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11-46-69
Section 11-46-69 Contest of elections - Grounds; commencement of action. (a) The election of
any person declared elected to any office of a city or town may be contested by any person
who was at the time of the election a qualified elector of such city or town for any of the
following causes: (1) Misconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of any election official,
any marker, the municipal governing body, or any other person; (2) The person whose election
to office is contested was not eligible thereto at the time of such election; (3) Illegal
votes; (4) The rejection of legal votes; or (5) Offers to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or
other misconduct calculated to prevent a fair, free, and full exercise of the elective franchise.
(b) Any contest of such an election must be commenced within five days after the result of
the election is declared. Such contest shall be instituted in the manner prescribed by Section
17-15-29 and, except as otherwise provided in this article, all...
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11-3-1
Section 11-3-1 Qualifications of candidates for county commissioner; vacancies; composition
of commission; meetings. (a) Any person who is a qualified elector of the county and has resided
in the county for at least one year prior to the date upon which he or she would take office
is eligible to seek office as county commissioner. In counties where the county commissioners
represent a certain district, any person seeking office as county commissioner shall be a
qualified elector of and reside within the district which he or she seeks to represent upon
election or appointment for at least one year prior to the date that he or she would take
office. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the one-year residency requirement provided above shall
not apply to the first election following any redistricting of county commission districts
in a county. Any person serving as county commissioner, at all times while in office, shall
meet the qualified elector and residency requirements set out herein, and...
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17-11-3
for municipal elections, on election day. (2) The person has any physical illness or infirmity
which prevents his or her attendance at the polls, whether he or she is within or without
the county on the day of the election. (3) The person expects to work a shift which has at
least 10 hours which coincide with the hours the polls are open at his or her regular polling
place. (4) The person is enrolled as a student at an educational institution located outside
the county of his or her personal residence, attendance at which prevents his or her
attendance at the polls. (5) The person is a member of, or spouse or dependent of a member
of, the Armed Forces of the United States or is similarly qualified to vote absentee pursuant
to the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 42 U.S.C. 1973ff. (6)
The person has been appointed as an election officer or named as a poll watcher at a polling
place other than his or her regular polling place. (7) The person is a...
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11-44D-4
Section 11-44D-4 Mayor-council form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors
voting in the referendum provided herein choose a mayor-council form of government, the following
provisions of this chapter shall be applicable: (1) The municipality shall thereafter and
as provided in this chapter be governed by a mayor elected at-large and a five-member council
elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties
as herein enumerated and as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Chapter 43,
Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter which may be
now or hereafter granted to such municipality. (2) The council shall include five members
who shall be elected from districts, which shall be, as near as practicable, of equal population
according to the last federal decennial census, but not more than five percent, more or less,
than the average of the five districts. (3) The council members shall...
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11-44D-5
Section 11-44D-5 Council-manager form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors
voting in the referendum herein choose a council-manager form of government the following
provisions of this chapter shall be applicable: (1) The municipality shall thereafter and
as provided in this chapter be governed by a council-manager form of government, with a five-member
council elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers
and duties as other council-manager municipalities organized under chapter 43A, Title 11,
and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter, which may have been heretofore
granted to such municipalities. (2) The council shall include five members who shall be elected
from districts, which shall be, as near as practicable, of equal population according to the
last federal decennial census, but not more than five percent, more or less, than the average
of the five districts. (3) The council members shall be...
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45-5-120
shall be probationary for one year from the date of appointment. A probationary employee may
be discharged by the sheriff or a governmental entity at their pleasure at any time before
the expiration of one year from his or her appointment. After he or she shall have served
for one year in the position to which he or she was appointed or employed, such employee shall
become a merit employee. (k) The appointing authority shall have authority to suspend without
pay a merit employee for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning
his or her fitness or ability to perform his or her duties in the public interest. In the
event a merit employee is suspended without pay for more than 30 days in any one year, he
or she shall be entitled to a public hearing by the board upon written demand filed within
five days from the date of the order of suspension. If, after hearing, the board determines
that the action of the appointing authority was not with good cause, the suspension...
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40-2B-2
as it deems best adapted for public convenience. Such publications shall be made permanently
available and constitute the official reports of the Alabama Tax Tribunal. (p) Service of
Process. (1) Mailing by first class or certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, to the
address of the taxpayer given on the taxpayer's notice of appeal, or to the address of the
taxpayer's representative of record, if any, or to the usual place of business of the Department
of Revenue, shall constitute personal service on the other party. The Alabama Tax Tribunal,
by rule, may prescribe that notice by other means shall constitute personal service
and, in a particular case, may order that notice be given to additional persons or by other
means. (2) Mailing by registered or certified mail and delivery by a private delivery service
approved by the Internal Revenue Service in accordance with Section 7502(f) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, shall be deemed to have occurred,...
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37-11A-1
by the Governor, or upon its otherwise becoming a law, and when the State of Mississippi ratifies
the compact. Article III. For purposes of this compact, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) Person means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, or any other
entity. (2) Railroad means a common carrier by railroad as defined in Section 1(3) of Part
I of the Interstate Commerce Act [codified as 49 U.S.C. ยง1(3)]. (3) Railroad properties and
facilities mean any real or personal property or interest in property which is owned,
leased, or otherwise controlled by a railroad or other person, including, without limitation,
the authority, and which are used or are useful in rail transportation service, including,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing: a. Track, roadbed, and related structures,
including rail, ties, ballast, other track materials, grading, tunnels, bridges, trestles,
culverts, elevated structures, stations, office buildings used for operating...
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11-46-70
Section 11-46-70 Contest of elections - Trial; entry of judgment. If, on the trial of the contest
of any municipal election, it shall appear that any person other than the one whose election
is contested, received or would have received, had the ballots intended for him and illegally
rejected been received, the requisite number of votes for election, judgment must be entered
declaring such person duly elected, and such judgment shall have the force and effect of investing
the person thereby declared elected with full right and title to have and to hold the office
to which he is declared elected. If it appears that no person has or would have had, if the
ballots intended for him and illegally rejected had been received, the requisite number of
votes for election, judgment must be entered declaring this fact, and such fact must be certified
to the municipal governing body and the vacancy in the office, election to which had been
contested, shall be filled in the manner prescribed by law...
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11-46-71
Section 11-46-71 Annulment of elections. No misconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of
the election officers, the marker, the municipal governing body, or any other person, nor
any offers to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or other misconduct which prevented a fair, free,
and full exercise of the elective franchise can annul or set aside any municipal election
unless the person declared elected and whose election is contested shall be shown not to have
received the requisite number of legal votes for election to the office for which he was a
candidate thereby, nor must any election contested under the provisions of this article be
annulled or set aside because of illegal votes given to the person whose election is contested
unless it appears that the number of illegal votes given to such person, if taken from him,
would reduce the number of votes given to him below the requisite number of votes for election.
No election shall be annulled or set aside because of the rejection of...
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