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11-42-45
Section 11-42-45 Designation of voting places and boundaries for voting. The judge of probate
may designate as many voting places within the territory proposed to be annexed as he may
deem necessary for the convenience of the voters and must designate the boundaries within
which the voters must reside to vote at the respective voting places. (Code 1907, §1080;
Code 1923, §1774; Code 1940, T. 37, §143.)...
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11-16-38
Section 11-16-38 Erection of courthouse on new site. If at such election a majority of the
qualified electors of the county voting at the election shall vote for the erection of a courthouse
on the proposed site, it shall be permissible to erect a courthouse on such proposed site.
(Acts 1927, No. 399, p. 467; Code 1940, T. 12, §267.)...
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11-42-48
Section 11-42-48 Applicability of general election laws. The election to determine whether
or not the proposed territory shall be brought within the corporate limits of the city must
be conducted in all respects as provided by the general election laws and under the same sanction
and penalties, except as changed by the provisions of this article, and except that an official
ballot need not be provided. (Code 1907, §1083; Code 1923, §1777; Code 1940, T. 37, §146.)...
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11-46-28
Section 11-46-28 Polling place hours; duties of election officers; challenger; deletion of
absentee voter applicants from voter list; preservation of order. (a) Every polling place
shall open for voting at 7:00 A.M. and shall close at 7:00 P.M. and shall remain open for
voting for not less than 12 consecutive hours. All polling places in areas operating on eastern
time may open and close under this section pursuant to eastern time. The election officers
at voting places shall meet at the respective places of holding elections for which they have
been appointed 30 minutes before the hour established by the municipal governing body to open
the polls and shall at the designated hour open the several polling places as designated and
keep them open without adjournment or recess until the hour established by the municipal governing
body to close the polls and no longer. (b) Any qualified elector entitled to vote at a polling
place who has identified himself or herself with the election...
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17-6-3
Section 17-6-3 Voting districts; naming of precincts. (a) Except as may be provided further
by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the counties in this state,
as divided pursuant to this chapter into election precincts, and the boundaries of such precincts
shall so remain until changed by order of the county governing body, but the county governing
body, at its first regular meeting in March in each even-numbered year, shall subdivide any
election precinct in which there are more than 2,400 qualified voters and electronic voting
machines are used into voting districts or shall divide alphabetically the list of qualified
voters in such precincts into groups and assign each qualified voter a designated voting place
so as to provide an electronic voting machine for every person legally entitled to vote at
a polling place at which not more than 2,400 votes on a single electronic voting machine will
be cast. (b) Except as may be provided further by local...
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17-8-6
Section 17-8-6 Failure of election officials to attend. On the failure of any precinct election
official to attend at the hour of 7:00 A.M., such precinct election officials as may be present
may complete the number. If the inspector appointed is not present, the other precinct election
officials present shall choose one of their number to serve as inspector and shall appoint
from the qualified electors, who are entitled by law to vote at that polling place at the
election then to be held, such clerks as may be necessary to complete the requisite number
of precinct election officials. If there should be no precinct election officials present
at the polling place by the hour of 7:00 A.M., then any four qualified electors who are entitled
by law to vote at that polling place at the election then to be held may open the polls and
act as precinct election officials for the voting place during the absence of an appointed
precinct election official. (Code 1876, §262; Code 1886, §355; Code...
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11-43-64
Section 11-43-64 Procedural requirements for increasing number of single-member districts in
Class 3 municipalities. Notwithstanding other provision of law, including but not limited
to Section 11-43-63, a Class 3 municipality may, by ordinance adopted by a majority of the
membership of the council 90 days prior to the regular general municipal election, increase
the number of single-member districts (wards) in the municipality up to and including nine
members. The ordinance may only be considered after two weeks public notice has been given,
outlining generally the voting districts under consideration. The ordinance shall provide
that candidates for election for a place on the council, where the council has been divided
into districts, shall have resided within the boundaries of the district (ward) for which
he or she seeks election for at least 30 days immediately preceding the date of the election,
and shall continue to reside in the district he or she represents so long as he or...
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10A-2-7.28
Section 10A-2-7.28 Voting for directors; cumulative voting. REPEALED IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION
BY ACT 2019-94 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a)
Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, directors are elected by a majority
of the votes cast by the shares entitled to vote in the election at a meeting at which a quorum
is present when the vote is taken. (b) Shareholders do not have a right to cumulate their
votes for directors unless the articles of incorporation so provide. (c) A statement included
in the articles of incorporation that "[all] [a designated voting group of] shareholders
are entitled to cumulate their votes for directors," or words of similar import, means
that the shareholders designated are entitled to multiply the number of votes they are entitled
to cast by the number of directors for whom they are entitled to vote and cast the product
for a single candidate or distribute the product among two or more...
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11-44A-30
Section 11-44A-30 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates
federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for
candidates and electors. Any Class 7 municipality operating under a commission form of government
with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation
of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less
than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government
with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts.
The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal
population and shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council shall
have resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days
immediately preceding the date of the election, and...
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11-44F-1
Section 11-44F-1 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates
federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for
candidates and electors. Any Class 8 municipality operating under a commission form of government
with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation
of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less
than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government
with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts.
The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal
population and shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council shall
have resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days
immediately preceding the date of the election, and...
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