Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 2 - Baldwin County
Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
Part 1 Disclaimer.
Section 45-2-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Baldwin County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Baldwin County prior...
Part 1 Conduct Prohibited in Licensed Estabishments.
Section 45-2-20 Legislative findings
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Section 45-2-20.01 Definitions
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Section 45-2-20.03 Violations
(a) Any person violating any provision of this part shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar ($1) nor...
Part 2 Sunday Sales.
Division 1 Off-premises Consumption.
Section 45-2-21 Applicability - Locality
The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may, in its discretion, grant permits to licensed clubs and retailers to sell or dispense draft or keg beer...
Section 45-2-21.01 Applicability - Subject matter
This subpart shall apply to the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption on Sunday of certain licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of...
Section 45-2-21.02 Referendum - Authorized
The governing bodies of municipalities within the county, may, by resolution, call for a referendum within the corporate limits of the municipality to determine if...
Section 45-2-21.05 Referendum - Timing costs
A referendum provided for by this subpart shall be held not less than 60 days from the date of the local authorization and not more...
Section 45-2-21.06 Referendum - Ballot
The question on the ballot shall be: "Do you favor approving the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption on Sunday under the same license...
Section 45-2-21.07 Subsequent referendum
A referendum for any area held pursuant to this subpart which fails to win approval for the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption on...
Section 45-2-21.08 Construction
This subpart shall be construed together with all other existing laws not in conflict with this subpart relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in...
Section 45-2-21.31 Applicability - Subject matter
This subpart shall apply to the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the licensed selling premises on Sunday of certain licensees of the Alcoholic...
Section 45-2-21.32 Referendum - Authorized
The governing bodies of municipalities within the county may, by resolution, call for a referendum within the corporate limits of the municipality to determine if...
Section 45-2-21.35 Referendum - Timing; costs
Any referendum authorized by this subpart shall be held not less than 60 days from the date of that authorization and not more than 120...
Section 45-2-21.36 Referendum - Ballot
The question on the ballot shall be: "Do you favor approving the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the licensed selling premises on Sunday...
Section 45-2-21.37 Subsequent referendum
Any referendum for any area held pursuant to this subpart which fails to win approval for the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the...
Section 45-2-21.38 Construction
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Section 45-2-22.01 Purpose
The legislative intent and purpose of this part is to provide a structure for the business relations between a wholesaler and a supplier of wine...
Section 45-2-22.02 Definitions
(a) The following words or phrases, or the plural thereof, whenever they appear in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, shall have the...
Section 45-2-22.04 Prohibited activities - Supplier
A supplier is prohibited from doing the following: (1) Fail to provide each wholesaler of the supplier's brand or brands with a written agreement which...
Section 45-2-22.05 Prohibited activities - Wholesaler
A wholesaler is prohibited from doing the following: (1) Failing to devote reasonable efforts and resources, within supplier's designated sales territory, to the sale and...
Section 45-2-22.07 Transfer of wholesaler business
(a) Upon written notice of intent to transfer the wholesaler's business, any individual owning or deceased individual who owned an interest in a wholesaler may...
Section 45-2-22.11 Remedies
(a) If a supplier engages in conduct prohibited under this part, a wholesaler with which the supplier has an agreement may maintain a civil action...
Section 45-2-40.01 Definitions
The following words and terms as used in this article shall, unless the context requires a different meaning, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them...
Section 45-2-40.04 Sanitary requirements
(a) No towels, wash cloths, or other linen items shall come in contact with the body or any other part thereof of any customer or...
Section 45-2-40.14 Penalties
Any person who shall violate any provision or section of this article for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, or who shall do any...
Section 45-2-41.01 Definitions
For purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) COMMUNITY OF INTEREST. A continuing financial interest between the grantor and the...
Section 45-2-41.02 Construction and application
(a) This part shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying remedial purposes and policies. (b) This part shall govern dealership agreements for...
Section 45-2-41.05 Repurchase of inventory
If a dealership agreement is terminated by a grantor, the grantor, at the option of the dealer, shall repurchase all inventories sold by the grantor...
Section 45-2-41.07 Remedies
If any grantor violates this part, a dealer may bring an action against the grantor in the Circuit Court of Baldwin County for damages sustained...
Section 45-2-50 Office of constable abolished
In Baldwin 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 45-2-60 Expense allowance; salary
(a) The coroner of Baldwin County shall receive an additional expense allowance of five hundred dollars ($500) per month which shall be paid from the...
Part 2 Investigations.
Section 45-2-61 Coroner's investigation
A coroner's investigation shall mean a process of collecting pertinent information concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of an individual, and background information, including all,...
Section 45-2-61.01 Qualifications
The county coroner must have a high school education or an equivalent degree. The county coroner prior to beginning his or her first term and...
Section 45-2-61.02 Limitation of coroner's investigation
(a) A coroner's investigation is limited to inquiries for determining the cause and manner of death, the identity of the deceased, and circumstances surrounding death....
Section 45-2-61.04 Postmortem examination and autopsies
When the Baldwin County Coroner determines a death under investigation is one described in Section 45-2-61.03, the coroner may, and upon request, shall be assisted...
Section 45-2-61.06 Responsibility to certify deaths
If after conducting a coroner's investigation of a death, the Baldwin County Coroner or the designated deputy coroner is satisfied that the death was not...
Section 45-2-61.07 Hospital and medical records
While conducting a coroner's investigation of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or a state medical examiner or the director of the Alabama Department...
Section 45-2-61.10 Cost of assistance
The assistance provided by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences through its state medical examiners or other scientists, employees, or agents shall be provided without...
Section 45-2-61.11 Reports as evidence
The reports of death investigations conducted by the county coroner or by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, or true copies thereof duly certified by...
Section 45-2-70 Mileage allowance
(a) In Baldwin County, each member of the county commission, at the discretion of the county commission, shall be entitled to receive a mileage allowance...
Section 45-2-72 Duration of terms; elections
In Baldwin County, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the county commissioners elected in November whose terms of office commence January 1985, shall serve two...
Section 45-2-72.01 Membership; terms of office
(a) Effective beginning the next term of office, the position of Chair of Baldwin County Commission shall rotate from among the members of the commission...
Article 8 Courts.
Part 1 Court Costs.
Division 1 District Attorney.
Section 45-2-80 Fee for additional funding
In addition to the assessment and distribution of the additional court costs and charges for Baldwin County circuit, district, and municipal courts, there shall be...
Division 5 Law Library and Judicial Administration Fund.
Section 45-2-80.80 County law library established
The Baldwin County Commission, the governing body of Baldwin County, Alabama, is hereby fully authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the...
Section 45-2-80.85 Construction
This subpart shall be construed together with other laws relating to court costs in Baldwin County.
Section 45-2-80.86 Actions to collect costs
Any actions by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baldwin County arising out of the collection of court costs in Baldwin County are hereby...
Section 45-2-81.01 Powers of investigators
Investigators in the office of the District Attorney of the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit, composed of Baldwin County, who hold a current certification from the Alabama...
Section 45-2-81.40 Pre-Trial Intervention Program
(a) The District Attorney of the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a Pre-Trial Intervention Program. (b) The district attorney shall retain all discretionary...
Section 45-2-81.41 Eligibility
(a) A person charged with a criminal offense specified in this subsection whose jurisdiction is in the circuit or district court of the Twenty-eighth Judicial...
Section 45-2-81.42 Appropriateness of intervention
(a) Intervention shall be appropriate if: (1) There is a likelihood justice will be served if the offender is placed in an intervention program. (2)...
Section 45-2-81.43 Admission into program
(a) Prior to being admitted to the Pre-Trial Intervention Program or as a part of the district attorney's evaluation process, an applicant may be required...
Section 45-2-81.44 Program requirements
(a) An offender who enters an intervention program shall: (1) Waive, in writing, and contingent upon the successful completion of the program, his or her...
Section 45-2-81.45 Time for application
(a) An offender shall make application to the Pre-Trial Intervention Program no later than 45 days after service of the warrant or within 21 days...
Section 45-2-81.46 Costs and fees
An applicant for the Pre-Trial Intervention Program on each charge shall pay a nonrefundable application fee of an amount not exceeding the cost of court...
Section 45-2-81.49 Pre-Trial Intervention Fund
The district attorney shall establish a Pre-Trial Intervention Fund. All fees paid by offenders as set out in this subpart to the district attorney shall...
Section 45-2-81.50 Violations; waiver
(a) If the offender violates the conditions of the Pre-Trial Intervention Program agreed to in writing by the offender and the district attorney, the district...
Section 45-2-81.71 Purpose
The purpose of this subpart is to ensure that court-ordered restitution to crime victims, victim compensation assessments, bail bond forfeitures, court costs required by law,...
Section 45-2-81.72 Restitution Recovery Division - Establishment
The district attorney may establish a special division designated the "Restitution Recovery Division" for the administration, collection, and enforcement of court costs, fines, penalty payments,...
Section 45-2-81.74 Manner of enforcement
After notification, as provided in Section 45-2-81.73, the district attorney may take all lawful steps necessary in order to require compliance with the court-ordered payments...
Section 45-2-81.76 Amnesty period
There shall be an amnesty period of 60 days after May 2, 1994, during which any person may voluntarily pay in full any duly assessed...
Section 45-2-81.77 Civil judgments
In addition to the provisions of this subpart, all court costs, fines, victim compensation assessments, bail bond forfeitures, and restitution, and other court-ordered charges shall...
Section 45-2-82.20 Minute books
(a) In the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting and for the circuit...
Section 45-2-82.21 Passports
In Baldwin County, passports shall be issued by the circuit clerk pursuant to the authority granted in Section 36-1-10. Any fees collected by the circuit...
Section 45-2-83 Judge of probate
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Section 45-2-83.21 Special recording fee
(a) Beginning May 18, 2017, a special recording fee of five dollars ($5) shall be collected by the Judge of Probate of Baldwin County, with...
Part 5 Pretrial Release and Community Corrections.
Section 45-2-84 Legislative intent
The purpose of this part is not only to promote the rehabilitation of offenders, but insofar as possible, to make the implementation of this part...
Section 45-2-84.01 Powers and duties of county commission
(a) The Baldwin County Commission may implement this part. Upon implementation of this part, the Baldwin County Commission shall have the duty to generally superintend...
Section 45-2-84.02 Definitions
As used in this part, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BALDWIN COUNTY COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS CENTER. The entity, programs, or physical structure...
Section 45-2-84.04 Payment of court ordered sums
Any eligible person who has been sentenced to the Baldwin County Community Corrections Center or a program pursuant to this part, granted probation or whose...
Section 45-2-84.08 Rules and regulations; revocation hearings
(a) The Baldwin County Pretrial Release and Community Corrections Board may promulgate rules and regulations for establishing pretrial release programs, alternative sentencing programs, educational programs,...
Section 45-2-84.11 Administrative and supervision fees
The Baldwin County Pretrial Release and Community Corrections Board may establish administrative and supervision fees to fund pretrial release programs, alternative sentencing programs, educational programs,...
Section 45-2-84.12 Waiver of fees
Any judicial officer of the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit, upon making a determination that the defendant is indigent and not able to be employed, may waive...
Section 45-2-84.13 Disposition of funds
All sums collected pursuant to this part other than those collected under order of the court for the benefit of some other purpose or agency,...
Section 45-2-84.15 Exemption from civil liability
The Baldwin County Pretrial Release and Community Corrections Board and the Baldwin County Community Corrections Center, its members, agents, and employees shall be exempt from...
Section 45-2-84.18 Fund surplus
If, at the end of any calendar year, there remains a surplus in the Baldwin County Community Corrections Fund, the surplus may be held by...
Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
Section 45-2-110.01 Health insurance coverage
The Baldwin County Commission, by resolution duly adopted, may authorize the members of the Baldwin County Board of Registrars to be covered under the county...
Part 2 Compensation of Election Officers and Poll Workers.
Section 45-2-111 Compensation - Poll workers
In Baldwin County, each poll worker shall receive compensation payable out of the general fund of the county as set by the county commission from...
Section 45-2-120 Purpose
The purpose of this article is to establish a Baldwin County personnel merit system in order to maintain high quality employee conduct, integrity, and concern...
Section 45-2-120.01 Definitions
As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTING AUTHORITY. The sheriff, judge of probate, revenue commissioner, the county...
Section 45-2-120.02 Personnel merit system established
There is established a merit based personnel system for Baldwin County. This system is based on the following principles: (1) The recruitment, selection, and advancement...
Section 45-2-120.03 Employees subject to system
All county employees shall be hired, retained, disciplined, and dismissed based on rules, policies, and procedures adopted to implement this article. This personnel system shall...
Section 45-2-120.06 Personnel department - Duties; funding
The personnel department shall assist the county commission in the establishment and implementation of a merit-based personnel system. The county commission shall fund the personnel...
Section 45-2-120.07 Rules, policies, procedures
The personnel department shall promulgate all rules, policies, and procedures necessary to implement this article after consultation with the county commission and subject to the...
Section 45-2-120.08 Personnel Appeals Board
(a) There shall be established the Baldwin County Personnel Appeals Board. The board shall hear all appeals from final action as requested by an affected...
Section 45-2-120.10 Hiring of employees; placement actions
(a) Each appointing authority and department head is authorized to hire employees to fill approved vacancies as established by the county commission. All classified employees...
Section 45-2-120.11 Classification of existing employees
All existing employees of Baldwin County who have successfully completed a probationary period on July 31, 1995, as currently provided shall be classified employees except...
Section 45-2-120.12 Appointed and contract employees
One appointed employee position may be filled by the judge of probate which position shall be designated chief clerk. Two appointed employee positions may be...
Section 45-2-120.14 Construction of article
It is the intent of the Legislature that the personnel system, appeals processes, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations herein established shall comply with and be...
Section 45-2-120.15 Effective date
The provisions of this article providing for the hiring of county employees from certified registers shall become operative 90 days from July 31, 1995.
Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
Part 1 Access to Property.
Section 45-2-140 Emergency services
In Baldwin County, the county or any municipality or any of its respective agents, contractors, agencies, or departments may access property using privately owned roads...
Part 2 Forest Protection.
Section 45-2-141 Protection of forests; costs
(a) The County Commission of Baldwin County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide for the protection of forests from fire, insects, disease, beavers,...
Section 45-2-142.01 Search and rescue squads
(a) This section shall apply to voluntary nonprofit search and rescue units or squads which are operated as a public service for the benefit of...
Part 4 Records.
Section 45-2-143 Recordkeeping; audits
(a) This section shall only apply in Baldwin County. (b) Each volunteer fire department and each rescue squad organized as a nonprofit corporation under Chapter...
Section 45-2-160 Fund authorized; committee
(a) The Baldwin County Commission may establish a fund known as the "Baldwin County Employees Fund." The purpose of the fund shall be to account...
Part 2 Commission Discretionary Fund.
Section 45-2-161 Established; disposition of funds
(a) This section shall apply only in Baldwin County. The governing body of Baldwin County may appropriate out of any moneys in the county treasury...
Section 45-2-171.20 Definitions
For the purposes of this subpart, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) "Medically...
Section 45-2-171.22 Funding of board
The board shall receive into its account or accounts funds received or collected by Baldwin County under the provisions of subdivision (5) of Section 45-2-245,...
Part 3 Solid Waste.
Section 45-2-172 Exemption from mandatory solid waste fee
Pursuant to the authorization contained in Section 22-27-3, the Baldwin County Commission is authorized by this section to grant an exemption from the county mandatory...
Section 45-2-180.20 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 Baldwin County except those...
Section 45-2-190 Baldwin County Legislative Office established
There is hereby established the Baldwin County Legislative Office. The County Commission of Baldwin County shall provide office space, office furniture, office equipment, telephone service,...
Section 45-2-200.01 Renewal by mail
(a) In Baldwin County, all licenses issued by the judge of probate or the license commissioner, including, but not limited to, those relating to motor...
Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
Part 1 Baldwin County Department of Archives and History.
Section 45-2-220 Applicability
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Section 45-2-220.01 Legislative findings
The Legislature finds that Baldwin County has a legal obligation to create and maintain records which document its work and to make those records accessible...
Section 45-2-220.04 Funding
(a) The Baldwin County Archives shall be funded by all of the following: (1) By transaction fees levied by the county commission for the purpose...
Section 45-2-220.05 Additional recording fees
(a) In Baldwin County, there is levied an additional recording fee of three dollars ($3), and the Baldwin County Commission may impose, by resolution of...
Section 45-2-220.06 Advisory Board
The Baldwin County Department of Archives and History Advisory Board is created and shall be composed of the following members: Chair of county commission, presiding...
Section 45-2-220.08 Archives; staff
The staff of the Baldwin County Archives shall consist of an archivist and other employees deemed necessary by the archivist and county commission. The archivist...
Section 45-2-221.02 Definitions
As used in this part, the following terms shall have the meanings or descriptions as provided herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) "Historic...
Section 45-2-221.05 Application form
Applicants submitted for historic district or preservation district designation need be of no particular form, but shall contain the following information: (1) The name, address,...
Section 45-2-221.07 Rescission of district designation
The county commission may vote to rescind the designation of a historic district or preservation district if it determines that compelling and substantial supportive reasons...
Section 45-2-221.09 Form of application for rescission
Applications submitted for rescission of a historic district or preservation district designation need be of no particular form, but shall contain the following information: (1)...
Section 45-2-221.10 Historic development commission
A historic development commission with the following membership, duties, and powers may be created by the county commission. (a) The commission shall be composed of...
Section 45-2-221.12 Review of building plans
The county commission shall prescribe the procedure for the review of building plans for any building to be erected or renovated which is located or...
Section 45-2-221.13 Regulations
The county commission may adopt such other regulations as are necessary to effect the purposes of this part; provided however that nothing in this part...
Part 3 Leasing of Oil, Gas, and Mineral Rights for Public Recreation Purposes.
Section 45-2-230 Salary and expense allowance
(a) Commencing with the term of office beginning January 1999, the Sheriff of Baldwin County shall receive an annual salary of seventy-six thousand one hundred...
Section 45-2-231.41 Sale of perishable property
If the abandoned and stolen personal property is of a perishable nature and reasonable attempts to locate and identify the owner of the property are...
Section 45-2-231.44 Claim of property
The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Baldwin County Sheriff's office, including firearms, may claim the property at any time...
Section 45-2-231.46 Disposition of sale proceeds
The proceeds from the sale of property at an auction conducted under the authority of this subpart, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in...
Division 4 Sale of Confiscated Property.
Section 45-2-231.70 Disposition of proceeds
The Sheriff's Department of Baldwin County shall receive 25 percent of the proceeds of the sale of property confiscated under Section 20-2-93, known as the...
Section 45-2-232 Jail store and telephone system
(a) The Sheriff of Baldwin County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail store and a telephone system for prisoners within...
Section 45-2-232.01 Law Enforcement Fund
(a) The sheriff shall establish and maintain a Law Enforcement Fund in a bank located in Baldwin County. All proceeds collected under this part shall...
Section 45-2-232.02 Disposition of funds
All profits realized pursuant to this part shall be expended for any lawful purpose by the sheriff for the operation of the office of the...
Section 45-2-232.04 Prior actions ratified
Any actions relating to the operation of a jail store and a telephone system in the county jail prior to May 21, 1996, are ratified...
Part 4 Liability.
Section 45-2-233 Liability of sheriff
The Sheriff of Baldwin County shall not be liable for the acts of his or her deputies unless he or she participates in such acts...
Section 45-2-234.01 Definitions
As used in this subpart, the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTED EMPLOYEE. A limited class of employees who serve at the pleasure...
Section 45-2-234.02 Scope of subpart
This subpart applies to all law enforcement officials, corrections officers, and employees employed by the office of Sheriff of Baldwin County except the chief deputy,...
Section 45-2-234.03 Merit system rules and regulations
All employees to whom this subpart applies shall be governed by merit system rules and regulations governing dismissals, suspensions, layoffs, and terminations adopted by the...
Section 45-2-234.09 Appeals; subpoenas; hearing
(a) A classified employee, other than an appointed official, shall have the right to appeal any disciplinary action taken against him or her. An employee...
Section 45-2-234.10 Probationary employees
All appointments of employees to which this subpart applies, other than temporary appointments, shall be probationary for 12 months from the date of appointment. A...
Section 45-2-234.13 Political activity
Each employee may exercise his or her right as a citizen to express his or her opinion and to cast his or her vote. No...
Section 45-2-234.14 Violations
Any merit employee who willfully violates any provision of this subpart, or any rule or regulation issued in pursuance to this subpart, may be dismissed...
Section 45-2-234.40 Receipt of badge and firearm
Any individual employed by the Baldwin County Sheriff's office as a law enforcement officer, including the sheriff, for a period of 10 years or more...
Part 8 Notice by Municipality of Decision to Stop Enforcing Laws within Police Jurisdiction.
Section 45-2-237 Enforcement of laws
In Baldwin County, any municipality which is enforcing laws within its police jurisdiction shall give 180 days' notice in writing to the county commission and...
Section 45-2-240 Compensation
(a) In addition to the per diem paid by the state pursuant to the general law, the members of the Baldwin County Board of Equalization...
Section 45-2-241.02 Expense allowance; salary
(a) Commencing on June 1, 2017, the Revenue Commissioner of Baldwin County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance in the amount of twenty...
Section 45-2-242.40 Classification of property
(a) Residential property located in Baldwin County shall include single-family dwellings and the underlying lot which is destroyed or damaged to the extent that the...
Part 4 Tax, General.
Division 1 Administration and Enforcement.
Section 45-2-243 Designees; compensation; powers
(a) The Baldwin County Commission and any municipality located in Baldwin County, if authorized by resolution or ordinance duly adopted by the Baldwin County Commission...
Division 2 Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Section 45-2-243.20 Bureau established
There is created and established in Baldwin County a public corporation, which shall be vested with the powers conferred upon it by this subpart. The...
Section 45-2-243.21 Programs; contracts; powers
(a) The bureau shall conduct programs, including but not limited to, programs of information and publicity designed to attract conventions and tourists to the area....
Section 45-2-243.24 Lodging tax district established
There is established a "lodging tax district" located in Baldwin County, to include all areas within the following boundaries: (1) All areas within the corporate...
Section 45-2-243.26 Exemptions
(a) There are exempted from the provisions of the tax levied by this subpart and from the computation of the amount of the tax levied...
Section 45-2-243.28 Application of subpart
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 45-2-243.29 Severability
None of the provisions of this subpart shall be applied in a manner to violate the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. If a...
Section 45-2-243.30 Disposition of funds
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 45-2-243.54 Notice requirements
The notice provided for in the preceding section shall state that, at a time and place therein mentioned, not less than 20 days from the...
Section 45-2-243.57 Hearing
The county commission shall hear and pass upon all such objections to and protests against the proposed assessment under such reasonable rules and regulations as...
Section 45-2-243.59 Assessments liens
Assessment liens for charges and expenses authorized in this subpart, except as herein provided, shall insofar as feasible be governed by laws governing assessment liens...
Section 45-2-243.60 Savings provision
The provisions of this subpart are cumulative, and it shall not repeal any local law granting similar duties to the Baldwin County Commission unless inconsistent...
Section 45-2-243.61 Scope
(a) This section shall apply to Baldwin County in the unincorporated areas of the county. (b) In addition to the authority granted pursuant to Sections...
Section 45-2-243.81 Definitions
For the purposes of this subpart, the following words have the following meanings: (1) GOVERNMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Any facilities, systems, or services that are owned and...
Section 45-2-243.86 Hearing
Prior to the adoption of an impact fee for the political subdivision, the political subdivision shall hold a public hearing on the governmental infrastructure needs...
Section 45-2-243.87 Disposition of funds
Any impact fees collected within a political subdivision shall be used only for governmental infrastructure purposes. Any impact fees collected pursuant to this subpart shall...
Part 5 Tax, Sales and Use.
Division 1 Cigarettes.
Section 45-2-244 Applicability
This subpart shall apply in, and only in, Baldwin County, Alabama; it does not alter or repeal any statute, but is in addition to and...
Section 45-2-244.001 Definitions; construction
(a) As used in this subpart, unless the context requires a different meaning, "person" includes a firm, corporation, club, partnership, company, trustee, agency, or association,...
Section 45-2-244.002 Levy of tax
In addition to all other taxes now imposed by law, every person who sells, stores, or delivers any cigarettes within the county shall pay a...
Section 45-2-244.006 Disposition of funds
(a) The county license tax imposed by this subpart and collected by the seller (wholesaler or retailer) shall be paid to the county commission, and...
Section 45-2-244.007 Rules and regulations
The county commission is hereby given the right, power, and authority to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations governing the collection of the county tax...
Section 45-2-244.009 Violation - Classification
A person who violates the provisions of this subpart or any rule or regulation promulgated and adopted by the county commission, shall be guilty of...
Section 45-2-244.010 Additional penalty
No seller shall continue in business when he or she is in default in payment of the tax imposed by this subpart. In addition to...
Section 45-2-244.011 Savings provision
This subpart shall not apply to acts or transactions in interstate commerce; nor shall any provision hereof apply to any business conducted by or for...
Division 2 Gasoline and Motor Fuel.
Section 45-2-244.030 Definitions
For the purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the respective meaning ascribed by this section: (1) COUNTY. Baldwin County which has levied...
Section 45-2-244.031 Levy of tax
Subject to the provisions of Section 45-2-244.043, there is hereby imposed excise taxes in an amount not to exceed three cents ($.03) per gallon on...
Section 45-2-244.033 Recordkeeping
All distributors, storers, and retail dealers shall keep for not less than three years within the State of Alabama at some certain place or office...
Section 45-2-244.034 Report to commission
Within 30 days after any tax shall have been levied under authority of this subpart, every distributor, storer, or retail dealer engaged in the sale...
Section 45-2-244.035 Failure to report
If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer of gasoline or motor fuel in Baldwin County shall fail to make the reports or any of them...
Section 45-2-244.036 Enforcement of subpart
It shall be the duty of the County Commission of Baldwin County to enforce the provisions of this subpart upon its imposing the tax thereunder,...
Section 45-2-244.037 Delinquency
If any distributor, storer, or retail dealer in gasoline or motor fuel shall fail to make monthly reports or shall fail to pay the tax...
Section 45-2-244.039 Violations
Any distributor, storer, or dealer who shall violate any provisions of this subpart or shall fail to comply with any reasonable rule or regulation promulgated...
Section 45-2-244.041 Special fund
The proceeds of any tax imposed under authority of this subpart shall be paid into a special fund in the county treasury for use as...
Section 45-2-244.042 Expenditures from special fund
Expenditures from the special fund provided for in Section 45-2-244.041 shall be made exclusively for the purpose of construction, improvement, and maintenance of public highways...
Section 45-2-244.043 Suspension of levy
The county commission is hereby authorized to suspend the levy of the tax imposed pursuant to this subpart in the event annual increases in the...
Section 45-2-244.071 Definitions
All words, terms, and phrases as defined in Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-3, and 40-23-4 providing for the levy of a state sales tax shall, wherever...
Section 45-2-244.073 Payment of tax
The sales taxes authorized to be levied in Section 45-2-244.072 shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of...
Section 45-2-244.101 Definitions
All words, terms, and phrases as defined in Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-3, and 40-23-4, as amended, providing for the levy of a state sales tax...
Section 45-2-244.103 Payment of tax
The sales taxes levied in Section 45-2-244.102 shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of the month next...
Section 45-2-244.130 Levy of tax
(a) There is hereby imposed on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in Baldwin...
Section 45-2-244.133 Time and manner of payment
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 45-2-244.134 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 45-2-244.135 Construction
This subpart shall not be construed to apply to snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products stored by a wholesale dealer for the purpose of...
Division 6 Video Cassette Rentals.
Section 45-2-244.160 Privilege license fee
(a)(1) The Baldwin County Commission may levy a privilege license fee in an amount not to exceed five cents ($.05) per visual entertainment device on...
Division 7 Tangible Personal Property Rentals.
Section 45-2-244.180 Definitions
The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BUSINESS. All activities engaged in, or caused to be engaged in, by any person with the...
Section 45-2-244.181 Levy of tax
There is levied, in addition to all privilege license taxes of every kind now or hereinafter imposed by law, which shall be collected as herein...
Section 45-2-244.182 Exemptions
There shall be exempted from the computation of any tax due hereunder all of the following: (1) The gross proceeds accruing from the leasing or...
Section 45-2-244.185 Recordkeeping
It shall be the duty of every person engaging or continuing in any business for which a privilege or license tax is imposed hereby to...
Section 45-2-244.186 Delinquent taxes
Any person who fails to pay the tax herein levied within the time required by this subpart shall pay, in addition to the tax, a...
Section 45-2-244.187 Rules and regulations
The County Commission of Baldwin County may prescribe all necessary or appropriate rules and regulations for the implementation of this subpart, including all rules and...
Section 45-2-246 Support of public schools
(a) Sections 1 and 3 of Act No. 609, H. 1167 of the 1900-1901 Legislature (Acts 1900-01, p. 1446), relating to the levy and collection...
Section 45-2-260 Regulation of setbacks
(a) This section shall apply only to Baldwin County. (b) The Baldwin County Commission, through the county planning and zoning commission, shall regulate the construction...
Section 45-2-261.03 Preparation of master plan
In availing itself of the powers conferred by this subpart, the Baldwin County Commission shall appoint the planning commission to make and maintain in an...
Section 45-2-261.05 Planning districts and authority
The Baldwin County Commission shall divide the unincorporated areas of Baldwin County into planning districts. Prior to submission of a written petition to hold an...
Section 45-2-261.06 Purposes and view
In preparation of the proposed master plan and planning and zoning ordinances and regulations, the planning commission shall make careful and comprehensive studies and surveys...
Section 45-2-261.10 Boards of adjustment
(a) The Baldwin County Commission shall appoint two members to the boards of adjustment, and the regulations and ordinances adopted pursuant to the authority of...
Section 45-2-261.14 Permit and application fees
The Baldwin County Commission may levy permit and application fees deemed necessary to administer ordinances and zoning regulations promulgated hereunder. The fees shall cover the...
Section 45-2-261.15 Remedies
If any building or structure is erected, constructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or if any land is used in violation of this subpart or...
Section 45-2-261.16 Housing
The Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Commission shall have no jurisdiction over the type of single family housing or dwelling to be placed or constructed...
Section 45-2-261.17 Construction with other laws
The authority of the Baldwin County Commission under this subpart shall not conflict with present or future regulations or policies of the Alabama Department of...
Division 3 Fort Morgan Planning and Zoning Advisory Committee.
Section 45-2-261.60 Applicability
(a) This subpart shall apply only in Baldwin County. (b) Any reference in this subpart to Act 91-719 of the 1991 Regular Session Acts 1991,...
Section 45-2-261.65 Relation to Subpart 1
This subpart shall repeal and supersede Act 91-719, as amended, to the extent of any conflict herein and as expressly provided herein related only to...
Section 45-2-261.66 Construction of subpart
This subpart shall not be interpreted to affect the enforcement of building codes, the planning jurisdiction of the City of Gulf Shores as provided in...