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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45-9-71
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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45-37-140.12
Section 45-37-140.12 Service charge ordinances; election. (a) Subject to the conditions stated
below in this section, the board of trustees shall be authorized to adopt service charge ordinances
levying service charges provided for in Section 45-37-140.11. No service charge ordinance
shall take effect and be enforced until the substance of the ordinance has been published
in some newspaper of general circulation in the district and at least eight days have elapsed
after such newspaper publication and at least eight days have also elapsed after such ordinance
in full was posted in each fire station in the district, or at some other public place in
the district if there is no such fire station. It is further provided that no such ordinance
shall become effective unless it is approved at an election held in response to the petition
hereinbelow provided for, or unless the time prescribed for filing such petition expires without
the petition being filed. (b) Upon the petition, prescribed in...
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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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17-9-3
Section 17-9-3 Persons entitled to have names printed on ballots; failure of Secretary of State
to certify nominations. (a) The following persons shall be entitled to have their names printed
on the appropriate ballot for the general election, provided they are otherwise qualified
for the office they seek: (1) All candidates who have been put in nomination by primary election
and certified in writing by the chair and secretary of the canvassing board of the party holding
the primary and filed with the judge of probate of the county, in the case of a candidate
for county office, and the Secretary of State in all other cases, on the day next following
the last day for contesting the primary election for that office if no contest is filed. If
a contest is filed, then the certificate for the contested office must be filed on the day
next following the date of settlement or decision of the contest. (2) All candidates who have
been put in nomination by any caucus, convention, mass meeting,...
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45-2-261.07
Section 45-2-261.07 Procedure for exercising jurisdiction in each district. The Baldwin County
Commission shall not exercise its planning and zoning powers and jurisdiction in any district
established hereunder until the majority of the qualified electors of the district voting
in an election shall have voted their desire to come within the planning and zoning authority
of the Baldwin County Commission. The election shall be held if 10 percent of the qualified
electors in any district submit a written petition to the county commission expressing a desire
to be subject to the planning and zoning jurisdiction of the Baldwin County Commission under
authority of this subpart. For the purposes of the establishment of districts after June 1,
2010, a district shall correspond to a voting precinct or precincts in the county unless the
county governing body determines that the use of voting precinct boundaries is not feasible.
A party or parties seeking to file a petition shall notify the...
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45-31-141.03
Section 45-31-141.03 Petition for election. (a) Upon any petition being filed in the office
of the judge of probate, he or she shall order an election to be held in the proposed district
on the question or questions on which the petition requests an election. The petition shall
be signed by at least 100 qualified electors residing within the boundaries of the proposed
district. (b) The petition shall contain a map and description of the area which is proposed
to be established as a district under this article and the petition shall request the judge
of probate to call an election on the following question: "Shall there be created for
the area a district for fighting fires? Yes ( ) No ( )" (c) The petition shall state
the name of the proposed district. The board of a district may change the name of a district
by filing in the office of the judge of probate a copy of the resolution changing the name
thereof, which copy shall be certified by the president of the board. (d) The petition...

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45-26-142.12
Section 45-26-142.12 Service charge or fee - Election; proposed changes. (a) The petition for
the election on the question of a service charge, which may accompany the petition for the
election on the establishment of the proposed district, as provided in Section 45-26-142.03,
shall be signed by owners of all parcels of property comprising 25 percent or greater, whether
considered as single contiguous parcels or combinations of parcels owned by a single person,
firm, corporation, or other legal entity, of the acreage located within the boundaries of
the proposed district and shall state specifically the charge proposed to be assessed including
the basis and manner to be assessed. The petition may request that an election be held on
more than one proposed charge. (b) No service charge shall be increased or decreased unless
the same has been first approved by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters in
the district at an election held under this part. (c) An election on the...
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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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45-37A-52.01
Section 45-37A-52.01 Petition for election. The filing of a petition signed by 10 percent or
more of the qualified electors of such city, asking that the proposition of the adoption of
the mayor-council form of government for such city be submitted to the qualified voters thereof,
with the judge of probate of the county in which such city is located, shall mandatorily require
an election to be held as herein provided. Whenever such a petition purporting to be signed
by at least 10 percent of the qualified voters of such city shall be presented to such judge
of probate, he or she shall examine such petition and determine whether or not the same is
signed by at least 10 percent of the qualified voters of such city, and if such petition is
signed by the requisite number of voters to require such an election, he or she shall within
15 days from the receipt of such petition certify such fact to the mayor or other chief executive
officer of the city for which such election is so petitioned,...
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