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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45-10-20.02
Section 45-10-20.02 Municipal option election. (a) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number
of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of not
less than 1,300 inhabitants nor more than 1,500 inhabitants being filed with the city or town
clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body shall call a municipal option
election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether alcoholic
beverages may be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for the municipal
option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option
election be held to determine whether the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
shall be permitted within this municipality," on the ballot to be used for the municipal
option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal
sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality? Yes...
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11-81-201
Section 11-81-201 Election as to proposed undertaking. Whenever any county or municipal corporation
through its governing body shall vote to take advantage of the authority granted in this article,
as a condition to the exercise of such authority it shall call an election, at which election
the question of whether or not such county or municipality will enter upon the undertaking
proposed by the governing body of the county or municipal corporation will be voted upon.
If the majority of the voters shall vote in the affirmative, then the county or municipal
governing body shall proceed with the proposed undertaking in conformity with the provisions
of this article and the law of the state pertinent thereto; otherwise, it shall not. Such
election shall be ordered, held, canvassed and may be contested in the same manner as is or
may be hereafter provided by the law applicable to the authorization of municipal or county
bonds. (Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 107, p. 100; Code 1940, T. 37,...
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17-12-11
Section 17-12-11 Returns of election - How made; duty of judge of probate. One copy of the
certificate of the result of the election shall be signed by the inspector and enclosed in
an envelope, which shall then be securely sealed, and the inspector shall write his or her
name across every fold at which the envelope, if unfastened, could be opened. The envelope,
with certificate enclosed, shall be at once delivered to the judge of probate in the condition
received. The judge of probate shall keep and preserve the same unopened until the canvassing
board meets to ascertain the result of the election. In case of loss, mutilation, or absence
of the original certificate of the result of the election by the inspectors of any voting
place, the envelope shall be opened, and the copy therein shall be accepted as a certificate
of the result of the election for that voting place. The judge of probate shall preserve a
copy of the sealed election returns as a public record at least one year from...
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28-2A-1
Section 28-2A-1 Procedure for wet or dry classification option elections. (a) Any municipality
having a population of 1,000 or more, may change its classification from dry to wet or wet
to dry by a municipal option election, in the following manner. (b) Upon petition of 30 percent
of the number of voters voting in the last preceding general election of the municipality
being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing
body must call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment
of the people as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed
in the municipality. The petition for municipal option election shall contain the following:
"It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to permit the legal sale and
distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality." On the ballot to be used
for such municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do...

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35-4-412
Section 35-4-412 Referendum election. The county or municipal governing body shall provide
for a referendum election to be held on the proposal made in the resolution or ordinance,
and the resolution or ordinance shall be effective only in the event the proposal is approved
by a majority of the qualified electors of the county, city, town or other subdivision affected
thereby voting in such referendum election. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 103, p. 425, §3.)...

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11-41-6
Section 11-41-6 Report of election result to probate judge; issuance and recordation of order
approving report and election result; vacancies; setting aside, etc., of elections; record
and costs of incorporation proceedings and elections. Within five days after such election,
inspectors shall report the result of the election to the judge of probate, who may enter
an order confirming and approving the election and report, and, in that event, the officers
shown by such report to have been elected shall, upon the recording of such order, be entitled
to hold office until the next general municipal election and until their successors are elected
and qualified. If any person fails to qualify within 30 days after he shall have been declared
elected, the judge of probate may appoint some person to fill such vacancy. The judge of probate
may, for fraud or material irregularities, set either of such elections aside and order another
election in like manner to be held by the same or other...
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11-46-30
Section 11-46-30 Schools for instruction of election officials in use of voting machines; qualifications
and certification of election officials. (a) When voting machines are to be used in any municipal
election, the municipal governing body shall provide for holding a school or schools of instruction
for those who will actually conduct the election. The municipal clerk shall notify those persons
who have been appointed election officials of the time and place of the holding of such school
of instruction and shall also publish notice thereof at least 48 hours before the same is
to be held. (b) No election official shall serve in any election district in which a voting
machine is used, unless he has received such instruction, is fully qualified to perform the
duties in connection with the machine and has received a certificate to that effect from the
authorized instructor; provided, that this requirement shall not prevent the appointment of
an uninstructed person as an election official...
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11-41-4
Section 11-41-4 Certification of election result to probate judge; census enumeration of inhabitants;
issuance, recordation, and filing of order of incorporation; filing fee. Within five days
after the election, the inspectors must certify the result to the judge of probate, who must,
if a majority of the votes cast at the election are for "corporation," cause an
enumeration of the inhabitants residing within such territory to be made by such inspectors
or other persons appointed by him and, within three days after such enumeration has been completed
and returned to him, shall make an order to be entered of record in the minutes of the court
that the inhabitants of such territory are incorporated as a town or city, as the case may
be, by the name and with the boundaries shown by the petition, whereupon such town or city
shall be vested with the rights and powers incident to such corporations granted in this title.
The judge of probate shall file, within 10 days after its issuance, a...
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11-42-209
Section 11-42-209 Contests of election. The result of such election may be contested by any
qualified elector voting at the election in the manner provided for contest of general municipal
elections, making the city or town the contestee. (Acts 1923, No. 372, p. 394; Code 1923,
§2423; Code 1940, T. 37, §247.)...
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