11-42-73
Section 11-42-73 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen or representatives. (a) The council or governing body of the city shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed to be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the city on the number of wards, or may enlarge the wards so as to embrace all territory brought within the corporate limits of the city and so as to afford opportunity to all persons entitled to vote at elections in the city to vote thereat. (b) Each ward in the city shall have the same number of aldermen or representatives in the council or governing body of the city, and as new wards are created the council or governing body of the city shall elect aldermen or representatives to represent such wards in the council or governing body of the city, as in the case of a vacancy, the aldermen or representatives so elected to hold office until the next regular election in the city; provided, however, that no person residing on territory which is exempt...
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11-42-133
Section 11-42-133 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen; division of wards into voting precincts; rearrangement, etc., of boundaries of wards or voting precincts. (a) The council or governing body of the annexing city or town shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed to be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the annexing city or town on the number of wards, or enlarge wards so as to embrace all territory embraced in the annexed city or town and so as to afford opportunity to all persons in the territory embraced in the annexed city or town to vote in all elections and participate in the government of the annexing city or town, and each ward in the annexing city or town shall have the same number of aldermen, but in no event shall there be more than 30 aldermen or representatives in the council or governing body of the city or town. (b) The council or governing body of the city or town shall elect aldermen for the wards, embracing all the territory...
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11-43-40
Section 11-43-40 Composition of city councils; voting by president of council. (a) Except as provided in Section 11-43-2 as it relates to the legislative functions of the mayor in cities and towns having a population of 12,000 or more but less than 25,000 inhabitants according to the most recent or any subsequent federal decennial census, in cities having a population of 12,000 or more, the following officers shall be elected at each general municipal election, who shall compose the city council for the cities and who shall hold office for four years and until their successors are elected and qualified, and who shall exercise the legislative functions of city government and any other powers and duties which are or may be vested by law in the city council or its members: (1) In cities having seven wards or less, a president of the city council and two aldermen from each ward, to be elected by the qualified voters of the several wards voting separately in every ward; except, that in...
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11-44D-4
Section 11-44D-4 Mayor-council form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors voting in the referendum provided herein choose a mayor-council form of government, the following provisions of this chapter shall be applicable: (1) The municipality shall thereafter and as provided in this chapter be governed by a mayor elected at-large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties as herein enumerated and as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Chapter 43, Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter which may be now or hereafter granted to such municipality. (2) The council shall include five members who shall be elected from districts, which shall be, as near as practicable, of equal population according to the last federal decennial census, but not more than five percent, more or less, than the average of the five districts. (3) The council members shall...
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45-37A-250
Section 45-37A-250 Authorization to annex remaining portion of Virginia Mines Fire District. (a) The Legislature finds that the City of Hueytown has annexed a substantial portion of the Virginia Volunteer Fire District and desires to annex the remaining portion of the district pursuant to the procedures established in this section. (b)(1) The City of Hueytown may annex the remaining unincorporated portion of the Virginia Volunteer Fire District, upon the filing of a petition with the clerk of the municipality requesting the annexation. The petition filed with the clerk of the municipality shall contain all of the following: a. Signatures of 10 percent of the qualified electors residing within the district or signatures of 100 qualified electors, whichever is less. b. 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...
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36-15-1
Section 36-15-1 Duties generally. The Attorney General shall keep his or her office at the capital city and perform the following duties: (1)a. He or she shall give his or her opinion in writing, or otherwise, on any question of law connected with the interests of the state or with the duties of any of the departments, when required by the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Education, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, Director of Finance, Comptroller, State Health Officer, Public Service Commissioners, Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, or the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue or any other officer or department of the state when it is made, by law, his or her duty so to do, and he or she shall also give his or her opinion to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of either house, when required, upon any matter under the consideration of the committee. b. The Attorney General shall give his or her opinion, in writing...
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28-3-190
Section 28-3-190 Levy of tax; collection; disposition of proceeds by localities; enforcement and administration; penalties; exclusive nature of tax. (a) Levy. In addition to the excise tax levied by Article 5A of Chapter 3 of this title and the licenses provided for by Chapter 3A of this title and by Section 28-3-194, and any acts amendatory thereof, supplementary thereto or substituted therefor, and municipal and county licenses, there is hereby levied a privilege or excise tax on every person licensed under the provisions of Chapter 3A who sells, stores, or receives for the purpose of distribution, to any person, firm, corporation, club, or association within the State of Alabama any beer. The tax levied hereby shall be measured by and graduated in accordance with the volume of sales by such person of beer, and shall be an amount equal to one and six hundred twenty-five thousands cents (1.625 cents) for each four fluid ounces or fractional part thereof. (b) Collection. The tax levied...
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11-42-83
Section 11-42-83 Assessment and collection of privilege or license tax from persons, firms, etc., carrying on business, etc., in territory exempt from taxation. (a) The council or governing body of the city may annually assess and collect a privilege or license tax from each and every person, firm, company, or corporation engaged in or carrying on any business, vocation, occupation, or profession in the territory exempt from city taxation under the provisions of this article so long as the same is exempt from city taxation under the provisions of this article, on the following basis: Such license tax assessed and collected from each person, firm, company, or corporation shall be in proportion to the capital employed within the territory exempt from city taxation in such trade, business, vocation, occupation, or profession, including the value of the land with improvements thereon, used in such trade, business, vocation, or occupation and shall not exceed $2.00 per $1,000.00 where the...
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11-42-80
Section 11-42-80 Assessment, collection, and disposition of street tax in territory exempt from taxation. The council or governing body of the city shall have the same rights and powers by and under an ordinance enacted to assess and collect a street tax from every person liable to road or street duty residing in the territory exempt from taxation that it has to assess and collect such tax from other persons residing within the corporate limits of the city, but not in territory exempt from taxation. The money collected from persons residing in territory exempt from taxation shall be applied by the council or governing body of the city towards keeping up and maintaining the public roads or streets in the territory exempt from taxation or in opening new roads or streets in such territory. (Code 1907, §1112; Code 1923, §1806; Code 1940, T. 37, §175.)...
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11-46-22
Section 11-46-22 Notice of elections. (a) It shall be the duty of the mayor to give notice of all municipal elections by publishing notice thereof in a newspaper published in the city or town, and, if no newspaper is published in the city or town, then by posting notices thereof in three public places in the city or town. When the notice is of a regular election, the notice shall be published on the first Tuesday in July preceding the election or the first business day thereafter. When the notice is of a special election to be held on the second Tuesday in a month, the notice shall be published on or before the second Tuesday of the second month preceding the month in which the election will be held, except where otherwise provided by law. When the notice is of a special election to be held on the fourth Tuesday of a month, the notice shall be published on or before the fourth Tuesday of the second month preceding the month in which the election will be held, except where otherwise...
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