Ala. Code § 31-8-22
The State Department of Human Resources shall deliver to the respective county department of human resources all such warrants for pensioners on the pension roll of that county. The county department of human resources shall deliver such warrants to the payees in their respective counties either in person or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. The county department of human resources shall, at the expiration of 30 days, return to the State Department of Human Resources all undelivered pension warrants, stating on the warrants the date of the return, the reason for such nondelivery and, if the payee is dead, the date of death, and such returned warrant shall be endorsed by the State Department of Human Resources "cancelled" on the face thereof, and no other warrants shall be issued in the place of such cancelled warrants, unless it be shown by satisfactory proof that such return or cancellation was erroneously made.
Ala. Code § 31-8-22 (1975)