39-7-4
Section 39-7-4 Form and verification of petition. (a) The petition shall be in substantially the following form: "To the (herein insert the name of governing body) of the City (or Town) or to the Probate Judge of _____ County. We, the undersigned, qualified electors of the area embraced within the city or town or of the following described area _____ respectfully petition that there be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors in said area the following question: 'Shall the citizens of said city or town or the citizens of said described area (describing it) be incorporated by the name of the Improvement Authority of (here insert name of city or town, or area) for the purpose of engaging in the enterprise of furnishing to such city, town or area and its inhabitants or to the inhabitants of such area described for public and private uses the following services: ___ ___ ___' (Signatures of electors)...
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45-8A-110
Section 45-8A-110 Annexation based on resolution of public health or public good; elections. (a) Whenever the council of the City of Oxford shall pass a resolution to the effect that the public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution) shall be brought within the limits of the City of Oxford: (1) It shall be the duty of the mayor to certify a copy of such resolution to the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County and the certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of the territory proposed to be annexed, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate. (2) Within 10 days from the date of the filing of such resolution, the judge of probate must make and enter an order upon the minutes of the court, directing and ordering an election to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory described, not less than 20 days nor more than 40 days from the date of the making of the order. The...
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11-41-3
Section 11-41-3 Conduct of election generally; provision and form of ballots; qualifications for voting. The judge of probate shall appoint three qualified electors within the limits of the proposed city or town as inspectors to manage the election, which shall be conducted under the same sanction and penalties as are provided by the general election laws, except that a voter may furnish his own ballot, upon which must be written or printed "corporation" or "no corporation," and any person who is a qualified elector under the state law and has resided within the boundaries of the proposed city or town for three months next preceding may vote at such election. (Code 1907, §1055; Code 1923, §1746; Code 1940, T. 37, §12.)...
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11-54A-5
Section 11-54A-5 Procedure to incorporate; contents and execution of certificate of incorporation. Within 40 days following the adoption of the authorizing resolution, the applicants shall proceed to incorporate the authority by filing for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county wherein the city is located a certificate of incorporation which shall comply in form and substance with the requirements of this section and which shall be in the form and executed in the manner herein provided. The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall state all of the following: (1) The names of the persons forming the authority, and that each of them is a duly qualified elector of the city. (2) The name of the authority, which shall include the name of the city in its title as follows: The ___ Redevelopment Authority. (3) The period for the duration of the authority (if the duration is to be perpetual, subject to the provisions of Section 11-54A-20 hereof, that fact...
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38-1-3
Section 38-1-3 Legal representative for handling public assistance payments of incompetents. If any otherwise qualified applicant for or recipient of public assistance appears to be incapable, physically or mentally, or both, of managing his public assistance payments, and has no legal guardian, he, his spouse, father, mother, child, brother or sister, with the consent of the Department of Human Resources, or the Department of Human Resources may petition the probate judge for the appointment of a legal representative to handle his public assistance payments only. The petition shall be accompanied by a certificate in writing of a physician which certificate shall state that the physician upon examination believes the applicant or recipient to be physically or mentally, or both, incapable of managing his public assistance payments. The probate judge shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of appointing a competent person as legal representative after notice of at least 10 days in...
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39-7-6
Section 39-7-6 Publication of notice of filing of petition and of question to be submitted to voters at election. The clerk or probate judge shall give notice of the submission of the question by causing notice of the filing of the petition and the question to be submitted to be published at least once on the same day of each week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory. (Acts 1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, §24.)...
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40-10-162
Section 40-10-162 Duty of judge of probate and Comptroller; payment by State Treasurer. The judge of probate shall examine said petition and also the tax books of his county; and, if the facts set forth in the petition are such as to entitle the petitioner to the refunding of the money as prayed for, he shall so certify to the Comptroller, stating the amount to be refunded by the state, and forward to the Comptroller a copy of the petition with his certificate endorsed thereon; and, if the Comptroller shall be satisfied that the petitioner is entitled to have the money refunded to him, he shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of the petitioner for such an amount as the certificate of the probate judge shows should be refunded. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §330.)...
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45-25A-40
Section 45-25A-40 Composition; election of members; vacancies. (a) Any law, whether special, local, or general, or municipal ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding, the City of Fort Payne, in DeKalb County, shall not designate by place number, or by other similar method, seats for city council. (b)(1) In the election for the five members of the city council, if there are more than five candidates, then the majority of the votes cast for the office in the election shall be determined by dividing the total votes cast for all candidates for the offices by the number of positions to be filled, and then dividing that result by two. Any number of votes in excess of the number determined by the last division shall be the majority necessary for election. (2) If it appears that any candidate in the election has received a majority of the votes cast for that office, the municipal governing body shall declare that candidate elected to the office, and a certificate of election shall be given...
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45-30-140.08
Section 45-30-140.08 Election procedures. (a) The election laws governing the registration of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment of election officers, voting, and canvassing returns at a general election shall apply to the elections for fire district funding. (b) When a petition for the holding of an election is filed with the judge of probate not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days prior to some other election to be held in the territory in which the election is sought by the petition, the judge of probate shall order the election sought by the petition to be held the same day as the other election held. The county governing body shall pay for the necessary expenses of advertising and conducting the election out of the general funds of the county. (c) The judge of probate shall give notice of any election held under Section 45-30-140.04, publishing for three weeks, at least once a week, on the same day of each week, in a newspaper of...
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45-31-141.12
Section 45-31-141.12 Approval of service charge or fee. (a) No service charge or fee shall be levied unless the same has first been approved by the majority of the votes cast at an election held hereunder by the qualified electors residing within the district, or within the proposed district. (b) An election on the question levying a service charge or fee in a proposed district may be held at the same time that the election is held on the creation of the district; provided that the petition for the election on the question of the service charge or fee accompanies the petition for the election on the establishment of the proposed district as provided herein. An election on the question of a service charge or fee may be held upon the board of the district submitting to the judge of probate a petition for an election as provided. The board shall file in the office of the judge of probate a petition that he or she call an election in the district on the question of whether the service...
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