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17-16-52
Section 17-16-52 Contest of senator or representative in Legislature - Depositions returned.
The commissioner must carefully envelop the depositions taken, with the commission attached,
writing his or her name across the sealing of the envelope and endorsing thereon the names
of the witnesses and the title and subject matter of the contest, and direct the envelope
to the clerk issuing the commission, and must, within five days after taking the deposition,
file the same with the clerk, or transmit the same by mail through the nearest post office.
The clerk, within five days after the taking of testimony has been finished and the depositions
received in his or her office, must make and certify under the seal of the court a true and
correct copy of the statement of the grounds of contest and of return of service thereon,
and must enclose the same with the depositions so taken and filed in his or her office, and
must securely envelop the same, endorsing thereon the title and subject matter...
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45-19-80.10
Section 45-19-80.10 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2018 REGULAR
SESSION, EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) In Coosa County,
a booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed against and collected
from each person booked or incarcerated into the Coosa County Jail and subsequently convicted.
The fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any fines, court costs,
or other charges imposed. (b) The booking fee imposed by this section shall be assessed against
a defendant upon conviction by a court of law where the defendant is convicted. The clerk
of the court shall enter the amount of the fee as provided in this section on the docket sheet
and shall collect the fee in the same manner and the same time as court costs. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the fee shall not be deemed a court cost based on collection by the clerk.
(c) If the defendant has his or her sentence commuted to time served,...
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45-42-162.09
Section 45-42-162.09 Duties of mayor and commission. The mayor shall preside at the meetings
of the commission and shall be recognized as the head of the municipal government for all
ceremonial purposes and by the Governor for purpose of military law. A mayor pro tem shall
be elected from the membership by a majority vote of the commission at its first meeting following
its election. The mayor pro tem shall act as mayor during the absence or disability of the
mayor. Any vacancy in the office of the mayor shall be filled by the mayor pro tem. Any vacancies
on the commission shall be filled by the commission at a meeting of the commission within
30 days following the date of the vacancy. The election of a new commissioner shall require
the affirmative vote of at least five members. A vacancy in one of the district commission
seats shall be filled by a person who shall reside within the district from whence the vacancy
arose. (Act 87-324, p. 442, § 10.)...
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11-65-5
Section 11-65-5 Composition of commission; terms; qualifications; removal from office. (a)
Every commission shall have five members, which shall constitute its governing body. All powers
of a commission shall be exercised by its members or pursuant to their authorization. The
mayor or other chief executive officer of the sponsoring municipality and the president or
other designated presiding officer of the county commission of the host county shall each
serve as a member ex officio, unless such official exercises his or her right, as provided
in subsection (b), to appoint a fixed-term member to serve in lieu of such official. The service
of each such official as a member shall begin with the beginning of his or her tenure in such
office and shall end with the ending of such tenure or the appointment by such official of
a fixed-term member to serve in lieu of his or her ex officio service. The other three members
shall be appointed in the manner hereinafter prescribed as soon as may be...
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17-12-22
Section 17-12-22 Results of election of state officers; resolution of tie votes. The Speaker
of the House of Representatives shall, within the first five days of the session of the Legislature,
in the presence of a majority of the members of the Legislature, open the returns furnished
under Section 17-12-19, ascertain and proclaim the result of such election, after which such
returns shall be filed and kept in the office of the Secretary of State, subject to the inspection
of any elector of the state. The person having the highest number of votes for either of the
offices shall be declared duly elected; but if two or more shall have an equal and the highest
number of votes for the same office, the Legislature, by joint vote, without delay, shall
choose one of the persons for the office. The duty of the speaker and of the joint conventions,
under this section, shall be purely ministerial. (Code 1876, §295; Code 1886, §394; Code
1896, §1651; Code 1907, §427; Code 1923, §517; Code...
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17-16-53
Section 17-16-53 Contest of senator or representative in Legislature - Costs taxed. The package
mailed by the clerk must be opened by the presiding officer and presented to the house over
which he or she presides for such action as such house may deem proper. On the determination
of the contest, the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as the case may be,
must certify the result thereof to the clerk of the court in which the statement of contest
was filed. The certificate must be filed in the office of the clerk and shall have the force
and effect of a judgment against the unsuccessful party for the costs of the contest. And
the clerk having taxed the costs, allowing the fees and costs allowed for similar services
in civil cases at law, must issue execution for the amount thereof in the name of the successful
party. If the party contesting the election is the unsuccessful party, the unsuccessful party
sureties must pay the costs of the contest. (Code 1896, §1692; Code...
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17-4-6.1
Section 17-4-6.1 Investigation of registered voter reported to be deceased or a nonresident
of the precinct. (a) To facilitate the continuous maintenance of the computerized statewide
voter registration list, each county board of registrars shall investigate written reports
from a family member of an elector, the inspector of an election precinct, the judge of probate,
the sheriff, and the clerk of the circuit court that an elector registered to vote in a precinct
has died or become a nonresident of the precinct in which he or she is registered to vote.
The inspector, judge of probate, sheriff, or clerk of the circuit court shall provide the
board of registrars, on a form to be prescribed by the Secretary of State, sufficient information
to identify the elector in the statewide voter file and a statement as to the source and nature
of the information upon which he or she believes a person is deceased or has become a nonresident
of the precinct in which he or she is registered to vote....
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2-11-9
Section 2-11-9 Bonds of employees and inspectors. The commissioner may require any employee
or agent and any inspector licensed under this article to execute and file with him a good
and sufficient bond, payable to the state, in such sum, not exceeding $1,000.00, and with
such surety or sureties as he may prescribe, conditioned upon the faithful performance by
such employee, agent or licensed inspector of his duties as such employee, agent or licensed
inspector, such bond to be filed in the office of the commissioner. Any person injured by
the failure of such employee, agent or licensed inspector faithfully to perform such duties
shall be entitled to institute a civil action on such bond in his own name in any court of
competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such damages as he may have sustained by reason
of such failure. (Ag. Code 1927, §343; Acts 1935, No. 147, p. 187; Code 1940, T. 2, §413.)...
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11-42-73
Section 11-42-73 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen or representatives. (a) The
council or governing body of the city shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed to
be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the city on the number of wards,
or may enlarge the wards so as to embrace all territory brought within the corporate limits
of the city and so as to afford opportunity to all persons entitled to vote at elections in
the city to vote thereat. (b) Each ward in the city shall have the same number of aldermen
or representatives in the council or governing body of the city, and as new wards are created
the council or governing body of the city shall elect aldermen or representatives to represent
such wards in the council or governing body of the city, as in the case of a vacancy, the
aldermen or representatives so elected to hold office until the next regular election in the
city; provided, however, that no person residing on territory which is exempt...
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17-8-4
Section 17-8-4 Replacement of ineligible member of appointing board. Upon receiving the certificate
provided for in Section 17-8-3, the remaining members of the appointing board shall forthwith
and without delay appoint a qualified elector to take the place of each member of the appointing
board who is a candidate for election, and shall cause the elector so appointed to be informed
of his or her appointment. No person shall be appointed who is a candidate for any office
to be voted for in that election. If the remaining members of the appointing board are unable
to agree as to who should take the place of an appointing board member who is a candidate
for election or if all members of the appointing board are unable to serve, the presiding
circuit court judge shall make the appointment. The person so appointed shall perform all
the duties and be vested with all the powers of the regular members of the appointing board,
and shall take an oath to faithfully perform his or her duties....
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