11-43-40
Section 11-43-40 Composition of city councils; voting by president of council. (a) Except as
provided in Section 11-43-2 as it relates to the legislative functions of the mayor in cities
and towns having a population of 12,000 or more but less than 25,000 inhabitants according
to the most recent or any subsequent federal decennial census, in cities having a population
of 12,000 or more, the following officers shall be elected at each general municipal election,
who shall compose the city council for the cities and who shall hold office for four years
and until their successors are elected and qualified, and who shall exercise the legislative
functions of city government and any other powers and duties which are or may be vested by
law in the city council or its members: (1) In cities having seven wards or less, a president
of the city council and two aldermen from each ward, to be elected by the qualified voters
of the several wards voting separately in every ward; except, that in...
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11-48-81
Section 11-48-81 Powers of cities as to construction of public improvements, assessment of
cost thereof against property benefited, etc., outside corporate limits generally; requirement
as to consent of property owners, etc. (a) Each city in this state having a population of
6,000 or more inhabitants, according to the most recent federal census or any official census
taken pursuant to Sections 11-47-90 through 11-47-95 shall have the same powers with respect
to the construction of public improvements in the police jurisdiction of such city that it
may have under any law now existing or hereafter enacted with respect to the construction
of public improvements within the corporate limits of such city. Each such city shall have
the same powers with respect to the assessment of the cost of public improvements, whether
constructed in the city or in such police jurisdiction, against the property specially benefited
by such improvements, whether such property is located in such city or in...
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11-50-50
Section 11-50-50 Construction and maintenance of sewers, drains, etc., by municipalities authorized.
All cities and towns may make all needful provisions for the drainage of such city or town,
may construct and maintain efficient sanitary and stormwater sewers or sewer systems, either
within or without the corporate limits of the city or town, may construct and maintain ditches,
surface drains, aqueducts, and canals and may build and construct underground sewers through
private or public property, either within or without the corporate limits of such city or
town, but just compensation must first be made for the private property taken, injured, or
destroyed. (Code 1907, §1302; Code 1923, §2076; Code 1940, T. 37, §601.)...
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11-46-1
Section 11-46-1 Municipalities may provide for election, compensation, bond, etc., of officers.
Cities and towns may, except as otherwise provided by law, by ordinance provide for the election
at any regular municipal election or for the appointment of such officers as are deemed needful
or proper for the good government of the city or town and the due exercise of its corporate
powers, fix their terms of office, fix their compensation and prescribe the duties of such
officers, their liabilities and powers and require them to give bond in such sum and to be
conditioned and approved as the council may prescribe. (Code 1907, §1171; Code 1923, §1887;
Code 1940, T. 37, §34.)...
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11-47-91
Section 11-47-91 Arrangement and return of enumeration; certification of same to Secretary
of State; effect as to conduct of school census. Such enumeration shall be alphabetically
arranged and returned to the mayor, together with the original books of enumeration. The mayor
shall thereupon certify to the Secretary of State the result of such census, giving the total
number of each race residing within the corporate limits of the municipality, and the result
so certified by the mayor under the seal of the municipality, attested by the clerk, shall
be the official census of such city or town until the next federal census or until a new enumeration
shall have been taken. When a municipal census shall have been taken in an odd year, it shall
not be necessary to take a separate school census in such municipality during such year, but
such school census shall be taken from the result of the enumeration made by the municipality
and certified as required by law to the State Superintendent of...
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11-48-30
Section 11-48-30 Reduction or abatement of assessments on property owned by government or charitable
organizations in municipalities having population of 20,000 or less - Authority generally;
reconveyance of property acquired through foreclosure of assessment. The council of any town
or city having a population of less than 20,000 people according to the last federal census
or which shall hereafter have such a population according to any such census that may be taken
hereafter shall have the power to reduce or abate any assessments heretofore or hereafter
made for public improvements in such town or city in cases where such assessments have been
levied or attempted to be levied against property owned by the State of Alabama or by such
town or city or by the county in which such town or city is located or owned by any church,
hospital, or other charitable organization, whether or not such assessment shall have been
made final and the time to appeal therefrom expired. Such council may...
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36-27-6
Section 36-27-6 Participation of employees of counties, cities, towns, public or quasi-public
organizations, etc. - Generally. (a) The governing board of any county, city, town or public
or quasi-public organization of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or the Alabama
Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station System of Auburn University may, by
resolution legally adopted to conform to rules prescribed by the Board of Control, elect to
have its officers and employees from whatever sources and in whatever manner paid become eligible
to participate in the retirement system; and the Adjutant General of the state, with the approval
of the Governor, may, by application properly prepared and submitted in conformity with rules
prescribed by the Board of Control, elect to have those employees of the Alabama National
Guard employed pursuant to 32 U.S.C.A., Section 709, and paid from federally appropriated
funds, become eligible to participate in this retirement system....
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11-42-102
Section 11-42-102 Exemption from taxation of industrial or manufacturing plants. The council
of any city or town that alters and rearranges its boundary lines so as to absorb two or more
cities or towns may exempt from taxation for a period not exceeding five years any industrial
or manufacturing plant situated in the territory added to said city or town, but said terms
of exemption shall not be renewed or extended. The council of any city or town may also exempt
from taxation for a period not to exceed 10 years any industrial or manufacturing plant that
may be established in said city or town; provided, that said term of exemption shall not be
renewed. (Code 1907, §1127; Code 1923, §1821; Code 1940, T. 37, §189.)...
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11-43-8
Section 11-43-8 Establishment of salaries of municipal officers. The salaries of all officers
of cities or towns except aldermen and councilmen shall be fixed by the municipal council
or other governing body, but if there is a salary limit for such officers provided in the
charter or laws governing the city or town, the same shall not be altered or changed above
such salary limit except by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to said municipal council
or other governing body of such cities or towns and by and with the consent of the mayor.
(Code 1907, §1456; Code 1923, §2312; Code 1940, T. 37, §409.)...
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11-47-1
Section 11-47-1 Borrowing of money authorized - Twelve-month renewable loans. Cities and towns
shall have the right to borrow money for any purpose or purposes not in excess of any limitation
imposed by the Constitution and, in case of loans for temporary use, the same may be evidenced
either by negotiable notes or by nonnegotiable warrants or certificates of indebtedness which
shall not bear exceeding the legal rate of interest, and no obligation of the municipality
for money borrowed shall be issued unless signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk, with
the seal of the municipality impressed thereon, and a record kept thereof. Any such note,
warrant, or certificate of indebtedness shall be payable not later than 12 months after the
date of its issuance but may be renewed from time to time until the indebtedness evidenced
thereby shall have been paid. License taxes, ad valorem taxes, rents or revenues from water
or any other taxes or revenues due or to become due to a city or town...
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