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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11-44B-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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11-44B-8
Section 11-44B-8 Temporary and permanent vacancies in office of mayor; vacancy on city council.
(a) Temporary Vacancy in the Office of Mayor. The council shall elect from its members, a
president pro tempore of the council. In the case of the temporary absence of the mayor or
his inability to serve temporarily on account of sickness or any other good reason, the president
pro tempore of the council shall act as mayor pro tempore with the power and authority of
the mayor during such time. Provided; however, the president pro tempore while acting as mayor
pro tempore shall not exercise the mayor's right to vote nor the right of approval or veto
of ordinances or resolutions, nor receive the rate of compensation or allowance of the mayor.
In the event of a failure or refusal of the president pro tempore of the council to act, the
council may appoint one of its members to act as mayor pro tempore with like effect, which
appointment shall be entered in the minutes of the council. While...
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11-46-26
Section 11-46-26 Proceedings where only one candidate or nominee for office. In the event only
one person has filed a statement of candidacy for an office by 5:00 P.M. on the third Tuesday
in July preceding the date set for an election of municipal officers pursuant to subsection
(g) of Section 11-46-25, then such person shall for all purposes be deemed elected to such
office, any provisions of this article to the contrary notwithstanding. The mayor or other
chief executive officer shall not cause the name of such person or the office for which his
candidacy was declared to be printed on the ballot, but he shall immediately file a written
statement with the governing body of the municipality, attested by the clerk, certifying the
fact that only one person filed a statement of candidacy for the office of _____ (naming the
office) by 5:00 P.M. on the third Tuesday in July preceding the day of _____, 2__, the date
set for an election of municipal officers in the City (Town) of _____,...
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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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45-37A-52.251
Section 45-37A-52.251 Petition for change of form of government. Such change, however, shall
first be initiated by petition and submitted to a vote of the qualified electors at an election
and shall receive at such election a majority of the votes yes or in favor thereof in the
same manner and subject to the same requirements as provided in Sections 45-37A-52.01 to 45-37A-52.04,
inclusive, except that the proposition on the ballot shall be changed to reflect the proposed
form of municipal government to be submitted to the vote of the qualified electors. The officers
and members of the governing body of such newly adopted form of municipal government shall
be elected as soon as may be under the provisions of law applicable thereto; and upon their
election and qualification for office the term of office of all members of the council under
the mayor-council form of government shall terminate. (Acts 1955, No. 452, p. 1004, §9.02.)...

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11-43-42
Section 11-43-42 Exercise of functions of mayor during absence or disability of mayor; filling
of vacancies in offices of mayor, president and president pro tempore of council. (a) In case
of the absence of the mayor from a city of 12,000 or more inhabitants or his inability to
serve on account of sickness or any other good reason, the president of the council or the
president pro tempore of the council in case of absence or disability of the president of
the council shall act as mayor pro tempore with the power and authority of the mayor during
such time. In the event of a failure or refusal of the president of the council or the president
pro tempore of the council to act, the council may appoint one of its members to act as mayor
pro tempore with like effect, which appointment shall be entered in the minutes of the council.
In the event of a vacancy from any cause in the office of mayor, the president of the council
shall succeed to the office of mayor for the unexpired term. In the...
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11-46-25
Section 11-46-25 Ballots; statements of candidacy; withdrawal of candidacy. (a) In all municipal
elections on any subject which may be submitted by law to a vote of the people of the municipality
and for any municipal officers, if paper ballots are used, the voting shall be by official
ballot printed and distributed as provided in subsections (c) and (d), and no ballot shall
be received or counted in any election unless it is provided as prescribed by law. (b) There
shall be but one form of ballot for all the candidates for municipal office and every ballot
provided for use at any polling place in a municipal election shall contain the names of all
candidates who have properly qualified and have not withdrawn, as provided in subsection (g),
together with the title of the office for which they are candidates. (c) All ballots shall
be printed in black ink on clear book paper. At the bottom of each ballot and at a point an
equal distance from the sides thereof there shall be printed a...
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45-37A-52-51
Section 45-37A-52-51 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate in any
election for the office of council member may become such candidate by filing in the office
of the judge of probate of the county in which such city is situated, a statement in writing
of such candidacy and an affidavit taken and certified by such judge of probate or by a notary
public that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which he or she desires to
be a candidate. Such statement shall be filed at least 45 days before the day set for such
election and shall be substantially the following form: State of Alabama, ______ County. I,
the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am a citizen of the City of
______ in the state and county, and reside at ______ in the City of ______, that I desire
to become a candidate for office as a member of the city council, district number ______,
in the City at the election for that office to be held on the ______ day of...
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45-8A-23.050
Section 45-8A-23.050 Number, election, term. The council shall have five to seven members consisting
of one councilman who shall be elected by all of the qualified voters of the city, and the
remainder of such councilmen shall reside within a residential ward and be elected by all
of the qualified voters from such ward. Any election of councilmen shall be held and conducted,
at the same times and in the same manner, as provided by law in respect to municipal elections
in cities of this state, not organized under a commission form of government. All municipal
officers of the city shall have the same duties and responsibilities as they have with respect
to said municipal elections. The officer or officers shall issue any orders necessary to cause
all election requirements to be met. Each councilman shall hold office for four years, but
shall serve until his or her successor shall have qualified. A councilman may succeed himself
or herself in office. Each councilman elected from a...
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