Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 5 - Blount County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Article 2 Alcholic Beverages.
- Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Section 45-5-40 Branch banking
After May 20, 1985, any bank which is authorized by law to do a general banking business in Blount County may, with the written consent...
- Article 5 Constables.
- Section 45-5-50 Office abolished
In Blount 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.
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Part 1 Compensation and Expenses.
- Section 45-5-70 Expense allowance
Each member, except the chair, of the County Commission of Blount County shall be entitled to receive an expense allowance in the amount of five...
- Part 2 Contingent Fund.
- Part 3 Districts.
- Part 4 Membship; Chair.
- Section 45-5-73 Compensation
The position of county commissioner of Blount County shall be a full-time position. Such commissioner shall receive compensation for serving as full-time officers in accordance...
- Part 5 Private Roads.
- Section 45-5-74 Repair and maintenance
The county commissioners of Blount County may authorize the use of county personnel and county equipment to load sand, gravel, and chert for the purpose...
- Part 6 Regulation of Explosives.
- Part 7 Revenue Collection.
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Court Costs.
- Part 2 Jury Commission.
- Section 45-5-81 Compensation
In addition to any compensation provided by the state, each member and the clerk of the jury commission in Blount County shall receive a supplemental...
- Part 3 Probate Court.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Division 2 Recording of Instruments.
- Part 4 Investigator.
- Section 45-5-83 Investigators
(a) In Blount County, the district attorney for the Forty-first Judicial Circuit may appoint, with the concurrence of the county governing body, an investigator for...
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Article 10 Education.
- Part 1 Board of Education.
- Division 1 Districts.
- Section 45-5-100 Compensation
(a) Members of the county Board of Education of Blount County, except the member serving from beat or precinct 36, serving on August 10, 1973,...
- Division 2 Expenses.
- Section 45-5-100.20 Expense allowance
In Blount County, the members of the county board of education are hereby granted an additional expense allowance in the amount of two hundred dollars...
- Part 2 Insurance of Schools.
- Part 3 Superintendent.
- Article 11 Elections.
- Part 1 Board of Registrars.
- Section 45-5-110 Expense allowance
Each member of the Board of Registrars of Blount County, upon approval by the Blount County Commission, shall be entitled to receive an additional expense...
- Part 2 Voter Registration and Procedure.
- Article 12 Emploeyes.
- Article 13 Engineer.
- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
- Part 1 Alabama Forestry Commission Fire Protection Program.
- Part 2 Districts.
- Division 1 Created by County Commission.
- Division 2 Created by Referendum.
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Part 1 Health.
- Division 1 Death Certificates.
- Section 45-5-170 Issuance; fees
(a) Any Blount County health officer or administrator is authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an...
- Division 2 Fee Schedule for Services.
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
- Article 19 Legislature.
- Article 20 Licenses and Licensng.
- Article 21 Motor Vehicles and Transportation.
- Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Musuems, and Recreation.
- Article 23 Sheriff.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Part 2 Jails.
- Part 3 Pistol Permit Fee.
- Part 4 Property, Sale of Abandon, Stolen, and Unclaim
- Section 45-5-233 Records of abandoned and stolen property; storage
(a) The Sheriff of Blount County shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff's office....
- Section 45-5-233.01 Sale of perishable property
If the abandoned or stolen personal property is of a perishable nature and reasonable attempts to locate and identify the owner of the property are...
- Section 45-5-233.02 Records of abandoned and stolen firearms; sale or destruction
(a) The sheriff shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned or stolen firearms, not subject to disposition by general law. The records...
- Section 45-5-233.03 Notice and sale of stolen or abandoned property
(a) As often as necessary, the sheriff shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder all abandoned or stolen personal property, other than firearms,...
- Section 45-5-233.04 Claim of property
The owner of any abandoned or stolen personal property recovered by the Blount County Sheriff's Office, including firearms, may claim the property at any time...
- Section 45-5-233.05 Record of sale; rejection of bid
If property is sold at public auction, as provided in this part, a notation in the storage record shall be made of the sale and...
- Section 45-5-233.06 Disposition of sale proceeds
The proceeds from the sale of property at an auction conducted under the authority of this part, after deducting and paying all expenses incurred in...
- Section 45-5-233.07 Applicability
This part shall not apply to abandoned motor vehicles, which are subject to Chapter 13 of Title 32.
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Revenue Commissioner.
- Division 1 Creation of Office.
- Division 2 Motor Vehicles Licenses.
- Division 3 Operation of Office.
- Part 2 Tax, Ad Valorem.
- Division 1 Hayden School Tax District.
- Section 45-5-241 Increase of tax rate
(a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AMENDMENT NO. 3. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act...
- Division 2 Blount County Water Authority.
- Part 3 Tax, Gasoline.
- Part 4 Tax, General.
- Part 5 Tobacco Tax.
- Part 6 Tax, Privilege.
- Section 45-5-246 Short title
This section shall be known as the Moving Blount County Forward Initiative.
- Section 45-5-246.01 Definitions
As used in this section, sales and use tax means a tax imposed by the state sales and use tax statutes and such other acts...
- Section 45-5-246.02 Privilege license tax on general, amusement, and vending categories
Subject to the approval of a majority of the electors voting at a referendum as provided for herein, the County Commission of Blount County may,...
- Section 45-5-246.03 Collection of tax
The tax authorized to be levied by this part shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as the state sales...
- Section 45-5-246.04 Addition of tax to sales or use price; absorption or refund of tax prohibited
Each person engaging or continuing in a business subject to the tax authorized by this part, and each casual sale, storage, use, or other consumption...
- Section 45-5-246.05 Taxes constitute debt
The tax authorized by this part, if levied, shall constitute a debt due the county. The tax, together with any interest and penalties, shall constitute...
- Section 45-5-246.06 Applicability of other sales and use tax provisions
All existing provisions of the sales and use tax statutes, whether imposed by state statutes or local act applicable to Blount County, with respect to...
- Section 45-5-246.07 Disposition of funds
All taxes collected under this part shall be remitted to Blount County as all other sales and use taxes applicable to the county, whether imposed...
- Part 7
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
Last modified: May 3, 2021