45-25A-40
Section 45-25A-40 Composition; election of members; vacancies. (a) Any law, whether special, local, or general, or municipal ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding, the City of Fort Payne, in DeKalb County, shall not designate by place number, or by other similar method, seats for city council. (b)(1) In the election for the five members of the city council, if there are more than five candidates, then the majority of the votes cast for the office in the election shall be determined by dividing the total votes cast for all candidates for the offices by the number of positions to be filled, and then dividing that result by two. Any number of votes in excess of the number determined by the last division shall be the majority necessary for election. (2) If it appears that any candidate in the election has received a majority of the votes cast for that office, the municipal governing body shall declare that candidate elected to the office, and a certificate of election shall be given...
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11-43A-18
Section 11-43A-18 Appointment of city manager; temporary acting city manager; removal; dealings with administrative service. The council, by a majority vote of the whole qualified membership of the council, shall appoint a city manager, who shall be an officer of the city, and shall have the powers to perform the duties in this article provided. No councilman shall receive such appointment during the term for which the council member shall have been elected nor within one year after expiration of the term. Any civil service act applicable to the municipality shall not apply to the appointment or the removal of the city manager. A temporary acting city manager may be designated by the council to serve for not more than four months in these events, but only in these events: (1) When the first council takes office after adoption of this article or (2) following the removal of any permanent city manager. Such temporary acting city manager shall perform the duties and assume the obligations...
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11-43A-83
Section 11-43A-83 Powers of council; president and president pro tem. The council shall be the governing body of the municipality and shall exercise all legislative functions of the municipality. All powers of the municipality, including all powers vested by this article, by the constitution and by the general and local laws of this state, and the determination of all matters of policy, shall be vested in the council. Without limitation of the foregoing, the council shall have the power to appoint and remove the city manager, to establish other administrative departments of the municipality and to promulgate rules and regulations for the operation of such departments. The council shall have the power to override any veto of the mayor relating to ordinances and resolutions of a general and permanent nature by an affirmative vote of five of the seven members. The council shall have the power to appoint members of boards, authorities and commissions to the extent otherwise provided...
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11-44C-3
Section 11-44C-3 Form of ballot; marking of ballot; use of voting machines. At such election the proposition to be submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on ballots separate and distinct from ballots used for any other office or question and shall read as follows: Check one of the following: (1) Shall the mayor-council form of government, as provided by Act 85-229, be adopted for the city of _____? Yes _____; or (2) Shall the district commission form of government be adopted for the city of _____? Yes _____. The voter shall mark his ballot with a cross mark (X) after the proposition which expresses his choice. If voting machines are used at any voting place in such election, the above proposition may, at the discretion of the election commission or other body or official having charge of the conduct of municipal elections in such city, be submitted as a separate proposition on voting machines so used. (Acts 1985, No. 85-229, p. 96, §3.)...
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45-37A-52.04
Section 45-37A-52.04 Proposition submitted; form of ballot. At such election the proposition to be submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on ballots separate and distinct from ballots used for any other office or question, and shall read as follows: "Shall the mayor-council form of government, as provided by the Mayor-Council Act of 1955, be adopted for the City of ___? "Yes ___. "No ___." The voter shall mark his or her ballot with a cross mark before or after the word which expresses his or her choice. No other proposition shall be submitted to the voters of such city upon this ballot. If voting machines are used at any voting place in such election, the above proposition may at the discretion of the election commission or other body or official having charge of the conduct of municipal elections in such city, be submitted as a separate proposition on voting machines so used. (Acts 1955, No. 452, p. 1004, §1.05.)...
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11-43C-3
Section 11-43C-3 Form of ballot; marking of ballot; use of voting machines. At such election the proposition to be submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on ballots separate and distinct from ballots used for any other office or question and shall read as follows: Check one of the following: (1) Shall the Mayor-Council form of government, as provided by Act ______, be adopted for the City of ___ ? Yes ___; or No ___. The voter shall mark his ballot with a cross mark (X) after the proposition which expresses his choice. If voting machines are used at any voting place in such election, the above proposition may, at the discretion of the election commission or other body or official having charge of the conduct of municipal elections in such city, be submitted as a separate proposition on voting machines so used. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §3.)...
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16-11-2
Section 16-11-2 Applicability; composition of boards. (a) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to city boards of education unless otherwise provided by local law pursuant to Amendment 659 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or any other provision of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (b) The general administration and supervision of the public schools and educational interest of each city shall be vested in a city board of education, to be composed of five members who shall be residents of the city, and who shall not be members of the city council or commission. In any Class 4 municipality which has adopted a mayor-council form of government pursuant to Chapter 43B (commencing with Section 11-43B-1) of Title 11, the city board of education may be composed of seven members. (c) No person shall be eligible for election or appointment as a member of a city board of education unless he or she satisfies all of the following qualifications: (1) Is a person of good moral...
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11-65-7
Section 11-65-7 General provisions respecting members of commission. No member shall vote on or participate in the discussion or consideration of any matter coming before a commission in which he, his immediate family, or any business enterprise with which he is associated has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest; provided, however, that when any such matter is brought before a commission, any member having an interest therein which may be in conflict with his obligations as a member shall immediately make a complete disclosure to such commission of any direct or indirect pecuniary interest he may have in such matter prior to removing himself and withdrawing from the commission's deliberations and vote on the matter presented. In furtherance, and not in limitation of the foregoing provision, no member or employee of a commission, and no spouse, child, parent, brother, or sister of any such member or employee, (1) shall have any financial interest, direct or indirect, in any racing...
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45-37A-50.30
Section 45-37A-50.30 Creation; composition; duties. (a) The Birmingham Vocational Trade School Commission is created to investigate the establishment of a vocational trade school for the City of Birmingham. (b) The commission shall be composed of the following individuals: (1) One member of the Alabama House of Representatives whose district lies entirely within the City of Birmingham. (2) One member of the Alabama Senate whose district is the largest in city population in the City of Birmingham. (3) The president, or his or her designee, of the City of Birmingham Board of Education. (4) The Superintendent of Education, or his or her designee, of the City of Birmingham school system. (5) The president, or his or her designee, of the City of Birmingham Parent Teacher Association. (6) The president, or his or her designee, of the Community Advisory Board of Birmingham. (7) The president, or his or her designee, of the Ministerial Alliance of Birmingham. (8) The Mayor of the City of...
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45-42-162.08
Section 45-42-162.08 Elections. The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the metropolitan-government shall be held on the date established by the judge of probate. Before such election the governing body of the municipalities and the county shall cause the metropolitan area to be divided into nine districts containing as nearly as possible an equal number of people. The division of the metropolitan-government into districts shall be by a committee appointed as follows: Three persons appointed by the Limestone County Commission; two persons appointed by the Athens City Commission; two persons by a committee of mayors from the four incorporated cities; one person appointed by the Limestone County School Board; and one person appointed by the Athens City School Board. Candidates for metropolitan-government offices shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal...
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