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11-43A-6
Section 11-43A-6 Conduct of election, canvassing of vote, and declaration of election result;
adoption and certification of provisions of chapter. The election shall be conducted, the
vote canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner as provided by law with respect
to other municipal elections. If the majority of votes shall be "yes" or in favor
of such question, the provisions of this article shall thereafter be adopted for such municipality
and the mayor shall within five days of the election transmit to the Governor, to the Secretary
of State, and to the judge of probate of the county in which the municipality is located,
each, a certificate of adoption stating that such question was adopted by such municipality.
(Acts 1982, No. 82-517, p. 851, §6.)...
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17-12-11
Section 17-12-11 Returns of election - How made; duty of judge of probate. One copy of the
certificate of the result of the election shall be signed by the inspector and enclosed in
an envelope, which shall then be securely sealed, and the inspector shall write his or her
name across every fold at which the envelope, if unfastened, could be opened. The envelope,
with certificate enclosed, shall be at once delivered to the judge of probate in the condition
received. The judge of probate shall keep and preserve the same unopened until the canvassing
board meets to ascertain the result of the election. In case of loss, mutilation, or absence
of the original certificate of the result of the election by the inspectors of any voting
place, the envelope shall be opened, and the copy therein shall be accepted as a certificate
of the result of the election for that voting place. The judge of probate shall preserve a
copy of the sealed election returns as a public record at least one year from...
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45-9A-50
Section 45-9A-50 City Board of Education; election. (a) If a majority of the qualified electors
of the municipality voting in the authorizing referendum election vote in favor of an elected
city board of education, the board shall be established as provided in this section and the
Legislature, as provided in Amendment 659, from time to time, by local law may provide further
for the election of the Lanett City Board of Education. The local laws may provide for the
termination of the terms of office of members of the existing city board of education; the
composition of the city board of education; initial and succeeding terms of office, including
staggered terms; election districts and at-large membership; qualifications; powers, duties,
and responsibilities; vacancies; compensation; and any other matter that the Legislature determines
necessary for the operation of the board. (b) If the majority of electors voting pursuant
to Act 2000-428 vote in favor of changing to an elected board,...
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17-6-5
Section 17-6-5 List of voters for each voting place. The judge of probate shall prepare a separate,
correct alphabetical list of all the names of qualified electors or voters for each voting
place from the state voter registration list, pursuant to Sections 17-4-1 and 17-4-2, for
all elections hereafter held in this state, whether primary, general, or special, or federal,
state, district, or county, and, except for municipal elections, shall certify separately
for each voting place, to the election officials appointed for holding the election, which
election official shall be an elector qualified to vote only in the box at the place for which
he or she is chosen to serve, a list containing only the names of the voters or qualified
electors entitled to vote at the voting place. Nothing in this section shall prevent a series
of lists of names of voters or electors of other voting places from being certified by the
judge of probate on the same general list for information. A vote cast at...
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11-81-62
Section 11-81-62 Issuance of bonds. If at any election held under and according to the provisions
of this article a majority of the qualified electors voting upon such proposition vote in
favor of the issuance of said bonds and the result is ascertained and declared as set out
in this article, the governing body shall issue the bonds of such municipality in the amount
and for the purposes and payable at the times and in the respective amounts mentioned in the
notice of the said election; provided, that if subsequent to the said election the governing
body shall determine that the entire amount of bonds mentioned in the election notice is not
required for carrying out the purpose mentioned in the election notice, the said governing
body may issue such lesser amount of bonds as it may determine to be adequate for the said
purpose and may designate the amounts and maturities of the bonds described in the election
notice which shall not be issued so that the amounts and maturities of the...
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11-81-91
Section 11-81-91 Issuance of bonds. If at an election held under and according to the provisions
of this article, a majority of the qualified electors of the county voting upon such proposition
vote in favor of the issuance of said bonds and the result is ascertained and declared as
set out in this article, the county commission shall issue bonds of such county in the amount
and for the purpose and payable at the times and in the respective amounts mentioned in the
notice of said election; provided, that if subsequent to the said election the county commission
shall determine that the entire amount of bonds mentioned in the election notice is not required
for carrying out the purpose mentioned in the election notice, the said county commission
may issue such lesser amount of bonds as it may determine to be adequate for the said purpose
and may designate the amounts and maturities of the bonds described in the election notice
which shall not be issued so that the amounts and maturities...
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17-13-14
Section 17-13-14 Counting of ballots; materials to be sealed; delivery and retention of materials;
posting of certificate of result. (a) No ballot shall be counted until the polls are closed;
and, before counting any ballot or examining the same, the voters' poll list, as provided
in Section 17-9-15, shall be securely sealed in an envelope designated to the appropriate
political party chair and the inspector shall write his or her name across every fold at which
the envelope, if fastened, could be opened. After the counting of the votes is finished and
certificates of the result have been prepared and signed, the inspector shall seal in a separate
voted ballots container all the ballots cast at such election. The following items shall be
placed into a records of election container, which shall then be securely sealed: (1) One
certificate of the results. (2) The spoiled ballot envelope. (3) Clerk's poll list. (4) All
partial ballot pads. (5) Stubs of ballot pads. The inspector shall...
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17-9-7
Section 17-9-7 When election officials to meet, open polling place, etc. The precinct election
officials appointed shall meet at the place of holding elections in the several voting places
for which they have been appointed not later than 30 minutes before the scheduled opening
of the polls and shall open the several polling places at the time designated. (Code 1907,
§358; Code 1923, §448; Code 1940, T. 17, §131; Acts 1979, No. 79-616, p. 1086, §2; §17-7-6;
amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §44.)...
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28-2-1
Section 28-2-1 Procedure for elections to determine classification of counties as wet or dry
counties; laws applicable in dry counties. (a) In every county where a majority of the electors
voting in an election, called by the Governor to determine whether Chapter 3 of this title
shall be adopted in the county, vote "Yes," Chapter 3 and all of its provisions
shall be immediately put into operation in such county, but in every county where a majority
of the electors voting in the election vote "No," Chapter 3 shall not go into effect
in such county and all laws prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors or beverages
now in force and effect in Alabama shall remain in full force and effect in every such county.
For the purpose of this chapter the term "wet county" shall mean any county which
by a majority of those voting voted in the affirmative in the election provided for in this
section, and "dry counties" shall be construed to mean all counties which by a majority
of...
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45-10-20.02
Section 45-10-20.02 Municipal option election. (a) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number
of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of not
less than 1,300 inhabitants nor more than 1,500 inhabitants being filed with the city or town
clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body shall call a municipal option
election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether alcoholic
beverages may be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for the municipal
option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option
election be held to determine whether the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
shall be permitted within this municipality," on the ballot to be used for the municipal
option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal
sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality? Yes...
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