Alabama § 45-10-81 - Public Law Library; Law Library Fund.

§ 45-10-81. Public Law Library; Law Library Fund.

(a) The governing body of Cherokee County, Alabama, may establish and maintain a public law library in the county, and, to accomplish that purpose, may, from time to time, expend public funds of the county as are not required by law to be expended for any other purpose or purposes: To provide suitable accommodations and facilities therefor, to keep the same in a good state of maintenance and repair; and from time to time, to provide such supplies, books, reports, and periodicals for the library, as may be needed therefor, out of the proceeds of the special fund created by this section, or for such other purposes as provided for in Section 11-25-13.

(b) In order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the library there shall be taxed as costs the sum of five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50) in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in equity, criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment or conviction in any inferior or municipal court of such county in the Circuit Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, hereinafter filed in or arising in the Circuit Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or brought by appeal, certiorari or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, or the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, which costs shall be collected as other costs in such cases are collected by the clerk, or ex officio clerk, of the courts or the register of the Circuit Court of Cherokee County thereof, as the case may be, and shall be paid to the governing body of Cherokee County, Alabama.

(c) The tax herein provided, to be paid to the governing body of Cherokee County, Alabama, shall be kept by the appropriate county official in a separate fund designated as Law Library Fund, and shall be expended by the judge of the District Court of Cherokee County, Alabama, for maintaining the law library. The district court judge shall draw warrants on the Law Library Fund, herein established, indicating on the warrants the funds against which the warrants are drawn. The powers and authority vested with the presiding circuit judge of the judicial circuit pursuant to Section 11-25-13 shall remain exclusively with the District Court Judge of Cherokee County for the purpose of operating the Cherokee County Law Library.