Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 18 - Conecuh County

• Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
• Part 1 Disclaimer.
• Section 45-18-10 Disclaimer
  (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Conecuh County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Conecuh County prior...
• Part 2 Relief Acts.
• Section 45-18-11 Authorization of payment for moral and equitable claim
  (a) Mr. Willie Lee Powell was an employee of the Conecuh County Commission in 1967, and, at that time we severely injured during the official...
• Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Section 45-18-20 Draft and keg beer sales authorized
  (a) The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may grant permits to licensed retailers to sell or dispense draft or keg beer or malt beverages anywhere...
• Section 45-18-20.01 Limitations on sale of beer or ale; taxes
  (a) In Conecuh County, in addition to all containers provided for by law, beer or ale may be sold in cans that do not exceed...
• Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
• Section 45-18-30 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
• Section 45-18-40 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 5 Constables.
• Section 45-18-50 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 6 Coroner.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-18-60 Expense allowance
  (a) The Coroner of Conecuh County shall receive a total expense allowance in the amount of four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800) per year, which...
• Section 45-18-60.01 Total expense allowance
  (a) After February 10, 2014, the Coroner of Conecuh County shall receive a total expense allowance in the amount of six thousand two hundred ninety-three...
• Part 2 Deputy Coroners.
• Section 45-18-61 Appointment
  (a) The County Commission of Conecuh County may appoint one or more deputy coroners, as deemed necessary, who shall hold office at the pleasure of...
• Article 7 County Commission.
• Section 45-18-70 Composition; chair
  (a) The county commission created in this article shall consist of five associate members, one of whom shall be elected as chair by the members...
• Section 45-18-70.01 Election of members; terms of office
  The five members of the commission shall be elected from single-member districts within Conecuh County. All five commissioners will run concurrently in 1988, and will...
• Section 45-18-70.02 Commission districts
  For the purpose of this article , and for future elections of associate members of the county commission, Conecuh County is divided into five separate...
• Section 45-18-70.03 Qualifications
  At the general election in 1988, and every four years thereafter, the qualified electors residing in each of the districts in Conecuh County shall elect...
• Section 45-18-70.04 Tenure of commissioners
  This article shall not affect the duties, rights, and tenure of the office of the present members of the Conecuh County Commission, but the commissioners...
• Section 45-18-70.05 Vacancies
  Any vacancy occurring in the office of associate commissioner shall be filled in the manner otherwise provided by law concerning the filling of vacancies of...
• Section 45-18-70.06 Inspection of roads and bridges
  It shall be the duty of each associate member of the county commission to inspect the roads and bridges of his or her district from...
• Section 45-18-70.07 Compensation
  The commissioners elected under this article shall be entitled to, as compensation for their services and in lieu of all other expenses and allowances heretofore...
• Section 45-18-70.08 Assignment of qualified electors based on residency; unassigned voters
  (a) After April 22, 1986, the Conecuh County Board of Registrars is directed to place the names of each qualified elector in the proper precinct...
• Section 45-18-70.09 Identification of unassigned voters
  An unassigned voter may identify himself or herself for assignment in any one of the following ways: (1) He or she may identify himself or...
• Section 45-18-70.10 Board of registrars in continuous session; publication of voter lists
  The board of registrars shall stay in continuous session from the first Monday in April through the month of May 1986, for the purpose of...
• Section 45-18-70.11 Expenses
  All expenses incurred in connection with this article and the identification of voters for assignment which is not otherwise provided by law shall be authorized...
• Article 8 Courts.
• Part 1 Circuit Court.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-18-80 Salary supplements
  Repealed by Act 2013-302, §1, August 1, 2013.
• Division 2 Retirement.
• Section 45-18-80.20 Court reporters
  (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of Section 36-27-6 the Official Court Reporter of the Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuit, composed of the counties of Conecuh and Monroe, may...
• Part 2 District Attorney.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-18-81 Expense or automobile allowance
  The District Attorney of the Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuit shall receive, in addition to any other compensation and in addition to any other supplement provided by...
• Division 2 Pretrial Diversion Program.
• Section 45-18-81.20 Established; discretionary powers; supervision and control
  (a) The District Attorney of the Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuit may establish a pretrial diversion program. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by the common law and...
• Section 45-18-81.21 Definitions
  For purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The elected District Attorney of the Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuit...
• Section 45-18-81.22 Applicants for admittance
  (a) A person charged with a criminal offense specified in this subsection whose jurisdiction is in the Circuit or District Court of the Thirty-fifth Judicial...
• Section 45-18-81.23 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 45-18-81.24 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 45-18-81.25 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 45-18-81.26 Time for application
  (a) An offender shall make application to the pretrial diversion program no later than 21 days after his or her first appearance or arraignment, whichever...
• Section 45-18-81.27 Costs and fees
  (a) An applicant may be assessed a fee when the applicant is approved for the program. The amount of the assessment for participation in the...
• Section 45-18-81.28 Treatment programs; drug testing
  The district attorney and the offender may enter into an agreement as a part of the pretrial diversion program of an offender that the offender...
• Section 45-18-81.29 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 45-18-81.30 Pretrial diversion program fund
  The district attorney shall establish a pretrial diversion program fund. Except for the twenty-five dollars ($25) payable to the circuit clerk pursuant to subsection (c)...
• Section 45-18-81.31 Violations; waiver
  (a) If the offender violates the conditions of the pretrial diversion program agreed to in writing by the offender and the district attorney, the district...
• Section 45-18-81.32 Liability of district attorney
  The district attorney shall have no liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender while participating in the pretrial diversion program.
• Section 45-18-81.33 Funding
  The pretrial diversion program may apply for grants applicable to the aims of the program, may accept gifts from individuals or corporations, and may receive...
• Section 45-18-81.34 Advisory board
  The district attorney may form an advisory board to assist in the determination of appropriate pretrial diversion candidates. The district attorney shall retain the final...
• Division 3 Solicitor Counsel.
• Section 45-18-81.60 Qualifications; duties; compensation; tenure; removal
  (a) Any County Solicitor or District Attorney of the 35th Judicial Circuit: (1) Who is not less than 70 years of age; (2) Who has...
• Part 3 Probate Court.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-18-82 Salary; fees
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Conecuh County shall be compensated on a salary basis, as provided by Section 12-13-20, which shall be in lieu...
• Division 2 License Division.
• Section 45-18-82.20 Assessment and collection of motor vehicle taxes
  The Judge of Probate of Conecuh County shall perform all duties relative to the assessment and collection of taxes on motor vehicles, and the issuance...
• Section 45-18-82.21 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 45-18-82.22 Office space, equipment, personnel
  The Conecuh County Commission shall furnish suitable quarters or additional space if necessary for the efficient performance of the additional duties of the judge of...
• Section 45-18-82.23 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 45-18-82.24 Compensation of judge of probate
  The judge of probate shall receive for the performance of duties in assessment and collection of ad valorem taxes, sales taxes, and issuance of motor...
• Section 45-18-82.25 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 45-18-82.26 Renewal of license by mail; mail order fee
  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 45-18-82.27 Taxes and fees
  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this subpart shall be construed to increase the taxes and fees of motor vehicles and motor vehicle tags and titles...
• Division 3 Recording System and Fees.
• Section 45-18-82.50 Purpose
  This subpart shall apply only in Conecuh County. The purpose of the subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in...
• Section 45-18-82.51 Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this division shall have the following meanings: (1) GENERAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT. A real property instrument that affects...
• Section 45-18-82.52 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 45-18-82.53 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 45-18-82.54 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 45-18-82.55 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 45-18-82.56 Recording and filing fee - Certain instruments
  Effective immediately after September 1, 1999, a special recording and filing fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by the Judge...
• Section 45-18-82.57 Recording fee - Every case
  Effective September 1, 1999, a special recording and filing fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid to and collected by the judge of probate...
• Section 45-18-82.58 Transaction fee - Certain transactions
  Effective September 1, 1999, a special transaction fee of two dollars ($2) shall be paid to and collected at the discretion of the judge of...
• Section 45-18-82.59 Transaction fee - Marriage
  Effective September 1, 1999, a special transaction fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by its judge of probate with respect...
• Section 45-18-82.60 Control and audit of fees; availability of records
  The fees collected pursuant to this division shall be controlled by the sole discretion of the judge of probate and shall be audited by the...
• Section 45-18-82.61 Real property conveyances
  (a) The Probate Judge of Conecuh County shall not record any instrument conveying the title to real property unless the body of the instrument is...
• Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
• Section 45-18-90 Applicability
  This article shall only apply in Conecuh County.
• Section 45-18-90.01 Conecuh County Reservoir Management Area Authority - Creation; board of directors
  (a) The Conecuh County Reservoir Management Area Authority is created, and may incorporate under the general laws of this state as a public corporation and...
• Section 45-18-90.02 Issuance of bonds and notes
  The board may issue interest-bearing revenue bonds and notes payable solely out of the revenues of the authority or out of the revenues of any...
• Section 45-18-90.03 Bonds and notes of authority
  Bonds and notes of the authority shall constitute negotiable instruments and may be secured by a pledge of the revenues from which they are payable,...
• Section 45-18-90.04 Powers and obligations of board
  The board may provide for constructive notice of any statutory mortgage lien, authorize and make provisions respecting the assumption by the authority of obligations respecting...
• Section 45-18-90.05 Contribution of funds; taxation
  The Conecuh County Commission and the municipalities located within Conecuh County may contribute money to the authority, without the necessity of an election and with...
• Section 45-18-90.06 Zoning, eminent domain, and regulation of on-site sewage systems
  (a) The board shall have zoning power within the boundaries of the management area. (b) The board may exercise the power of eminent domain. (c)...
• Section 45-18-90.07 Exemption from regulation and supervision; use of public roads
  The authority shall be exempt from regulation and supervision by the Public Service Commission and the state Department of Finance. The authority may use public...
• Section 45-18-90.08 No authority to levy tax; veto of actions
  (a) This article shall not be interpreted to grant the authority any power to levy any tax. (b) Any provisions of this article to the...
• Section 45-18-90.09 Contracts with other authorities; grants
  The board may enter into contracts with and accept grants from any other authority organized pursuant to the laws of this state or federal laws....
• Article 10 Education.
• Section 45-18-100 School board districts; elections
  (a) Conecuh County is divided into five school board districts to be designated School Board District No. 1, School Board District No. 2, School Board...
• Section 45-18-100.01 Insuring school buildings and property
  In accordance with Section 41-15-1, the Conecuh County Board of Education is authorized to insure school buildings and property in the State Insurance Fund or...
• Article 11 Elections.
• Part 1 Board of Registrars.
• Section 45-18-110 Compensation
  (a) The members of the Board of Registrars and Board of Equalization of Conecuh County shall be entitled to receive an additional compensation of five...
• Part 2 Election Officials.
• Section 45-18-110.20 Compensation
  The officers appointed to hold elections in Conecuh County shall each be entitled to twenty-five dollars ($25). The returning officer shall also be entitled to...
• Part 3 Voting Centers.
• Section 45-18-112 Establishment of voting centers
  (a) Pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 17-6-4, the Conecuh County Commission may establish voting centers by combining voters from two or more precincts in...
• Article 12 Employees.
• Section 45-18-120 Applicability - Locality
  This article shall apply only in Conecuh County.
• Section 45-18-120.01 Definitions
  As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: "county" means Conecuh County, Alabama; "employee" means any person, including law enforcement...
• Section 45-18-120.02 Applicability - Personnel
  This article shall apply to all officials and employees in the service of the county or any board, agency, or instrumentality thereof except: (1) persons...
• Section 45-18-120.03 Merit system rules and regulations; removal for cause
  All employees to whom this article applies shall be governed by merit system rules and regulations prescribed in or promulgated pursuant to this article, administered...
• Section 45-18-120.04 Merit system board - Creation; composition; oath
  (a) There is created the Merit System Board of Conecuh County, appointed by the Conecuh County Commission. The members of the merit system board serving...
• Section 45-18-120.05 Merit system board - Compensation
  Each member of the merit system board shall be paid a salary to be set by the Conecuh County Commission.
• Section 45-18-120.06 Merit system board - Meetings
  The merit system board shall fix the times for its regular meetings; and it may hold special, adjourned, or call meetings at any time. A...
• Section 45-18-120.07 Merit system board - Recordkeeping
  The merit system board shall keep complete minutes of its meetings and a record of all business transacted by it. Its records, except those which...
• Section 45-18-120.08 Merit system board - Classification of service types; determination of salary
  (a) The merit system board shall have power to: (1) classify the different types of services to be performed in the service of the county;...
• Section 45-18-120.09 Probationary employment
  All appointments, other than temporary appointments, shall be probationary for six months from the date of appointment. A probationary employee may be discharged by his...
• Section 45-18-120.10 Suspension of merit employee
  An appointing authority, shall have authority to suspend without pay a merit employee for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning his or her...
• Section 45-18-120.11 Removal, discharge, or demotion of merit employee; proceedings before board; appeal
  (a) The govening body of the county, any member of the govening body, or the head of any department or office can remove, discharge, or...
• Section 45-18-120.12 Political activities
  No employee shall make, solicit, or receive any assessment, donation, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatsoever, or be a member of a committee...
• Section 45-18-120.13 Payment of salaries and expenses
  The compensation and all other expenses of the merit system board arising under this article shall be paid from funds of the county on the...
• Section 45-18-120.14 Violations
  Any merit employee who willfully violates any of the provisions of this article, or any rule or regulation issued in pursuance hereof, shall be dismissed...
• Article 13 Engineer, County.
• Section 45-18-130 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
• Section 45-18-140 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 15 Gambling.
• Section 45-18-150 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
• Section 45-18-160 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 17 Health and Environment.
• Section 45-18-170 Health department fees
  (a) The Conecuh 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 45-18-180 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 19 Legislature.
• Section 45-18-190 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
• Section 45-18-200 Reserved
  404 - File or directory not found. Server Error 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have...
• Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
• Section 45-18-210 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
• Section 45-18-220 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 23 Sheriff.
• Part 1 Jails.
• Section 45-18-230 Jail store and telephone system for inmates
  (a) The Sheriff of Conecuh County, or the authorized agents of the sheriff, may operate a jail store and a telephone system for prisoners within...
• Part 2 Pistol Permits.
• Section 45-18-231 Permit fee; Sheriff's Fund; disposition of funds
  (a) In Conecuh 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 Board of Equalization.
• Section 45-18-240 Compensation
  In Conecuh County, the members of the board of equalization shall be entitled to receive additional compensation of ten dollars ($10) per day to be...
• Part 2 Revenue Commissioner.
• Section 45-18-241 Consolidation of offices and powers; oath; compensation
  (a) This section shall apply only in Conecuh County. (b) The purpose of this section is to conserve revenue and promote the public convenience in...
• Part 3 Tax, Loding.
• Section 45-18-242 Lodging tax levied; exemptions
  (a) There is levied in Conecuh County, in addition to all other taxes now imposed by law, a privilege or license tax paralleling the state...
• Section 45-18-242.01 Collection of tax
  The tax levied under this part shall be paid to and collected by the county or the collection agency from time to time designated in...
• Section 45-18-242.02 Tax due dates; gross proceeds statements
  The tax levied under this part, except as otherwise provided, shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of...
• Section 45-18-242.03 Monthly reports of cash and credit businesses
  Any person, corporation, partnership, firm, limited liability company, association, proprietorship, or other entity taxable under this part having a cash and credit business may report...
• Section 45-18-242.04 Tax returns, forms, and remittances
  On or before 30 days after the end of the tax year, each person, corporation, partnership, firm, limited liability company, association, proprietorship, or other entity...
• Section 45-18-242.05 Recordkeeping
  It shall be the duty of every person, corporation, partnership, firm, limited liability company, association, proprietorship, or other entity engaged in or continuing within the...
• Section 45-18-242.06 Oaths; perjury
  The monthly reports herein required to be made are not required to be made on oath, but wherever in this part any report is required...
• Section 45-18-242.07 Inspection of reports or returns
  All reports or returns filed with the agency under this part shall be available for inspection by the governing body of the county, or any...
• Section 45-18-242.08 Failure to include tax; absorption or refund of tax
  It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, partnership, firm, limited liability company, association, proprietorship, or other entity engaged in or continuing within the county...
• Section 45-18-242.09 Enforcement of collection of taxes
  The tax levied by this part, together with interest and penalties that may be imposed, shall constitute a debt due the county and may be...
• Section 45-18-242.10 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 45-18-242.11 Disposition of funds
  (a) The custodian of the general funds of the county shall deposit the revenue derived from the tax levied pursuant to this part into the...
• Section 45-18-242.12 Relation to other laws
  This part is supplemental and shall be construed in pari materia with other laws regulating taxes; provided, however, those laws or parts of laws which...
• Part 4 Tax, Sales and Use.
• Section 45-18-243 Applicability
  This part shall only apply to Conecuh County.
• Section 45-18-243.01 Relation to state statutes
  As used in this part, state sales and use tax means the tax imposed by the state sales and use tax statutes, including, but not...
• Section 45-18-243.02 Levy of tax; exemptions
  (a) The County Commission of Conecuh County may levy, and repeal after the levy, in addition to all other taxes, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 45-18-243.03 Monthly report
  The tax levied by this part shall be collected by the State Department of Revenue at the same time and in the same manner as...
• Section 45-18-243.04 Addition of tax to sales price or admission fee
  Each person engaging or continuing in a business subject to the tax levied by this part, shall add to the sales price or admission fee...
• Section 45-18-243.05 Collection of tax; enforcement
  The tax levied by this part shall constitute a debt due Conecuh County. The tax, together with any interest and penalties, shall constitute and be...
• Section 45-18-243.06 Applicability of parallel state provisions
  All provisions of the state sales and use tax statutes with respect to the payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales and use tax,...
• Section 45-18-243.07 Charge for collection; disposition of funds
  The department shall charge Conecuh County for collecting the tax levied under this part in an amount or percentage of total collections as may be...
• Part 5 Tax, Tobacco.
• Section 45-18-244 Levy of tax; legislative intent
  (a) Upon adoption of a resolution by the Conecuh County Commission, the county commission may impose on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores,...
• Section 45-18-244.01 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 Conecuh County, any cigarettes, cigars,...
• Section 45-18-244.02 Collection of tax; stamps
  It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in the business in Conecuh County for which the tax is...
• Section 45-18-244.03 Applicability of state provisions
  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 45-18-244.04 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 Commissioner...
• Section 45-18-244.05 Construction
  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 45-18-250 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
• Section 45-18-260 Reserved Reserved.

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