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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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11-41-4
Section 11-41-4 Certification of election result to probate judge; census enumeration of inhabitants;
issuance, recordation, and filing of order of incorporation; filing fee. Within five days
after the election, the inspectors must certify the result to the judge of probate, who must,
if a majority of the votes cast at the election are for "corporation," cause an
enumeration of the inhabitants residing within such territory to be made by such inspectors
or other persons appointed by him and, within three days after such enumeration has been completed
and returned to him, shall make an order to be entered of record in the minutes of the court
that the inhabitants of such territory are incorporated as a town or city, as the case may
be, by the name and with the boundaries shown by the petition, whereupon such town or city
shall be vested with the rights and powers incident to such corporations granted in this title.
The judge of probate shall file, within 10 days after its issuance, a...
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16-13-164
Section 16-13-164 Ballot and election supplies. The county commission shall provide a sufficient
number of ballots for each voting precinct within said county, and at the top of each ballot
shall be printed the rate of such proposed tax, the time it is to be continued and that the
purpose is for the support of the public schools, and directly underneath in plain type shall
be printed on different lines the words, "For proposed taxation," "Against
proposed taxation," and a place must be left directly to the left of each line thereof,
and the voters favoring the proposed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left
of the line, "For proposed taxation," and the voter not favoring proposed taxation
will make a cross mark directly to the left of the line "Against proposed taxation."
(School Code 1927, §257; Code 1940, T. 52, §250.)...
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45-41-260.07
Section 45-41-260.07 Election for coverage. Except where jurisdiction has been obtained by
the commission pursuant to Section 45-41-260.02, the master plan and zoning regulations provided
by the commission shall not be applicable in any beat of Lee County until the majority of
the qualified electors of the beat voting in a special election have signified by their vote
that they desire the authority of the commission, its master plan, and the zoning regulations
to apply to their beat. The election must be held not less than 90 days nor more than 120
days after a petition seeking the election is filed in the office of the judge of probate.
The petition shall be signed by at least 15 percent of the electors who reside within the
beat and who own real estate located in the beat. Notice of the election shall be given by
three weeks' publication and posting notice in two public places within the beat. The cost
of the election shall be paid from the General Fund of Lee County. The ballot...
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45-44-260.07
Section 45-44-260.07 Election for coverage. Except where jurisdiction has been obtained by
the planning commission pursuant to Section 45-44-260.02, the master plan and zoning regulations
provided by the planning commission shall not be applicable in any beat of Macon County until
the majority of the qualified electors of the beat voting in a special election have signified
by their vote that they desire the authority of the planning commission, its master plan,
and the zoning regulations to apply in their beat. The election must be held not less than
30 or more than 45 days after a petition seeking the election is filed in the office of the
judge of probate. The petition shall be signed by at least 25 percent of the electors who
reside within the beat and who own real estate located within the beat. Notice of the election
shall be given by three weeks' publication and posting notice in two public places within
the beat. The cost of the election shall be paid from the general fund of...
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11-42-101
Section 11-42-101 Mode of consolidation - When municipalities to form new corporate organization.
If municipalities desiring to consolidate wish to form a new and distinct corporate organization
to be operated under the name of either one of such municipalities or a different name, the
several councils, upon the filing with the mayor or chief executive officer or chief executive
authority of each of such municipalities of a petition signed by not less than one fourth
of the number of the qualified electors residing in each of such municipalities setting forth
that they desire the consolidation of such municipalities, shall each pass an ordinance expressing
the purpose thenceforth to operate as one municipal corporation under the name therein mentioned
and call an election to be held simultaneously in the several municipalities on a day designated
by said ordinances, not less than 30 days after the passage thereof. Such election shall be
conducted in the same manner as general municipal...
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11-44B-25
Section 11-44B-25 Procedures to reduce or delete areas from police jurisdiction. Notwithstanding
any law to the contrary, any Class 4 municipality that is organized pursuant to this article
may from time to time reduce or delete various portions and areas from the territorial limits
of its respective police jurisdiction or its planning jurisdiction or both as established
by law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11-40-10 and 11-52-30, Act 76-594 and as amended
by Act 94-539, the reduction and deletion shall be pursuant to the following procedure: (1)
INITIATION. The governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution calling for public
hearings to consider the adoption of an ordinance or ordinances for the purpose of deleting
a portion or portions of territory from its respective police jurisdiction or planning jurisdiction,
or both, as the case may be. The resolution shall state the time, date, and place of all public
hearings in regard to the ordinance and a reasonably...
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11-46-35
Section 11-46-35 Watchers. (a) Each candidate may name a watcher for every polling place. As
used in this subsection, a polling place shall mean a location for ballot boxes or voting
machines, regardless of the number thereof. (b) The watcher, upon presentation of his or her
appointment in writing and being sworn faithfully to observe the rule of law prescribed for
the conduct of elections, shall be permitted to be present at the place where ballots are
cast from the time the polls are opened until the ballots are counted and certificates of
the result of the election are duly signed by the proper election officers. The function of
the watcher is to observe activities at the polling place. The watcher may not disturb voters,
attempt to influence voters, campaign, or display or wear any campaign material or buttons
while inside any polling place. (c) When paper ballots are used at the election, the watcher
shall be permitted to see the ballots as they are called during the count. (d)...
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11-46-68
Section 11-46-68 Miscellaneous offenses. (a) Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse
to perform or discharge any duty relating to absent voters required of him by this article
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than $100.00.
(b) Any person found drunk or intoxicated at or about any polling place during any municipal
election day is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than
$500.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county
for not more than six months. (c) Any person who, at a municipal election, interferes with
any elector when inside the polling place or when marking the ballot, or unduly influences
or attempts to unduly influence any elector in the preparation of his ballot must, on conviction,
be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00. (d) Any person who, during or before
a municipal election, willfully removes, tears down, destroys, or defaces any...
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28-2-1
Section 28-2-1 Procedure for elections to determine classification of counties as wet or dry
counties; laws applicable in dry counties. (a) In every county where a majority of the electors
voting in an election, called by the Governor to determine whether Chapter 3 of this title
shall be adopted in the county, vote "Yes," Chapter 3 and all of its provisions
shall be immediately put into operation in such county, but in every county where a majority
of the electors voting in the election vote "No," Chapter 3 shall not go into effect
in such county and all laws prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors or beverages
now in force and effect in Alabama shall remain in full force and effect in every such county.
For the purpose of this chapter the term "wet county" shall mean any county which
by a majority of those voting voted in the affirmative in the election provided for in this
section, and "dry counties" shall be construed to mean all counties which by a majority
of...
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