11-52-1
Section 11-52-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words or phrases shall
have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPAL. Cities or towns. (2) MAYOR. The chief executive of the municipality,
whether the official designation of his office be mayor, city manager, or otherwise. (3) COUNCIL.
The chief legislative body of the municipality. (4) COUNTY COMMISSION. The chief administrative
or legislative body of the county. (5) STREETS. Streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes,
alleys, viaducts, and other ways. (6) SUBDIVISION. The division of a lot, tract, or parcel
of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of sale, of lease, or of building development. The term includes resubdivision
and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land
or territory subdivided. (Acts 1935, No. 534, p....
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11-52-80.1
Section 11-52-80.1 Board of Adjustment - Definitions; membership; reversing, affirming or modifying
decisions, etc.; terms of planning commission members terminated; duties, powers, etc. (a)
When used in this section, the words municipality, municipalities, and mayor shall have the
meanings as provided for in Section 11-52-1. (b) The council of any Class 5 municipality with
a city manager or mayor commission form of government may determine by ordinance that any
board of adjustment of the municipality created pursuant to Section 11-52-80, shall consist
of seven members: six regular members appointed by the council and representing as equally
as possible the several districts, wards, or other areas of the municipality, to be determined
by the council, and one regular member appointed by the mayor. (c) In exercising the powers
in subsection (d) of Section 11-52-80, the board may reverse, affirm, or may modify the order,
requirement, decision, or determination appealed from and may enter...
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31-5-6
Section 31-5-6 State Service Commissioner - Qualifications; appointment; term of office and
removal; head of department; representation of state before federal agencies; reciprocal agreements
with other states; appointment of district and county service commissioners and other personnel.
(a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs to appoint a State Service
Commissioner who shall serve for a term of four years subject to removal by the state board
for cause. He shall be appointed on the basis of education, ability, and experience in handling
veterans' affairs, and without regard to political affiliations. Such commissioner shall be
a resident of the State of Alabama and shall be a veteran who served on active duty for a
period of 60 days or more in the military or naval forces of the United States in any war
in which the United States shall have been engaged, and shall have been honorably discharged
therefrom, and all subsequent appointees to such office shall be...
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45-17A-82.01
Section 45-17A-82.01 Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context indicates otherwise,
the following words, terms, and all phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1)
APPOINTING AUTHORITY. The mayor and council shall appoint all department heads and the civil
service board shall hire all other covered employees, as established by state law, city ordinance,
or other legal requirement. (2) BOARD. The civil service board created by this part. (3) CITY.
The City of Tuscumbia, Alabama. (4) COVERED INDIVIDUALS. a. Any individual, including the
head of a department, employed in the service of the city in a department on a regular basis
for at least 32 hours in his or her established workweek or the equivalent for a public safety
individual who is assigned to work a work period pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
b. Those individuals employed by the city on June 7, 2007, who have previously completed the
required probationary period and been granted standing in the...
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45-8A-23.231
Section 45-8A-23.231 Continuance of present officers. All persons holding administrative office
at the time the council-manager form of government is adopted shall continue in office and
in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been made in accordance therewith
for the performance of such duties or the discontinuance of such office. The powers conferred
and the duties imposed upon any office, department, board, or agency of the city by the laws
of the state shall, if such office, department, board, or agency, be abolished by this part,
or under its authority, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the office, department,
board, or agency designated by the council unless otherwise provided herein. (Acts 1953, No.
404, p. 472, §8.02.)...
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45-8A-23.239
Section 45-8A-23.239 When provisions take effect. For the purpose of nominating and electing
members of the council, the provisions of this part shall become applicable to any city adopting
the council-manager form of government upon the filing of the certificate of adoption by the
judge of probate with the mayor of the city as provided for in Section 45-8A-23.004. For all
other purposes the provisions of this part shall become applicable to the city at the time
when the first council of such city elected under the provisions hereof takes office and qualifies.
(Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §8.10.)...
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11-43A-83
Section 11-43A-83 Powers of council; president and president pro tem. The council shall be
the governing body of the municipality and shall exercise all legislative functions of the
municipality. All powers of the municipality, including all powers vested by this article,
by the constitution and by the general and local laws of this state, and the determination
of all matters of policy, shall be vested in the council. Without limitation of the foregoing,
the council shall have the power to appoint and remove the city manager, to establish other
administrative departments of the municipality and to promulgate rules and regulations for
the operation of such departments. The council shall have the power to override any veto of
the mayor relating to ordinances and resolutions of a general and permanent nature by an affirmative
vote of five of the seven members. The council shall have the power to appoint members of
boards, authorities and commissions to the extent otherwise provided...
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11-43D-2
Section 11-43D-2 Adoption of ordinance establishing boundaries of council districts; election
of mayor and city council; assumption of office; future elections; powers and duties. If said
ordinance as hereinabove set out be adopted by the governing body of any municipality to which
this chapter applies, then: (1) Within 90 days thereafter the governing body shall adopt an
ordinance establishing the boundaries of the six council districts herein provided for and
shall take such steps as are necessary to comply with the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965,
as amended. (2) The election of the mayor and all the members of the city council shall be
held as set by ordinance by the council and quadrennially thereafter and in accordance with
the provisions and terms of the general election laws governing mayor-council elections under
the general laws of the State of Alabama. (3) On the first Monday in October, after the election
of the mayor and council, the newly elected mayor and council...
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11-44E-180
Section 11-44E-180 Removal of officers and employees; appeal. Subject to the provisions of
any civil service or merit system applicable to the city, and Section 11-44E-92, any officer
or employee or a head of any office, department, or agency, may be removed by the city manager
or other appointing officer at any time, and the decision of the city manager, or other appointing
officer shall be subject to appeals therefrom, if any are provided by applicable law. (Acts
1988, No. 88-445, p. 660, §10.01; Acts 1988, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 88-831, p. 293, §7.)...

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45-5A-70
Section 45-5A-70 Election of board of education; referendum. (a)(1) Pursuant to Amendment 659
to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and as soon as practicable after final approval of
this section by the United States Department of Justice, if necessary, the Oneonta City Council
shall call an authorizing referendum election, to be held at the time of the next general
election held in the city on November 7, 2000, regarding changing the Oneonta City Board of
Education to an elected city board of education. (2) If a majority of the qualified electors
of the municipality voting in the authorizing referendum election vote in favor of an elected
city board of education, the board shall be established as provided in this section and the
Legislature, as provided in Amendment 659, from time to time, by local law may provide further
for the election and operation of the Oneonta City Board of Education. The local laws may
provide for the termination of the terms of office of members of the...
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