Code of Alabama
Chapter 5 - Administrative Office of Courts and Department of Court Management.
Section 12-5-3 - Department of Court Management Established; Powers and Duties Generally.

(a) There shall be a state department to be known as the Department of Court Management. This department shall be specifically charged with the duty of assisting the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in connection with his duties as the chief administrative officer of all the trial courts of this state, the Chief Justice's task of insuring that the business of said courts of the state is attended with proper dispatch and the Chief Justice's task of seeing that the dockets of such courts are not permitted to become congested and that trial of cases, civil and criminal, is not delayed unreasonably.
(b) The department shall also perform the following duties:
(1) It shall work with the clerks and registers of all civil and criminal trial courts in the state to collect, obtain, compile and digest information and statistics concerning the administration of justice in the state.
(2) It shall serve as an agency to apply for and receive any grants or other assistance and to coordinate and conduct studies and projects in connection with the improvement of the administration of justice and trial courts in Alabama, and it may conduct such studies and projects with or without the assistance of consultants.
(3) It shall assist the Judicial Conference in its tasks.
(4) It shall promote, carry on and assist in programs designed to aid in the continuing legal and judicial education of justices, judges, clerks, registers and other court personnel and to work with any organization or association of such officials.
(5) It shall perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.

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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.