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11-46-1
Section 11-46-1 Municipalities may provide for election, compensation, bond, etc., of officers.
Cities and towns may, except as otherwise provided by law, by ordinance provide for the election
at any regular municipal election or for the appointment of such officers as are deemed needful
or proper for the good government of the city or town and the due exercise of its corporate
powers, fix their terms of office, fix their compensation and prescribe the duties of such
officers, their liabilities and powers and require them to give bond in such sum and to be
conditioned and approved as the council may prescribe. (Code 1907, §1171; Code 1923, §1887;
Code 1940, T. 37, §34.)...
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11-44B-5
Section 11-44B-5 Conduct of elections; qualifications of mayor and council; qualifying fee.
The elections provided for herein, and all subsequent elections, shall be conducted, the vote
canvassed, and the results declared in the same manner as provided by the general law of the
state pertaining to municipal elections for mayor-council forms of government, except as otherwise
herein provided by this article. The mayor shall be elected by the whole of the electors of
the city, shall be a qualified elector of the city, and shall have been a resident of the
city for at least 90 days prior to his election and shall reside within the limits of the
city during his term of office. Council members shall be elected by the electors of the district
which they represent, shall be qualified electors of the city, shall have been residents of
the district which they represent for at least 90 days prior to their election, and shall
reside in said district during their term of office. Any person...
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45-23A-21
Section 45-23A-21 City council. (a) Notwithstanding any law, whether special, local, general,
or municipal ordinance, to the contrary, pursuant to Civil Action No. 85-T-1332-N, U.S. District
Court for the Middle District Northern Division Federal Court Order, the City of Daleville
in Dale County, shall not designate by place number or by other similar method seats for its
city council. (b) The City Council of the City of Daleville, Alabama, shall consist of five
members elected at large, without designated or numbered places. In the election of members
of the city council, the five candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected
to the council. There shall be no runoff election. In the event of a tie vote for the fifth
highest receiving votes, the winner shall be selected by a majority vote of the newly elected
mayor and council. In the election for members of the city council, each qualified voter shall
be entitled to vote for any number of candidates from one to...
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11-44C-93
Section 11-44C-93 Provisions applicable regardless of form of government chosen. It is the
legislative intent of this bill that the following provisions shall apply regardless of which
form of government the majority of the qualified electors voting in the election provided
herein choose: (1) Within 30 days of taking office, the officials of the form of government
chosen shall adopt an ordinance to provide that all appointments made by the mayor, council
or city commission to positions in city government, boards, commissions, agencies, authorities,
or any other organization or entity of the city or to any positions to which said officials
make appointments, shall fairly and equitably reflect the makeup of the total community with
due consideration given to all demographic characteristics of the population. (2) Within 30
days of taking office, the officials of the form of government chosen shall adopt an ordinance
to provide that all contracts or agreements entered into by the city or...
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11-44G-2
Section 11-44G-2 Procedures in event of vacancy - Mayor. (a)(1) In the event of the absence
or disability of the mayor in any Class 7 or Class 8 municipality, the functions of the office
shall be exercised by the chair pro tempore of the city council and, during his or her absence
or disability, by such person as the city council may appoint from its membership, which appointment
shall be entered upon the minutes of the city council. (2) In the event of a vacancy from
any cause in the office of mayor, the city council shall fill the vacancy either from its
own membership or from without the membership of the city council. The person elected by the
city council to fill the vacancy in the office of mayor shall be a qualified elector in the
municipality and shall meet all other legal qualifications required by law for the performance
of the duties of the office to which elected. (3)a. In the event a vacancy in the office of
mayor is not filled within 60 days after it occurs in a Class 7...
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11-43B-16
Section 11-43B-16 Redistricting of boundaries after publication of census or change in corporate
limits. After the publication of a federal census of population or a substantial change in
the corporate limits, if any council district contains a population which is 10 percent more
or less than the total population of the city divided by the number of council districts,
then the council shall redistrict the boundaries in the following manner: (1) Within six months
after the publication of such a census or after such a change in the corporate limits, the
mayor shall file with the council a report recommending a plan for redistricting of the boundaries
in accordance with the following standards: 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 possible the same population, but shall not vary by...
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11-44B-2
Section 11-44B-2 Ordinances establishing boundaries of seven-council districts and salaries
of mayor and council members; compliance with Voting Rights Act; election of mayor and council;
powers and duties of municipality. If said ordinance be adopted by the governing body of any
municipality to which this chapter applies, then: (1) Within 90 days thereafter, the commission
board of such municipality shall adopt an ordinance, a. Establishing the boundaries of the
seven-council districts herein provided for, and b. Establishing the salaries to be paid to
the mayor and council members to be elected at the first election to be held hereunder; (2)
The commission board shall take such steps as are necessary to comply with the Federal Voting
Rights Act of 1965, as amended; (3) After receipt of notification of compliance with the Federal
Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality
shall give notice that an election for mayor and all...
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11-44B-8
Section 11-44B-8 Temporary and permanent vacancies in office of mayor; vacancy on city council.
(a) Temporary Vacancy in the Office of Mayor. The council shall elect from its members, a
president pro tempore of the council. In the case of the temporary absence of the mayor or
his inability to serve temporarily on account of sickness or any other good reason, the president
pro tempore of the council shall act as mayor pro tempore with the power and authority of
the mayor during such time. Provided; however, the president pro tempore while acting as mayor
pro tempore shall not exercise the mayor's right to vote nor the right of approval or veto
of ordinances or resolutions, nor receive the rate of compensation or allowance of the mayor.
In the event of a failure or refusal of the president pro tempore of the council to act, the
council may appoint one of its members to act as mayor pro tempore with like effect, which
appointment shall be entered in the minutes of the council. While...
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45-37A-40
Section 45-37A-40 Board of education. (a) Beginning with the municipal elections in 2002, a
school board for the City of Bessemer, Alabama, is established and shall be elected in 2002,
and every four years thereafter. The board shall be called the Bessemer City Board of Education.
The board shall be composed of seven members, with one member being elected from each of the
districts from which the Bessemer City Council are elected, by a majority of the qualified
electors voting who reside in the respective districts. (b) Candidates for each place on the
board of education shall be at least 21 years of age, residents of the district which they
seek to represent on the board for at least 90 consecutive days immediately preceding the
deadline date for qualifying as a candidate, and shall not have a record of conviction for
a felony or any other crime involving moral turpitude. Each candidate shall pay a qualifying
fee in an amount prescribed by the Bessemer City Council. (c)(1) The...
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11-43C-90
Section 11-43C-90 Reapportionment of council districts because of population change. Whenever
there shall be a change in the population in any of the five districts heretofore established
following a decennial federal census beginning in 1990, there shall be a reapportionment of
the council districts in the following manner: (1) The mayor shall within six months after
the publication of the 1990 federal census, and each decennial federal census thereafter,
file with the council a report containing a recommended plan for the 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 district shall contain as nearly as is reasonable the same population. The report shall
include a map and description of the districts recommended and shall be drafted...
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