45-8A-23.290
Section 45-8A-23.290 Change to form of government. No city may change from the council-manager
form of government within two years after the adoption thereof. At the end of such period,
or at any time thereafter, the city may change its form of municipal government in the manner
provided by law, provided that no election on the abandonment of the council-manager form
of government shall be held within two years after any other election thereon. (Acts 1953,
No. 404, p. 472, §10.1; Acts 1975, No. 325, p. 852, §1; Acts 1975, No. 858, p. 1696, §1.)...

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11-43A-3.2
Section 11-43A-3.2 Election in Class 6 municipalities - Provisions to supersede other laws
in 1983. The provisions of section 11-43A-3.1, authorizing an election in certain Class 6
municipalities in 1983 on the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
provided in the Council-Manager Act of 1982 and providing for the effective date of such change
if the council-manager form of government is approved, shall supersede all other laws in conflict
herewith only for the purpose of holding the election in 1983 and making the change in the
form of government approved at such election; when such purposes have been effectuated it
shall have no further force or effect. (Acts 1983, No. 83-621, p. 964, §3.)...
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11-44A-30
Section 11-44A-30 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates
federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for
candidates and electors. Any Class 7 municipality operating under a commission form of government
with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation
of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less
than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government
with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts.
The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal
population and shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council shall
have resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days
immediately preceding the date of the election, and...
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11-44F-1
Section 11-44F-1 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates
federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for
candidates and electors. Any Class 8 municipality operating under a commission form of government
with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation
of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less
than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government
with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts.
The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal
population and shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council shall
have resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days
immediately preceding the date of the election, and...
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45-37A-52.250
Section 45-37A-52.250 Abandonment of the mayor-council plan. No city may change from the mayor-council
form of government within two years after the adoption thereof. At the end of such period,
or at any time thereafter, the city may change its form of municipal government to: (1) The
form of municipal government applicable to the city prior to its adoption of the mayor-council
form of government, or to (2) The council-manager form of municipal government provided by
Act Number 518 of the 1953 session of the Legislature of Alabama. (3) One of the commission
forms of municipal government provided by Title 37, Alabama Code of 1940, as amended and supplemented.
(Acts 1955, No. 452, p. 1004, §9.01.)...
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45-8A-23.062
Section 45-8A-23.062 City clerk. If the city clerk of any city which adopts the council-manager
form of government holds office subject to any civil service or merit system, such clerk shall
continue to be the city clerk under the council-manager form of government of such city, and
his or her successor shall be selected and hold office subject to the provisions of such civil
service or merit system. If the city clerk of any city which adopts the council-manager form
of government does not hold office subject to any civil service or merit system, the council
shall elect the city clerk. The city clerk shall give notice of meetings of the council, shall
keep the journal of its proceedings, which shall be authenticated by his or her signature.
He or she shall record in full in the journal all ordinances and resolutions and the minutes
of all the meetings of the council. He or she shall also record in the journal any written
certificates or declarations received by the council under the...
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11-43A-20
Section 11-43A-20 Clerk of municipality; when subject to civil service or merit system; duties.
If the clerk of any municipality which adopts the council-manager form of government holds
office subject to any civil service or merit system, such clerk shall continue to be the clerk
under the council-manager form of government of such municipality, and his successor shall
be selected and hold office subject to the provisions of such civil service or merit system.
If the clerk of the municipality which adopts the council-manager form of government does
not hold office subject to any civil service or merit system, the council shall elect the
clerk by a majority vote of those members elected to the council. The clerk shall give notice
of the meetings of the council and shall keep the journal of its proceedings which shall be
authenticated by his signature. He shall record in full in said journal all ordinances or
resolutions and the minutes of all meetings of the council. He shall perform...
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11-43A-44
Section 11-43A-44 Continuation of ordinances and resolutions unless and until changed or repealed.
All ordinances and resolutions of the municipality in effect at the time of adoption by the
municipality of the council-manager form of government herein set up shall continue in effect
unless and until changed or repealed by the council. (Acts 1982, No. 82-517, p. 851, §43.)...

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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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11-43A-3.1
Section 11-43A-3.1 Election in Class 6 municipalities - Time, procedure, etc. Any law to the
contrary notwithstanding, an election shall be held in every Class 6 municipality wherein
the municipal governing body has elected to have a nine-member council, at the same time that
the election for members of the Alabama legislature is held in 1983; and the question submitted
at such election shall be: "shall the council-manager form of government, provided in
the Council-Manager Act of 1982, with the change in the form of government of such municipality
to become operative on the first Monday in October 1986, be adopted for the municipality of
_____?" The election shall be held and in all things governed as nearly as possible by
the provisions regulating elections on the question the adoption of the council-manager form
of government provided in the Council-Manager Act of 1982, except that no petition of any
of the qualified voters of the municipality need be filed and the mayor of any city...
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