Terms Used In Alabama Code 16-9-31

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • preceding: means next before. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • 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
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

The county superintendent of education shall, on or before the first day of November of each year, forward to the State Superintendent of Education on blanks to be furnished him by the latter an annual report of the public schools of his county for the preceding year. In the event any county superintendent shall fail to make and forward to the State Superintendent of Education any report required under this chapter within 10 days after the time it should be made, he shall be liable to impeachment, and the resolution of the State Board of Education duly adopted setting forth such failure shall be prima facie evidence of such fact. The books, accounts and vouchers of the county superintendent of education may be examined at any time by the State Superintendent of Education in person or by his duly authorized agent.