11-42-6
Section 11-42-6 Bill to contain accurate description of territory and plat or map; copies
of map to be furnished to judge of probate; notice of intention to apply for local law annexing
territory. (a) Any bill introduced in the legislature which attempts to annex territory to
any municipality or to otherwise change the boundary lines of any municipality shall contain
an accurate description of the territory proposed to be annexed to or removed from such municipality
together with a plat or map of such territory attached; showing its relationship to the corporate
limits of the municipality to which such territory is proposed to be annexed. Copies of such
map shall also be furnished to the judge of probate for the county or counties wherein the
territory proposed to be annexed to or removed from the municipality is located. (b) The publication
of notice of intention to apply for any local law annexing territory to any municipality or
otherwise changing the boundary lines of any...
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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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11-42-2
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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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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11-42-21
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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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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11-41-1
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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45-49-140.32
Section 45-49-140.32 Approval of expansion. If the planned expansion of a municipal
police jurisdiction includes any portion of the Turnerville fire protection district, the
owners of property located and contained within the affected area may approve the expansion
by petition. (1) If all of the owners of property located and contained within the affected
area sign and file a written petition with the city clerk of the municipality requesting that
the affected area be included within the expanding municipal police jurisdiction of the municipality,
the governing body of the municipality may adopt an ordinance assenting to the inclusion of
the affected area in the municipal police jurisdiction. The affected area shall become a part
of the expanded municipal police jurisdiction upon the date of publication of the ordinance.
(2) The petition required by this section shall contain an accurate description of
the affected area together with a map of the area showing its relationship to the...
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45-37-140.13
Section 45-37-140.13 Annexation; referendum; hearing; reestablishment of boundaries.
(a) Whenever any municipal corporation in Jefferson County annexes any portion of a district
and a petition is filed with the clerk of the municipality requesting annexation of the remaining
portion of the district, the petition containing the following: (1) signatures of 20 percent
of the qualified electors residing within the district or signatures of 200 qualified electors,
whichever is less, and (2) a written statement signed by at least two members of the board
of trustees of the district reciting that those signing the petition constitute either 10
percent of the qualified electors residing within the district or 100 qualified electors residing
within the district, whichever is applicable, and (3) a description of the district; then
the governing body of such municipal corporation shall provide for and finance the cost of
a referendum election wherein the remaining qualified voter residents of...
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11-42-44
Section 11-42-44 Notice of election. The said judge of probate shall give notice of
the holding of such election by publication in at least one newspaper and, at the discretion
of the judge, in more than one newspaper published in the county wherein such election is
to be held, which notice shall state the day on which such election will be held, the voting
place or places at which the election will be held and the boundaries within which voters
must reside to vote at the respective voting places, which must be within the territory proposed
to be brought into the city, and such notice must give a description of the territory proposed
to be brought within the city and must state that a map showing the territory proposed to
be brought into the city is on file in the office of the judge of probate of said county,
open to the inspection of the public. (Code 1907, §1079; Code 1923, §1773; Code 1940, T.
37, §142.)...
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