6-5-341
Section 6-5-341 Liability for operation or use of sport shooting range. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) GOVERNMENTAL BODY. The State of Alabama or any county or municipal governing body, agency, board, commission, committee, council, department, district, or any other public body corporate and politic created by constitution, statute, ordinance, rule, or order. (2) PROPERTY. Real property and buildings, structures, and improvements thereon. (3) SPORT SHOOTING RANGE. An area designed and used for rifle shooting, pistol shooting, trapshooting, skeetshooting, or other target shooting and related training or practice for the purpose of sharpshooting or improving in the use of firearms. (b)(1) This section applies to all private or public civil, injunctive, and nuisance actions. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person, firm, or entity who operates or uses a sport shooting range in this state shall not be subject to...
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9-8-26
Section 9-8-26 Land-use regulations - Procedure for adoption; amendment, repeal, etc.; contents; publication, etc. (a) The supervisors of any district shall have authority to formulate regulations governing the use of lands within the district in the interest of conserving soil and soil resources and preventing and controlling soil erosion. The supervisors may conduct such public meetings and public hearings upon tentative regulations as may be necessary to assist them in this work. The supervisors shall not have authority to enact such land-use regulations into law until after they shall have caused due notice to be given of their intention to conduct a referendum for submission of such regulations to the owners of lands lying within the boundaries of the district for their indication of approval or disapproval of such proposed regulations and until after the supervisors have considered the result of such referendum. The proposed regulations shall be embodied in a proposed ordinance....
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11-43A-113
Section 11-43A-113 Referendum to determine form of government. Between October 1, 1991, and March 31, 1992, any municipality adopting the council-manager form of government under this article, regardless of which effective date is chosen in the ordinance referenced in Section 11-43A-70, shall conduct a referendum for the purpose of determining whether after the first Monday in October following the next regularly scheduled municipal election, the municipality shall operate under the council-manager form of government as prescribed herein or, in the alternative, under the mayor-council form of government as set forth in Section 11-43-1 et seq. The council shall give advance notice of the time and purpose of such referendum by publication once each week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. All qualified electors of the municipality may participate in said referendum and the questions to be decided shall be plainly printed upon the ballot....
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11-44D-5
Section 11-44D-5 Council-manager form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors voting in the referendum herein choose a council-manager form of government the following provisions of this chapter shall be applicable: (1) The municipality shall thereafter and as provided in this chapter be governed by a council-manager form of government, with a five-member council elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties as other council-manager municipalities organized under chapter 43A, Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter, which may have been heretofore granted to such municipalities. (2) The council shall include five members who shall be elected from districts, which shall be, as near as practicable, of equal population according to the last federal decennial census, but not more than five percent, more or less, than the average of the five districts. (3) The council members shall be...
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45-42A-23.01
Section 45-42A-23.01 Designation of historic preservation districts. The governing body may by ordinance designate as a historic preservation district any section within the corporate limits of the City of Athens, which section such governing body may determine possesses such historic significance by reason of antiquity, architecture, historic importance of persons or events identified therewith, of such number of historic structures or sites as to give the section a character of historic significance worthy of preservation for the protection of the historic character of the City of Athens. No ordinance designating a historic preservation district shall become effective unless the establishment of such district is requested in writing to the governing body by not less than 60 percent of the property owners within the proposed historic preservation district. The names of the persons last assessing the property for taxes shall be accepted by the governing body as prima facie the owners...
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11-43-64
Section 11-43-64 Procedural requirements for increasing number of single-member districts in Class 3 municipalities. Notwithstanding other provision of law, including but not limited to Section 11-43-63, a Class 3 municipality may, by ordinance adopted by a majority of the membership of the council 90 days prior to the regular general municipal election, increase the number of single-member districts (wards) in the municipality up to and including nine members. The ordinance may only be considered after two weeks public notice has been given, outlining generally the voting districts under consideration. The ordinance shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council, where the council has been divided into districts, shall have resided within the boundaries of the district (ward) for which he or she seeks election for at least 30 days immediately preceding the date of the election, and shall continue to reside in the district he or she represents so long as he or...
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11-44B-24
Section 11-44B-24 Municipalities' authority to annex certain unincorporated territory. Any Class IV incorporated municipality in this state organized in accordance with Section 11-44B-1, et seq., shall have the following power and authority: (a) To annex all or any portion of any unincorporated territory or any unincorporated territories which are enclosed within the corporate limits of the municipality and have been so enclosed for a period of one (1) year or more on April 21, 1994. The municipality shall adopt an ordinance finding and declaring that the unincorporated territory or unincorporated territories set forth and described therein is enclosed within the existing corporate limits of the municipality and has been so enclosed for a period of one (1) year or more on April 21, 1994 and that the annexation of the unincorporated territory or unincorporated territories is in the best interest of the public good and welfare of the municipality. Annexation of the unincorporated...
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12-14-17
Section 12-14-17 Procedure for abolition of municipal courts by governing bodies of municipalities; effect of abolition generally. (a) The governing body of any municipality having a municipal court may at any time by ordinance abolish its municipal court and the jurisdiction of the court so abolished shall be transferred to the district court of the district in which the municipality is located under the conditions and effective dates provided in this section. A certified copy of the ordinance abolishing the municipal court shall be transmitted by certified mail to the clerk of the district court for the district in which the municipality is located, the presiding judge of the circuit court for the judicial circuit in which the municipality is located, the clerk of the circuit court, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Secretary of State and the Administrative Director of the Courts. (b) All pending cases and process in those cases which are to be acted upon by the district court...
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45-37-140.12
Section 45-37-140.12 Service charge ordinances; election. (a) Subject to the conditions stated below in this section, the board of trustees shall be authorized to adopt service charge ordinances levying service charges provided for in Section 45-37-140.11. No service charge ordinance shall take effect and be enforced until the substance of the ordinance has been published in some newspaper of general circulation in the district and at least eight days have elapsed after such newspaper publication and at least eight days have also elapsed after such ordinance in full was posted in each fire station in the district, or at some other public place in the district if there is no such fire station. It is further provided that no such ordinance shall become effective unless it is approved at an election held in response to the petition hereinbelow provided for, or unless the time prescribed for filing such petition expires without the petition being filed. (b) Upon the petition, prescribed in...
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11-43-3
Section 11-43-3 Election, etc., of treasurer, clerk, etc., in cities having more than 6,000 inhabitants; consolidation or abolishment of offices. (a) In cities having a population of more than 6,000, there shall be elected by the council, at its first regular meeting or as soon thereafter as practicable, a city treasurer and a city clerk, who shall hold office until the next general election and until their successors are elected and qualified, and such council may elect an auditor, and any officers whose election is required by ordinance, and, except as otherwise provided, the council shall have authority to fix the terms of office, prescribe their duties, and fix the salaries of the officers. The council may, by ordinance, require the city treasurer and the city clerk to be residents of the city. Except as provided in subsection (b), the council, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected, by and with the consent of the mayor, may consolidate two or more of the offices and may...
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