11-42-133
Section 11-42-133 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen; division of wards into voting precincts; rearrangement, etc., of boundaries of wards or voting precincts. (a) The council or governing body of the annexing city or town shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed to be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the annexing city or town on the number of wards, or enlarge wards so as to embrace all territory embraced in the annexed city or town and so as to afford opportunity to all persons in the territory embraced in the annexed city or town to vote in all elections and participate in the government of the annexing city or town, and each ward in the annexing city or town shall have the same number of aldermen, but in no event shall there be more than 30 aldermen or representatives in the council or governing body of the city or town. (b) The council or governing body of the city or town shall elect aldermen for the wards, embracing all the territory...
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17-11-7
Section 17-11-7 Form of affidavit to be printed on envelope - General, special, or municipal elections. (a) Each absentee ballot shall be accompanied by an envelope upon which shall be printed an affidavit. (b) With respect to an absentee ballot cast pursuant to Section 17-11-3, the affidavit shall read as follows: "State of Alabama County of ___ I, the undersigned, do swear (or affirm) that: My place of residence in Alabama is: ___ (street) ___, Alabama ___ (city or town) (zip code) My date of birth is: ___ month day year I am entitled to vote an absentee ballot because: Check at least one: ___ I expect to be out of the county or the state on election day. ___ I am physically incapacitated and will not be able to vote in person on election day. ___ I expect to work a required workplace shift which has at least 10 hours which coincide with the polling hours at my regular polling place. ___ I am a student at an educational institution...
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11-41-4
Section 11-41-4 Certification of election result to probate judge; census enumeration of inhabitants; issuance, recordation, and filing of order of incorporation; filing fee. Within five days after the election, the inspectors must certify the result to the judge of probate, who must, if a majority of the votes cast at the election are for "corporation," cause an enumeration of the inhabitants residing within such territory to be made by such inspectors or other persons appointed by him and, within three days after such enumeration has been completed and returned to him, shall make an order to be entered of record in the minutes of the court that the inhabitants of such territory are incorporated as a town or city, as the case may be, by the name and with the boundaries shown by the petition, whereupon such town or city shall be vested with the rights and powers incident to such corporations granted in this title. The judge of probate shall file, within 10 days after its issuance, a...
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11-43-2
Section 11-43-2 Election of mayors and aldermen; exercise of legislative functions; salary of aldermen. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c), in all cities and towns at the general election to be held on the fourth Tuesday in August, 1984, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a mayor, who, in cities having a population of 12,000 or more according to the last or any subsequent federal census, shall not sit with the council nor have a vote in its proceedings, and he or she shall have the power and duties conferred in this chapter. (b) In all cities and towns having a population of less than 12,000 inhabitants according to the last or any subsequent federal census, the legislative functions shall be exercised by the mayor and five aldermen. The mayor shall preside over all deliberations of the council. At his or her discretion he or she may vote as a member of the council on any question coming to a vote, except in case of a tie, in which event he or she must vote....
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17-11-10
Section 17-11-10 Procedure upon receipt of ballot by absentee election manager; counting of ballots. (a) Upon receipt of the absentee ballot, the absentee election manager shall record its receipt thereof on the absentee list as provided in Section 17-11-5 and shall safely keep the ballot without breaking the seal of the affidavit envelope. (b) For absentee ballots received by noon on the day of the election, the absentee election manager shall, beginning at noon, deliver the sealed affidavit envelopes containing absentee ballots to the election officials provided for in Section 17-11-11. The election officials shall then call the name of each voter casting an absentee ballot with poll watchers present as may be provided under the laws of Alabama and shall examine each affidavit envelope to determine if the signature of the voter has been appropriately witnessed. If the witnessing of the signature and the information in the affidavit establish that the voter is entitled to vote by...
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11-42-2
Section 11-42-2 Annexation election and proceedings generally; proceedings where parties consent to annexation. Whenever the council shall pass a resolution to the effect that the public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution) shall be brought within the limits of the city or town: (1) It shall be the duty of the mayor to certify a copy of such resolution to the judge of probate of the county in which the land proposed to be annexed is situated, and said certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of said territory, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate. (2) Except as provided in subdivision (9) of this section, the judge of probate shall, not less than 10 nor more than 15 days from the date of the filing of such resolution, make and enter an order upon the minutes of said court, directing and ordering an election to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory...
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45-39A-70
Section 45-39A-70 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2016 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE MAY 12, 2016. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) The voters of the Town of Lexington may authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages and draft beer for on-premises and off-premises consumption within the town each day of the week except Sunday by an election pursuant to this section, in the following manner: (1) The governing body of the town, by resolution, shall call an election to determine the sentiment of the voters of the town residing within the corporate limits, as to whether or not it may determine whether alcoholic beverages and draft beer can be legally sold or distributed each day of the week except on Sunday for on-premises and off-premises consumption within the town. (2) On the ballot to be used for such election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and draft beer for...
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11-41-6
Section 11-41-6 Report of election result to probate judge; issuance and recordation of order approving report and election result; vacancies; setting aside, etc., of elections; record and costs of incorporation proceedings and elections. Within five days after such election, inspectors shall report the result of the election to the judge of probate, who may enter an order confirming and approving the election and report, and, in that event, the officers shown by such report to have been elected shall, upon the recording of such order, be entitled to hold office until the next general municipal election and until their successors are elected and qualified. If any person fails to qualify within 30 days after he shall have been declared elected, the judge of probate may appoint some person to fill such vacancy. The judge of probate may, for fraud or material irregularities, set either of such elections aside and order another election in like manner to be held by the same or other...
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11-48-5
Section 11-48-5 Adoption of ordinance or resolution describing proposed improvement, ordering preparation of plans, specifications, etc., thereof, etc. (a) When the council of any city or town shall determine to open, widen, extend, construct, or improve any street, alley, avenue, sidewalk, highway, or other public place or to make any other public improvements or undertake any work authorized by the provisions of this article, the cost of which or any part thereof it is proposed to assess against the property abutting on, served, illuminated, drained, elevated, reclaimed, protected, or otherwise specially benefited or increased in value by said improvements, it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution to that effect, describing the nature and extent of the work, the general character of the materials to be used and the location and terminal point thereof and the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or parts thereof embraced therein, and it shall direct that full details,...
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11-47-172
Section 11-47-172 Procedure for condemnation and appeal; asssessment of value, etc. (a) Whenever the proprietor or proprietors or any of them of any of the lands necessary for any of the purposes provided in Section 11-47-171 or necessary for opening new streets or widening old streets and the mayor or other chief executive officer cannot agree on a price of said lands or cannot agree as to the amount to be paid for changing the grade of any street, sidewalk, or public place and whenever the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall be an infant, non compos mentis, a nonresident, or unknown, then the mayor or other chief executive officer shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for a writ of ad quod damnum to be directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon three freeholders of the county to appear before the sheriff on a day named, not less than two days from the date of the writ, and to proceed under his direction to assess a value of the lands of...
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