11-65-10
Section 11-65-10 Powers and duties of commission. When authorized by one or more elections as provided in Section 11-65-4, a commission shall have the powers and duties necessary to license, regulate, and supervise horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon and greyhound racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon within the commission municipal jurisdiction, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the powers and duties hereinafter set forth in this section or in other sections of this chapter. (1) A commission shall have succession in perpetuity, subject only to the provisions of this chapter as it may be amended from time to time. (2) A commission shall have the power to sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and to defend suits against it. (3) A commission shall have the power to adopt and make use of an official seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (4) A commission shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, regulations and...
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39-2-12
Section 39-2-12 Partial and final payments of contractors by awarding authorities. (a) As used in this section the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1) CONTRACTOR. Any natural person, partnership, company, firm, corporation, association, limited liability company, cooperative, or other legal entity licensed by the Alabama State Licensing Board for General Contractors. (2) NONRESIDENT CONTRACTOR. A contractor which is neither a. organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, nor b. maintains its principal place of business in the State of Alabama. A nonresident contractor which has maintained a permanent branch office within the State of Alabama for at least five continuous years shall not thereafter be deemed to be a nonresident contractor so long as the contractor continues to maintain a branch office within Alabama. (3) RETAINAGE. That money belonging to the contractor which has been retained by the awarding authority conditioned on...
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9-8-23
Section 9-8-23 Creation and incorporation of districts; increase or decrease in boundaries; reorganization; change of name. (a) Any 25 owners of land lying within the limits of the territory proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee asking that a soil and water conservation district be organized to function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth: (1) The proposed name of said district; (2) That there is need in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory described in the petition; (3) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as a district, which description shall not be required to be given by metes and bounds or by legal subdivisions but shall be deemed sufficient if generally accurate; and (4) A request that the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee duly define the boundaries...
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34-9-40
Section 34-9-40 Creation; composition. (a) In order to accomplish the purposes and to provide for the enforcement of this chapter, there is hereby created the board. The board is hereby vested with the authority to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this chapter. On June 24, 1959, the members of the present board now in existence shall hold office for the remainder of their respective terms for which they have been elected and thereafter until their successors are elected and qualified and shall constitute the board under this chapter. The board shall consist of six dentists who shall be selected in the method set forth herein all of whom having been actively engaged in the practice of dentistry in the State of Alabama for at least five years next preceding the date of their election and one dental hygienist elected at-large as provided in subsection (b). Each member of the board shall be a citizen of this state. No member of the board shall be a member of the faculty...
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45-37-22.02
Section 45-37-22.02 Notice; qualified voters; conduct of elections. The Jefferson County Commission shall cause notice of any election held pursuant to this part to be given to the voters of Jefferson County by causing a written notice to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the county at least 30 days before such election. Such notice shall state that such election is being called pursuant to, and shall be conducted in accordance with, this part, identifying the same by its number and the session of the Legislature in which it was adopted, and shall further state the date on which the election shall be held and the question that shall appear on the ballot. Only qualified voters of Jefferson County shall be entitled to vote in any such election, it being specifically provided that the voters of any municipality located partially outside of Jefferson County who do not reside in such county shall not be entitled to vote in such election. Any election held pursuant to...
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11-46-20
Section 11-46-20 Cities and towns governed by article; costs of elections; standard of time applicable; effect of legal holidays or closing days. (a) General and special elections in cities and towns of this state, in all municipalities except Class 1 municipalities and except cities and towns organized under a commission form of government, shall be held and conducted at the times and in the manner prescribed in this article, and the expenses and costs incident to the conduct of all such elections shall be paid out of the treasury of the city or town holding the election. (b) Whenever in this article an hour of the day is prescribed for the doing of any act, the time used shall be that of the official time established by the law of the State of Alabama then in effect. (c) Whenever the last day on which an act may be done pursuant to this article falls on a legal holiday, as defined in Section 1-3-8, or on a day on which the office in which the act must be done is authorized by law to...
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17-10-2
Section 17-10-2 Provisional ballots; certification; tabulation; identification of ballots. (a) A voter shall be required to cast a provisional ballot when: (1) The name of the individual does not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the precinct or polling place in which the individual seeks to vote, and the individual's registration cannot be verified while at the polling place by the registrar or the judge of probate. (2) An inspector has knowledge that the individual is not entitled to vote at that precinct and challenges the individual. (3) The individual is required to comply with the voter identification provisions of Section 17-10-1 but is unable to do so. If the voter's ballot becomes a provisional ballot due to lack of identification, the identification, including the address and telephone number of the voter, must be provided to the board of registrars no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Friday following the election. If the voter fails to provide identification to...
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45-37A-52-51
Section 45-37A-52-51 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate in any election for the office of council member 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 and 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 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 office as a member of the city council, district number ______, in the City at the election for that office to be held on the ______ day of...
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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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34-3-41
Section 34-3-41 Election of members; selection of at-large members. (a) The members of the Board of Commissioners for each judicial circuit shall be elected by the members of the State Bar who maintain their principal office in such circuit; provided, however, that for the Tenth Circuit, each commissioner shall be elected by the lawyers who maintain their principal office in the portion of the circuit outside the Bessemer Cut-off electoral district and each commissioner for the Bessemer Cut-off electoral district shall be elected by the lawyers who maintain their principal office in that portion of the circuit inside the Bessemer Cut-off electoral district. Such election shall be by secret ballot, mailed or delivered to the State Bar headquarters by a date established by the Board of Commissioners. Nothing contained in this article shall prohibit the election of the president of the State Bar as provided in this chapter, who shall be a bona fide resident of any judicial circuit of this...
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