11-42-51
Section 11-42-51 Canvassing of returns; entry, recordation, etc., of orders, maps, etc.,
as to annexation of territory. The judge of probate must canvass the returns as made by the
inspectors and if it appears that a majority of the votes cast at the election were "for
annexation" the judge shall make and enter an order on the records of the probate court
adjudging and decreeing the corporate limits of the city to be extended so as to embrace the
territory described in the resolution and designated on the plat or map attached to the resolution,
and must cause the certified resolution and all orders or decrees or judgments to be recorded
in the records in his office and must also cause the map or plat to be recorded in the map
records in his office, and from the time of the entry of such order such territory shall be
a part of and within the corporate limits of the city with the limitations, rights, powers,
and privileges set forth in this article. If it appears that a majority of the...
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45-8A-110
Section 45-8A-110 Annexation based on resolution of public health or public good; elections.
(a) Whenever the council of the City of Oxford shall pass a resolution to the effect that
the public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution)
shall be brought within the limits of the City of Oxford: (1) It shall be the duty of the
mayor to certify a copy of such resolution to the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County and the
certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of the territory proposed to
be annexed, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate.
(2) Within 10 days from the date of the filing of such resolution, the judge of probate must
make and enter an order upon the minutes of the court, directing and ordering an election
to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory described, not less than
20 days nor more than 40 days from the date of the making of the order. The...
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11-42-2
Section 11-42-2 Annexation election and proceedings generally; proceedings where parties
consent to annexation. Whenever the council shall pass a resolution to the effect that the
public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution)
shall be brought within the limits of the city or town: (1) It shall be the duty of the mayor
to certify a copy of such resolution to the judge of probate of the county in which the land
proposed to be annexed is situated, and said certified resolution shall have attached thereto
a plat or map of said territory, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed
by the judge of probate. (2) Except as provided in subdivision (9) of this section,
the judge of probate shall, not less than 10 nor more than 15 days from the date of the filing
of such resolution, 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...

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11-42-207
Section 11-42-207 Question submitted; conduct of election generally; form, marking,
etc., of ballots; appointment, etc., of clerks, inspectors, and returning officer; ascertainment,
etc., of election results; entry of order as to adoption of proposed corporate limits, etc.
(a) The election shall be to determine whether or not the proposed corporate limits shall
be established, and such election must be conducted in all respects as provided by the general
election laws and under the same sanctions and penalties, except as changed by the provisions
of this article and except that no official ballot need be provided. (b) Each voter may furnish
his own ballot with the following words written or printed thereon: "For adoption of
the proposed corporate limits," if he desires to vote in favor of proposed corporate
limits or "Against the adoption of proposed corporate limits," if he desires to
vote against the adoption of proposed corporate limits. It shall not be necessary for the
ballot to...
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11-42-100.1
Section 11-42-100.1 Mode of consolidation - When municipality to annex city or town.
(a) When two or more municipalities lying contiguous to each other desire to consolidate and
operate as one municipality, they may do so by proceeding in the manner hereafter provided
in this section. (b) If it is the purpose to annex a city or town to another municipality,
then the governing body of each city or town shall adopt an ordinance expressing a willingness
to such annexation. After both ordinances are passed and published as provided for by law,
the governing body of the municipality to be annexed shall, by resolution submit the question
of annexation at a special election to be held at a time specified in such resolution, not
less than 40 days nor more than 90 days after passage of the last adopted willingness ordinance
or at a time otherwise specified by law. No other proposition may be on the ballot. Said election
shall be held pursuant to the general municipal election laws. (c) In...
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11-40-10
Section 11-40-10 Police jurisdiction; force and effect of ordinances; jurisdiction on
islands and offshore water adjacent to Florida; annexations. (a)(1) The police jurisdiction
in municipalities having 6,000 or more inhabitants shall cover all adjoining territory within
three miles of the corporate limits, and in municipalities having less than 6,000 inhabitants
and in towns, the police jurisdiction shall extend also to the adjoining territory within
a mile and a half of the corporate limits of the municipality or town. (2) After May 12, 2016,
and in addition to any other requirements of this section, any extension of the police
jurisdiction of any municipality as otherwise provided in subdivision (1) shall not be effective
beyond the corporate boundaries of the municipality without an affirmative vote of the municipal
governing body. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this subdivision shall not affect the boundaries
of the police jurisdiction of a municipality existing on May 12, 2016....
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45-5-141.20
Section 45-5-141.20 Powers and duties; annual dues; board of trustees; referendum election.
(a) This section shall apply only in Blount County. (b) A district for the delivery
of fire and emergency medical services may be formed in any unincorporated area of the county
pursuant to this section subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors
who vote at a referendum election for that purpose in the proposed district and for the approval
of the mandatory annual dues of the district. (c) In order to call for a referendum election
for the formation of a district, a petition signed by not less than 20 percent of the registered
voters who reside in the proposed district shall be presented to the county commission and
the Judge of Probate of Blount County. The petition shall contain an accurate legal description
of the proposed area and shall state the name of the proposed district. The petition for the
establishment of a district shall be accompanied by a request for the...
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11-42-21
Section 11-42-21 Annexation proceedings. Whenever all of the owners of property located
and contained within an area contiguous to the corporate limits of any incorporated municipality
located in the state of Alabama and such property does not lie within the corporate limits
or police jurisdiction of any other municipality, shall sign and file a written petition with
the city clerk of such municipality requesting that such property or territory be annexed
to the said municipality, and the governing body of such municipality adopts an ordinance
assenting to the annexation of said property to such municipality, the corporate limits of
said municipality shall be extended and rearranged so as to embrace and include such property
and such property or territory shall become a part of the corporate area of such municipality
upon the date of publication of said ordinance. It is provided further, that in the event
any such incorporated municipality's police jurisdiction overlaps with the police...
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11-42-167
Section 11-42-167 Rights, powers, duties, etc., of annexing municipality as to municipality
annexed attach upon dissolution of same. The rights, powers, duties, liabilities, and jurisdiction
of the annexing city or town over the territory embraced in the corporate limits of the city
or town annexed and over the inhabitants thereof shall attach immediately upon the dissolution
of the annexed city or town as provided in Section 11-42-166, except insofar as limited
by the terms and provisions of the agreement of annexation. (Code 1907, §1152; Code 1923,
§1847; Code 1940, T. 37, §214.)...
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16-8-20
Section 16-8-20 Annexing to city territory embracing schools - Retention of control
pending agreements. When any part of the territory embracing a school under the supervision
and control of the county board of education is annexed to a city having a city board of education
by extension of the corporate limits of such city, the county board of education shall retain
supervision and control of said school and for school purposes shall retain the same control
of the territory and revenues which it exercised prior to such annexation, for the purpose
of using and devoting said school to the benefit of all children who were or would be entitled
to the use and benefit of the school so long as it was a county school, until an agreement
has been made between the county board of education and the city board of education, and the
city council or commission or other governing body of the city to which the territory was
annexed, with reference to the matter of existing indebtedness and of...
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