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Alabama Statutes § 17-4-4 Information of deaths, incompetency, and convictions to be furnished to boards of registrars; rulemaking authority

⤴ Up to Article 1: County Voter Registration Lists

Statute Text

(a) In addition to all other duties now required by law, the Office of Vital Statistics of the State Department of Public Health shall furnish to the board of registrars of the county in which such district is located, once each month, a report of the death of all persons over 18 years of age who resided in such registration district.
(b) In addition to all other duties now required by law, the judges of probate of the several counties of this state shall furnish to the board of registrars of their respective counties, once each month, a list of all residents of the county, 18 years of age or over, who have been declared mentally incompetent.
(c) In addition to all other duties required by law, the clerks of the circuit and district courts of this state shall furnish to the board of registrars of each county, once each month, a list of all residents of that county who have been convicted of any offense designated pursuant to Section 17-3-30.1 as a felony involving moral turpitude for the purposes of Article VIII of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. Any person who willfully fails to perform such duties shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each such failure. Such sum may be recovered in an action by law by any citizen of the county in which the officer acts, one half to his or her own use and one half to the use of the state.
(d) The Secretary of State and the Board of Pardons and Paroles may promulgate rules in accordance with the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act as necessary to implement this section.

History

Amended by Act 2017 - 378 , § 2 , eff. 8/1/2017 .

Acts 1935, No. 434, p. 914; Code 1940, T. 17, §45; Code 1975, §17-4-61; Acts 1978, No. 584, p. 667, §27; §17-4-131; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §16.

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