Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 47 - Marion County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Section 45-47-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Marion County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Marion County prior...
- Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Section 45-47-20 Reserved
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- Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
- Section 45-47-30 Reserved
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- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Section 45-47-40 Branch banking
Any bank situated within any incorporated municipality in Marion County, with the approval of the State Superintendent of Banks, may establish, maintain, and operate branch...
- Article 5 Constables.
- Section 45-47-50 Reserved
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- Article 6 Coroner.
- Section 45-47-60 Expense allowance
The Coroner of Marion County shall receive an expense allowance of two hundred dollars ($200) per month payable out of the county general fund which...
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-47-70 Expense allowances
(a) The members of the Marion County Commission shall each receive an expense allowance of two hundred dollars ($200) monthly to be paid out of...
- Part 2 Duties.
- Part 3 Membership.
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Court Costs.
- Section 45-47-80 Additional court costs - Distribution
Any monies collected from the additional court costs levied by Act 85–933, 1985 Second Special Session (Acts 1985, p. 235), as amended, and Act 85–934,...
- Section 45-47-80.01 Additional court costs - Domestic violence cases
In addition to all other costs and charges in circuit, district, and municipal court cases in Marion County, there shall be levied and assessed a...
- Section 45-47-80.02 Additional court costs - Circuit clerk's fund
(a) Any court costs assessed pursuant to Act 720 of the 1978 Regular Session (Acts 1978, p. 1035), in the Twenty-fifth Judicial Circuit, before September...
- Part 2 Probate Court.
- Section 45-47-81 Compensation - Judge of Probate
Effective with the term of office beginning in January, 2019, the Judge of Probate of Marion County shall be compensated on a salary basis paid...
- Section 45-47-81.01 Personnel, equipment, etc; salaries and benefits
(a) The County Commission of Marion County shall provide the judge of probate with office personnel, clerks, and deputies, as shall be determined by the...
- Section 45-47-81.02 Disposition of funds
All fees, commissions, allowances, percentages, and other charges allowable to the Judge of Probate of Marion County shall be collected and shall be paid into...
- Part 3 Procedures.
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Section 45-47-90 Reserved
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- Article 10 Education.
- Part 1 Board of Education.
- Section 45-47-100 Expense allowance
The members of the Marion County Board of Education shall receive an additional expense allowance of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month to be...
- Part 2 Superintendent of Education.
- Section 45-47-101 Expense allowance
The County Superintendent of Education of Marion County is hereby entitled to receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200)...
- Article 11 Elections.
- Article 12 Employees.
- Section 45-47-120 Reserved
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- Article 13 Engineer, County
- Section 45-47-130 Reserved
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- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
- Section 45-47-140 Forest fire protection
(a) The County Commission of Marion County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection against forest fires in Marion County by participating in...
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Section 45-47-150 Reserved
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- Article 16 Government Operations.
- Section 45-47-160 Reserved
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- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
- Section 45-47-180 Reserved
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- Article 19 Legislature.
- Section 45-47-190 Reserved
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- Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
- Section 45-47-200 Reserved
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- Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
- Section 45-47-210 Reserved
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- Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
- Article 23 Sheriff.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-47-230 Expense allowances
(a) The County Commission of Marion County is authorized and directed to pay the chief deputy sheriff, each deputy sheriff, and the sheriff's clerk an...
- Section 45-47-230.01 Pay increases
(a) In Marion County, all employees of the sheriff's office shall receive pay increases at the same time and in the same percentages as pay...
- Part 2 Employees.
- Division 1 Employees.
- Division 2 Merit System.
- Section 45-47-231.20 Definitions
As used in this subpart, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTMENT AUTHORITY. In...
- Section 45-47-231.21 Applicability
This subpart shall apply to all law enforcement officials and employees in the service of the county or any board, agency, or instrumentality thereof except:...
- Section 45-47-231.22 Merit system rules and regulations
All employees to whom this subpart applies shall be governed by merit system rules and regulations governing dismissals, suspensions, layoffs, and terminations prescribed in this...
- Section 45-47-231.23 Merit System Board
(a) There is hereby created the Merit System Board of Marion County, Alabama, which shall become effective on March 11, 1980, and shall be composed...
- Section 45-47-231.24 Compensation of board members
Each member of the board shall be paid ten dollars ($10) per month.
- Section 45-47-231.25 Meetings
The board shall fix the times for its regular meetings and it may hold special, adjourned, or called meetings at any time. A majority of...
- Section 45-47-231.26 Recordkeeping
The board shall keep minutes of its meetings and a record of all business transacted by it. Its records, except those which the rules of...
- Section 45-47-231.27 Equipment, personnel, etc
The governing body of Marion County shall provide the board with materials and secretarial help when needed during meetings and shall assign an area from...
- Section 45-47-231.28 Funding
The compensation to each board member and all other expenses of the board arising under this subpart shall be paid from funds of the county...
- Section 45-47-231.29 Probationary appointments
All appointments of employees to which this subpart applies, other than temporary appointments, shall be probationary for one year from the date of appointment. A...
- Section 45-47-231.30 Deputy sheriff; chief of police
Whenever a new sheriff is elected or appointed, he or she may appoint any person as his or her chief deputy sheriff, provided such person...
- Section 45-47-231.31 Suspension of merit employees
The appointing authority shall have authority to suspend, without pay, a merit employee for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning his or her...
- Section 45-47-231.32 Removal, discharge, or demotion of merit employees
(a)(1) The governing body of the county or a municipality, or the head of any department or office, can remove, discharge, or demote any merit...
- Section 45-47-231.33 Political activities
No employee shall make, solicit, or receive any assessment, donation, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatsoever, or be a member of a committee...
- Section 45-47-231.34 Violations
Any merit employee who willfully violates this subpart, or any rule or regulation issued in pursuance hereof, shall be dismissed from service under the system...
- Section 45-47-231.35 Effective date
All employees to which this subpart applies shall be covered by the merit system by March 11, 1980.
- Part 3 Jails.
- Section 45-47-232 Jail canteen
(a) The Sheriff of Marion County may operate a jail canteen for the benefit of prisoners in county custody. The sheriff shall be responsible for...
- Part 4 Pistol Permit.
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Board of Equalization.
- Section 45-47-240 Per diem payments
Each member of the Board of Equalization of Marion County shall be paid a total of thirty dollars ($30) per diem for each day’s attendance...
- Part 2 Redemption of Land.
- Part 3 Revenue Commissioner.
- Division 1 Budgetary Operations.
- Section 45-47-242 Merger of operations
(a)(1) The Tax Assessor of Marion County is hereby authorized to take the necessary action to merge the budgetary operations and functions of his or...
- Division 2 Consolidated System.
- Part 4 Tax, Oil and Gas.
- Part 5 Tax, Sales and Use.
- Division 1 Automotive.
- Division 2 General.
- Section 45-47-244.20 Definitions
All words, terms, and phrases that are defined in Act 100 of the 1959 Second Special Session (Acts 1959, p. 298), as amended, the state...
- Section 45-47-244.21 Levy of privilege or license tax
Effective on the first day of the month succeeding the month during which this subpart becomes a law, there is hereby levied in Marion County,...
- Section 45-47-244.22 Levy of excise tax
(a) An excise tax is hereby imposed on the following: (1) The storage, use, or other consumption in Marion County of tangible personal property purchased...
- Section 45-47-244.23 Payment of taxes; reports
The taxes levied in Section 45-47-244.21 shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of the month next succeeding...
- Section 45-47-244.24 Receipts; quarterly returns
Every registered seller making sales of tangible personal property for storage, use, or other consumption in Marion County (which storage, use, or other consumption is...
- Section 45-47-244.25 Addition of tax to sales price or admission fee
Each person engaging or continuing within Marion County in a business subject to the taxes levied in Section 45-47-244.21 shall add to the sales price...
- Section 45-47-244.26 Collection of tax; enforcement
The taxes imposed by this subpart shall constitute a debt due Marion County and may be collected by civil suit, in addition to all other...
- Section 45-47-244.27 Applicability of state statutes
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 45-47-244.28 Charge for collection
The State Department of Revenue shall charge Marion County for collecting the special taxes herein levied by this subpart, the cost of making such collections...
- Section 45-47-244.29 Disposition of funds
The proceeds derived from the taxes herein levied shall be distributed each year as follows: (1) The amount necessary in each year to pay the...
- Part 6 Tax, Tobacco.
- Section 45-47-245 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 45-47-245.01 Tax to be added to sales price of tobacco products
Upon September 1, 1988, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for the purpose of distribution in Marion County...
- Section 45-47-245.02 Enforcement; tobacco stamps; reporting
It shall be the duty of the County Commission of Marion County to enforce this part upon its imposing the tax thereunder, and it shall...
- Section 45-47-245.03 Collection of taxes; rules and regulations
The State Department of Revenue, if requested by resolution of the Marion County Commission, to collect all county privilege licenses or taxes specified in Section...
- Section 45-47-245.04 Application of state provisions
All laws, and rules and regulations of the State Department of Revenue, relating to the manner and time of payment of the tax levied by...
- Section 45-47-245.05 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 45-47-245.06 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...
- Part 7 Tax, Lodging.
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Section 45-47-250 Definitions
When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) AUTHORITY. The...
- Section 45-47-250.01 Legislative intent
This article is intended to aid the state and county in the execution of its duties by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of the...
- Section 45-47-250.02 Marion County Public Water Authority - Incorporation
(a) Within 45 days after May 4, 1989, three applicants shall be appointed to proceed to incorporate the Marion County Public Water Authority by filing...
- Section 45-47-250.03 Amendment to certificate of incorporation
(a) The certificate of incorporation of the authority incorporated under this article may at any time, and from time to time, be amended in the...
- Section 45-47-250.04 Board of directors
(a) The Marion County Public Water Authority shall be governed by a board of directors. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by the...
- Section 45-47-250.05 Powers of authority
(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 45-47-250.06 Additional powers and rights
(a) The authority organized or operating pursuant to this article, in addition to all other powers now or hereafter granted by law, shall have the...
- Section 45-47-250.07 Contracts of the authority
(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 45-47-250.08 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 45-47-250.09 Planning, development, operation, etc., of services and facilitates
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 45-47-250.10 Rights-of-way
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 45-47-250.11 Governmental functions; liability of authority
(a) The furnishing of fire protection facilities in conjunction with the water services by the authority as well as the furnishing of water services are...
- Section 45-47-250.12 Exemption from taxes, fees, etc
(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 45-47-250.13 Exemption from usury statutes
The authority now or hereafter organized under this article is hereby exempted from the laws of the State of Alabama governing usury and prescribing or...
- Section 45-47-250.14 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 45-47-250.15 Validity of incorporation
In all cases where there is an attempt to incorporate a public corporation under this article, and a certificate of incorporation with respect to such...
- Section 45-47-250.16 Proceedings, notice, and approval of authority actions
Except as expressly otherwise provided in this article, no proceeding, notice, or approval shall be required for the incorporation of the authority or the amendment...
- Section 45-47-250.17 Auditing
The Marion County Public Water Authority shall be audited similar to and in accordance with any audit required to be performed upon the Marion County...
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
- Section 45-47-260 Reserved
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