Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 19 - Coosa County

• Article 1 General and Miscellanous Provisions.
• Part 1 Disclaimer.
• Section 45-19-10 Disclaimer
  (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Coosa County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Coosa County prior...
• Part 2 Compensation.
• Section 45-19-11 Compensation for Judge of Probate, Sheriff, and Revenue Commissioner
  (a)(l) Commencing on October 1, 1997, the Judge of Probate, Sheriff, and the Revenue Commissioner of Coosa County shall be entitled to an additional expense...
• Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Section 45-19-20 Sale of draft or keg beer authorized
  (a) The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, in its discretion, may grant permits to licensed clubs and retailers to sell or dispense draft or keg...
• Section 45-19-20.01 Limitations on beer or ale container size
  (a) In Coosa County, in addition to all other containers provided for by law, beer or ale may be sold in containers that do not...
• Section 45-19-20.02 Rejection of license by county commission; review
  In Coosa County, the county commission shall have the right to reject any license issued for the sale of alcoholic beverages which the local governmental...
• Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
• Section 45-19-30 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
• Section 45-19-40 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 5 Constables.
• Section 45-19-50 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 6 Coroner.
• Section 45-19-60 Compensation and travel allowance for coroner and assistant coroners
  (a) In Coosa County, effective at the beginning of the next term of office, and all subsequent terms of office, the compensation of the coroner...
• Article 7 County Commission.
• Section 45-19-70 Organization and composition
  Beginning with the term of office which commences in November, 2000, the organization and composition of the County Commission of Coosa County shall be altered...
• Section 45-19-70.01 Membership requirements
  Each member of the Coosa County Commission shall represent a separate district. Only the qualified electors residing in a district may vote to elect the...
• Section 45-19-70.02 Districts; map
  For the purposes of this article, and for future elections for members of the county commission, Coosa County is divided into five separate districts, numbered...
• Section 45-19-70.03 Vacancies
  Any vacancy occurring in the office of county commissioner shall be filled in the manner provided by law.
• Section 45-19-70.04 Chair of commission; compensation
  Beginning with the term of office which commences in November, 2000, the five members of the Coosa County Commission shall elect from among themselves a...
• Section 45-19-70.05 Unit road system; work plans
  The Coosa County Commission shall establish a centrally located shop and central unit road system for the operation of the county roads and bridges. The...
• Section 45-19-70.06 Filing of vacancies
  A vacancy occurring in the office of commissioner shall be filled in the manner provided by law.
• Section 45-19-70.07 Administrator; clerical help; records
  The chair, with approval of the county commission, shall employ an administrator who shall devote his or her entire time to the duties of the...
• Section 45-19-70.08 County engineer; powers and duties; compensation; equipment and facilities
  (a) The chair, with the approval of the county commission, shall employ a county engineer, who shall be a qualified and competent civil engineer, possessing...
• Section 45-19-70.09 Duties of commission members
  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 8 Courts.
• Part 1 Court Costs.
• Division 1 Jail.
• Section 45-19-80 Additional fee on civil and criminal cases
  In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized, and notwithstanding any other provision of the constitution, including without limitations Sections 96,...
• Section 45-19-80.01 Additional fee authorized; disposition of funds
  (a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Coosa County, the Coosa County Commission may impose by resolution of...
• Division 1.5 Booking Fee
• Section 45-19-80.10 Additional booking fee in certain cases
  (a) In Coosa County, a booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed against and collected from each person booked or...
• Division 2 Sheriff.
• Section 45-19-80.20 Legislative findings; additional court costs
  (a) The Legislature finds that the office of sheriff is an integral part of the court system of this state and Coosa County. It further...
• Section 45-19-80.21 Legislative findings; additional court costs; Sheriff's Fund
  (a) The Legislature finds that the office of sheriff is an integral part of the court system of this state and Coosa County. It further...
• Division 3 Failure to Appear Warrants
• Section 45-19-80.30 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT
  (a) In Coosa County, in addition to any and all court costs, fees, and charges now or hereafter authorized, there shall be assessed by the...
• Part 2 District Attorney.
• Section 45-19-81 Reserved Reserved.
• Part 3 Probate Court.
• Division 1 Fees and Funding.
• Section 45-19-82 Matrimony fees
  The Judge of Probate of Coosa County is hereby authorized, at his or her discretion, to not charge for celebrating the rites of matrimony. Any...
• Section 45-19-82.01 Recording fee
  (a) In Coosa County, a special recording fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be collected by the judge of probate, with respect to each real...
• Section 45-19-82.02 Driver's license issuance fee; Driver's Licensing Fund
  In addition to all other charges, costs, taxes, or fees levied on the issuance of all driver's licenses, the Coosa County Commission may provide for...
• Section 45-19-82.03 Fees for scanning, faxing, and electronic transmittal of documents
  (a)(1) The judge of probate of Coosa County may charge and collect fees of up to three dollars ($3) for the first page and up...
• Section 45-19-82.04 Fees for remote access of records
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Coosa County may charge and collect fees up to one dollar fifty cents ($1.50) or the equivalent of the...
• Division 2 License Division.
• Section 45-19-82.20 Creation; duties; equipment and personnel; compensation
  In Coosa County, a license division is created within the office of the judge of probate. The license division shall issue all licenses except marriage...
• Section 45-19-82.21 Assessment and collection of motor vehicle taxes; commissions and fees
  The judge of probate shall perform all duties relating to the assessment and collection of taxes on motor vehicles in the county, which have previously...
• Section 45-19-82.22 Records and reporting
  The judge of probate shall keep at all times an accurate record of all licenses received by him or her from the Comptroller, the disposition...
• Section 45-19-82.23 Assessment and collection of fees; disposition of funds
  Except as provided in this subpart, the judge of probate may charge and collect the same fees that are provided for by law. For the...
• Section 45-19-82.24 Payment of tax required for issuance of license
  To prevent motor vehicles from escaping taxation and to provide for a more efficient procedure for assessment and collection of taxes due, the judge of...
• Section 45-19-82.25 Requirements for assessment of vehicle
  Before any vehicle can be assessed, the judge of probate shall be furnished the current tag number on the vehicle unless the vehicle is new,...
• Section 45-19-82.26 Renewal of license by mail; mail order fee
  The judge of probate may mail an application for renewal of licenses to whom the license has been previously issued, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 45-19-82.27 Compensation of judge of probate
  The judge of probate shall not receive any additional salary or other compensation for implementing this subpart.
• Section 45-19-82.28 Salaries of license administrator and license clerks
  Salaries of the license administrator and license clerks will be prorated among the agencies receiving revenue from the sale of tags and licenses.
• Section 45-19-82.29 Coosa County One-Stop License Office designated
  The license division established by this subpart shall be entitled the Coosa County One-Stop License Office.
• Division 3 Recording System.
• Section 45-19-82.50 General register of transactions; disposition of funds
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Coosa County pursuant to Section 12-13-41, shall maintain a general register for all transactions recorded by the probate office...
• Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
• Section 45-19-90 Kellyton industrial park
  The Coosa County Commission, after tax abatement incentives have expired from the industrial park in Kellyton, which development was funded with 58 percent of the...
• Article 10 Education.
• Part 1 Board of Education.
• Section 45-19-100 Composition; election by districts
  (a) The Coosa County Board of Education shall be composed of five members elected as follows: One member shall be elected from each of the...
• Part 2 Superintendent of Education.
• Section 45-19-101 Appointment; qualifications; duties; compensation
  (a) The Coosa County Board of Education shall appoint the county superintendent of education, in accordance with Section 16-9-1, as amended, with the first term...
• Article 11 Elections.
• Part 1 Board of Registrars.
• Section 45-19-110 Purging of voter registration lists
  The Board of Registrars of Coosa County is directed to purge all lists of the qualified electors in the county to the end that the...
• Section 45-19-110.01 Removal from list of qualified electors
  The board of registrars shall omit and remove from the lists of qualified electors of the county the name of any person who fails to...
• Section 45-19-110.02 Reidentification of qualified electors
  Prior to the November general election of 1978, and any tenth year thereafter, the Board of Registrars of Coosa County is authorized and directed to...
• Section 45-19-110.03 Per diem allowance for registrars
  Each member of the board of registrars shall receive twenty dollars ($20) per day from the county general fund, for each day's attendance upon the...
• Section 45-19-110.04 Methods of voter reidentification
  A voter may reidentify himself or herself in anyone of the following ways: (1) He or she may reidentify himself or herself by appearing in...
• Section 45-19-110.05 Meeting to purge registration lists; persons not to be stricken
  The board of registrars shall meet on the first Monday in January 1980, and any tenth year thereafter, for the purpose of purging the registration...
• Section 45-19-110.06 Restoration of names to list of qualified electors
  Any qualified elector of the county who shall have his or her name omitted or removed from the list of qualified electors in the county...
• Section 45-19-110.07 Materials needed for reidentification of voters
  The Court of County Commissioners of Coosa County is authorized, directed, and required to furnish the board of registrars with the supplies, equipment, printed forms,...
• Section 45-19-110.08 Voters reidentification questionnaire
  The questionnaire to reidentify a voter shall be in substantially the following form: VOTERS REIDENTIFICATION QUESTIONNAIRE Date _____, 20 Name _________________________________________ (FIRST) (MIDDLE) (LAST) Legal...
• Section 45-19-110.09 Penalties for falsified reidentification
  Any person who willfully makes a false statement to the board of registrars, or any duly authorized person, in reidentifying himself or herself as a...
• Part 2 Voting Centers.
• Section 45-19-111 Establishment of voting centers
  In Coosa County, to facilitate or reduce election costs, the county commission may, pursuant to Section 17-5-5, by resolution, establish voting centers by combining voters...
• Article 12 Employees.
• Section 45-19-120 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 13 Engineer, County.
• Section 45-19-130 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
• Part 1 Participation in Alabama Forestry Commission Fire Protection Program.
• Section 45-19-140 Forest fire protection
  (a) The County Commission of Coosa County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection against forest fires in Coosa County by participating in...
• Part 2 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service Districts and Fee.
• Section 45-19-141 Applicability
  This part shall be operative only in Coosa County.
• Section 45-19-141.01 Legislative intent
  It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the financing of a system for fire protection, fire prevention, emergency medical services, and related...
• Section 45-19-141.02 Definitions
  As used in this part, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) ASSOCIATION. The Coosa County Association of Volunteer Fire Departments....
• Section 45-19-141.03 Fire protection fee - Levy, collection, and enforcement
  The revenue commissioner is authorized to collect, beginning October 1st 2003, and each successive year in all districts, a fire protection fee with respect to...
• Section 45-19-141.04 Fire protection fee - Eligibility to receive proceeds
  To be eligible to receive proceeds from the fire protection fee, each department shall be a member in good standing in the Coosa County Association...
• Section 45-19-141.05 Fire protection fee - Use of proceeds
  Proceeds from the fire protection fee may be used at the discretion of the individual department for fire protection, fire prevention, and emergency medical services...
• Section 45-19-141.06 Establishment of districts
  The association may, after approval by a majority vote of member departments in good standing, establish and define the boundaries of one or more districts...
• Section 45-19-141.07 Alteration of district boundaries
  The association may, with the consent of the affected district or districts and approval by a two-thirds majority vote of member departments in good standing,...
• Section 45-19-141.08 Effect of annexation
  If the annexation of territory in a district by an existing municipality or the creation of a new municipality takes in the property on which...
• Section 45-19-141.09 Exemptions from fire protection fee
  The following are exempt from the fire protection fee levied by this part: (1) A dwelling, business, or building which is owned by the federal...
• Section 45-19-141.10 Payment of fee
  The revenue commissioner shall collect the fire protection fee from owners of dwellings and businesses, and shall collect the fire protection fee from the owners...
• Section 45-19-141.11 Disposition of funds
  The association shall retain five percent of the gross proceeds from each district to be used, after approval by a majority vote of member departments...
• Section 45-19-141.12 Volunteer fire department personnel; liability of county employees
  The personnel of volunteer fire departments provided for in this part shall not be considered employees, servants, or agents of the county and the members...
• Article 15 Gambling.
• Section 45-19-150 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
• Section 45-19-160 Liability for monetary loss relating to mistake or omission
  (a) The Coosa County Commission shall reimburse the offices of the revenue commissioner and the judge of probate from the general fund of the county...
• Article 17 Health and Environment.
• Part 1 Health.
• Section 45-19-170 Collection and disposition of fees; ability to pay
  (a) The Coosa County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall...
• Part 2 Environment.
• Section 45-19-171 Litter
  (a) The Coosa County Health Department may, at its discretion, enforce littering laws, and other laws relating to littering in Coosa County, in addition to...
• Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
• Section 45-19-180 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 19 Legislature.
• Section 45-19-190 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
• Section 45-19-200 County license inspector
  (a) In Coosa County, there is created and established the office of county license inspector. With the approval of the county commission, the chair of...
• Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
• Section 45-19-210 Speed limits on unpaved roads
  (a) In Coosa County, unless otherwise posted, the speed limit to operate a motor vehicle on any unpaved county road shall be 35 miles per...
• Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
• Section 45-19-220 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 23 Sheriff.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-19-230
  (a) The County Commission of Coosa County shall pay deputy sheriffs at the following monthly rate: After After After After Start 1 year 2 years...
• Part 2 Funding.
• Section 45-19-231 Abandoned and stolen property
  (a)(l) The sheriff shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff's office. These records shall...
• Part 3 Jails.
• Section 45-19-232 Operation of jail store and telephone system; Law Enforcement Fund
  (a) The Sheriff of Coosa County, or the authorized agents of the sheriff, may operate a jail store and a telephone system for prisoners within...
• Part 4 Pistol Permits.
• Section 45-19-233 Collection and disposition of fee
  In Coosa County, the total fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol as provided by Section 13A-11-75, shall be twenty-five dollars ($25)...
• Part 5 Police Jurisdictions.
• Section 45-19-234 Police jurisdiction within Coosa County
  No municipality whose corporate limits do not lie within or extend into and embrace and include a portion of Coosa County shall have or exercise...
• Part 6 Retirement.
• Section 45-19-235 Receipt of badge, pistol, etc., upon retirement
  (a) Any individual employed by the Coosa County Sheriff's office as a law enforcement officer for a period of 10 years or more who retires...
• Part 7 Sheriff's Qualifications and Continuing Education.
• Section 45-19-236 Minimum qualifications for sheriff; continuing education
  (a)(1) On or after May 12, 2016, a person qualifying for election to the office of sheriff in Coosa County or any person appointed to...
• Part 8 Credit or Debit Card Purchases
• Section 45-19-237 Purchasing procedures using credit or debit cards
  (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...
• Article 24 Taxation.
• Part 1 Revenue Commissioner.
• Division 1 Creation of Office.
• Section 45-19-240 Consolidation of unified system
  (a) At the expiration of the terms of office, or if a vacancy occurs in either the office of Tax Assessor or the office of...
• Division 2 Redemption of Land.
• Section 45-19-240.20 Procedure for sale and redemption of lands
  (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to Coosa County. (b) The procedure for selling and redeeming lands for taxes in such county shall...
• Part 2 Tax, Business or License.
• Section 45-19-241 Annual licensure or privilege fee
  (a) This part shall apply only to Coosa County, Alabama. (b) As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the meanings...
• Part 3 Tax, Lodging.
• Section 45-19-242 Levy of tax; promotion of tourism and economic development
  (a) This section shall be applicable only to Coosa County. (b) There is levied and imposed, in addition to all other taxes of every kind...
• Part 4 Tax, Sales and Use.
• Section 45-19-243 Applicability
  This part shall only apply to Coosa County.
• Section 45-19-243.01 State sales and use tax defined
  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 45-19-243.02 Levy of tax; exemptions
  (a) The County Commission of Coosa County may levy, in addition to all other taxes, a one cent sales and use tax parallel to the...
• Section 45-19-243.03 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 45-19-243.04 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 45-19-243.05 Collection of tax; enforcement
  The tax levied by this part shall constitute a debt due Coosa County. The tax, together with any interest and penalties, shall constitute and be...
• Section 45-19-243.06 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 45-19-243.07 Charge for collection; disposition of funds
  The department shall charge Coosa County for collecting the tax levied under this part in an amount or percentage of total collections as may be...
• Part 5 Tax, Severance.
• Section 45-19-244 Definitions
  When used in this part, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The State Department of Revenue. (2) EARTHEN MATERIALS....
• Section 45-19-244.01 Levy of tax; mining fee
  (a)(1) There is levied, in addition to all other taxes imposed by law, an excise and privilege tax on every person severing earthen materials except...
• Section 45-19-244.02 Monthly report - Producers
  Every producer shall within 20 days after the end of each calendar month, whether or not the producer shall have severed or sold any earthen...
• Section 45-19-244.03 Monthly report - Purchasers and transporters
  Purchasers and transporters of a product severed in Coosa County shall file a report with the department on forms prescribed by the department within 20...
• Section 45-19-244.04 Collection of taxes; enforcement
  The taxes imposed by this part shall constitute a debt due Coosa County and may be collected by civil suit, in addition to all other...
• Section 45-19-244.05 Charge for collection
  The department shall charge Coosa County for collecting the county taxes levied herein an amount or percentage of total collections not to exceed five percent...
• Section 45-19-244.06 Disposition of funds
  The proceeds from taxes levied by this part shall be deposited in a separate account to be used for the maintenance, restoration, and replacement of...
• Section 45-19-244.07 Expiration date
  Repealed by Act 2019-231, §2, effective May 23, 2019.
• Part 6 Tax, Tobacco.
• Section 45-19-245 Levy and collection of tax; disposition of funds
  (a) There is imposed upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in Coosa...
• Article 25 Utilities.
• Section 45-19-250 Regulation of private water systems
  In Coosa County, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any private water system which purchases its water from a municipal water system and which prior...
• Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
• Section 45-19-260 Reserved Reserved.

Last modified: May 3, 2021