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11-49-106
Section 11-49-106 Liability for damages for vacation of street. The party for whom the street
may be vacated under this article shall be liable to the owners of property adjacent thereto
in any civil action for any special damages suffered by them. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102;
Code 1923, §2244; Code 1940, T. 37, §669.)...
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23-4-20
Section 23-4-20 Vacation of street or alley. (a) Subject to the conditions set out in this
subsection, any street or alley may be vacated, in whole or in part, by the owner or owners
of the land abutting the street or alley or abutting that portion of the street or alley desired
to be vacated by following the procedures set out herein. The owner or owners of the land
abutting the street or alley to be vacated shall join in a written petition requesting that
the street or alley be vacated and shall file the petition with the governing body with jurisdiction
over the street or alley, or portion thereof, requesting the governing body's approval of
the vacation. The governing body shall set the request for vacation for public hearing within
100 days from the date the petition is received. Notice of the hearing shall be provided as
set out in Section 36-25A-3 for notice of meetings of the governing body and shall describe
the street or alley, or portion thereof, requested to be vacated in...
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35-2-54
Section 35-2-54 Vacation of streets or alleys by abutting landowners. Any street or alley shown
by any map, plat, or survey, whether such map or plat is executed and recorded as provided
by law or not, may be vacated, in whole or in part, by the owner or owners of the lands abutting
the street or alley (or that portion of the street or alley desired to be vacated), or their
executors, administrators, or guardian, joining in a written instrument declaring the same
to be vacated, such written instrument to be executed, acknowledged, and recorded in like
manner as conveyances of land, which declaration being duly recorded shall operate to destroy
the force and effect of the dedication by the map, plat, or survey and to divest all public
rights, including any rights which may have been acquired by prescription, in that part of
the street or alley so vacated. If any such street or alley is within the limits of any municipality,
the assent of the mayor and aldermen or other governing body of...
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23-4-2
Section 23-4-2 Procedure. (a) Whenever the governing body of a municipality or county proposes
to vacate a public street, alley, or highway, or portion thereof, the governing body shall
schedule a public hearing prior to taking final action and shall publish notice of the proposed
hearing on the vacation in a newspaper of general circulation in the portion of the county
where the street, alley, or highway lies once a week for four consecutive weeks in the county
prior to deciding the issue at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing body. A copy
of the notice shall be posted on a bulletin board at the county courthouse and shall also
be served by U.S. mail at least 30 days prior to the scheduled meeting on any abutting owner
and on any entity known to have facilities or equipment such as utility lines, both aerial
or buried, within the public right-of-way of the street, alley, or highway to be vacated.
The notice shall describe the street, alley, highway, or portion thereof...
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3-5-3
Section 3-5-3 Liability of owner for damages done by livestock or animals running at large;
judgment lien upon animal or livestock causing damage. (a) The owner of such livestock or
animal being or running at large upon the premises of another or upon the public lands, roads,
highways or streets in the State of Alabama shall be liable for all damages done to crops,
shade or fruit trees or ornamental shrubs and flowers of any person, to be recovered before
any court of competent jurisdiction; provided, that the owner of any stock or animal shall
not be liable for any damages to any motor vehicle or any occupant thereof suffered, caused
by or resulting from a collision with such stock or other animal, unless it be proven that
such owner knowingly or wilfully put or placed such stock upon such public highway, road or
street where such damages were occasioned. (b) The judgment of the court against the owner
of such livestock or animal so depredating shall be a lien superior to all other...
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11-69-1
Section 11-69-1 Adoption and implementation of plan. (a) Any Class 7 or 8 municipality in this
state may adopt a rural scenic right-of-way plan for the development, improvement, and use
of right-of-way along municipal roads and streets and county roads within the corporate limits
and police jurisdiction of the municipality except right-of-way, highways, streets, or roads
that are under exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction of the Alabama Department of Transportation.
Pursuant to the plan, the municipality may designate right-of-way adjacent to a municipal
road or street or a county road to be developed, improved, and used for recreational or beautification
purposes. Any portion of a road designated shall continue for at least three miles in length
and may not at the time of designation have an average density of two or more commercial enterprises
that have an entrance or exit on the road per mile. The path of the right-of-way along a street
or road included in the plan may cross another...
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11-3-11
Section 11-3-11 Powers and duties generally. (a) The county commission shall have authority:
(1) To direct, control, and maintain the property of the county as it may deem expedient according
to law, and in this direction and control it has the sole power to locate the courts in the
rooms of the courthouse and to designate the rooms to be occupied by the officers entitled
to rooms therein, including the circuit judge if resident in the county, and to change the
location of the courts and the designation of the rooms for officers as it may deem best and
most expedient, and this shall be done by order of the county commission entered upon the
minutes of the county commission at a regular meeting of the county commission. In the event
the courthouse is inadequate to supply office rooms for such officers, the county commission
may lease such office rooms in a convenient location in the county site and pay the rental
from the county fund. (2) To levy a general tax, for general county...
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11-44B-25
Section 11-44B-25 Procedures to reduce or delete areas from police jurisdiction. Notwithstanding
any law to the contrary, any Class 4 municipality that is organized pursuant to this article
may from time to time reduce or delete various portions and areas from the territorial limits
of its respective police jurisdiction or its planning jurisdiction or both as established
by law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11-40-10 and 11-52-30, Act 76-594 and as amended
by Act 94-539, the reduction and deletion shall be pursuant to the following procedure: (1)
INITIATION. The governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution calling for public
hearings to consider the adoption of an ordinance or ordinances for the purpose of deleting
a portion or portions of territory from its respective police jurisdiction or planning jurisdiction,
or both, as the case may be. The resolution shall state the time, date, and place of all public
hearings in regard to the ordinance and a reasonably...
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11-49-100
Section 11-49-100 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Authorized generally. Whenever in the judgment of the council or other governing
body of any town or city it is to the interest of the public convenience that a portion of
any street in the limits of such city or town be vacated and discontinued as a highway and
that such vacated portion should be used for the erection and maintenance in whole or in part
thereon of any state, county, or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or
street railroad station or depot, such city or town council or other governing body may, by
ordinance duly adopted, vacate such portions of such street and discontinue its use as a public
highway and permit the erection and maintenance in whole or in part thereon of a state, county,
or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or street railroad station or depot.
(Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2238; Code 1940, T....
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11-49-105
Section 11-49-105 Property rights in vacated portion of street. The fee of such vacated portion
of a street shall remain in the city or town, but the council or other governing body may
grant the right to maintain thereon a state, county, or municipal public building or a railroad
station or depot or street railroad station or depot so long and only so long as the same
shall be used for the purpose for which it was vacated. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923,
§2241; Code 1940, T. 37, §666.)...
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