11-43A-3.3
Section 11-43A-3.3 Election in Class 7 municipality - Adoption of council-manager form of government.
(a)(1) In addition to any mayor-council form of government authorized in this chapter, the
governing body of a Class 7 municipality may elect by resolution to adopt a council-manager
form of government comprised of a mayor and four council members elected at-large. No petition
of qualified electors is required to initiate such an election by the governing body pursuant
to this section. If the governing body elects to adopt a council-manager form of government
pursuant to this section, an election on the question shall be submitted to the qualified
electors of the municipality. The governing body shall hold the election before January 1,
2011. The question submitted at the election shall be: "Shall the municipality of ______
adopt a council-manager form of government consisting of a mayor and four council members
elected in an at-large election to become operative on the first Monday in...
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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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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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11-43A-36
Section 11-43A-36 Continuation in office of persons in civil service or merit system. Any person
holding an office or position in the civil service of the municipality under any civil service
or merit system applicable to the municipality when the council-manager form of government
shall be adopted shall continue to hold such office in the civil service of the municipality
under the council-manager form of government and with the same status, rights, and privileges
and subject to the same conditions under such applicable civil service or merit system. (Acts
1982, No. 82-517, p. 851, §35.)...
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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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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-23.003
Section 45-8A-23.003 Second election not called within four years. If the council-manager form
of government is not adopted at the special election so called, the question of adopting such
form of government shall not be resubmitted to the voters of such city for adoption within
four years thereafter, and then the question of adopting the form of government may be resubmitted
in the manner above provided. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.04.)...
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45-8A-23.004
Section 45-8A-23.004 Question submitted; form of ballot. At such election the question to be
submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on separate ballots and shall read as follows:
"Shall the council-manager form of government, as provided by the City Manager Act of
1953, be adopted for the City of ... ? "Yes ... . "No ..." The voter shall
mark his or her ballot with a cross mark before or after the word which expresses his or her
choice. No other question shall be submitted to the voters of such city upon this ballot.
If voting machines are used at any voting place in such election, the above question may at
the discretion of the election commission of the city or other body having charge of the conduct
of municipal elections in such city, be submitted as a separate question on voting machines
so used. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.05.)...
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11-44B-10
Section 11-44B-10 Initial territorial limits; reapportionment of council districts; recommended
plan for reapportionment; redistricting ordinance. (a) The initial territorial limits of any
municipality which adopts the mayor-council form of government as provided by this chapter
shall be the same as under its former organization. (b) If following a federal census of population
or an alteration of the corporate limits, any council district shall contain a population
of 10 percent more or less than the total population of the city divided by seven, then 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 such federal census of population
for the municipality or within six months after there shall have been such 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...
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