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21-4-22
Section 21-4-22 Promulgation of guidelines. (a) The Attorney General of this state, in consultation
with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, and in accordance with Section
553 of Title 5, United States Code, shall promulgate, within six months of April 8, 1985,
guidelines to assure that registration and polling place facilities used for state elections
are readily accessible to and usable by handicapped and elderly individuals. Such guidelines
at a minimum shall require: (1) That all polling places shall be located a. In any building
or other facility which is or can be made accessible, by temporary ramp or otherwise, to individuals
in wheelchairs on election days for all hours during which said polling places are used for
the purpose of a state election; and b. On the ground level of the building or other facility
or at a location within such building or facility as is accessible by elevator; and (2) That
all places of registration shall be located a. In any...
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21-4-21
Section 21-4-21 Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context clearly indicates
a different meaning, the following terms shall have meanings ascribed to them as follows:
(1) ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL. An individual 65 years of age or older; (2) ELECTION FOR STATE OFFICE.
A general, special primary, or runoff election for an executive, legislative, or judicial
state office that is contested on a statewide basis; (3) HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUAL. An individual
qualified to vote, who, by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other
permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, is unable without accessible facilities or
registration and voting aids to have access to registration and voting equal to that available
to persons who are not so affected; (4) STATE. State of Alabama; (5) VOTING PRECINCT. The
area inhabited by all individuals assigned to one polling place for a state election. (Acts
1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, §2.)...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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21-4-20
Section 21-4-20 Legislative intent. It is the intention of the Legislature in enacting this
article to promote the fundamental right to vote by requiring registration and polling places
for state elections to be readily accessible to handicapped and elderly individuals. (Acts
1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, §1.)...
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17-2-4
Section 17-2-4 Voting system requirements; vote standards; uniform polling system; purchase
of equipment. (a) On or before January 1, 2005, each voting system used in an election shall
meet the following requirements: (1) The voting system shall: a. Permit the voter to verify,
in a private and independent manner, the votes selected by the voter on the ballot before
the ballot is cast and counted. b. Provide the voter with the opportunity, in a private and
independent manner, to change the ballot or correct any error before the ballot is cast and
counted, including the opportunity to correct the error through the issuance of a replacement
ballot if the voter was otherwise unable to change the ballot or correct any error. c. If
the voter selects votes for more than one candidate for a single office: 1. Notify the voter
that the voter has selected more than one candidate for a single office on the ballot. 2.
Notify the voter before the ballot is cast and counted of the effect of casting...
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45-37-110
Section 45-37-110 Chairs; clerks; deputies; meetings of board. (a) This section shall apply
to counties of this state having a population of 500,000 or more according to the last or
any subsequent federal census and to no other county. (b) As herein used, these words and
terms have the meanings hereby given them: (1) CHAIR. The chair of the board of registrars.
(2) COUNTY. Any county to which this section applies. (c) In every county wherein this section
applies the governing body of the county shall appoint the chair of the board of registrars
and such governing body may remove the chair; provided, however, that the appointment and
removal of the chair shall be subject to the merit system of the county; and the chair shall
otherwise be subject to and entitled to the benefits of the law establishing such merit system.
The chair shall serve full time, and he, or she, shall receive compensation from the general
funds of the county in an amount to be determined by the county governing...
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21-4-23
Section 21-4-23 Registration and voting aids. (a) The appropriate election officials in the
several counties of this state shall make available registration and voting aids for handicapped
and elderly individuals in state elections. These aids shall include, but are not limited
to: (1) Instructions, printed in large type, conspicuously displayed at each voter registration
site and polling place, sufficient to provide hearing impaired and seriously visually impaired
individuals with adequate information as to how and where they may register and vote. (2)
Paper ballots, available at each polling place, for the use of voters who would otherwise
be prevented from voting because of their inability to operate a voting machine. (3) Absentee
ballots, available to any handicapped or elderly individual who, because of handicap or age,
is unable to go to the polling facility in a state election. The deadlines for requesting
and submitting an absentee ballot under this subsection shall not be...
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9-10A-10
Section 9-10A-10 Election of directors. If an original director who is required to reside in
a particular county is to be selected by means of an election, the board of supervisors who
determined that an election would be the method of selection shall call the election. Said
election shall be held, within 30 days after need for a watershed management authority has
been determined, as provided in Section 9-10A-8. Due notice shall be required prior to said
election. All residents of the county where the director must reside who also reside within
the boundaries of the authority shall be eligible to vote in said election, and only said
residents shall be eligible to vote. Said residents shall be 18 years of age or older. Each
person who is qualified to vote for a resident director who desires to be elected a resident
director of the watershed management authority shall file not later than 10 days prior to
the date set for an election a nominating petition with the board of supervisors who...
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16-60-197
Section 16-60-197 Additional vocational trade schools authorized. The State Board of Education
is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to establish and provide for the construction
of three new vocational trade schools in this state in addition to the trade schools heretofore
provided by law, to be located at such places as will make such schools conveniently accessible
to all areas of Alabama. The cost of constructing such schools shall be paid out of the proceeds
realized from any bonds issued and sold by the State Board of Education or any other authority
of this state for the purpose of financing the construction of public school buildings or
from any other funds made available for the construction of trade schools. The first $750,000.00
made available for expenditure on trade schools through the issuance and sale of bonds shall
be allocated to the State Board of Education for the purpose of acquiring land, constructing
buildings, reconstructing, altering and improving...
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17-6-3
Section 17-6-3 Voting districts; naming of precincts. (a) Except as may be provided further
by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the counties in this state,
as divided pursuant to this chapter into election precincts, and the boundaries of such precincts
shall so remain until changed by order of the county governing body, but the county governing
body, at its first regular meeting in March in each even-numbered year, shall subdivide any
election precinct in which there are more than 2,400 qualified voters and electronic voting
machines are used into voting districts or shall divide alphabetically the list of qualified
voters in such precincts into groups and assign each qualified voter a designated voting place
so as to provide an electronic voting machine for every person legally entitled to vote at
a polling place at which not more than 2,400 votes on a single electronic voting machine will
be cast. (b) Except as may be provided further by local...
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