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11-41-5
Section 11-41-5 Ordering and notice of election of mayor and councilmen for incorporated municipalities;
conduct of election generally; qualifications for voting. Upon making such order of incorporation,
the judge of probate shall order an election to be held by the same inspectors or others appointed
by him for the purpose of electing a mayor and members of the council authorized by this title,
who shall, at such election, be elected from the city or town at large. Such inspectors shall
give 30 days' notice of the time and place of holding the election by posting a notice in
five public places within the limits of such town or city. Said inspectors shall have the
powers and discharge the duties as inspectors and clerks in municipal elections, and said
election shall be conducted, as far as practicable, in the manner prescribed in this title
for the election of city or town officers, and no person shall vote at such election unless
he is a qualified elector of the county and has...
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11-43A-1.1
Section 11-43A-1.1 Organization of council-manager form of government; election of council
members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, after the judge of probate has
certified to the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality the sufficiency
of a petition asking that the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
be submitted to the qualified voters of the municipality, any Class 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 municipality
having the mayor-council form of government, by resolution of the council, may provide for
the council in a municipality proposing to adopt the council-manager form of government to
be composed of either five or seven members as follows: One member shall be the mayor elected
at large, who shall be a voting member of the council and either four or six members shall
be council members elected either at large or from single-member districts, as the resolution
shall provide. If a municipality has single-member districts for the...
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45-28A-41.20
Section 45-28A-41.20 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2019 REGULAR
SESSION, EFFECTIVE APRIL 6, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) Pursuant
to Amendment 659 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 104.01 of
the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, the Gadsden
City Council shall call an authorizing referendum election regarding changing the Gadsden
City Board of Education to an elected city board of education. (b) If a majority of the qualified
electors of the municipality voting in the authorizing referendum election vote in favor of
an elected city board of education, the board shall be established as provided in this subpart
and the Legislature, as provided in Amendment 659, from time to time, by local law may provide
further for the election and operation of the Gadsden City Board of Education. The local laws
may provide for the termination of the terms of office of members of...
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11-42-133
Section 11-42-133 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen; division of wards into voting
precincts; rearrangement, etc., of boundaries of wards or voting precincts. (a) The council
or governing body of the annexing city or town shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed
to be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the annexing city or town
on the number of wards, or enlarge wards so as to embrace all territory embraced in the annexed
city or town and so as to afford opportunity to all persons in the territory embraced in the
annexed city or town to vote in all elections and participate in the government of the annexing
city or town, and each ward in the annexing city or town shall have the same number of aldermen,
but in no event shall there be more than 30 aldermen or representatives in the council or
governing body of the city or town. (b) The council or governing body of the city or town
shall elect aldermen for the wards, embracing all the territory...
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11-43-3
Section 11-43-3 Election, etc., of treasurer, clerk, etc., in cities having more than 6,000
inhabitants; consolidation or abolishment of offices. (a) In cities having a population of
more than 6,000, there shall be elected by the council, at its first regular meeting or as
soon thereafter as practicable, a city treasurer and a city clerk, who shall hold office until
the next general election and until their successors are elected and qualified, and such council
may elect an auditor, and any officers whose election is required by ordinance, and, except
as otherwise provided, the council shall have authority to fix the terms of office, prescribe
their duties, and fix the salaries of the officers. The council may, by ordinance, require
the city treasurer and the city clerk to be residents of the city. Except as provided in subsection
(b), the council, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected, by and with the consent of
the mayor, may consolidate two or more of the offices and may...
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45-3-120.07
Section 45-3-120.07 Personnel board - Membership; eligibility term clerical and administrative
support; meetings. (a) There is created the Barbour County Personnel Board. The personnel
board shall be composed of five persons. The board members shall be registered voters and
residents of the county. No member of the board, while a member of the board or for a period
of one year after he or she ceases to be a member, may be eligible for appointment to, or
election to, any county elective office. Two members shall be appointed to the board by a
consensus of the county commission. Two members shall be elected to the board by vote of the
classified employees of the county in an election conducted pursuant to election procedures
and regulations promulgated and administered by the judge of probate of the county. The election
procedures and regulations shall provide for nominations and balloting. One member shall be
appointed by agreement of the appointed members and the elected members. The...
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11-43-4
Section 11-43-4 Election of clerk, etc., in towns and in cities having less than 6,000 inhabitants;
filling of vacancies in council generally. In cities having a population of less than 6,000
and in towns, the council shall elect a clerk and fix the salary and term of office, and may
determine by ordinance the other officers of the city or town, their salary, the manner of
their election and the terms of office, and shall fill all vacancies in the council by a majority
vote of the council; and all members of the council may vote to fill vacancies any provision
of law to the contrary notwithstanding. The clerk and such other officers elected by the council
shall serve until their successor or successors are elected and qualified. (Code 1907, §1067;
Acts 1919, No. 448, p. 687; Code 1923, §1759; Code 1940, T. 37, §406; Acts 1951, No. 290,
p. 583; Acts 1981, No. 81-627, p. 1043; Acts 1984, No. 84-286, p. 497, §1.)...
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11-44D-4
Section 11-44D-4 Mayor-council form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors
voting in the referendum provided herein choose a mayor-council 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 mayor elected at-large and a five-member council
elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties
as herein enumerated and as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Chapter 43,
Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter which may be
now or hereafter granted to such municipality. (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...
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11-44E-201
Section 11-44E-201 Petition for change of form of government; election as to proposed change;
election of new officers and governing body; termination of term of office of mayor and commissioners.
Any proposal to change the form of government shall be initiated by a petition signed by at
least the number of qualified voters, equal to four for every 100 inhabitants of the city
or fraction thereof according to the last federal census, and then filed with the city clerk.
The city commission shall forthwith order an election, at which the legally qualified voters
of the city shall vote for or against the proposed change in form of government. The officers
and members of the governing body of such newly adopted form of municipal government shall
be elected as soon as practicable under the provisions of law applicable thereto; and upon
their election and qualification for office the term of office of all members of the commission
and mayor under the mayor/commission/city manager form of...
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11-46-25
Section 11-46-25 Ballots; statements of candidacy; withdrawal of candidacy. (a) In all municipal
elections on any subject which may be submitted by law to a vote of the people of the municipality
and for any municipal officers, if paper ballots are used, the voting shall be by official
ballot printed and distributed as provided in subsections (c) and (d), and no ballot shall
be received or counted in any election unless it is provided as prescribed by law. (b) There
shall be but one form of ballot for all the candidates for municipal office and every ballot
provided for use at any polling place in a municipal election shall contain the names of all
candidates who have properly qualified and have not withdrawn, as provided in subsection (g),
together with the title of the office for which they are candidates. (c) All ballots shall
be printed in black ink on clear book paper. At the bottom of each ballot and at a point an
equal distance from the sides thereof there shall be printed a...
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