Code of Alabama
Chapter 17 - Circuit and District Court Personnel.
Article 4 - Circuit Clerks and Registers.

Division 1 - General Provisions.

Section 12-17-80 - Circuit Clerks, Registers, and Employees in Offices Thereof to Be Paid by State. - Clerks and registers of the circuit court shall be paid...

Section 12-17-81 - Annual Salary. - (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms...

Section 12-17-81.1 - Prior Service Credit. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose of...

Division 2 - Clerks.

Section 12-17-90 - Offices; Vacancies. - The offices of the circuit clerks shall be at the...

Section 12-17-91 - Bond. - The official bond of the clerk of the circuit court...

Section 12-17-92 - Compensation of Circuit Clerks. - Each circuit clerk shall be compensated by the state at...

Section 12-17-93 - Authority. - Clerks of the circuit court have authority: (1) To administer...

Section 12-17-94 - Duties Generally. - (a) The duties of the clerks of the circuit court...

Section 12-17-95 - When Sheriff's Commissions to Be Collected. - When any clerk receives payment of a judgment, he shall...

Section 12-17-96 - Duty of Clerk When Convict Indicted; Convict Not to Be Released Until Bail Given. - The clerk of any circuit court shall, without delay, certify...

Section 12-17-97 - Duty to Pay Over Money to Successor. - Any clerk of the circuit court, having in his hands,...

Section 12-17-98 - Deputy Clerk for Bessemer Division of Tenth Judicial Circuit. - At the general election held on the first Tuesday after...

Section 12-17-99 - Supplemental Salary for Elected Deputy Circuit Clerks. - In addition to any salary paid by the state, each...

Division 3 - Registers.

Section 12-17-110 - Office of Register Not to Be Filled When Vacancy Occurs; Reappointment of Registers Holding Office on October 10, 1975; Removal of Registers. - (a) Vacancies. - When the position of register in any...

Section 12-17-111 - Bond. - (a) The official bond of the register of the circuit...

Section 12-17-112 - Compensation of Registers and Employees in Office of Register. - (a) Each register shall be compensated by the state beginning...

Section 12-17-113 - Place of Office. - The register shall keep his office at the place at...

Section 12-17-114 - Duties Generally. - (a) It is the duty of the register, within his...

Section 12-17-115 - Pleadings to Be Endorsed With Date of Filing. - All answers and other papers filed in any case must...

Section 12-17-116 - Injunctions. - The register has no authority to grant or dissolve injunctions.

Section 12-17-117 - General Direct and Reverse Indexes. - Registers shall keep general direct and reverse indexes of all...

Section 12-17-118 - Recopying of Records. - The register, deeming it necessary to recopy any books in...

Section 12-17-119 - Records Open to Examination. - The records of the register's office shall be free for...

Section 12-17-120 - Payment of Money to Successor. - The register, having in his hands at the expiration of...

Section 12-17-121 - Punishment for Contempt. - The register, or the clerk if there is no register,...

Section 12-17-122 - Failure of Register or Commissioner to Made Deed of Land. - Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §9901, as...

Division 4 - Supernumerary Clerks and Registers.

Section 12-17-140 - Qualifications for Supernumerary Status Generally; Applicability of Division; Eligibility of Clerk or Register of Circuit Court With 23 Years of Service. - (a) Any clerk or register of the circuit court, serving...

Section 12-17-141 - Oath; Vacancies in Office of Clerk or Register in Counties Where Supernumerary Holds Commission. - (a) Such supernumerary clerk or register of the circuit court...

Section 12-17-142 - Term of Office; Compensation; Surviving Spouse Benefits; Applicability. - (a) Every supernumerary official shall serve for life and shall...

Section 12-17-143 - Establishment of Supernumerary Fund; Contributions Thereto. - Officials electing to come under the provisions of this article...

Section 12-17-144 - Prior Service Credit. - (a) Prior service credit may be obtained by a clerk...

Section 12-17-145 - Officials Covered by Division; Notification Procedure; Post-Election Contribution Transfer; Post-Transfer Credits and Contributions. - (a) Any clerk or register of the circuit court shall...

Section 12-17-146 - Return of Contributions to Other Plans. - (a) All contributions of circuit clerks or registers heretofore made...

Section 12-17-147 - Return of Contributions Upon Termination of Service. - Should the service of the circuit clerk or register be...