Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 35 - Houston County

• Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
• Section 45-35-10 Disclaimer
  (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Houston County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Houston County prior...
• Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Part 1 Licensing.
• Section 45-35-20 Legislative findings
  The Legislature finds all of the following: (1) The authority of the Legislature to enact local laws regulating the liquor traffic is preserved in Section...
• Section 45-35-20.01 Construction; purpose
  This part shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the State of Alabama for the protection of the public welfare, health, peace,...
• Section 45-35-20.02 Adoption of related provisions
  (a) The definitions contained within the Alabama Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act, commencing with Section 13A-12-200.1, are adopted by reference in this part. (b) The definitions relating...
• Section 45-35-20.03 Definitions
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• Section 45-35-20.04 Prohibited activities
  (a) It shall be unlawful and no person shall expose to public view his or her genitals, pubic area, vulva, anus, anal cleft, or cleavage...
• Section 45-35-20.05 Exceptions
  This part shall not be deemed to be violated in any of the following circumstances: (1) When a person appears nude in a public place...
• Section 45-35-20.06 Civil action for violations
  (a) In addition to any other remedy or penalty at law, when there is reason to believe that any person is violating or is about...
• Section 45-35-20.07 Limitations on existing adult businesses
  The operation of legally operating adult businesses that currently serve alcohol and are existing and lawfully operating on August 21, 2009, may continue, subject to...
• Part 2 Sale.
• Section 45-35-21 Regulation and sale of alcoholic beverages
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to sell or offer for sale any spirituous or vinous liquors in Houston...
• Section 45-35-21.01 Sale of draft or keg beer by retail licensees
  (a)(1) This section shall only apply in Houston County. (2) Subsection (b) shall take effect on July 1, 2006. (b)(1) The sale of draft or...
• Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
• Section 45-35-30 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
• Section 45-35-40 Branch banking
  After July 22, 1987, any established bank which is authorized by its charter or by law to do a general banking business in Houston County,...
• Article 5 Constables.
• Section 45-35-50 Office of constable abolished
  In Houston County, effective at the end of the current term of office, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to...
• Article 6 Coroner.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-35-60 Salary and expense allowance
  (a) Beginning on June 1, 2007, the Coroner of Houston County shall receive an additional monthly expense allowance from the Houston County Commission in the...
• Part 2 Operation of Office.
• Section 45-35-61 Expenditures; deputy coroner
  The Houston County Commission shall hereafter pay all necessary expenses for the operation of the county coroner’s office from the county general fund. Provided, however,...
• Article 7 County Commission.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-35-70 Compensation of commission chair; sheriff, and district commissioners
  (a)(1) Beginning on June 1, 2007, the compensation of the Chair of the Houston County Commission shall be adjusted so that the monthly compensation paid...
• Part 2 Membership.
• Section 45-35-71 Composition; terms
  This part relates to the election and tenure of the Houston County Commission. There shall be a county commission in Houston County which commission shall...
• Section 45-35-71.01 Ballots
  In all primary and general elections held to choose members of the commission, the ballots shall separately designate and specify the candidates for the offices...
• Section 45-35-71.02 Qualifications
  Candidates for nomination or election to the commission shall designate which of the five offices on the commission they are seeking. All candidates shall be...
• Section 45-35-71.03 Vacancies
  (a) In Houston County, vacancies on the Houston County Commission occurring due to death, disability, resignation, or nonresidency shall be filled by special elections called...
• Section 45-35-71.04 Districts
  The county commission districts are hereby established and described as follows: (1) District one: Bound on the West by line beginning in the City of...
• Article 8 Courts.
• Part 1 Circuit Court.
• Section 45-35-80 Compensation - Circuit judges, district attorney
  (a) Commencing on October 1, 1988, the Circuit Judges and District Attorney of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit shall each receive a local salary supplement from...
• Section 45-35-80.01 Compensation - Special roving court reporters
  (a) Beginning on the first day of the first pay period following June 1, 1999, each special roving court reporter appointed by the Administrative Director...
• Part 2 Court Costs.
• Section 45-35-81 Additional court costs - Criminal or misdemeanor cases
  Any law, whether special, local, or general to the contrary notwithstanding, in Houston County in addition to all other costs and charges in any criminal...
• Section 45-35-81.01 Additional court costs - Criminal and civil cases
  (a) This section shall apply only in Houston County. (b) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal...
• Part 3 District Attorney.
• Section 45-35-82 Reserved Reserved.
• Part 4 Probate Court.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-35-83 Expense allowance
  The Judge of Probate and the Revenue Commissioner of Houston County shall be provided an expense allowance of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month,...
• Section 45-35-83.01 Salary; cost-of-living increases
  (a) Beginning on June 1, 2015, the Judge of Probate of Houston County shall receive an annual salary of one hundred five thousand dollars ($105,000)....
• Division 2 Fees.
• Section 45-35-83.20 Additional filing fee
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Houston County shall charge a special additional filing fee of two dollars ($2) for filing or for recording each...
• Section 45-35-83.21 Additional filing fee - Excluding tag and license functions
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Houston County shall charge a special additional filing fee of three dollars ($3) for filing or for recording each...
• Section 45-35-83.22 Probate transaction fee
  (a)(1) The judge of probate shall collect a probate transaction fee in the amount of five dollars ($5) for each probate transaction that involves probate...
• Division 3 Licensing.
• Section 45-35-83.40 Privilege license
  (a) In Houston County, the judge of probate shall provide for the annual issuance of privilege licenses by mail. The judge of probate shall mail...
• Section 45-35-83.41 List of privilege or business licenses
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Houston County shall charge a fee of thirty-five dollars ($35) for the compiling and printing of a list of...
• Division 4 Motor Vehicle, Vessel, and Non-motorized Vehicle Assessment.
• Section 45-35-83.60 Application; taxes and fees; issuance of tags and licenses
  (a) On or after September 1st each year, the Judge of Probate of Houston County, if he or she elects to do so, may mail...
• Section 45-35-83.61 Boat certificates of registration
  (a) In Houston County, the judge of probate shall provide for the annual issuance of boat certificates of registration by mail. The judge of probate...
• Division 5 Operation of Office.
• Section 45-35-83.80 Recording of instruments conveying title to real property
  The Judge of Probate of Houston County shall not record any instrument conveying the title to real property unless the current name and address of...
• Section 45-35-83.81 On-line computer service for access to certain records
  (a) The Houston County Commission and the Houston County Judge of Probate may establish and make available, by paid subscription, an on-line computer service allowing...
• Section 45-35-83.82 Noncollectible negotiable instruments; retrieval and voiding of license
  (a) In Houston County, when a negotiable instrument, such as a check or draft, given for a motor vehicle license is found to be noncollectible...
• Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
• Section 45-35-90 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 10 Education.
• Section 45-35-100 Board of education expense allowance
  The members of the Houston County Board of Education shall be entitled to an expense allowance of three hundred dollars ($300) per month. The expense...
• Article 11 Elections.
• Part 1 Board of Registrars.
• Section 45-35-110 Compensation
  In addition to any compensation authorized by general law, each member of the Houston County Board of Registrars shall receive twenty-five dollars ($25) per day...
• Section 45-35-110.01 Health insurance coverage
  (a) The members of the Board of Registrars of Houston County and their dependents shall be eligible for coverage under the Houston County Health Insurance...
• Part 2 Poll Workers.
• Section 45-35-111 Compensation
  In Houston County, election officials who work at polling places are hereby entitled to an additional per diem allowance in such an amount as will,...
• Section 45-35-111.01 Additional compensation
  (a) This section shall only apply in Houston County. (b) The chief poll inspectors shall receive additional compensation in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25)...
• Article 12 Employees.
• Part 1 Civil Service System.
• Section 45-35-120 Definitions
  The following words, terms, and phrases, wherever used herein, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, and shall include the singular...
• Section 45-35-120.01 Division into exempt and classified services
  All offices and positions of Houston County shall be divided into the exempt service and the classified service. (1) The EXEMPT SERVICE shall include: a....
• Section 45-35-120.02 Status of employees
  All employees who have acquired permanent status shall, subject to this part, have permanent status in their present positions so long as such positions remain...
• Section 45-35-120.03 Board members
  (a) The personnel program established by this part shall be administered by the board. The members of the five-member personnel appeals board, created pursuant to...
• Section 45-35-120.04 Meetings; personnel; compensation
  (a) The personnel board shall meet at least once each month at a time fixed by the board, or on the call of the chair,...
• Section 45-35-120.05 Rules, classification plans, and pay plans
  So long as the same are not inconsistent with this part, the board shall adopt rules and regulations for the operation of the civil service...
• Section 45-35-120.06 Amendments and repeal
  Any rule, determination, regulation, or plan may be amended or repealed in whole or in part in the same manner as is provided herein for...
• Section 45-35-120.07 Job classification plan
  After the adoption by the personnel board of a job classification plan, allocation of each position in the classified service shall be made by the...
• Section 45-35-120.08 Pay plan
  After the adoption by the personnel board of a pay plan and any rules of its administration, the board shall assign each position to one...
• Section 45-35-120.09 Examination
  Eligibility for original appointment or promotion to vacancies in positions in the classified service occurring after May 30, 1984, shall be determined by the personnel...
• Section 45-35-120.10 Temporary appointment
  Pending the availability of a list of names certified as provided in Section 45–35–120.12, positions may be filled by temporary appointment. The personnel board may...
• Section 45-35-120.11 Lists of names of persons available for appointment
  Lists of names of persons available for appointment to a vacancy in a position in the classified service shall be selected for certification as provided...
• Section 45-35-120.12 Method of filling vacancies
  Except as hereinafter provided, vacancies in positions in the classified service shall be filled by the appointing authority by the appointment of a person whose...
• Section 45-35-120.13 Probation
  Except as provided in Sections 45-35-120.01 and 45-35-120.02, to acquire permanent status in a position in the classified service so long as such position remains...
• Section 45-35-120.14 Absences; hours of work
  Rules shall be adopted in the manner hereinbefore provided prescribing hours of work and the conditions and length of time for which leaves of absence...
• Section 45-35-120.15 Lay-off of employees
  Any employee may be separated from his or her position by being laid off. Reduction in employees shall be in the following order: (1) Temporary...
• Section 45-35-120.16 Dismissal, demotion, and suspension of employees
  Any employee may be dismissed, suspended without pay, or demoted by his or her appointing authority for, but not limited to, any violation of this...
• Section 45-35-120.17 Procedure for protesting certain disciplinary action
  (a) An employee shall have the right to protest any disciplinary action taken against him or her by his or her appointing authority; provided, however,...
• Section 45-35-120.18 Appeal
  Decisions of the board may be enforced by mandamus, injunction, or other appropriate proceedings. The employee, the appointing authority, or the Houston County Commission may,...
• Section 45-35-120.19 Recordkeeping
  The board shall maintain adequate records of its proceedings, of its own official acts, the examination record of every candidate, and the employment record of...
• Section 45-35-120.20 Political activities prohibited
  No person holding a position in the classified service shall seek or attempt to use any political endorsement in connection with any appointment to a...
• Section 45-35-120.21 Expenses of board
  The governing body shall make necessary appropriations from the general fund to pay the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the board and its members...
• Section 45-35-120.22 Construction of part
  Nothing herein shall be construed as restricting the right of the governing body to refuse employment and prohibit the further service of any person who...
• Part 2 Incentive Program.
• Section 45-35-121 Employee incentive program
  (a) There is established an employee incentive program for the classified employees of Houston County, excluding those employees considered to be department heads. The intent...
• Article 13 Engineer, County.
• Section 45-35-130 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
• Section 45-35-140 Applicability
  This article shall apply only to those portions of Houston County located outside the corporate boundaries of the City of Dothan.
• Section 45-35-140.01 Legislative findings
  The Legislature declares that volunteer fire departments and associations which receive funds pursuant to this article are organizations which are public in nature, as they...
• Section 45-35-140.02 Fire protection service fee - Levy; definitions; exemption
  (a) There is levied on the owner of each dwelling and commercial building located in those portions of Houston County located outside the corporate boundaries...
• Section 45-35-140.03 Fire protection service fee - Collection, administration, and enforcement
  Except with regard to the enforcement provisions thereof, the fire protection service fee shall be collected and administered as closely as possible at the same...
• Section 45-35-140.04 Eligible volunteer fire department
  An eligible volunteer fire department, for the purposes of this article, shall mean a volunteer fire department located in Houston County which is certified under...
• Section 45-35-140.05 Disposition of funds
  Funds paid to eligible volunteer fire departments and the association shall only be expended for fire protection, including training, supplies, and equipment. The funds may...
• Section 45-35-140.06 Transfer of funds upon dissolution or abandonment of volunteer fire department
  Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible volunteer fire department or the Houston County Volunteer Firefighters Association, any remaining funds derived from this article or...
• Section 45-35-140.07 Liability of personnel
  The personnel of volunteer fire departments and the Houston County Volunteer Firefighters Association provided for in this article shall not be considered as employees, servants,...
• Section 45-35-140.08 Purpose
  The primary purpose and use of funds generated by this article is to enable all volunteer fire departments in Houston County to lower their ISO...
• Section 45-35-140.09 Regulatory control and supervision; forfeiture of funds
  With regard to the collection and administration of the fees levied by this article including, but not limited to, the application for and granting of...
• Article 15 Gambling.
• Section 45-35-150 Definitions
  As used in this article the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BINGO. The game, commonly known as bingo, where numbers or symbols...
• Section 45-35-150.01 Bingo games - Authorized
  The operation of bingo games for prizes or money by qualified organizations or qualified clubs for bona fide charitable, educational, or other lawful purposes shall...
• Section 45-35-150.02 Bingo games - Permits
  (a) No qualified organization or club shall be permitted to operate a bingo game unless the sheriff of the county first issues a permit to...
• Section 45-35-150.03 Bingo games - Permit requirements
  (a) Each bingo permit shall contain the name and address of the permit holder, the location at which the permit holder is permitted to conduct...
• Section 45-35-150.04 Bingo games - Legislative intent; prize limits; deductions for expenses; consulting fee
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature that only qualified organizations or qualified clubs which are properly issued permits pursuant to this article or...
• Section 45-35-150.05 Bingo games - Fees; disposition of funds
  All fees collected by the sheriff under this article shall be paid into the county general fund, and all necessary expenses incurred by that official...
• Section 45-35-150.06 Bingo games - Charitable or educational purposes of proceeds
  No less than 100 percent of the net proceeds of a bingo game shall be designated and expended for charitable or educational purposes. Net proceeds...
• Section 45-35-150.07 Bingo games - Equipment; prize and conduct limitations
  (a) Bingo may not be conducted with any equipment which is not owned, being purchased, or being rented at a reasonable rate by the permit...
• Section 45-35-150.08 Bingo games - Recordkeeping
  Each permit holder shall maintain the following records pertaining to each bingo session for at least one year from the date of the session: (1)...
• Section 45-35-150.09 Bingo games - Filing of records; inspection; examination or audit
  (a) On or before April 15, after this article has been in effect for one year, and on or before April 15 of each calendar...
• Section 45-35-150.10 Revocation of bingo permit - Procedures
  The sheriff, for good cause shown, may revoke any permit if the permit holder or any officer, director, agent, member, or employee of the permit...
• Section 45-35-150.11 Revocation of bingo permit - Eligibility; effect of convictions
  (a) A permit holder whose permit is revoked for a violation of this article or a rule promulgated under this article, is ineligible to apply...
• Section 45-35-150.12 Revocation of bingo permit - Jurisdiction to restrain or enjoin
  The circuit court of the county shall have jurisdiction to restrain or enjoin violations of this article and shall afford trial by jury for all...
• Section 45-35-150.13 Violations
  Any person who violates this article shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor upon first conviction under this article. Any subsequent conviction shall be...
• Section 45-35-150.14 Seizure and forfeiture of contraband
  Any device, equipment, record, money, or stakes used in any bingo game or operation in violation of this article may be declared contraband and may...
• Section 45-35-150.15 Applicability of other laws
  Any other law providing a penalty or disability on a person who conducts or participates in bingo games, who possesses equipment used in conducting bingo,...
• Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
• Section 45-35-160 Liability for monetary loss
  (a) The Houston County Commission shall reimburse the office of the license commissioner, judge of probate, or revenue commissioner from the general fund of the...
• Section 45-35-160.01 Payments by credit card
  (a)(1) The use of credit cards for any payments made to a Houston County department, agency, board, or commission may be authorized upon approval by...
• Section 45-35-160.02 Contingent Fund
  (a) Commencing with the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2007, the Houston County Commission may appropriate annually, out of the monies in the county treasury...
• Article 17 Health and Environment.
• Section 45-35-170 Board of health fees
  (a) The Houston County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall...
• Section 45-35-171 Individuals with mental illness taken into temporary protective custody
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) DESIGNATED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. A law enforcement agency within Houston...
• Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
• Section 45-35-180 Road maintenance programs, rules, costs
  (a) The county governing body or its road maintenance department or agency shall have the authority to pave any streets within Houston County. The county...
• Article 19 Legislature.
• Section 45-35-190 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
• Section 45-35-200 License Commissioner
  (a) There is created the office of License Commissioner in Houston County, Alabama. He or she shall take office immediately upon this section becoming law,...
• Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
• Section 45-35-210 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
• Section 45-35-220 Reserved Reserved.
• Article 23 Sheriff.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-35-230 Salary; expense allowance
  (a)(1) Commencing with the next term of office, the Sheriff of Houston County, Alabama, shall receive additional compensation in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars...
• Part 2 Funding.
• Section 45-35-231 Record of abandoned and stolen property; storage
  (a) The sheriff shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff’s department. The records shall...
• Section 45-35-231.01 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 45-35-231.02 Record of abandoned and stolen firearms; sale or distribution
  (a) The sheriff shall keep and maintain a separate permanent record of all abandoned and stolen firearms, not subject to disposition by general law. The...
• Section 45-35-231.03 Notice and sale of abandoned or stolen property
  (a) At least every six months, the sheriff shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash all abandoned or stolen personal property,...
• Section 45-35-231.04 Claim of ownership
  The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Houston County Sheriff’s Department, including firearms, may claim the property at any time...
• Section 45-35-231.05 Record of sale; rejection of bid
  If property is sold at public auction, as provided in this part, a notation in the storage record book shall be made of the sale...
• Section 45-35-231.06 Disposition of sale proceeds
  The proceeds from the sale of property at an auction conducted under the authority of this part, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in...
• Part 3 Jails.
• Division 1 Jail concession.
• Section 45-35-232 Operation; concession fund
  (a) The Sheriff of Houston County may operate a jail concession. The sheriff, sheriff’s deputies, or agents or employees of the sheriff, or any combination...
• Division 2 Work Release.
• Section 45-35-232.20 Work release for gainful employment conducive to rehabilitation
  A person who has been sentenced or committed to the county jail in Houston County, from a city court, district court, circuit court, or other...
• Section 45-35-232.21 Reporting to jail
  A person who has been sentenced to the Houston County Jail and who has been ordered released under Section 45-35-232.20, may at the time of...
• Section 45-35-232.22 Failure to report to jail
  Any person released under Section 45–35–232.20 or ordered confined under Section 45-35-232.21, who willfully fails to report for confinement as ordered shall be deemed to...
• Section 45-35-232.23 Purpose; Houston County Work Release and Pretrial Release Fund
  (a) The purpose of this subpart is to promote the rehabilitation of offenders and, insofar as possible, to provide for the Houston County Temporary and...
• Section 45-35-232.24 Disposition of funds
  (a) Funds collected pursuant to this subpart shall be expended for its implementation, including, but not limited to, paying salaries and other expenses involved in:...
• Section 45-35-232.25 Legislative intent
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this subpart providing for pretrial release shall be a guide to specified judicial officers in Houston County,...
• Section 45-35-232.26 Judicial officer
  As used in this subpart, the term judicial officer means, unless otherwise indicated, any circuit judge or equivalent thereof in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, any...
• Section 45-35-232.27 Release pending trial; order
  (a) A person in Houston County charged with an offense, at an appearance before a judicial officer, may be ordered released pending a trial on...
• Section 45-35-232.28 Failure to appear
  (a) A person released pursuant to this subpart who willfully fails to appear before any court or judicial officer as required, shall incur a forfeiture...
• Section 45-35-232.29 Revocation of release - Violation of condition of release
  (a) A person who has been conditionally released pursuant to this subpart and who has violated a condition of release, shall be subject to revocation...
• Section 45-35-232.30 Revocation of release - Probable cause of felony or misdemeanor
  (a) A person who has been conditionally released pursuant to this subpart shall be subject to revocation of release if there is probable cause to...
• Section 45-35-232.31 Forfeiture of cash or security
  All forfeitures of cash or other security deposited with the clerk of any court, and all deposits otherwise retained pursuant to this subpart, shall be...
• Section 45-35-232.32 Houston County Work Release and Pretrial Release Commission
  (a) There is created the Houston County Work Release and Pretrial Release Commission, hereinafter called the commission. The commission shall be composed of seven persons,...
• Section 45-35-232.33 Contempt; sanctions
  This subpart shall not interfere with or prevent any court of competent jurisdiction in Alabama to punish for contempt or impose sanctions.
• Section 45-35-232.34 Houston County Commission authorized to provide funding, in-kind service, or other aid
  Houston County through the Houston County Commission is authorized to provide, in its sole discretion, any funding, in-kind service or other aid of any type...
• Section 45-35-232.35 Procedures cumulative
  The procedures prescribed in this subpart shall be cumulative and in addition to all other bail and release procedures provided by law.
• Division 3 Work Release Commission Employees.
• Section 45-35-232.60 Community corrections officers
  Upon successfully completing the minimum standards of training and other requirements for law enforcement officers of the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission, a person...
• Part 4 Pistol Permits.
• Section 45-35-233 Fee; disposition of funds; Sheriff's Fund
  (a) In Houston County, the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person...
• Part 5 Retirement.
• Section 45-35-234 Receipt of badge and pistol upon retirement
  Any individual employed as a law enforcement officer by the Houston County Sheriff’s Office for a period of 10 years or more who retires from...
• Part 6 Service of Process Fee.
• Section 45-35-235 Service of process; Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund
  (a) This section shall only apply to Houston County. (b)(1) In addition to all other charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, in the civil...
• Article 24 Taxation.
• Part 1 Board of Equalization.
• Section 45-35-240 Days of service; compensation
  This section shall apply only to Houston County, Alabama. The members of the Board of Equalization in Houston County shall serve for not more than...
• Part 2 Revenue Commissioner.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-35-241 Salary
  Repealed by act ACT 2017-69, § 3, effective March 14, 2017.
• Section 45-35-241.01 Expense allowance; salary
  (a) Commencing April 1, 2017, the Revenue Commissioner of Houston County shall receive an annual expense allowance of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) payable in equal...
• Division 2 Operation of Office.
• Section 45-35-241.20 Merging of budgetary operations
  (a) The Revenue Commissioner of Houston County is authorized to take the necessary action to merge the budgetary operations and functions of the office. The...
• Section 45-35-241.21 Duties of judge of probate transferred
  In Houston County, any duties of the judge of probate relating to manufactured homes, including, but not limited to, the collection of sales tax on...
• Part 3 Tax, Gasoline.
• Section 45-35-242 Levy of tax
  There is levied in Houston County, Alabama, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining public roads, streets, bridges, and ferries, a privilege tax of not...
• Section 45-35-242.01 Administration
  The License Commissioner of Houston County is authorized to administer this part and to provide such rules, regulations, and means as are required for the...
• Section 45-35-242.02 Disposition of funds
  All of the net proceeds of the privilege tax collected within the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town in Houston County, Alabama, shall...
• Section 45-35-242.03 Repeal of taxes levied or collected by incorporated cities or towns
  After July 8, 1982, no incorporated city or town in Houston County, Alabama, shall levy or collect a privilege license or excise tax on any...
• Section 45-35-242.04 Purpose of taxes
  All taxes levied under this part and the money derived therefrom shall be used exclusively for the purpose of constructing and maintaining public roads, streets,...
• Section 45-35-242.05 License; surety bond; distributor requirements; audits; records
  (a) All distributors or individuals who are subject to the tax herein levied shall acquire a license therefor issued from the county, in an amount...
• Section 45-35-242.06 Violations
  (a) The following sanctions shall be imposed for the following violations of this part: (1) Any distributor, person, or association required to pay the tax...
• Part 4 Tax, Lodging.
• Section 45-35-243 Levy and collection; disposition of funds
  (a) This section shall only be applicable to portions of Houston County outside the corporate limits of the City of Dothan. (b) There is levied...
• Part 5 Tax. Sales and Use.
• Division 1 County.
• Section 45-35-244 Definitions
  (a) The following words, terms, and phrases as used in this subpart shall have the following respective meanings except where the context clearly indicates a...
• Section 45-35-244.01 Levy of privilege or license tax
  There is hereby levied, for the period of time provided for herein, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law,...
• Section 45-35-244.02 Provisions of states sales tax statutes applicable
  (a) Unless otherwise provided for herein or where the context herein clearly indicated a different interpretation, the taxes levied in Section 45-35-244.01 shall be subject...
• Section 45-35-244.03 Levy of excise tax
  For the period of time provided for herein: (1) An excise tax is hereby imposed on the storage, use, or other consumption in the county...
• Section 45-35-244.04 Provisions of state use tax statutes applicable
  (a) Unless otherwise provided for herein or where the context herein clearly indicates a different interpretation, the taxes levied by Section 45-35-244.03 shall be subject...
• Section 45-35-244.05 Collection of sales taxes and use taxes
  (a) The sales taxes levied in Section 45-35-244.01 shall be paid to and collected by the Houston County Commission or its designee, and the use...
• Section 45-35-244.06 Procedures for payment, assessment, and collection
  All provisions of the state sales tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales tax, making of monthly reports and...
• Section 45-35-244.07 Charge for collection
  (a) The Houston County Commission or its designee, for collecting the taxes levied under this subpart, may retain and deposit to the General Fund of...
• Section 45-35-244.08 Disposition of funds
  The amount of the gross tax collected hereunder, less collection charges deducted, shall be paid by the county commission or its designee as follows: (1)...
• Section 45-35-244.09 Effective date of levy
  The levy and imposition of the taxes provided for in this part shall commence on the first day of November 1989.
• Division 2 Municipal.
• Section 45-35-244.30 Authorization; prerequisites
  The Houston County Commission, at its election by resolution and in its sole discretion, or its designee is authorized to collect any municipal privilege, license,...
• Section 45-35-244.31 Collection
  The municipal taxes may be collected by the Houston County Commission or its designee at the same time, in the same manner, and along with...
• Section 45-35-244.32 Preparation and distribution of reports, etc
  The Houston County Commission or its designee shall prepare and distribute the reports, blank forms, and other information necessary to provide for collection of municipal...
• Section 45-35-244.33 Charge for collection
  (a) The Houston County Commission or its designee shall charge the municipality for collecting municipal license, privilege, sales, and use taxes a certain percentage of...
• Section 45-35-244.34 Applicability of other laws; construction of tax as debt
  (a) Unless otherwise provided for herein or where the context herein clearly indicates a different interpretation, the taxes levied by any municipality requesting the Houston...
• Section 45-35-244.35 Amendment of ordinance
  (a) Any amendment of any municipal ordinance heretofore adopted levying a tax that is to be collected by the Houston County Commission under this subpart,...
• Section 45-35-244.36 Applicability
  This subpart shall be effective with respect to all sales and gross receipts which are closed or received on and after October 1, 1995. The...
• Part 6 Tax, Tobacco.
• Section 45-35-245 Levy, collection, and enforcement; disposition of funds
  (a)(1) The Houston County Commission is hereby authorized to impose upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco...
• Article 25 Utilities.
• Section 45-35-250 Dothan-Houston County Communications District Board
  Repealed by Act 2015-347, §2(b) effective September 6, 2015.
• Section 45-35-250.01 Dotahn/Houston County Enhanced 911 Board
  (a) The City of Dothan/Houston County Enhanced 911 Board shall consist of the following members: (1) Four members appointed by a majority vote of the...
• Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
• Section 45-35-260 Reserved Reserved.

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