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AL HB304
Bill
Status
2/3/2021
Primary Sponsor
Kelvin Lawrence
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AI Summary
HB 304 Summary
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Designates the highest ranking deputy sheriff to discharge sheriff duties when the office of sheriff is vacant until a successor is qualified.
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Requires the highest ranking deputy sheriff to serve as acting sheriff when the sheriff is incompetent to act, imprisoned, a party to a case, or directed to do so by the judge of probate.
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Repeals Section 11-5-5 of the Code of Alabama 1975, which previously allowed the county coroner to serve as sheriff under certain circumstances.
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Takes effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor or upon otherwise becoming law.
Legislative Description
Sheriff, office vacant or other circumstances, highest ranking deputy to serve, provisions re coroner repealed, Sec. 11-5-5 repealed.
Coroners
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
2/3/2021