(a)

Attorney's Note

Under the Alabama Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class C misdemeanorup to 3 monthsup to $500
For details, see Ala. Code § 13A-5-7

Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-5-23

  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
  • tax collecting official: means the elected or appointed official charged with collecting ad valorem taxes and other prescribed fees on real and personal property in the county. See Alabama Code 40-5-1
  • 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
(1) On or before the first regular county commission meeting in June of the current tax year, the tax collecting official shall submit a report to the county commission on a form provided by the Department of Revenue showing all errors in assessments, taxes in litigation, insolvents, lands bid in to the state, and tax liens that were not auctioned or sold, including a list of insolvents.
(2) The list of insolvents required to be reported in subdivision (1) shall include the name, residential or business address, and all taxes, cost, and interest charged against each listed person. The tax collecting official shall cause the list to be published for two weeks in July on a website of the tax collecting official or the county website of which the tax collecting official has access, or in a local newspaper published and printed in the county.
(3) A tax collecting official who fails to publish and display the list of insolvents as required in subdivision (2) shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
(b) The cost, if any, for advertisement of the list of insolvents required under this section shall be paid from the county general fund and any money collected from insolvents shall include the cost of advertisement and repaid to the county general fund.
(c) All reports submitted to the county commission under this section shall be certified by the tax collecting official and forwarded to the Comptroller upon the tax collecting official’s final settlement to allow credits to the tax collecting official.
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