11-43A-18
Section 11-43A-18 Appointment of city manager; temporary acting city manager; removal; dealings with administrative service. The council, by a majority vote of the whole qualified membership of the council, shall appoint a city manager, who shall be an officer of the city, and shall have the powers to perform the duties in this article provided. No councilman shall receive such appointment during the term for which the council member shall have been elected nor within one year after expiration of the term. Any civil service act applicable to the municipality shall not apply to the appointment or the removal of the city manager. A temporary acting city manager may be designated by the council to serve for not more than four months in these events, but only in these events: (1) When the first council takes office after adoption of this article or (2) following the removal of any permanent city manager. Such temporary acting city manager shall perform the duties and assume the obligations...
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11-43C-71
Section 11-43C-71 City improvements costing more than $3,000.00 to be executed by contract; bidding on contract; alteration of contract. Any city improvement costing more than $3,000.00 shall be executed by contract except where such improvement is budgeted and authorized by the council to be executed directly by a city department in conformity with detailed plans, specifications, and estimates. All such contracts for more than $3,000.00 shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after such public notice and competition as may be prescribed by resolution or ordinance; provided, however, the mayor shall have the power to reject all bids and advertise again. Alteration in any contract may be made when authorized by the council upon the written recommendation of the mayor. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to supersede or nullify provisions of state law requiring or governing competitive bidding. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §71.)...
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11-44C-71
Section 11-44C-71 City improvements costing more than $2,000.00 to be executed by contract; bidding on contract; alteration of contract. Any city improvement costing more than $2,000.00 shall be executed by contract except where such improvement is authorized by the council to be executed directly by a city department in conformity with detailed plans, specifications and estimates. All such contracts for more than $2,000.00 shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after such public notice and competition as may be prescribed by resolution or ordinance; provided, however, the mayor shall have the power to reject all bids and advertise again. Alteration in any contract may be made when authorized by the council upon the written recommendation of the mayor. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to supersede or nullify provisions of state law requiring or governing competitive bidding. (Acts 1985, No. 85-229, p. 96, §71.)...
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11-50-313
Section 11-50-313 Board of directors. (a) Each corporation formed or the certificate of incorporation of which is amended under this article shall have a board of directors which shall constitute the governing body of the corporation, which board shall consist of at least three members. In any Class 4 municipality which has adopted a mayor-council form of government pursuant to Chapter 43B (commencing with Section 11-43B-1) of this title, any corporation formed pursuant to this chapter may have a governing body which shall consist of seven members. Any corporation, located in any Class 5 municipality, which is governed by a local law enacted in the 1995 Regular Session may have a governing body which shall consist of seven members. No fee shall be paid to any director for services rendered with respect to a sanitary sewer system. In any instance where the system or systems owned and operated by the corporation are any one or more of a water system, a gas system, and an electric system,...
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11-43-2
Section 11-43-2 Election of mayors and aldermen; exercise of legislative functions; salary of aldermen. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c), in all cities and towns at the general election to be held on the fourth Tuesday in August, 1984, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a mayor, who, in cities having a population of 12,000 or more according to the last or any subsequent federal census, shall not sit with the council nor have a vote in its proceedings, and he or she shall have the power and duties conferred in this chapter. (b) In all cities and towns having a population of less than 12,000 inhabitants according to the last or any subsequent federal census, the legislative functions shall be exercised by the mayor and five aldermen. The mayor shall preside over all deliberations of the council. At his or her discretion he or she may vote as a member of the council on any question coming to a vote, except in case of a tie, in which event he or she must vote....
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11-50-520
Section 11-50-520 Definitions. The following words and phrases and others importing the same meaning, where used in this chapter, shall be given the following respective interpretations and meanings: (1) THE CORPORATION. Any corporation organized under this chapter. (2) APPLICANTS. Those persons who organize the corporation. (3) POWER DISTRICT. The territory proposed to be served by the corporation as specified in its certificate of incorporation as originally filed or any amendment thereto made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (4) MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPALITIES. Any city or town incorporated under the laws of Alabama. (5) COUNTY or COUNTIES. Any county organized under the laws of Alabama. (6) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used in relation to any municipality, the city or town council, city commission or the body or board, by whatsoever name known, having charge of the governing of a municipality, and shall be held to include the mayor or other chief executive officer of the...
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11-44E-51
Section 11-44E-51 Meetings of commission; mayor to preside; quorum; majority vote requirement; enactment of resolutions, bylaws, and ordinances; record of proceedings; publication of ordinances. The commission shall hold regular public meetings at a regular hour to be fixed by ordinance of said commission. It may hold such adjourned, called, special, or other meetings as the business of the city may require. The mayor when present, shall preside at all meetings of said commission. A majority of the commission members elected shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and every power conferred upon said commission, and affirmative vote of a majority of those members present shall be sufficient for the passage of any resolution, bylaw, or ordinance, or the transaction of any business of any sort by the said commission or the exercise of any of the powers conferred upon it by the terms of this chapter or by law, or which may hereafter be conferred upon it. No resolution, bylaw,...
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11-44B-11
Section 11-44B-11 City clerk, finance director, revenue director, city attorney, assistant city attorneys, and city department heads continued in office; powers and duties; claims against city; financial records; warrants; deposit of public money; payment of moneys due municipality; office space, supplies, and other support. (a) If the city clerk of any city which adopts the mayor-council form of government as herein provided holds office subject to any civil service or merit system, such clerk shall continue to be the city clerk under the mayor-council form of government of such city and his successors shall be selected and hold office subject to the provisions of such civil service or merit system. The city clerk shall attend the meetings of the council and keep a record of its proceedings. He shall have the custody of the rules, ordinances and resolutions of the council and shall keep a record of them when adopted by the council. He shall also have the custody of the city seal....
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11-44B-46
Section 11-44B-46 Establishment of personnel board; composition; terms; meetings; compensation; records. (a) Upon election by ordinance of a city to participate in the personnel system provided for in this article, there shall be established a personnel board composed of five members designated, respectively, as place number 1, place number 2, place number 3, place number 4, and place number 5. Each member shall be of recognized good character and ability and a resident and qualified elector of the city. No person shall be eligible for membership on the board who holds any civil office of profit under the city, county, or state. No board member shall be a member of any local committee of a political party, or an official of a local partisan political club, or a candidate for nomination or election to any public office, nor shall he or she take any part in the management or affairs of any local political party or in any city political campaign, except to exercise his or her right as a...
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11-45-5
Section 11-45-5 Veto, passage over veto, etc., of ordinances and resolutions fixing salaries of officers and employees. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), every ordinance and resolution fixing the salaries of employees and officers of the city shall be submitted to the mayor as other ordinances and resolutions are to be submitted and may be approved in part and vetoed as to specific items, to be mentioned by the mayor in his or her veto message, in which case there shall first be submitted to the council at its next regular meeting the question: "Shall the ordinance pass, the veto of the mayor notwithstanding?" and, in the event that two-thirds of the members elected to the council do not vote for the passage of the ordinance, the veto notwithstanding, there shall then be submitted the question: "Shall the ordinance stand as approved by the mayor?" and if a majority of those elected to the council vote in the affirmative, the law as amended and approved by the mayor shall have...
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