Code of Alabama

Ala. Code § 36-11-1 (2026)

Persons Subject to Impeachment and Removal from Office; Grounds for Impeachment Generally.

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(a) The following officers may be impeached and removed from office: judges of circuit and probate courts, district attorneys, judges of the courts of appeals, district judges, sheriffs, clerks of the circuit courts, tax collectors, tax assessors, county treasurers, coroners, notaries public, constables and all other state officers not named in Section 173 of the constitution and all other county officers and mayors and intendants of incorporated cities and towns in this state.

(b) The officers specified in subsection (a) of this section may be impeached and removed from office for the following causes:

(1) Willful neglect of duty;

(2) Corruption in office;

(3) Incompetency;

(4) Intemperance in the use of intoxicating liquors or narcotics to such an extent in view of the dignity of the office and importance of its duties as unfits the officer for the discharge of such duties; or

(5) Any offense involving moral turpitude while in office or committed under color thereof or connected therewith.

(Code 1876, §4047; Code 1886, §4818; Code 1896, §4864; Code 1907, §7099; Code 1923, §4497; Code 1940, T. 41, §178.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1981–2016 · leading case: Carter v. State Ex Rel. Bullock Cnty., 393 So. 2d 1368 (Ala. 1981).

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Carter v. State Ex Rel. Bullock Cnty., 393 So. 2d 1368 (Ala. 1981). “Because of our holding that neither the wording nor the legal effect of the trial court's order constitutes an impeachment or removal of the Appellant from his office as tax assessor, however, we pretermit discussion of this constitutional provision and the implementing…”

State ex rel. Strange v. Clark, 216 So. 3d 426 (Ala. 2016). · cites it 3× “Code 1975, filed an information of impeachment and a prayer for ouster, charging that Sheriff Clark, during his present term of office, willfully neglected his duty and engaged in corruption while in office, in violation of § 36-11-1, Ala.Code 1975, 1 and Art. VII, § 173 and §…”

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