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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11-43C-38
Section 11-43C-38 Divisions of city government; executive directors of divisions; city attorney;
outside counsel. (a) There are hereby created three divisions of city government: Public works,
finance, and public safety. The mayor shall appoint department heads to the above divisions.
Upon the first vacancy, of any nature whatsoever, in the office of police chief or fire chief,
the mayor may appoint the police chief and fire chief, respectively, from outside the said
merit system, with the approval of four members of the council who shall serve at the pleasure
of the mayor; provided, however, such officers shall be removed from office only upon recommendation
of the mayor with the approval of four council members. (b) The mayor also is authorized to
appoint a city attorney who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor and shall be compensated
in the manner and at a rate approved by the mayor. In addition to the city attorney, the mayor,
from time to time in his sole discretion, is...
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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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11-44C-4
Section 11-44C-4 Conduct of election; portions of chapter applicable upon choosing form of
government; election expenses. The election shall be held and conducted in accordance with
the provisions of Title 11, except as herein otherwise specifically provided. If the votes
shall be in favor of the court ordered district commission form of government then only the
applicable provisions of this chapter shall thereby be adopted for such city; if the majority
of the votes shall be in favor of the mayor-council form of government, then only the applicable
provisions of this chapter shall thereby be adopted for such city. The expenses of any and
all elections provided for in this chapter shall be paid by the city. (Acts 1985, No. 85-229,
p. 96, §4.)...
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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified
regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause
to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city
or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical
lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards
and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list
into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting
machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical
group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared
with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the
probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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45-37A-52
Section 45-37A-52 Applicability. Any city in the State of Alabama, which has a population of
more than 300,000, according to the last federal census, or which may hereafter have such
population according to any federal census that may be taken hereafter, may adopt the mayor-council
form of government by proceeding in the manner hereinafter in this part provided. (Acts 1955,
No. 452, p. 1004, §1.01; Acts 1961, No. 1030, p. 1616, §2; Acts 1965, No. 131, p. 197, §1.)...

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11-43A-8
Section 11-43A-8 Name of governing body; composition of council; election of council; alternate
form for Class 6 cities. (a) The governing body provided for herein shall be known collectively
as the "Council of the City (Town) of _____ (name of city or town to be inserted)"
and shall have the powers and duties hereinafter provided. Except as hereinafter provided
and as otherwise provided for in Section 11-43A-1.1, the council shall have five members.
One member shall be the mayor, elected by the voters at large, to preside over the deliberations
of the council. One member shall be a council member elected by the voters at large. Three
members shall be council members elected by the voters from each of three single-member districts.
The council first elected shall qualify and take office on the first Monday in November following
the date of the next ensuing municipal election held for the election of members of a municipal
governing body during a general municipal election year. (b) In...
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11-50-149
Section 11-50-149 Disposition of ballots at conclusion of election; canvassing of returns and
declaration of election results. The ballots shall be kept in a sealed box; and, at the conclusion
of the election, the box shall be turned over forthwith by the managers to the officers designated
as the returning officers and shall by them be safely and at once delivered to the mayor or
other chief executive officer of such city or town. Within three days after such election
the votes shall be canvassed and counted by the board of aldermen or other governing body
of such city or town, and it shall declare the result. (Acts 1909, No. 212, p. 253; Code 1923,
§2067; Code 1940, T. 37, §384.)...
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11-47-172
Section 11-47-172 Procedure for condemnation and appeal; asssessment of value, etc. (a) Whenever
the proprietor or proprietors or any of them of any of the lands necessary for any of the
purposes provided in Section 11-47-171 or necessary for opening new streets or widening old
streets and the mayor or other chief executive officer cannot agree on a price of said lands
or cannot agree as to the amount to be paid for changing the grade of any street, sidewalk,
or public place and whenever the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall be an infant, non
compos mentis, a nonresident, or unknown, then the mayor or other chief executive officer
shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for a writ of ad quod damnum to
be directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon three freeholders of the
county to appear before the sheriff on a day named, not less than two days from the date of
the writ, and to proceed under his direction to assess a value of the lands of...
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17-6-45
Section 17-6-45 Performance of duties under chapter for municipal elections. In case of any
municipal election held at a time different from a general state or federal election, the
duties herein prescribed for the judge of probate in respect to receiving nominations, printing
and distributing ballots and cards of instructions shall be discharged under the same sanctions
by the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town. (Code 1896, §1615; Code
1907, §395; Code 1923, §485; Code 1940, T. 17, §171; §17-8-26; amended and renumbered
by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §33.)...
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