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11-46-55.1
Section 11-46-55.1 Recount procedures. (a) Any person with standing to contest a municipal
election may petition the canvassing authority for a recount of any or all precinct returns.
The time period for requesting a recount ends 48 hours after the official canvass of returns
by the municipal governing body. The petitioner must be prepared to pay the cost of the recount
and must be required to give security to cover these costs in an amount as determined by the
municipal governing body based upon an estimate of actual costs. The recount must be conducted
under the supervision of a trained and certified poll official. Representatives of opposing
interests shall be given at least 24 hours' notice and shall be invited to participate in
the recount. (b) The recount shall be conducted as simply as the type of equipment and local
conditions permit provided that the following minimum safeguards shall be observed: (1) The
box or envelope holding the ballots shall be delivered unopened to the...
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28-3-1
Section 28-3-1 Definitions. As used in this title, the following words shall have the following
meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. Any alcoholic,
spirituous, vinous, fermented, or other alcoholic beverage, or combination of liquors and
mixed liquor, a part of which is spirituous, vinous, fermented, or otherwise alcoholic, and
all drinks or drinkable liquids, preparations or mixtures intended for beverage purposes,
which contain one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume, and shall include liquor,
beer, and wine. (2) ASSOCIATION. A partnership, limited partnership, or any form of unincorporated
enterprise owned by two or more persons. (3) BEER, or MALT OR BREWED BEVERAGES. Except as
otherwise provided in this subdivision, any beer, lager beer, ale, porter, malt or brewed
beverage, or similar fermented malt liquor containing one-half of one percent or more of alcohol
by volume and not in excess of thirteen and nine-tenths percent...
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45-45A-43
Section 45-45A-43 Levy of ad valorem tax. (a) In addition to any taxes now authorized or that
may hereafter be authorized by the constitution and laws of the State of Alabama, an increase
of the citywide general ad valorem tax presently being levied pursuant to Section 216 of the
Constitution of Alabama of 1901 and Amendment 56 to the constitution, from the rate of one
dollar twenty-five cents ($1.25) on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable property
in the City of Madison to the rate of two dollars thirty-five cents ($2.35) on each one hundred
dollars ($100) worth of taxable property in the municipality (an increase of one dollar ten
cents ($1.10) on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable property, or 11 mills) is
approved; such additional 11 mill tax for general public school purposes, to be levied and
collected by the governing body of the City of Madison for each year beginning with the levy
for the tax year October 1, 1993, to September 30, 1994 (the tax for...
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11-43C-91
Section 11-43C-91 Procedure for changing form of government; change from mayor-council form
prohibited for four years. The city is prohibited from changing from the mayor-council form
of government within four years after the adoption thereof. At the end of such period, or
at any time thereafter, the city's form of government may be amended or changed when: (i)
Awritten petition executed by 10 percent of the number of those who voted in the last city
election is submitted to the council with the proposed changes or amendments incorporated
in the petition; after presentation of the petition, the council shall call for a referendum
vote on the proposed changes and amendments, and (ii) a majority of the votes cast in the
referendum is in favor of the proposed changes or amendments. After the council receives the
proposed changes and petition, it shall call a special election for the purpose of determining
whether the city shall adopt the changes or amendments. Notice shall be given of the...
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11-44C-91
Section 11-44C-91 Procedure for changing form of government; change from mayor-council form
prohibited for two years. The city is prohibited from changing from the mayor-council form
of government within two years after the adoption thereof. At the end of such period, or at
any time thereafter, the city's form of government may be amended or changed when: (1) A written
petition executed by 10 percent of the number of those who voted in the last city election
is submitted to the council with the proposed changes or amendments incorporated in the petition;
after presentation of the petition, the council shall call for a referendum vote on the proposed
changes and amendments, and (2) A majority of the votes cast in the referendum is in favor
of the proposed changes or amendments. After the council receives the proposed changes and
petition, it shall call a special election for the purpose of determining whether the city
shall adopt the changes or amendments. Notice shall be given of the...
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17-12-1
Section 17-12-1 Conclusion of voting; locking of equipment; certificates of result. When the
time arrives for closing the polls, all qualified voters, who are then waiting within the
voting room to vote, shall be permitted by the election officers to do so. After closing the
polls and sealing the required records, the precinct election officials shall follow the manufacturer's
instructions to lock the equipment against further voting and to obtain a printout of the
votes on each office and question. The first printout shall be torn from the equipment so
that all printing during the day, from the initial test before the polls opened through the
first printout of results, shall be on one continuous sheet or roll of paper. Then, four other
printouts of the results shall be produced and torn out. To each certificate shall be added,
if it is not automatically printed, the following information: (1) The name of the voting
place. (2) The date. (3) The identifying number (serial number) of the...
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17-14-51
Section 17-14-51 Returns made to Secretary of State. The canvassing board shall ascertain the
number of votes given in their respective counties for and against the proposed amendment
when ascertaining the vote given for officers; the canvassing board of such county shall thereupon
make returns of such vote, by precincts, to the Secretary of State immediately, together with
a certificate, prepared from the poll lists of the total number of qualified electors in the
county who voted at such election. (Code 1852, §354; Code 1867, §403; Code 1876, §354;
Code 1886, §446; Code 1896, §1663; Code 1907, §437; Code 1923, §527; Code 1940, T. 17,
§211; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-908, p. 482, §4; §17-17-2; amended and renumbered
by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §74.)...
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11-46-24
Section 11-46-24 Designating and equipping voting places; election officials; canvass returns.
(a) The municipal governing body may, when it orders an election, designate at least one place
of voting in each ward and if the ward has been divided into voting districts then at least
one place of voting in each district or the municipal governing body may establish and designate
one central place (location) within the municipality as the place of voting for all wards.
The number of voting boxes or voting machines as prescribed, shall be placed in a central
place of voting for use by the electors. The municipal governing body shall provide at least
one machine or at least one box for the voters of each ward, provided that this requirement
shall not apply to any municipality which uses electronic vote counters or tabulators or other
devices that are regulated by the Alabama Electronic Voting Committee established in Chapter
24 of Title 17 that are capable of counting the ballots from all...
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11-46-49
Section 11-46-49 Election officers for voting machines; duties. (a) At all elections where
voting machines are used, there shall be the following election officers for each voting machine:
An inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and a second assistant clerk; except, in the event
voting centers are established, then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the
number of election officials. (b) The inspector shall be in general charge of the poll, shall
see that the counter compartments of the machine are never unlocked or opened so that the
counters are exposed during voting, shall see that the other election officers perform the
duties imposed on them by this section, shall keep a record of all voters at such machine
who received assistance pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-51, and all other records
required by this article, and immediately after the polls have closed and the statement of
the returns has been made, shall deliver such statement and the key or keys...
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10A-2A-1.48
Section 10A-2A-1.48 Action on ratification. (a) The quorum and voting requirements applicable
to a ratifying action by the board of directors under Section 10A-2A-1.47(a) shall be the
quorum and voting requirements applicable to the corporate action proposed to be ratified
at the time such ratifying action is taken. (b) If the ratification of the defective corporate
action requires approval by the stockholders under Section 10A-2A-1.47(c), and if the approval
is to be given at a meeting, the corporation shall notify each holder of valid and putative
stock, regardless of whether entitled to vote, as of the record date for notice of the meeting
and as of the date of the occurrence of defective corporate action, provided that notice shall
not be required to be given to holders of valid or putative stock whose identities or addresses
for notice cannot be determined from the records of the corporation. The notice must state
that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting, is to...
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