ALABAMA CONSTITUTION
LOCAL PROVISIONS
TITLE 38
LAMAR COUNTY
§38-2.00 | WEST ALABAMA CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTER
Section II. The clerk of the respective court shall collect the fee in the same manner as other costs in the court and shall remit the fee to the West Alabama Children’s Advocacy Center on a monthly basis to be used by the center for abuse victims in the circuit.
Section III. If the boundaries of the 24th Judicial Circuit change, the filing fee imposed by this amendment shall remain in effect for the Counties of Fayette, Lamar, and Pickens, unless altered by a subsequent amendment to this constitution.
§38-2.01 | DRUG ENFORCEMENT FEE
Section 1.
In all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in the juvenile, district, circuit, and municipal courts in Lamar County, a docket fee, hereinafter referred to as a drug enforcement fee, shall be assessed in each case. The drug enforcement fee shall be in an amount equal to ten dollars ($10) in each non-drug case; sixty dollars ($60) in each misdemeanor drug case; and eighty-five dollars ($85) in each felony drug case. The drug enforcement fee, when collected, shall be distributed monthly as follows: Three dollars ($3) of the fees assessed in each case shall be retained by the clerk of the court as an administrative fee and the remainder to the Drug Enforcement Fund established by the district attorney in the county or to the fund that may hereafter be prescribed by law for the drug enforcement fee.Section 2.
The drug enforcement fee shall be collected as prescribed hereinabove in all cases where the defendant is adjudged guilty, a bond forfeited, a penalty imposed, or where there is issued any alias or capias warrant of arrest, or in any other case where court costs are assessed, whether a defendant is adjudged guilty or not. The drug enforcement fee shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any other fees or costs, and shall not be waived or remitted unless all other costs and charges of court are waived.Section 3.
The district attorney for the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit shall establish a separate fund to be called the Lamar County Drug Enforcement Fund. All sums deposited into the fund pursuant to this amendment may be expended by the district attorney for the support of the drug task force that serves the Twenty–Fourth Judicial Circuit, including, but not limited to, the payment of any and all expenses incurred by the drug task force, and the payment of any matching monies required under the terms of any grant that may be awarded by any governmental or other entity for the support of the drug task force, the payment or supplementing of salaries for personnel of the drug task force, or for any other law enforcement purpose.Section 4.
The Legislature, by general or local law, may fix, regulate, and alter the costs and charges of courts in Lamar County and provide for their distribution. Any local law authorizing the levy of additional court costs in Lamar County enacted prior to the effective date of this amendment is ratified and confirmed.§38-2.20 | JUDGE OF PROBATE COMPENSATION
§38-4.00 | LAMAR COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES
2. To lease, sell for cash or on credit, exchange, give and convey any such property described in subdivision 1 above, to any person, firm, association or corporation.
3. To promote local industrial, commercial or agricultural development and the location of new industries or businesses therein.
4. To become a stockholder in any corporation, association or company.
5. To lend its credit or to grant public moneys and things of value in aid of, or to, any individual, firm, association, or corporation whatsoever.
6. To become indebted and to issue and sell interest bearing bonds, warrants (which may be payable from funds to be realized in future years), notes or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness, to a principal amount not exceeding fifty percent of the assessed value of taxable property therein as determined for state taxation, in order to secure funds for the purchase, construction, lease or acquisition of any of the property described in subdivision 1 above or to be used in furtherance of any of the other powers or authorities granted in this amendment. Such obligations or evidences of indebtedness may (in addition to any pledge or pledges authorized by subdivision 8 of this amendment) be issued upon the full faith and credit of the municipality or may be limited as to the source of their payment.
7. To levy and collect annually, in addition to all other taxes now authorized or permitted, a special tax or taxes of not exceeding two percent on the value of all taxable property therein as determined for state taxation, in the same manner as other county or municipal taxes are levied and collected. Such tax may be upon all property in any municipality in Lamar county or upon all property in any district the boundaries of which the governing body of such municipality shall describe and which it shall determine to be specially improved and benefited by any proposed use or expenditure of the proceeds of such tax.
8. To pledge to the payment of any bonds, warrants, notes or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness the annual proceeds from any such special tax or taxes and to obligate itself irrevocably to continue to levy and collect such taxes annually until such obligations or evidences of indebtedness are paid in full and to pledge thereto any rental or sales proceeds of property leased or sold by it.
9. To create a public authority or corporation having such powers, managed and governed by such board or governing body and subject to such limitations as the governing body of any municipality in Lamar county may impose, by approving and filing a certificate to that effect in the office of the judge of probate or the secretary of state, or their respective successors in function, and to delegate to such public authority or corporation and its board or governing body all powers and authority conferred in this amendment upon any such municipality.
This amendment shall be self-executing; but the legislature shall have the right and power by general, special or local act to adopt laws supplemental to this amendment or in furtherance of the purposes and objectives hereinabove set forth.
§38-8.00 | CONSTABLE OFFICE ABOLISHED
§38-8.20 | PHASE-OUT OF SUPERNUMERARY PROGRAM; PARTICIPATION IN RSA
§38-8.21 | RETIREMENT OF SUPERNUMERARY OFFICES
§38-10.20 | ADDITIONAL TAX FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
Section 1.
The court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or other like governing body of Lamar county shall have power to levy and provide for collection of an additional county tax of fifty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property in the county, for public school purposes, in the same manner and subject to the same election requirements as provided in Sections 269.01 through 269.03 with respect to other county school taxes. The tax herein authorized shall be in addition to all other county taxes authorized in this Constitution as amended, and the proceeds thereof shall be spent for public school purposes only.Section 2.
If this amendment is approved and a majority of the qualified electors of Lamar county who vote thereon vote in favor of the adoption of this amendment when it is submitted, the additional tax provided for in section 1 may be levied and collected thereafter for a period of 20 years without any other election having been held thereon. But if this amendment is approved and a majority of the qualified electors of the county who vote thereon vote against its approval, the tax shall not be levied unless the rate of the tax, the time it is to continue, and the purpose thereof shall have been again submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the county and voted for by a majority of those voting at the election. Subsequent elections may be held at intervals of not less than one year, and shall be called, held, and conducted in the same way, according to the general laws, as other elections on the question of levying special county school taxes.§38-11.00 | WATER COORDINATING AND FIRE PREVENTION AUTHORITY
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