17-6-45
Section 17-6-45 Performance of duties under chapter for municipal elections. In case of any municipal election held at a time different from a general state or federal election, the duties herein prescribed for the judge of probate in respect to receiving nominations, printing and distributing ballots and cards of instructions shall be discharged under the same sanctions by the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town. (Code 1896, §1615; Code 1907, §395; Code 1923, §485; Code 1940, T. 17, §171; §17-8-26; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §33.)...
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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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17-16-54
Section 17-16-54 Contest of election of judge of circuit or district court - Procedure generally. If the contest is of an election to the office of judge of the circuit court or of the district court, the party contesting must file in the office of the judge of probate of the county of the residence of the person declared elected, a statement in writing of the grounds of contest, verified by affidavit, as prescribed in this article, and must give good and sufficient security for the costs of the contest, to be approved by the judge of probate. On the filing of the statement and the giving of the security, the judge of probate must endorse thereon an order appointing a day for the trial of the contest, not less than 30 nor more than 50 days from the day of the reception of the certified statement and fixing the place of trial, which must be at some place in the circuit or district in which the election was held, and where a circuit or district court is required to be held, and must...
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45-37A-52.06
Section 45-37A-52.06 Election of first council and first mayor; terms of office. Immediately upon the adoption of such form of government, the judge of probate of the county with whom the petition was filed shall call an election to be held under and to be governed by this part not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days after the date of such call, the expense thereof to be paid by such city, for the election at large of nine council members and a mayor by the qualified voters of such city. The nine candidates for the council receiving a majority of the votes cast in the election shall be elected to the council; and in the event that nine candidates should fail to receive such a majority, then and in that event those candidates for the council receiving a majority shall be elected, and another election shall be held upon the same day of the week four weeks thereafter to be called and held in the same mode and manner and under the same rules and regulations. In the second election...
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17-12-15
Section 17-12-15 Time and manner of canvassing. On the second Friday next after the election, at the hour of 12:00 noon, the sheriff, in person or by deputy, and the judge of probate and the clerk of the circuit court shall assemble at the courthouse; and if there is no such judge or clerk, or if either of them fails to attend, or if either of them is interested by reason of having been a candidate at such election, his or her place must be supplied by a respectable elector of the county, appointed by the board hereinbefore provided for the appointing of the inspectors in the various voting places for the election, at the time of appointing the election inspectors, and if the appointing board fails to provide for such member or members, or if any member or members as herein provided should fail to attend at the time and place herein mentioned, the sheriff shall supply such deficiency by a respectable elector of the county; and if all such officers are of the same political party, then...
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17-12-9
Section 17-12-9 Delivery of certificates to judge of probate; forwarding to Secretary of State. The canvassing board must, as soon as they have ascertained the result of an election, make on forms furnished by the Secretary of State certificates stating the exact number of votes cast in the county by voting place for each person voted for and the office for which such person was voted for, and file the certificates with the judge of probate who must immediately forward such certificate to the Secretary of State. (Code 1876, §292; Code 1886, §389; Code 1896, §1646; Code 1907, §435; Code 1923, §525; Code 1949, T. 17, §209; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-908, p. 482, §1; §17-13-7; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, §56.)...
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45-21A-50
Section 45-21A-50 Election of Rutledge City Council. (a) Any law, whether special, local, or general or municipal ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding, pursuant to Civil Action No. 87-T-1289-N, U.S. District Court for the Middle District Northern Division Federal Court Order, the Town of Rutledge in Crenshaw County, shall not designate by place number, or by other similar method, seats for its city council. (b) The City Council of the Town of Rutledge, Alabama, shall consist of five members elected at large, without designated or numbered places. In the election of members of the city council, the five candidates receiving the greatest number of votes shall be elected to the council. There shall be no runoff election and in the event of a tie vote, the winner shall be selected by a majority vote of the newly elected mayor and council. In such election for members of the city council, each qualified voter is authorized to cast only one vote. (c) The requirement for office,...
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45-37-140.06
Section 45-37-140.06 Election notice. (a) As used herein the following terms shall have the meanings hereby ascribed to them: (1) DISTRICT. A district for fighting fires, a district for garbage disposal, or a district for fighting fires and garbage disposal. (2) FIRE STATION. A fire station maintained in a district or a fire station within a proposed district being maintained and operated at the time the petition for an election on the proposed district is filed in the office of the judge of probate. (3) PROPOSED AREA. An area which it is proposed be brought within a district by enlargement of the district. (4) PROPOSED DISTRICT. An area for which it is proposed that there be established a district. (b) Not more than 35 days and not less than 20 days before any election is held under this article the judge of probate shall publish one time a notice thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory where the election is to be held. The notice shall state all of the...
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45-42-162.08
Section 45-42-162.08 Elections. The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the metropolitan-government shall be held on the date established by the judge of probate. Before such election the governing body of the municipalities and the county shall cause the metropolitan area to be divided into nine districts containing as nearly as possible an equal number of people. The division of the metropolitan-government into districts shall be by a committee appointed as follows: Three persons appointed by the Limestone County Commission; two persons appointed by the Athens City Commission; two persons by a committee of mayors from the four incorporated cities; one person appointed by the Limestone County School Board; and one person appointed by the Athens City School Board. Candidates for metropolitan-government offices shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal...
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45-49-261.06
Section 45-49-261.06 Procedures for exercising planning and zoning powers. The Mobile County Commission shall not exercise its planning and zoning powers established hereunder until the majority of the qualified electors in the proposed planning jurisdiction shall have voted their desire to come within the planning and zoning authority of the Mobile County Commission. The election shall be held if 10 percent of the qualified electors in the planning jurisdiction submit a written petition to the county commission expressing a desire to be subject to the planning and zoning jurisdiction of the Mobile County Commission under authority of this part or upon a resolution of the county commission. The county commission and the Judge of Probate of Mobile County shall certify or reject the accuracy of the petition no later than 45 days after receiving the petition, or in the case of an election to be held by resolution of the county commission, the county commission shall certify the adoption...
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