45-37-140.14
Section 45-37-140.14 Abolition of district. (a) Any district created hereunder may be abolished in the manner provided for in this section; provided, however, that no district shall be abolished when it has any indebtedness. (1) Upon the petition for abolition of a district, conforming to the requirements set forth below, being filed with the judge of probate, he or she shall order an election on abolition of the district to be held in the district with the time provided for by Section 45-37-140.04 unless the petition is submitted less than one year before the next scheduled primary, primary runoff, or a general election in which case the election shall be held at the next scheduled primary, primary runoff, or a general election, at which qualified electors residing within the district shall be entitled to vote. The number of qualified electors residing in the district signing the petition shall not be less than the smaller of these two numbers: 500, or a number equal to 10 percent of...
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39-7-8
Section 39-7-8 Holding of special election for submission of question to voters; provisions of law governing conduct of such elections; payment of expenses of elections. If a petition shall not have been filed or, in case a summary proceeding has been instituted, a final order thereon has not been made in favor of the sufficiency of the petition so as to permit the question to be submitted at a general election within the provisions of Section 39-7-7, the body to which such petition is directed shall at its next regular meeting succeeding the presentation of the petition or, in case a summary proceeding has been instituted, succeeding the date of a final order thereon in favor of the sufficiency of the petition or the probate judge of the county in which the unincorporated area is located shall designate a day for the holding of a special election to ascertain the will of the electors regarding the question, which day shall not be less than 30 days nor more than 40 days from the date...
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45-21-241.21
Section 45-21-241.21 Authorization to levy tax; referendum; exemptions. (a) The county commission is authorized to levy and impose, in addition to all other taxes, including municipal gross receipts license taxes now imposed by law, a special county privilege license tax paralleling the state sales and use tax, such privilege license tax to be determined by the application of rates against gross sales or gross receipts, as the case may be. The rate of such tax shall not be more than one percent. Such tax shall become effective July 1, 1989, and shall remain in effect through September 30, 1991, unless a majority of the qualified electors of Crenshaw County vote in favor of the continuation of collection of the tax in a referendum held at the same time as the general election in November of 1990. Notice of the referendum shall be given by the Judge of Probate of Crenshaw County, which notice shall be published once a week for three successive weeks before the day of the election. On the...
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45-49-261.06
Section 45-49-261.06 Procedures for exercising planning and zoning powers. The Mobile County Commission shall not exercise its planning and zoning powers established hereunder until the majority of the qualified electors in the proposed planning jurisdiction shall have voted their desire to come within the planning and zoning authority of the Mobile County Commission. The election shall be held if 10 percent of the qualified electors in the planning jurisdiction submit a written petition to the county commission expressing a desire to be subject to the planning and zoning jurisdiction of the Mobile County Commission under authority of this part or upon a resolution of the county commission. The county commission and the Judge of Probate of Mobile County shall certify or reject the accuracy of the petition no later than 45 days after receiving the petition, or in the case of an election to be held by resolution of the county commission, the county commission shall certify the adoption...
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11-43A-3.1
Section 11-43A-3.1 Election in Class 6 municipalities - Time, procedure, etc. Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, an election shall be held in every Class 6 municipality wherein the municipal governing body has elected to have a nine-member council, at the same time that the election for members of the Alabama legislature is held in 1983; and the question submitted at such election shall be: "shall the council-manager form of government, provided in the Council-Manager Act of 1982, with the change in the form of government of such municipality to become operative on the first Monday in October 1986, be adopted for the municipality of _____?" The election shall be held and in all things governed as nearly as possible by the provisions regulating elections on the question the adoption of the council-manager form of government provided in the Council-Manager Act of 1982, except that no petition of any of the qualified voters of the municipality need be filed and the mayor of any city...
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45-37A-54.66
Section 45-37A-54.66 Sunday activities; ordinance procedures. It shall not be unlawful for the authority to conduct, operate, manage, or promote on Sunday any amusement or recreational activity within the corporate powers of such authority, or for any other person to participate or engage in such amusement or recreational activity on Sunday, if such amusement or recreational activity is conducted or operated in a public park situated in the city and under the control of such authority. All or any of such amusements or recreational activities on Sunday may be prohibited by an ordinance adopted pursuant to this section. Any proposed ordinance prohibiting all or any of such amusements or recreational activities may be submitted to the commission or other governing body of the city by petition signed by at least 5,000 qualified electors of the city. All petitions circulated with respect to any proposed ordinance shall be uniform in character and shall contain the proposed ordinance in...
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17-5-8
Section 17-5-8 Reports of contributions and expenditures by candidates, committees, and officials; filing; procedure. (a) The treasurer, designated filing agent, or candidate, shall file with the Secretary of State or judge of probate, as designated in Section 17-5-9, periodic reports of contributions and expenditures at the following times once a principal campaign committee files its statement under Section 17-5-4 or a political action committee files its statement of organization under Section 17-5-5: (1) Beginning after the 2012 election cycle, regardless of whether a candidate has opposition in any election, monthly reports not later than the second business day of the subsequent month, beginning 12 months before the date of any primary, special, runoff, or general election for which a political action committee or principal campaign committee receives contributions or makes expenditures with a view toward influencing such election's result. A monthly report shall include all...
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16-8-17
Section 16-8-17 Consolidation of schools - County and city systems. (a) Whenever a county board of education and the city board or boards of education in the county shall deem it advisable to consolidate the administration of their respective systems under the county board of education and shall reach an agreement to that effect through resolutions adopted by and recorded in the minutes of each board, which agreement shall provide for the payment of their respective indebtedness, said consolidation shall be made to become effective at the time designated in the resolutions providing for such consolidation; provided, that, if within 30 days after the adoption of said resolutions 25 percent of the qualified electors of the territory covered by either of the school systems concerned shall submit a protest in writing, the consolidation procedure shall be as follows: (1) REQUEST FOR REFERENDUM. The boards concerned shall adopt resolutions asking for a referendum on the proposed...
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11-44D-1
Section 11-44D-1 Ordinance abandoning commission form of government and referendum adopting mayor-council or manager-council form. Within three months of the adoption and approval of this chapter, the governing body of any Class 6 municipality with a commission form of government may by a majority vote of the members of that governing body adopt an ordinance abandoning the commission form of government and calling for a referendum to be held at public expense within 60 days after such call for the purpose of determining whether such city shall adopt the mayor-council form of government, authorized by this chapter, or in the alternative the manager-council form of government authorized by this chapter. The mayor or chief executive officer shall give notice of the time and purpose of such referendum election by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, or, if there is no such newspaper of general circulation in the...
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11-3-1
Section 11-3-1 Qualifications of candidates for county commissioner; vacancies; composition of commission; meetings. (a) Any person who is a qualified elector of the county and has resided in the county for at least one year prior to the date upon which he or she would take office is eligible to seek office as county commissioner. In counties where the county commissioners represent a certain district, any person seeking office as county commissioner shall be a qualified elector of and reside within the district which he or she seeks to represent upon election or appointment for at least one year prior to the date that he or she would take office. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the one-year residency requirement provided above shall not apply to the first election following any redistricting of county commission districts in a county. Any person serving as county commissioner, at all times while in office, shall meet the qualified elector and residency requirements set out herein, and...
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