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11-41-1
Section 11-41-1 Authority; petition to probate judge for order of incorporation. When the inhabitants
of an unincorporated community, which has a population of not less than 300, constituting
a body of citizens whose residences are contiguous to and all of which form a homogeneous
settlement or community, desire to become organized as a municipal corporation, they may apply
to the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated, or the greater portion
thereof if it is situated in two or more counties, for an order of incorporation, by a petition
in writing signed by not less than 15 percent of the qualified electors residing within the
limits of the proposed municipality and by the persons, firms, or corporations owning at least
60 percent of the acreage of the platted or unplatted land of the proposed municipality. No
platted or unplatted territory shall be included within the boundary unless there are at least
four qualified electors, according to government survey,...
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11-50-5
Section 11-50-5 Construction, purchase, operation, etc., of waterworks and water supply plants
and systems and expenditure of municipal funds therefor. (a) Any municipality in this state
may construct, purchase, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve waterworks plants
and systems or any part or parts thereof, whether located within or without or partly within
and partly without the corporate limits of such municipality. Such plants and systems may
be purchased subject to encumbrances and to contracts to furnish water therefrom, the payment
and performance of which may be assumed. Any municipality in this state may furnish and distribute,
under contract, water to persons, firms, and corporations in such municipality and to persons,
firms, and corporations in the territory surrounding such municipality, whether or not the
territory surrounding such municipality is contiguous thereto. (b) Without limiting the generality
of any of the language contained in subsection (a) of this...
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45-2A-140
Section 45-2A-140 Boundaries; exemption from certain building codes. (a) The boundaries of
the municipality of Spanish Fort, in the County of Baldwin, and the State of Alabama, are
hereby altered and rearranged so as to include within the corporate limits of the municipality
all of that territory lying within and included in the following boundaries: Lots 1, 2, 3,
4, and 5 of Blakeley Square Shopping Center Subdivision, as per plat thereof recorded in Slide
#1560B, of the records in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Baldwin County, Alabama. (b)
Any improvements and signage located within the boundaries of the property as set out in subsection
(a), but which was not a part of the City of Spanish Fort prior to the passage of this section
fixing the above boundaries, shall not for a period of 25 years be subject to any changes
subsequently enacted by the City of Spanish Fort to the building codes, ordinances, and regulations,
the electrical codes, ordinances, and regulations,...
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37-13-7
Section 37-13-7 Powers of authority generally. Each authority shall have the following powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form; (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be
in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its
own name in civil suit and actions; (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter
the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its
affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive, take and hold, whether by purchase, gift, lease,
devise, or otherwise, property of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether
in one or more counties and whether within or without the boundaries or corporate limits (as
the case may be) of any authorizing subdivision, and to manage said property, and to develop
any undeveloped property owned, leased or controlled by it in a...
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11-48-80
Section 11-48-80 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) STREET IMPROVEMENTS. Filling, grading, leveling, graveling, slagging, cherting, macadamizing,
paving, draining, or otherwise improving any street, avenue, alley, highway, or other public
place, including the construction of sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. (2) SEWER IMPROVEMENTS.
Storm water sewers and storm water sewer systems and sanitary sewers, sanitary sewer systems,
sewage treatment plants and sewage disposal plants, and all appurtenances to any such sewers
or plants. (3) PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Street improvements and sewer improvements or either of
them. (4) POLICE JURISDICTION. The territory lying outside the corporate limits of a city
but within its police jurisdiction. (Acts 1955, No. 492, p. 1112, ยง1.)...
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11-50-343
Section 11-50-343 Powers generally; publication, recordation, and authentication of resolutions
of board. (a) Each board created under the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be
a public agency or instrumentality exercising public and governmental functions to provide
for the public health and welfare, and each such board is hereby authorized and empowered:
(1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2)
To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure; (3) To maintain an office at such
place or places within the city as it may designate; (4) To sue and be sued in its own name;
(5) To acquire, purchase, lease as lessee, construct, reconstruct, improve, extend, operate,
and maintain any water system or part thereof or any sewer system or part thereof or any combination
thereof within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of the
city, and to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right...
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23-1-331
Section 23-1-331 Definitions. Where used in this article, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) BRIDGE REPLACEMENT. Bridge replacement includes the replacement of
existing bridge structures and, if necessary, the realignment of the adjacent approaches.
If the route is to be four-laned, it includes the construction of a new bridge for the two
new lanes. (2) CONSTRUCTION, CONSTRUCT, or CONSTRUCTING. The act of completing a project.
The physical building of the roadway, bridges, and appendages thereto. (3) COUNTY ROADS. All
paved or unpaved public roads, including bridges, within a county on the county road system
and continuing into or through the corporate limits of any city or town in a county which
are not a part of the state highway system. (4) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. That state department
created by Section 23-1-20. (5) OBLIGATION LIMIT. That point in obligating or budgeting funds
for projects that the Transportation Director may not exceed by approving...
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11-24-1
Section 11-24-1 Definitions; regulation of lots, streets, drainage, utilities, etc.; developer
to reimburse utility for uneconomical placement. (a) When used in this chapter, the following
words shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. A political subdivision of the state
created by statute to aid in the administration of government. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The
chief administrative or legislative body of the county. (3) STREETS. Streets, avenues, boulevards,
roads, lanes, alleys, viaducts, and other roads. (4) SUBDIVISION. The development and division
of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or otherwise for the
purpose of establishing or creating a subdivision through the sale, lease, or building development.
Development includes, but is not limited to, the design work of lot layout, the construction
of drainage structures, the construction of buildings or public use areas, the planning and
construction of public streets and public roads, and the...
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11-49-80
Section 11-49-80 Definitions; responsibility for streets within municipality controlled by
county; annexation of unincorporated territory; alternative arrangements; evacuation routes.
(a) For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) COUNTY-MAINTAINED STREET. A public street, road, or bridge that the county commission
has the authority or responsibility to control, manage, supervise, regulate, repair, maintain,
or improve. (2) MUNICIPAL STREET. A public street, road, or bridge that the municipality has
the authority or responsibility to control, manage, supervise, regulate, repair, maintain,
or improve. (3) RESPONSIBILITY FOR A STREET. The authority or responsibility to control, manage,
supervise, regulate, repair, maintain, or improve a public street, road, or bridge. (4) STREET.
A public street, road, bridge, or portion thereof. (b) Where the responsibility for a public
street or streets lying within a municipality is vested in the...
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11-81-200
Section 11-81-200 Acquisition, extension, operation, etc., of power plants, power lines, electric
systems, etc., by counties or municipalities authorized; acquisition of rights-of-way. (a)
Any county or municipal corporation within this state is hereby authorized and empowered to
acquire by purchase, construction, condemnation or otherwise and to maintain, extend, improve
and operate electric light plants, power plants, power lines and electric distribution systems
together with the extension and the appurtenances thereto and all the property, tangible and
intangible and of like or different kind to be used or useful in connection therewith, either
within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of such municipal
corporation or the boundaries of such county, under the provisions of this article for the
purpose of producing, obtaining, distributing or furnishing an adequate supply of electricity
for public, industrial, business, domestic, light, power or other...
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