Chapter 1 - Blount County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Section 45-5-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Blount County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Blount County ...
- Section 45-5-11 Cost-of-living adjustment for supernumerary county officers
Beginning October 1, 2007, each supernumerary county officer, or his or her surviving spouse, if applicable, shall receive the same percentage cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) ...
- 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 ...
- Article 5 Constables.
- Article 6 Coroner.
- Section 45-5-60 Expense allowance
The Coroner of Blount County shall be entitled to receive an expense allowance in the amount of six hundred dollars ($600) per month to ...
- Section 45-5-60.01 Additional expense allowance; compensation
(a) Commencing on August 1, 2000, the Coroner of Blount County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance in the amount of four ...
- 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 ...
- Part 2 Contingent Fund.
- Section 45-5-71 Appropriations from general fund
(a) The Blount County Commission may appropriate from the county general fund an amount not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for each ...
- Part 3 Districts.
- Section 45-5-72 Members elected from single-member districts; reapportionment
(a) Effective the next election of the Blount County Commission, the members of the Blount County Commission shall be elected from single-member districts. Each ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Part 6 Regulation of Explosives.
- Section 45-5-75 Rules and regulations; bond
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the regulation of the detonation of explosives for industrial purposes is not currently regulated and that it ...
- Part 7 Revenue Collection.
- Section 45-5-76 Collection program; establishment and administration; powers; hiring
(a) The County Commission of Blount County may establish and administer a program of revenue collection for all legally authorized fees, taxes, licenses, and ...
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Court Costs.
- Section 45-5-80 Service for actions instituted outside Alabama; Sheriff's Department Fund
(a) In Blount County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty dollars ...
- Section 45-5-80.10 Services of papers or documents; disposition of funds
(a) In Blount County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twelve dollars ...
- Section 45-5-80.20 Conviction of misdemeanor or felony
(a) In Blount County, in addition to all other fees or costs levied, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of ten dollars ...
- Section 45-5-80.30 Civil and criminal cases; service of pleadings or documents
(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Blount County, the Blount County Commission may impose by resolution ...
- Section 45-5-80.40 Additional fee; municipal courts
(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized in Blount County, the Blount County Commission may impose by resolution ...
- 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 ...
- Part 3 Probate Court.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-5-82 Compensation for Judge of Probate
Immediately upon May 2, 1994, the salary of the Judge of Probate of Blount County shall be increased by the amount of three hundred ...
- Division 2 Recording of Instruments.
- Section 45-5-82.20 Name and address of grantee; liability; falsification; application
(a) In Blount County no probate judge shall receive for record or permit the recording of any instrument in which the title to real ...
- Section 45-5-82.30 Special recording fee
On and after July 22, 1987, a special recording fee of two dollars ($2) shall be paid to the county, and collected by its ...
- 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 ...
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Section 45-5-90 2020 Strategic Planning Commission
(a) In Blount County, there is hereby created the "Blount County 2020 Strategic Planning Commission" (hereinafter called the commission), for the development of long-term ...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- Part 2 Insurance of Schools.
- Section 45-5-101 Board of Education authorized to insure school property
In accordance with Section 41-15-1, the Blount County Board of Education is hereby authorized to insure school buildings and property in the state insurance ...
- Part 3 Superintendent.
- Section 45-5-102 Method of electing superintendent
The Blount County Superintendent of Education shall be elected by only those qualified electors residing in the jurisdiction of the Blount County School District. ...
- 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 ...
- Part 2 Voter Registration and Procedure.
- Section 45-5-111 Appointment of clerks; rules and regulations
(a) The Probate Judge of Blount County shall appoint one or more regular clerks in the probate office as deputy registrars empowered to take ...
- Section 45-5-111.20 Use of voting machines
In Blount County, election officials shall allow voters who have signed in to vote, to use the voting machine with the fewest number of ...
- Article 12 Emploeyes.
- Section 45-5-120 Merit system; board; violations
(a) This section shall apply only in Blount County, Alabama. (b) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: ...
- Article 13 Engineer.
- Section 45-5-130 Duties; salary; bond; county commissioners employed as part-time officers
(a) In addition to all other authority vested in the Blount County Commission, the county commission shall set the necessary policies and priorities for ...
- Article 14 Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services.
- Part 1 Alabama Forestry Commission Fire Protection Program.
- Section 45-5-140 Assessment of tax against owners of forest lands
(a) The County Commission of Blount County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection against forest fires in Blount County by participating ...
- Part 2 Districts.
- Division 1 Created by County Commission.
- Section 45-5-141 Fire districts; rules and regulations; boundaries
(a) In Blount County the county commission shall have the power and authority to establish rules and regulations governing the establishment, operation, and control ...
- Division 2 Created by Referendum.
- Section 45-5-141.20 Powers and duties; annual dues; board of trustees; referendum election
(a) This section shall apply only in Blount County. (b) A district for the delivery of fire and emergency medical services may be formed ...
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Article 16 Government Finance and Operations.
- Section 45-5-160 Reimbursement for monetary loss from errors or mistakes made in good faith; voiding of licenses based on worthless or forged instruments
(a) The Blount County Commission shall reimburse the offices of judge of probate, revenue commissioner, and sheriff from the general fund in the amount ...
- 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 ...
- Division 2 Fee Schedule for Services.
- Section 45-5-170.20 Schedule of fees; rules and regulations
(a) The Board of Health of Blount County may fix a schedule of fees which shall cover the actual cost or a portion thereof ...
- Section 45-5-171 Dumping fee
(a) In addition to any other cost, fee, or charge imposed on the dumping or depositing of solid waste material on or in any ...
- 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.
- Section 45-5-230 Expense allowance; salary
(a) Commencing July 1, 2000, the Sheriff of Blount County shall be entitled to an additional expense allowance in the amount of twelve thousand ...
- Part 2 Jails.
- Section 45-5-231 Jail commissary, contract telephones, and vending machines; disposition of funds
(a) The Sheriff of Blount County may operate a jail commissary and contract telephones for inmates within the confines of the county jail. The ...
- Part 3 Pistol Permit Fee.
- Section 45-5-232 License fee; Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund; disposition of funds
(a) Beginning January 1, 2008, in Blount County, the fee for issuing a license to carry a pistol shall be twenty dollars ($20) which ...
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Revenue Commissioner.
- Division 1 Creation of Office.
- Section 45-5-240 Creation of office; duties of commissioner; deputies, clerks, assistants
(a) After September 30, 1985, there shall be a county revenue commissioner in Blount County. A commissioner shall be elected at the general election ...
- Division 2 Motor Vehicles Licenses.
- Section 45-5-240.20 License division created; clerks and other assistants; duties; fees; evidence of payment
(a) There is hereby created within the Revenue Commissioner's Office of Blount County a license division which shall issue all motor vehicle licenses issued ...
- Division 3 Operation of Office.
- Section 45-5-240.40 Merging of budgetary operations
The Revenue Commissioner of Blount County is hereby authorized to take the necessary action to merge the budgetary operations and functions of his or ...
- 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 ...
- Division 2 Blount County Water Authority.
- Section 45-5-241.20 Additional ad valorem tax; Water Authority created; referendum
(a) Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment No. 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the Blount County Commission may levy, in addition ...
- Part 3 Tax, Gasoline.
- Section 45-5-242 Levy of gasoline tax; use of proceeds
(a) The following words, when used in this section shall have the meaning ascribed to them below, unless the context clearly indicates a different ...
- Part 4 Tax, General.
- Section 45-5-243 Power to levy; disposition of proceeds
(a) Subject to any limitation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or of any general law of this state, the Blount County Commission ...
- Part 5 Tobacco Tax.
- Section 45-5-244 Levy of tobacco tax; use of proceeds
The County Commission of Blount County may levy a county privilege or excise tax on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, delivers, uses, ...
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
