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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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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal; household
exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or municipal
governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public collection
and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department. The county
commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal services by
contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house service
or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within reasonable
(generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household and the wastes
managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission or municipal governing
body providing services to the public under this article shall have the power and authority
by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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45-49-140.33
Section 45-49-140.33 Election requirements. (a) If the planned expansion of a municipal police
jurisdiction includes any portion of the Turnerville fire protection district, the council
or governing body of the respective municipality may request that the Judge of Probate of
Mobile County order an election to be held in the affected area. Only those qualified electors
residing within the boundaries of the affected area shall participate in the election. (1)
The council or governing body of the municipality may pass a resolution stating that the public
health or public good requires that the affected area, as described in the resolution, shall
be brought within the police jurisdiction of the municipality. (2) The mayor or other executive
head of the municipality shall certify and file a copy of the resolution together with a map
of the area showing its relationship to the municipal police jurisdiction to which the property
is proposed to be included, with the judge of probate. (3) At...
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11-43A-81
Section 11-43A-81 Election ballots. At every such election all ballots to be used by the voters
shall be printed and prepared by the municipality and shall contain the names of all candidates
seeking election to the office of mayor and to the office of councilman for each of the seven
council districts. The ballot shall conform, as nearly as can be, to the ballot prescribed
in the applicable general municipal election laws, and the election shall be conducted as
nearly as can be as prescribed by such laws. (Acts 1991, No. 91-545, p. 973, ยง12.)...
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45-42A-23.02
Section 45-42A-23.02 Historic preservation commission. A historic preservation commission,
hereinafter referred to as the commission, with the following membership, duties, and powers,
may be established by ordinance of the governing body: (1) The commission shall be composed
of five members. Residents of the historic district or districts shall elect four members
and one member shall be a member of the City of Athens governing body designated by it. (2)
The members of the commission elected by the residents of the historic district during annual
meetings of the historic district association, except the member of the City of Athens governing
body, who shall all serve by virtue of, and whose term shall correspond with the term of his
of her office, shall serve for terms of four years. At the expiration of the term or the death
or resignation of any member, the resulting vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term
of such member by election at the next annual meeting of the historic...
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11-46-23
Section 11-46-23 Authority and procedure for adjustment of boundary lines of wards, division
of wards into voting districts, etc. The boundaries of wards within municipalities which have
been divided into wards as now defined shall so remain until changed by ordinance. Hereafter
the municipal governing body may, in its discretion, readjust the boundary lines of wards
and may divide or consolidate any number of wards and resubdivide the same into voting districts;
provided, that no such adjustment shall be made within three months of any election unless
such adjustment is made during calendar year 1984 for the purpose of complying with the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 as amended. Whenever the municipal governing body readjusts any ward lines
or divides a ward into voting districts, the ordinance whereby the ward is established or
subdivided into voting districts shall describe the territory composing the ward, and when
the ward has been subdivided, the territory composing each district...
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11-46-27
Section 11-46-27 Appointment, compensation, etc., of election officers. (a) The municipal governing
body or a majority of them must, not less than 15 days before the holding of any municipal
election, appoint from the qualified electors of the respective wards or voting districts
officers to hold the election as follows: Where paper ballots are used, one returning officer
for each ward and three inspectors and two clerks for each box at each voting place and, where
voting machines are used, an inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and second assistant clerk
for each voting machine; except that in the event voting centers or voting places are established,
then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the number of election officials.
In any Class 6, Class 7, or Class 8 municipality, election officials must reside within the
municipality and may serve at any polling place within the municipality. An election official
appointed to serve in a polling place other than where he or...
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11-42-100.1
Section 11-42-100.1 Mode of consolidation - When municipality to annex city or town. (a) When
two or more municipalities lying contiguous to each other desire to consolidate and operate
as one municipality, they may do so by proceeding in the manner hereafter provided in this
section. (b) If it is the purpose to annex a city or town to another municipality, then the
governing body of each city or town shall adopt an ordinance expressing a willingness to such
annexation. After both ordinances are passed and published as provided for by law, the governing
body of the municipality to be annexed shall, by resolution submit the question of annexation
at a special election to be held at a time specified in such resolution, not less than 40
days nor more than 90 days after passage of the last adopted willingness ordinance or at a
time otherwise specified by law. No other proposition may be on the ballot. Said election
shall be held pursuant to the general municipal election laws. (c) In...
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12-12-1
Section 12-12-1 Establishment, designation, etc.; location of sessions of district courts;
abolition of courts not authorized by Constitution. (a) The district court of Alabama, a trial
court of limited jurisdiction, is created and established, effective January 16, 1977, and
shall be subdivided according to districts and styled the district court of the county. Persons
elected or appointed to a district court judgeship must have been admitted to practice law
in this state a combined total of four years or more, or admitted to practice law by any other
state for a combined total of four years or more, prior to beginning a term of office or appointment
to serve a vacant term of office. In addition, the person must not have received from any
state or state bar association a suspension or disbarment within the 10 years preceding election
or appointment. (b) Sessions of the district court shall be held in each county seat, each
municipality containing a population of 1,000 or more where no...
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35-8B-3
Section 35-8B-3 Sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within district. (a) If a majority
of the board of control of a community development district formed under Section 35-8B-1(a),
(b), or (d) consents to and approves the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within
the district, it shall be lawful to sell and distribute alcoholic beverages in the community
development district in the following manner and subject to the following terms, definitions,
and conditions: (1) Upon being licensed by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, alcoholic
beverages may be sold by the club of the district to members and their guests for on-premises
consumption only. The club shall be licensed to sell alcoholic beverages to its members and
their guests as a club liquor retail licensee by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
upon the club's compliance with the provisions of the alcoholic beverage licensing code and
the regulations made thereunder. The original application...
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