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11-47-190
Section 11-47-190 When municipality liable; joint liability of other persons or corporations.
No city or town shall be liable for damages for injury done to or wrong suffered by any person
or corporation, unless such injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect, carelessness,
or unskillfulness of some agent, officer, or employee of the municipality engaged in work
therefor and while acting in the line of his or her duty, or unless the said injury or wrong
was done or suffered through the neglect or carelessness or failure to remedy some defect
in the streets, alleys, public ways, or buildings after the same had been called to the attention
of the council or other governing body or after the same had existed for such an unreasonable
length of time as to raise a presumption of knowledge of such defect on the part of the council
or other governing body and whenever the city or town shall be made liable for damages by
reason of the unauthorized or wrongful acts or negligence,...
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4-4-5
Section 4-4-5 Methods of acquisition. Whenever, in the judgment of the council or other governing
body of any municipality of this state, it shall appear necessary or expedient for such municipality
to acquire privately owned lands for airport uses, either within or without the geographical
limits thereof, such municipality shall have power to acquire the same in fee simple by exercise
of the right of eminent domain, by purchase or by gift. Each such municipality shall also
have power to acquire a term of years in lands for airport uses; provided, however, that such
municipality, upon the passage of proper and regular resolution or ordinance authorizing such
action, may provide all or part of the cost of land so acquired for airport or airpark uses
by giving as security a regular mortgage on the lands so acquired. (Acts 1931, No. 136, p.
197; Acts 1935, No. 493, p. 1046; Code 1940, T. 4, §25.)...
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11-47-16
Section 11-47-16 Establishment, acquisition, administration, etc., of public cultural facilities.
Each county, city, and town in this state shall have power to establish, operate, maintain,
or contract with others to operate and maintain public cultural facilities consisting of museums,
art galleries, art centers, music halls, and related facilities, and, if necessary, to acquire
sites for, construct, or otherwise acquire such facilities, all to the end of making cultural
facilities available to the public, whether separately or grouped two or more in the same
building. Whenever any such facilities shall have been so established they may be administered
by and through such instrumentality or instrumentalities as may be designated for that purpose
by the governing body of such county, city, or town. (Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 151, p. 168;
Code 1940, T. 37, §511; Acts 1963, No. 541, p. 1159; Acts 1983, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 83-163,
p. 333.)...
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11-50-54
Section 11-50-54 Regulation, installation, etc., of drainage, plumbing, sewer connections,
etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to prescribe the location and
manner in which drainage from private premises may be disposed of and to prescribe the manner
in which plumbing shall be constructed and to forbid the use of the same while out of order
or defective and may discontinue or forbid the use of sinks, pits, cesspools, dry wells, and
surface closets and may regulate and compel the connection of private or public premises with
the sewer system of the town or city, and the council or other governing body shall have the
power to punish the owner of any property who shall fail to make such connection, after 10
days' notice to do so, and shall also have the power to prevent the lease, rental, or use
of any property after notice that such connections have been required until the same shall
have been made. If such owner fails or refuses, after 10 days' notice, to make...
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37-2-84
Section 37-2-84 Abandonment and discontinuance of grade crossings. (a) The Department of Transportation
is given authority and power to abandon and discontinue any portion of a state highway, or
street on a state highway route with the approval of the city council or governing body of
any municipality, crossing the tracks or right-of-way of any railroad or street railway within
the state, and to close the grade crossing, whenever in the judgment of the department the
grade crossing has ceased to be necessary for the public as a part of any state highway, because
of relocation of the highway, or because of the construction of an underpass or overpass,
or other provision made for the elimination of the grade crossing. Whenever the department
orders the abandonment of a portion of the highway or street and the closing of a grade crossing,
it shall enter its order providing therefor in the department minutes. Notice in writing of
the abandonment and discontinuance of the portion of the...
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11-51-24
Section 11-51-24 Redemption of property after sale - Conveyance of property, etc., to redeemer.
Upon such tender by the person offering to redeem the property and the payment thereof to
the purchaser or the deposit of the sum due to the purchaser with the treasurer, the deed
executed by the register or clerk of the circuit court shall be void and, upon a refusal of
the purchaser or his vendee to reconvey to the party redeeming, the council or other governing
body may authorize a deed to be made to the party redeeming, which shall convey all title
the city or town or the purchaser derived at such tax sale, but the interest of the owner
of the property and the interest of the party redeeming shall be adjusted between the parties
as are other legal and equitable interests. (Code 1907, §1329; Code 1923, §2144; Code 1940,
T. 37, §690.)...
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11-50-56
Section 11-50-56 Giving of notice under provisions of division. Whenever in the exercise of
any power granted under this division notice is required to be given, the mayor and aldermen
or other governing body may designate a person or persons to give such notice, who shall be
a bonded officer of the municipality, and to make returns upon the same, and such return shall
be prima facie evidence of such notice. Personal notice to nonresidents shall not be necessary,
and the mayor and aldermen or other governing body may provide and fix the character of the
publication of notice to nonresidents, which shall be given by publication once a week for
three weeks or by posting for the same time in three public places in said city or town where
no newspaper is published therein. Whenever any notice to a resident property owner is returned
not found, the mayor and aldermen or other governing body may prescribe and issue alias notices
to be served as in the case of the original notice. Two returns...
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45-39-221
Section 45-39-221 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this part, and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise,
shall be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION.
The resolution adopted by the governing body of the City of Florence or the county, in accordance
with this part, that authorizes the organization of the tourism board. (2) BOARD. The board
of directors of the tourism board. (3) CODE. This code and all amendments thereto and, with
respect to any particular title, chapter, article, division, section, or other portion thereof,
any act of the Legislature or other code preceding such portion of this code or subsequently
replacing the same. (4) COUNTY. Lauderdale County, Alabama. (5) COUNTY LODGING TAX. That certain
tax levied pursuant to Part 5, commencing with Section 45-39-244, of Article 24 of this chapter.
(6) DIRECTOR. A member of the board. (7)...
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11-48-52
Section 11-48-52 Proceedings for sale of land upon failure of owner to pay assessment, installment
or interest - Execution, etc., of deed to purchaser at sale; disposition of surplus from sale;
purchase of property by municipality. The officer making such sale shall execute a deed to
the purchaser, which shall convey all the right, title, and interest which the party against
whose property the assessment was made had or held in said property at the date of making
such assessment or on the date of making such sale. Any surplus arising from said sale shall
be paid to the city or town treasurer to be kept as a separate fund by the treasurer for the
owner upon the responsibility of his official bond. The council may, by its agents, purchase
real estate sold as provided under this article and, in the event of such purchase, the deed
for the same shall be made to the town or city. (Code 1907, §1405; Code 1923, §2220; Acts
1927, No. 639, p. 753; Code 1940, T. 37, §561.)...
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11-50-91
Section 11-50-91 Payment of assessments generally. The council, in purchasing any sewers or
sewer system the cost of which or any part thereof is to be assessed against the area drained
by such sewer, sewers or sewer system, may provide that the same shall be paid in cash within
30 days after the final assessment, provided the cost of such sewers or sewer system does
not exceed $1,000.00, but if the total cost of such purchase is greater than such sum, any
property owner may, at his election, to be expressed by notifying the city or town official
charged with the duty of collecting such assessments in writing within 30 days after the assessment
is made final, pay such assessment in not less than 10 nor more than 15 equal annual installments,
as determined by the council, which installments shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding
six percent per annum payable annually. And the council may further provide that any person
may further elect to pay each annual installment in four equal...
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