2019 Code of Alabama
Title 12 - Courts.
Chapter 13 - Probate Courts.
Article 2 - Judges.
Section 12-13-53 - Failure to collect recording or registration tax, etc., upon mortgages, deeds of trust, etc.

Universal Citation: AL Code § 12-13-53 (2019)
Section 12-13-53Failure to collect recording or registration tax, etc., upon mortgages, deeds of trust, etc.

Any probate judge who shall file for record or shall record any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument in the nature of a mortgage without collecting the recording or registration tax provided for the recording or registration of such instruments or who shall fail to certify the fact that said tax has been paid before the filing and recording of such instrument shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00.

(Code 1907, §7458; Code 1923, §5050; Code 1940, T. 13, §282.)
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