Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 38 - Lamar County
- Article 1 General and Miscelleous Provisions.
- Section 45-38-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Lamar County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Lamar County prior...
- Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Article 5 Constables.
- Article 6 Coroner.
- Section 45-38-60 Expense allowance
The county Coroner of Lamar County shall be entitled to receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100) per month...
- Section 45-38-60.01 Mileage allowance
In Lamar County, the county commission may provide the coroner with a mileage allowance in the same amount as the prevailing rate per mile paid...
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-38-70 Salary
(a) Each member of the Lamar County Commission shall devote his or her full time to the business of the commission, effective upon the next...
- Part 2 Powers.
- Section 45-38-71 Authorization to perform work or services on private property; county policy; contracts
(a) The Lamar County Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, within Lamar County, to go upon private property and perform work or services for churches...
- Section 45-38-71.01 Sale or disposal of county property
(a) This section shall only apply in Lamar County. (b)(1) All contracts for the sale or disposal of real property, tangible personal property, equipment, or...
- Section 45-38-71.02 Maintenance of certain driveways, gravel roads, etc
The Lamar County Commission may maintain driveways for schools, churches, and church-owned cemeteries, and school bus turnarounds located within the county, at county expense. The...
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Court Costs.
- Part 2 Probate Court.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Division 2 Employees.
- Section 45-38-81.20 Clerks; salaries
(a) The offices of probate judge, tax assessor, and tax collector in Lamar County are each hereby authorized to hire a chief clerk. The chief...
- Division 3 Indexing System.
- Section 45-38-81.40 Purpose
This subpart shall only apply in Lamar County. The purpose of this subpart is to facilitate the use of public records in property transactions in...
- Section 45-38-81.41 Definitions
The following words and phrases, including the plural of any thereof, whenever used in this subpart, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) GENERAL PROPERTY...
- Section 45-38-81.42 Installation of improved indexing and recording system
The judge of probate may provide for the installation and thereafter for the maintenance of an improved indexing and recording system in the probate offices...
- Section 45-38-81.43 Official record
Following the effective installation date, real property instruments, personal property instruments, and other documents and records and indexes thereto shall constitute the official records of...
- Section 45-38-81.44 Applicability of state laws
All provisions of the laws of Alabama with respect to the recording of real property instruments, personal property instruments, general property instruments, miscellaneous instruments, and...
- Section 45-38-81.45 Costs
The initial installation costs shall be paid entirely out of the special indexing and recording fees. Nothing contained in this section, however, shall prohibit the...
- Section 45-38-81.46 Special indexing fee
Thirty days after May 13, 1993, a special indexing and recording fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to the judge of probate with...
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Article 10 Education.
- Part 1 Board of Education.
- Part 2 Superintendent of Education.
- Section 45-38-101 Salary; expenses
Beginning with the next term of office, the county superintendent of education in Lamar County shall receive an annual salary which shall not be more...
- Article 11 Elections.
- Article 12 Employees.
- Article 13 Engineer, County.
- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
- Part 1 Distribution of Funds of Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority.
- Part 2 Incorporation of Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority.
- Section 45-38-141 Definitions
When used in this part, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) AUTHORITY. The...
- Section 45-38-141.01 Legislative intent
This part is intended to aid the state and county in the execution of its duties by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of the...
- Section 45-38-141.02 Incorporation of authority
(a) Within 45 days after May 4, 1989, or the passage and approval of a constitutional amendment authorizing the creation of the authority, three applicants...
- Section 45-38-141.03 Amendment of certificate of incorporation
(a) The certificate of incorporation of the authority incorporated under this part may at any time and from time to time be amended in the...
- Section 45-38-141.04 Board of directors
(a) The Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority shall be governed by a board of directors. All powers of the authority shall be...
- Section 45-38-141.05 Powers of authority; rates and charges
(a) The authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To...
- Section 45-38-141.06 Financial powers and rights
(a) The authority organized or operating pursuant to this part, in addition to all other powers now or hereafter granted by law, shall have the...
- Section 45-38-141.07 Power to contract
(a) As security for payment of the principal of and interest on bonds or obligations assumed by it, the authority may enter into a contract...
- Section 45-38-141.08 Rates, fees, and charges
Rates, fees, and charges for water service and fire protection service rendered by the authority from any of its water systems or fire protection facilities...
- Section 45-38-141.09 Assistance from state bodies
For the purpose of securing water service and fire protection facilities or aiding or cooperating with the authority in the planning, development, undertaking, construction, extension,...
- Section 45-38-141.10 Use of public roads
The authority is hereby authorized to use the rights-of-way of all public roads in the state without securing the prior approval of the state or...
- Section 45-38-141.11 Governmental functions; liability of authority
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- Section 45-38-141.12 Exemption from taxation
(a) The authority, the property and income of the authority, the income from bonds, conveyances by or to the authority, and leases, mortgages, and deeds...
- Section 45-38-141.13 Exemption from usury statutes
The authority now or hereafter organized under this part is hereby exempted from the laws of the State of Alabama governing usury and prescribing or...
- Section 45-38-141.14 Dissolution of authority
At any time when no bonds or obligations theretofore assumed by the authority are outstanding, the board may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly...
- Section 45-38-141.15 Validity of certificate of incorporation
In all cases where there is an attempt to incorporate a public corporation under this part, and a certificate of incorporation with respect to such...
- Section 45-38-141.16 Notice requirements, etc.; regulatory control and supervision
(a) Except as expressly otherwise provided in this part, no proceeding, notice, or approval shall be required for the incorporation of the authority or the...
- Section 45-38-141.17 Auditing
The Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority shall be audited similar to and in accordance with any audit required to be performed upon...
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Article 16 Government Operations.
- Section 45-38-160 Beaver fund
(a) The county governing body of Lamar County shall establish a special beaver fund in the county treasury with an initial deposit of five thousand...
- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
- Article 19 Legislature.
- Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
- Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
- Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
- Article 23 Sheriff.
- Part 1 Jails.
- Part 2 Pistol Permits.
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Revenue Commissioner.
- Division 1 Consolidated System.
- Section 45-38-240 Applicability
This subpart shall apply only in Lamar County.
- Section 45-38-240.01 Purpose
The purpose of this subpart is to conserve revenue and promote the public convenience in the county by consolidating the office of tax assessor and...
- Section 45-38-240.02 Consolidation of offices
At the expiration of the current term of office of the tax assessor and the office of the tax collector of the county, or if...
- Section 45-38-240.03 Duties of county revenue commissioner
The county revenue commissioner shall perform all acts, duties, and functions required by law to be performed either by the tax assessor or by the...
- Section 45-38-240.04 Personnel
Subject to the approval of the county commission, the county revenue commissioner shall appoint and fix the duties of a sufficient number of deputies, clerks,...
- Section 45-38-240.05 Bond
Before entering the duties of his or her office, the county revenue commissioner shall take the oath of office prescribed by Article XVI of the...
- Section 45-38-240.06 Office space and equipment
The county commission shall provide the necessary offices for the county revenue commissioner, and his or her deputies, clerks, and assistants, and shall provide all...
- Section 45-38-240.07 Performance of duties; compensation
The county revenue commissioner shall collect and pay into the general fund of the county all fees, percentages, commissions, and other allowances which the tax...
- Section 45-38-240.08 Abolition of offices; transfer of personnel
(a) The offices of tax assessor and tax collector are abolished effective the first day of October 2003. (b) All personnel employed in the office...
- Section 45-38-240.09 Election procedure
If the election provided by the act from which this subpart is derived occurs in a year in which the office of the tax collector...
- Division 2 Duties.
- Section 45-38-240.30 Transfer of duties
(a) This section shall apply only in Lamar County. (b) All duties, responsibilities, and liabilities regarding motor vehicle assessment and ad valorem tax collection heretofore...
- Part 2 Tax, Sales and Use.
- Part 3 Tax, Severance.
- Part 4 Tax, Tobacco.
- Section 45-38-243 Levy of tax
(a) There is hereby imposed upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in...
- Section 45-38-243.01 Tax to be added to sales price of tobacco products
Upon September 1, 1989, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the purpose of distribution in Lamar County...
- Section 45-38-243.02 Enforcement; tobacco stamps; reporting
It shall be the duty of the County Commission of Lamar County to enforce this part, and it shall have the right itself, or its...
- Section 45-38-243.03 Collection of taxes; rules and regulations
The State Department of Revenue, if requested by resolution of the Lamar County Commission, to collect all county privilege licenses or taxes specified in Section...
- Section 45-38-243.04 Application of laws, rules, and regulations
All laws, and rules and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section 40-25-1...
- Section 45-38-243.05 Disposition of funds
(a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the...
- Section 45-38-243.06 Construction and application
(a) None of the provisions of this part shall be applied in such manner as to be in violation of the commerce or other clauses...
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
Last modified: May 3, 2021