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45-37A-52.91
Section 45-37A-52.91 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate
at any election for the office of mayor may become such candidate by filing in the office
of the judge of probate of the county in which such city is situated, a statement in writing
of such candidacy, accompanied by an affidavit taken and certified by such judge of probate
or by a notary public that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which he or
she desires to be a candidate. Such statement shall be filed at least 45 days before the day
set for such election and shall be in substantially the following form: State of Alabama,
______ County. I, the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am a citizen
of the City of ______, in the state and county, and reside at ______ in the City of ______,
that I desire to become a candidate for the office of mayor in that city at the election of
the office to be held on the ______ day of August, next and that I am duly qualified...
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11-46-27
Section 11-46-27 Appointment, compensation, etc., of election officers. (a) The municipal
governing body or a majority of them must, not less than 15 days before the holding of any
municipal election, appoint from the qualified electors of the respective wards or voting
districts officers to hold the election as follows: Where paper ballots are used, one returning
officer for each ward and three inspectors and two clerks for each box at each voting place
and, where voting machines are used, an inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and second assistant
clerk for each voting machine; except that in the event voting centers or voting places are
established, then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the number of
election officials. In any Class 6, Class 7, or Class 8 municipality, election officials must
reside within the municipality and may serve at any polling place within the municipality.
An election official appointed to serve in a polling place other than where he or...
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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified
regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause
to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city
or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical
lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards
and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list
into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting
machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical
group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared
with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the
probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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28-2A-1
Section 28-2A-1 Procedure for wet or dry classification option elections. (a) Any municipality
having a population of 1,000 or more, may change its classification from dry to wet or wet
to dry by a municipal option election, in the following manner. (b) Upon petition of 30 percent
of the number of voters voting in the last preceding general election of the municipality
being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing
body must call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment
of the people as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed
in the municipality. The petition for municipal option election shall contain the following:
"It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to permit the legal sale and
distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality." On the ballot to be used
for such municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do...
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17-9-13
Section 17-9-13 Voting assistance; time allowed to finish voting. (a) Any person who
wishes assistance in voting may receive assistance from any person the voter chooses except
the voter's employer, an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union.
The voter is not required to state a reason for requesting assistance. To obtain assistance,
the voter must specifically request assistance by naming the person from whom assistance is
sought and by signing in the appropriate column of the voters' poll list. The person providing
assistance shall legibly sign in the adjacent column on the same line as the assisted voter's
name. By signing the poll list, the assistant shall certify that he or she is not the voter's
employer, an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. If the voter
is unable to sign the poll list, the person giving assistance shall write the voter's name
in the appropriate column and then sign his or her own name in the third...
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17-9-15
Section 17-9-15 Disposition of records and forms after close of polls. After the close
of the polls in all primary, special, general, and municipal elections held in the state,
the records and forms produced at the polling places shall be returned as follows: (1) The
list of registered voters, the affirmations of provisional voters, the statements of election
officials challenging provisional voters, and the voter reidentification forms shall be sealed
in an envelope addressed to the board of registrars and the inspectors and any poll watchers
present shall sign across the seal. The board of registrars shall hold the list of registered
voters while using it to update their voter histories in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter
4. A copy of the list of registered voters shall be made a public record after the information
specified in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of Section 17-4-33 has been redacted
by the board of registrars. The original and copies of the list shall then be...
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45-36-20
Section 45-36-20 Charge of classification for incorporated municipalities. (a) Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 2A of Title 28, and pursuant
to authority granted by Section 104 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the electors
of an incorporated municipality located in Jackson County with a population of 2,500 or more
inhabitants may change its classification from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option
election as provided by this section. (b)(1) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number
of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of 2,500
or more 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...
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45-41-260.07
Section 45-41-260.07 Election for coverage. Except where jurisdiction has been obtained
by the commission pursuant to Section 45-41-260.02, the master plan and zoning regulations
provided by the commission shall not be applicable in any beat of Lee County until the majority
of the qualified electors of the beat voting in a special election have signified by their
vote that they desire the authority of the commission, its master plan, and the zoning regulations
to apply to their beat. The election must be held not less than 90 days nor more than 120
days after a petition seeking the election is filed in the office of the judge of probate.
The petition shall be signed by at least 15 percent of the electors who reside within the
beat and who own real estate located in the beat. Notice of the election shall be given by
three weeks' publication and posting notice in two public places within the beat. The cost
of the election shall be paid from the General Fund of Lee County. The ballot...
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16-13-196
Section 16-13-196 School tax district - Consolidation - Effect. Thereupon the county
commission shall call an election in like manner as already prescribed for calling an election
in a school tax district in the special districts or district and adjacent territory proposed
to be consolidated, and if a majority of the qualified electors voting in the combined territories
of the districts or district and adjacent territory proposed to be consolidated shall vote
favorably, the districts or district and adjacent territory shall be consolidated into a new
special school tax district, and the tax as voted shall be levied and collected in the new
district as a unit, but the creation of a new district shall not operate to relieve the county
board of education of liability for the just obligations made prior to such consolidation.
In the event a majority of the qualified electors voting in the combined territories of the
districts or district and adjacent territory proposed to be consolidated...
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41-9-593
Section 41-9-593 Chairman and vice-chair; meetings; recordkeeping; compensation and
expenses. (a) The commission shall elect from its membership a chair and a vice-chair at the
October meeting who shall serve for a period of one year beginning the following year on January
1. The vice-chair shall act in the place of the chair in his or her absence or disability.
If a new chair and vice-chair are not elected at the October meeting, the current chair and
vice-chair shall remain in place until successors are elected at the next meeting. (b) The
commission shall meet at such times as designated by the commission or by the chair at the
state capital or at other places as is deemed necessary or convenient, but the chair of the
commission shall call a meeting four times a year at the state capital or main location of
ALEA in the months of January, April, July, and October. The chair of the commission may also
call a special meeting of the commission at any time he or she deems it advisable or...
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