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17-11-2
Section 17-11-2 Absentee election manager. In each county there shall be an "absentee
election manager," who shall fulfill the duties assigned by this chapter. The circuit
clerk of the county shall, at his or her option, be the absentee election manager. If the
circuit clerk of the county declines the duties of absentee election manager, the appointing
board shall thereupon appoint an absentee election manager, who shall be a person qualified
by training and experience, who is a qualified elector of the county and who is not a candidate
in the election to perform the duties assigned by this chapter. The county commission shall
designate the place or office where such duties shall be performed. Such place or office shall
be open on the days and during the hours as that of the circuit clerk prior to each election.
Any person so appointed shall have all the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the circuit
clerk for the purposes of this chapter, including the power to administer oaths....
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11-46-46
Section 11-46-46 Delivery of returns, etc.; retention and destruction of ballot boxes; opening
of ballot boxes. (a) At the time appointed by the municipal governing body to canvass the
returns of the election the municipal clerk shall deliver to the governing body the envelopes
addressed to the governing body, which were delivered to him or her by the returning officers
of the several wards in the city or town immediately after the votes had been counted and
the returns thereof prepared. (b) The clerk shall securely keep the ballot boxes until it
is known that there will be no contest, but in any event not less than six months, and, if
in that time no contest has been properly instituted, the clerk shall then destroy the contents
of the boxes without examining the same. (c) No ballot box shall be opened except in one of
the following events: (1) In the event of a contest, where the opening of a box has been ordered
by the court hearing the contest, in which event the ballot box shall...
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11-46-58
Section 11-46-58 Absentee ballots - Marking, posting, etc., of lists of applicants. The town
clerk, city clerk, or other officer performing the duties of the clerk, as the case may be,
in municipal elections held under the provisions of this article, shall comply with the provisions
of Chapter 11 of Title 17 with respect to marking, enrolling, posting, and delivering of lists
showing the names and addresses of applicants for an absentee ballot. (Acts 1961, No. 663,
p. 827, §38; Acts 1976, No. 358, p. 403, §17; Act 2010-687, p. 1660, §1.)...
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45-21A-50
Section 45-21A-50 Election of Rutledge City Council. (a) Any law, whether special, local, or
general or municipal ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding, pursuant to Civil Action
No. 87-T-1289-N, U.S. District Court for the Middle District Northern Division Federal Court
Order, the Town of Rutledge in Crenshaw County, shall not designate by place number, or by
other similar method, seats for its city council. (b) The City Council of the Town of Rutledge,
Alabama, shall consist of five members elected at large, without designated or numbered places.
In the election of members of the city council, the five candidates receiving the greatest
number of votes shall be elected to the council. There shall be no runoff election and in
the event of a tie vote, the winner shall be selected by a majority vote of the newly elected
mayor and council. In such election for members of the city council, each qualified voter
is authorized to cast only one vote. (c) The requirement for office,...
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45-37A-150.01
Section 45-37A-150.01 Establishment of districts. (a) The City Council of the City of Fairfield,
may, not less than six months prior to the next regular general municipal election in 1992,
by ordinance adopted by a majority of the membership of the council, divide the municipality
into six single-member districts and designate the districts as numbers one through six, pursuant
to subsection (b). The ordinance shall provide that candidates for election for a place on
the council shall reside within the boundaries of the district for which he or she seeks election,
and shall continue to so reside in the district he or she represents so long as he or she
remains a member of the council. Candidates for election to a place on the council shall have
resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days immediately
preceding the date of the election. Only electors residing within a district shall be entitled
to vote for candidates seeking election for the...
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45-49-111.01
Section 45-49-111.01 Compensation. (a) In Mobile County, the compensation of the election officers
holding general, special, primary, and municipal elections shall be two hundred dollars ($200)
per day for inspectors, one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) per day for chief clerks,
and one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per day for the other election officers. The compensation
of the inspectors and chief clerks for attending any mandatory school or training as required
by the judge of probate shall be thirty dollars ($30). The compensation of other election
officials for attending any mandatory school or training as required by the judge of probate
shall be fifteen dollars ($15). The county treasury and, when appropriate, the treasuries
of the various municipalities within the county, shall pay such amounts necessary, which,
when combined with any amount payable by the state will total the amounts hereinabove provided.
The returning officer shall be entitled to mileage allowance...
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11-42-100.1
Section 11-42-100.1 Mode of consolidation - When municipality to annex city or town. (a) When
two or more municipalities lying contiguous to each other desire to consolidate and operate
as one municipality, they may do so by proceeding in the manner hereafter provided in this
section. (b) If it is the purpose to annex a city or town to another municipality, then the
governing body of each city or town shall adopt an ordinance expressing a willingness to such
annexation. After both ordinances are passed and published as provided for by law, the governing
body of the municipality to be annexed shall, by resolution submit the question of annexation
at a special election to be held at a time specified in such resolution, not less than 40
days nor more than 90 days after passage of the last adopted willingness ordinance or at a
time otherwise specified by law. No other proposition may be on the ballot. Said election
shall be held pursuant to the general municipal election laws. (c) In...
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11-42-209
Section 11-42-209 Contests of election. The result of such election may be contested by any
qualified elector voting at the election in the manner provided for contest of general municipal
elections, making the city or town the contestee. (Acts 1923, No. 372, p. 394; Code 1923,
§2423; Code 1940, T. 37, §247.)...
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11-43-40
Section 11-43-40 Composition of city councils; voting by president of council. (a) Except as
provided in Section 11-43-2 as it relates to the legislative functions of the mayor in cities
and towns having a population of 12,000 or more but less than 25,000 inhabitants according
to the most recent or any subsequent federal decennial census, in cities having a population
of 12,000 or more, the following officers shall be elected at each general municipal election,
who shall compose the city council for the cities and who shall hold office for four years
and until their successors are elected and qualified, and who shall exercise the legislative
functions of city government and any other powers and duties which are or may be vested by
law in the city council or its members: (1) In cities having seven wards or less, a president
of the city council and two aldermen from each ward, to be elected by the qualified voters
of the several wards voting separately in every ward; except, that in...
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17-6-33
Section 17-6-33 Designation of different offices of same classification. Whenever nominations
for two or more offices of the same classification are to be made, or whenever candidates
are to be elected to two or more offices of the same classification at the same primary, general,
special, or municipal election, each office shall be separately designated by number on the
official ballot as "Place No. 1," "Place No. 2," "Place No. 3"
and so forth; and the candidates for each place shall be separately nominated or elected,
as the case may be. Each candidate for nomination for such office shall designate in the announcement
of his or her candidacy and in his or her request to have his or her name placed on the official
primary ballot the number of the place for which he or she desires to become a candidate.
The name of each qualified candidate shall be printed on the official ballot used at any such
election beneath the title of the office and the number of the place for which he or she...
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