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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11-43B-30
or lease from any of the elected officials or employees of such municipality any labor, services, work, materials, equipment, or supplies under the competitive bidding procedures established by Section 41-16-50 et seq., and such elected official or employee may legally sell same to the municipality under those procedures. The elected official or employee, if he or she proposes to bid, shall not participate in the decision-making process determining the need for or the purchase of such personal service or personal property, or in the determination of the successful bidder. The council shall affirmatively find that the elected official or employee, from whom the purchase is to be made, is the lowest responsible bidder as required by said procedure. It shall be the duty and responsibility of the city clerk to file a copy of any contract awarded to any elected official or employee with the State Ethics Commission. All awards shall be as a result of original bid takings. It is the...
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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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11-50-390
(1) MUNICIPALITY. Any incorporated city or town in the State of Alabama. (2) GOVERNING BODY. The council, commission, or other governing body of such municipality. (3) MAYOR. The mayor, president, or chairman of the commission or other chief executive officer of such municipality. (4) GAS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. A plant and system for the manufacture, transmission, delivery, and transportation of natural or manufactured gas, together with all appurtenances thereto and all property, real, personal, or mixed, used or useful in connection therewith, including franchises and easements. Such gas transmission system shall include facilities for making sales and deliveries of gas to industrial and institutional users and to line tap residential and commercial users as well as to gas distribution systems. (5) GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. A plant and system for the distribution and sale of gas and gas services in a municipality and the surrounding territory, including the sale and distribution...
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11-43A-70
Section 11-43A-70 Adoption of ordinance establishing council-manager form of government; short title. Within three months of the approval of this article by the Governor, the governing body of any Class 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 municipality in the State of Alabama operating under a council-manager or under a mayor-council-city manager form of government may, by a majority vote of the members of that governing body, adopt an ordinance establishing a council-manager form of government pursuant to the terms and conditions of this article. All provisions of this article set forth hereinbelow shall apply only to those Class 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 municipalities electing to establish a council-manager form of government as set forth herein. This article shall be known as the "Council-Manager Act of 1991". (Acts 1991, No. 91-545, p. 973, §1.)...
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11-43A-9
Section 11-43A-9 Election of municipal officers; division of municipality into districts; qualifications and eligibility of candidates; runoff election; term of office; exception for Class 6 cities. (a) In all cities to which this section applies, except Class 6 cities wherein the municipal governing body has elected to have a nine-member council, as authorized in Section 11-43A-8, the election for the first officers of the municipality shall be held on the same date as the date of election for the next ensuing general municipal election. Except as otherwise provided for in Section 11-43A-1.1, the election of the governing body of the municipality shall cause the municipality to be divided into three districts containing as nearly an equal number of people as possible. Candidates shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal election laws and shall have the qualifications and eligibility set forth therein. Each candidate shall announce that he or she is to become a...
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11-52-12
Section 11-52-12 Alternate structure for Class 3 municipality planning commission created pursuant to Section 11-52-3. (a) The governing body of any Class 3 municipality may determine by ordinance that any planning commission of the municipality created pursuant to the provisions of Section 11-52-3 shall consist of 12 members: Namely, the mayor, or at the discretion of the mayor, any administrative assistant to the mayor or any administrative officer of the municipality under the supervision of the mayor; one administrative official of the municipality selected by the mayor; one member of the governing body selected by it as member ex officio; and nine members appointed by the mayor. (b) Where an alternate planning commission structure of any Class 3 municipality has been provided for by ordinance as provided herein, the adoption of any plan or amendment by the commission shall be by resolution of the commission and shall be carried by the affirmative votes of not less than eight...
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11-44A-32
Section 11-44A-32 Form of government; powers and duties of municipality. The municipality shall thereafter and as provided herein be governed by a mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts, and shall have the same powers and duties as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Title 11, as amended, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this article which may have therefore been granted to such municipality. (Acts 1988, No. 88-556, p. 872, §1.)...
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11-44F-3
Section 11-44F-3 Form of government; powers and duties of municipality. The municipality shall thereafter and as provided herein be governed by a mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts, and shall have the same powers and duties as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Title 11, as amended, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter which may have therefore been granted to such municipality. (Acts 1988, No. 88-555, p. 871, §1.)...
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11-43A-115
Section 11-43A-115 Adoption of form of government by majority of votes. If the majority of votes are in favor of the council-manager form of government, then the council-manager form of government under this article shall, without further action, be adopted (or continued, if then currently in effect) by the municipality on the first Monday in October following the next regularly scheduled municipal election. If the majority of votes are in favor of the mayor-council form of government, then the mayor-council form of government as prescribed in Section 11-43-1 et seq., shall, without further action, be adopted by the municipality on the first Monday in October following the next regularly scheduled municipal election, and this article shall no longer apply. If the mayor-council form of government is so adopted, then municipalities having a council elected from seven single-member districts shall continue to have seven districts with the same boundaries. Under such circumstances, there...
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