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11-47-13
Section 11-47-13 Purchase of school property and erection of school buildings; levy of tax
therefor. All municipal corporations may purchase school property or purchase lots and erect
school buildings thereon for the use and benefit of the citizens of their respective towns
or cities. For said purpose the town council or board of aldermen may levy a tax not exceeding
one-fourth of one percent; provided, that the city or town tax shall not exceed the constitutional
limitation. The town council or board of aldermen may purchase school property, from time
to time, for the maintenance and improvement of such school property and the maintenance of
public schools therein within the limits prescribed in this section. Any purchase of school
property under the power granted in this section shall only be made by the majority vote of
the town council or board of aldermen of such city or town and approved by the mayor. (Code
1907, §1458; Code 1923, §2314; Code 1940, T. 37, §474.)...
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24-1-22
Section 24-1-22 Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this article,
shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context: (1) AUTHORITY or HOUSING AUTHORITY. A public body organized as a body corporate
and politic in accordance with the provisions of this article for the purposes, with the powers
and subject to the restrictions set forth. (2) CITY. Any city or incorporated town in the
State of Alabama. (3) COUNCIL. The legislative body, council, board of commissioners or other
body charged with governing the city. (4) CITY CLERK and MAYOR. The clerk, and the mayor or
president of the board of commissioners, respectively, of the city or the officers thereof
charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk and mayor respectively. (5) COMMISSIONER.
One of the members of an authority appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(6) GOVERNMENT. Such term shall include the state and...
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28-3-190
Section 28-3-190 Levy of tax; collection; disposition of proceeds by localities; enforcement
and administration; penalties; exclusive nature of tax. (a) Levy. In addition to the excise
tax levied by Article 5A of Chapter 3 of this title and the licenses provided for by Chapter
3A of this title and by Section 28-3-194, and any acts amendatory thereof, supplementary thereto
or substituted therefor, and municipal and county licenses, there is hereby levied a privilege
or excise tax on every person licensed under the provisions of Chapter 3A who sells, stores,
or receives for the purpose of distribution, to any person, firm, corporation, club, or association
within the State of Alabama any beer. The tax levied hereby shall be measured by and graduated
in accordance with the volume of sales by such person of beer, and shall be an amount equal
to one and six hundred twenty-five thousands cents (1.625 cents) for each four fluid ounces
or fractional part thereof. (b) Collection. The tax levied...
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11-81-51
Section 11-81-51 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All municipalities shall have full
and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or
that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by an
election as provided in this article if such election is required by the Constitution, but
without an election if an election is not so required) for the following named purposes: (1)
For the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending public buildings,
sewers, streets, alleys, bridges and public schoolhouses and buildings and of constructing
or acquiring by purchase or otherwise water, electric light, electric power and gas plants
and systems or any two or more such plants or systems combined, including transmission and
distribution systems, and of constructing enlargements and extensions to any such plants or
systems; (2) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improvement authorized...
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11-99A-2
Section 11-99A-2 Definitions. In this chapter the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) APPOINTING GOVERNMENT. The municipality or county that approves the creation
of a district and appoints members to the board. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of a district.
(3) CONTIGUOUS. Two tracts of land if touching for a continuous distance of not less than
200 feet. The term includes tracts of land divided by bodies of water, streets, railroad,
or utility rights-of-way, or by land owned by any public person. In determining whether land
is contiguous with a municipality, (i) land separated by bodies of water, streets, or railroad,
or utility rights-of-way is contiguous even though the bodies of water, streets, or rights-of-way
are within the city limits of another municipality and (ii) land separated by land owned by
a public person is not contiguous if the land owned by the public person is within the city
limits of another municipality. (4) COUNCIL. The governing body of a...
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11-51-1
Section 11-51-1 Levy and assessment of property taxes; notice of and conduct of hearing upon
objections to assessments. After October 1 of each year, cities and towns may levy taxes upon
property and all subjects of taxation liable therefor at a rate not in excess of the constitutional
limit upon assessments to be made by the city or town clerk or other person designated by
the council or other governing body, such assessment to be made on the state assessment in
the manner provided by the Constitution of the state or in the manner hereinafter authorized
by law; provided, however, that any municipality may by ordinance provide that the tax year
for such municipality shall commence on October 1 of each year and end on the next succeeding
September 30, in which case cities and towns shall levy taxes as above set forth prior to
August 1 of each year. After the assessment has been made, it shall be returned to the council
or other governing body which shall thereupon give 10 days' notice...
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40-21-12
Section 40-21-12 Description of real property, fixtures and other tangible property within
state. All railroad, electric, hydroelectric, telephone and telegraph companies, and all water,
gas, street, and interurban railroad companies and all docks, terminals, toll road, toll bridge,
and ferry companies and all other public utility companies must make return of each item of
real estate describing by metes and bounds and giving number of acres in each tract or by
lot and block number, if in incorporated cities or towns, and of the improvements thereon,
and all the buildings and structures, stating material of which constructed, and all machinery,
fixtures, and appliances, and all other tangible property and assets owned and assessed, or
liable to assessment for the same year, within this state, and the location and assessed value
thereof, and the county, city, town, or school district, or other tax district wherein the
same are assessed for taxation for state, county, municipal, school,...
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45-45A-43.01
Section 45-45A-43.01 Increase to ad valorem tax. (a) The Legislature hereby approves the proposed
increase in the maximum rate at which the city general purpose tax is authorized to be levied
from one and eight-tenths per centum [1.8 percent, equivalent to 18 mills] of the assessed
value of taxable property in the city to two and four-tenths per centum [2.4 percent, equivalent
to 24 mills] of the assessed value of taxable property in the city. The proposed increase
in the maximum rate at which the city general purpose tax is authorized to be levied shall
become effective only if the increase is approved, subsequent to the enactment of this section,
by a majority of the qualified electors of the city who vote on the proposal at a special
election during any regular scheduled election, as amended. The city council may make the
proposed increase in the maximum rate of the city general purpose tax effective beginning
with the levy for the tax year of the city beginning on October 1, 2012,...
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11-47-170
Section 11-47-170 Acquisition of lands, easements, etc., by municipality; limitations on condemnation.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), whenever in the judgment of the council,
commission, or other governing body of a city or town it may be necessary or expedient for
the carrying out and full exercise of any power granted by the applicable provisions of this
title or any other applicable provision of law, the town or city shall have full power and
authority to acquire by purchase the necessary lands or rights, easements, or interests therein,
thereunder, or thereover or, for the purposes for which private property may be acquired by
condemnation, may proceed to condemn the same in the manner provided by this article, or by
the general laws of this state governing the taking of lands or the acquiring of interests
therein for the uses for which private property may be taken, and such proceedings shall be
governed in every respect by the general laws of this state...
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37-3-4
Section 37-3-4 Exemptions. (a) This chapter shall not be construed to apply to: (1)a. School
buses or other motor vehicles which are owned by county boards of education or under contract
with county boards of education, regardless of whether or not the school buses and other motor
vehicles are being used exclusively for the transportation of school children and school teachers
to and from school and provided the school buses and other motor vehicles do not take on passengers
for fare on a certificated route. b. Motor vehicles for hire while operating wholly within
the limits of a city or incorporated town or within the police jurisdiction thereof, or between
two or more incorporated towns or cities whose city limits join or are contiguous or whose
police jurisdictions join or are contiguous. c. Motor vehicles while used in the transportation
of property when the owner of the vehicle is legally and regularly engaged in the business
of selling such property and is the owner and has the...
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