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§ 12-17-211 — Qualifications for Supernumerary Status - Fifteen Years of Service and Not Less Than 70 Years of Age

Alabama § 12-17-211
JurisdictionAlabama
Title 12Courts
Ch. 17Circuit and District Court Personnel
Art. 6District Attorneys
Div. 2Supernumerary District Attorneys

This text of Alabama § 12-17-211 (Qualifications for Supernumerary Status - Fifteen Years of Service and Not Less Than 70 Years of Age) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Alabama primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Ala. Code § 12-17-211 (2026).

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Any district attorney of this state who has served continuously for 15 years as district attorney and who is not less than 70 years of age may elect to become a supernumerary district attorney of the state by filing, while in service, a written declaration to that effect with the Governor, who shall, if the age of the declarant is not less than 70 and his continuous service as district attorney is not less than 15 years, thereupon issue to such declarant a commission as supernumerary district attorney of the State of Alabama.

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Legislative History

(Acts 1950, 5th Ex. Sess., No. 31, p. 79, §1.)

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