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11-46-21
Section 11-46-21 Time of elections; notice; assumption of duties by elected officers. (a) The
regular municipal elections in cities and towns shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in August
1984, and quadrennially thereafter, and, when necessary as provided in subsection (d) of Section
11-46-55, a second or runoff election shall be held on the sixth Tuesday next thereafter following
the regular election. (b) Special elections shall be held on the second or fourth Tuesday
of any month when ordered by the municipal governing body; provided, that notice of such election
shall be published in the manner prescribed in Section 11-46-22 on or before the corresponding
Tuesday of the second month preceding the month in which the special election is to be held.
(c) Municipal officers elected at regular elections shall assume the duties of their respective
offices on the first Monday in November following their election unless otherwise provided
in this article and shall serve until their...
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11-46-23
Section 11-46-23 Authority and procedure for adjustment of boundary lines of wards, division
of wards into voting districts, etc. The boundaries of wards within municipalities which have
been divided into wards as now defined shall so remain until changed by ordinance. Hereafter
the municipal governing body may, in its discretion, readjust the boundary lines of wards
and may divide or consolidate any number of wards and resubdivide the same into voting districts;
provided, that no such adjustment shall be made within three months of any election unless
such adjustment is made during calendar year 1984 for the purpose of complying with the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 as amended. Whenever the municipal governing body readjusts any ward lines
or divides a ward into voting districts, the ordinance whereby the ward is established or
subdivided into voting districts shall describe the territory composing the ward, and when
the ward has been subdivided, the territory composing each district...
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11-46-3
Section 11-46-3 Primary elections by political parties and partisan elections abolished in
municipalities having 300,000 inhabitants or less. Primary elections of political parties
are hereby abolished in cities and towns of this state which have a population of 300,000
inhabitants or less, according to the latest federal decennial census, and election of the
members of the municipal governing body of said cities and towns shall be by and on a nonpartisan
ballot in all elections held for the purpose of electing members of the governing body. (Acts
1971, No. 2234, p. 3592.)...
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11-47-3
Section 11-47-3 Contracts and indebtedness for municipal buildings and public utility systems;
consolidation of systems; ancillary service contracts. (a) The governing body of any city
or town may contract for the construction, reconstruction, extension, or repair of any municipal
building, plant, waterworks system, or electric light and power plant or system or may on
credit employ labor and purchase on credit all materials and supplies needed in such construction,
reconstruction, extension, or repair and may, without an election, issue evidences of indebtedness
in the forms and of the maturities described in Section 11-47-2 to the extent of any indebtedness
incurred in such contract or purchase or construction, reconstruction or extension and may
secure such evidences of indebtedness by mortgage or deed of trust (in such form and with
such provisions as such governing body may determine) on such municipal building, plant, waterworks
system, or electric light and power plant or...
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11-51-208
Section 11-51-208 Collection of taxes by Department of Revenue - Reports; costs; enabling act;
rules and regulations; assessment, rates of interest. (a) Municipalities may, upon request
of the municipal governing body, engage the Department of Revenue to collect and administer
their municipal sales, use, rental, and lodgings tax. Subject to subsections (c) and (d),
the Department of Revenue shall collect and administer the municipal sales, use, rental, and
lodgings tax on behalf of the requesting municipality. The department shall prepare and distribute
reports, forms, and other information as may be necessary to provide for the collection and
administration of any municipal tax it collects and administers and, on request, shall make
all reports available for inspection by the governing body of the municipality. In collecting
and administering a municipal sales, use, rental, or lodgings tax, the department shall have
all the authority and duties as it has in connection with the...
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17-10-3
Section 17-10-3 Voting in precinct, etc., where elector's name does not appear on official
list. It shall be unlawful for any elector to cast his or her ballot during any general election,
primary election, municipal election or special election in any precinct, any district, any
ward, or any other subdivision where his or her name does not duly appear upon the official
list of the precinct, district, ward, or subdivision. All ballots cast in any election contrary
to this section are hereby declared illegal and, upon a contest duly instituted, the ballots
shall be excluded in determining the final result of any election; provided, that nothing
in this section shall prevent any qualified elector residing in the precinct, ward, or voting
district from voting after presenting a proper certificate from the board of registrars, or
from voting a provisional ballot or a provisional ballot in municipal elections when his or
her name does not duly appear upon the official list of the precinct,...
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39-7-10
Section 39-7-10 Adoption of resolution setting forth question submitted and votes cast; declaration
of incorporation of improvement authority. At the regular meeting of the governing body of
the municipality next succeeding the completion of the canvass and the statement and proclamation
of result, such governing body shall adopt a resolution setting forth the question submitted
at the election, the number of votes cast for the question and the number of votes cast against
the question. If the number of votes cast for the question exceeds the number of votes cast
against the question at such election, such resolution shall further declare that the citizens
of the State of Alabama who are inhabitants of the territory, the boundaries of which are
coterminous with the boundaries of such municipality, are incorporated as the "Improvement
Authority of _____." (Acts 1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, ยง26.)...
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45-28A-72
Section 45-28A-72 Regulation of sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday. (a) The voters of the
City of Rainbow City in Etowah County may authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages within
the municipality on Sunday by an election pursuant to this section, in the following manner:
The governing body of the City of Rainbow City, by resolution, may call an election for the
municipality to determine the sentiment of the voters of the municipality residing within
the corporate limits, as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed
on Sunday within the municipality. (b) On the ballot to be used for such election, the question
shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic
beverages within this municipality, on Sunday between 1:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. and on those
Sundays on which occurs New Year's Eve (December 31), after 1:00 P.M.? Yes ___ No ___."
(c) The election shall be held and the officers appointed to hold the...
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45-41-141.13
Section 45-41-141.13 Conduct of special elections. (a) The managers, inspectors, or other officers
of any special election authorized to be held under and pursuant to this part shall be appointed,
and such special election shall be held, in the same manner and by the same officers as a
regular election for county officers, under the general election laws of the state; provided,
that if such special election is held at the time for holding such regular election in the
county, then the election officers of such regular election shall conduct such special election
at the same time as such regular election, and for such services they shall receive no compensation
other than that allowed them for the holding of such regular election. If such special election
is held at some other time than that of holding such regular election in the county, then
the aforesaid election officers shall receive the same pay as that for holding such regular
election. All expenses for holding any such special...
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11-43-40
Section 11-43-40 Composition of city councils; voting by president of council. (a) Except as
provided in Section 11-43-2 as it relates to the legislative functions of the mayor in cities
and towns having a population of 12,000 or more but less than 25,000 inhabitants according
to the most recent or any subsequent federal decennial census, in cities having a population
of 12,000 or more, the following officers shall be elected at each general municipal election,
who shall compose the city council for the cities and who shall hold office for four years
and until their successors are elected and qualified, and who shall exercise the legislative
functions of city government and any other powers and duties which are or may be vested by
law in the city council or its members: (1) In cities having seven wards or less, a president
of the city council and two aldermen from each ward, to be elected by the qualified voters
of the several wards voting separately in every ward; except, that in...
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