Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 3 - Barbour County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Section 45-3-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Barbour County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Barbour County prior...
- Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Part 1 Containers.
- Part 2 Sell or Dispense.
- Article 3 Boards and Commisions.
- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Article 5 Constables.
- Article 6 Coroner.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Part 2 Deputies.
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Circuit Courts.
- Part 2 Compensation.
- Division 1 Judges, Expense Allowance.
- Section 45-3-81 Expense allowances
The circuit judge serving Barbour County shall receive a three hundred dollar ($300) per month expense allowance. The district attorney serving Barbour County shall receive...
- Division 2 Judges, Salary Supplement.
- Section 45-3-81.20 Supplementary salary
Immediately upon May 6, 1980, the circuit judge and the district court judge of Barbour County shall both receive a supplemental salary, payable in equal...
- Part 3 District Attorney.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-3-82 Supplementary salary
Immediately upon April 21, 1982, the district attorney may, at the discretion of the county commission, receive a supplemental salary, payable in equal monthly installments...
- Division 2 Investigators.
- Division 3 Pretrial Diversion Program.
- Part 4 Court Costs.
- Part 5 Probate Court.
- Division 1 Boat Licenses.
- Division 2 Chief Clerk.
- Division 3 Judge of Probate Compensation.
- Section 45-3-84.40 Salary
(a) Commencing with the next term of office, in lieu of any other fees, compensation, or expense allowances, the Judge of Probate of Barbour County...
- Division 4 Motor Vehicle Licenses.
- Section 45-3-84.60 Assessment and collection of taxes
The Judge of Probate of Barbour County shall perform all duties relative to the assessment and collection of taxes on motor vehicles, motor vehicle titles,...
- Section 45-3-84.61 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 45-3-84.62 Office and supplies
The Barbour County Commission shall furnish suitable quarters or additional space if necessary for the efficient performance of the additional duties of the judge of...
- Section 45-3-84.63 Collection of fees
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 45-3-84.64 Ad valorem and sales taxes - Collection
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 45-3-84.65 Ad valorem and sales taxes - Certificate of assessment; valuation; disposition of funds
(a) Every person, firm, or corporation residing in or owning a motor vehicle which is principally used in Barbour County who desires to operate a...
- Section 45-3-84.66 Books, records, and blanks
The State Comptroller, the State Department of Revenue, and the State Department of Finance shall furnish the judge of probate all books, records, and blanks...
- Section 45-3-84.67 Fees and commissions
The judge of probate shall receive for the assessing and collecting of state and county ad valorem taxes and sales taxes on motor vehicles, motor...
- Section 45-3-84.68 Application for renewal
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 45-3-84.69 Construction of subpart
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this subpart shall be construed to increase the taxes and fees of motor vehicles, motor vehicle titles, and non-motorized vehicles...
- Division 5 Recording Fees.
- Division 6 Recording System.
- Section 45-3-84.110 Purpose
This subpart shall apply only in Barbour County. The purpose of the subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in...
- Section 45-3-84.111 Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this subpart shall have the following meanings: (1) GENERAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT. A real property instrument that affects...
- Section 45-3-84.112 Improved 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 45-3-84.113 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 45-3-84.114 Existing laws and statutes continued in effect
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 45-3-84.115 Initial installation 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 45-3-84.116 Special recording and filing fee
Effective immediately after August 1, 1998, a special recording and filing fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to and collected by the Judge...
- Section 45-3-84.117 Disposition of funds
Effective August 1, 1998, any and all revenues generated either directly or indirectly due to the use of or access to the improved recording, archiving,...
- Division 7 Transaction Fees.
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Article 10 Education.
- Article 11 Elections.
- Part 1 Board of Registrars.
- Part 2 Voting Centers.
- Article 12 Employees.
- Section 45-3-120 Purpose
It is the purpose of this article to create and establish a county-wide personnel system in Barbour County based on principles of human resource management...
- Section 45-3-120.01 Definitions
For purposes of this article, the following words and terms shall have meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1) CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE. An individual who is...
- Section 45-3-120.02 Establishment and guidelines
There is established a personnel system for Barbour County based on the following principles: (1) Recruiting, selecting, and advancing employees based on their ability, knowledge,...
- Section 45-3-120.03 Personnel system
All personnel activities required to create and administer the personnel system authorized by this article shall be based upon rules, policies, and procedures adopted by...
- Section 45-3-120.04 Continuation of employment
The employment of all individuals covered by this article shall be contingent upon: (1) Availability of funds. (2) Need for the work to be done....
- Section 45-3-120.05 Administration by the county commission
Under the personnel system, the appointing authority in Barbour County shall be the Barbour County Commission. The county commission may also designate other appointing authorities....
- Section 45-3-120.06 Appointing authority
Under the personnel system, the appointing authority in Barbour County shall be the Barbour County Commission. The county commission may also designate other appointing authorities....
- Section 45-3-120.07 Personnel board - Membership; eligibility term clerical and administrative support; meetings
(a) There is created the Barbour County Personnel Board. The personnel board shall be composed of five persons. The board members shall be registered voters...
- Section 45-3-120.08 Personnel board - Procedure for appeals
(a) The personnel board shall hear all appeals from final personnel action as requested by an affected and eligible employee. Eligible employees shall include regular...
- Section 45-3-120.09 Employment
(a) All classified employees shall be hired from a list of job applicants who meet the job related qualifications for a vacancy. Other employees will...
- Section 45-3-120.10 Political activity
Any employee may participate in city or state political activities to the same extent that any citizen of Alabama may so participate. This activity may...
- Section 45-3-120.11 Subsequently created elected office
For the purpose of this article, the elected offices in Barbour County are: The county commission, sheriff, tax assessor, and the tax collector. Any subsequent...
- Article 13 Engineer, County.
- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
- Section 45-3-140 Applicability
The provisions of this article shall apply to all portions of Barbour County except that portion of Barbour County which lies within the city limits...
- Section 45-3-140.01 Legislative findings
The Legislature declares that volunteer fire departments and the Barbour County Firefighters Association that receive funds pursuant to this article are nonprofit organizations which are...
- Section 45-3-140.02 Purpose
The purposes and use of funds generated by this article are to enable all participating volunteer fire departments in Barbour County to lower their ISO...
- Section 45-3-140.03 Fire protection service fee - Levy; definitions; exemption
(a) There is levied on the owner of each residence or dwelling in Barbour County, a fire protection service fee of thirty dollars ($30) per...
- Section 45-3-140.04 Fire protection service fee - Collection, administration, and enforcement
The fire protection service fee shall be collected, administered, and enforced in the same manner, and under the same requirements and laws as are the...
- Section 45-3-140.05 Eligible volunteer fire department
An eligible volunteer fire department, for the purposes of this article, shall mean a certified nonprofit volunteer fire department located in Barbour County that is...
- Section 45-3-140.06 Disposition of funds
Funds paid to the county volunteer fire departments shall only be expended for fire protection services, including training, supplies, and equipment. The funds may also...
- Section 45-3-140.07 Transfer of funds upon dissolution or abandonment of volunteer fire department
Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible volunteer fire department, any remaining funds derived from this article or any assets purchased with funds derived from...
- Section 45-3-140.08 Liability of personnel
The personnel of volunteer fire departments or the volunteer fire association provided for in this article shall not be considered employees, servants, or agents of...
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Part 1 Board of Health Environmental Services Fees.
- Part 2 Nuisances.
- Section 45-3-171 Applicability
The provisions of this part shall only apply to any municipality located in Barbour County, Alabama.
- Section 45-3-171.02 Weeds may be declared a public nuisance and abated
All weeds growing upon streets, sidewalks, or upon private property within any municipalities located in Barbour County, Alabama, which bear seeds of a wingy or...
- Section 45-3-171.04 Report of appropriate city official; resolution declaring a public nuisance
The term appropriate city official as used in Section 45-3-171.02 to 45-3-171.14, inclusive, shall mean any city official or employee designated by the mayor or...
- Section 45-3-171.06 Notice to owner; contents; posting of signs
After the passage of a resolution, the appropriate city official shall send notice of the action to the last person or persons, firm, association, or...
- Section 45-3-171.08 Hearings on weeds
Within the time specified in the notice, but not more than 14 days from the date the notice is given, any person, firm, or corporation,...
- Section 45-3-171.10 Entry of municipal employees and agents on property to abate nuisance; abatement by private contractor
If the nuisance on the property has not been abated within 14 days after the city governing body's resolution, the major of the city shall...
- Section 45-3-171.12 Accounting of cost of abatement
The appropriate city official shall given an itemized written report to the city governing body regarding the cost of abating the nuisance. The cost of...
- Section 45-3-171.14 Cost of constitute weed lines; report to revenue commissioner; amounts to be included in tax bills; collection
The confirmed cost of abatement shall hereinafter be referred to as a weed lien and thus made and confirmed shall constitute a weed lien on...
- Section 45-3-171.16 Demolition of unsafe structures
Any municipality located in Barbour County, Alabama, shall have authority, after notice provided herein, to move or demolish buildings and structures, or parts of buildings...
- Section 45-3-171.18 Appropriate city officials
The term appropriate city official as used in Sections 45-3-171.16 to 45-3-171.26, inclusive, shall mean any city building official or deputy and any other city...
- Section 45-3-171.20 Hearings on unsafe structures; orders; appeals
(a) Within the time specified in the notice, but not more than 30 days from the date the notice is given, any person, firm, or...
- Section 45-3-171.22 Report of cost of demolition; adoption of resolution fixing costs; proceeds of sale of salvaged materials; objections to finding of cost; notice
Upon demolition of the building or structure, the appropriate city official shall make an itemized written report to the governing body of the cost thereof....
- Section 45-3-171.24 Assessment of costs; sale and redemption of lots
The city shall have the power to assess the costs authorized herein against any lot or lots, parcel or parcels of land purchased by the...
- Section 45-3-171.26 Payment of assessments
Payment of any assessment, or if delinquent, the collection of the assessment, shall be made in the manner and as provided for the payment of...
- Section 45-3-171.28 Part cumulative in nature
This part shall be cumulative in its nature, and in addition to any and all power and authority which any city may have under any...
- Part 3
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
- Article 19 Legislature.
- Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
- Part 1 License Inspector Mobile Home Fees.
- Section 45-3-200 Citation issuance fee
The Barbour County Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to impose, by resolution duly adopted and spread upon its minutes, a citation issuance fee in...
- Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
- Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
- Article 23 Sheriff.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Division 1 Clerk.
- Division 2 Secretary.
- Section 45-3-230.20 Secretary
The Barbour County Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to employ a secretary who shall work in the office of the sheriff. Such employee shall...
- Division 3 Sheriff.
- Section 45-3-230.40 Compensation
(a) Commencing with the next term of office, the Sheriff of Barbour County shall be paid a salary of forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($47,500)...
- Part 2 Jails.
- Division 1 Feeding of Prisoners.
- Division 2 Jail Store.
- Part 3 Pistol Permit.
- Part 4 Service of Process.
- Section 45-3-233 Contracts with private, public, or governmental entities
The Sheriff of Barbour County, except for warrants for arrest, may contract with or enter into contract or agreement with a private, public, or governmental...
- Section 45-3-233.01 Additional service of process fee
(a) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court official in the civil division...
- Section 45-3-233.02 Disposition of funds
The Barbour County Sheriff, at his or her discretion, may use the monies generated by this part for law enforcement purposes in Barbour County, including...
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Board of Equalization.
- Section 45-3-240 Compensation
The County Commission of Barbour County is authorized to compensate members of the board of equalization up to thirty dollars ($30) per diem as set...
- Part 2 Real Property.
- Part 3 Revenue Commissioner.
- Section 45-3-242 Election of commissioner
Effective October 1, 1997, or upon occurrence of a vacancy in either the office of tax assessor or tax collector, there shall be a county...
- Section 45-3-242.01 Powers and duties
The revenue commissioner shall perform all acts, duties, and functions required by law to be performed either by the tax assessor or by the tax...
- Section 45-3-242.02 Deputies, clerks, and assistants
When approved by the county commission, the revenue commissioner may appoint and fix the duties and compensation of a sufficient number of deputies, clerks, and...
- Section 45-3-242.03 Oath of office; bond
Before entering upon the duties of the office, the revenue commissioner shall take the oath of office prescribed by Article XVI of the Constitution of...
- Section 45-3-242.04 Office space, equipment, etc
The county commission shall provide adequate office space for the revenue commissioner, and shall also provide all stationery, equipment, and office supplies, not otherwise furnished...
- Section 45-3-244.05 Collection of fees and taxes; compensation
All laws, rules, and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section 40-25-1...
- Section 45-3-242.06 Transitional provisions
The offices of the Tax Assessor and Tax Collector of Barbour County are abolished effective the first day of October 1997, or upon the occurrence...
- Section 45-3-242.07 Purpose of part
It is the purpose of this part to promote the public convenience in Barbour County by consolidating the offices of Tax Assessor and Tax Collector...
- Part 4 Tax, Ad Valorem.
- Part 5 Tax, Tobacco
- Division 1 1990 Tax.
- Section 45-3-244 County privilege, license, or excise tax - Established
There is hereby imposed upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in Barbour...
- Section 45-3-244.01 County privilege, license, or excise tax - Purpose and intent
Upon adoption of a resolution by the Barbour County Commission, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells, stores, or receives for the purpose...
- Section 45-3-244.02 County privilege, license, or excise tax - Failure to add or levy tax; penalty
It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer or distributor engaged in or continuing in Barbour County in the business for which the tax is...
- Section 45-3-244.03 County privilege, license, or excise tax - Tax stamps
The tax hereby authorized shall be paid by affixing stamps as is required for the payment of the tax imposed by Section 40-25-1 through Section...
- Section 45-3-244.04 Rules and regulations
The State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this subpart. All such rules...
- Section 45-3-244.05 Applicability of Department of Revenue law, rules or regulations
All laws, rules, and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section 40-25-1...
- Section 45-3-244.06 Disposition of funds
The proceeds from the tax hereby authorized less the actual cost of collection not to exceed five per centum shall be paid by the State...
- Section 45-3-244.07 Construction and application of subpart
(a) None of the provisions of this subpart shall be applied in such manner as to be in violation with the commerce or other clauses...
- Division 2 2003 Tax.
- Section 45-3-244.30 County privilege, license, or excise tax - Established
The Barbour County Commission may impose on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or tobacco products in...
- Section 45-3-244.31 County privilege, license, or excise tax - Purpose and intent
Every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells, stores, or receives, for the purpose of selling or storing in Barbour County, any cigarettes, cigars,...
- Section 45-3-244.32 County privilege, license, or excise tax - Failure to add or levy tax; penalty; tax stamps; rules and regulations
(a) It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in the business in Barbour County for which the tax...
- Section 45-3-244.33 Applicability of department laws, rules or regulations
All laws, rules, and regulations of the department relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Sections 40-25-1 to 40-25-28,...
- Section 45-3-244.34 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 45-3-244.35 Construction and application of subpart
This subpart shall not be construed to apply to cigarettes, cigars, snuff, smoking tobacco, and like tobacco products stored by a wholesale dealer for the...
- Part 6 Tax, Sales, Use, and Amusement.
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
Last modified: May 3, 2021