11-43-21
Section 11-43-21 Qualifications; compensation; powers and duties; bond; term of office and removal. (a) A city manager employed under the provisions of this article shall have the authority and be charged with the duties, liabilities, and penalties and shall hold office and receive compensation as set forth in this section: The city manager shall be the administrative head of the municipal government. He shall be chosen by the governing body of the municipality without regard to political beliefs and solely upon the basis of his executive and administrative qualifications. The choice shall not be limited to inhabitants of the municipality or of the State of Alabama. The city manager shall receive such compensation as may be prescribed by ordinance of the governing body, which shall be payable in 12 monthly installments from the municipal treasury. During the absence or disability of the city manager the governing body shall designate some properly qualified person to perform the duties...
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11-43-80
Section 11-43-80 Powers and duties generally; office; salary; employment, salary, etc., as superintendent of municipal light, water, sewage, etc., systems. (a) The mayor shall have the powers and perform the duties provided by this title and by other applicable provisions of law and shall keep an office in the city or town. (b) The mayor shall receive such salary as the council may prescribe, which must be fixed by the council not less than six months prior to each general municipal election; provided, however, the six-month requirement in this section may be waived when necessary to comply with a mandate by the U.S. Justice Department pursuant to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, or with an order issued by a state or federal court. (c) In municipalities which own and operate light and power systems, municipal water systems, municipal sewage systems, and municipal gas systems, one or any of them, may, by resolution of the governing body duly entered in its minutes, require the...
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41-9-166
Section 41-9-166 Adoption, etc., of building codes by municipalities and counties. Any municipality in the State of Alabama may adopt any model building code published by the Southern Building Code Congress International and the National Electrical Code published by the National Fire Protection Association as a municipal ordinance, enlarging the applicability thereof to include private buildings and structures other than private schoolhouses, hotels, public and private hospitals, and moving picture houses as it deems necessary and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof in the same manner in which other ordinances and related penalty provisions are adopted and prescribed. Any county commission similarly may adopt and enlarge the applicability of any model building code published by the Southern Building Code Congress International and the National Electrical Code published by the National Fire Protection Association for the county, prescribing penalties for violations thereof, by...
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45-16A-20.01
Section 45-16A-20.01 Authority to operate cable, telecommunications, etc., systems. In addition to all other power, rights, and authority heretofore granted by law, the City of Elba in Coffee County and municipal instrumentalities of the City of Elba may acquire, establish, purchase, construct, maintain, enlarge, extend, lease, improve, and operate cable systems, telecommunications equipment and telecommunications systems, and furnish cable service, interactive computer service, and Internet access and other Internet services and telecommunications service, or any combination thereof, to the inhabitants of the municipality and surrounding territory. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the City of Elba in Coffee County and municipal instrumentalities of the City of Elba may furnish to the inhabitants of the City of Elba and surrounding territory: Internet access and other Internet services; meter reading services; appliance, equipment, or facilities monitoring; alarm...
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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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11-48-5
Section 11-48-5 Adoption of ordinance or resolution describing proposed improvement, ordering preparation of plans, specifications, etc., thereof, etc. (a) When the council of any city or town shall determine to open, widen, extend, construct, or improve any street, alley, avenue, sidewalk, highway, or other public place or to make any other public improvements or undertake any work authorized by the provisions of this article, the cost of which or any part thereof it is proposed to assess against the property abutting on, served, illuminated, drained, elevated, reclaimed, protected, or otherwise specially benefited or increased in value by said improvements, it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution to that effect, describing the nature and extent of the work, the general character of the materials to be used and the location and terminal point thereof and the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or parts thereof embraced therein, and it shall direct that full details,...
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11-50-210
Section 11-50-210 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall be deemed to have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section: (1) MUNICIPALITY. A municipal corporation in the State of Alabama. (2) PUBLIC GAS CORPORATION. A public corporation having corporate power to own and operate one or more gas systems and existing under the provisions of any of the following: Articles 8, 9, and 12 of this chapter. (3) AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITY. Each municipality which authorized the incorporation of a particular public gas corporation or the governing body of which consented to, or made determinations prerequisite to, the incorporation of a particular public gas corporation. (4) GAS SYSTEM. A plant and system for the manufacture and distribution of gas or a system for the purchase, transportation, and distribution, or any of them, of manufactured or natural gas, together with all appurtenances thereto and all property used or useful in connection...
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11-50-314
Section 11-50-314 Powers of corporation generally; provisions in mortgages, deeds of trust, or pledge agreements executed by corporation as to rights of parties thereto, etc. (a) Each corporation formed or the certificate of incorporation of which is amended under this article shall have the following powers together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation or until dissolved as provided in this article; (2) To sue and be sued and to defend civil actions against it; (3) To make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To acquire, purchase, construct, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve any system or systems, the operation of which is provided for in the certificate of incorporation of such corporation or in any amendment thereto (whether or not such system or...
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37-16-8
Section 37-16-8 Construction of chapter. (a) Nothing in this chapter shall interfere with the commission's authority to regulate public utilities under this title. Nothing in this chapter shall provide a basis for creating or granting jurisdiction to the commission over any electric providers or any broadband affiliate that are otherwise exempt or are otherwise not subject to the jurisdiction of the commission. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall affect, abrogate, or eliminate in any way any obligation of an electric provider or any broadband affiliate or broadband operator to comply with any applicable safety and permitting requirements of any railroad company or any state governmental body or agency with respect to property that is held or controlled by such railroad company or state governmental body or agency, as the case may be, and in, on, over, or across which an easement is located. (c) Any broadband system that encumbers the right-of-way of the Department of Transportation shall...
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45-23A-92
Section 45-23A-92 Ad valorem tax. (a) The governing body of the City of Ozark in Dale County may levy and collect an additional ad valorem tax at a rate not exceeding seven mills per each one dollar ($1) on the value of the taxable property within the city, the proceeds of which tax shall be used exclusively first for the retirement of the debt created pursuant to the construction and additions to Carroll High School, and thereafter for educational and school purposes as determined by the Ozark City Council; provided, however, the rate of such tax, the time it is to continue and the purpose thereof shall have been first submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the City of Ozark and voted for by a majority of those voting at such election. The additional taxes levied and imposed by this section shall become effective October 1, 1987, upon referendum approved by a majority of the qualified electors of the municipality, called by the municipal governing body at the next special,...
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