Alabama Code 2-11-9. Bonds of employees and inspectors
Terms Used In Alabama Code 2-11-9
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. 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
The commissioner may require any employee or agent and any inspector licensed under this article to execute and file with him a good and sufficient bond, payable to the state, in such sum, not exceeding $1,000.00, and with such surety or sureties as he may prescribe, conditioned upon the faithful performance by such employee, agent or licensed inspector of his duties as such employee, agent or licensed inspector, such bond to be filed in the office of the commissioner. Any person injured by the failure of such employee, agent or licensed inspector faithfully to perform such duties shall be entitled to institute a civil action on such bond in his own name in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such damages as he may have sustained by reason of such failure.