(a) The governing body of Cherokee County, Alabama, may establish and maintain a public law library in the county, and, to accomplish that purpose, may, from time to time, expend public funds of the county as are not required by law to be expended for any other purpose or purposes: To provide suitable accommodations and facilities therefor, to keep the same in a good state of maintenance and repair; and from time to time, to provide such supplies, books, reports, and periodicals for the library, as may be needed therefor, out of the proceeds of the special fund created by this section, or for such other purposes as provided for in Section 11-25-13.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 45-10-81

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) In order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the library there shall be taxed as costs the sum of five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50) in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in equity, criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment or conviction in any inferior or municipal court of such county in the Circuit Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, hereinafter filed in or arising in the Circuit Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or brought by appeal, certiorari or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, which costs shall be collected as other costs in such cases are collected by the clerk, or ex officio clerk, of the courts or the register of the Circuit Court of Cherokee County thereof, as the case may be, and shall be paid to the governing body of Cherokee County, Alabama.
(c) The tax herein provided, to be paid to the governing body of Cherokee County, Alabama, shall be kept by the appropriate county official in a separate fund designated as Law Library Fund, and shall be expended by the judge of the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, for maintaining the law library. The district court judge shall draw warrants on the Law Library Fund, herein established, indicating on the warrants the funds against which the warrants are drawn. The powers and authority vested with the presiding circuit judge of the judicial circuit pursuant to Section 11-25-13 shall remain exclusively with the District Court Judge of Cherokee County for the purpose of operating the Cherokee County Law Library.
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