11-44E-71
Section 11-44E-71 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate at any election for the office of mayor may become such candidate by filing in the office of the city clerk a statement in writing of such candidacy, accompanied by a petition signed by a minimum of 100 registered voters of such city endorsing the candidacy of such candidate and an affidavit taken and certified by such city clerk or by a notary public that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which he (she) desires to be a candidate. Such statement shall be filed by 5:00 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday in June preceding the day set for such election and shall be in substantially the following form: "State of Alabama, _____ County. I, the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am a citizen of the City of _____, in said State and County, and reside at _____ in said City of _____, that I desire to become a candidate for the office of mayor in said City at the election for...
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11-50-191
Section 11-50-191 Conveyance authorized; terms; ordinance or resolution. Each municipality which now or hereafter owns a system or part of a system is hereby authorized to transfer and convey one or more systems, or any part or parts of a system or systems, or any rights incidental thereto, without the necessity of authorization at an election of the qualified voters of such municipality, to any other municipality in Alabama. Any such transfer or conveyance may be made with or without pecuniary consideration and on such terms and conditions as the governing body of the municipality owning such system or systems or part or parts thereof may determine. Any such transfer and conveyance shall be made only upon the enactment by the governing body of the municipality owning such system, or systems or part thereof, of an ordinance or resolution authorizing such transfer and conveyance. (Acts 1975, No. 831, §2.)...
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45-8A-23.214
Section 45-8A-23.214 Duties of council on disapproval of manager's proposed division. If the council shall disapprove the manager's proposed division it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution of disapproval. Such ordinance or resolution must contain the council's proposed division of the city into not less than five nor more than seven new wards. It shall describe with clarity and certainty each of the wards proposed therein. The ordinance or resolution must prescribe a date for the holding of an election by the voters as set out in Section 45- 8A-23.216. Such date shall be not less than 30 nor more than 90 days after the adoption of the ordinance or resolution. If the ordinance or resolution shall not prescribe the date for the holding of the election, or if it shall not describe with clarity and certainty each of the wards proposed therein, such ordinance or resolution shall be null and void. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §7.05.)...
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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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28-2A-1
Section 28-2A-1 Procedure for wet or dry classification option elections. (a) Any municipality having a population of 1,000 or more, may change its classification from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option election, in the following manner. (b) Upon petition of 30 percent of the number of voters voting in the last preceding general election of the municipality being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body must call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for municipal option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to permit the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality." On the ballot to be used for such municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do...
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45-21A-50
Section 45-21A-50 Election of Rutledge City Council. (a) Any law, whether special, local, or general or municipal ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding, pursuant to Civil Action No. 87-T-1289-N, U.S. District Court for the Middle District Northern Division Federal Court Order, the Town of Rutledge in Crenshaw County, shall not designate by place number, or by other similar method, seats for its city council. (b) The City Council of the Town of Rutledge, Alabama, shall consist of five members elected at large, without designated or numbered places. In the election of members of the city council, the five candidates receiving the greatest number of votes shall be elected to the council. There shall be no runoff election and in the event of a tie vote, the winner shall be selected by a majority vote of the newly elected mayor and council. In such election for members of the city council, each qualified voter is authorized to cast only one vote. (c) The requirement for office,...
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45-28-21.01
Section 45-28-21.01 Regulation of sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages on Sunday - Unincorporated areas. (a) The voters in the unincorporated area of Etowah County may authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages within the unincorporated area of the county on Sunday by an election pursuant to this section, in the following manner: The county commission, by resolution, may call an election to determine the sentiment of the voters residing outside the corporate limits of any municipalities within the county, as to whether alcoholic beverages may be legally sold or distributed on Sunday in the unincorporated area of the county as further provided for and regulated by ordinance of the county commission. (b) On the ballot to be used for the election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages outside the corporate limits of any municipalities within the county on Sunday as further provided for and regulated by...
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45-43-246
Section 45-43-246 Authority to levy taxes paralleling states sales and use taxes. If approved by a majority of the qualified voters of Lowndes County who vote thereon at the referendum election provided for by this subpart, the court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or like governing body of the county may adopt an order, ordinance, or resolution levying special county taxes, for educational purposes, to parallel state sales and use taxes, in the manner and at the rates prescribed in this subpart. (Acts 1961, No. 166, p. 2114, § 1.)...
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11-44E-41
Section 11-44E-41 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate in any election for the office of commissioner may become such candidate by filing in the office of the city clerk a statement in writing of such candidacy accompanied by a petition signed by a minimum of fifty registered voters of such commission district or in the case of mayor, one hundred registered voters of the municipality, endorsing the candidacy of such candidate and an affidavit taken and certified by such city clerk or notary public. Such statement shall be filed by 5:00 P.M. on the fourth Tuesday in June preceding the date set for the election and shall be substantially in the following form: "State of Alabama, _____ County. I, the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am a citizen of the City of _____, in said State and County, and reside at _____ in said City of _____, that I desire to become a candidate for the office of commissioner for District _____, in said City...
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11-50-265
Section 11-50-265 Transfer of gas plant or system to waterworks board; sale or transfer of plant or system by board to utility regulated by state Public Service Commission. (a) Every city or town now or hereafter owning and operating a municipal gas plant or distribution system and in which municipality a waterworks board is now or hereafter incorporated under the provisions of Division 1 of this article is hereby authorized to transfer and convey such gas plant or system or both to such waterworks board pursuant to the provisions of an ordinance theretofore duly enacted by the governing body of such city or town and without the necessity of authorization at an election of the qualified voters thereof; provided, that if at the time of such transfer the city or town has outstanding any bonds or other obligations payable from or secured by the revenues or earnings of such gas plant or system, it shall be incumbent upon the waterworks board of such city or town to pay the amount thereof...
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