11-44D-5
Section 11-44D-5 Council-manager form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors voting in the referendum herein choose a council-manager form of government the following provisions of this chapter shall be applicable: (1) The municipality shall thereafter and as provided in this chapter be governed by a council-manager form of government, with a five-member council elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties as other council-manager municipalities organized under chapter 43A, Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter, which may have been heretofore granted to such municipalities. (2) The council shall include five members who shall be elected from districts, which shall be, as near as practicable, of equal population according to the last federal decennial census, but not more than five percent, more or less, than the average of the five districts. (3) The council members shall be...
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31-9-8
Section 31-9-8 Emergency powers of Governor. (a) The provisions of this section shall be operative only during the existence of a state of emergency, referred to hereinafter as one of the states of emergency defined in Section 31-9-3. The existence of a state of emergency may be proclaimed by the Governor as provided in this subsection or by joint resolution of the Legislature if the Governor in the proclamation or the Legislature in the resolution finds that an attack upon the United States has occurred or is anticipated in the immediate future, or that a natural disaster of major proportions or a public health emergency has occurred or is reasonably anticipated in the immediate future within this state and that the safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this state require an invocation of the provisions of this section. If the state of emergency affects less than the entire state, the Governor or the Legislature shall designate in the proclamation or resolution those counties to...
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23-2-143
Section 23-2-143 Authority established; composition; meetings; fidelity bonds; compensation. (a) There is hereby established a body corporate and politic with corporate succession, to be known as the "Alabama Toll Road, Bridge and Tunnel Authority." The authority is hereby constituted an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions and the exercise by the authority of the powers conferred by this article shall be deemed and held to be an essential governmental function of the state. (b) The authority shall consist of the Governor or his or her designee, the Lieutenant Governor or his or her designee, the Speaker of the House of Representatives or his or her designee, the Director of Transportation, the Director of Finance, the Chair of the House Government Appropriations Committee, the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee, and two persons from the state at large to be appointed by the Governor. (c) The Governor shall be chairman of...
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11-50-524
Section 11-50-524 Corporate powers. (a) The corporation shall be entitled to all the exemptions provided by the general laws of Alabama and of the United States for municipal corporations. To carry out its purposes, the corporation shall have the following specific powers, but no enumeration of powers granted in this chapter shall be construed to impair or limit any general grant of power contained in this chapter nor to limit any such grant to a power or powers of the same class or classes as those enumerated: (1) To have succession by its corporate name perpetually unless dissolved and unless a shorter period of time shall be specified in the certificate; (2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at will; (4) To acquire by purchase or lease and to operate, maintain, extend, and improve any utility within the power district, including any real and personal properties and any contract and franchise rights in...
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41-8-21
Section 41-8-21 Enactment of compact; form. The Interstate Library Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE LIBRARY COMPACT. Article I. Policy and Purpose. Because the desire for the services provided by libraries transcends governmental boundaries and can most effectively be satisfied by giving such services to communities and people regardless of jurisdictional lines, it is the policy of the states party to this compact to cooperate and share their responsibilities; to authorize cooperation and sharing with respect to those types of library facilities and services which can be more economically or efficiently developed and maintained on a cooperative basis and to authorize cooperation and sharing among localities, states and others in providing joint or cooperative library services in areas where the distribution of population or of existing and potential library...
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10A-5-6.04
Section 10A-5-6.04 Death or incompetency of member. REPEALED IN THE 2014 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2014-144 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2017. (a) Except as otherwise provided in the governing documents: (1) If a member who is an individual dies or if a court of competent jurisdiction adjudges a member to be incompetent to manage the member's person or property, the member's personal representative, conservator, legal representative, heirs, or legatees may exercise all the member's financial rights for the purpose of settling the member's estate or administering the member's property, including any power the member had to transfer the membership interest. (2) If a member is a corporation, limited liability company, trust, general partnership, limited partnership, registered limited liability partnership, custodianship, or other entity and is dissolved or terminated, the financial rights of that member may be exercised by the legal representative or successor of that member. (b) The personal...
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29-1-26
Section 29-1-26 Legislative double dipping prohibited. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Legislative Double Dipping Prohibition Act. (b) Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, and except as provided in subsection (c), a member of the Legislature, during his or her term of office, may not be an employee of any other branch of state government, any department, agency, board, or commission of the state, or any public educational institution including, but not limited to, a local board of education, a two-year institution of higher education, or a four-year institution of higher education. For purposes of this section, employee means any of the following: (1) An employee as defined in Section 36-27-1, or a teacher as defined in Section 16-25-1. An employee as defined in this subsection shall not include any person receiving pension benefits from the Retirement Systems of Alabama. (2) A person who is personally providing services under a personal...
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45-28-70
Section 45-28-70 Single-member district county governing body. (a) The intent of this section is to implement, by local act for Etowah County, the Joint Remedy Proposal in the court order dated January 30, 1995, and related orders, in Civil Action No. 89-T-459-E, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Eastern Division, in the case of Presley, et al. v. Etowah County Commission. (b) There is created and established in and for Etowah County, a single-member district governing body, which shall replace the existing governing body to the extent there is a conflict with existing laws relating to Etowah County. The Etowah County Commission shall be composed of six members, elected from single-member districts one through six inclusive, which districts are described in the Joint Remedy Proposal made a part of the court order dated January 30, 1995, and related orders, in Civil Action No. 89-T-459-E in the United States District Court for the Middle District of...
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5-5A-18.1
Section 5-5A-18.1 Banks and trust companies to have power of federally chartered or regulated financial institution. In addition to all other rights and powers provided under this title, banks and trust companies chartered by this state and supervised by the superintendent and banks or trust companies chartered by any other state which are doing business or proposing to conduct any bank or trust company activities in this state and each of their subsidiaries, subject to the prior approval of the superintendent, may make any loan or investment , exercise any power, and engage in any activity which they could make , exercise, or engage in if incorporated or operating as a federally chartered or regulated financial institution and they shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, and protections granted or available to federally chartered or regulated financial institutions. In addition to other conditions determined at the superintendent's discretion, any approval granted under this...
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9-12-180
Section 9-12-180 Authorized; form. The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of Alabama with any one or more of the states of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and with such other states as may enter into the compact legally therein in the form substantially as follows: GULF STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I Whereas the Gulf Coast States have the proprietary interest in and jurisdiction over fisheries in the waters within their respective boundaries, it is the purpose of this compact to promote the better utilization of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the seaboard of the Gulf of Mexico, by the development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries and the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. Article II This compact shall become operative immediately as to those states ratifying it whenever any two...
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