11-43D-14
Section 11-43D-14 Powers and duties of mayor. The mayor shall be the chief executive
officer, and shall have general supervision and control of all other officers, employees,
and affairs of the city, which shall include the management of the public utilities, either
owned and operated by the city or operated by private corporations under contracts with the
city. The general law applicable to mayor-council municipalities notwithstanding, the mayor
shall have the power to appoint all officers and employees of the city subject to the rules
and regulations of any civil service or merit system that may be applicable to said city.
The mayor may remove any person appointed by him subject to the rules and regulations of any
civil service or merit system that may be applicable to said city. (Acts 1989, No. 89-750,
p. 1518, §14.)...
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11-44A-30
Section 11-44A-30 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 7 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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11-44C-11
Section 11-44C-11 Government known as "mayor-council form of government";
powers of city vested in council; manner in which powers exercised. The municipal government
of any such city proceeding under this chapter shall be known as the "mayor-council form
of government." Pursuant to the provisions and limitations of this chapter and subject
to the limitations imposed by the Constitution of Alabama and its laws, all powers of the
city shall be vested in the council elected as herein provided and hereinafter referred to
as "the council," which shall enact ordinances, adopt budgets and determine policies.
All powers of the city shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or if
the manner be not prescribed, then in such manner as may be prescribed by law or by ordinance.
(Acts 1985, No. 85-229, p. 96, §11.)...
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11-44E-2
Section 11-44E-2 Authority to adopt mayor/commission/city manager form of government;
ordinance for election of commissioners. At any time upon passage of this chapter and said
chapter becoming law, any Class 5 municipality may adopt the mayor/commission/city manager
form of government by adopting an ordinance by a majority vote of the members of that governing
body adopting the mayor/commission/city manager form of government. Within 30 days of the
adoption of the ordinance adopting the mayor/commission/city manager form of government, members
of that governing body shall adopt a second ordinance for the election of commissioners from
six single-member districts with the district boundaries established therein. (Acts 1988,
No. 88-445, p. 660, §1.02; Acts 1990, No. 90-287, p. 379, §1.)...
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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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45-42-162.08
Section 45-42-162.08 Elections. The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission
of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the
metropolitan-government shall be held on the date established by the judge of probate. Before
such election the governing body of the municipalities and the county shall cause the metropolitan
area to be divided into nine districts containing as nearly as possible an equal number of
people. The division of the metropolitan-government into districts shall be by a committee
appointed as follows: Three persons appointed by the Limestone County Commission; two persons
appointed by the Athens City Commission; two persons by a committee of mayors from the four
incorporated cities; one person appointed by the Limestone County School Board; and one person
appointed by the Athens City School Board. Candidates for metropolitan-government offices
shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal...
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11-44B-6
Section 11-44B-6 Meetings; quorum; majority vote requirements; procedure for adoption
of ordinances and resolutions; approval or veto of mayor; record of proceedings; power of
council as to city employees; all powers of city vested in council. (a) The council shall
hold regular public meetings at least once a week at some regular hour to be fixed by the
council. The council may hold such adjourned, called, or other meetings as may be necessary
or convenient. (b) All council meetings shall comply with the applicable law concerning open
or public meetings. (c) A majority of the elected membership of the council shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction of any and every power conferred upon the council. For the purposes
of determining a quorum, the mayor shall not be counted. (d) The affirmative vote of a majority
of the council members present, and the mayor in the event of a tie, as provided by this article,
shall be sufficient for the passage of any resolution, bylaw, or ordinance,...
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11-98-2
Section 11-98-2 Districts; creation; composition; powers and duties. The creating authority
may by ordinance or resolution, as may be appropriate, create within its respective jurisdiction
districts composed of the territory lying wholly within the municipality or of any part or
all of the territory lying wholly within the county. The districts shall be political and
legal subdivisions of the state, with power to sue and be sued in their corporate names and
to incur debt and issue bonds. The bonds shall be negotiable instruments and shall be solely
the obligations of the district and not the State of Alabama. The bonds and the income thereof
shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama. The bonds shall be payable out
of the income, revenues, and receipts of the district. The bonds shall be authorized and issued
by resolution or ordinance of the creating authority of the district and shall be of such
series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not to...
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11-43A-1.1
Section 11-43A-1.1 Organization of council-manager form of government; election of council
members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, after the judge of probate has
certified to the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality the sufficiency
of a petition asking that the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
be submitted to the qualified voters of the municipality, any Class 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 municipality
having the mayor-council form of government, by resolution of the council, may provide for
the council in a municipality proposing to adopt the council-manager form of government to
be composed of either five or seven members as follows: One member shall be the mayor elected
at large, who shall be a voting member of the council and either four or six members shall
be council members elected either at large or from single-member districts, as the resolution
shall provide. If a municipality has single-member districts for the...
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11-43C-90
Section 11-43C-90 Reapportionment of council districts because of population change.
Whenever there shall be a change in the population in any of the five districts heretofore
established following a decennial federal census beginning in 1990, there shall be a reapportionment
of the council districts in the following manner: (1) The mayor shall within six months after
the publication of the 1990 federal census, and each decennial federal census thereafter,
file with the council a report containing a recommended plan for the reapportionment of the
council district boundaries to comply with the following specifications: a. Each district
shall be formed of contiguous, and to the extent reasonably possible, compact territory, and
its boundary lines shall be the centerlines of streets or other well-defined boundaries. b.
Each district shall contain as nearly as is reasonable the same population. The report shall
include a map and description of the districts recommended and shall be drafted...
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