Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 27 - Escambia County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Part 1 Disclaimer.
- Section 45-27-1 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Escambia County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Escambia County prior...
- Part 2 Compensation.
- Section 45-27-11 Salaries of certain officers
(a) Commencing on July 1, 2000, the Tax Assessor, Tax Collector, and Sheriff of Escambia County shall be entitled to receive a salary of sixty...
- Section 45-27-11.01 Salaries validated, ratified, and confirmed
(a) In Escambia County, the members of the Escambia County Commission, the sheriff, the tax assessor, the tax collector, and the judge of probate shall...
- Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Article 5 Constables.
- Article 6 Coroner.
- Section 45-27-60 Office of coroner abolished
In Escambia County, Alabama, the office of coroner is abolished and all powers, rights, and duties now or hereafter authorized, or required by law to...
- Section 45-27-60.01 County medical examiner
The county medical examiner shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama. The Escambia County Medical Examiner shall be appointed by the senior...
- Section 45-27-60.02 Appointment of assistant county medical examiners
The Escambia County Medical Examiner shall appoint one or more assistant county medical examiners to assist the investigation and certification of deaths from the list...
- Section 45-27-60.03 Death investigation training
The county medical examiners shall complete eight hours of training in death investigation each year. The Department of Forensic Sciences state medical examiners shall provide...
- Section 45-27-60.04 Duty to investigate certain deaths
It shall be the duty of the county medical examiner, or designated assistant medical examiner, to investigate any death in Escambia County when the death...
- Section 45-27-60.05 Medical examiner's investigative authority
While investigating a death pursuant to this article, the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body,...
- Section 45-27-60.06 Execution of death certificate; circumstances requiring notice to Department of Forensic Sciences
(a) After investigating a death, if the county medical examiner or the designated assistant is satisfied that the death was not caused by criminal act...
- Section 45-27-60.07 Autopsies or postmortem examinations
(a) An autopsy or postmortem examination may be performed by a state medical examiner at the written direction of the Escambia County District Attorney or...
- Section 45-27-60.08 Personal effects of deceased; notice to next of kin
The county medical examiner and assistant medical examiners of Escambia County, or any law enforcement officer having jurisdiction and the approval of the county medical...
- Section 45-27-60.09 Persons in county having knowledge of certain deaths
Any person in the county having knowledge concerning a death occurring under the categories defined in Section 45-27-60.04 shall promptly report the death to the...
- Section 45-27-60.10 Subpoenas
The county medical examiner, or the State Medical Examiner, or the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences may issue subpoenas for the production...
- Section 45-27-60.11 Immunity from civil or criminal liability
Neither the county medical examiner nor any member of the staff, nor the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, nor any member of...
- Section 45-27-60.12 Death investigation reports
The county medical examiner shall maintain the reports of death investigations conducted by the Escambia County Medical Examiner and a copy shall be forwarded to...
- Section 45-27-60.13 Duties of medical examiner
In addition to the duties and authority described above, the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall also have all duties and authority now or...
- Section 45-27-60.14 Reimbursement for services
The County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall be reimbursed for his or her services by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences through a contract...
- Section 45-27-60.15 Transfer of title to property to county medical examiner and Department of Forensic Sciences
Upon January 15, 1998, title and control of all equipment in the office of the Escambia County Coroner shall be transferred by Escambia County to...
- Section 45-27-60.16 Transportation of bodies
This article shall not be construed to make any changes in funding or responsibility for existing methods of transporting bodies in Escambia County. The Department...
- Section 45-27-60.17 Annual report
The county medical examiner shall make an annual report to the county governing body listing the number of deaths investigated, the determinations made, and other...
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Part 1 Chair.
- Section 45-27-70 Commission chair
(a) All laws to the contrary notwithstanding, the Chair of the Escambia County Commission shall serve full time as such officer. (b) The provisions of...
- Section 45-27-70.01 Election of chair; term
(a) In Escambia County, there is hereby created the office of Chair of the Escambia County Commission. The chair shall be elected by the commissioners...
- Part 2 Compensation.
- Part 3 Purchasing System.
- Section 45-27-72 Purchasing agent
(a) The Chair of the Board of County Commissioners of Escambia County shall serve as county purchasing agent without additional compensation. The county purchasing agent...
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Circuit Court.
- Division 1 Circuit Clerks.
- Division 2 Court Reporters.
- Division 3 Judicial Compensation.
- Division 4 Juries.
- Section 45-27-80.60 Excusal of jurors
In all capital cases where trial by jury is held before the circuit court in the Twenty-first Judicial Circuit of Alabama, the judge presiding over...
- Part 2 Court Costs.
- Section 45-27-81 Escambia County Law Library and Judidcial Administration Fund
(a) In Escambia County, in order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the law library and for the purposes of...
- Section 45-27-81.01 Solicitor's fee
(a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Escambia County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred...
- Section 45-27-81.02 Additional booking fee in certain cases
(a) In Escambia County, a booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed against and collected from each person booked or...
- Part 3 District Attorney.
- Division 1 Court Cost Recovery Division.
- Division 2 Pretrial Diversion Program.
- Part 4 Probate Court.
- Part 5 Extradition of Tribal Fugitive
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Section 45-27-90 Industrial Development Authority
For the purpose of promoting industry and trade and to assist the county commission or other like governing bodies in Escambia County in their pursuits...
- Section 45-27-90.01 Officers; meetings; compensation
The authority shall hold an organizational meeting within 30 days after the appointment of all its members and shall elect a chair and vice chair...
- Section 45-27-90.02 Exercise of functions and powers
Upon the organization of the Industrial Development Authority of Escambia County the authority shall be constituted an instrumentality for the exercise of public and essential...
- Section 45-27-90.03 Director
The authority may employ a director, who shall be its chief administrative officer and serve as secretary to the authority. The authority shall fix the...
- Section 45-27-90.04 Powers of authority
The authority or its agents and employees may do all of the following: (1) Investigate, study, and engage in basic research relative to the natural...
- Section 45-27-90.05 Office space and equipment
The authority may establish and maintain an office at some suitable place within the county, and the cost of securing furnishing, equipping, lighting, heating, and...
- Section 45-27-90.06 Expenses of authority
The county governing body of Escambia County shall annually, before the end of the county's fiscal year, fix the amount to be expended by the...
- Article 10 Education.
- Article 11 Elections.
- Part 1 Board of Registrars.
- Section 45-27-110 Compensation
Each member of the Board of Registrars of Escambia County shall be entitled to receive additional compensation in the amount of ten dollars ($10) per...
- Part 2 Poll Workers.
- Section 45-27-111 Expense allowance
In Escambia County, election officials who work at polling places may from time to time, receive an additional expense allowance in an amount to be...
- Article 12 Employees.
- Section 45-27-120 Personnel system authorized
Escambia County shall have the authority to establish and administer a countywide personnel system based on principles of human resource management which shall include equity,...
- Section 45-27-120.01 Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this article shall, for the purpose of this article, have meanings respectively ascribed to them in this...
- Section 45-27-120.02 Establishment and guidelines
Escambia County may establish a personnel system for Escambia County based on all of the following principles: (1) Recruiting, selecting, and advancing employees based on...
- Section 45-27-120.03 Applicability of personnel system
All personnel activities required to create or administer the personnel system authorized by this article shall be based on the rules, policies, and procedures adopted...
- Section 45-27-120.04 Prerequisites
An individual's employment with Escambia County is contingent upon all of the following: (1) Availability of funds. (2) The county's need for the work to...
- Section 45-27-120.05 Administration of personnel system
The county commission shall have the authority to develop, implement, and administer a countywide personnel system that is consistent with this article. All rules, policies,...
- Section 45-27-120.06 Powers of appointing authorities
Each county appointing authority is authorized to hire employees to fill approved vacancies within their department. Appointing authorities shall include: The county commission, the sheriff,...
- Section 45-27-120.07 Activities of personnel department
The personnel department shall assist the county commission in the creation and implementation of the county personnel system. The department shall carry out all activities...
- Section 45-27-120.08 Personnel board
(a) There may be created in Escambia County a personnel board. The personnel board shall be composed of not less than three persons nor more...
- Section 45-27-120.09 Appeals from final personnel actions
(a) The personnel board shall hear all appeals from final personnel action as requested by an affected and eligible employee, an appointing authority, or the...
- Section 45-27-120.10 Employment requirements
All classified employees shall be hired from a list of job applicants who meet the job related qualifications in accordance with policies and procedures adopted...
- Section 45-27-120.11 Political activity
(a) Any employee may participate in city or state political activities to the same extent any citizen of Alabama may. This activity may include endorsing...
- Section 45-27-120.12 Elected offices
The elected offices in Escambia County are the county commission, probate judge, sheriff, tax assessor, and tax collector. Any subsequent change in the number, scope,...
- Article 13 Engineer, County.
- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
- Section 45-27-140 Reserved
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- Article 15 Gambling.
- Article 16 Government Operations.
- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Part 1 Board of Health
- Part 2 Protective Custody of Mentally Ill.
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
- Article 19 Legislature.
- Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
- Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
- Section 45-27-210 Reserved
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- Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
- Article 23 Sheriff.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Division 1 Sheriff.
- Division 2 Chief Deputy Sheriff.
- Division 3 Sheriff's Deputies.
- Part 2 Funding.
- Section 45-27-231 Service of process; disposition of funds
(a) This section shall only apply to Escambia County. (b) Any and all monies collected under this section shall be deposited by the Sheriff of...
- Section 45-27-231.01 Additional service of process fee
(a) This section shall only apply to Escambia County. (b) In addition to all other charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff,...
- Section 45-27-231.02 Fundraising
(a) In Escambia County, the sheriff may conduct fundraising events, including, but not limited to, rodeos, and may use the proceeds and profits from the...
- Part 3 Jails.
- Part 4 Pistol Permits.
- Part 5 Qualifications and Education.
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Board of Equalization and Adjustment.
- Part 2 Redemption of Lands.
- Part 3 Offices of Tax Assessor and Tax Collector.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Division 2 Employees.
- Section 45-27-242.20 Assistants
(a) The tax collector is hereby authorized to employ up to four assistants to aid in carrying out the duties of his or her office....
- Part 4 Tax, Ad Valorem.
- Part 5 Tax, Motor Vehicle.
- Division 1 Application By Mail.
- Section 45-27-244 Renewal of license by mail
On or after the first day of each month preceding the renewal month, the Judge of Probate of Escambia County may, if he or she...
- Section 45-27-244.01 Application form
The application form shall contain a space for the name and address of the owner of the motor vehicle and the make, model, year, and...
- Section 45-27-244.02 Information included on forms
At the request of the Judge of Probate of Escambia County, the tax assessor of the county shall cause the application form to be filled...
- Section 45-27-244.03 Payment and receipt of taxes and fees
The owner of the motor vehicle shall, if he or she is still the owner of the motor vehicle and if he or she desires...
- Section 45-27-244.04 Return of application
When an application is returned to the judge of probate unsigned, or when less than the correct amount of the taxes and fees due therefor...
- Section 45-27-244.05 Receipt of application
All applications for motor vehicle tags or decals by mail, together with the correct amount of taxes and fees due thereon, must be received by...
- Section 45-27-244.06 Mail order fee
The judge of probate shall charge and collect an additional fee of one dollar ($1) for each motor vehicle license tag or decal issued by...
- Section 45-27-244.07 Registration forms
All the registration forms necessary in the administration of this subpart shall be furnished by the State Department of Revenue.
- Section 45-27-244.08 Alternative procedures
The procedure authorized by this subpart for the payment of ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles and motor vehicle license taxes and the issuance of...
- Division 2 Transfer of Duties.
- Section 45-27-244.30 Assessment and collection of taxes
The Tax Collector of Escambia County shall perform all duties relative to the assessment and collection of ad valorem taxes and sales taxes on motor...
- Section 45-27-244.31 Bond of tax collector
Before entering upon the additional duties imposed by this subpart, the tax collector shall execute an additional bond in a sum prescribed by the written...
- Section 45-27-244.32 Office space, equipment, personnel
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- Section 45-27-244.33 Collection of fees
The tax collector shall charge and collect the same fee that is prescribed in the general law for a like service when performed by the...
- Section 45-27-244.34 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 45-27-244.35 Certificate of assessment; issuance of license tag; valuation; municipal taxes
(a) Every person, firm, or corporation residing in or owning a motor vehicle which is principally used in Escambia County who desires to operate a...
- Section 45-27-244.36 Books, records, and blanks
The Comptroller, the State Department of Revenue, and the State Department of Finance shall furnish the Tax Collector of Escambia County all books, records, and...
- Section 45-27-244.37 Fees and commissions
The tax collector shall receive for the assessing and collecting of state and county ad valorem taxes and sales taxes on motor vehicles, motor vehicle...
- Section 45-27-244.38 Construction
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- Section 45-27-244.39 Implementation
The implementation of this subpart shall become effective when the county commission receives a letter from the tax collector stating that all equipment is in...
- Part 6 Tax, Sales and Use.
- Division 1 1997 Tax.
- Section 45-27-245 Levy and collection of taxes on gross sales or gross receipts
Subject to the provisions of Section 45-27-245.06, there is hereby levied, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, and...
- Section 45-27-245.01 Applicability of state provisions
The taxes levied in Section 45-27-245 shall be subject to all definitions, exceptions, exemptions, proceedings, requirements, rules, regulations, provisions, discounts, penalties, fines, punishments, and deductions...
- Section 45-27-245.02 Excise tax on storage, use, consumption of tangible personal property
(a) An excise tax is hereby imposed on the storage, use, or other consumption in Escambia County of tangible personal property (not including materials and...
- Section 45-27-245.03 Provision of state use tax statutes applicable
The taxes levied by this subpart shall be subject to all definitions, exceptions, exemptions, proceedings, requirements, rules, regulations, provisions, discounts, penalties, fines, punishments, and deductions...
- Section 45-27-245.04 Administration and collection of taxes
All or any portion of the taxes levied within Sections 45-27-245 and 45-27-245.02 shall be administered and collected either by the State Department of Revenue,...
- Section 45-27-245.05 Disposition of funds
The net proceeds of the taxes levied herein remaining after direct out-of-pocket collection costs are deducted shall be distributed as follows: (1) Eighteen percent of...
- Section 45-27-245.06 Prerequisite to tax
The taxes levied in this subpart shall become operative only if the county commission repeals Escambia County Commission Resolution/Ordinance Number 3, adopted September 23, 1991.
- Division 2 2004 Tax.
- Division 3 2017 Tax
- Part 7 Tax, Severance.
- Division 1 Severance Tax.
- Section 45-27-246 Distribution of funds for educational purposes
One-third of all net funds when received pursuant to Sections 40-20-8(c)(3) and 40-20-8(c)(4), by Escambia County from the severance tax levied, pursuant to Section 40-20-2,...
- Section 45-27-246.01 Distribution of funds for county purposes
One-third of all net funds when received pursuant to Section 40-20-8(e), by Escambia County from the severance tax levied pursuant to Section 40-20-2, shall be...
- Section 45-27-246.02 Distribution of funds to Escambia County Industrial Development Authority
An amount equal to one-tenth of the net funds received by Escambia County pursuant to Sections 40-20-1 through 40-20-13, for the general fund of the...
- Section 45-27-246.03 Distribution of funds to Escambia County General Fund
(a) An amount equal to 10 percent of the total of all net funds received by Escambia County after June 1, 1989, and distribution of...
- Section 45-27-246.04 Distribution of funds from Escambia County Courthouse and County Jail Trust Fund
The funds received by Escambia County prior to June 1, 1989, from severance tax or privilege tax on oil and gas under any general law,...
- Section 45-27-246.05 Distribution of remaining funds
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- Division 2 Escambia County Oil and Gas Severance Trust.
- Section 45-27-246.30 Trust fund
(a) The Legislature recognizes that there has been a certain windfall to Escambia County paid during the fiscal year 1983-84 and arising under the oil...
- Part 8 Tax, Tobacco.
- Division 1 1953 Tax.
- Section 45-27-247 Applicability
This subpart shall apply in, and only in, Escambia County, Alabama; it does not alter or repeal any statute, but is in addition to and...
- Section 45-27-247.01 Definitions; construction and interpretation
(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 45-27-247.02 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 45-27-247.03 Tobacco stamps
The tax herein levied shall be paid through the use of stamps herein provided for. Stamps in denominations to the amount of the tax shall...
- Section 45-27-247.04 Use of stamps; records
(a) It shall be the duty of each wholesale dealer or jobber who sells, stores, or delivers cigarettes to retail sellers in this county to...
- Section 45-27-247.05 Supply of stamps; forms and supplies
The Judge of Probate of Escambia County, Alabama, shall keep on hand for sale an adequate quantity of stamps to be affixed to each package...
- Section 45-27-247.06 Payment of license tax; commission
(a) The license tax imposed by this subpart shall be paid to the judge of probate and the judge of probate, after first reimbursing the...
- Section 45-27-247.07 Rules and regulations; funding
The governing body of the county is hereby given the right, power, and authority to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations governing the collection of...
- Section 45-27-247.08 Stamps required for sale of cigarettes
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale either at wholesale or retail in Escambia County, Alabama, any cigarettes...
- Section 45-27-247.09 Violations
A person who violates this subpart or any rule or regulation promulgated and adopted by the county governing body of Escambia County, Alabama, is guilty...
- Section 45-27-247.10 Penalties
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 45-27-247.11 Exceptions
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 1988 Tax.
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
Last modified: May 3, 2021