45-10-20.02
Section 45-10-20.02 Municipal option election. (a) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of not less than 1,300 inhabitants nor more than 1,500 inhabitants being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body shall call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether alcoholic beverages may be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for the municipal option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to determine whether the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted within this municipality," on the ballot to be used for the municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality? Yes...
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28-2A-1
Section 28-2A-1 Procedure for wet or dry classification option elections. (a) Any municipality having a population of 1,000 or more, may change its classification from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option election, in the following manner. (b) Upon petition of 30 percent of the number of voters voting in the last preceding general election of the municipality being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body must call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for municipal option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to permit the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality." On the ballot to be used for such municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do...
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45-37A-52.01
Section 45-37A-52.01 Petition for election. The filing of a petition signed by 10 percent or more of the qualified electors of such city, asking that the proposition of the adoption of the mayor-council form of government for such city be submitted to the qualified voters thereof, with the judge of probate of the county in which such city is located, shall mandatorily require an election to be held as herein provided. Whenever such a petition purporting to be signed by at least 10 percent of the qualified voters of such city shall be presented to such judge of probate, he or she shall examine such petition and determine whether or not the same is signed by at least 10 percent of the qualified voters of such city, and if such petition is signed by the requisite number of voters to require such an election, he or she shall within 15 days from the receipt of such petition certify such fact to the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city for which such election is so petitioned,...
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45-36-20
Section 45-36-20 Charge of classification for incorporated municipalities. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 2A of Title 28, and pursuant to authority granted by Section 104 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the electors of an incorporated municipality located in Jackson County with a population of 2,500 or more inhabitants may change its classification from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option election as provided by this section. (b)(1) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of 2,500 or more inhabitants being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body shall call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether alcoholic beverages may be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for the municipal option...
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45-30-140.04
Section 45-30-140.04 Fire protection service fee - Referendum. (a) The qualified electors of a fire district may file a petition, signed by at least 50 registered voters in the fire district, with the office of the judge of probate, who shall then order a referendum to be held in the fire district on the question of establishing a fire protection service fee for the fire district. Section 45-30-140.08 shall apply to all elections provided for by this article. (b) The petition shall contain the name and description of the fire district area and shall request the judge of probate to call an election on the following question: "Do you favor the assessment of a fire protection service fee in the amount of $____ a month collected annually with property tax payments for the purpose of funding fire protection services in this volunteer fire district? Yes __ No __." (c) The fee may not exceed six dollars ($6) a month. (Act 2015-513, 1st Sp. Sess., ยง5.)...
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45-48-142.27
Section 45-48-142.27 Election procedures. (a) The provision of the election laws governing the registration of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment of election officers, voting, and canvassing returns at a general election shall apply to the elections for fire district funding. (b) When a petition for the holding of an election is filed with the judge of probate not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days prior to some other election to be held in the territory in which the election is sought by the petition, the judge of probate shall order the election sought by the petition to be held the same day as the other election held. The county governing body shall pay for the necessary expenses of advertising and conducting the election out of the general funds of the county. (c) If the petition is not filed at a time that will permit the election sought thereby to be held at the same time some other election is held, as herein provided, the judge of...
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45-30-140.08
Section 45-30-140.08 Election procedures. (a) The election laws governing the registration of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment of election officers, voting, and canvassing returns at a general election shall apply to the elections for fire district funding. (b) When a petition for the holding of an election is filed with the judge of probate not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days prior to some other election to be held in the territory in which the election is sought by the petition, the judge of probate shall order the election sought by the petition to be held the same day as the other election held. The county governing body shall pay for the necessary expenses of advertising and conducting the election out of the general funds of the county. (c) The judge of probate shall give notice of any election held under Section 45-30-140.04, publishing for three weeks, at least once a week, on the same day of each week, in a newspaper of...
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45-48-142.23
Section 45-48-142.23 Fire protection service fee - Referendum. (a) After the county commission establishes a fire district, the qualified electors of that district may file a petition, signed by at least five percent of the qualified electors in the fire district who voted in the last general election, with the office of the judge of probate who shall then order a referendum to be held in the fire district on the question of establishing a fire protection service fee for the fire district. Section 45-48-142.27 shall apply to all elections provided by this subpart. (b) The petition shall contain the name and description of the fire district area and shall request the judge of probate to call an election on the following question: "Do you favor the assessment of a fire service fee in the amount of $ (dollars) a month for the purpose of funding fire protection services in this volunteer fire district? Yes No" (c) The fee shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) a month. (Act 2013-403, p. 1543,...
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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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17-6-5
Section 17-6-5 List of voters for each voting place. The judge of probate shall prepare a separate, correct alphabetical list of all the names of qualified electors or voters for each voting place from the state voter registration list, pursuant to Sections 17-4-1 and 17-4-2, for all elections hereafter held in this state, whether primary, general, or special, or federal, state, district, or county, and, except for municipal elections, shall certify separately for each voting place, to the election officials appointed for holding the election, which election official shall be an elector qualified to vote only in the box at the place for which he or she is chosen to serve, a list containing only the names of the voters or qualified electors entitled to vote at the voting place. Nothing in this section shall prevent a series of lists of names of voters or electors of other voting places from being certified by the judge of probate on the same general list for information. A vote cast at...
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