11-42-122
Section 11-42-122 Execution, approval, and confirmation of agreement as to terms of annexation
and merger. If the commission agrees upon terms of annexation and merger, such agreement shall
be reduced to writing and signed in triplicate by the commissioners or a majority thereof,
and one of the triplicates of the agreement shall be presented to the council or governing
body of each city or town, and if the council or other governing body of each city or town
approves of the agreement reached by the commission, the council or governing body of each
city or town shall pass a resolution confirming such agreement, which resolution shall be
spread upon the minutes of the proceedings of such council or governing body, and the mayor
of each city or town shall notify the mayor of the other city or town of the confirmation
of the agreement by the council or governing body of the city or town of which he is mayor.
(Code 1907, §1135; Code 1923, §1830; Code 1940, T. 37, §197.)...
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11-42-123
Section 11-42-123 Ordering of election by proclamation. If the council or governing body of
each city or town confirms the agreement, then the mayor of the city or town proposed to be
annexed to the other city or town shall, by proclamation, order an election to be held on
a day fixed in the proclamation in his city or town, submitting to a vote of the qualified
electors in his city or town the following proposition: "Shall the agreement for the
annexation of (naming the city or town) to (naming the city or town) be ratified?" and
stating in such proclamation that one of the triplicates of the agreement made which is submitted
for ratification is on file in the office of the clerk of such city or town, open to the inspection
of the public. (Code 1907, §1136; Code 1923, §1831; Code 1940, T. 37, §198.)...
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45-5-141.20
Section 45-5-141.20 Powers and duties; annual dues; board of trustees; referendum election.
(a) This section shall apply only in Blount County. (b) A district for the delivery of fire
and emergency medical services may be formed in any unincorporated area of the county pursuant
to this section subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors who vote at
a referendum election for that purpose in the proposed district and for the approval of the
mandatory annual dues of the district. (c) In order to call for a referendum election for
the formation of a district, a petition signed by not less than 20 percent of the registered
voters who reside in the proposed district shall be presented to the county commission and
the Judge of Probate of Blount County. The petition shall contain an accurate legal description
of the proposed area and shall state the name of the proposed district. The petition for the
establishment of a district shall be accompanied by a request for the...
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11-42-165
Section 11-42-165 Enactment and passage of ordinances and resolutions to carry out annexation
agreement. The council or governing body of the annexing city or town shall enact such ordinances
and pass such resolutions as may be necessary or deemed necessary to carry out the agreement
of annexation, and any ordinance or resolution enacted or passed by the council or governing
body of the annexed city or town in violation of the terms and provisions of the agreement
of annexation shall be held to be void. (Code 1907, §1150; Code 1923, §1845; Code 1940,
T. 37, §212.)...
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11-50-390
Section 11-50-390 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) MUNICIPALITY. Any incorporated city or town in the State of Alabama. (2) GOVERNING BODY.
The council, commission, or other governing body of such municipality. (3) MAYOR. The mayor,
president, or chairman of the commission or other chief executive officer of such municipality.
(4) GAS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. A plant and system for the manufacture, transmission, delivery,
and transportation of natural or manufactured gas, together with all appurtenances thereto
and all property, real, personal, or mixed, used or useful in connection therewith, including
franchises and easements. Such gas transmission system shall include facilities for making
sales and deliveries of gas to industrial and institutional users and to line tap residential
and commercial users as well as to gas distribution systems. (5) GAS...
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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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11-47-171
Section 11-47-171 Authorization of acquisition by municipal governing body. Whenever in the
opinion of the council or other governing body of a city or town, a right-of-way through the
lands of others (whether in or out of the city or town) is necessary for obtaining a water
supply or for sewerage or drainage purposes and whenever the council or other governing body
may determine to change the grade of any street, sidewalk, or public place and whenever any
property is needed for any city or town purpose, the council or other governing body shall
authorize the mayor or other chief executive officer to attempt to acquire such right by purchase
from the owner or owners thereof and, in case of failure, to acquire the same by condemnation.
(Code 1907, §1440; Code 1923, §2296; Code 1940, T. 37, §508.)...
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22-20-4
Section 22-20-4 Location and extension of cemeteries. Whenever it is proposed to locate a cemetery
or to extend the boundaries of an existing cemetery, the party or parties so proposing shall
make written application to the judge of probate and county commission or to the mayor and
council of an incorporated city or town, according to whether said cemetery or extension of
a cemetery is to be located in the jurisdiction of one or the other of these authorities,
describing accurately the location and boundaries of the proposed cemetery or extension of
a cemetery. Before acting upon the application, the judge of probate and county commission
or the mayor and council of an incorporated city or town, as the case may be, shall refer
the application to the board of health of the county for investigation from a sanitary standpoint.
In making such investigation, the county board of health shall take into consideration the
proximity of the proposed cemetery or extension of a cemetery to human...
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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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11-47-170
Section 11-47-170 Acquisition of lands, easements, etc., by municipality; limitations on condemnation.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), whenever in the judgment of the council,
commission, or other governing body of a city or town it may be necessary or expedient for
the carrying out and full exercise of any power granted by the applicable provisions of this
title or any other applicable provision of law, the town or city shall have full power and
authority to acquire by purchase the necessary lands or rights, easements, or interests therein,
thereunder, or thereover or, for the purposes for which private property may be acquired by
condemnation, may proceed to condemn the same in the manner provided by this article, or by
the general laws of this state governing the taking of lands or the acquiring of interests
therein for the uses for which private property may be taken, and such proceedings shall be
governed in every respect by the general laws of this state...
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