Traffic Case Records in Perry County
Perry County District Court keeps the court record for state and county traffic citations issued by state troopers or Perry County sheriff's deputies. The Perry County Circuit Clerk serves as the record keeper for that District Court docket. A city police ticket inside Marion or Uniontown follows a different route. Marion Municipal Court and Uniontown Municipal Court each keep their own municipal traffic files. The issuing court printed on the ticket is therefore the most useful first fact.
The court file may contain the citation and charge, court settings, plea, disposition, and financial entries. Perry County treats every ticket as set for a stated day, time, and place. An eligible listed charge may be resolved before that date. A mandatory-appearance charge cannot. The official Perry County traffic court instructions show the county channel and its limits.
The assigned image preserves the official Perry County traffic court page as the source view.
District Court route: the county page anchors that route but leaves both municipal traffic custodians in place.
Perry County Traffic Jurisdiction
Who wrote the citation and where the act occurred decide the court. A state trooper or county deputy ticket goes to Perry District Court. A Marion or Uniontown municipal citation normally stays with that city's court. The county magistrate instructions draw the same geographic line for lower criminal matters. Outside-city misdemeanors follow the county route. Offenses inside a city begin at its municipal court. Felonies are always countywide matters. Still, that never turns a city traffic ticket into a county traffic file.
| Citation source | Likely court record keeper | First check |
|---|---|---|
| State trooper or county deputy | Perry County Circuit Clerk for District Court | County traffic page and ticket |
| Marion municipal citation | Marion Municipal Court clerk | Marion ticket and city court |
| Uniontown municipal citation | Uniontown Municipal Court | Uniontown ticket search and city court |
Perry County Traffic Ticket Lookups
Skip the broad name search and start with the ticket itself. Use the UTC number in the top right. The assigned case number and the named court also route the inquiry. No single system covers every citation, so Perry County publishes several channels. The county traffic page links to AlaPay and Alabama traffic information. Remember that payment gateways are not complete Case Action Summaries.
- Read the issuing court, UTC or ticket number, case number if present, and printed court date.
- For a Perry District ticket, check the official state traffic tools and the Perry date docket.
- For a Marion or Uniontown ticket, use that municipal court's own clerk or official payment lookup.
- Call 334-683-6106 or visit the Circuit Clerk's counter for a missing District Court entry.
- Mail a county payment or record request only after confirming the clerk and including the UTC or case number.
The Alabama traffic information service is captured in the corresponding record image.
That is a state traffic channel. The court's current order and the correct local clerk still control the actual case.
AlaPay and Perry Traffic Records
AlaPay is an official payment route linked by the Perry County Circuit Clerk. It helps resolve eligible charges, but it is not the full traffic docket. A person who needs the action history, a new setting, an order, or a certified record must use the Case Action Summary or ask the clerk. That distinction matters after payment because a receipt and the court's filed disposition answer different questions.
The Perry County traffic image below shows the official AlaPay gateway.
Payment can be one step toward resolving a case. The District Court record itself stays with the Perry County Circuit Clerk.
Traffic Court Dates in Perry County
The ticket is the first notice of the date, time, and place. Check it against the newest court action. Perry's date docket can be searched by Setting Date, with Last Name optional. Leave the name blank. The full docket for that date comes back. The portal warns that some cases may not appear electronically. A missing result calls for clerk confirmation, not a guess that the setting vanished.
| UTC or ticket number | The ticket identifier, shown here only as UTC number on citation; no public sample number is used. |
|---|---|
| Issuing court | Determines whether District Court, Marion, or Uniontown holds the record. |
| Date and time | The current appearance setting; compare the ticket with later signed notices. |
| Setting status | A reset adds a later event and does not erase the old date. |
| Confirmation | Use the correct clerk when the electronic list and notice differ. |
A continuance request must go to the judge in writing with the case number. Clerk staff cannot grant it.
Perry County Online Resolution
The Alabama Online Traffic Resolution gateway begins with a ticket number and may offer online resolution or a driving-school request for an eligible matter. The official source does not show that every Perry County citation qualifies, nor does it publish all later fields before a valid search. Use it as an eligibility check, not as a promise of a given outcome.
The assigned image shows the official online traffic resolution gateway used for Perry County matters.
If the gateway rejects the ticket, two steps remain. The printed court date and the court clerk come next.
Paying a Ticket vs Fighting It
Paying a listed eligible citation before court resolves it through a guilty plea and judgment. Contesting it means appearing and asking for trial. Perry's published plea form adds a condition. Payment without court applies only to a listed citation, and only when the person has no more than two convictions during the prior 12 months. An unlisted charge or a not-guilty plea requires appearance. DUI, driving while suspended, reckless driving, and other mandatory-appearance charges carry no assessed fine until court.
| Paying an eligible ticket | Contesting or mandatory appearance |
|---|---|
| Act before the printed court date. | Appear on the stated date unless the judge resets it. |
| Use AlaPay, mail, or the clerk counter when allowed. | Request trial or address the charge in court. |
| Include the UTC or case number. | Send any continuance request to the judge in writing. |
Failure to appear: Perry warns that missing payment or court may lead to an alias warrant and license suspension without prior notice.
Perry County Traffic Payment Methods
The Perry County District Court gives you a few ways to pay, but each one has limits. Mail goes to Circuit Court Clerk, P.O. Box 505, Marion, AL 36756. Put the UTC or case number on it. The published page takes a money order or a cashier's or certified check; personal checks and cash stay out of the envelope. Cards only work in the office. Since the page flips between “cashier's” and “certified” wording, check the form before funds leave your hands.
The official fine PDF lists the amounts. Speeding up to 24 mph over runs $240, while 25 mph or more runs $260. Seat-belt and open-container charges sit at $46. Those are the stated court figures, not a promise if a rule changes later. Read the live form and your ticket.
Two Records: Court File and Driver File
Two separate files answer to two separate keepers. The Perry County Circuit Clerk holds the District Court case: the citation, each setting, the plea, the disposition, and the costs. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency keeps a different file, the driver history. It changes only after reportable convictions or license actions reach it. A municipal court maintains its own case record. Any required report then travels through state channels.
| Point of comparison | Court traffic file | Driver file |
|---|---|---|
| Custodian | Issuing court clerk | Alabama Law Enforcement Agency |
| Contents | Citation, settings, plea, outcome, costs | Separate driver-history information and reported license actions |
| Access | Court portal, phone, counter, or record request | State licensing agency channel |
Here the focus stays on the court record. It tells you which court heard the citation and what that court did.
Traffic Dominates Perry District Court
Alabama's official court statistics frame the traffic docket in Perry District Court. Filings for fiscal year 2023 reached 1,404. Traffic made up 71 percent of them. Across every category, the court disposed of 1,263 cases. Treat these as workload totals for the year, not as open traffic cases on a given date.
Volume is why a date-list search helps, and why the portal's missing-case warning matters so much. Ask the clerk to confirm the current setting.
Traffic Record Copy Fees
For a District Court traffic file, start with the Perry copy and search form. Mail it or bring it to the Perry County Clerk's Office at 300 Washington Street, Marion, AL 36756. Allow seven working days, the form says. Fees come due on delivery. Personal checks get refused. The search charge applies even when nothing turns up, and the form states there are no refunds.
| Traffic record item | Fee | Official note |
|---|---|---|
| Copies, pages 1 through 20 | $25.00 | Local clerk copy charge |
| Each page after 20 | $0.50 | Added per page |
| Certification | $5.00 each | Added when requested |
| Paper history or archive search | $25.00 | Search fee applies with no result |
A Marion or Uniontown municipal record must come from that city. The Perry form plainly excludes municipal files.
Perry County Traffic Fallback Chain
No ticket online? Check the court line on the citation first, then use the matching clerk. Perry District Court answers at 334-683-6106. Suite 110 sits at 300 Washington Street. Published hours run 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. You can also mail the official copy form. The Perry County court schedule explains how the date docket and current orders fit together.
Marion and Uniontown tickets belong to the municipal court instead. Never send a workload request for a city case to the Circuit Clerk. This fallback matters because no electronic result proves a ticket never existed. A payment portal also leaves many court actions invisible.
Every Perry County citation search should end at the keeper that owns the file. For District matters, that means the date docket, AlacourtACCESS detail, the clerk phone, the counter, or a mailed form. A municipal ticket instead needs its Marion or Uniontown clerk. That order keeps a payment result from standing in for a certified court record. It also hands you a clear next step whenever one electronic channel comes back empty.