time to time, hear the suggestions and...
• Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
• Section 45-15-140 Reserved
• Article 15 Gambling.
• Section 45-15-150 Reserved
• Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
• Section 45-15-160 Emergency telephone service charge
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Section 11-98-5, the Cleburne County Commission may increase the emergency telephone service charges to...
• Article 17 Health and Environment.
• Part 1 Environment.
• Division 1 Industrial Waste.
• Section 45-15-170 Industrial Waste Committee
  (a) There is hereby created the Cleburne County Industrial Waste Committee to consist of: One member, appointed jointly by the county's four municipal governing bodies,...
• Division 2 Litter.
• Section 45-15-170.20 Enforcement
  (a) The Cleburne County Health Department may enforce littering laws, and other laws relating to littering in Cleburne County, in addition to health laws and...
• Division 3 Solid Waste.
• Section 45-15-170.40 Percolation tests
  (a) In Cleburne County, any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, upon the request of any property owner, the county health officer may...
• Section 45-15-170.41 Exemption from solid waste collection program
  (a) This section shall apply only to Cleburne County. (b) Pursuant to Section 22-27-3(a), the Cleburne County Commission may grant an additional exemption to the...
• Part 2 Health.
• Division 1 Board of Health.
• Section 45-15-171 Collection and disposition of fees; ability to pay
  (a) The Cleburne County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall...
• Section 45-15-171.01 Issuance of death certificates; fees
  (a) In Cleburne County, any county health officer or administrator is hereby authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county,...
• Division 2 Hospitals.
• Section 45-15-171.30 Physician inducement
  In Cleburne County, the Cleburne County Hospital Board is hereby authorized to use any available monies from any sources, any facilities or means of the...
• Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
• Section 45-15-180 Political signs on public rights-of-way
  (a) Signs, markers, and advertising, pertaining to political campaigns, on the rights-of-way of state and county controlled highways are prohibited in Cleburne County except those...
• Article 19 Legislature.
• Section 45-15-190 Reserved
• Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
• Section 45-15-200 County license inspector
  (a) In Cleburne County, any law or parts of laws to the contrary notwithstanding, and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 40-12-10 as amended, providing for...
• Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
• Section 45-15-210 Reserved
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• Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
• Section 45-15-220 Casting light from motor vehicle for hunting
  (a) In Cleburne County, it shall be unlawful for any person, or one or more of a group of persons together, to willfully throw or...
• Article 23 Sheriff.
• Part 1 Funding.
• Section 45-15-230 Sale of abandoned, stolen, and unclaimed property
  (a) The Sheriff of Cleburne County, Alabama, shall sell at public auction, in the manner provided in this section, abandoned and stolen personal property recovered...
• Part 2 Jails.
• Section 45-15-231 Operation of jail store; Sheriff's Department Fund
  (a) The Sheriff of Cleburne County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail store for prisoners within the confines of the...
• Part 3 Pistol Permit.
• Section 45-15-232 Fee; Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund
  (a) In Cleburne County, the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person...
• Article 24 Taxation.
• Part 1 Revenue Commissioner.
• Division 1 Office Established.
• Section 45-15-240 Election of commissioner
  After September 30, 1985, or upon occurrence of a vacancy in either the office of tax assessor or tax collector, there shall be a county...
• Section 45-15-240.01 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 45-15-240.02 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 45-15-240.03 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 45-15-240.04 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 45-15-240.05 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 45-15-240.06 Offices of tax assessor and tax collector abolished
  The offices of the Tax Assessor and Tax Collector of Cleburne County are hereby abolished effective the first day of October 1985, or upon the...
• Section 45-15-240.07 Purpose
  It is the purpose of this subpart to promote the public convenience in Cleburne County by consolidating the offices of tax assessor and tax collector...
• Division 2 Funding and Merging of Budgetary Operations.
• Section 45-15-240.30 Budgetary operations and functions; operational fund
  The Revenue Commissioner of Cleburne County is hereby authorized to take the necessary action to merge the budgetary operations and functions of the office. Hereafter,...
• Division 3 Redemption of land.
• Section 45-15-240.50 Procedure for sale and redemption of lands
  (a) This section shall apply to Cleburne County. (b) The procedure for selling and redeeming lands for taxes in such county shall be the same...
• Part 2 Tax, Lodging.
• Section 45-15-241 Lodging tax levied
  In Cleburne County, in addition to all other taxes imposed by law, there is levied a privilege or license tax in the amount herein prescribed...
• Section 45-15-241.01 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 45-15-241.02 Monthly report; payment of tax; records; 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 45-15-241.03 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 45-15-241.04 Disposition of funds
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, all proceeds from the tax levied by this part shall be deposited into the Cleburne County General Fund...
• Section 45-15-241.05 Severability
  None of the provisions of this part shall be applied in a manner to violate the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. If a...
• Section 45-15-241.06 Deduction of collection costs
  The Department of Revenue shall charge and deduct from the proceeds of the tax levied an amount equal to the cost to the agency of...
• Part 3 Tax, Sales and Use.
• Section 45-15-242 Sale of fireworks
  (a) The County Commission of Cleburne County is hereby authorized to levy and collect a local county tax on the sale of fireworks in Cleburne...
• Part 4 Tax, Tobacco.
• Section 45-15-243 Levy of tax
  (a) There is hereby levied on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in Cleburne...
• Section 45-15-243.01 Addition of tax to tobacco products
  Every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells, stores, or receives, for the purpose of selling or storing in Cleburne County, any cigarettes, cigars,...
• Section 45-15-243.02 Failure to collect tax; powers and duties of department; unavailability of stamps
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in the business in Cleburne County for which the tax...
• Section 45-15-243.03 Applicability of department laws, rules, and regulations
  All laws, rules, and regulations of the department relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Sections 40-25-1 to 40-25-28,...
• Section 45-15-243.04 Disposition of funds
  The proceeds from the tax authorized, less the amount or percentage of the actual cost of collection as may be agreed upon by the Cleburne...
• Section 45-15-243.05 Construction and application
  This part shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products stored by a wholesale dealer for the...
• Article 25 Utilities.
• Section 45-15-250 Reserved
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• Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
• Section 45-15-260 Reserved

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