16-13-190
Section 16-13-190 Validation of elections. Each election heretofore held in any school district or in any municipality or in any county at large, in this state on the question of the levy of a special tax for any school or educational purpose, or for school or educational purposes generally, under the Constitution of Alabama or any amendment thereto, or upon the question of the consolidation of two or more school districts and the levy of such a tax in the consolidated school district resulting from such consolidation, at which election a majority of the ballots cast were in favor of the levy of the tax, or in favor of the proposed consolidation and the levy of the tax in the consolidated district, as the case may be, and which election was irregular because of failure prior to the holding of the election to give notice thereof in a newspaper or by posting in the manner or for the time required by the statute under which the election was held, or because the period of time for which...
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12-2-1
Section 12-2-1 Composition of court; election and terms of office of justices. (a) The Supreme Court, except as otherwise provided, shall consist of a chief justice and eight associate justices, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state at the general elections as provided by law for the election of members of the House of Representatives in Congress and who shall hold their offices for the term of six years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next succeeding their election and until their successors are elected and qualified. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution respecting filling of vacancies in judicial offices, members of the Supreme Court shall be elected as follows: The Chief Justice and three associate justices shall be elected at the general election in November, 1976, two associate justices shall be elected at the general election in November, 1978, and three associate justices shall be elected at the general election in...
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13A-5-13
origin, ethnicity, or physical or mental disability, to be secure and protected from threats of reasonable fear, intimidation, harassment, and physical harm caused by activities of groups and individuals. (2) It is not the intent, by enactment of this section, to interfere with the exercise of rights protected by the Constitution of the State of Alabama or the United States. (3) The intentional advocacy of unlawful acts by groups or individuals against other persons or groups and bodily injury or death to persons is not constitutionally protected when violence or civil disorder is imminent, and poses a threat to public order and safety, and such conduct should be subjected to criminal sanctions. (b) The purpose of this section is to impose additional penalties where it is shown that a perpetrator committing the underlying offense was motivated by the victim's actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or physical or mental disability. (c) A person who...
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10A-20-15.01
Section 10A-20-15.01 Rights, powers, and authority. All corporations organized under the general laws of this state, or heretofore under a special act of the Legislature, and all corporations organized under the laws of any other of the United States which have complied with the Constitution and laws of the State of Alabama as to foreign corporations and which by their charter have the right to manufacture, supply, and sell to the public power produced by water as a motive force, shall, after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site or power site comprising not less than one acre of land upon each and opposite sides of any watercourse or after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site comprising not less than one acre of land upon one side of any watercourse and, where the dam site on the other side of the watercourse is owned or controlled by the United States, shall have acquired the permission of the United States to attach to...
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12-23A-4
Section 12-23A-4 Establishment of drug court; participation; incentives and sanctions; components; drug court team and advisory committee; coordinator. (a)(1) The presiding judge of each judicial circuit, with the consent of the district attorney of that judicial circuit, may establish a drug court or courts, under which drug offenders shall be processed, to appropriately address the identified substance abuse problem of the drug offender as a condition of pretrial release, pretrial diversion, probation, jail, prison, parole, community corrections, or other release or diversion from a correctional facility. The structure, method, and operation of each drug court may differ and should be based upon the specific needs of and resources available to the judicial district or circuit where the drug court is located, but shall be created and operate pursuant to this chapter and in compliance with rules promulgated by the Alabama Supreme Court. (2) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the...
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12-18-5
Section 12-18-5 Applicability of article to justices and judges; contributions to retirement fund; granting of credit for military service. (a) Every justice of the Supreme Court, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and judge of the circuit court of the state holding office on September 18, 1973, shall have the right of election to come under this article. Each justice or judge holding office on September 18, 1973, shall have the right, within three years from September 18, 1973, to file with the clerk of the Supreme Court of Alabama, an instrument in writing electing to come under this article. Each justice or judge of such courts elected or appointed to office after September 18, 1973, shall come under this article as a matter of law. After September 18, 1973, each justice and each judge who has elected to come under this article as provided by this section or who comes under this article by operation of law shall contribute to the Judicial...
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29-6-7.1
Section 29-6-7.1 Legislative findings as to speech and debate; definitions; privileged and confidential communication; waiver of privilege. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) Section 56 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 56 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, contains a speech or debate clause virtually identical to Section 6 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States, the federal speech and debate clause. (2) In the case of Gravel v. United States, 408 U.S. 606, the Supreme Court of the United States held the speech and debate clause in the Constitution of the United States makes the communications between members of the Congress and their staff privileged and confidential. (3) The Supreme Court explained its reasoning as follows: "[T]he day-to-day work of [legislative] aides is so critical to the Members' performance that they must be treated as the latter's alter ego;...
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37-11A-1
by the Governor, or upon its otherwise becoming a law, and when the State of Mississippi ratifies the compact. Article III. For purposes of this compact, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) Person means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, or any other entity. (2) Railroad means a common carrier by railroad as defined in Section 1(3) of Part I of the Interstate Commerce Act [codified as 49 U.S.C. §1(3)]. (3) Railroad properties and facilities mean any real or personal property or interest in property which is owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by a railroad or other person, including, without limitation, the authority, and which are used or are useful in rail transportation service, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing: a. Track, roadbed, and related structures, including rail, ties, ballast, other track materials, grading, tunnels, bridges, trestles, culverts, elevated structures, stations, office buildings used for operating...
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17-15-1
Section 17-15-1 When and for what offices held. Special elections are to be held in the following cases: (1) When a vacancy occurs in the office of senator or representative in the Legislature, when the Legislature will be in session prior to the next general election for that office. (2) When a vacancy occurs in the office of representative in the Congress of the United States, by which the state may be deprived of its full representation at any time Congress will be in session prior to the next general election for that office. (3) Whenever any general or special election for members of the Legislature or for representatives in Congress is not held. (4) When any vacancy occurs in any state or county office filled by election of the people not otherwise provided for by the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or laws of this state. (5) In such other cases as are or may be provided for by law. (Code 1876, §249; Code 1886, §359; Code 1896, §1598; Code 1907, §439; Code 1923, §529; Code...
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29-5A-64
Section 29-5A-64 Governing Council; Alabama Law Institute Council. (a) The Governing Council of the Alabama Law Institute Council is continued in existence as the Alabama Law Institute Council. (b) The council shall be composed of ex officio, appointed, and elected members, as follows: (1) One Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, selected by the Justices thereof. (2) One circuit court judge, selected by the Association of Circuit Court Judges. (3) The Attorney General of the State of Alabama, or his or her designee. (4) The legal advisor to the Governor of Alabama, or his or her designee. (5) The Chairs of the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. (6) The President of the Alabama State Bar. (7) The Secretary of the Alabama State Bar. (8) The chair of the Junior Bar Section of the Alabama State Bar. (9) The attorney members of the Legislative Council of Alabama. (10) Not less than three nor more than six attorney members appointed by the Governor of...
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