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11-44B-21
Section 11-44B-21 Ordinances and resolutions continued in effect; references to certain officers
or governing body in existing ordinances, etc., deemed references to mayor or council. All
ordinances and resolutions of the municipality in effect at the time of the adoption of the
mayor-council form of government herein established shall continue in effect unless and until
changed or repealed by the council. Whenever, in any ordinance, resolution, or law in effect
at the time of the adoption of the mayor-council form of government herein established, reference
is made to the mayor, chairman of the commission board, public safety commissioner, associate
commissioner No. 1, finance and water commissioner or associate commissioner No. 2, the same
shall be construed to refer to the mayor of the mayor-council form of government herein established.
Whenever in any ordinance, resolution or law in effect at the time of the adoption of the
mayor-council form of government herein established,...
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11-44B-41
Section 11-44B-41 Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context indicates otherwise,
the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING
AUTHORITY. Depending upon the context, either the mayor, who shall appoint all department
heads, or the department heads, who shall appoint all other covered employees pursuant to
the provisions herein. (2) APPOINTMENT. Depending upon the context, selection by the appointing
authority to a covered job or selection by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or the Speaker
of the House of Representatives of this state of a person to serve on the board. (3) BASE
PAY. The regular compensation for covered employees as most recently established or authorized
by city ordinance, not to include overtime pay, job assignment pay, incentive pay, bonuses
or any other special, temporary, supplemental, or conditional pay. Base pay is usually expressed
annually, but may also, if so indicated, be expressed biweekly or...
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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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11-47-210
Section 11-47-210 Definitions. When used in this article, unless the context plainly indicates
otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section: (1) APPLICANT. An individual who files a written application with the
governing body of any county or municipality in accordance with Section 11-47-214. (2) AUTHORITY.
A public corporation organized under this article for the purposes, with the powers, and subject
to the restrictions set forth in this article. (3) AUTHORIZING COUNTY. With respect to an
authority, any county which has a governing body that has made findings and determinations
of facts pertaining to the organization of the authority in accordance with Section 11-47-214.
(4) AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITY. With respect to an authority, any municipality which has a governing
body that has made findings and determinations of facts pertaining to the organization of
the authority in accordance with Section 11-47-214. (5)...
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45-8A-110
Section 45-8A-110 Annexation based on resolution of public health or public good; elections.
(a) Whenever the council of the City of Oxford shall pass a resolution to the effect that
the public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution)
shall be brought within the limits of the City of Oxford: (1) It shall be the duty of the
mayor to certify a copy of such resolution to the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County and the
certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of the territory proposed to
be annexed, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate.
(2) Within 10 days from the date of the filing of such resolution, the judge of probate must
make and enter an order upon the minutes of the court, directing and ordering an election
to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory described, not less than
20 days nor more than 40 days from the date of the making of the order. The...
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11-44B-7
Section 11-44B-7 Powers and duties of mayor. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of said
council and sit with said council. Provided, however, the mayor shall not, for any purpose,
be a member of the council, shall vote only in the case of a tie, and shall have the right
of veto as provided herein. (1) The mayor shall be the chief executive officer, and shall
have general supervision and control of all other officers and the affairs of the city except
as otherwise provided by this article and general statutes of the state. (2) The mayor shall
devote full time to the duties of his office. The mayor shall maintain an office at the city
hall and be present thereat during reasonable hours when not otherwise absent therefrom on
other duties of the city. (3) The mayor shall, each quarter, prepare a detailed statement
of all receipts and expenses of the city, and annually, at the end of each fiscal year, the
mayor shall cause the books and accounts of the city to be audited by a...
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11-44E-53
Section 11-44E-53 Codification authorized. The commission may provide at any time it may deem
proper, for the revision and codification of its resolutions, bylaws, and ordinances, or for
the adoption of a code or codes by ordinance. Such code or codes and the revisions or amendments
thereof may relate to the whole system of city resolutions, bylaws, and ordinances, or may
relate to that portion of such resolutions, bylaws, and ordinances, which relate to, affect,
or purport to govern any particular subject or subjects or subdivision of municipal legislation.
The commission shall have full power and authority to prescribe the manner in which said code
or codes, revisions or amendments thereto, shall be made public, whether by proclamation of
any officer or officers of said city by posting or by publication, one or all, but it shall
not be necessary unless so prescribed by the commission for such code or codes, revisions
or amendments thereto, to be published in a newspaper or...
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11-46-23
Section 11-46-23 Authority and procedure for adjustment of boundary lines of wards, division
of wards into voting districts, etc. The boundaries of wards within municipalities which have
been divided into wards as now defined shall so remain until changed by ordinance. Hereafter
the municipal governing body may, in its discretion, readjust the boundary lines of wards
and may divide or consolidate any number of wards and resubdivide the same into voting districts;
provided, that no such adjustment shall be made within three months of any election unless
such adjustment is made during calendar year 1984 for the purpose of complying with the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 as amended. Whenever the municipal governing body readjusts any ward lines
or divides a ward into voting districts, the ordinance whereby the ward is established or
subdivided into voting districts shall describe the territory composing the ward, and when
the ward has been subdivided, the territory composing each district...
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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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37-5-1
Section 37-5-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms, when
used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) MUNICIPAL POWER DISTRICT, POWER DISTRICT or DISTRICT. A municipal power district organized
under this chapter, either as originally organized or as the same may be from time to time
altered or amended. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Any city or town. (3) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used
in relation to any municipality, the body or board, by whatsoever name known, having charge
of the governing of a municipality and shall be held to include the mayor or other chief executive
officers of such municipality in any case wherein the concurrence or approval of such officer
is required by the law governing such municipality for the adoption of any municipal ordinance
or resolution or other municipal act provided for in this chapter. (4) BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
DIRECTORS or BOARD. The board of directors of a municipal power...
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