45-10-20.01
Section 45-10-20.01 Classifications of municipalities as wet or dry. Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 2A of Title 28, and pursuant to authority
to regulate the liquor traffic granted by Section 104 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901,
the electors of an incorporated municipality located in Cherokee County with a population
of not less than 1,300 inhabitants nor more than 1,500 inhabitants may change its classification
from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option election as provided by this article.
(Acts 2003-362, p. 1011, §2.)...
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11-42-101
Section 11-42-101 Mode of consolidation - When municipalities to form new corporate organization.
If municipalities desiring to consolidate wish to form a new and distinct corporate organization
to be operated under the name of either one of such municipalities or a different name, the
several councils, upon the filing with the mayor or chief executive officer or chief executive
authority of each of such municipalities of a petition signed by not less than one fourth
of the number of the qualified electors residing in each of such municipalities setting forth
that they desire the consolidation of such municipalities, shall each pass an ordinance expressing
the purpose thenceforth to operate as one municipal corporation under the name therein mentioned
and call an election to be held simultaneously in the several municipalities on a day designated
by said ordinances, not less than 30 days after the passage thereof. Such election shall be
conducted in the same manner as general municipal...
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11-42-152
Section 11-42-152 Calling of election; conduct of election generally; notice of election. (a)
The governing bodies shall within 10 days thereafter call an election at which the qualified
electors residing in the municipalities may vote at their usual voting places for or against
consolidation, and the voters residing in the territory outside the limits of either of the
municipalities shall also be permitted to vote at the voting place in either municipality
nearest to their place of residence. (b) The governing bodies of each municipality shall name
the election officers in their respective municipalities, and said election shall be governed,
the returns canvassed and the results declared as provided by law for other municipal elections.
(c) Such election shall be held in each of such municipalities on the same day and must be
advertised in each of the newspapers published in the county in which such municipalities
are situated once a week for four successive weeks, and said...
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11-45-10
Section 11-45-10 Procedure for adoption or repeal of canine leash ordinance in Class 5 municipalities.
(a) The provisions of this section shall apply to all Class 5 municipalities of this state,
as such class is designated by act of the legislature. (b) The municipal governing bodies
are hereby authorized by resolution to call for referendum elections, which shall be held
only upon the dates of regularly scheduled municipal elections, to either call for the adoption
of a canine leash ordinance, or to call for the repeal of any existing canine leash ordinance.
(c) The question to be presented at any such election shall be substantially as follows: "Do
you favor the adoption (repeal) of a canine leash ordinance by the municipal governing body?
Yes ___. No ___." If a majority of the qualified electors of the municipality vote "Yes,"
the appropriate action shall be taken by the municipal governing body within 90 days following
any such election. If a majority vote "No," no action shall be...
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45-42-162.08
Section 45-42-162.08 Elections. The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission
of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the
metropolitan-government shall be held on the date established by the judge of probate. Before
such election the governing body of the municipalities and the county shall cause the metropolitan
area to be divided into nine districts containing as nearly as possible an equal number of
people. The division of the metropolitan-government into districts shall be by a committee
appointed as follows: Three persons appointed by the Limestone County Commission; two persons
appointed by the Athens City Commission; two persons by a committee of mayors from the four
incorporated cities; one person appointed by the Limestone County School Board; and one person
appointed by the Athens City School Board. Candidates for metropolitan-government offices
shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal...
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28-1-6
Section 28-1-6 Issuance of licenses for sale of intoxicating beverages in Class 1 or Class
2 municipalities. (a)(1) All other provisions of law, rules, or regulations to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall absolutely have no authority
to issue any form of license in a Class 1 municipality, including, but not limited to, off-premises
consumption licenses, restaurant licenses, or club licenses, for the retail sale of any form
of intoxicating beverages, including, but not limited to, malt liquor, beer, wine, liquor,
or other alcoholic beverage regulated by the board, unless one of the following requirements
is satisfied: a. The application has first been approved by the governing body of the Class
1 municipality in which the site of the license is situated. b. The denial of approval by
the Class 1 governing body has been set aside by order of the circuit court of the county
in which the site is situated on the ground that the municipal approval...
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45-37-140.13
Section 45-37-140.13 Annexation; referendum; hearing; reestablishment of boundaries. (a) Whenever
any municipal corporation in Jefferson County annexes any portion of a district and a petition
is filed with the clerk of the municipality requesting annexation of the remaining portion
of the district, the petition containing the following: (1) signatures of 20 percent of the
qualified electors residing within the district or signatures of 200 qualified electors, whichever
is less, and (2) a written statement signed by at least two members of the board of trustees
of the district reciting that those signing the petition constitute either 10 percent of the
qualified electors residing within the district or 100 qualified electors residing within
the district, whichever is applicable, and (3) a description of the district; then the governing
body of such municipal corporation shall provide for and finance the cost of a referendum
election wherein the remaining qualified voter residents of...
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28-2A-20
Section 28-2A-20 Ordinance and referendum to determine whether annexed territories should be
legally wet. In addition to the procedure established pursuant to Article 1, the governing
body of any Class 1, 2, or 3 municipality or any municipality having a population of 18,500
or more, which is legally wet, and which has previously annexed or hereinafter annexes territory
into the municipality which lies in a county which is legally dry, shall, before the annexed
territory becomes wet, pass an ordinance calling for a city-wide referendum to be held to
determine whether the annexed portions of the municipality shall be legally wet as herein
provided. If the governing body of the municipality adopts an ordinance determining that all
of the area within the corporate limits of the municipality should be legally wet, and if
this decision is approved at a subsequent referendum called to decide this issue, alcoholic
beverages may be lawfully sold, distributed, and consumed within the newly...
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45-35A-50
Section 45-35A-50 Sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption on Sundays. (a) This
section applies only in the City of Dothan. (b) Subject to subsection (c), the sale of alcoholic
beverages for on-premises consumption on Sundays between the hours of 1:00 P.M. and midnight
is authorized within the city by properly licensed retail licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board. (c) The city governing body shall hold a referendum to determine if alcoholic
beverages for on-premises consumption may be sold on Sundays. If a majority of the voters
voting thereon in the city vote in favor of the question, then the sale of alcoholic beverages
for on-premises consumption on Sundays shall be authorized. (d) The referendum shall be held
at the next general election held in the city. Costs of the referendum shall be paid by the
city. If a majority of the voters voting thereon do not vote in favor of the question, a subsequent
referendum or referenda may be held. A second or...
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11-46-3
Section 11-46-3 Primary elections by political parties and partisan elections abolished in
municipalities having 300,000 inhabitants or less. Primary elections of political parties
are hereby abolished in cities and towns of this state which have a population of 300,000
inhabitants or less, according to the latest federal decennial census, and election of the
members of the municipal governing body of said cities and towns shall be by and on a nonpartisan
ballot in all elections held for the purpose of electing members of the governing body. (Acts
1971, No. 2234, p. 3592.)...
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