11-43-64
Section 11-43-64 Procedural requirements for increasing number of single-member districts in Class 3 municipalities. Notwithstanding other provision of law, including but not limited to Section 11-43-63, a Class 3 municipality may, by ordinance adopted by a majority of the membership of the council 90 days prior to the regular general municipal election, increase the number of single-member districts (wards) in the municipality up to and including nine members. The ordinance may only be considered after two weeks public notice has been given, outlining generally the voting districts under consideration. The ordinance shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council, where the council has been divided into districts, shall have resided within the boundaries of the district (ward) for which he or she seeks election for at least 30 days immediately preceding the date of the election, and shall continue to reside in the district he or she represents so long as he or...
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11-46-22
Section 11-46-22 Notice of elections. (a) It shall be the duty of the mayor to give notice of all municipal elections by publishing notice thereof in a newspaper published in the city or town, and, if no newspaper is published in the city or town, then by posting notices thereof in three public places in the city or town. When the notice is of a regular election, the notice shall be published on the first Tuesday in July preceding the election or the first business day thereafter. When the notice is of a special election to be held on the second Tuesday in a month, the notice shall be published on or before the second Tuesday of the second month preceding the month in which the election will be held, except where otherwise provided by law. When the notice is of a special election to be held on the fourth Tuesday of a month, the notice shall be published on or before the fourth Tuesday of the second month preceding the month in which the election will be held, except where otherwise...
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11-46-62
Section 11-46-62 Offenses of inspectors. (a) Any inspector of an election who shall, without challenging him, permit any person to vote in a municipal election knowing that he is not a qualified elector shall be fined not less than $100.00. (b) Any inspector of an election who shall willfully exclude any vote duly tendered and unchallenged in a municipal election, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such election, or who shall willfully receive a vote from any person who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to vote at such election, without exacting from such person such oath or other proof of qualification as is required by law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00 and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months. (c) Any inspector of a municipal election who willfully fails or refuses to advise any elector entitled thereto that he is entitled to...
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11-50A-6
Section 11-50A-6 Board of directors; election committee; meetings; officers; compensation; recordkeeping. (a) The board of directors of the authority shall be elected by the duly designated representatives of the municipalities which are authorized and directed to designate a member of the election committee as hereinafter provided in this section. Until the first meeting of the board of directors following the meeting in 2015 of the election committee hereinafter provided for, the board of directors shall consist of nine members; thereafter, the board shall consist of the number of members equal to the number of municipalities contracting with the authority for the purchase of electric power and energy pursuant to Section 11-50A-17, which are authorized and directed to designate a member of the election committee. Members of the board of directors shall be eligible to succeed themselves. The business, affairs, and property of the authority shall be managed by its board of directors....
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16-13-184
Section 16-13-184 Election officers; conduct of election. (a) The inspectors and officers of the special county election shall be appointed and said election shall be held and the results of such election shall be declared in the same manner and by the same officers as the results of the regular election for county officers, under the general election laws of the state; provided, that the election may be held at the time for holding any regular election in the county; and, if held at such time, the inspectors and officers of the general election shall conduct at the same time the election herein provided for and for such services they shall receive no compensation other than that allowed them for the holding of the general election. If the election is held at some other time than that of holding the regular election in the county, then the election officers shall receive the same pay as that for holding the general election. (b) The managers and returning officers, provided for above,...
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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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17-13-18
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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45-37-150.18
Section 45-37-150.18 Referendum. If the vote on the constitutional amendment excepting bingo from the constitutional prohibition against lotteries in Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama 1901, is approved by a majority of the voters casting ballots thereon in Jefferson County, it shall not be necessary for an election to be held under this article to determine whether the procedures of this article shall be operative in the county. If the amendment passes statewide, but is rejected in Jefferson County, this article shall not be effective until a favorable vote is given by the voters of the county thereon. The governing body of Jefferson County may call and provide for holding a referendum for the purpose of determining if this article shall become operative. The election shall be held and the officers appointed to hold same in the manner provided by law for holding other county elections in the county and the returns thereof tabulated and results certified as provided by law for...
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45-8-111
Section 45-8-111 Compensation. (a) Each election official of Calhoun County shall receive the rate of minimum wage for each hour, or fraction thereof, that the polls are open per day for the performance of his or her official duties. The county governing body of Calhoun County shall supplement the compensation already provided by the general law of the state with funds out of the county general fund sufficient to bring said compensation up to the amount provided for by this section; provided, however, in any municipal election in which the official serves, the supplement provided for herein shall be paid by the municipality in which such election is held. (b) In Calhoun County, commencing May 12, 2005, each election official shall be entitled to receive an additional compensation payable from the county general fund in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each returning officer and clerk and fifty dollars ($50) for each inspector. The amount shall be paid in addition to any...
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17-8-1
Section 17-8-1 Appointment of election officials; duties. (a) The appointing board, or a majority of them acting as an appointing board, not more than 20 nor less than 15 days before the holding of any election in their county, shall appoint from the qualified electors of the respective precinct, necessary precinct election officials, which shall include at least one inspector, to act at each voting place in each precinct. The appointing board may appoint the number of precinct election officials necessary for each precinct, provided that, absent consent of the county commission, the total number of precinct election officials appointed in a county shall not exceed the total number of precinct election officials who were paid by the county for the general election held November 2004. In the event that the number of precincts or voting places utilized in an election within a county is increased or decreased, the total number of officials who may be appointed without consent of the...
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