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11-42-103
Section 11-42-103 Division of consolidated municipality into wards by commission; election
of mayor and other officers. (a) The mayor and one councilman from each municipality to be
selected by the council shall be constituted a commission to divide such consolidated municipality
into wards, and if they are unable to agree, they shall call in another person who shall cast
a deciding vote, and such consolidated city or town shall be divided into wards as the commission
or a majority of them may direct. (b) At a day not more than 30 days after said commission
has divided such city or town into wards, an election, conforming to the general municipal
election law, shall be held and conducted by officers selected by such commission, at which
election a mayor and the proper officers for a municipality of such size shall be elected.
Officers conducting such election shall forthwith count the votes and make return to the commission,
who shall declare the results of such election, and those...
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11-43-63
Section 11-43-63 Division of municipality into single-member districts. Any city or town council
of this state not currently electing its members from single-member districts pursuant to
state law may, not less than six months prior to the regular general municipal election, by
ordinance adopted by a majority of the membership of the council, divide the municipality
into single-member districts (wards) of not less than five nor more than seven districts (wards).
Provided, however, that the number of districts (wards) in any Class 1, 2, or 3 municipality
may not exceed nine districts (wards). Such ordinance shall be considered only after two weeks
public notice has been given, outlining generally the voting districts under consideration.
The ordinance shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council, where
the council has been divided into districts, shall reside within the boundaries of said district
(ward) for which he or she seeks election, and shall continue to...
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11-43-7.1
Section 11-43-7.1 Expense allowances of members of council or other governing body of Class
1 municipalities and municipalities having population of 250,000 or more. (a) The council
or other governing body of Class 1 municipalities in Alabama and all municipalities in Alabama
having a population of 250,000 or more according to the last or any subsequent federal decennial
census, shall have the power and authority to grant to any member of such council or other
governing body an amount of money for expenses incurred by such member on account of such
member's attending the business of such municipality within its corporate limits. The maximum
expense allowance shall be $500.00 per month for each member of the council, except the president
or chairman of the council or other governing body who may be given an allowance not to exceed
$550.00 per month. (b) In addition to the authority granted by subsection (a) hereof, the
council or other governing body of Class 1 municipalities in Alabama...
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11-43C-13
Section 11-43C-13 Council to consist of five district council members; division of municipality
into districts; changing district boundaries where population varies by over five percent.
The council shall include five members who shall be known and elected as district council
members. Such district council members shall be elected from districts which shall be, as
near as practicable, of equal population according to the last federal decennial census. The
probate judge of the county in which any such municipality is located shall divide the municipality
into five districts which shall be homogeneous in area and shall not vary in population by
over five percent. The boundaries as established by the probate judge shall be certified to
the governing body of the municipality and shall be used for the election of members of the
city council in the 1988 municipal election and for all council elections thereafter. Should
any district established in the municipality for the election of council...
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11-44A-6
Section 11-44A-6 Reapportionment of council districts. Whenever there shall be a change in
population in any of the districts heretofore established, evidenced by a federal census of
population, or by virtue of a substantial change in the corporate limits, there shall be a
reapportionment of the council districts in the manner hereinafter provided: (1) The mayor
shall, within six months after the publication of each federal census of population for the
municipality or within six months after there shall have been any substantial change in the
corporate limits of the municipality, file with the council a report containing a recommended
plan for reapportionment of the council district boundaries to comply with the following specifications:
a. Each district shall be formed of contiguous and, to the extent reasonably possible, compact
territory, and its boundary lines shall be the center lines of streets or other well-defined
boundaries; b. Each district shall contain as nearly as is...
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11-44D-8
Section 11-44D-8 Reapportionment of council districts. Whenever there shall be a change in
population in any of the districts heretofore established, evidenced by a federal census of
population, or by virtue of a substantial change in the corporate limits, there shall be a
reapportionment of the council districts in the manner hereinafter provided: (1) The mayor
shall within six months after the publication of each federal census of population for the
municipality or within six months after there shall have been any substantial change in the
corporate limits of the municipality, file with the council a report containing a recommended
plan for reapportionment of the council district boundaries to comply with the following specifications:
a. Each district shall be formed of contiguous and to the extent reasonably possible, compact
territory, and its boundary lines shall be the center lines of streets or other well defined
boundaries; b. Each district shall contain as nearly as is...
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17-6-45
Section 17-6-45 Performance of duties under chapter for municipal elections. In case of any
municipal election held at a time different from a general state or federal election, the
duties herein prescribed for the judge of probate in respect to receiving nominations, printing
and distributing ballots and cards of instructions shall be discharged under the same sanctions
by the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town. (Code 1896, §1615; Code
1907, §395; Code 1923, §485; Code 1940, T. 17, §171; §17-8-26; amended and renumbered
by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §33.)...
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11-43D-5
Section 11-43D-5 Effect of change of population; manner of reapportionment of council districts.
Whenever there shall be a change in population in any of the districts heretofore established,
evidenced by a federal census of population, or by virtue of a substantial change in the corporate
limits, there shall be a reapportionment of the council districts in the manner hereinafter
provided: (1) The mayor shall within six months after the publication of each federal census
of population for the municipality or within six months after there shall have been any substantial
change in the corporate limits of the municipality, file with the council a report containing
a recommended plan for reapportionment of the council district boundaries to comply with the
following specifications: a. Each district shall be formed of contiguous, and to the extent
reasonably possible, compact territory, and its boundary lines shall be the centerlines of
streets or other well-defined boundaries; b. Each...
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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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11-42-2
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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