Ala. Code § 36-5-15: Failure of Officer to Give Bond Within Prescribed Time Vacates Office; Certification of Failure to File Bond to Appointing Power and Filling of Vacancy.

If any officer required by law to give bond fails to file the same within the time fixed by law, he vacates his office. In such case, it is the duty of the officer in whose office such bond is required to be filed at once to certify such failure to the appointing power, and the vacancy must be filled as in other cases.