11-42-43
Section 11-42-43 Ordering of election. Within 10 days of the date of the filing of such certified
copy of resolution with plat or map attached, the judge of probate must 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 described in such plat or map not less than
20 days nor more than 40 days from the date of the making of the order. (Code 1907, §1078;
Code 1923, §1772; Code 1940, T. 37, §141.)...
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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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11-41-3
Section 11-41-3 Conduct of election generally; provision and form of ballots; qualifications
for voting. The judge of probate shall appoint three qualified electors within the limits
of the proposed city or town as inspectors to manage the election, which shall be conducted
under the same sanction and penalties as are provided by the general election laws, except
that a voter may furnish his own ballot, upon which must be written or printed "corporation"
or "no corporation," and any person who is a qualified elector under the state law
and has resided within the boundaries of the proposed city or town for three months next preceding
may vote at such election. (Code 1907, §1055; Code 1923, §1746; Code 1940, T. 37, §12.)...

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11-42-201
Section 11-42-201 Certification and filing with probate judge of resolution, plat or map, and
list of qualified electors. Upon the passage of such resolution the mayor or person holding
the chief office of such city or town shall certify a copy of such resolution, together with
a plat or map correctly defining the corporate limits proposed to be established, and the
names of all qualified electors residing in the territory proposed to be excluded from the
area of such corporation, and file the same with the judge of probate of the county in which
said city or town is situated. (Acts 1923, No. 372, p. 394; Code 1923, §2414; Code 1940,
T. 37, §238.)...
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39-7-7
Section 39-7-7 Submission of question proposed by petition to voters at general election. If
the petition shall have been filed with the clerk or probate judge or, in case a summary proceeding
has been instituted, a final order thereon has been made in favor of the sufficiency of the
petition not more than 60 days and not less than 30 days prior to a general city or town or
county election, the body of the city or town to which such petition is directed or the probate
judge of the county in which the unincorporated area is located shall cause the question proposed
by the petition to be duly submitted to a vote of the electors of the territory at such general
election. (Acts 1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, §22.)...
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11-41-2
Section 11-41-2 Notice of filing; determination of statutory compliance; objections; ordering
and notice of election; contest of election. (a) Upon the filing of the verified application
with the judge of probate, the judge of probate shall give notice of the filing of the application
by publication in one or more newspapers published in the county, if there are any, that an
application to the judge of probate has been submitted and that the judge of probate will
determine if the application complies with Section 11-41-1, and that further notice will be
given for the filing of any objections. (b) The judge of probate shall have a reasonable period
of time, not to exceed 45 days, within which to ascertain compliance with Section 11-41-1.
If the judge of probate determines that the application does not comply with Section 11-41-1,
the judge of probate shall enter an order to that effect, which order shall be sent in accordance
with the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure. The order shall...
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11-41-5
Section 11-41-5 Ordering and notice of election of mayor and councilmen for incorporated municipalities;
conduct of election generally; qualifications for voting. Upon making such order of incorporation,
the judge of probate shall order an election to be held by the same inspectors or others appointed
by him for the purpose of electing a mayor and members of the council authorized by this title,
who shall, at such election, be elected from the city or town at large. Such inspectors shall
give 30 days' notice of the time and place of holding the election by posting a notice in
five public places within the limits of such town or city. Said inspectors shall have the
powers and discharge the duties as inspectors and clerks in municipal elections, and said
election shall be conducted, as far as practicable, in the manner prescribed in this title
for the election of city or town officers, and no person shall vote at such election unless
he is a qualified elector of the county and has...
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11-42-3
Section 11-42-3 Subsequent extensions of corporate limits; requirement as to resolutions, orders,
or notices under article. (a) Any city or town having extended its corporate limits under
the provisions of this article or other law may again extend its corporate limits under this
article or under any other law authorizing an extension of corporate limits by such city or
town. (b) In every proceeding to extend the corporate limits of any city or town under the
provisions of this article, the council of such city or town shall declare in each and every
resolution provided for in this article and the probate judge shall declare in each and every
order directing and ordering an election to be held under this article, and in every notice
given under this article, and in every order made and entered on the records of the probate
court under this article, that such resolution, order, or notice, as the case may be, is passed,
entered, or given under the provisions of this article. (Code 1907,...
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16-8-17
Section 16-8-17 Consolidation of schools - County and city systems. (a) Whenever a county board
of education and the city board or boards of education in the county shall deem it advisable
to consolidate the administration of their respective systems under the county board of education
and shall reach an agreement to that effect through resolutions adopted by and recorded in
the minutes of each board, which agreement shall provide for the payment of their respective
indebtedness, said consolidation shall be made to become effective at the time designated
in the resolutions providing for such consolidation; provided, that, if within 30 days after
the adoption of said resolutions 25 percent of the qualified electors of the territory covered
by either of the school systems concerned shall submit a protest in writing, the consolidation
procedure shall be as follows: (1) REQUEST FOR REFERENDUM. The boards concerned shall adopt
resolutions asking for a referendum on the proposed...
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39-7-3
Section 39-7-3 Filing of petition for election as to incorporation. A petition, in the form
and executed as provided in Sections 39-7-4 and 39-7-5 may be presented by filing the same
with the clerk of the city or town, and when the petition is signed by inhabitants of an area
with 250 qualified electors it may be presented to the probate judge of the county in which
the electors reside. It shall be signed by qualified electors in the territory by a number
of at least equal to five percent of the total number of qualified electors in said territory.
(Acts 1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, §19.)...
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