34-3-43
Section 34-3-43 Powers generally. (a) The Board of Commissioners shall have power: (1) To determine, by rules, the qualifications and requirements for admission to the practice of law; (2) To conduct through a Board of Examiners the examination of applicants; and such Board of Examiners shall certify to the Supreme Court the names of the applicants found to be qualified; such certifications shall entitle such persons to be enrolled in the bar of the state and to practice law; provided, that the fees required are paid; (3) Subject to the approval of the supreme court, to formulate rules governing the conduct of all persons admitted to practice and to investigate, or cause to be investigated, and to pass upon all complaints that may be made concerning the professional conduct of any person who has been, or may hereafter be, admitted to the practice of the law; (4) Subject to the approval of the supreme court, to formulate rules governing the reinstatement of members of the bar who have...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry, and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion, or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II. This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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36-25-1
Section 36-25-1 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BUSINESS. Any corporation, partnership, proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, organization, self-employed individual, or any other legal entity. (2) BUSINESS WITH WHICH THE PERSON IS ASSOCIATED. Any business of which the person or a member of his or her family is an officer, owner, partner, board of director member, employee, or holder of more than five percent of the fair market value of the business. (3) CANDIDATE. This term as used in this chapter shall have the same meaning ascribed to it in Section 17-5-2. (4) COMMISSION. The State Ethics Commission. (5) COMPLAINT. Written allegation or allegations that a violation of this chapter has occurred. (6) COMPLAINANT. A person who alleges a violation or violations of this chapter by filing a complaint against a respondent. (7) CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. A complaint filed pursuant to this...
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45-5-120
Section 45-5-120 Merit system; board; violations. (a) This section shall apply only in Blount County, Alabama. (b) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (1) "County" means Blount County; (2) "Municipality" means any municipality in Blount County; (3) "Employee" means any person, including law enforcement officers, not excepted by subsection (c), who is employed in the service of Blount County or any municipality of Blount County or any board, agency, or instrumentality thereof; (4) "Merit employee" means any such employee who shall have completed one year of probationary employment; (5) "Board" means the merit system board created by this section; (6) "Appointment authority" means in the case of employees in the offices of the elected officials of the county or of a municipality, such elected officials, and means, in the case of all other county or municipal employees, the county or municipal governing body, or the board or other agency...
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17-13-18
Section 17-13-18 Candidate with majority of votes declared nominee of party; second primary election; certification of results. (a) At the respective meetings of the respective executive committees, the county executive committee, as to candidates in the primary election for office, except candidates for county office, shall publicly ascertain, determine, and declare whether any candidate for office in the primary election has received a majority of the votes cast for the office, and, if so, declare the candidate the nominee of the party for the office for which he or she was a candidate and for which he or she received a majority of the votes cast for that office in the primary election. (b) If no candidate receives a majority of all of the votes cast in such primary election for any one office or offices for the nomination to which there were more than two candidates, then there shall be held a second primary election on the fourth Tuesday following the primary election, and the...
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17-13-42
Section 17-13-42 Political parties may elect whether to participate in primary elections. Primary elections are not compulsory. A political party may, by its state executive committee, elect whether it will come under the primary election law. All political parties are presumed to have accepted and come under the provisions of the primary election law, but any political party may signify its election not to accept and come under the primary election law by filing with the Secretary of State, at least 60 days before the date herein fixed for the holding of any general primary election, a statement of the action of its state executive committee, certified by its chair and secretary, which statement shall contain a copy of the resolution or motion adopted declining to accept and come under the primary election law. If a political party declines to accept and come under the primary election law, it shall not change its action and accept and come under the primary election law until after...
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17-13-15
Section 17-13-15 When voted ballots container and records of election container may be opened. After the result has been canvassed and declared by the county executive committee, the sheriff shall securely keep the voted ballots container and the records of election container in accordance with state and federal law. The voted ballots container and records of election container shall not be opened except in one or the other of the following events: (1) In the event of a contest, where the opening of the container has been authorized under authority of the chair of the executive committee trying the contest. (2) Where a container has been returned but no certificate of the result of the election has been sent the chair outside of the container, the container may be opened by the sheriff in the presence of the chairs, or their designees, of the county committees for the political parties participating in the primary election, and the committees, for canvassing purposes, may obtain the...
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17-13-7
Section 17-13-7 Persons entitled to vote; voter to certify political party preference by signing poll list. (a) All persons who are qualified electors under the general laws of the State of Alabama and who are also members of a political party and entitled to participate in such primary election under the rules of the party shall be entitled to vote therein and shall receive the official primary ballot of that political party, and no other; but every governing body of a party shall have the right, power, and authority to fix and prescribe the political or other qualifications of its own members and shall, in its own way, declare and determine who shall be entitled and qualified to vote in such primary election or to be candidates therein or to otherwise participate in such political parties and primaries. The qualifications of electors entitled to vote in such primary election shall not necessarily be the same as the qualifications for electors entitled to become candidates therein....
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17-13-48
Section 17-13-48 Selection and appointment of officers to conduct elections. Each candidate for nomination may, at least 45 days before the primary, present to the county executive committee of his or her party a list of election officials desired by him or her for any one or more of the districts, wards, or precincts, and the county committee, so far as practicable, shall make, from the list so presented to it, a list of names of election officials for each district, ward, or precinct, which it will nominate to the appointing board of the county for appointment as officials to conduct the primary election. The county committee shall present the list so made up by it to the appointing board of the county which appoints the election officials to conduct elections for state and county officials in November, or at any other lawful time, which appointing board, from the list so presented to it by the county committee, shall, if there be on the list the names of sufficient persons who are...
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17-5-9
Section 17-5-9 Filing procedure. (a) All statements and reports, including amendments, required of principal campaign committees under the provisions of this chapter shall be filed with the Secretary of State in the case of candidates for state office or state elected officials, and in the case of candidates for local office or local elected officials, with the judge of probate of the county in which the office is sought for the 2016 election cycle. (b) Political action committees, which seek to influence an election for local office or to influence a proposition regarding a single county, shall file all reports and statements, including amendments, with the judge of probate of the county affected. All other political action committees, except as provided in subsection (a) above, shall file reports and statements with the Secretary of State. (c) In the case of candidates for a municipal office where the municipality is located in more than one county, the statements and reports shall...
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