Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 48 - Marshall County

• Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
• Part 1 Disclaimer.
• Section 45-48-10 Disclaimer
  (a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Marshall County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Marshall County prior...
• Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Section 45-48-20 Regulation of sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday
  (a) The city council of each municipality in Marshall County, where the sale of alcoholic beverages is legal, except for Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages,...
• Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
• Section 45-48-30 Reserved
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• Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
• Section 45-48-40 Branch banking authorized
  (a) Any bank, incorporated under the laws of this state and having a banking office in Marshall County, and any national bank having a combined...
• Article 5 Constables.
• Section 45-48-50 Office abolished
  In Marshall County, the office of constable provided for in each election precinct pursuant to Chapter 23, Title 36, is abolished.
• Article 6 Coroner.
• Section 45-48-60 Expense allowance
  (a) The Coroner of Marshall County shall be entitled to receive an expense allowance in the amount of one thousand three hundred fifty dollars ($1,350)...
• Section 45-48-60.01 Expenses for operation; deputy coroners; compensation
  (a) The Marshall County Commission may appropriate and expend county funds for expenses necessary for the operation of the office of the coroner in the...
• Article 7 County Commission.
• Part 1 Creation.
• Division 1 Original Powers and Duties.
• Section 45-48-70 County governing body
  The Commission on Government and Finance of Marshall County, created by Act 294, 1963 Regular Session (Acts 1963, p. 755) and amended by Act 415,...
• Section 45-48-70.01 Composition
  The commission shall consist of a chair and four associate commissioners who shall each and severally be chosen and possess the qualifications as hereinafter set
• Section 45-48-70.02 Commission chair
  The Chair of the Commission on Government and Finance of Marshall County shall serve as Chair of the Marshall County Commission and shall hold office...
• Section 45-48-70.03 Associate commissioners
  The associate members of the Commission on Government and Finance of Marshall County shall serve as associate commissioners of the Marshall County Commission and shall...
• Section 45-48-70.04 Districts defined
  For the purposes of this subpart, and for future election of associate commissioners, Marshall County is hereby divided into four subdivisions, to be known as...
• Section 45-48-70.05 Election of commission
  At the general election immediately prior to the expiration date of the term of office of each member of the commission, and as is hereinabove...
• Section 45-48-70.06 Qualifications for election
  Each candidate for election to the commission at the general election shall be nominated by the voters of the entire county who are authorized to...
• Section 45-48-70.07 Vacancies filled
  Each district of Marshall County shall be entitled to one associate commissioner on the commission at all times, and should any vacancy occur, such vacancy...
• Section 45-48-70.08 Commission members bonded
  Each member of the commission, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, shall execute a good and sufficient bond, in the same...
• Section 45-48-70.09 Sessions
  The commission shall hold regular sessions on the second and fourth Mondays in each month, at the courthouse in and for Marshall County, remaining in...
• Section 45-48-70.10 Contingency fund
  The commission shall have the power, and is hereby authorized to appropriate, out of any monies in the county treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and to...
• Section 45-48-70.11 Expenses for travel on official business
  The members of the commission shall each be reimbursed actual expenses for travel on official business outside Marshall County. It is provided, however, that each...
• Section 45-48-70.12 County highway program
  The commission shall provide for a county highway program for Marshall County consistent with this subpart and shall employ all such assistants as are necessary...
• Section 45-48-70.13 Equipment marking designated
  It shall be the duty of the commission to provide for the marking in the manner hereinafter prescribed of all vehicles, except those vehicles furnished...
• Section 45-48-70.14 Annual inventory of all property
  It shall be the duty of each member of the commission and each department head of Marshall County to file for public record with the...
• Section 45-48-70.15 Work prohibited on private property except in certain cases
  The use of any county equipment, materials, or supplies or property of any nature in the custody of or under control of the commission for...
• Section 45-48-70.16 Work in municipalities
  No work shall be authorized or performed by the commission or any member of the commission for any municipality of the county, except for municipal...
• Section 45-48-70.17 Annual budgets
  It shall be the duty of the commission at some session in September of each calendar year, or not later than their first session in...
• Section 45-48-70.18 Public hearing required for issuance of tax anticipation warrants
  The commission shall not issue any tax anticipation warrants, revenue bonds, or other evidences of temporary loans until a public hearing relative to the issuance...
• Section 45-48-70.19 Purchasing
  (a) No warrant shall be issued or check drawn on the county treasury or county depository by any person except the chair of the commission,...
• Section 45-48-70.20 Purchasing of used equipment prohibited
  No used or secondhand trucks or road machinery shall be purchased for the county, nor shall any purchase be made or any contract of sale...
• Section 45-48-70.21 Competitive bid procedures
  The commission shall comply with the state bid law applying to county governing bodies and any other sections of this subpart applying to competitive bid...
• Section 45-48-70.22 Leasesale, rental contracts
  All leasesale contracts and contracts for the rental or hire of materials, equipment, supplies, and services of any kind shall be in accordance with the...
• Section 45-48-70.23 Contracting for the purchase of expendable items
  Expendable materials and supplies including gasoline, fuel, oil, tires, pipe, food for county prisoners, any or all of them may be purchased as provided in...
• Section 45-48-70.24 Emergency purchasing
  Each member of the commission shall have emergency purchasing authority as follows: (1) Emergency purchases shall be restricted to equipment repair, parts and supplies where...
• Section 45-48-70.25 Previous purchases validated
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• Division 2 Cumulative Powers and Duties.
• Section 45-48-70.50 Powers and duties of chair
  The Chair of the Marshall County Commission shall have the following powers and duties in addition to those as may be otherwise provided by the...
• Section 45-48-70.51 Annual budget estimates
  On or before July 31 of each year the associate county commissioners, sheriff, tax assessor, tax collector, judge of probate, coroner and all other county...
• Section 45-48-70.52 Annual income estimate
  On or before August 15 of each year the chair shall prepare an estimate of the total income of the county for the coming fiscal...
• Section 45-48-70.53 Tentative budget
  Not later than August 31 of each year the chair shall cause to be prepared a tentative budget. The aggregate sums tentatively budgeted for expenditure...
• Section 45-48-70.54 Budgetary priorities
  County offices, departments, boards, and agencies shall be given preference in the tentative and final budget so that funding, payments, and appropriations to any other...
• Section 45-48-70.55 Final budget
  (a) Within a reasonable time after the invitation for questions and comments on the tentative budget as provided for in Section 45-48-70.54, but before September...
• Section 45-48-70.56 Purchasing and contract limitations; liability; emergency situations; penalties
  (a) It shall be unlawful for the commission or any member thereof to purchase or vote to purchase any property or enter into a contract...
• Section 45-48-70.57 Chief clerk
  (a) The chair of the commission may employ a chief clerk who shall devote his or her entire time to the duties of the office...
• Section 45-48-70.58 Reimbursement for costs of meals
  The commissioners may be reimbursed for the actual costs of meals incurred in attending meetings held for the purpose of discussing or transacting county affairs...
• Section 45-48-70.59 Violations
  Any person who willfully violates this subpart, in addition to any civil liability or penalty, shall on conviction be fined not more than five thousand...
• Section 45-48-71.60 Custodian of voting machines - Ratification of prior salaries
  Any salary heretofore paid by the county commission to the custodian of voting machines during the period October 1, 1975, to October 1, 1978, is...
• Section 45-48-70.61 Custodian of voting machines - Determination of salary
  The Marshall County Salary Commission, created by Acts 1975, No. 909, Regular Session 1975 (Acts 1975, p. 1806), is hereby authorized and required to determine...
• Section 45-48-70.62 Purchase of used equipment
  The county commission shall in addition have authority to purchase used equipment from other governmental agencies upon approval of the county engineer.
• Part 2 Districts.
• Section 45-48-71 Single member districts
  Pursuant to the authority of Section 11-3-1.1, the Marshall County Commission shall adopt a plan of four single member districts for the election of the...
• Part 3 Full-Time Membership.
• Section 45-48-72 Full-time position; compensation
  The positions of county commissioner and county commission chair of Marshall County shall be full-time positions and the holder of any such position shall not...
• Article 8 Courts.
• Part 1 Court Costs.
• Section 45-48-80 Additional court costs - Child protection
  (a) In order to further provide for the protection and welfare of children in Marshall County who are alleged to be or have been found...
• Section 45-48-80.01 Additional court costs - Divorce cases
  (a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Marshall County, an additional fee of twelve dollars fifty cents ($12.50)...
• Section 45-48-80.02 Additional court costs - Law Library, Judicial Technology, and Judicial Administration Fund
  (a)(1) In Marshall County, in order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the law library, for the purpose of improving...
• Section 45-48-80.03 Solicitor's fee; Fair Trial Tax Fund
  (a) In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Marshall County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred...
• Part 2 District Court.
• Section 45-48-81 Compensation
  The County Commission of Marshall County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to pay to the Judge of the District Court of the Twenty- seventh...
• Part 3 District Attorney.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-48-82 Expense and automobile allowance
  The District Attorney of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit shall receive, in addition to any other compensation and in addition to any county supplement provided by...
• Section 45-48-82.01 Additional expense allowance
  In Marshall County, the elected district attorney in the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit, shall be paid, in addition to any other compensation and in addition to...
• Division 2 Funding.
• Section 45-48-82.20 District Attorney's Fund
  All district attorney's fees taxed as costs and collected in all criminal cases in Marshall County and the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit shall be paid into...
• Part 4 Jurisdiction.
• Section 45-48-83 Holding court in Guntersville Division
  At anytime the Guntersville Courthouse in Marshall County is damaged, destroyed, or is undergoing repair, renovation, or enlargement so as to interfere with the sittings...
• Section 45-48-83.01 Filing and venue of civil and criminal cases
  (a) Any civil or criminal action filed in the district or circuit court in Marshall County, including the juvenile and family court, after January 1,...
• Part 5 Jury Commisison.
• Section 45-48-84 Expense allowance
  (a) In Marshall County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to...
• Part 6 Probate Court.
• Division 1 Fees.
• Section 45-48-85 Renewal of business license by mail
  The Judge of Probate of Marshall County is hereby authorized to renew Alabama business licenses by mail. The judge of probate shall mail notices during...
• Section 45-48-85.01 Registration of boats by mail
  The Marshall County Judge of Probate shall mail forms to all registered boat owners within the county to allow boat owners to complete such application...
• Section 45-48-85.02 Special recording fee
  (a) In Marshall County, a special recording fee of five dollars ($5) shall be paid to the county, and collected by the judge of probate,...
• Division 2 Motor Vehicle License and Title Division.
• Section 45-48-85.20 License division created
  There is hereby created within the Probate Office of Marshall County a license division which shall issue all motor vehicles licenses and titles. The county...
• Section 45-48-85.21 Duties; commissions and fees
  The judge of probate shall perform all duties relating to the issuing of licenses and titles on motor vehicles in the county which have heretofore...
• Section 45-48-85.22 Recordkeeping
  The judge of probate shall keep at all times an accurate record of all motor vehicle licenses and titles received by him or her from...
• Section 45-48-85.23 Charge and collection of fees
  Except as herein provided, the judge of probate shall be entitled to charge and collect the same fees that are provided for by law. For...
• Section 45-48-85.24 Payment of tax required for issuance of fees
  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 45-48-85.25 Assessments
  Before any vehicles can be assessed, the judge of probate shall be furnished the tag number presently on the vehicle unless such vehicle is new,...
• Section 45-48-85.26 Application and renewal by mail
  The judge of probate shall mail an application for renewal of licenses to whom such license has been previously issued such renewal forms required to...
• Section 45-48-85.27 Procedures governing noncollectible negotiable instruments
  (a) In Marshall County, when a negotiable instrument, such as a check or draft, given for a motor vehicle license is found to be noncollectible...
• Division 3 Recording of Instruments.
• Section 45-48-85.50 Instrument requirements; liability
  (a) The Judge of Probate of Marshall County shall not receive for record or permit the recording of an instrument in which the title to...
• Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
• Section 45-48-90
• Article 10 Education.
• Part 1 General.
• Section 45-48-100 Election
  The Marshall County Superintendent of Education and the members of the county board of education shall be elected by only those qualified electors residing in...
• Part 2 Board of Education.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-48-101 Expense allowance
  (a) Each member of the Marshall County Board of Education shall receive an expense allowance in the amount of three hundred dollars ($300) per month....
• Division 2 Membership.
• Section 45-48-101.20 Composition; conduct of elections
  (a) The several members of the Marshall County Board of Education shall be elected by only those qualified electors in the county who are residing...
• Section 45-48-101.21 Districts; representation
  (a) That area known as the Marshall County school system and served by the Marshall County Board of Education shall be divided by the board...
• Section 45-48-101.22 Boundaries of districts
  (a) Following the release of any federal decennial census, the board, by majority vote, may change the boundaries of the districts in order to create...
• Section 45-48-101.23 Vacancies
  A member appointed to fill a district member vacancy on the board for the unexpired term shall be a resident of the district of the...
• Section 45-48-101.24 Service of member upon change of district boundaries
  If the boundaries of a district change, or if redistricting places an incumbent board member outside of his or her district, the member shall nevertheless...
• Section 45-48-101.25 Compliance with federal law
  The governing body of Marshall County shall take necessary steps to ensure that this subpart and any action taken pursuant to this subpart complies with...
• Section 45-48-101.26 Applicability of subpart
  This subpart shall not apply to the individuals who are serving as members of the Marshall County Board of Education on May 10, 2012.
• Part 3 Superintendent of Education.
• Section 45-48-102 Compensation
  (a) The Board of Education of Marshall County is hereby authorized to determine, at its discretion, the rate of salary and expense allowance payable to...
• Article 11 Elections.
• Part 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-48-110 Per diem and mileage allowances
  In Marshall County, the returning officer, inspector, and clerks who work at polling places, are hereby entitled to an additional per diem allowance in such...
• Part 2 Voting Machines.
• Section 45-48-111 Voting machines provided for elections
  The county governing body shall provide voting machines for all elections, and shall determine the number of voting machines deemed necessary to serve adequately the...
• Section 45-48-111.01 Voting by electors; voting machines numbered
  No elector shall vote at any voting place other than the voting place of which he or she is a qualified elector, but any elector...
• Section 45-48-111.02 Designation and consolidation of voting places
  (a) Subject to subsection (b), the county governing body of the county shall have the authority to designate a voting place in each ward and...
• Section 45-48-111.03 Custodian of voting machines
  A custodian of voting machines shall be appointed by a committee composed of the senior circuit judge, who shall also be the chair, the judge...
• Section 45-48-111.04 Representative of candidate authorized to observe conduct of election
  Any candidate in an election shall have the right to designate one representative to be present at each polling place, and such representative shall have...
• Section 45-48-111.05 Demand for recanvass
  Any candidate in an election shall have the right to make demand in writing to the body which, under the general provisions of law, now...
• Article 12 Employees.
• Part 1 Benefits.
• Section 45-48-120 Payment of life insurance premiums
  The County Commission of Marshall County may pay all or any part of the cost of life insurance premiums for retired Marshall County employees that...
• Part 2 Civil Service System.
• Section 45-48-121 Definitions
  As used in this part, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTING AUTHORITY. In...
• Section 45-48-121.01 Applicability
  This part shall apply to all officials and employees in the service of the county or any board paid by the Marshall County Commission or...
• Section 45-48-121.02 Application of rules; removal for cause
  All employees to whom this part applies shall be governed by rules and regulations prescribed in or promulgated pursuant to this part, administered by the...
• Section 45-48-121.03 Personnel board created; composition
  (a) There is hereby created the Personnel Board of Marshall County, which shall be composed of five members. One member shall be appointed by the...
• Section 45-48-121.04 Expense allowance
  Each member of the board shall be paid an expense allowance of one hundred dollars ($100) per month by the Marshall County Commission.
• Section 45-48-121.05 Meetings
  The board shall fix the times for its regular meetings which shall not be less than monthly and it may call, adjourn, or hold special...
• Section 45-48-121.06 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 45-48-121.07 Promulgation of rules
  (a) The board shall make rules and regulations governing examinations, eligible registers, appointments, transfers, salaries, promotions, demotions, annual and sick leave, employee fringe benefits, seniority...
• Section 45-48-121.08 Register of persons eligible and available
  The personnel board shall make or contract with the State Merit System Board or other appropriate agency, for a register of all persons eligible and...
• Section 45-48-121.09 Vacancies; appointment from eligible register
  Whenever a vacancy exists in any position in the service of the county, it shall be filled by appointment of one of the three persons...
• Section 45-48-121.10 Suspensions; hearings
  An appointing authority by written notice to the merit employee shall have authority to suspend without pay a merit employee for any personal misconduct, or...
• Section 45-48-121.11 Removal, discharge, or demotion of employee; proceedings; appeal
  (a) The county commission, any member of the governing body, or the head of any department or office, respectively, can remove, discharge, or demote any...
• Section 45-48-121.12 Political activity
  No employee shall be required to make, solicit, or receive any assessment, donation, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatsoever, or be required to...
• Section 45-48-121.13 Compensation of county employees
  (a) The county shall pay the county employees the salary established by the board in accordance with the salary authorization for each classification, and no...
• Section 45-48-121.14 Compensation of board members
  The compensation and all other expenses of the board arising under this part shall be paid from funds of the county on the order of...
• Section 45-48-121.15 Violations
  Any merit employee who willfully violates this part, or any rule or regulation issued in pursuance hereof, shall be dismissed from service under the system...
• Article 13 Engineer, County.
• Section 45-48-130 Engineer employed
  The commission shall employ a county engineer, who shall be a thoroughly qualified and competent civil engineer, possessing all the qualifications as specified for county...
• Section 45-48-130.01 Duties of engineer
  It shall be the duty of the county engineer: (1) To supervise the maintenance and construction of the public roads, highways, bridges, parks, and other...
• Section 45-48-130.02 Role of county engineer in purchasing
  The county engineer is hereby designated as the person authorized to make written specifications for an inspection of all materials, machinery, equipment, and supplies purchased...
• Section 45-48-130.03 Engineer bonded
  Before entering upon his or her duties, the county engineer shall make and enter into a surety bond in the amount of ten thousand dollars...
• Section 45-48-130.04 Engineer compensation
  The commission shall fix the amount of the salary of the county engineer, payable from the road and highway funds of Marshall County. The commission...
• Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
• Part 1 Emergency Telephone Service.
• Section 45-48-140 Board of commissioners
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law including, but not limited to, Section 11-98-4, the Marshall County Emergency Telephone Service Board of Commissioners shall consist...
• Part 2 Forest Protection Program.
• Section 45-48-141 Protection of forests
  The County Commission of Marshall County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection of forests from fires, insects, disease, and other pests in...
• Section 45-48-141.01 Financial charge - Authorized; payment
  (a) After the Marshall County Commission has determined that such a need does exist in Marshall County, the county commission, in the manner hereinafter specified,...
• Section 45-48-141.02 Financial charge - Determination
  The county governing body of Marshall County is authorized to appoint agents and delegate authority to individuals to search out forest land in Marshall County,...
• Section 45-48-141.03 Financial charge - Collection and disposition
  The financial charge herein imposed shall be due and payable to the Tax Collector of Marshall County, and shall, when collected, be paid to the...
• Section 45-48-141.04 Removal of financial charge
  The County Commission of Marshall County is authorized to remove such financial charge after the county commission has determined that the financial charge is no...
• Part 3 Volunteer Fire Districts.
• Division 1 Cooperative Agreements.
• Section 45-48-142 Centralized purchasing system
  In order that the several volunteer fire departments throughout Marshall County may be able to purchase their supplies and equipment at more competitive prices, there...
• Division 2 Districts.
• Section 45-48-142.20 Legislative findings
  The Legislature declares that volunteer fire districts which receive funds pursuant to this subpart are organizations which are public in nature as they protect the...
• Section 45-48-142.21 Establishment of volunteer fire districts
  The Marshall County Commission may establish one or more volunteer fire districts within the geographic boundaries of the county. No land lying within the boundaries...
• Section 45-48-142.22 Plan; existing and new voluntary fire districts
  (a) The Marshall County Commission shall request the Marshall County Association of Fire Departments and Rescue Squads to develop a plan that defines the requirements...
• Section 45-48-142.23 Fire protection service fee - Referendum
  (a) After the county commission establishes a fire district, the qualified electors of that district may file a petition, signed by at least five percent...
• Section 45-48-142.24 Fire protection service fee - Approval, construction and application; subsequent referenda
  (a) If a majority of the votes cast at the election are affirmative votes, the fire service fee on each residence, dwelling, and business within...
• Section 45-48-142.25 Fire protection service fee - Homestead exemption for persons with a disability over age 65
  Any person who meets the requirements of Section 40-9-19 and Section 40-9-21, as last amended, for the over 65 disability special homestead exemption shall be...
• Section 45-48-142.26 Fire protection service fee Collection and disposition
  (a) The fire protection service fee shall be collected, administered, and enforced as closely as possible at the same time, in the same manner, and...
• Section 45-48-142.27 Election procedures
  (a) The provision of the election laws governing the registration of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment of election officers, voting, and...
• Section 45-48-142.28 Transfer of funds upon dissolution or abandonment of eligible volunteer fire district
  Upon dissolution or abandonment of any eligible volunteer fire district, any remaining funds derived from this subpart or any assets purchased with the funds derived...
• Section 45-48-142.29 Exemption from taxes, fees, etc
  A fire district shall be exempt from all taxes levied by any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state including, but not limited...
• Section 45-48-142.30 Status and liability of personnel
  The personnel of volunteer fire districts provided for in this subpart shall not be considered as employees, servants, or agents of the county and the...
• Section 45-48-142.31 Construction; powers to set district lines
  The provisions of this subpart are supplemental and shall not be construed to repeal any law not in conflict with this subpart. The County Commission...
• Article 15 Gambling.
• Section 45-48-150 Reserved
• Article 16 Government Operations.
• Part 1 Liability for Monetary Loss.
• Section 45-48-160 Reimbursement; due care required
  (a) The Marshall County governing body shall reimburse the offices of the tax collector and the judge of probate from the general fund of the...
• Part 2 Distribution of TVA Payments.
• Section 45-48-161 Disposition of funds
  In each fiscal year, the distribution of the share of in-lieu-of-taxes payments of the Tennessee Valley Authority for Marshall County shall be as follows: (1)...
• Part 3 Distribution of Additional TVA Payments.
• Section 45-48-162 Disposition of funds
  (a) The increase in TVA in-lieu-of-taxes payments to Marshall County generated by Act 2010-135, 2010 Regular Session, to the counties served by the TVA shall...
• Article 17 Health and Environment.
• Section 45-48-170 Board of health fees
  (a) The Marshall County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and shall...
• Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
• Section 45-48-180 Reserved
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• Article 19 Legislature.
• Section 45-48-190 Reserved
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• Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
• Section 45-48-200 Reserved
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• Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
• Section 45-48-210 Reserved
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• Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Museums, and Recreation.
• Section 45-48-220 Reserved
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• Article 23 Sheriff.
• Part 1 Employees.
• Division 1 Compensation.
• Section 45-48-230 Employees; feeding prisoners
  (a) The Sheriff of Marshall County may employ, subject to the approval of the county commission and within the budget of the sheriff's office as...
• Section 45-48-230.01 Expense allowance
  The Sheriff of Marshall County shall be entitled to receive an additional expense allowance in the amount of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per...
• Section 45-48-230.02 Annual salary
  (a) Effective the next term of office, the annual salary of the Sheriff of Marshall County shall be ninety thousand dollars ($90,000), which shall be...
• Division 2 Continuing Education.
• Section 45-48-230.20 Training and continuing education requirements
  (a) All employees of the Marshall County Sheriff's Office shall be required to complete training and continuing education. (b) The training and continuing education shall...
• Division 3 Reserve Officers.
• Section 45-48-230.40 Sheriff reserve officers
  (a) The Sheriff of Marshall County is hereby authorized to establish a sheriff reserve to be composed of persons who volunteer to serve, without compensation,...
• Division 4 Retirement.
• Section 45-48-230.60 Receipt of badge, pistol, etc., upon retirement
  Any individual employed by the Marshall County Sheriff's Office as a law enforcement officer for a period of 10 years or more who retires from...
• Part 2 Funding.
• Division 1 Operation of Office.
• Section 45-48-231 Expenditures; disposal of property; violations
  For the time period from the end of the primary election for the election of a sheriff for the next term of office until January...
• Division 2 Sale of Abandoned, Stolen, and Unclaimed Property.
• Section 45-48-231.20 Public auction
  The Sheriff of Marshall County shall sell, at public auction, abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff's department which has remained unclaimed by...
• Section 45-48-231.21 Records of abandoned and stolen property; storage; perishable property
  The Sheriff of Marshall County shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff's department which...
• Section 45-48-231.22 Notice and sale of stolen or abandoned property
  Except for perishable property sold pursuant to Section 45-48-231.01, at least every six months, the Sheriff of Marshall County, shall sell at public auction to...
• Section 45-48-231.23 Redemption of property
  The owner of abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff's department may redeem the property for a period of one year from the...
• Section 45-48-231.24 Form of payment; record of sale; rejection of bid
  Whenever any property is sold at public auction, the sale shall be paid only in cash. A notation in the storage record book shall be...
• Section 45-48-231.25 Transfer of title
  The purchaser at any sale conducted by the sheriff's department pursuant to this part shall receive title to the property purchased, free from all claims...
• Section 45-48-231.26 Disposition of sale
  The net proceeds from any auction after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the recovery, storage, maintenance, and sale of property sold at the...
• Part 3 Jails.
• Section 45-48-232 Jail store and inmate telephone system
  (a) The Sheriff of Marshall County or the authorized agents of the sheriff may operate a jail store and an inmate telephone system for prisoners...
• Part 4 Pistol Permit.
• Section 45-48-233 Pistol permit fee
  (a) In Marshall County the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about the person...
• Part 5 Service of Process.
• Section 45-48-234 Methods of service
  (a) In the courts of Marshall County subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses in any civil, criminal, or other case or proceeding, or before the...
• Article 24 Taxation.
• Part 1 Board of Equalization.
• Section 45-48-240 Methods of service
  (a) In Marshall County, in addition to any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid to...
• Part 2 Office of Revenue Commissioner.
• Division 1 Consolidated Office.
• Section 45-48-241 Election of county revenue commissioner; term of office
  Effective October 1, 2003, there shall be a county revenue commissioner in Marshall County. A commissioner shall be elected at the general election in 2002,...
• Section 45-48-241.01 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 45-48-241.02 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 45-48-241.03 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 45-48-241.04 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 45-48-241.05 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 45-48-241.06 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...
• Division 2 Decals and Fees.
• Section 45-48-241.30 Issuance of mobile home identification decals by mail
  (a)(1) The tax collector in Marshall County, with the approval of the county governing body, may issue mobile home identification decals by mail, using the...
• Section 45-48-241.31 Additional motor vehicle tag fees authorized
  (a)(1) For purposes of this section, the term motor vehicle means a motor vehicle as defined in Section 40-12-240, as amended, excluding any trailer qualifying...
• Division 3 Real Property.
• Section 45-48-241.50 Sale and redemption of lands
  The procedure for selling and redeeming lands for taxes in Marshall County shall be the same as provided in Title 40, as amended, except that...
• Section 45-48-241.51 Reappraisal of taxable property
  (a) Pursuant to Division 1, commencing with Section 40-7-60, of Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 40, the Alabama Department of Revenue shall immediately...
• Part 3 Tax, Alcohol.
• Section 45-48-242 Additional tax on wholesale price of spirituous or vinous liquors
  In Marshall County, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, there is hereby levied and shall be collected a...
• Section 45-48-242.01 Sales tax on wholesale and retail price of spirituous or vinous liquors
  Pursuant to the authority granted in Section 104 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, in Marshall County, in lieu of the tax levied by...
• Section 45-48-242.02 Levy, collection, and distribution of certain taxes on alcoholic beverages
  (a) Notwithstanding any other laws, the taxes levied and collected on wholesale and retail sales of liquor, beer, and table wine in the City of...
• Part 4 Tax, Gasoline.
• Section 45-48-243 Levy and collection of taxes
  (a) The State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized and directed to collect all taxes now or hereafter levied by Marshall County upon the business...
• Part 5 Tax, Lodging.
• Division 1 Countywide Tax.
• Section 45-48-244 Levy of tax
  In addition to all other taxes imposed by law, there is hereby levied a privilege or license tax in the amount hereinafter prescribed against every...
• Section 45-48-244.01 Exemptions
  There are exempted from the tax levied by this subpart and from the computation of the amount of the tax levied or payable hereunder the...
• Section 45-48-244.02 Monthly report; records; penalties
  (a) The taxes levied by this subpart, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be due and payable to the State Department of Revenue on or...
• Section 45-48-244.03 Application of state statutes
  All provisions of the state lodging tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state lodging tax, making of reports and keeping...
• Section 45-48-244.04 Severability
  None of the provisions of this subpart shall be applied in such manner as to violate the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of Alabama of...
• Section 45-48-244.05 Cost of collection
  The State Department of Revenue shall charge Marshall County for collecting the county tax levied herein, an amount or percentage of total collections not to...
• Section 45-48-244.06 Disposition of funds
  The Marshall County Treasurer shall deposit the net proceeds of the lodgings tax collected hereunder to the account of the Marshall County Tourism Commission for...
• Division 2 Lake Guntersville State Park.
• Section 45-48-244.30 Collection and distribution of lodgings taxes
  In Marshall County, all laws to the contrary notwithstanding, all motel and hotel or other like lodging accommodations or facilities located in Lake Guntersville State...
• Part 6 Tax, Sales, & Use.
• Section 45-48-245 Levy of tax for public school purposes
  (a) In order to provide funds for the benefit of the public schools in Marshall County, the Marshall County Commission is hereby authorized to levy...
• Part 7 Tax, Severance.
• Section 45-48-246 Levy and collection of tax
  (a) The Marshall County Commission may levy from each producer of coal in Marshall County a privilege or license tax to be known as a...
• Part 8 Tax, Tobacco.
• Section 45-48-247 Levy of tax
  (a) The Marshall County Commission is hereby authorized to impose upon every person, firm, or corporation who sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco...
• Section 45-48-247.01 Tax to be added to sales price of tobacco products
  (a) Upon adoption of a resolution by the Marshall County Commission, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association that sells or stores or receives for...
• Section 45-48-247.02 Violations
  It shall be unlawful for any dealer, storer, or distributor engaged in or continuing in Marshall County in the business for which the tax is...
• Section 45-48-247.03 Tobacco stamps
  The tax hereby authorized shall be paid by affixing stamps as is required for the payment of the tax imposed by Section 40-25-1 to Section...
• Section 45-48-247.04 Rulemaking authority
  The State Department of Revenue is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to effectuate the purpose of this part. All such rules...
• Section 45-48-247.05 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 45-48-247.06 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...
• Section 45-48-247.07 Construction
  The provisions of this part shall be construed in pari materia with any and all other provisions of law, or parts of law, relating to...
• Article 25 Utilities.
• Section 45-48-250 Transfer of water prohibited under certain conditions
  (a) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds the following: (1) It is in the best interest of the State of Alabama and the...
• Section 45-48-250.01 Oversight of privately-owned wastewater systems
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• Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
• Section 45-48-260 Reserved

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