HB167 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jack Williams
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Harry Shiver Ed Henry Wes Long Kurt Wallace Ken Johnson Paul Beckman
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Municipal judges and magistrates for municipal courts authorized to issue warrant recall fee for failure to appear for municipal ordinance or traffic violation, distrib. to municipal corrections fund
Description: Currently, there is no statewide law authorizing a magistrate or judge of a municipal court to assess a warrant recall fee against a defendant in order to recall a failure to appear warrant.
This bill would allow magistrates and judges of a municipal court to assess such a warrant recall fee of $100 to be paid when the warrant is recalled.
This bill would provide that the proceeds of the fee would be deposited in the municipal corrections fund.
Subjects: Municipalities

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary