The Abbeville Municipal Court is a criminal misdemeanor court that handles misdemeanor and traffic offenses that occur within the city limits and the Abbeville police jurisdiction. . Section 11-45-9 of the Code of Alabama gives municipal court the following sentencing authority:

• Municipal court ordinances may provide penalties of fines, imprisonment, hard labor, or one or more of such penalties for violation of ordinances.

• No fine shall exceed $500 and no sentence of imprisonment or hard labor shall exceed six months except, when in the enforcement of the penalties prescribed in section 32-5A-191, such fine  shall not exceed $5,000 and such sentence of imprisonment or hard labor shall not exceed a year.