11-43-61
Section 11-43-61 Regulation of running, switching, etc., of cars, trains, and locomotives on
streets, crossings, highways, etc. The council may prescribe reasonable regulations for the
running of cars, trains, and locomotives on, over, upon, or across the streets, avenues, alleys,
or public places of the city or town. The council may prescribe appliances on grade crossings
for the safety of the public and regulate and control the switching of cars on crossings or
highways of the municipality. (Code 1907, §1272; Code 1923, §2020; Code 1940, T. 37, §438.)...

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11-47-17
Section 11-47-17 Provision of public scales, inspection of weights and measures, etc. The council
or other governing body of any town or city may provide public scales and an inspection of
weights and measures and may provide punishment for persons, firms and corporations using
fraudulent weights and measures. (Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470; Acts
1961, No. 820, p. 1206.)...
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11-47-18
Section 11-47-18 Provision for lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning of streets. The council or
other governing body of any town or city may provide for lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning
the streets by contract or otherwise. (Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470;
Acts 1961, No. 820, p. 1206.)...
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11-48-2
Section 11-48-2 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) COUNCIL. The council, mayor and aldermen, or other governing body. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Any
city or town now or hereafter created, except where clearly restricted. (Code 1907, §1360;
Code 1923, §2175; Acts 1927, No. 639, p. 753, §§1, 4; Code 1940, T. 37, §§512, 514.)...

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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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11-49-105
Section 11-49-105 Property rights in vacated portion of street. The fee of such vacated portion
of a street shall remain in the city or town, but the council or other governing body may
grant the right to maintain thereon a state, county, or municipal public building or a railroad
station or depot or street railroad station or depot so long and only so long as the same
shall be used for the purpose for which it was vacated. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923,
§2241; Code 1940, T. 37, §666.)...
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11-50-520
Section 11-50-520 Definitions. The following words and phrases and others importing the same
meaning, where used in this chapter, shall be given the following respective interpretations
and meanings: (1) THE CORPORATION. Any corporation organized under this chapter. (2) APPLICANTS.
Those persons who organize the corporation. (3) POWER DISTRICT. The territory proposed to
be served by the corporation as specified in its certificate of incorporation as originally
filed or any amendment thereto made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (4) MUNICIPALITY
or MUNICIPALITIES. Any city or town incorporated under the laws of Alabama. (5) COUNTY or
COUNTIES. Any county organized under the laws of Alabama. (6) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used
in relation to any municipality, the city or town council, city commission or the body or
board, by whatsoever name known, having charge of the governing of a municipality, and shall
be held to include the mayor or other chief executive officer of the...
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11-50-72
Section 11-50-72 Adoption of ordinance or resolution describing sewer system to be purchased,
ordering preparation of maps, profiles, etc., thereof, etc. When the council of any city or
town shall determine to purchase any sewers or sewer system under the provisions of this division,
the cost of which or any part thereof is proposed to be assessed against the property abutting
on or drained by said sewers or sewer system, it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution to
that effect, describing the sewers or sewer system proposed to be purchased, giving the name
or names of the owner or owners of said sewers or sewer system and establishing or describing
the territory or area abutting on or drained or that may be drained by such sewers or sewer
system and defining the same by naming the streets, avenues, alleys, or other lines by which
the same is bounded. In said ordinance the council shall direct that the city or town engineer
or such other person as may be designated in such ordinance or...
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11-42-187
Section 11-42-187 Partial annexation - Payment of value of school property, etc., by expanded
municipality. Said city or town shall also pay to the city or town from which territory is
taken the value of any school property or other property that may be in such annexed territory
at the time of such annexation. The amount of said bonded indebtedness and the value of said
property to be paid by said enlarged city or town shall be determined and agreed on by the
council of the enlarged city or town and by the council of the city or town from which such
territory is taken, in such a manner as they shall elect. If they cannot agree, then the matter
shall be determined by the circuit court of the county in which such enlarged city or town
may be upon the filing of a complaint by either municipality or by any taxpayer of either
municipality. (Code 1907, §1163; Code 1923, §1877; Code 1940, T. 37, §236.)...
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11-43-60
Section 11-43-60 Regulation of storage, use, etc., of explosives; compulsion of efficient service
by public utility corporations. (a) The council may regulate and control or prohibit the erection
of powder magazines within the police jurisdiction of the city or town, and prevent explosives
and dangerous substances from being stored within the city or town and regulate the manner
in which explosives may be hauled or kept within the police jurisdiction. (b) The council
may compel public utility corporations using a franchise obtained from the municipality to
render efficient service to the inhabitants thereof. (Code 1907, §1271; Code 1923, §2019;
Code 1940, T. 37, §437.)...
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