45-9-71
Section 45-9-71 Structure and operation. (a) The Court of County Commission of Chambers County is hereby abolished, and there is created in lieu thereof the Chambers County Commission, to be composed of five commissioners as hereinafter provided. Each commissioner shall be a resident and qualified elector of a commissioner's district as provided herein, and shall be elected by the electors of the county at large at the general elections held in November of 1974 and November of 1976. Each commissioner shall serve four years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next following his or her election, and until his or her successor is elected and qualified. In the event of a vacancy, the same shall be filled by appointment by the Governor for the unexpired term. Commissioners for Districts 2 and 4 shall be elected in 1974. Commissioners for Districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be elected in 1976. (b) The commissioner's districts of the county as prescribed in subsection (a) of...
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17-14-6
Section 17-14-6 Judges and clerks; vacancies. The judges of the circuit and district courts, the judge of probate, the judges of the courts of appeals, and clerks of the circuit court shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2006, and they shall hold their respective offices for the term of six years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next after their election and until their successors are elected and qualified. Unless otherwise provided in the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, vacancies in any judicial office shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The office of a judge shall be vacant if the incumbent dies, resigns, retires, or is removed. The appointment of a judge of probate is for the remainder of the unexpired term. A judge, other than a judge of probate, appointed to fill a vacancy, shall serve an initial term lasting until the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January following the next general election held...
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17-6-4
Section 17-6-4 Designating and equipping voting places; county voting centers. (a) Except as may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the county governing bodies shall designate the places of holding elections in the precincts established hereunder, and, whenever the county has alphabetically divided the list of registered qualified voters of a precinct into groups, it shall designate not only the voting place but also the number of electronic voting machines at each voting place in the precinct, being sure that it designates an electronic voting machine for each group of qualified voters. The county governing body is specifically authorized to provide for installing as many electronic voting machines as are needed in each precinct, and the electronic voting machines may be installed at one designated voting place or there may be more than one voting place designated and such number of electronic voting machines installed at each place...
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45-25-100
Section 45-25-100 Election of members. (a) The DeKalb County Board of Education shall consist of five members, each elected from a separate single-member district, nominated and elected by the qualified electors of the district. The members shall take office as provided by general law. (b) Beginning with the next term of office, members shall be elected for a term of six years, and every six years thereafter as provided by general law. (c) Each board member shall be a resident of the single-member district from which the member is elected. The residency shall have been established at least one year before the general election at which the member is elected. (d) DeKalb County, excluding the area located within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Payne, shall be divided into five districts which shall be substantially equal in population (within five percent plus or minus) according to the last federal decennial census. The initial boundaries of the districts shall be based upon a...
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45-31-100.20
Section 45-31-100.20 Composition of board; districts. (a) The Geneva County Board of Education shall consist of five members, each elected from a separate single-member district, nominated and elected by the qualified electors of the district. The members shall take office as provided by general law. (b)(1) At the election in 2004, members shall be elected to serve terms of office as follows: The members elected from District 1 and District 4 shall serve terms of six years; the members elected from District 2 and District 5 shall serve terms of four years; and the member elected from District 3 shall serve a term of two years. (2) Upon completion of the terms of office provided in subdivision (1), and thereafter, members shall be elected to serve terms of six years as provided by general law. (c) Each board member shall be a resident of the single-member district from which the member is elected. The residency shall have been established at least one year before the general election at...
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17-16-11
Section 17-16-11 Filing of declarations of candidacy by candidates; certification of names of candidates to Secretary of State and probate judges; preparation of ballots; unopposed candidates not listed on ballots. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTION 17-13-5 BY ACT 2006-570 IN THE 2006 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2007. (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2), all candidates for nomination to public office or for election to party office in the primary election provided for in this chapter shall file their declaration of candidacy with the state party chair if they seek any federal, state, circuit, or district office, or the state Senate, House of Representatives, or any other office that is not a county office not later than 5:00 P.M. 60 days before the date of the primary election. All candidates for nomination or election to a county office shall file their declaration with the county party chair not later than 5:00 P.M. 60 days before the date of the...
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45-49-140.12
Section 45-49-140.12 Enlargement of district. (a) A district may be enlarged, provided, that no area lying within a municipality at the time of the enlargement shall be brought within the district. (b) No area shall be brought within a district by enlargement unless the majority of the votes cast at the election provided for by subsection (c), approve the inclusion of the area within the district and also approve every service charge in effect within the district at the time of election. (c) The term proposed area, as used in this subsection, means an area proposed to be brought within a district by enlargement of the district. When the board of trustees of a district determines that the inclusion of a proposed area within the district would be to the advantage of the district and also to the advantage of the majority of the property owners of the proposed area, the board of trustees may file in the office of the judge of probate a petition, signed by two-thirds of property owners,...
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17-11-5
Section 17-11-5 Delivery of absentee ballots; maintenance of voter lists. (a) Upon receipt of an application for an absentee ballot as provided in Section 17-11-3, if the applicant's name appears on the list of qualified voters produced from the state voter registration list in the election to be held, or if the applicant qualifies for a provisional absentee ballot, the absentee election manager shall furnish the absentee ballot to the applicant by: (1) Forwarding it by United States mail to the applicant's or voter's residence address or, upon written request of the voter, to the address where the voter regularly receives mail; or (2) by handing the absentee ballot to the applicant in person or, in the case of emergency voting when the applicant requires medical treatment, his or her designee in person. If the absentee election manager has reasonable cause to believe that the applicant has given a fraudulent address on the application for the absentee ballot, the absentee election...
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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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45-31-71
Section 45-31-71 Commission districts. The present members of the Geneva County Commission shall divide the county into commission districts for purposes of electing future members to the county commission. Such districts shall be divided and defined, as nearly as may be, on a population basis, and in contiguous area and as provided by law, so that each district shall have approximately the same population as every other district. The judge of probate shall continue to serve as the ex-officio chair of the commission and shall vote only in cases of tie votes on matters before the commission. Each candidate for district commissioner shall be a resident and qualified elector of the district which he or she represents and upon election shall continue to reside therein throughout their respective terms. Such district members shall be elected only by the qualified electors from the respective districts which they represent. Such election shall be conducted in the same manner as are all other...
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