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Title 48. Marshall County, Local Provisions, Alabama Constitution

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Local Provisions


Chapter 1

Chapter 1. Miscellaneous Provisions

RESERVED[1]

Chapter 2

Chapter 2. Courts

Article 1. Court Costs

§48-2.00. Compensation of Certain Officials. (Amendment 215)

The legislature may, by general or local laws, fix, alter, and regulate the costs and charges of court and the fees, commissions, percentages, allowances, and salaries, including the method or basis of their compensation, to be charged or received by the judge of probate, sheriff, circuit clerk, register of the circuit court, tax assessor, tax collector, or any other officer of Marshall county, and may place any of such officers on a salary and provide that the fees, commissions, percentages, and allowances collected by such officers shall be paid into the county treasury from which their salaries shall be paid. The compensation of such officers shall not be increased or diminished during their terms. (Amendment 215)[1]

Chapter 3

Chapter 3. County Government, Finance, and Operations

Article 1. Elections

§48-3.00. Hours of Polling Places. (Amendment 696)

Every polling place in Marshall County shall be open for voting on election day for any local, state, or national election at 7:00 A.M. and shall not close until 7:00 P.M. and shall remain open for voting for not less than 12 consecutive hours. The Marshall County Commission shall provide funds from the county general fund for any additional compensation needed for poll workers required to work the extended hours required by this amendment. (Amendment 696)[1]

Chapter 4

Chapter 4. Economic and Industrial Development

RESERVED[1]

Chapter 5

Chapter 5. Education

Article 1. Board of Education

§48-5.00. Election of Members and Operation. (Amendment 870)

The Legislature, by local law, from time to time may provide for the election of the members of the Marshall County Board of Education and may provide further for the operation of the board. Such local act or acts may include, but are not limited to, providing for termination of the terms of members of the existing county board of education; vacancies; the composition of the county board of education; initial and succeeding terms of office, including staggered terms; and qualifications, powers, duties, responsibilities, and compensation of the board and board members. (Amendment 870)[1]

Chapter 6

Chapter 6. Health and Environment

RESERVED[1]

Chapter 7

Chapter 7. Gaming

RESERVED[1]

Chapter 8

Chapter 8. Officials and Employees

Article 1. Employee Personnel Boards

§48-8.00. Participation of Sheriff’s Employees. (Amendment 647)

Effective the first day of the sixth month after the date of the election on the ratification of this amendment, employees of the Office of the Sheriff of Marshall County, except for the chief deputy, are subject to the authority of the Personnel Board of Marshall County, or its successor. (Amendment 647)

Article 2. Retirement

§48-8.20. Phase-out of Supernumerary Program; Participation in RSA. (Amendment 821)

No elected or appointed Marshall County official, including the sheriff, may assume a supernumerary office after the effective date of this amendment, except elected officials who are currently holding office on such date. Any person who, on the effective date of this amendment, is entitled to participate in a supernumerary program may continue to participate in that supernumerary program, which shall include the assumption of a supernumerary office according to the terms and conditions of the law which established that supernumerary program. Every elected or appointed Marshall County official, including the sheriff, may participate in the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama upon the same terms and conditions as may be specified by law for any other employee in the same retirement system. Marshall County officials, including the sheriff, holding office at the time of ratification of this amendment shall be eligible to purchase service credit in the Employees' Retirement System for the time the official has served in the current office. No person may participate in both a supernumerary program and the Employees' Retirement System based on the same service. For purposes of this amendment, the words "elected or appointed Marshall County official" do not include a judge, district attorney, legislator, constable, school board member, or any official elected from a judicial circuit. The effective date or ratification date of this amendment is the date this amendment is officially proclaimed ratified in the proclamation register. (Amendment 821)[1]

Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Public Safety

Article 1. Sheriff

§48-9.00. Discretionary Fund for Feeding Prisoners. (Amendment 948)

Effective immediately upon ratification of this amendment, any allowances or other amounts received by the Sheriff of Marshall County for feeding prisoners shall be deposited in a separate account in the county treasury to be known as the "Sheriff's Discretionary Fund" and shall be used by the sheriff for the feeding of prisoners in the county jail. Any funds in the Sheriff's Discretionary Fund over the amounts needed for feeding prisoners may be used by the sheriff for law enforcement purposes and for the operation of the office of the sheriff. Any funds in the Sheriff's Discretionary Fund shall be carried over from year to year. In the event additional amounts are needed by the sheriff for the feeding of prisoners, the amounts shall be paid by the sheriff from any other discretionary funds available for the operation of the office of the sheriff. The sheriff shall not be subject to the competitive bid law for the purchase of food or supplies used for feeding prisoners in the county jail. (Amendment 948)[1]

Chapter 10

Chapter 10. Taxation

Article 1. Miscellaneous Provisions

§48-10.00. Tax on Sale or Storing of Motor Fuel for Maintaining Roads. (Amendment 66)

The governing body of Marshall county, when authorized to do so by a majority of the qualified electors of the county voting in a referendum held in the manner prescribed by the county governing body, may levy and collect a county privilege license tax from any person engaged within the county in the business of selling or keeping in storage for sale gasoline, woco pep, or any other motor fuel used by self-propelled vehicles, which tax shall not be in excess of three cents per gallon on all gasoline, woco pep, or other motor fuel sold or stored, and the proceeds of which shall be used exclusively for construction and maintenance of hard surface farm-to-market roads in the county. The governing body of Marshall county shall hold such referendum not less than sixty nor more than ninety days after the ratification of this amendment; subsequent referenda may be held at intervals of not less than two years. (Amendment 66)

Article 2. Schools

§48-10.20. Special Tax for Educational Purposes. (Amendment 101)

In addition to all taxes now or hereafter authorized by the Constitution and laws of Alabama a special tax or taxes not to exceed five mills on each dollar's worth of taxable property in Marshall county is hereby authorized, the proceeds of which shall be used exclusively for erecting, constructing, remodeling, renovating, repairing, furnishing and equipping public school buildings in Marshall county; provided that any tax and the purpose thereof shall have first been submitted to the vote of the qualified electors of the county and voted for by a majority of those electors participating in the election. The election shall be called, held, conducted and governed by the applicable provisions of Code of Alabama (1940), Title 52, chapter 10, article 7, which governs elections on special school taxes and the tax hereby authorized shall be levied and collected as other special school taxes are levied and collected. If the proposal to levy the tax is defeated in an election it may not be again submitted to a vote for one year, but after the expiration of one year, and at intervals of one year thereafter, such question may be resubmitted to the qualified electors. Should a tax of less than five mills on each dollar's worth of taxable property be approved at an election thereon then at the expiration of one year from the date of the election at which such tax was approved, and at intervals of one year thereafter, the question of levying an additional tax for such purposes may again be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the county until the total of all taxes levied pursuant to the authority hereby conferred is five mills.

After any tax levied pursuant to authority hereby conferred shall have been collected for five years the court of county commissioners, board of revenue or other county governing body, upon receipt of a petition, signed by not less than twenty percent of the qualified electors of the county must call an election at which the question of repeal of the tax upon payment of all obligations then outstanding shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the county. Should a majority of the voters participating at this election vote for the repeal of the tax it shall cease as soon as the outstanding pledges against it have been paid in full. Should a majority of the electors participating in the election vote against repeal the question of repeal may not again be submitted to a vote for one year, but after the expiration of one year, and at intervals of one year thereafter, upon receipt of a petition signed by twenty percent of the qualified electors of the county, the county governing body may order the question of repeal of the tax resubmitted to the qualified electors of the county.

The elections provided for herein shall be called, held, conducted, paid for, and governed otherwise in the manner provided by Code of Alabama (1940), Title 52, chapter 10, article 7, for an election on the special county school tax authorized in Sections 269.01 through 269.03. The collection of the tax shall also be governed by the applicable provisions of the Code of Alabama (1940), Title 52, chapter 10, article 7, and the proceeds shall be used exclusively for the purposes authorized at the election approving the levy. (Amendment 101)[1]

Chapter 11

Chapter 11. Zoning, Planning, and Utilities

Article 1. Fire Protection

§48-11.00. Fire Protection Purposes. (Amendment 439)

The legislature may prescribe by local law for Marshall county for forest fire protection in the county and may authorize the county governing body to further promote and provide for tax on acreage, on a basis other than ad valorem, therefore. The legislature may provide for the manner for levying and collecting such assessments and the distribution thereof. The legislature may further provide for the administration of such forest fire protection promotion. (Amendment 439)

Article 2. Annexation

§48-11.20. General Provisions. (Amendment 469)

Any municipality that was not located wholly or in part within the boundaries of Marshall county prior to January 1, 1986, shall not annex any territory within Marshall county without the approval of the electorate of Marshall county expressed in a vote on the issue of said annexation, or approved unanimously by the Marshall county commission after notice has been given.

The provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any municipality incorporated in the future that lies entirely within the boundaries of Marshall county.

The provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any territory presently annexed within Marshall county by a municipality located outside of the county.

The legislature may pass local or general acts to supplement this amendment, so long as such acts do not contravene the provisions of this amendment. (Amendment 469)[1]

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  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.