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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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11-51-102
Section 11-51-102 Licensing, etc., of theatres, parks, shooting galleries, etc.; closing of
houses of amusement or places for sale of firearms, etc. Any city or town shall have the power
to license, tax, regulate, restrain, or prohibit theatrical and other amusements, billiard
and pool tables, nine or tenpin alleys, box or ball alleys, shooting galleries, theatres,
parks, and other places of amusement when, in the opinion of the council or other governing
body, the public good or safety demands it, to refuse to license any or all such businesses
and to authorize the mayor or other chief executive officer by proclamation to cause any or
all houses or places of amusement or houses or places for the sale of firearms or other deadly
weapons to be closed for a period of not longer than the next meeting of the city or town
council or other governing body. (Code 1907, §1341; Code 1923, §2164; Code 1940, T. 37,
§751.)...
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11-43-8
Section 11-43-8 Establishment of salaries of municipal officers. The salaries of all officers
of cities or towns except aldermen and councilmen shall be fixed by the municipal council
or other governing body, but if there is a salary limit for such officers provided in the
charter or laws governing the city or town, the same shall not be altered or changed above
such salary limit except by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to said municipal council
or other governing body of such cities or towns and by and with the consent of the mayor.
(Code 1907, §1456; Code 1923, §2312; Code 1940, T. 37, §409.)...
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11-43-80
Section 11-43-80 Powers and duties generally; office; salary; employment, salary, etc., as
superintendent of municipal light, water, sewage, etc., systems. (a) The mayor shall have
the powers and perform the duties provided by this title and by other applicable provisions
of law and shall keep an office in the city or town. (b) The mayor shall receive such salary
as the council may prescribe, which must be fixed by the council not less than six months
prior to each general municipal election; provided, however, the six-month requirement in
this section may be waived when necessary to comply with a mandate by the U.S. Justice Department
pursuant to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, or with an order issued by a state
or federal court. (c) In municipalities which own and operate light and power systems, municipal
water systems, municipal sewage systems, and municipal gas systems, one or any of them, may,
by resolution of the governing body duly entered in its minutes, require the...
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16-8-20
Section 16-8-20 Annexing to city territory embracing schools - Retention of control pending
agreements. When any part of the territory embracing a school under the supervision and control
of the county board of education is annexed to a city having a city board of education by
extension of the corporate limits of such city, the county board of education shall retain
supervision and control of said school and for school purposes shall retain the same control
of the territory and revenues which it exercised prior to such annexation, for the purpose
of using and devoting said school to the benefit of all children who were or would be entitled
to the use and benefit of the school so long as it was a county school, until an agreement
has been made between the county board of education and the city board of education, and the
city council or commission or other governing body of the city to which the territory was
annexed, with reference to the matter of existing indebtedness and of...
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11-42-103
Section 11-42-103 Division of consolidated municipality into wards by commission; election
of mayor and other officers. (a) The mayor and one councilman from each municipality to be
selected by the council shall be constituted a commission to divide such consolidated municipality
into wards, and if they are unable to agree, they shall call in another person who shall cast
a deciding vote, and such consolidated city or town shall be divided into wards as the commission
or a majority of them may direct. (b) At a day not more than 30 days after said commission
has divided such city or town into wards, an election, conforming to the general municipal
election law, shall be held and conducted by officers selected by such commission, at which
election a mayor and the proper officers for a municipality of such size shall be elected.
Officers conducting such election shall forthwith count the votes and make return to the commission,
who shall declare the results of such election, and those...
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45-39-221
Section 45-39-221 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this part, and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise,
shall be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION.
The resolution adopted by the governing body of the City of Florence or the county, in accordance
with this part, that authorizes the organization of the tourism board. (2) BOARD. The board
of directors of the tourism board. (3) CODE. This code and all amendments thereto and, with
respect to any particular title, chapter, article, division, section, or other portion thereof,
any act of the Legislature or other code preceding such portion of this code or subsequently
replacing the same. (4) COUNTY. Lauderdale County, Alabama. (5) COUNTY LODGING TAX. That certain
tax levied pursuant to Part 5, commencing with Section 45-39-244, of Article 24 of this chapter.
(6) DIRECTOR. A member of the board. (7)...
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11-94-1
Section 11-94-1 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context plainly indicates
otherwise, the present term shall include the future term, the singular shall include the
plural, the plural shall include the singular, the masculine shall include the feminine, and
the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section: (1) AUTHORITY. A nonprofit public corporation organized pursuant to
the provisions of this chapter. (2) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. Any county or municipality to
which application has been made for authority to incorporate an authority under this chapter.
(3) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (4) DIRECTOR. A member of the board of
directors of an authority. (5) COUNTY. Any county in this state that abuts on a navigable
river or through which a navigable river runs. (6) GOVERNING BODY. With respect to a county,
the county commission and, with respect to a municipality, the council,...
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16-11-2
Section 16-11-2 Applicability; composition of boards. (a) The provisions of this chapter shall
apply to city boards of education unless otherwise provided by local law pursuant to Amendment
659 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or any other provision of the Constitution of
Alabama of 1901. (b) The general administration and supervision of the public schools and
educational interest of each city shall be vested in a city board of education, to be composed
of five members who shall be residents of the city, and who shall not be members of the city
council or commission. In any Class 4 municipality which has adopted a mayor-council form
of government pursuant to Chapter 43B (commencing with Section 11-43B-1) of Title 11, the
city board of education may be composed of seven members. (c) No person shall be eligible
for election or appointment as a member of a city board of education unless he or she satisfies
all of the following qualifications: (1) Is a person of good moral...
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35-2-55
Section 35-2-55 Validation, ratification, and confirmation of vacation of streets, etc. Every
change in location, or vacation, or attempted vacation of any road, street, avenue, or alley,
or any part thereof, by the owner or owners of lands abutting thereon, or upon which such
road, street, avenue, or alley is located, when such vacation, or attempted vacation, or change
of location was in a city or town and was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by the
governing body thereof (or if it was without a city or town when such vacation, or attempted
vacation, or change of location when made was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by
the county commission, or which has been or may be hereafter ratified or confirmed by the
county commission) is and shall be validated, ratified, and confirmed, and all rights of the
public in any such road, street, avenue, or alley, or the part thereof so vacated, or attempted
to be vacated, including all rights acquired by prescription, are and...
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