11-47-22
Section 11-47-22 Exercise of police jurisdiction over hospitals, poorhouses, cemeteries, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to exercise police jurisdiction over all lands purchased or acquired by the city or town for the purpose of being used or occupied as a hospital, quarantine station, poorhouse, pesthouse, workhouse or house of correction, schoolhouse, sanitary or storm water sewers, rights-of-way, cemeteries and parks, and the laws and ordinances of the cities and towns shall apply to and extend over all the lands so used or occupied and the inhabitants thereof. (Code 1907, §1288; Code 1923, §2046; Code 1940, T. 37, §477.)...
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11-48-24
Section 11-48-24 Contents of notice as to assessments for improvements. The notice required by Section 11-48-22 shall also state the general character of the improvements, the terminal points thereof and the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or portions thereof along which the improvement has been constructed, and, if the improvement made consists of a sanitary or storm water sewer or sanitary or storm water sewer system, said notice shall also describe the frontage of the property drained by said sewers or the territory or area drained, served, or benefited by said sewer or sewers by naming the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or other lines by which said district is bounded. If the improvement made consists of the draining, elevating, filling or reclaiming of swamps or overflowed, inundated, or submerged land within the limits of any municipality having a population of 60,000 or more inhabitants according to the most recent federal census, said notice shall also...
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11-50-72
Section 11-50-72 Adoption of ordinance or resolution describing sewer system to be purchased, ordering preparation of maps, profiles, etc., thereof, etc. When the council of any city or town shall determine to purchase any sewers or sewer system under the provisions of this division, the cost of which or any part thereof is proposed to be assessed against the property abutting on or drained by said sewers or sewer system, it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution to that effect, describing the sewers or sewer system proposed to be purchased, giving the name or names of the owner or owners of said sewers or sewer system and establishing or describing the territory or area abutting on or drained or that may be drained by such sewers or sewer system and defining the same by naming the streets, avenues, alleys, or other lines by which the same is bounded. In said ordinance the council shall direct that the city or town engineer or such other person as may be designated in such ordinance or...
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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, §1.)...
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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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11-50-55
Section 11-50-55 Regulation, installation, etc., of privies, water closets, septic tanks, etc.; preparation and filing of statement as to installation, etc., of privies, water closets, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to regulate privies, water closets, and septic tanks and the construction thereof and to compel the installation of same and to regulate the connection of such water closets with such septic tanks or with the sewerage system of the city or town; and, in case of failure to install or connect after reasonable notice, then the city or town may install proper privies, water closets, or septic tanks as it deems advisable and connect such water closets with such septic tanks or with the sewerage system of the city or town, the expense of same to be assessed against the property and the cost thereof to be a lien upon the property in favor of the city or town, superior to all other liens, to be collected as other debts are collected or liens enforced....
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11-98-2
Section 11-98-2 Districts; creation; composition; powers and duties. The creating authority may by ordinance or resolution, as may be appropriate, create within its respective jurisdiction districts composed of the territory lying wholly within the municipality or of any part or all of the territory lying wholly within the county. The districts shall be political and legal subdivisions of the state, with power to sue and be sued in their corporate names and to incur debt and issue bonds. The bonds shall be negotiable instruments and shall be solely the obligations of the district and not the State of Alabama. The bonds and the income thereof shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama. The bonds shall be payable out of the income, revenues, and receipts of the district. The bonds shall be authorized and issued by resolution or ordinance of the creating authority of the district and shall be of such series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not to...
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45-16A-20.01
Section 45-16A-20.01 Authority to operate cable, telecommunications, etc., systems. In addition to all other power, rights, and authority heretofore granted by law, the City of Elba in Coffee County and municipal instrumentalities of the City of Elba may acquire, establish, purchase, construct, maintain, enlarge, extend, lease, improve, and operate cable systems, telecommunications equipment and telecommunications systems, and furnish cable service, interactive computer service, and Internet access and other Internet services and telecommunications service, or any combination thereof, to the inhabitants of the municipality and surrounding territory. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the City of Elba in Coffee County and municipal instrumentalities of the City of Elba may furnish to the inhabitants of the City of Elba and surrounding territory: Internet access and other Internet services; meter reading services; appliance, equipment, or facilities monitoring; alarm...
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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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11-40-10
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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