11-19-19
Section 11-19-19 County board of adjustment. In availing itself of the powers conferred by this chapter, the county commission shall provide for the appointment of a board of adjustment and may provide that the said board of adjustment shall, in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, make special exceptions to the terms of the zoning ordinance or regulations in harmony with its general purposes and interests and in accordance with general or specific rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. The board of adjustment shall consist of five members who shall be appointed from among the residents of the county by the county commission to serve for a term of three years; provided, that in establishing the board of adjustment, the county commission may designate the terms of the members first appointed on such basis that the term of one member will expire each year thereafter. Such members shall be removable for cause by the county commission upon written...
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11-43-3
Section 11-43-3 Election, etc., of treasurer, clerk, etc., in cities having more than 6,000 inhabitants; consolidation or abolishment of offices. (a) In cities having a population of more than 6,000, there shall be elected by the council, at its first regular meeting or as soon thereafter as practicable, a city treasurer and a city clerk, who shall hold office until the next general election and until their successors are elected and qualified, and such council may elect an auditor, and any officers whose election is required by ordinance, and, except as otherwise provided, the council shall have authority to fix the terms of office, prescribe their duties, and fix the salaries of the officers. The council may, by ordinance, require the city treasurer and the city clerk to be residents of the city. Except as provided in subsection (b), the council, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected, by and with the consent of the mayor, may consolidate two or more of the offices and may...
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11-43-20
Section 11-43-20 Authority and procedure for employment. All municipalities in the State of Alabama, whether now or hereafter operating under a municipal government consisting of a mayor and aldermen or of a commission, are hereby authorized at their discretion to employ a city manager with the authority, duties, and liabilities described in this article, whose term of office and compensation shall be as prescribed in this article. The authority given under this article to employ a city manager and to invoke the provisions hereof shall be exercised by the passage of an ordinance or resolution by the governing body of the municipality so desiring to employ a city manager, which ordinance or resolution shall set a date not less than 30 nor more than 60 days following the date of its passage upon which the city manager shall assume his office. (Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 168, p. 197; Code 1940, T. 37, §418; Acts 1945, No. 354, p. 572.)...
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11-46-1
Section 11-46-1 Municipalities may provide for election, compensation, bond, etc., of officers. Cities and towns may, except as otherwise provided by law, by ordinance provide for the election at any regular municipal election or for the appointment of such officers as are deemed needful or proper for the good government of the city or town and the due exercise of its corporate powers, fix their terms of office, fix their compensation and prescribe the duties of such officers, their liabilities and powers and require them to give bond in such sum and to be conditioned and approved as the council may prescribe. (Code 1907, §1171; Code 1923, §1887; Code 1940, T. 37, §34.)...
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45-37A-52.132
Section 45-37A-52.132 Work plan and allotment. After the current expense budgets have been adopted and before the beginning of the fiscal year the head of each department, office, and agency, shall submit to the mayor in such form as he or she shall prescribe a work program which shall show the requested allotments of the appropriations for such department, office, or agency for the entire fiscal year by monthly or quarterly periods as the mayor may direct. Before the beginning of the fiscal year the mayor shall approve, with such amendments as he or she shall determine, the allotments for each department, office, or agency, and shall file the same with the director of finance who shall not authorize any expenditure to be made from any appropriation except on the basis of approved allotments, provided that such allotments shall be in conformity with the salaries established by ordinance, the provisions of any merit or civil service system applicable to such city, the laws of the State...
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45-39-221
Section 45-39-221 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this part, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, shall be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. The resolution adopted by the governing body of the City of Florence or the county, in accordance with this part, that authorizes the organization of the tourism board. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the tourism board. (3) CODE. This code and all amendments thereto and, with respect to any particular title, chapter, article, division, section, or other portion thereof, any act of the Legislature or other code preceding such portion of this code or subsequently replacing the same. (4) COUNTY. Lauderdale County, Alabama. (5) COUNTY LODGING TAX. That certain tax levied pursuant to Part 5, commencing with Section 45-39-244, of Article 24 of this chapter. (6) DIRECTOR. A member of the board. (7)...
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45-37A-54.66
Section 45-37A-54.66 Sunday activities; ordinance procedures. It shall not be unlawful for the authority to conduct, operate, manage, or promote on Sunday any amusement or recreational activity within the corporate powers of such authority, or for any other person to participate or engage in such amusement or recreational activity on Sunday, if such amusement or recreational activity is conducted or operated in a public park situated in the city and under the control of such authority. All or any of such amusements or recreational activities on Sunday may be prohibited by an ordinance adopted pursuant to this section. Any proposed ordinance prohibiting all or any of such amusements or recreational activities may be submitted to the commission or other governing body of the city by petition signed by at least 5,000 qualified electors of the city. All petitions circulated with respect to any proposed ordinance shall be uniform in character and shall contain the proposed ordinance in...
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11-44E-52
Section 11-44E-52 Grant of franchise; lease, or right to use streets, etc.; transfer of waterworks, sewer, electric, or gas plant and system to board or public corporation. No resolution, bylaw, or ordinance granting to any person, firm, or corporation any franchise, lease, or right to use the streets, public highways, thoroughfares, or public property of the city organized under the provisions of this chapter, either in, under, upon, along, through, or over same shall take effect and be in force until 30 days after the final enactment of same by the commission, and publication of said resolution, or ordinance in full once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the city, which publication shall be made at the expense of the persons, firms, or corporations applying for the grant. Pending the passage of any such resolution or ordinance, or during the time intervening between its final passage and the expiration of the 30 days during which publication shall be...
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45-42A-23.02
Section 45-42A-23.02 Historic preservation commission. A historic preservation commission, hereinafter referred to as the commission, with the following membership, duties, and powers, may be established by ordinance of the governing body: (1) The commission shall be composed of five members. Residents of the historic district or districts shall elect four members and one member shall be a member of the City of Athens governing body designated by it. (2) The members of the commission elected by the residents of the historic district during annual meetings of the historic district association, except the member of the City of Athens governing body, who shall all serve by virtue of, and whose term shall correspond with the term of his of her office, shall serve for terms of four years. At the expiration of the term or the death or resignation of any member, the resulting vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term of such member by election at the next annual meeting of the historic...
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11-42-104
Section 11-42-104 Oath and compensation of commissioners; expenses of election; failure of commissioner to act. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the commissioners shall take an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as such commissioners. They shall be paid for their services such amount as may be allowed by the several councils by ordinance, and the expense of such election shall be paid forthwith by the consolidated city or town. If any commissioner fails or refuses without sufficient excuse to act upon said commission, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor in a court having jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00. If for any reason a member of the commission shall not act, the other commissioners shall have the right to declare his office vacant and fill the vacancy by the appointment of some suitable person. (Code 1907, §1130;...
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