17-16-65
Section 17-16-65 Tried by joint convention of House and Senate. The two houses of the Legislature,
in joint convention assembled, and presided over by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
shall constitute the tribunal for the trial of all contests for the office of Governor, Secretary
of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
justices of the Supreme Court, or judges of the courts of appeals and such joint convention
shall fix a day for the trial, which may be adjourned from day to day, and from time to time,
as may be determined by the joint convention. A majority of the joint convention shall be
competent to try all issues involved in the contest and render judgment on all questions arising
during the progress of the trial, including a final judgment on the contest. The proceedings
of the joint convention, as well as all judgments rendered, shall be entered upon the journals
of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and...
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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence
in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with
tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to
requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer
has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among
other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal
within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of
resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and
fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those
specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing
shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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17-16-73
Section 17-16-73 Commission to report conclusions and evidence. It shall be the duty of the
commission to examine the evidence adduced upon the contest, and shall report its conclusions
to the joint convention of the two houses, and all evidence taken under the provisions of
this article shall be returned by the commission to the Speaker of the House at such time
as the joint convention may direct. (Code 1896, §1682; Code 1907, §488; Code 1923, §578;
Code 1940, T. 17, §264; §17-15-60; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...

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17-16-66
Section 17-16-66 Commission elected to take testimony. When any contest shall have been commenced
under the provisions of this article for any of the officers mentioned in Section 17-16-65,
it shall be the duty of the Legislature, in joint convention, to elect by ballot three senators
and five representatives, who shall act as a commission to take the testimony to be submitted
on the contest. Every member of the joint convention, at such time, as may be fixed by resolution
of the two houses, shall vote for two senators and three representatives as members of the
commission, and the three senators and five representatives who receive the highest number
of votes shall be declared elected commissioners. (Code 1896, §1675; Code 1907, §481; Code
1923, §571; Code 1940, T. 17, §257; §17-15-53; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570,
p. 1331, §83.)...
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17-16-63
Section 17-16-63 Statement - Filing; bond. When any elector shall choose to contest any election
for the office of Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Commissioner
of Agriculture and Industries, justices of the Supreme Court, or judges of the courts of appeals,
the elector, within 10 days after the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall have opened
the returns and proclaimed the result of the election for Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor,
Treasurer, Attorney General, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, justices of the Supreme
Court, or judges of the courts of appeals, as provided in this chapter, must file with the
Speaker of the House of Representatives a written statement of the grounds of such contest
and a bond with good and sufficient sureties payable to the State of Alabama and conditioned
for the payment of such costs as may accrue upon such contest in the event such contest shall
result in favor of the contestee. Such bond...
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17-16-64
Section 17-16-64 Statement - Contents of statement; verification; service; amendments. The
written statement of the grounds of contest must set forth specifically: (1) The name of the
person contesting and that the person was a qualified voter when the election was held. (2)
The office which the election was held to fill, and the time of holding the same. (3) The
particular grounds of contest. (4) The name of the counties in which any of the alleged grounds
of the contest may have occurred, and shall state with particularity the names of the election
precinct in each of such counties in which the grounds of contest may be alleged to have occurred.
(5) The grounds on which the declared voter of each of the named election precincts in each
county is contested. Such statement of the grounds of contest must be sworn to by the elector
making the contest before some officer authorized to administer oaths in the State of Alabama,
and may be amended from time to time as may be determined by...
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17-9-3
Section 17-9-3 Persons entitled to have names printed on ballots; failure of Secretary of State
to certify nominations. (a) The following persons shall be entitled to have their names printed
on the appropriate ballot for the general election, provided they are otherwise qualified
for the office they seek: (1) All candidates who have been put in nomination by primary election
and certified in writing by the chair and secretary of the canvassing board of the party holding
the primary and filed with the judge of probate of the county, in the case of a candidate
for county office, and the Secretary of State in all other cases, on the day next following
the last day for contesting the primary election for that office if no contest is filed. If
a contest is filed, then the certificate for the contested office must be filed on the day
next following the date of settlement or decision of the contest. (2) All candidates who have
been put in nomination by any caucus, convention, mass meeting,...
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36-26-5
Section 36-26-5 State Personnel Board - Composition; appointment, qualifications, terms of
office, removal and compensation of members; procedure for electing classified employee member.
(a) The State Personnel Board shall consist of five persons, as follows: (1) Two persons appointed
by the Governor, one of them whose term shall expire on February 1, 1985, and one of them
whose term shall expire on February 1, 1986, one person appointed by the Speaker of the Alabama
House of Representatives, whose term shall expire February 1, 1987, one person appointed by
the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alabama, whose term shall expire February 1, 1988,
and one person who shall be a classified employee elected as hereinafter provided, whose term
shall expire February 1, 1989. (2) The terms of the present members of the State Personnel
Board shall end on the last day of August, 1983. The new members of the personnel board shall
begin their terms on September 1, 1983. If any vacancy occurs on...
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45-49-85.42
Section 45-49-85.42 Temporary judges of probate. (a)(1) If the regularly elected Judge of Probate
of Mobile County is incompetent from any legal cause, incapacitated, absent or will be absent
from sickness, or otherwise disqualified from acting as judge, the judge of probate or the
chief clerk shall certify the fact of incompetency, incapacity, absence, sickness, or disqualification
to the presiding judge of the circuit court of the county and the presiding judge of the circuit
court, upon that certificate, shall appoint a person learned in the law, practicing and residing
in the county, to act as temporary judge of probate. At any time when the regularly elected
judge of probate of the county files a certificate in the office of the circuit clerk of the
county that he or she is no longer incompetent, from any legal cause, incapacitated, absent,
absent from sickness, or otherwise disqualified from acting as judge, then the regularly elected
judge of probate of the county shall...
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11-65-2
Section 11-65-2 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and
others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) ALABAMA-BRED. When this term is used
with reference to a horse, it means a horse which is registered in the registry designated
and administered by a commission in accordance with such rules concerning domicile and registration
requirements as may be established by such commission and which is either (i) foaled from
a mare domiciled in the state during the 10-year period beginning with January 1, 1991, or
(ii) sired by an Alabama stallion and foaled from a mare domiciled in the state at any time
after the expiration of such 10-year period. (2) ALABAMA STALLION. A stallion which is standing
in the state at the time he is bred to the dam of an Alabama-bred horse, which is registered
with a commission, and which is owned or leased by a resident of...
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