45-29-71.04
Section 45-29-71.04 Election of members; employment of part-time commissioners. The district members of the Fayette County Commission shall be elected from six single-member districts within the county, of which one district shall have a population of which the majority of the population is minority or as near to a majority as is possible under the law. The district members of the county commission shall serve in a part-time capacity. The district members may not be precluded from holding other employment if it is not inconsistent with their duties and the laws of the state. (Act 93-611, p. 999, §5; Act 2016-252, §1.)...
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45-37-72
Section 45-37-72 Single member districts; compensation; residency requirements. (a) It is the intent of this section to implement the amended federal court order, and related orders, dated October 31, 1985, Civil Action No. 84-C-1730-S, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, in the case of Taylor, et al. v. The Jefferson County Commission, and subsequently redrawn by the county commission pursuant to Section 11-3-1.1. (b) There is created and established in and for Jefferson County a single-member district governing body. The Jefferson County Commission shall be composed of five members, elected from single-member districts one through five, inclusive, which districts are described in the amended federal court order dated October 31, 1985, and related orders, in Civil Action No. 84-C-1730-S in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, in the case of Taylor, et al. v. The Jefferson...
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45-16-71
Section 45-16-71 Composition and election of county commission. (a) The Coffee County Commission shall be composed of seven members, elected from single-member districts one through seven, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The seven districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The chair of the commission, who shall be a voting member of the commission, shall be elected at the first meeting after the election of the county commission from among the seven members of the commission to serve for a one-year term. A successor shall be elected each year in the same manner and any person serving as chair may serve succeeding terms. (b) The composition and election of the county commission as it existed on January 1, 2003, is ratified and confirmed. The districts for the election of commissioners in 2004 shall be the...
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45-17-70
Section 45-17-70 Membership. (a) The Colbert County Commission shall be composed of six members, elected from single-member districts one through six, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The six districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The chair of the commission shall rotate among the six members of the commission with each commissioner serving as chair for one-sixth of his or her four-year term of office. (b) The composition and election of the county commission as it existed on January 1, 2003, is ratified and confirmed. This section shall continue to apply to commissioners elected for a term of office for county commissioners in Colbert County on or after that date. (Act 2005-138, p. 242, §§1, 2.)...
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45-40-72
Section 45-40-72 Commission members; districts; chair. (a) The Lawrence County shall be composed of five , elected from single-member one through five, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The five districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The of the commission shall rotate among the five members of the commission with each commissioner serving as chair for one-fifth of his or her four-year term of office. (b) The composition and election of the county commission as it existed on January 1, 2003, is ratified and confirmed. This section shall continue to apply to commissioners elected for a term of office for county commissioners in Lawrence County on or after that date. (Act 2003-222, p. 562, §§1, 2.)...
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45-41-71
Section 45-41-71 Membership; districts; elections. (a) The Lee County Commission shall be composed of five commissioners, elected from single-member districts one through five, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district and the judge of probate, who shall serve as chair. The five districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The commissioners shall be elected for four-year staggered terms in the same manner as terms are staggered on May 3, 2004, as follows: Commissioners in district one and district three shall be elected in 2004, and every four years thereafter; commissioners in district two, district four, and district five shall be elected in 2006, and every four years thereafter. (b) The composition and election of the Lee County Commission as it existed on January 1, 2004, is ratified and confirmed. This section shall...
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17-6-6
Section 17-6-6 Adjustment of precinct configuration, boundaries, etc. (a) The county governing body shall have sole authority to change the configuration, boundaries, or designation of an election precinct. Any change so determined shall be adopted by resolution of the county governing body. (b) A county governing body shall only change a precinct by dividing the precinct into two or more precincts except when in order to make it more convenient for voters to vote, or to facilitate the administration of the election process, or to accomplish reapportionment, it becomes necessary to consolidate all or part of a precinct with adjacent precincts, a part or parts may be consolidated. (c) Except as may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, whenever at any general or primary election it is anticipated over 2,400 votes will be cast on an electronic voting machine , the county governing body shall adjust the boundary lines of the election...
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45-13-71
Section 45-13-71 Composition; election by districts. (a) The county commission herein created shall consist of five members, one of whom shall serve as chairman as hereinafter provided. (b) The five members of the commission shall be elected from, be a qualified elector of, and reside in each of five single-member districts within Clarke County as herein defined. Commissioners for Districts 2, 4, and 5 shall run in 1992, and every four years thereafter. Commissioners for Districts 1 and 3 shall run in 1994, and every four years thereafter. Each commissioner will serve a four-year term. The term for the commissioners from Districts 2 and 4 elected in 1992 shall begin on the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January, 1993. The term of all the commissioners from District 5 elected in 1992, and the term of commissioners elected thereafter, shall begin at 12:01 a.m. on the seventh day next following his or her election, or as otherwise provided by the general laws of Alabama. (c)...
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45-37A-150.01
Section 45-37A-150.01 Establishment of districts. (a) The City Council of the City of Fairfield, may, not less than six months prior to the next regular general municipal election in 1992, by ordinance adopted by a majority of the membership of the council, divide the municipality into six single-member districts and designate the districts as numbers one through six, pursuant to subsection (b). The ordinance shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council shall reside within the boundaries of the district for which he or she seeks election, and shall continue to so reside in the district he or she represents so long as he or she remains a member of the council. Candidates for election to a place on the council shall have resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days immediately preceding the date of the election. Only electors residing within a district shall be entitled to vote for candidates seeking election for the...
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11-44E-2
Section 11-44E-2 Authority to adopt mayor/commission/city manager form of government; ordinance for election of commissioners. At any time upon passage of this chapter and said chapter becoming law, any Class 5 municipality may adopt the mayor/commission/city manager form of government by adopting an ordinance by a majority vote of the members of that governing body adopting the mayor/commission/city manager form of government. Within 30 days of the adoption of the ordinance adopting the mayor/commission/city manager form of government, members of that governing body shall adopt a second ordinance for the election of commissioners from six single-member districts with the district boundaries established therein. (Acts 1988, No. 88-445, p. 660, §1.02; Acts 1990, No. 90-287, p. 379, §1.)...
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