8-19-4
Section 8-19-4 Enforcement (a) The office of the Attorney General and the district attorneys shall have the following functions, powers, and duties: (1) Conduct preliminary investigations to determine the merit of complaints, provided, however, the office of the Attorney General or the district attorneys need not handle any complaint which lacks merit, has been made in bad faith, or may be readily resolved between the parties. (2) Receive information and documentary material from complainants and take whatever action is appropriate in connection therewith as authorized by this chapter. The office of the Attorney General and the district attorneys may otherwise receive and investigate complaints with respect to acts or practices declared to be unlawful by this chapter, and inform the complainants with respect thereto. Said persons may institute legal proceedings or take such other actions provided for herein which are necessary or incidental to the exercise of its powers and functions....
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9-7-14
Section 9-7-14 Coastal Area Board - Created; composition; qualifications, appointment, term of office and compensation of members; officers; meetings; seal; powers and duties generally; executive director and employees; technical assistance to board; acceptance, use and disposition of funds, facilities, etc. (a) through (g) Repealed by Acts 1982, No. 82-612, p. 1111, ยง14(b), effective October 1, 1982. (h) The board shall have authority to solicit, accept and expend funds from the state, the United States and from any other source, to carry out provisions, purposes and policies of this chapter. (i) The board shall coordinate activities and plans of all existing interests, other state governments, local governments, regional planning agencies, interstate compacts and commissions and federal agencies which have programs relevant to the coastal area. (j) When necessary to achieve conformance with the management program provided for in Section 9-7-15, the board shall have the power to...
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11-44D-4
Section 11-44D-4 Mayor-council form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors voting in the referendum provided herein choose a mayor-council 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 mayor elected at-large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties as herein enumerated and as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Chapter 43, Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter which may be now or hereafter granted to such municipality. (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...
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33-16-8
Section 33-16-8 Powers enumerated. The authority shall have the following powers: (1) To have succession by its corporate name without time limit; (2) To bring civil actions and have civil actions brought against it and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise real and personal property of every kind and description, and to manage the same; (5) To acquire by purchase, gift or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or any other lawful means, and to convey or cause to be conveyed to the United States, the State of Alabama, any county or municipality in the state, or to any agency, department or instrumentality of such political entities, or to any public corporation, any real, personal or mixed property necessary or convenient to the authority in the performance of its duties and...
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45-42-162.21
Section 45-42-162.21 Employees. (a) All permanent full-time and permanent part-time employees of the city or county including employees of any department, board, commission, authority, or agency shall become employees of the metropolitan-government and shall be assigned duties as similar in nature as may be practicable within the metropolitan-government upon the effective date of this part. Employees of boards, commissions, or authorities, which have been established in response to federal or state legislation who are not employees of the city or county governments at the time of the adoption of this part shall not be employees of the metropolitan-government. In no case shall any permanent full-time or permanent part-time employee receive salary, wage, or benefits lower than that received immediately prior to the effective date of this part. Nor shall any permanent full-time employee be subject to any civil service examination or certification requirements except those pertaining to...
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41-8-21
Section 41-8-21 Enactment of compact; form. The Interstate Library Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE LIBRARY COMPACT. Article I. Policy and Purpose. Because the desire for the services provided by libraries transcends governmental boundaries and can most effectively be satisfied by giving such services to communities and people regardless of jurisdictional lines, it is the policy of the states party to this compact to cooperate and share their responsibilities; to authorize cooperation and sharing with respect to those types of library facilities and services which can be more economically or efficiently developed and maintained on a cooperative basis and to authorize cooperation and sharing among localities, states and others in providing joint or cooperative library services in areas where the distribution of population or of existing and potential library...
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31-5-6
Section 31-5-6 State Service Commissioner - Qualifications; appointment; term of office and removal; head of department; representation of state before federal agencies; reciprocal agreements with other states; appointment of district and county service commissioners and other personnel. (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs to appoint a State Service Commissioner who shall serve for a term of four years subject to removal by the state board for cause. He shall be appointed on the basis of education, ability, and experience in handling veterans' affairs, and without regard to political affiliations. Such commissioner shall be a resident of the State of Alabama and shall be a veteran who served on active duty for a period of 60 days or more in the military or naval forces of the United States in any war in which the United States shall have been engaged, and shall have been honorably discharged therefrom, and all subsequent appointees to such office shall be...
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33-17-8
Section 33-17-8 Powers enumerated. The authority shall have the following powers: (1) To have succession by its corporate name without time limit; (2) To bring civil actions and have civil actions brought against it and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise real and personal property of every kind and description, and to manage the same; (5) To acquire by purchase, gift or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or by any other lawful means, any property, whether real, personal or mixed, the acquisition of which is found by the board to be necessary or convenient to the authority in the carrying out of the purposes for which the authority is authorized to be organized, and to lease or convey any such property or to cause any such property to be leased or conveyed to the United...
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11-50-525
Section 11-50-525 Board of directors. The government of the corporation shall be vested in the board, which may by resolution exercise or provide for the exercise of all the powers of the corporation. The board shall be composed of one director from each municipality located in the power district having a population of 1,000 or more inhabitants according to the last or any future federal census, whose election shall be certified to the corporation by the clerk of such municipality as hereinafter provided. The governing body of each such municipality having such population may elect a director from such municipality. The election of each such director shall be certified to the corporation by the clerk of the municipality whose governing body shall make such election, as and when any such election shall be so made. The directors so certified shall constitute the board, and a majority thereof at any time existing shall constitute a quorum of the board for the transaction of business. The...
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45-37A-54.06
Section 45-37A-54.06 Park and recreation board - Officers; powers and duties; impeachment or removal; interests of members. The members of the park and recreation board, when such board is constituted in accordance with Section 45-37A-54.05, shall immediately meet and organize by electing one of the members thereof as president and such other officers as may be necessary. The governing body of any such city, in addition to the powers directly vested in such board by this subpart, may confer upon and delegate to the park and recreation board of such city, when established and constituted, any other power or authority conferred upon such city by the terms of this subpart or conferred upon such city by any other provision of law, with respect to or in connection with the establishment, conduct, development, improvement, equipment, and maintenance of parks, park areas, park boulevards, playgrounds, recreational centers, and recreational activities, as fully and completely as any or all...
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