11-24-1
Section 11-24-1 Definitions; regulation of lots, streets, drainage, utilities, etc.; developer to reimburse utility for uneconomical placement. (a) When used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. A political subdivision of the state created by statute to aid in the administration of government. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The chief administrative or legislative body of the county. (3) STREETS. Streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys, viaducts, and other roads. (4) SUBDIVISION. The development and division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or otherwise for the purpose of establishing or creating a subdivision through the sale, lease, or building development. Development includes, but is not limited to, the design work of lot layout, the construction of drainage structures, the construction of buildings or public use areas, the planning and construction of public streets and public roads, and the...
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11-24-2
Section 11-24-2 Submission, review, and approval of plats; permit. (a) It shall be the duty of the owner and developer of each subdivision to have all construction completed in conformity with this chapter and, prior to beginning any construction or development, to submit the proposed plat to the county commission for approval and obtain a permit to develop as required in this section. The permit to develop shall be obtained before the actual sale, offering for sale, transfer, or lease of any lots from the subdivision or addition to the public, it must include a plan to deliver utilities including water, and shall only be issued upon approval of the proposed plat by the county commission. As a condition for the issuance of a permit, the county commission may require any of the following for approval of the proposed plat: (1) The filing and posting of a reasonable surety bond with the county commission by the developers of the proposed subdivisions or proposed additions to guarantee the...
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11-3A-2
Section 11-3A-2 Powers for public welfare, health, and safety; authorization; scope. (a) Except where otherwise specifically prohibited or provided for either heretofore or hereafter by general law or the constitution of this state and subject to the procedures and limitations set out in this chapter, the county commission of a county may provide for its property and affairs; and for the public welfare, health, and safety of the citizens throughout the unincorporated areas of the county by exercising certain powers for the protection of the county and public property under its control. The powers granted herein to provide for the public welfare, health, and safety of its citizens shall only include the following: (1) Abatement of weeds as a public nuisance as defined in Section 11-67-60. (2) Subject to the provisions of Section 6-5-127, control of animals and animal nuisances. (3) Control of litter as defined in subsection (b) of Section 13A-7-29, or rubbish as defined in subdivision...
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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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11-51-90
Section 11-51-90 Municipal business licenses; branch offices; application. (a) All municipalities shall have the following powers: (1) To license any exhibition, trade, business, vocation, occupation, or profession not prohibited by the Constitution or laws of the state which may be engaged in or carried on in the municipality. (2) To fix the amount of licenses, the time for which they are to run, not exceeding one license year, to provide a penalty for doing business without a license, and to charge a fee not exceeding ten dollars ($10) for issuing each license. The issuance fee shall be increased every five license years by the Department of Revenue by an amount equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the U.S. Department of Labor's Producer Price Index during that five-year period, rounded to the nearest dollar, with the base year being 2006. The Department of Revenue shall notify all municipalities and the Alabama League of Municipalities of any such fee increase no later than...
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11-52-31
Section 11-52-31 Adoption, publication, and certification of subdivision regulations; contents of regulations; bond. (a) Except where the county commission is responsible for the regulation of subdivision regulations within the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal planning commission pursuant to Section 11-52-30, the municipal planning commission shall adopt subdivision regulations governing the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction. The regulations may provide for the proper arrangement of streets in relation to other existing or planned streets and to the master plan, for adequate and convenient open spaces for traffic, utilities, access of fire-fighting apparatus, recreation, light and air and for the avoidance of congestion of population, including minimum width and area of lots. The regulations may include provisions as to the extent to which streets and other ways shall be graded and improved and to which water and sewer and other utility mains, piping, or other...
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11-58-5
Section 11-58-5 Powers of corporations generally. Each corporation formed under this chapter shall have the following powers, together with all the powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the period specified in the certificate of incorporation (which may be in perpetuity) unless sooner dissolved as provided in this chapter. (2) To sue and be sued and prosecute and defend civil actions in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties. (3) To have and use a corporate seal and to alter it at pleasure. (4) To acquire, whether by purchase, exchange, lease, construction, or otherwise one or more medical clinics and any necessary or desirable clinical facilities. a. Any municipal medical clinic shall be located either within the corporate limits of the municipality or within 15 miles of the corporate limits, but not within the corporate limits or police jurisdiction of any...
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22-20-5
Section 22-20-5 Regulations for establishments handling food and providing public accommodations. (a) The State Committee on Public Health shall, as conditions demand, adopt and promulgate regulations for the construction, maintenance and operation of all establishments, and their immediate surroundings, in which foods or beverages intended for sale for human consumption are made, prepared, processed, displayed for sale in an unpackaged state or served and for the construction, maintenance and operation of hotels, inns, taverns, motels, tourist courts, tourist homes, trailer courts or any place where sleeping accommodations for transients, tourists or vacationists are advertised for sale, as well as regulations for the construction, maintenance and operation of exhibition-ground food concessions, poultry slaughterhouses and animal slaughterhouses, and their surroundings; except, that the authority hereby vested shall not include the authority to conduct meat and poultry slaughter and...
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4-4-1
Section 4-4-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, unless the context plainly indicates otherwise, the present tense shall include the future tense and the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AIRCRAFT. Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other contrivance designed for use primarily as safety equipment. (2) CIVIL AIRCRAFT. Any aircraft, other than a military aircraft of the United States or of a state, territory or possession of the United States. (3) OPERATING AIRCRAFT. Performing the services of an aircraft pilot. (4) STATE. The State of Alabama. (5) MUNICIPALITY. Any county, city, town or incorporated village of the State of Alabama. (6) MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. An airport under the direct control and management of a municipality; provided, that for the purpose of this and the following definition, the letting by a municipality to...
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40-9B-7
Section 40-9B-7 Private use property; taxation thereof. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a public authority or county or municipal government has title to or a possessory right in private use property, then: (1) The property shall be subject to ad valorem taxes as if the private user held title to the property. (2) The private user of the property shall be liable for construction related transaction taxes as if the private user held title to such property. (3) The private user of the property shall be subject to the recording taxes for mortgages, deeds, and documents relating to the issuance or securing of obligations and the conveyance of title to property into and out of a public authority. (b) A private user of property described in subsection (a) may apply for, and if the property constitutes industrial development property, be granted abatements of ad valorem, construction related transaction taxes, and mortgage and recording taxes as described in Sections...
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