HB735 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Feb 27, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Mike Jones
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: Covington County, law library fee further provided for, const. amend.
Summary: This constitutional amendment would create a 12-dollar Covington County law library fee and use the money to establish and operate a county law library, while ratifying existing local court costs.
What This Bill Does
It adds a new $12 law library fee in Covington County for most court cases, collected with other costs and paid to the county treasury into a dedicated law library fund. The funds are to be used by the county's circuit court judges to establish, maintain, equip, and operate a county law library and to help administer the courts. The fee would replace the current court costs under Act 1983-68, which would become inoperable after the amendment's effective date. Local Covington County laws regulating court costs enacted before the amendment would be ratified and validated.

Who It Affects
People who file civil, criminal, or other actions in Covington County courts will pay the new $12 law library fee as part of their court costs.
Covington County government and court personnel (clerks, treasurer, and judges) will collect, manage, and spend the funds to run the county law library and support court administration.

Key Provisions
In Covington County, in all court actions, there shall be taxed a $12 law library fee as part of costs; the fee is collected with other costs and paid to the county treasurer to form the county law library fund.
The law library funds are to be used by the circuit court judges to establish, maintain, equip, and operate a county law library and to administer the courts; the funds are county property.
The law library fee is in lieu of the court costs levied by Act 1983-68, which becomes inoperable after the amendment takes effect.
Local Covington County laws regulating court costs enacted before the amendment are ratified, approved, validated, and confirmed; actions and payments under those laws are also ratified and validated.

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Subjects: Constitutional Amendments