Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-5-29

  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • 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.
  • 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

At the first regular meeting of the county commission in January of the year next succeeding, the tax collecting official shall make a final report of the uncollected insolvent taxes and taxes in litigation. The county commission shall issue a credit to the tax collecting official for the satisfaction of final settlement with the Comptroller. The accounts of taxes in litigation that are remaining shall be kept in a manner as prescribed by the Comptroller.