11-41-1
Section 11-41-1 Authority; petition to probate judge for order of incorporation. When
the inhabitants of an unincorporated community, which has a population of not less than 300,
constituting a body of citizens whose residences are contiguous to and all of which form a
homogeneous settlement or community, desire to become organized as a municipal corporation,
they may apply to the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated, or
the greater portion thereof if it is situated in two or more counties, for an order of incorporation,
by a petition in writing signed by not less than 15 percent of the qualified electors residing
within the limits of the proposed municipality and by the persons, firms, or corporations
owning at least 60 percent of the acreage of the platted or unplatted land of the proposed
municipality. No platted or unplatted territory shall be included within the boundary unless
there are at least four qualified electors, according to government survey,...
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11-42-21
Section 11-42-21 Annexation proceedings. Whenever all of the owners of property located
and contained within an area contiguous to the corporate limits of any incorporated municipality
located in the state of Alabama and such property does not lie within the corporate limits
or police jurisdiction of any other municipality, shall sign and file a written petition with
the city clerk of such municipality requesting that such property or territory be annexed
to the said municipality, and the governing body of such municipality adopts an ordinance
assenting to the annexation of said property to such municipality, the corporate limits of
said municipality shall be extended and rearranged so as to embrace and include such property
and such property or territory shall become a part of the corporate area of such municipality
upon the date of publication of said ordinance. It is provided further, that in the event
any such incorporated municipality's police jurisdiction overlaps with the police...
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11-41-8
Section 11-41-8 Validation of previously invalidated incorporations and alterations
of corporate limits. (a) In all cases prior to May 14, 2012, where there has been an attempt
to organize the inhabitants of any territory as a municipal corporation under this article,
and the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated has entered an order
that the inhabitants of the territory are incorporated as a town or city, as the case may
be, pursuant to Section 11-41-4, but the attempted incorporation is invalid because
of some irregularity in the procedure followed, the incorporation of that municipality so
attempted to be organized and with respect to which the order has been made is validated ab
initio in accordance with the description of the territory attempted to be incorporated as
the description is contained in the order or, if the description of the territory attempted
to be incorporated is not contained in the order in accordance with the description of the...

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11-42-2
Section 11-42-2 Annexation election and proceedings generally; proceedings where parties
consent to annexation. Whenever the council shall pass a resolution to the effect that the
public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution)
shall be brought within the limits of the city or town: (1) It shall be the duty of the mayor
to certify a copy of such resolution to the judge of probate of the county in which the land
proposed to be annexed is situated, and said certified resolution shall have attached thereto
a plat or map of said territory, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed
by the judge of probate. (2) Except as provided in subdivision (9) of this section,
the judge of probate shall, not less than 10 nor more than 15 days from the date of the filing
of such resolution, make and enter an order upon the minutes of said court, directing and
ordering an election to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory...

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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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28-3-190
Section 28-3-190 Levy of tax; collection; disposition of proceeds by localities; enforcement
and administration; penalties; exclusive nature of tax. (a) Levy. In addition to the excise
tax levied by Article 5A of Chapter 3 of this title and the licenses provided for by Chapter
3A of this title and by Section 28-3-194, and any acts amendatory thereof, supplementary
thereto or substituted therefor, and municipal and county licenses, there is hereby levied
a privilege or excise tax on every person licensed under the provisions of Chapter 3A who
sells, stores, or receives for the purpose of distribution, to any person, firm, corporation,
club, or association within the State of Alabama any beer. The tax levied hereby shall be
measured by and graduated in accordance with the volume of sales by such person of beer, and
shall be an amount equal to one and six hundred twenty-five thousands cents (1.625 cents)
for each four fluid ounces or fractional part thereof. (b) Collection. The tax levied...
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28-3-1
Section 28-3-1 Definitions. As used in this title, the following words shall have the
following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
Any alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, fermented, or other alcoholic beverage, or combination
of liquors and mixed liquor, a part of which is spirituous, vinous, fermented, or otherwise
alcoholic, and all drinks or drinkable liquids, preparations or mixtures intended for beverage
purposes, which contain one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume, and shall include
liquor, beer, and wine. (2) ASSOCIATION. A partnership, limited partnership, or any form of
unincorporated enterprise owned by two or more persons. (3) BEER, or MALT OR BREWED BEVERAGES.
Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, any beer, lager beer, ale, porter, malt
or brewed beverage, or similar fermented malt liquor containing one-half of one percent or
more of alcohol by volume and not in excess of thirteen and nine-tenths percent...
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11-44B-24
Section 11-44B-24 Municipalities' authority to annex certain unincorporated territory.
Any Class IV incorporated municipality in this state organized in accordance with Section
11-44B-1, et seq., shall have the following power and authority: (a) To annex all or any portion
of any unincorporated territory or any unincorporated territories which are enclosed within
the corporate limits of the municipality and have been so enclosed for a period of one (1)
year or more on April 21, 1994. The municipality shall adopt an ordinance finding and declaring
that the unincorporated territory or unincorporated territories set forth and described therein
is enclosed within the existing corporate limits of the municipality and has been so enclosed
for a period of one (1) year or more on April 21, 1994 and that the annexation of the unincorporated
territory or unincorporated territories is in the best interest of the public good and welfare
of the municipality. Annexation of the unincorporated...
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11-42-6
Section 11-42-6 Bill to contain accurate description of territory and plat or map; copies
of map to be furnished to judge of probate; notice of intention to apply for local law annexing
territory. (a) Any bill introduced in the legislature which attempts to annex territory to
any municipality or to otherwise change the boundary lines of any municipality shall contain
an accurate description of the territory proposed to be annexed to or removed from such municipality
together with a plat or map of such territory attached; showing its relationship to the corporate
limits of the municipality to which such territory is proposed to be annexed. Copies of such
map shall also be furnished to the judge of probate for the county or counties wherein the
territory proposed to be annexed to or removed from the municipality is located. (b) The publication
of notice of intention to apply for any local law annexing territory to any municipality or
otherwise changing the boundary lines of any...
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45-8A-110
Section 45-8A-110 Annexation based on resolution of public health or public good; elections.
(a) Whenever the council of the City of Oxford shall pass a resolution to the effect that
the public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution)
shall be brought within the limits of the City of Oxford: (1) It shall be the duty of the
mayor to certify a copy of such resolution to the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County and the
certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of the territory proposed to
be annexed, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate.
(2) Within 10 days from the date of the filing of such resolution, the judge of probate must
make and enter an order upon the minutes of the court, directing and ordering an election
to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory described, not less than
20 days nor more than 40 days from the date of the making of the order. The...
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