HB482 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Alan Boothe

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Coffee and Pike Counties, circuit judges, residency requirement of vacancy in office, Sec. 12-17-20 am'd.

Summary

HB482 would require the Twelfth Judicial Circuit’s three judges to come from Pike County for Judge No.1 and from Coffee County for Judges No.2 and No.3, and would require candidates to have lived in the relevant county for at least one year before qualifying.

What This Bill Does

It amends the residency rules for the Twelfth Circuit, tying each seat to a specific county and adding a one-year residency requirement for candidates. The changes become operative only when one of the three seats becomes vacant (death, retirement, resignation, or removal). The act is effective immediately after passage and governor approval.

Who It Affects

• People running for election to the Twelfth Circuit judgeships (No.1 in Pike County; No.2 and No.3 in Coffee County) must have lived in the respective county for at least one year before qualifying and continue to reside there during tenure.
• Residents of Pike County and Coffee County who are potential or current candidates for these judgeships; the seats are tied to residency by county.
• The timing of applying these rules is tied to vacancies in Judgeships No.1, No.2, and No.3.

Key Provisions

• There shall be three circuit judges in the twelfth judicial circuit; the judge occupying judgeship No.1 shall be a resident of Pike County, and the judges occupying judgeship No.2 and No.3 shall be residents of Coffee County.
• A person qualifying as a candidate for election to a judgeship in the twelfth circuit must have been a resident of the county for that judgeship for at least one year prior to qualifying and continue to reside there during tenure.
• The amendatory provisions become operative upon vacancy in judgeship No.1, No.2, or No.3 (death, retirement, resignation, or removal).
• This act becomes effective immediately following its passage and governor’s approval.

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Subjects

Judicial Circuits