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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11-42-46
Section 11-42-46 Appointment of inspectors and returning officers; duty of inspectors generally.
The probate judge shall appoint three inspectors of election and one returning officer for
each voting place. The inspectors shall manage the election at the respective voting places
at which they are appointed inspectors. (Code 1907, §1081; Code 1923, §1775; Code 1940,
T. 37, §144.)...
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11-46-61
Section 11-46-61 Offenses of election officers generally. (a) Any election officer appointed
as such by a municipal governing body who shall fail to attend a municipal election without
a lawful excuse shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $100.00. (b) Any election officer
who drinks any intoxicating liquors while any election is being held shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00. (c) Any election officer
who, without lawful excuse, neglects, fails, or refuses to perform any official duty prescribed
by this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, unless otherwise provided, and, on conviction,
shall be fined not less than $50.00. (d) Any election officer who discloses how any elector
voted shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00
nor more than $500.00, and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more
than six months. (e) If any election officer willfully...
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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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17-8-10
Section 17-8-10 Returning officer. The sheriff of each county or the person discharging the
duties of such office is the returning officer for the county. The inspector for each voting
place is charged with the duty of returning the ballots and sealed election materials from
the voting place to the county returning officer. (Code 1876, §260; Code 1886, §353; Code
1896, §1589; Code 1907, §356; Code 1923, §446; Code 1940, T. 17, §129; §17-6-11; amended
and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §41.)...
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11-43A-7
Section 11-43A-7 Time for change in form of government. The change in the form of government
shall take place on the first Monday in November following the date of the next ensuing municipal
election for the election of members of the governing body held by the municipality during
a general municipal election year as established by Section 11-46-21, except in Class 6 cities
wherein the municipal governing body has elected to have a nine-member council as authorized
in Section 11-43A-8; and in such cities the change in the form of government may take place
on the first Monday in November in any even-numbered year, designated therefor by the municipal
governing body unless the election approving such change was held in 1983, in which case the
change shall take place on the first Monday in October 1986. (Acts 1982, No. 82-517, p. 851,
§7; Acts 1983, No. 83-621, p. 964, §1; Act 2019-360, §2.)...
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45-36-20
Section 45-36-20 Charge of classification for incorporated municipalities. (a) Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 2A of Title 28, and pursuant
to authority granted by Section 104 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the electors of
an incorporated municipality located in Jackson County with a population of 2,500 or more
inhabitants may change its classification from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option
election as provided by this section. (b)(1) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number of
voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of 2,500
or more 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...
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11-46-24.1
Section 11-46-24.1 Designation of voting places in Class 8 municipalities by combination of
districts and wards. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of Section 11-46-24,
the municipal governing body of a Class 8 municipality, for the purpose of designating voting
places in a municipal election, may provide by ordinance for the combination of any district
in a ward with any other district in the ward, and may provide for the combination of any
ward with one or more wards. Voting places shall be designated by the municipal governing
body when it orders an election in the same manner as provided in Chapter 46. (Act 2004-361,
p. 590, §1.)...
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45-28-21
Section 45-28-21 Regulation of sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages on Sunday - Municipalities.
(a) The voters of any municipality within 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 municipality, 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 alcoholic beverages may be legally sold or distributed
on Sunday within the municipality. (b) On the ballot to be used for the election, the question
shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic
beverages within this municipality on Sundays as further provided for and regulated by ordinance
of the municipal governing body? Yes ___ No ___." (c) The first election and any subsequent
elections shall be held and the officers appointed to...
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45-49-140.33
Section 45-49-140.33 Election requirements. (a) If the planned expansion of a municipal police
jurisdiction includes any portion of the Turnerville fire protection district, the council
or governing body of the respective municipality may request that the Judge of Probate of
Mobile County order an election to be held in the affected area. Only those qualified electors
residing within the boundaries of the affected area shall participate in the election. (1)
The council or governing body of the municipality may pass a resolution stating that the public
health or public good requires that the affected area, as described in the resolution, shall
be brought within the police jurisdiction of the municipality. (2) The mayor or other executive
head of the municipality shall certify and file a copy of the resolution together with a map
of the area showing its relationship to the municipal police jurisdiction to which the property
is proposed to be included, with the judge of probate. (3) At...
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