34-8-7
Section 34-8-7 Exemptions from chapter; subcontractor requirements. (a) The following shall be exempted from this chapter: (1) The practice of general contracting, as defined in Section 34-8-1, by an authorized representative or representatives of the United States Government, State of Alabama, incorporated town, city, or county in this state, which is under the supervision of a licensed architect or engineer provided any work contracted out by the representative shall comply with the provisions of this chapter for general contractor. (2) The construction of any residence or private dwelling. (3) A person, firm, or corporation constructing a building or other improvements on his, her, or its own property provided that any of the work contracted out complies with the definition in this chapter for general contractor. A municipal governing body or municipal regulatory body may not enact any ordinance or law restricting or altering this exemption. Any municipal ordinance or regulation...
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11-47-191
Section 11-47-191 Institution of actions, entry, and execution of judgments against municipalities and other persons or corporations jointly liable. (a) The injured party, if he institutes a civil action against the municipality for damages suffered by him, shall also join such other person or persons or corporation so liable as defendant or defendants of the civil action, and no judgment shall be entered against the city or town unless judgment is entered against such other person or corporation so liable for such injury, except where a summons is returned not found as to a defendant or when judgment is entered in his favor on some personal defense, and if a civil action be brought against the city or town alone and it is made to appear that any person or corporation ought to be joined as a defendant in the action according to the provisions in Section 11-47-190, the action shall be dismissed, unless the plaintiff amends his complaint by making such party or corporation a defendant,...
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11-49-101
Section 11-49-101 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building, etc., thereon - Publication of notice as to introduction of ordinance and time for consideration thereof by council, etc. - Required. No ordinance vacating a portion of a street as provided by Section 11-49-100 shall be adopted until after the expiration of 30 days after its first introduction, and after it has been introduced it shall be published in some newspaper published in the city or town for two successive weeks, and such publication shall also contain a statement of the time when it will be considered and that objections to its passage may then be heard by the council or other governing body; provided, however, that if the city or town has no newspaper published therein, such publication shall be made in some newspaper of general circulation published within the county where such city or town is located. If, for any reason, the ordinance is not acted on at the time stated in the...
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11-50-102
Section 11-50-102 Liability of municipal officials to bondholders for diversion, misappropriation, etc., of funds for payment of bonds. The official charged with the duty of collecting assessments shall be liable on his official bond to any holder of the bonds authorized to be issued under this division for any loss or injury to such bondholder caused by the diversion by said officer of any funds or part thereof to the payment of any bonds or coupons or indebtedness of the city or town other than the bonds and interest coupons entitled and indebtedness authorized by this division to be paid out of said fund or by the use or misappropriation by said officer of any part of the funds out of which said bonds are required and contemplated in this division to be paid for any other purpose than provided for in this division or for the benefit of the city or town or others. All members of the governing body or bodies of the city or town who shall, by their vote or in any other manner, cause,...
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11-50-94
Section 11-50-94 Proceedings for sale of land upon failure of property owner to pay assessment, installment, or interest - Effect of error or defect in notice or sale. No mistake in the notice of sale in the description of the property or in the name of the owner shall vitiate the assessment or the lien; and, if for any reason, the sale made by the city or town is ineffectual to pass title, it shall operate as an assignment of the lien. Upon the request of the purchaser, supplementary proceedings of the same general character as required in this article may be had to correct the errors in said proceedings for his benefit, or the lien so assigned to him may be enforced by civil action. (Acts 1923, No. 165, p. 134; Code 1923, §2108; Code 1940, T. 37, §633.)...
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37-5-1
Section 37-5-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) MUNICIPAL POWER DISTRICT, POWER DISTRICT or DISTRICT. A municipal power district organized under this chapter, either as originally organized or as the same may be from time to time altered or amended. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Any city or town. (3) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used in relation to any municipality, 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 officers of such municipality in any case wherein the concurrence or approval of such officer is required by the law governing such municipality for the adoption of any municipal ordinance or resolution or other municipal act provided for in this chapter. (4) BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DIRECTORS or BOARD. The board of directors of a municipal power...
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11-47-172
Section 11-47-172 Procedure for condemnation and appeal; asssessment of value, etc. (a) Whenever the proprietor or proprietors or any of them of any of the lands necessary for any of the purposes provided in Section 11-47-171 or necessary for opening new streets or widening old streets and the mayor or other chief executive officer cannot agree on a price of said lands or cannot agree as to the amount to be paid for changing the grade of any street, sidewalk, or public place and whenever the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall be an infant, non compos mentis, a nonresident, or unknown, then the mayor or other chief executive officer shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for a writ of ad quod damnum to be directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon three freeholders of the county to appear before the sheriff on a day named, not less than two days from the date of the writ, and to proceed under his direction to assess a value of the lands of...
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11-50-53
Section 11-50-53 Regulation, installation, etc., of drainage and sewer connections generally. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish or build drains and may require private or public premises to be connected with the sewer system for proper drainage or sanitation and shall have the power to regulate the manner of connection therewith. They shall also have the power to adopt and enforce all such laws, ordinances, and resolutions necessary to compel the owners of real property to ditch and drain the same at such owner's expense and to punish any neglect of such owner or person in charge of said lots or property, and on failure of the owner after 10 days' notice to do so, the city or town may ditch and drain such premises at the expense of such owner, the same to be a lien on such property to be collected as other debts are collected or liens enforced. The notice required by this section shall be by personal service or by posting a notice on the premises....
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11-50-54
Section 11-50-54 Regulation, installation, etc., of drainage, plumbing, sewer connections, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to prescribe the location and manner in which drainage from private premises may be disposed of and to prescribe the manner in which plumbing shall be constructed and to forbid the use of the same while out of order or defective and may discontinue or forbid the use of sinks, pits, cesspools, dry wells, and surface closets and may regulate and compel the connection of private or public premises with the sewer system of the town or city, and the council or other governing body shall have the power to punish the owner of any property who shall fail to make such connection, after 10 days' notice to do so, and shall also have the power to prevent the lease, rental, or use of any property after notice that such connections have been required until the same shall have been made. If such owner fails or refuses, after 10 days' notice, to make...
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11-50A-17
Section 11-50A-17 Contracts for use of projects; purchase of electric power; payment of charges; indemnity; enforcement of performance. (a) Any municipality, if authorized by resolution or ordinance of its governing body, may contract with the authority for the payment of any rates, tolls, fees, and other charges prescribed in this section and Section 11-50A-18 by the authority for the output, capacity, use or service by the municipality of any projects or other resources of the authority or any of its facilities or undertakings. The obligations to pay the amounts contracted to be paid by the municipality to the authority under the contract or contracts entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be treated as expenses of operating the electric distribution system of the municipality for the payment of which the revenues of the municipality derived from the operation of its electric distribution system (together with any other revenues that may be lawfully pledged...
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