Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 32-7-13 (2026)
Courts to Report Nonpayment of Judgments.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, laws through the 2026 Regular Session
Whenever any person fails within 60 days to satisfy any judgment, upon the written request of the judgment creditor or his or her attorney, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, or of the judge of a court which has no clerk in which any such judgment is rendered within this state, to forward to the director immediately after the expiration of the 60 days a certified copy of such judgment.
If the defendant named in any certified copy of a judgment reported to the director is a nonresident, the commissioner shall transmit a certified copy of the judgment to the official in charge of the issuance of licenses and registration certificates of the state of which the defendant is a resident.
(Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §12.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 2005–2017 · leading case: Ex Parte State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 924 So. 2d 706 (Ala. 2005).
Ex Parte State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 924 So. 2d 706 (Ala. 2005). “1 form states: "Note: this form is required by the provisions of [Ala.Code 1975, § 32-7-13] and should be *709 mailed together with a certified copy of the Judgment.”
Grimes v. Alfa Mut. Ins. Co., 227 So. 3d 475 (Ala. 2017). “…to the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of requiring the owner to purchase and maintain insurance under § 32-7-13 and § 32-7-31); and § 32-7A-l 7 (referring to evidence of insurance or verification of insurance through the Online Insurance Verification System…”
Ex Parte State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 924 So. 2d 706 (Ala. 2005). “1 form states: “Note: this form is required by the provisions of [Ala.Code 1975, § 32-7-13] and should be *709 mailed together with a certified copy of the Judgment.”
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