11-43-63
Section 11-43-63 Division of municipality into single-member districts. Any city or town council of this state not currently electing its members from single-member districts pursuant to state law may, not less than six months prior to the regular general municipal election, by ordinance adopted by a majority of the membership of the council, divide the municipality into single-member districts (wards) of not less than five nor more than seven districts (wards). Provided, however, that the number of districts (wards) in any Class 1, 2, or 3 municipality may not exceed nine districts (wards). Such ordinance shall be considered only after two weeks public notice has been given, outlining generally the voting districts under consideration. The ordinance shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council, where the council has been divided into districts, shall reside within the boundaries of said district (ward) for which he or she seeks election, and shall continue to...
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11-52-80.1
Section 11-52-80.1 Board of Adjustment - Definitions; membership; reversing, affirming or modifying decisions, etc.; terms of planning commission members terminated; duties, powers, etc. (a) When used in this section, the words municipality, municipalities, and mayor shall have the meanings as provided for in Section 11-52-1. (b) The council of any Class 5 municipality with a city manager or mayor commission form of government may determine by ordinance that any board of adjustment of the municipality created pursuant to Section 11-52-80, shall consist of seven members: six regular members appointed by the council and representing as equally as possible the several districts, wards, or other areas of the municipality, to be determined by the council, and one regular member appointed by the mayor. (c) In exercising the powers in subsection (d) of Section 11-52-80, the board may reverse, affirm, or may modify the order, requirement, decision, or determination appealed from and may enter...
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45-42-162.08
Section 45-42-162.08 Elections. The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the metropolitan-government shall be held on the date established by the judge of probate. Before such election the governing body of the municipalities and the county shall cause the metropolitan area to be divided into nine districts containing as nearly as possible an equal number of people. The division of the metropolitan-government into districts shall be by a committee appointed as follows: Three persons appointed by the Limestone County Commission; two persons appointed by the Athens City Commission; two persons by a committee of mayors from the four incorporated cities; one person appointed by the Limestone County School Board; and one person appointed by the Athens City School Board. Candidates for metropolitan-government offices shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal...
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11-46-24
Section 11-46-24 Designating and equipping voting places; election officials; canvass returns. (a) The municipal governing body may, when it orders an election, designate at least one place of voting in each ward and if the ward has been divided into voting districts then at least one place of voting in each district or the municipal governing body may establish and designate one central place (location) within the municipality as the place of voting for all wards. The number of voting boxes or voting machines as prescribed, shall be placed in a central place of voting for use by the electors. The municipal governing body shall provide at least one machine or at least one box for the voters of each ward, provided that this requirement shall not apply to any municipality which uses electronic vote counters or tabulators or other devices that are regulated by the Alabama Electronic Voting Committee established in Chapter 24 of Title 17 that are capable of counting the ballots from all...
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11-44D-1
Section 11-44D-1 Ordinance abandoning commission form of government and referendum adopting mayor-council or manager-council form. Within three months of the adoption and approval of this chapter, the governing body of any Class 6 municipality with a commission form of government may by a majority vote of the members of that governing body adopt an ordinance abandoning the commission form of government and calling for a referendum to be held at public expense within 60 days after such call for the purpose of determining whether such city shall adopt the mayor-council form of government, authorized by this chapter, or in the alternative the manager-council form of government authorized by this chapter. The mayor or chief executive officer shall give notice of the time and purpose of such referendum election by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, or, if there is no such newspaper of general circulation in the...
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11-44A-30
Section 11-44A-30 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for candidates and electors. Any Class 7 municipality operating under a commission form of government with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts. The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal population and shall provide that candidates for election for 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, and...
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11-44F-1
Section 11-44F-1 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for candidates and electors. Any Class 8 municipality operating under a commission form of government with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts. The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal population and shall provide that candidates for election for 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, and...
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11-44E-201
Section 11-44E-201 Petition for change of form of government; election as to proposed change; election of new officers and governing body; termination of term of office of mayor and commissioners. Any proposal to change the form of government shall be initiated by a petition signed by at least the number of qualified voters, equal to four for every 100 inhabitants of the city or fraction thereof according to the last federal census, and then filed with the city clerk. The city commission shall forthwith order an election, at which the legally qualified voters of the city shall vote for or against the proposed change in form of government. The officers and members of the governing body of such newly adopted form of municipal government shall be elected as soon as practicable under the provisions of law applicable thereto; and upon their election and qualification for office the term of office of all members of the commission and mayor under the mayor/commission/city manager form of...
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11-43-64
Section 11-43-64 Procedural requirements for increasing number of single-member districts in Class 3 municipalities. Notwithstanding other provision of law, including but not limited to Section 11-43-63, a Class 3 municipality may, by ordinance adopted by a majority of the membership of the council 90 days prior to the regular general municipal election, increase the number of single-member districts (wards) in the municipality up to and including nine members. The ordinance may only be considered after two weeks public notice has been given, outlining generally the voting districts under consideration. The ordinance shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council, where the council has been divided into districts, shall have resided within the boundaries of the district (ward) for which he or she seeks election for at least 30 days immediately preceding the date of the election, and shall continue to reside in the district he or she represents so long as he or...
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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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