Chapter 1 - Chambers County
- Article 1 General and Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Part 1 Disclaimer.
- Section 45-9-10 Disclaimer
(a) This chapter endeavors to add to the Code of Alabama 1975, all Chambers County local laws enacted after 1978 and all Chambers County ...
- Part 2 Raffles and Fund Raisers.
- Section 45-9-11 Raffles and Fund Raisers
The holding of raffles, cake walks, turkey shoots, and other similar contests of skill for charitable purposes by nonprofit organizations in Chambers County shall ...
- Article 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Section 45-9-20 Prohibited activities at licensed establishments
(a) The Legislature finds that nudity, sexual conduct, and the depiction or simulation thereof in conjunction with the furnishing of alcoholic beverages in public ...
- Article 3 Boards and Commissions.
- Section 45-9-30 Library board
(a) In Chambers County, the county commission is hereby authorized to appoint members of the Chambers County Library Board. The board shall consist of ...
- Article 4 Business, Labor, and Occupations.
- Article 5 Constables.
- Section 45-9-50 Office abolished
In Chambers County, effective at the end of the current term of office or immediately upon the written consent of all current Chambers County ...
- Article 6 Coroner.
- Section 45-9-60
(a) Pursuant to Amendment No. 103 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the coroner serving Chambers County shall receive a monthly salary of ...
- Section 45-9-60.01 Travel allowance
The Coroner of Chambers County shall receive a monthly travel allowance of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) each month, in lieu of any mileage ...
- Article 7 County Commission.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-9-70 Expense allowances
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide the following expense allowances in response to a resolution adopted by the County Commission ...
- Part 2 Membership.
- Section 45-9-71 Structure and operation
(a) The Court of County Commission of Chambers County is hereby abolished, and there is created in lieu thereof the Chambers County Commission, to ...
- Article 8 Courts.
- Part 1 Circuit Court.
- Division 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-9-80 Circuit judges; expense allowance
(a) Each of the circuit judges of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of this state (as such circuit is now or hereafter constituted) shall be ...
- Division 2 Records.
- Section 45-9-80.20 Records
(a) That in the Circuit Court of Chambers County, Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in ...
- Part 2 Court Costs.
- Section 45-9-81 Additional costs and fees; disposition of funds; Judicial Administration Fund
(a) In Chambers County, in addition to all other fees, there shall be taxed as costs the sum of twenty dollars ($20) in each ...
- Part 3 District Attorney.
- Division 1 General Provisions.
- Section 45-9-82 Travel allowance
The District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit shall be entitled to travel allowances in like amounts as are now provided by law to ...
- Division 2 Pretrial Diversion Program.
- Section 45-9-82.20 Established; discretionary powers; supervision and control
(a) The District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a pretrial diversion program. (b) All discretionary powers endowed by the ...
- Section 45-9-82.21 Definitions
For purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) DISTRICT ATTORNEY. The elected District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial ...
- Section 45-9-82.22 Applicants for admittance
(a) A person charged with a criminal offense specified in this section whose jurisdiction is in the Circuit or District Court of the Fifth ...
- Section 45-9-82.23 Standards for admission
(a) Admittance to the pretrial diversion program shall be appropriate in any of the following instances: (1) The offender is 18 years of age ...
- Section 45-9-82.24 Admission into program
(a) Prior to being admitted to the pretrial diversion program or as a part or the district attorney's evaluation process, an applicant may be ...
- Section 45-9-82.25 Program requirements
(a) An offender who enters into the pretrial diversion program shall satisfy each of the following requirements: (1) Voluntarily waive, in writing, and contingent ...
- Section 45-9-82.26 Time for application
(a) An offender shall make application to the pretrial diversion program no later than 21 days after his or her first appearance or arraignment, ...
- Section 45-9-82.27 Costs and fees
(a) An applicant may be assessed a fee when the applicant is approved for the program. The amount of the assessment for participation in ...
- Section 45-9-82.28 Substance abuse treatment program; drug testing
The district attorney and the offender may enter into an agreement as a part of the pretrial diversion program of an offender that the ...
- Section 45-9-82.29 Written agreement; other terms and conditions
(a) In any case in which an offender is admitted into a pretrial diversion program, there shall be a written agreement between the district ...
- Section 45-9-82.30 Pretrial Diversion Program Fund
The district attorney shall establish a Pretrial Diversion Program Fund. Fees paid by offenders pursuant to Section 45-9-82.27 shall be placed into the Pretrial ...
- Section 45-9-82.31 Violations; waiver
(a) If the offender violates the conditions of the pretrial diversion program agreed to in writing by the offender and the district attorney, the ...
- Section 45-9-82.32 Liability of district attorney
The district attorney shall have no liability, criminal or civil, for the conduct of any offender while participating in the pretrial diversion program. ...
- Section 45-9-82.33 Funding
The pretrial diversion program may apply for grants applicable to the aims of the program, may accept gifts from individuals or corporations, and may ...
- Section 45-9-82.34 Advisory board
The district attorney may form an advisory board to assist in the determination of appropriate pretrial diversion candidates. The district attorney shall retain the ...
- Part 4 District Court.
- Section 45-9-83 Salary supplement
Commencing June 1, 1984, the judge of the District Court for Chambers County shall receive an annual supplemental salary payable in equal monthly installments ...
- Part 5 Probate Court.
- Division 1 License Division.
- Section 45-9-84 Operations
(a) There is hereby created within the judge of probate's office of Chambers County a license division which shall issue all licenses issued through ...
- Division 2 Recording System.
- Section 45-9-84.20 Real property conveyances; grantee address required
The Probate Judge of Chambers County shall not receive for record or permit the recording of any instrument in which the title to real ...
- Section 45-9-84.21 Additional recording fee
(a) Pursuant to the authority granted by Amendment 380 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 and subsection (d) of Section 12-19-90, in Chambers ...
- Section 45-9-84.22 System of recording, archiving, and retrieving instruments and documents
(a) The provisions of this section shall only apply in Chambers County. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the use of public ...
- Section 45-9-84.23 Copying fee
(a) In Chambers County, fees collected for copying documents and papers in the office of the judge of probate shall be deposited into a ...
- Section 45-9-84.24 Relief from personal liability
(a) In Chambers County, the judge of probate shall be relieved of personal liability for programming or data entry errors and omissions made in ...
- Division 3 Compensation.
- Section 45-9-84.40 Expense allowance and salary
(a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) In Chambers County there has been an increase in the filing of cases involving mental ...
- Division 4 Fees.
- Section 45-9-84.50 Remote access of records by computer; fees
(a) This section shall apply only in Chambers County. (b)(1) The judge of probate of the county may charge and collect an additional fee ...
- Article 9 Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.
- Part 1 Economic Development.
- Section 45-9-90 Banks
Any bank, whether incorporated or unincorporated, within this state, now or hereafter situated in Chambers County, and where the principal place of business of ...
- Part 2 Industrial Development.
- Division 1 Industrial Development Council.
- Section 45-9-91 Creation; composition; headquarters; meetings; personnel
(a) Pursuant to Amendment 678 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, there is created and established the Chambers County Industrial Development Council on ...
- Division 2 Industrial Parks.
- Section 45-9-91.20 Establishment and designation; services; regulation of industrial parks
(a) Subject to the written approval of the owners of 100 percent in interest based on assessed value for ad valorem tax purposes of ...
- Article 10 Education.
- Section 45-9-100 Supplies
The County Commission of Chambers County, Alabama, is hereby exempted from the provisions of Section 16-9-24 which requires the commission to provide the county ...
- Article 11 Elections.
- Part 1 General.
- Section 45-9-110 Limitations on campaign signs, advertising, etc
(a) Signs, markers, and advertising, pertaining to political campaigns, on the rights-of-way of state and county controlled highways are prohibited in Chambers County except ...
- Part 2 Board of Registrars.
- Section 45-9-111 Compensation
(a) In Chambers County, in lieu of any and all other compensation, salary, and expense allowances provided for by law, there shall be paid ...
- Part 3 Poll Workers.
- Section 45-9-112 Compensation
In Chambers County, each authorized county-appointed or city-appointed poll worker shall be entitled to receive a minimum of fifty dollars ($50) per day of ...
- Article 12 Employees.
- Section 45-9-120 Compensation
(a) The following officers of Chambers County shall receive the following salaries on an annual basis in lieu of all other compensation: (1) Probate ...
- Article 13 Engineer, County.
- Article 14 Fire Protection.
- Article 15 Gambling.
- Article 16 Government Finance.
- Article 17 Health and Environment.
- Part 1 Environmental.
- Division 1 Junkyards.
- Section 45-9-170 Regulation of junkyards; public nuisances; enforcement
(a) The regulation of the accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor vehicles, and other litter within the unincorporated areas of Chambers County, and ...
- Division 2 Landfills.
- Section 45-9-170.20 Tipping fee; disposition of funds
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Chambers County, which voluntarily operates a landfill as defined in Section 22-27-2, may charge a tipping fee ...
- Division 3 Noise.
- Section 45-9-170.40 Noise control
(a) This section applies in Chambers County. (b) The county commission may promulgate rules and regulations limiting and controlling noise in public places and ...
- Division 4 Sepitic Tanks.
- Section 45-9-170.60 Soil percolation tests
In Chambers County, all laws, rules, and regulations to the contrary notwithstanding, upon request by a property owner, the county health department or its ...
- Part 2 Health.
- Division 1 Death Certificates.
- Section 45-9-171 Issuance of death certificates
(a) In Chambers County any county health officer or administrator is hereby authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the ...
- Division 2 Fees.
- Section 45-9-171.20 Fees for services
(a) The Chambers County Board of Health shall designate the services rendered by the county health department for which fees may be charged and ...
- Article 18 Highways and Bridges.
- Article 19 Legislature.
- Article 20 Licenses and Licensing.
- Section 45-9-200 Mobile homes
(a) Every person, firm, or corporation who owns, maintains, or keeps in Chambers County a mobile home, except a mobile home which constitutes a ...
- Article 21 Motor Vehicles.
- Article 22 Parks, Historic Preservation, Musuems, and Recreation.
- Article 23 Sheriff.
- Part 1 Compensation.
- Section 45-9-230 Salary
Beginning October 1, 1993, the Sheriff of Chambers County shall receive a salary of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per annum. The salary shall be ...
- Section 45-9-230.01 Salary increase
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- Part 2 Employees.
- Section 45-9-231 Deputies to receive badge and pistol
(a) This section shall apply only to Chamber County. (b) Any person employed as a commissioned deputy of the sheriff's office of Chambers County ...
- Part 3 Funding.
- Division 1 Abandoned Property.
- Section 45-9-232 Records; storage; sale at auction; disposition of funds
(a)(1) In Chambers County, the sheriff shall keep and maintain a permanent record of all abandoned and stolen personal property recovered by the sheriff's ...
- Division 2 Work Release Fund.
- Section 45-9-232.20 Use of funds
The Sheriff of Chambers County may, in his or her discretion, use funds accruing to the Sheriff's Work Release Fund for the operation of ...
- Part 4 Jails.
- Section 45-9-233 Inmate commissary
The county jail administrator for Chambers County shall operate and manage an inmate commissary at the Chambers County detention facility. Proceeds and profits derived ...
- Part 5 Pistol Permits.
- Section 45-9-234 Issuance; fee
(a) In Chambers County, except as provided in subsection (b), the fee for issuance of a permit to carry a pistol in a vehicle ...
- Article 24 Taxation.
- Part 1 Board of Equalization.
- Section 45-9-240 Compensation
The members of the Chambers County Board of Equalization shall be paid fifty dollars ($50) per diem for each day's attendance upon the sessions ...
- Part 2 Revenue Commissioner.
- Section 45-9-241 Office established
(a) Effective October 1, 1991, upon the approval of a majority of the electors of Chambers County, there is hereby created the office of ...
- Part 3 Tax, Ad Valorem.
- Division 1 Education and Roads.
- Section 45-9-242 Education and road construction purposes
Pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment No. 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the Chambers County Commission may levy for a period ...
- Division 2 Exemptions.
- Section 45-9-242.20 Granting of exemptions
(a) Chambers County may henceforth grant county ad valorem exemptions, including real estate, equipment, and supplies for any manufacturing firm or facility that purchases ...
- Division 3 General Purposes.
- Section 45-9-242.40 General county purposes
In Chambers County, in addition to any and all other taxes heretofore levied, the county commission is hereby authorized to levy and impose an ...
- Part 4 Tax, General.
- Division 1 Business.
- Section 45-9-243 Annual license or privilege fees
(a) This section shall apply only to Chambers County, Alabama, and to no other county. (b) As used in this section, the following words ...
- Division 2 Lodging.
- Section 45-9-243.20 Privilege or license tax
(a) This section shall be applicable only to Chamber County. (b) There is levied and imposed, in addition to all other taxes of every ...
- Division 3 Tangible Personal Property Rentals.
- Section 45-9-243.40 Privilege or license tax
(a) The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where ...
- Part 5 Tax; Tobacco.
- Section 45-9-244 Tobacco products
(a) Upon adoption of the Legislature, there is hereby imposed on every person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes ...
- Article 25 Utilities.
- Article 26 Zoning and Planning.
