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2013 Code of Alabama
Title 12 - COURTS.
Chapter 12 - DISTRICT COURTS.
Article 1 General Provisions.- Section 12-12-1 - Establishment, designation, etc.; location of sessions of district courts; abolition of courts not authorized by Constitution.
- Section 12-12-2 - District court a court of record; preparation, maintenance, etc., of records of proceedings generally; employment of reporters or provision for transcripts of proceedings by parties.
- Section 12-12-3 - Trial of cases.
- Section 12-12-4 - Powers of court as to disposition of criminal cases generally.
- Section 12-12-5 - Continuation of cases to permit payment of fines and costs.
- Section 12-12-6 - Powers as to punishment for contempt.
- Section 12-12-7 - Issuance of writs.
- Section 12-12-8 - District attorney of circuit charged with responsibility for district court prosecutions.
- Section 12-12-9 - Abolition of office of county solicitor and performance of functions thereof by assistant district attorneys; election by county solicitors serving terms to which elected prior to January 16, 1977, to become assistant district attorneys for duration of terms.
- Section 12-12-10 - Supervision of district courts by presiding circuit judges.
- Section 12-12-11 - Applicability of Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure.
- Section 12-12-30 - Civil jurisdiction generally.
- Section 12-12-31 - Small claims actions; representation by attorney optional; when; attorney's fees; prosecution of assigned claims by attorney only; attorney must be licensed.
- Section 12-12-32 - Criminal jurisdiction generally.
- Section 12-12-33 - Extradition proceedings.
- Section 12-12-34 - Juvenile jurisdiction.
- Section 12-12-35 - Transfer of adoption proceedings to district court from probate court; maintenance of records of adoption proceedings.
- Section 12-12-36 - Venue generally; transfer of actions improperly located; designation of additional locations for court sites.
- Section 12-12-50 - "Traffic infraction" defined.
- Section 12-12-51 - District court jurisdiction of misdemeanor prosecutions for traffic infractions.
- Section 12-12-52 - Receipt of guilty pleas in traffic infraction prosecutions by magistrates.
- Section 12-12-53 - Requirement of use of uniform traffic ticket and complaint.
- Section 12-12-54 - Accounting for uniform traffic tickets and complaints; disposition of forms; records and reports.
- Section 12-12-55 - Establishment of schedules of fines for traffic infractions; provision for manner of payment and accounting for of fines and costs.
- Section 12-12-56 - Law enforcement officers, etc., not to dispose of uniform traffic tickets or complaints, etc., in unauthorized manner; persons soliciting, etc., unauthorized disposition, etc., of uniform traffic ticket and complaint subject to punishment for criminal contempt.
- Section 12-12-70 - Right of appeal and procedure for appeals generally; dismissal for failure to appear.
- Section 12-12-71 - When appeals taken to circuit courts; nature of proceedings and right to jury trial upon appeals to circuit courts.
- Section 12-12-72 - When appeals may be taken directly to appellate courts.
- Section 12-12-73 - Bonds on appeals.
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