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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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