Code of Alabama
Chapter 5 - Administrative Office of Courts and Department of Court Management.
Section 12-5-12 - Study of Applications for Funds, Grants, etc., From Federal Governmental Agencies or Entities, Direction of Disbursement of Funds, Grants, etc.; Designation of Moneys Previously Appropriated to Certain State Agencies as Matching Fun...

(a) In connection with any federal legislation hereafter passed or presently in force and effect, designed, directly or indirectly, to assist or aid in the administration of justice, criminal or otherwise, or the improvement of courts and the judicial system, the Administrative Director of Courts is authorized and empowered to study any and all applications for funds and grants directed to his office from any federal governmental agency or entity and the disbursement of such aid, assistance, subgrants, funds or money to any office or agency of the judicial branch of state government and to direct the disbursement of such aid, assistance, funds, moneys, grants or subgrants and coordinate the same with the overall administration of justice in Alabama, to establish priorities pertaining to such and to designate and direct moneys that have been appropriated to and for the Administrative Office of Courts, the Department of Court Management, the Permanent Study Commission on Alabama's Judicial System, the Judicial Conference, judicial education, the Trial Courts College of Trial Judges and the Supreme Court to be matching money or funds to be used in connection with any such aid, assistance, funds, moneys, grants or subgrants for either state or local agencies, entities, units or courts, regardless of whether such appropriations are designated for salaries or any other account within the particular appropriation.
(b) In connection with any such disbursements, circuit courts, district courts or trial courts, regardless of the name they bear, are designated as proper local units or entities of government to apply for and receive such assistance, aid, funds, moneys, grants and subgrants and are further authorized to use moneys in public law libraries, funds within their circuits, districts or counties as matching funds in connection with any judicially or legally related project or function.

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Code of Alabama

Title 12 - Courts.

Chapter 5 - Administrative Office of Courts and Department of Court Management.

Section 12-5-1 - Administrative Office of Courts Created.

Section 12-5-3 - Department of Court Management Established; Powers and Duties Generally.

Section 12-5-2 - Service by Administrative Office of Courts as Agency for Application for and Receipt of Grants, etc., and Coordination of Studies, etc., as to Improvement of Administration of Justice; Appointment, Compensation, etc., of Officers, Em...

Section 12-5-6 - Department to Be Responsible for Trial Court Administration.

Section 12-5-5 - Applicability of Provisions of State Merit System to Officers, Employees, etc., of Department.

Section 12-5-4 - Appointment, Duties, etc., of Court Administrator and Assistant Court Administrator; Appointment and Compensation of Other Employees of Department.

Section 12-5-7 - Entitlement to Insurance, Retirement and Other State Employees' Benefits of Officers, Employees, etc., of Administrative Office of Courts and Department of Court Management.

Section 12-5-8 - Administrative Director of Courts Ex Officio Head of Department of Court Management and Head of Administrative Office of Courts.

Section 12-5-9 - Administrative Director of Courts to Assist Chief Justice With Duties as Administrative Head of Judicial System.

Section 12-5-10 - Powers and Duties of Administrative Director of Courts Generally.

Section 12-5-11 - Direction of Expenditure of Funds Appropriated to Accounts of Colleges of Judges and Accounts for Judicial Education of Justices, Judges or Court-Supportive Personnel and Payment of Expenses of Justices, Judges or Court-Supportive P...

Section 12-5-12 - Study of Applications for Funds, Grants, etc., From Federal Governmental Agencies or Entities, Direction of Disbursement of Funds, Grants, etc.; Designation of Moneys Previously Appropriated to Certain State Agencies as Matching Fun...

Section 12-5-13 - Coordination of Functions and Duties of Administrative Personnel of Trial Courts or Local Court Systems; Transfer and Direction of Expenditure of Moneys Appropriated to Certain State Agencies and Courts.

Section 12-5-14 - Employment of Consultants by Chief Justice and Administrative Director of Courts.

Section 12-5-15 - Delegation to Administrative Director of Courts, Court Administrator, etc., of Authority to Act for Chief Justice.

Section 12-5-16 - Membership of Chief Justice and Officers, Employees, etc., of Administrative Office of Courts and Department of Court Management in Organizations and Associations Devoted to Improvement of Justice, etc., Authorized; Payment of Membe...

Section 12-5-17 - Attendance at Colleges, Conferences, etc., Pertaining to Administration of Courts by Chief Justice, Officers, Employees, etc., of Administrative Office of Courts and Department of Court Management, Members of Judiciary and Court-Sup...

Section 12-5-18 - Use of Members of Judiciary and Court-Supportive Personnel for Studies, Projects, etc., to Improve the Administration of Justice.

Section 12-5-19 - Payment of Expenses of Conferences or Meetings Sponsored by Administrative Office of Courts or Department of Court Management.

Section 12-5-20 - Review, etc., of Administrative Decisions of Chief Justice or Administrative Director of Courts by Supreme Court Justices.

Section 12-5-21 - Appointment, Compensation, etc., of Confidential Secretaries for Retired Justices or Judges Performing Active Duty for Supreme Court or Courts of Appeals.