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AL SB265
Bill
Status
3/18/2015
Primary Sponsor
Bill Holtzclaw
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AI Summary
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Converts the coroner office from an elected position to an appointed position effective upon the expiration of the current term or any vacancy occurring after the act's effective date.
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Requires each county commission to appoint a person to serve as coroner for a term not exceeding four years from the date of appointment.
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Allows appointed coroners to be reappointed to successive terms by the county commission.
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Repeals Sections 11-51-1 and 11-51-2 of the Code of Alabama 1975, which governed election, terms of office, and vacancy procedures for the coroner office.
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Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.
Legislative Description
County Commission, office of coroner, tax assessor, tax collector, and revenue commissioner, expiration of term appoint persons to those offices, Secs. 11-51-1, 11-51-2 repealed; Sec. 17-14-1 am'd.
County Commissions
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on County and Municipal Government
3/18/2015