Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 42 - Limestone County

• Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
• Part 1 Disclaimer.
• Section 45-42-10 Disclaimer
  (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Limestone County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Limestone County prior...
• Part 2 Compensation of County Commission, Judge of Probate, Tax Assessor, Tax Collector, Sheriff, and Coroner.
• Section 45-42-11 Salaries; expense allowances
  (a)(1) The following officers of Limestone County shall receive the following annual salaries to be paid from county funds in equal monthly installments: a. Chair,...
• Part 3 Municipal Annexation.
• Section 45-42-12 Consent for annexation
  (a) In addition to all other requirements of law, no municipality whose corporate limits or boundaries include lands outside of Limestone County may annex lands...
• Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Section 45-42-20 Reserved
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• Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
• Section 45-42-30 Reserved
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• Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
• Section 45-42-40 Reserved
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• Article 5 Contables.
• Section 45-42-50 Office of constable abolished
  In Limestone 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 45-42-60 Expense Allowance
  (a)(1) The coroner in Limestone County shall receive an expense allowance of six hundred dollars ($600) per month and the deputy coroner shall receive an...
• Part 2 Deputy Coroner.
• Section 45-42-61 Appointment; duties; compensation
  In Limestone County, the county coroner is hereby authorized to appoint a deputy coroner who shall have the same responsibilities as the coroner when the...
• Part 3 Operation of Office.
• Section 45-42-62 Education and training; transportation; office space, supplies, etc
  (a) This section shall apply only to Limestone County. (b) The Limestone County Commission may pay the education and training expenses including, but not limited...
• Article 7 County Commissions.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-42-70 Expense allowance; salary
  (a) The chair and members of the county commission in Limestone County shall receive an expense allowance of nine hundred dollars ($900) per month. The...
• Part 2 Operation of Office.
• Section 45-42-71 Use of time; construction of laws
  All Limestone County Commissioners shall devote their entire time to the performance of the duties of their office and all laws or parts of laws...
• Section 45-42-71.01 Interment services
  (a) In Limestone County, it shall be lawful for the several district commissioners, serving as members of the county commission or other like governing body,...
• Article 8 Courts.
• Part 1 Circuit Court.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-42-80 Supplemental salary - Circuit judges
  In the Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit, each circuit judge is hereby authorized to receive as a supplemental salary to that paid by the state a sum...
• Section 45-42-80.01 Supplemental salary - District judges
  In the Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit, each district judge is hereby authorized to receive as a supplemental salary to that paid by the state a sum...
• Section 45-42-80.02 Supplemental salary - Court reporters
  Each court reporter of the judicial circuit composed of Limestone County shall be allowed and paid an additional supplement in an amount to be determined...
• Division 2 Records.
• Section 45-42-80.20 Orders and decrees
  (a) In the 39th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the...
• Part 2 Court Costs.
• Section 45-42-81 Supervision fee; Juvenile Court Services Fund
  (a) In addition to all other costs and charges in juvenile cases in Limestone County, a one-time supervision fee of not more than seventy-five dollars...
• Section 45-42-81.01 Solicitor's fee
  (a)(1) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases that arise within the geographic boundaries of Limestone County in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal...
• Part 3 District Attorney.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-42-82 Optical Allowance
  In addition to any other compensation or expense allowance now provided by law, the District Attorney of the Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit shall have the option...
• Division 2 Employees.
• Section 45-42-82.20 Investigators
  The lawfully appointed investigators of the District Attorney for the Thirtyninth Judicial Circuit shall have the same arrest authority and powers vested in deputy sheriffs...
• Division 3 Pretrial Diversion Program.
• Section 45-42-82.40 Definitions
  For purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) APPLICATION FEE. A one-time administrative fee imposed by the District Attorney...
• Section 45-42-82.41 Establishment of program; discretionary powers; supervision and control
  (a) The District Attorney of the Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a pretrial diversion program. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by the common...
• Section 45-42-82-42 Application for admittance
  An offender may apply to the district attorney for admittance into the pretrial diversion program. The application shall be made in the time and manner...
• Section 45-42-82.43 Ineligibility for program
  Admittance into the pretrial diversion program is in the absolute discretion of the district attorney. However, an offender deemed by the district attorney to be...
• Section 45-42-82.44 Standards for admission
  (a) The district attorney may consider an offender for the pretrial diversion program based on any of the following circumstances: (1) There is a probability...
• Section 45-42-82.45 Admission to program
  (a) Upon application by an offender for admission into the pretrial diversion program, and prior to admission and as a part of the district attorney’s...
• Section 45-42-82.46 Written agreement; other terms and conditions
  (a) Following the decision of the district attorney to admit the offender into the pretrial diversion program, but prior to entry, the district attorney and...
• Section 45-42-82.47 Fees
  (a) An offender may be assessed a nonrefundable application fee when the offender is approved for the pretrial diversion program. The amount of the assessment...
• Section 45-42-82.48 Collection and disposition of funds
  (a) Application fees required by this subpart shall be collected by the appropriate circuit or district court clerk of the Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit. The fees...
• Section 45-42-82.49 Program requirements; termination from program liability for costs and fees
  (a) Upon acceptance of an offender into the pretrial diversion program, the district attorney and the offender shall submit the offender’s written application together with...
• Section 45-42-82.50 Violations; waiver
  (a) After any violation of any program terms or conditions or upon any breach of any program agreement by the offender, the district attorney may...
• Section 45-42-82.51 Liability of district attorney, agency, or service provider
  In no event shall the district attorney, the Limestone County Community Corrections program, the Limestone County Drug Court, or any other agency or service provider...
• Section 45-42-82.52 Supervision of offenders
  The district attorney, to the extent practicable, shall utilize the services of community corrections programs established pursuant to Section 15–18–170, to provide for the supervision...
• Part 4 Probate Court.
• Division 1 Duties.
• Section 45-42-83 Recording system
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Limestone County in conformity to the duties set out in Section 12­13­41, shall maintain a general register for all...
• Division 2 Special Recording Fees.
• Section 45-42-83.20 Collection and disposition
  (a) On and after the date this subsection becomes applicable to Limestone County, a special recording fee of one dollar ($1) shall be paid to...
• Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
• Section 45-42-90 Reserved
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• Article 10 Education.
• Part 1 Board of Education.
• Section 45-42-100 Compensation
  (a) Each member of the Limestone County Board of Education shall receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250)...
• Part 2 Superintendent of Education.
• Division 1 Appointment.
• Section 45-42-101 Appointment of Superintendent
  The Limestone County Board of Education shall appoint the county superintendent of education for a contract period as determined by the board. This section as...
• Division 2 Compensation.
• Section 45-42-101.20 Salary; expense allowance
  (a) The Limestone County Board of Education shall set the salary of the county superintendent of education at an amount to be determined by the...
• Part 3 Textbooks.
• Section 45-42-102 Substitution of books or texts for state-approved or state-adopted textbooks
  In Limestone County, the county board of education, upon recommendation of the county superintendent of education, may substitute other books or texts for use in...
• Article 11 Elections.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-42-110 Compensation of election officers
  (a) In Limestone County, the county commission is hereby authorized to establish and set the compensation of the election officers, the returning officer, and the...
• Section 45-42-110.01 Expense allowance for members of county board of registrars
  (a) This section shall apply only to Limestone County. (b) Each member of the Limestone County Board of Registrars shall be entitled to receive an...
• Part 2 Voting Centers.
• Section 45-42-111 Establishment of voting centers
  (a) In Limestone County, the county commission is hereby empowered and authorized to establish, by resolution, voting centers by combining voters from two or more...
• Article 12 Employees.
• Part 1 Benefits
• Section 45-42-120 Reimbursement for repairing or replacing clothing or equipment
  (a) In Limestone County, when any county officer's or county employee's clothing or equipment is damaged or destroyed while he or she is engaged in...
• Section 45-42-120.01 Physical Examinations
  The Limestone County Commission is authorized to pay for the reasonable charges of physical examinations, for prospective employees, from the funds of the county treasury,...
• Part 2 Insurance.
• Section 45-42-121 Hospital and medical insurance, etc., for retired county employees
  The County Commission of Limestone County shall make provisions for health, hospitalization, surgical, and medical insurance for county employees retired under the Employees’ Retirement System...
• Section 45-42-121.01 Participation in insurance programs by retired county employees
  The Limestone County Commission shall allow retired county employees to participate in any health, hospitalization, surgical, or medical insurance program made available to regular county...
• Part 3 Personnel System.
• Section 45-42-122 Applicability
  This part shall apply to and have application in Limestone County, Alabama, to all regular full-time employees whose wages, salaries, and benefits are provided from...
• Section 45-42-122.01 Definitions
  As used in this part, unless the context plainly indicates a different meaning, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed...
• Section 45-42-122.02 Personnel rules and regulations; removal of employees
  All employees of the county as herein defined shall be subject to the personnel rules and regulations in or promulgated pursuant to this part. Present...
• Section 45-42-122.03 Power and duties of board
  (a) The board shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this part, and to provide for hirings, promotions, demotions, suspensions, removals,...
• Section 45-42-122.04 Adoption of rules, regulations, and procedures
  The board shall adopt and have printed such rules, regulations, and procedures as it may deem proper and in accordance with this part. The rules...
• Section 45-42-122.05 Dismissal from service
  Any employee who willfully violates this part, or any rule or regulation issued in pursuance hereof, shall be dismissed from service under the system and...
• Section 45-42-122.06 Employment of legal counsel
  In any matters related to this part wherein the board deems it necessary and proper to employ legal counsel, or if any person shall fail...
• Section 45-42-122.07 Compensation of employees; independent contractors
  Nothing herein shall be construed as restricting the right of the commission to increase or decrease proportionately the compensation of all county employees; or to...
• Article 13 Engineer, County.
• Section 45-42-130 Reserved
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• Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
• Section 45-42-140 Applicability
  This article shall apply only to those portions of Limestone County located outside the corporate boundaries of any municipality having a municipal fire department.
• Section 45-42-140.01 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 45-42-140.02 Fire protection service fee - Levy; definitions; exemptions
  (a) There is levied on the owner of each dwelling and business located in those portions of Limestone County located outside the corporate boundaries of...
• Section 45-42-140.03 Fire protection service fee ­ Collection, administration, and enforcement
  The fire protection service fee shall be collected, administered, and enforced as closely as possible at the same time, in the same manner, and under...
• Section 45-42-140.04 Eligible volunteer fire department
  An eligible volunteer fire department, for the purposes of this article, shall mean a volunteer fire department located in Limestone County and is a member...
• Section 45-42-140.05 Disposition of funds
  Funds paid to eligible volunteer fire departments shall only be expended for fire protection purposes, including training, supplies, and equipment. The funds may also be...
• Section 45-42-140.06 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 45-42-140.07 Liability of personnel
  The personnel of volunteer fire departments provided for in this article shall not be considered as employees, servants, or agents of the county and the...
• Article 15 Gambling.
• Section 45-42-150 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 45-42-150.01 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 45-42-150.02 Bingo games - Permits
  (a) No qualified organization or club shall be permitted to operate a bingo game unless the bingo game is located in the confines of Limestone...
• Section 45-42-150.03 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 45-42-150.04 Bingo games ­ Legislative intent; prize limits; deductions for expenses; consulting fees
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature that only qualified organizations or qualified clubs which are properly issued permits or licenses pursuant to this...
• Section 45-42-150.05 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 45-42-150.06 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 45-42-150.07 Bingo games - Filing of records; inspection
  (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 45-42-150.08 Revocation of bingo permit - Procedures
  The sheriff may revoke any permit if the permit holder or any officer, director, agent, member, or employee of the permit holder violates this article...
• Section 45-42-150.09 Revocation of bingo permit ­ Eligibility; effect of convictions
  (a) A permit holder whose permit or special permit is revoked for a violation of this article or a rule promulgated under this article is...
• Section 45-42-150.10 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 45-42-150.11 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 45-42-150.12 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 contraband and may be...
• Section 45-42-150.13 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 Operations.
• Part 1 Forestland Protection.
• Section 45-42-160 Participation in acreage protection program
  (a) The County Commission of Limestone County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection for the forestlands and other acreage protected by the...
• Part 2 Liability for Monetary Loss.
• Section 45-42-161 Reimbursement; due care required
  (a) The Limestone County governing body shall reimburse the office of license commissioner, judge of probate, or tax collector from the general fund of the...
• Part 3 Metropolitan-Government
• Section 45-42-162 Purpose
  The purpose of this part is to provide for the economic and efficient merger of the City of Athens and Limestone County and such other...
• Section 45-42-162.01 Definitions
  The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1) CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS. The sheriff, revenue commissioner, license commissioner, and judge of probate, and such...
• Section 45-42-162.02 Merger authorized
  Limestone County and any local government may merge to form a metropolitan-government. A metropolitan-government may exercise all powers and duties assigned by general law to...
• Section 45-42-162.03 Procedures for establishment of metropolitan-government
  Establishment of the metropolitan-government shall be initiated by a referendum which shall be participated in by Limestone County, the City of Athens, and such other...
• Section 45-42-162.04 Service districts
  (a) A general services district shall include the entire area of Limestone County. Any service or function which is now or in the future assigned...
• Section 45-42-162.05 Assumption of functions of special districts
  The metropolitan-government created by this part, and approved by the voters, on 60 days’ notice, may at any time thereafter assume all functions, rights, duties,...
• Section 45-42-162.06 State shared revenues
  The metropolitan-government shall not receive less in state grants, general support payments, shared revenues, or otherwise than the total amount that would have been received...
• Section 45-42-162.07 Powers of metropolitan-government
  The metropolitan-government shall have all the powers granted to municipal corporations and the county governments by the constitution and the laws of the state together...
• Section 45-42-162.08 Elections
  The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the metropolitan-government...
• Section 45-42-162.09 Duties of mayor and commission
  The mayor shall preside at the meetings of the commission and shall be recognized as the head of the municipal government for all ceremonial purposes...
• Section 45-42-162.10 Powers of mayor
  (a) All executive and administrative power of the metropolitan-government shall be vested in the office of the mayor and such other departments, offices, agencies, boards,...
• Section 45-42-162.11 Powers of commission
  All powers of the metropolitan-government including all powers vested in it by this part, the constitution, and the general and local laws of this state....
• Section 45-42-162.12 Compensation of mayor and commission
  After the first term the mayor and each commissioner shall receive as compensation for their services the sum established by the metropolitan governing body at...
• Section 45-42-162.13 Appointment of metropolitan manager
  (a) The mayor shall appoint, subject to commission approval, a metropolitan manager, who shall be an officer of the metropolitan-government, and shall have the powers...
• Section 45-42-162.14 General officers
  The offices of sheriff, revenue commissioner, license commissioner, and judge of probate as established by the constitution or by statute shall be maintained. The salary...
• Section 45-42-162.15 Elective officers
  (a) The sheriff shall have such duties as prescribed by Alabama law except that the sheriff shall not be the chief conservator of peace. The...
• Section 45-42-162.16 Judge of probates
  Nothing in this part shall have effect upon the judicial powers and functions of the judge of probate as provided by the general laws. All...
• Section 45-42-162.17 Transition
  (a) The transition period shall be directed by the provisions contained herein. The level of services during transition shall not be below the level of...
• Section 45-42-162.18 Planning and land use controls
  (a) A planning commission shall be established and shall have authority to institute, under the general laws of the state, land use controls for the...
• Section 45-42-162.19 Schools
  (a) Within 18 months from the time metropolitan-government is placed in effect, the respective school boards of the city and the county shall plan for...
• Section 45-42-162.20 Budgeting; tax levies; bonds
  (a) The budget and tax levy of the former City of Athens shall serve as the budget and tax levy for the urban service district...
• Section 45-42-162.21 Employees
  (a) All permanent full-time and permanent part-time employees of the city or county including employees of any department, board, commission, authority, or agency shall become...
• Part 4 Tennessee Valley Authority in Lieu of Taxes.
• Section 45-42-163 Distribution of payments
  Upon receipt by Limestone County of funds pursuant to Chapter 28, Title 40, as amended, Limestone County, within a reasonable time thereafter, shall distribute the...
• Article 17 Health and Environment.
• Part 1 Environment.
• Division 1 Junkyards.
• Section 45-42-170 Legislative findings
  The regulation of the accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor vehicles, and other litter within the unincorporated areas of Limestone County, and licensing the...
• Section 45-42-170.01 Public nuisance - Premises
  (a) It is unlawful and constitutes a public nuisance for the owner or other person in charge or in control of a building, lot, junkyard,...
• Section 45-42-170.02 Public nuisance - Motor vehicles
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful and constitutes a public nuisance for any person to park, leave, or store upon any...
• Section 45-42-170.03 Licensing and operation of junkyards
  (a) No person shall establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard containing any items listed in Section 45­42­170 but not limited to those items, any portion...
• Section 45-42-170.04 Enforcement
  (a) This subpart shall be enforced by the Limestone County Commission. (b) The Limestone County Commission may commence a civil action in the name of...
• Division 2 Landfills.
• Section 45-42-170.20 Solid waste landfill location and operation
  (a) In addition to any other provision of law or any rule or regulation by the state or federal government or local government in Limestone...
• Division 3 Rock Quarries.
• Section 45-42-170.40 Limitations on rock quarries - Distance from Robotics Center
  In Limestone County, after May 11, 2009, no new rock quarry may be established nor may any existing rock quarry be relocated outside the corporate...
• Section 45-42-170.41 Limitations on rock quarries - Distance from public school
  In Limestone County, after May 11, 2009, no new rock quarry may be established nor may any existing rock quarry be relocated outside the corporate...
• Section 45-42-170.42 Limitations on rock quarries - Distance from TVA Industrial Development Mega Site
  In Limestone County, after May 11, 2009, no new rock quarry may be established nor may any existing rock quarry be relocated outside the corporate...
• Section 45-42-170.43 Limitations on rock quarries - Distance from Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant
  In Limestone County, after May 11, 2009, no new rock quarry may be established nor may any existing rock quarry be relocated outside the corporate...
• Part 2 Health.
• Section 45-42-171 Schedule of fees; rulemaking authority; disposition of funds
  (a) The Board of Health of Limestone County may annually fix a schedule of fees which shall cover the actual cost or a portion thereof...
• Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
• Section 45-42-180 Regulation of advertisement signs on right-of-way of county
  (a) No person or business entity shall erect a sign, any portion of which is on the right-of-way of Limestone County without obtaining approval. (b)...
• Article 19 Legislature.
• Section 45-42-190 Reserved
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• Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
• Part 1 License Commissioner.
• Section 45-42-200 Appointment; compensation
  The Limestone County Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint in lieu of the county license commission authorized under Act 746, 1978 Regular Session...
• Section 45-42-200.01 Seal; oath; bond
  The county license commissioner shall have an official seal of office and shall maintain a permanent office in the county. Before commencing the duties of...
• Section 45-42-200.02 Office; supplies; personnel
  The county commission shall furnish suitable quarters for the county license commissioner, and provide the necessary forms, books, stationery, records, equipment, and supplies, except such...
• Section 45-42-200.03 Chief clerk
  The county license commissioner shall recommend to the commission a chief clerk who, in the absence of the commissioner, shall exercise the same powers and...
• Section 45-42-200.04 Transfer of duties from Tax Assessor and Tax Collector
  The county license commissioner shall perform all duties relative to the assessment and collection of taxes on motor vehicles in such county, which have heretofore...
• Section 45-42-200.05 Business license
  Before any person, firm, or corporation shall engage in or carry on any business activity or other non-business activity in the county for which a...
• Section 45-42-200.06 Sworn statement of value
  In all cases where the amount to be paid for a license depends upon the amount of capital invested or the true value or property...
• Section 45-42-200.07 Recordkeeping
  The county license commissioner shall keep at all times an accurate record of all licenses received by him or her from the Comptroller and of...
• Section 45-42-200.08 Fees
  Except as hereinafter provided, the county license commissioner shall be entitled to charge and collect the same fees that are prescribed in the general law...
• Section 45-42-200.09 Payment of tax required for issuance of motor vehicle license
  To prevent motor vehicles from escaping taxation and to provide for a more efficient procedure for assessment and collection of taxes due on same, no...
• Section 45-42-200.10 Motor vehicle assessment
  (a) Before any vehicle can be assessed, the county license commissioner shall be furnished the tag number presently on the vehicle unless such vehicle is...
• Section 45-42-200.11 Assessment and collection of motor vehicle taxes
  After the first day of January 1983, motor vehicles shall not be included in any other assessment made by any person, firm, or corporation under...
• Section 45-42-200.12 Books, records, and blanks
  The Comptroller, the State Department of Revenue, the State Department of Finance, and State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources are hereby required to furnish...
• Section 45-42-200.13 Application of driver's licenses
  The county license commissioner shall take applications for driver's licenses or renewals thereof, temporary driver permits, and other motor vehicles operator's licenses and give receipts...
• Section 45-42-200.14 Applications for motor vehicle license tags
  The county license commissioner shall take applications for replacement of motor vehicle license tags which have been lost, destroyed, or mutilated, and forward such application...
• Section 45-42-200.15 Registration applications by mail
  On or after the first day of each month, but not later than the last day of each month preceding the month in which the...
• Section 45-42-200.16 Additional fees for mailing expenses
  All applications for motor vehicle tags by mail and the correct amount of taxes and fees shall be received by the county license commissioner, on...
• Section 45-42-200.17 Transfer of title
  Every purchaser of a motor vehicle, within 10 calendar days after the purchase, shall transfer the vehicle with the office of the county license commissioner....
• Section 45-42-200.18 Delivery of records
  All records in the custody of the judge of probate, the tax assessor, and tax collector relating to the duties herein imposed upon the commissioner,...
• Section 45-42-200.19 Abolition of office of license inspector; transfer of duties
  The office of license inspector for Limestone County is hereby abolished. Thereupon, the county license commissioner shall become the ex-officio license inspector of the county....
• Section 45-42-200.20 Copying fee
  The county license commissioner is hereby authorized to charge one dollar ($1) per page or fraction of a page, to be paid into the county...
• Section 45-42-200.21 Leger; report
  The county license commissioner shall keep a ledger showing the amount of money collected each day for each service performed and such book shall be...
• Part 2 Operation of Office of License Commissioner.
• Section 45-42-201 Issuance of boat licenses by mail
  The License Commissioner of Limestone County is hereby authorized to issue boat licenses pursuant to Chapter 5, Title 33, by mail and may collect an...
• Section 45-42-201.01 Budgetary operations of Revenue Commissioner and License Commissioner
  (a) The Revenue Commissioner and License Commissioner of Limestone County, respectively, shall each be responsible for the budgetary operations and functions of his or her...
• Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
• Section 45-42-210 Reserved
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• Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
• Section 45-42-220 Preservation of ancient cemeteries or burial grounds
  (a) In Limestone County, the county commissioners, upon appropriate request, may provide assistance in the maintenance, restoration, care, and protection of any ancient cemetery or...
• Article 23 Sheriff.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-42-230 Salary; food account
  (a) Beginning with the next term of office, the Sheriff of Limestone County shall receive an annual salary that is 85 percent of the annual...
• Part 2 Funding.
• Section 45-42-231 Driver education seminar; Sheriff's Driver Education Fund
  (a) In Limestone County, the fees for attendance at seminars conducted by the Limestone County Sheriff's Office, known as the Limestone County Sheriff's Office Driver...
• Part 3 Jails.
• Section 45-42-232 Jail store
  (a) The Sheriff of Limestone County is hereby authorized to operate a jail store and contract telephone installation for inmates within the confines of the...
• Part 4 Personnel.
• Section 45-42-233 Receipt of badge, pistol, etc., upon retirement
  (a) This section shall apply only to Limestone County. (b) Any person employed as a commissioned deputy of the Sheriff's Office of Limestone County for...
• Section 45-42-233.01 Authority of certain personnel
  All persons employed by the Limestone County Community Corrections Agency who have been certified by the Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission shall have the...
• Part 5 Pistol Permits.
• Section 45-42-234 Fees; disposition of funds
  (a) In Limestone County, the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person...
• Article 24 Taxation.
• Part 1 Board of Equalization.
• Section 45-42-240 Salary supplements
  The County Commission of Limestone County is hereby authorized to provide county salary supplements for the members of the Limestone County Board of Equalization in...
• Part 2 Revenue Commissioner.
• Section 45-42-241 County revenue commissioner
  (a) After September 30, 1987, there shall be a county revenue commissioner for Limestone County. A county revenue commissioner shall be elected at the general...
• Part 3 Tax, Tobacco.
• Section 45-42-242 Levy of tax
  There is hereby imposed upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco or certain tobacco products in Limestone...
• Section 45-42-242.01 Tax to be added to sales price of tobacco products
  Upon adoption of a resolution by the Limestone County Commission, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells, stores, or receives for the purpose...
• Section 45-42-242.02 Violations
  It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in Limestone County in the business for which the tax is...
• Section 45-42-242.03 Tobacco stamps
  The tax hereby authorized shall be paid by affixing stamps as is required for the payment of the tax imposed by Section 40­25­1 to Section...
• Section 45-42-242.04 Promulgation of rules and regulations
  The State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this part. All such rules...
• Section 45-42-242.05 Application of laws, rules, and regulations
  All laws, and rules and regulations of the Department of Revenue, relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by Section...
• Section 45-42-242.06 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 45-42-242.07 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...
• Part 4 Tax, Sales, and Use.
• Division 1 1957 Tax.
• Section 45-42-243 Levy of taxes paralleling state taxes
  (a) In Limestone County there is hereby levied, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, and shall be collected...
• Section 45-42-243.01 Applicability of state provisions
  The taxes provided for in Section 45–42–243 shall be subject to all definitions, exceptions, proceedings, requirements, rules, regulations, provisions, penalties, fines, punishments, and deductions as...
• Section 45-42-243.02 Taxes as lien to property
  All taxes imposed by this part, together with such interest and penalties as may be imposed herein, shall be a lien upon the property of...
• Section 45-42-243.03 Collection of taxes
  The taxes imposed by this part shall be collected by the State Department of Revenue at the same time and along with the collection by...
• Section 45-42-243.04 Taxes in addition to other licenses and taxes
  The taxes imposed by this part shall be in addition to all other licenses and taxes levied by law as a condition precedent to engage...
• Section 45-42-243.05 Time and manner of collection
  The taxes levied by this part shall be due and collectible at the same times and manner as the state sales and use taxes, and...
• Section 45-42-243.06 Disposition of funds
  The proceeds of the taxes imposed by this part, when paid to the custodian of the county school funds of Limestone County, as provided in...
• Division 2 2001 Tax.
• Section 45-42-243.30 Financing construction of public buildings
  (a) In order to provide funds for financing the cost of public buildings, the Limestone County Commission is hereby authorized by resolution to levy and...
• Division 3 Exemptions.
• Section 45-42-243.50 Gasoline or motor fuel exemptions
  (a) The privilege tax imposed by Act 230, 1927 Regular Session (Local Acts 1927, p. 135), as amended by Act 98, Special Session 1936 (Local...
• Part 5 Tax, Indigent Health Care.
• Section 45-42-244 Use of proceeds for indigent health care
  The Limestone County Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to use, and pay from, the unencumbered proceeds of any and all special county tax or...
• Article 25 Utilities.
• Section 45-42-250 Transfer of water from Tennessee River Basin
  (a) This section shall apply only in Limestone County. (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds the following: (1) It is in the...
• Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
• Section 45-42-260 Authority to zone county property outside corporate limits of municipality
  (a) The Limestone County Commission may divide any territory at its discretion within the county, but outside of the corporate limits of any municipality in...

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