11-52-73
Section 11-52-73 Regulation and restriction of height, etc., of buildings, etc., sizes of lots,
density of population, etc., authorized. For the purpose of promoting the health, safety,
morals, or general welfare of the community, the legislative body of incorporated cities and
towns is hereby empowered to regulate and restrict the height, number of stories and size
of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of
yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population and the location and use of
buildings, structures, and land for trade, industry, residences, or other purposes. (Acts
1935, No. 533, p. 1121; Code 1940, T. 37, §774.)...
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11-43-48
Section 11-43-48 Proceedings - Quorum. In all towns or cities, a majority of the whole number
of members to which such corporation is entitled, including the mayor in towns and cities
of less than 12,000 population, shall be necessary to constitute a quorum. (Code 1907, §1192;
Code 1923, §1908; Code 1940, T. 37, §429; Acts 1961, No. 666, p. 910, §4.)...
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11-47-134
Section 11-47-134 Establishment, aid, etc., of hospitals, poorhouses, etc., in counties; removal
and detention of persons with contagious, etc., diseases. All cities and towns of this state
shall have the power to aid, establish, set up, and regulate hospitals, poorhouses, workhouses,
houses of correction, and pesthouses anywhere in the county in which the city or town is situated
and cause persons afflicted with contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases to be removed
to such hospitals or pesthouses as may be provided for the purpose and to cause persons who
have been exposed to such diseases, or any of them, to be removed to some suitable place of
detention and detained for a reasonable length of time. (Code 1907, §1277; Code 1923, §2033;
Code 1940, T. 37, §495.)...
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11-47-140
Section 11-47-140 Construction, regulation, etc., of public wells, cisterns, etc.; requirement
of cutting of weeds, proper setting of gutters, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall
have the power to construct, repair, and regulate public wells and cisterns and to compel
the screening of all wells, cisterns, and other places in the city or town in which water
is collected where mosquitoes or other insects of like kind are apt to propagate. Such cities
and towns shall also have the power to compel the proper setting of gutters so as to prevent
stagnant water therein and to require weeds to be cut or other things or conditions favorable
to the harboring of such insects to be abated or to do such work at the expense of the owner,
the same to be a lien on the property to be collected as any other debts are collected or
liens enforced. (Code 1907, §1280; Code 1923, §2037; Code 1940, T. 37, §501.)...
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11-47-40
Section 11-47-40 Ownership, regulation, etc., of municipal cemeteries; regulation, etc., of
establishment or use of private cemeteries within police jurisdiction. All cities and towns
of this state shall have the power to own, regulate, improve, lay out, and control town or
city cemeteries and permit additions thereto and the establishment of new ones, either within
or without the town or city limits, and to sell burial lots in the same, and to regulate or
prohibit the establishment or use of private cemeteries within the police jurisdiction of
a city or town elsewhere than in the city or town cemeteries. (Code 1907, §1284; Code 1923,
§2041; Code 1940, T. 37, §478.)...
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11-81-190
Section 11-81-190 Construction of article. This article, being necessary for and to secure
the public health, safety, convenience and welfare of the counties, cities and incorporated
towns of the State of Alabama, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.
(Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 102, p. 88; Code 1940, T. 37, §339.)...
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23-3-3
Section 23-3-3 Authority to plan, etc., facilities; regulation, etc., thereof. The Director
of Transportation, acting alone or in cooperation with counties, cities, towns or any federal,
state or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction
and maintenance of highways, is authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate,
alter, improve, maintain, and provide controlled access facilities for public use wherever
such authority or authorities are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future,
will justify such special facilities; provided, that in the case of designation or vacation,
such designations or vacations must be approved by the Director of Transportation. Said authorities
may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of such controlled access facilities by the various
classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with Section 23-3-1. (Acts 1956, 1st
Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §3.)...
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45-42A-23.02
Section 45-42A-23.02 Historic preservation commission. A historic preservation commission,
hereinafter referred to as the commission, with the following membership, duties, and powers,
may be established by ordinance of the governing body: (1) The commission shall be composed
of five members. Residents of the historic district or districts shall elect four members
and one member shall be a member of the City of Athens governing body designated by it. (2)
The members of the commission elected by the residents of the historic district during annual
meetings of the historic district association, except the member of the City of Athens governing
body, who shall all serve by virtue of, and whose term shall correspond with the term of his
of her office, shall serve for terms of four years. At the expiration of the term or the death
or resignation of any member, the resulting vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term
of such member by election at the next annual meeting of the historic...
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11-44B-2
Section 11-44B-2 Ordinances establishing boundaries of seven-council districts and salaries
of mayor and council members; compliance with Voting Rights Act; election of mayor and council;
powers and duties of municipality. If said ordinance be adopted by the governing body of any
municipality to which this chapter applies, then: (1) Within 90 days thereafter, the commission
board of such municipality shall adopt an ordinance, a. Establishing the boundaries of the
seven-council districts herein provided for, and b. Establishing the salaries to be paid to
the mayor and council members to be elected at the first election to be held hereunder; (2)
The commission board shall take such steps as are necessary to comply with the Federal Voting
Rights Act of 1965, as amended; (3) After receipt of notification of compliance with the Federal
Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality
shall give notice that an election for mayor and all...
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11-46-21
Section 11-46-21 Time of elections; notice; assumption of duties by elected officers. (a) The
regular municipal elections in cities and towns shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in August
1984, and quadrennially thereafter, and, when necessary as provided in subsection (d) of Section
11-46-55, a second or runoff election shall be held on the sixth Tuesday next thereafter following
the regular election. (b) Special elections shall be held on the second or fourth Tuesday
of any month when ordered by the municipal governing body; provided, that notice of such election
shall be published in the manner prescribed in Section 11-46-22 on or before the corresponding
Tuesday of the second month preceding the month in which the special election is to be held.
(c) Municipal officers elected at regular elections shall assume the duties of their respective
offices on the first Monday in November following their election unless otherwise provided
in this article and shall serve until their...
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