11-43C-37
Section 11-43C-37 Mayor - Powers and duties. All executive powers of the city shall be vested
in the mayor and the mayor shall be the head of the executive and administrative branches
of the city government. He may attend council meetings but may not vote in its proceedings
and he shall have the power and duties herein conferred. The mayor shall be responsible for
the proper administration of all affairs of the city, and, except as otherwise provided herein,
he shall have the power and shall be required to: (1) Enforce all laws and ordinances; (2)
Appoint and remove, when necessary for the good of the service, all officers and employees
of the city except those appointed by the council. Such appointment and removal of personnel
are subject to any merit system provisions in effect at such time, except for those officers
and employees who are exempted from the merit system by other sections of this chapter; (3)
Appoint the members of the industrial development authority and housing...
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11-44C-37
Section 11-44C-37 Mayor - Powers and duties. All executive powers of the city shall be vested
in the mayor and the mayor shall be the head of the executive and administrative branches
of the city government. He may attend council meetings but may not vote in its proceedings
and he shall have the power and duties herein conferred. The mayor shall be responsible for
the proper administration of all affairs of the city, and, except as otherwise provided herein,
he shall have the power and shall be required to: (1) Enforce all laws and ordinances, (2)
Appoint and remove, when necessary for the good of the service, all officers and employees
of the city except those appointed by the council. Such appointment and removal of personnel
are subject to any merit system provisions in effect at such time, except for those officers
and employees who are exempted from the merit system by other sections of this chapter, (3)
Appoint the members of the Airport Authority and the Industrial Development...
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45-37A-52.126
Section 45-37A-52.126 Availability of budgets for inspection and publication of the budget
message. The mayor shall cause the budget message to be printed, mimeographed, or otherwise
reproduced for general distribution at the time of its submission to the council, and sufficient
copies of the proposed general fund, public utility, and capital budgets to be made, to supply
copies to each member of the council and each daily newspaper of general circulation published
in the city, and two copies to be deposited in the office of the city clerk where they shall
be open to public inspection during regular business hours. (Acts 1955, No. 452, p. 1004,
§5.07.)...
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45-8A-23.002
Section 45-8A-23.002 Call of election by mayor. The mayor or other chief executive officer
of such city shall immediately upon receipt of such certificate from the judge of probate,
by proclamation, submit the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
for such city, under this part, at a special election to be held at a time specified in such
proclamation, not less than 40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt of the certificate
from the judge of probate, unless a general or regular election is to be held within 90 days
after receipt of such certificate, in which event the special election herein provided for
shall be held at the same time as such general or regular election. Should the election not
be called by proclamation within 10 days after receipt of his or her certificate, the judge
of probate shall call such election by order at a time specified therein but not less than
40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt by the mayor or...
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11-44C-21
Section 11-44C-21 Powers of council; dealings with officers and employees in administrative
service. All legislative powers of the city, including all powers vested in it by this chapter,
by the laws, general and local, of the state, and by the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended,
and the determination of all matters of legislative policy, shall be vested in the council.
Without limitation of the foregoing, the council shall have power to: (1) Upon recommendation
of the mayor, establish administrative departments and distribute the work of divisions, (2)
Adopt the budget of the city, (3) Authorize the issuance of bonds or warrants, (4) Inquire
into the conduct of any office, department or agency of the city and make investigations as
to municipal affairs, (5) Appoint the members of all boards except the planning commission
and the housing board and the Airport Authority and the Industrial Development Authority,
(6) Succeed to all the powers, rights and privileges conferred upon the former...
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11-43C-21
Section 11-43C-21 Powers of council; dealings with officers and employees in administrative
service. All legislative powers of the city, including all powers vested in it by this chapter,
by the laws, general and local, of the state, and by the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended,
and the determination of all matters of legislative policy, shall be vested in the council.
Without limitation of the foregoing, the council shall have power to: (1) Appoint stenographic
and clerical employees deemed necessary for service to the council, subject to the provisions
of any merit system in effect at such time; (2) Upon recommendation of the mayor, establish
administrative departments and distribute the work of divisions; (3) Adopt the budget of the
city; (4) Authorize the issuance of bonds or warrants; (5) Inquire into the conduct of any
office, department or agency of the city and make investigations as to municipal affairs;
(6) Appoint the members of all boards except the Planning Commission and...
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11-43D-1
Section 11-43D-1 Cities to which chapter applies; form of ordinance. The governing body of
any Class 5 municipality operating under a United States district court consent decree approved
by the court in the case of Tolbert and Petty vs. the City of Bessemer, Civil Action No. 75-297,
by a majority vote of the members thereof may adopt an ordinance establishing a mayor-council
form of government pursuant to the terms and conditions of this chapter. Any municipality
desiring to adopt a form of government provided for herein shall adopt an ordinance in substantially
the following form: "BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF _____ AS FOLLOWS: "Section
1. That pursuant to Act 89-750 of the 1989 Regular Session of the Legislature, the mayor-council
form of government pursuant to the United States district court decree agreed to by the parties
and approved by the court on the 18th day of October, 1985, in the case of Tolbert and Petty
vs. the City of Bessemer, under which the...
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11-44D-6
Section 11-44D-6 Provisions applicable to both mayor-council and manager-council forms of government.
The following provisions shall apply regardless of which form of government the majority of
the qualified electors voting in the referendum provided herein choose: (1) Within 30 days
after the referendum, the governing body of such municipality shall adopt an ordinance, a.
Establishing the boundaries of the five-council districts herein provided for, and b. Establishing
the salaries to be paid the mayor and council members to be elected at the first election
to be held hereunder. (2) The governing body shall take such steps as are necessary to comply
with the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended. (3) Within 10 days after the receipt
of notification of compliance with the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, the
mayor or other chief executive officer shall give notice of an election for the members of
the city council, and for mayor if the mayor-council form of...
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45-8A-23.140
Section 45-8A-23.140 Miscellaneous revenues - Anticipated surplus from municipal utility or
other public service enterprise. The anticipated revenues and proposed expenditures of each
utility or other public service enterprise owned, or operated, by the city, shall be stated
in a separate section of the budget (each bearing the name of the utility); and as to each
such utility, any anticipated surplus, if legally available for general purposes, shall be
stated as an item of miscellaneous revenue in the budget and the budget proposal. (Acts 1953,
No. 404, p. 472, §5.21.)...
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45-8A-23.066
Section 45-8A-23.066 Meetings, passage or ordinances, etc. The council shall hold regular public
meetings as may be prescribed by its own rules, provided that a regular hour and day shall
be fixed by the order of the council, and publicly announced. It may hold such adjourned,
called, special, or other meetings as the business of the city may require. The mayor when
present and in his or her absence the assistant mayor shall preside at all meetings of the
council. A majority of the whole qualified membership of the council shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of any and every power conferred upon the council. The affirmative vote
of a majority of the quorum shall be necessary and sufficient for the passage of any resolution,
rule, or ordinance, or the transaction of any business of any sort by the council or the exercise
of any of the powers conferred upon it by the terms of this part or which may hereafter be
conferred upon it. No resolution or ordinance granting any...
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