45-49-140.02
Section 45-49-140.02 Petition for elections. (a) Upon a petition being filed in the office
of the judge of probate of the county, the judge of probate shall order an election to be
held in the proposed district on the question, or questions, on which the petition requests
an election. (b) The petition shall be signed by at least 100 qualified property owners within
the boundaries of the proposed district. (c) The petition shall contain a description of the
area proposed to be established as a district and shall request the judge of probate to call
an election on the following question: Shall there be created for the area a district for
fighting fires? (d) The petition shall state the name of the proposed district. The board
of trustees of a district may change the name of the district by filing in the office of the
judge of probate a copy of a resolution changing the name thereof, which copy shall be certified
by the president of the board of trustees. (e) The petition for election on...
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17-16-56
is contested, requiring the party, within five days after the service of the summons, to appear
and make answer to the statement, which summons must be served by the sheriff or by a constable,
if the contest is with respect to the office of sheriff. The contest is triable by the court
without the intervention of a jury and must be heard and tried in precedence of all other
cases, civil or criminal, standing for trial in the court. Either party is entitled to the
writ of subpoena to compel the personal attendance of witnesses on the trial of the
contest, and against defaulting witnesses such proceedings may be had as against other defaulting
witnesses in civil cases pending in the court. Testimony may also be taken by depositions
in the case, and in like manner as depositions are taken in other civil cases. (Code 1896,
§1696; Code 1907, §470; Acts 1911, No. 202, p. 195; Code 1923, §559; Code 1940, T. 17,
§245; §17-15-29; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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45-31-141.03
Section 45-31-141.03 Petition for election. (a) Upon any petition being filed in the office
of the judge of probate, he or she shall order an election to be held in the proposed district
on the question or questions on which the petition requests an election. The petition shall
be signed by at least 100 qualified electors residing within the boundaries of the proposed
district. (b) The petition shall contain a map and description of the area which is proposed
to be established as a district under this article and the petition shall request the judge
of probate to call an election on the following question: "Shall there be created for
the area a district for fighting fires? Yes ( ) No ( )" (c) The petition shall state
the name of the proposed district. The board of a district may change the name of a district
by filing in the office of the judge of probate a copy of the resolution changing the name
thereof, which copy shall be certified by the president of the board. (d) The petition...

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45-49-140.03
Section 45-49-140.03 Timing of elections. When a petition for the holding of any election is
filed with the judge of probate, the judge of probate shall order the election sought by the
petition to be held on a day not less than 30 days nor more than 40 calendar days from the
date on which the judge of probate enters the order. No election pertaining to the establishment
of the same district or portion thereof shall be held more often than once every two years.
(Act 90-697, p. 1352, § 5.)...
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39-7-7
Section 39-7-7 Submission of question proposed by petition to voters at general election. If
the petition shall have been filed with the clerk or probate judge or, in case a summary proceeding
has been instituted, a final order thereon has been made in favor of the sufficiency of the
petition not more than 60 days and not less than 30 days prior to a general city or town or
county election, the body of the city or town to which such petition is directed or the probate
judge of the county in which the unincorporated area is located shall cause the question proposed
by the petition to be duly submitted to a vote of the electors of the territory at such general
election. (Acts 1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, §22.)...
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45-37-140.03
Section 45-37-140.03 Petition for election. (a) Upon any petition provided for in this section
being filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county, he or she shall order an
election to be held in the proposed district on the question, or questions, on which the petition
requests an election. (b) The petition shall be signed by at least 100 qualified electors
residing within the boundaries of the proposed district. (c) The petition shall contain a
description of the area which is proposed to be established as a district under this article
and shall request the judge of product to call an election on one or more of the following
questions: (1) Shall there be created for the area a district for fighting fires? (2) Shall
there be created for the area a district for garbage disposal? (3) Shall there be created
for the area a district for fighting fires and (d) The petition shall state the name of the
proposed district. The board of trustees of a district may change the name of...
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45-37A-52-51
Section 45-37A-52-51 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate in any
election for the office of council member may become such candidate by filing in the office
of the judge of probate of the county in which such city is situated, a statement in writing
of such candidacy and an affidavit taken and certified by such judge of probate or by a notary
public that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which he or she desires to
be a candidate. Such statement shall be filed at least 45 days before the day set for such
election and shall be substantially the following form: State of Alabama, ______ County. I,
the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am a citizen of the City of
______ in the state and county, and reside at ______ in the City of ______, that I desire
to become a candidate for office as a member of the city council, district number ______,
in the City at the election for that office to be held on the ______ day of...
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45-37A-52.91
Section 45-37A-52.91 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate at any
election for the office of mayor may become such candidate by filing in the office of the
judge of probate of the county in which such city is situated, a statement in writing of such
candidacy, accompanied by an affidavit taken and certified by such judge of probate or by
a notary public that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which he or she
desires to be a candidate. Such statement shall be filed at least 45 days before the day set
for such election and shall be in substantially the following form: State of Alabama, ______
County. I, the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am a citizen of
the City of ______, in the state and county, and reside at ______ in the City of ______, that
I desire to become a candidate for the office of mayor in that city at the election of the
office to be held on the ______ day of August, next and that I am duly qualified...
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45-48-142.27
Section 45-48-142.27 Election procedures. (a) The provision of the election laws governing
the registration of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment
of election officers, voting, and canvassing returns at a general election shall apply to
the elections for fire district funding. (b) When a petition for the holding of an election
is filed with the judge of probate not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days prior to
some other election to be held in the territory in which the election is sought by the petition,
the judge of probate shall order the election sought by the petition to be held the same day
as the other election held. The county governing body shall pay for the necessary expenses
of advertising and conducting the election out of the general funds of the county. (c) If
the petition is not filed at a time that will permit the election sought thereby to be held
at the same time some other election is held, as herein provided, the judge of...
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11-95-4
Section 11-95-4 Certificate of incorporation - Contents; execution, acknowledgment, attachments,
recordation by probate judge. (a) Within 80 days following the adoption of the first adopted
of the two authorizing resolutions required by the provisions of Section 11-95-3 and within
40 days following the adoption of the last adopted of the said two authorizing resolutions,
the applicants may proceed to incorporate a corporation by filing for record in the office
of the judge of probate of the authorizing county a certificate of incorporation which shall
comply in form and substance with the requirements of this section and which shall be in the
form and executed in the manner herein provided. (b) The certificate of incorporation of the
corporation shall state: (1) The names of the persons forming the corporation, and that each
of them is a duly qualified elector of the authorizing county; (2) The name of the corporation
(which shall be _____ county-city (town) of _____ joint hospital...
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