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45-28-71
Section 45-28-71 Filling vacancies. (a) Whenever a vacancy occurs, for any reason whatsoever,
in any Etowah County office more than one year before the expiration of the term of office,
the Etowah County Commission shall forthwith order an election to be held by the qualified
electors of the county to fill such vacancy. Such election shall otherwise be held and conducted
in the same manner as provided by law for countywide or special elections. (b) In the event
the unexpired term is for less than a year, the county commission shall, at their discretion,
either make an appointment for the unexpired term or oversee the operation of the vacant office.
Provided, however, that no person appointed nor any member of the county commission shall
be eligible to immediately qualify to hold the same office subsequent to such special election
without the elapse of one full term. Thereafter, such person shall be eligible to qualify
for the office, as provided by law. (Act 88-790, p. 227, §§1, 2.)...
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45-29-90.11
Section 45-29-90.11 Regulation of zoning, planning, and construction. For the purpose of promoting
the health, safety, morals, convenience, environment order, prosperity, and general welfare,
all power and authority regarding zoning and planning within the management area is hereby
vested in the board of directors of the authority. As described herein, no regulated activity
shall commence without the applicant having first obtained a land use certificate as issued
by the authority. (1) The board is authorized to regulate the planning, zoning, and construction
within the management area of all activity involving public streets, public roads, subdivisions,
drainage structures in subdivisions, mobile home parks, residential and commercial developments,
apartments, recreation parks, coal mining, gas/oil and methane exploration and development,
excavation, and logging. The board is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce such ordinances
as shall be necessary to implement any development...
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45-31-110.03
Section 45-31-110.03 Voting lists. (a) The voting list of any territory which is furnished
the election officers serving at the voting center designated for such territory shall contain
the names of all qualified electors of the territory on a single roll; however, when the roll
contains more than 2,400 names the list of qualified electors or roll shall be divided into
alphabetical sections of not more than 2,400 names per section. Except as herein otherwise
provided, the laws applicable to the preparation, distribution, publication, and checking
of qualified lists shall apply to the poll list of a territory for which a voting center has
been established by the county governing body pursuant to authority hereby conferred. (b)
No elector shall vote at any voting center other than the voting center of the territory of
which he or she is a qualified elector, but any elector eligible to vote at a voting center
may vote on any voting machine maintained at such voting center, upon...
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45-37-72.20
Section 45-37-72.20 Definitions. As herein used, the following terms have the meanings hereby
ascribed to them: (1) COUNTY. Jefferson County, Alabama. (2) COUNTYWIDE ELECTION. Any election,
whether general, special, or primary, including runoff elections, where qualified electors
throughout the county are entitled to vote and which is held to elect a federal, state, or
county officer or to nominate a candidate or candidates, for a federal, state, or county office
or offices, to submit one or more questions, including, but not limited to, the question of
adopting a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and the question of
whether general obligation bonds, or revenue bonds, of the state or county shall be issued.
(3) ELECTION COMMISSION. The election commission of the county. (4) FIRST ELECTION. The first
election for which this act provides to fill a vacancy as distinguished from the runoff election
held hereunder, if a runoff election is necessary. (5) RUNOFF...
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45-37-72.27
Section 45-37-72.27 Statement of candidacy; petition. (a) No primary election shall be held
to nominate a candidate to fill a vacancy under this subpart. At any election held under this
subpart no person's name shall appear on the ballot as a candidate for the office to be filled
at the election unless such person has filed in the office of the judge of probate of the
county within the time and in the forms prescribed in subsection (b) his or her statement
of candidacy and the petition signed by a least 100 qualified electors of the commission district
requesting that such person become a candidate for the office. (b) Any person desiring to
become a candidate at any election may become such candidate by filing in the office of the
judge of probate of the county such person's statement in writing of such candidacy, accompanied
by such person's affidavit taken and certified by such judge of probate, or by a notary public,
that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which...
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45-37A-52.251
Section 45-37A-52.251 Petition for change of form of government. Such change, however, shall
first be initiated by petition and submitted to a vote of the qualified electors at an election
and shall receive at such election a majority of the votes yes or in favor thereof in the
same manner and subject to the same requirements as provided in Sections 45-37A-52.01 to 45-37A-52.04,
inclusive, except that the proposition on the ballot shall be changed to reflect the proposed
form of municipal government to be submitted to the vote of the qualified electors. The officers
and members of the governing body of such newly adopted form of municipal government shall
be elected as soon as may be under the provisions of law applicable thereto; and upon their
election and qualification for office the term of office of all members of the council under
the mayor-council form of government shall terminate. (Acts 1955, No. 452, p. 1004, §9.02.)...
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45-48-142.23
Section 45-48-142.23 Fire protection service fee - Referendum. (a) After the county commission
establishes a fire district, the qualified electors of that district may file a petition,
signed by at least five percent of the qualified electors in the fire district who voted in
the last general election, with the office of the judge of probate who shall then order a
referendum to be held in the fire district on the question of establishing a fire protection
service fee for the fire district. Section 45-48-142.27 shall apply to all elections provided
by this subpart. (b) The petition shall contain the name and description of the fire district
area and shall request the judge of probate to call an election on the following question:
"Do you favor the assessment of a fire service fee in the amount of $ (dollars) a month
for the purpose of funding fire protection services in this volunteer fire district? Yes No"
(c) The fee shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) a month. (Act 2013-403, p. 1543,...
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45-49-261.04
Section 45-49-261.04 Procedure for adoption and amendment of ordinances and regulations. (a)
The Mobile County Commission may adopt ordinances and regulations as necessary to effect this
part. The ordinances or regulations shall be made in accordance with a master plan and designed
to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers,
to promote health and general welfare, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent overcrowding
of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, and to facilitate the adequate provision
of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements. The ordinances
and regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, to the character
of the planning jurisdiction and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with the
view of conserving the value of the buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of
land throughout the planning jurisdiction. For the...
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11-19-10
Section 11-19-10 Powers and duties of planning commission generally; special surveys or studies;
right of entry upon lands for preparation of examinations and surveys. (a) It shall be the
function and duty of the county planning commission to make and maintain comprehensive surveys
and studies of existing conditions and probable future developments in the flood-prone area
of the county and to prepare comprehensive plans for physical, social, and economic growth
as will best promote the public health, safety, morals, convenience, prosperity, or the general
welfare as well as efficiency and economy in the development of the flood-prone area of the
county. The county planning commission shall have the authority to: (1) Promote public interest
and understanding of the economic and social necessity for long-term, coordinated county planning.
(2) Confer and cooperate with the federal, state, municipal, and other county and regional
authorities regarding matters pertaining to or affecting the...
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11-3A-5
Section 11-3A-5 Referendum election to approve application of powers. The powers authorized
under this chapter shall be effective in a county only after an affirmative vote of a majority
of the qualified electors of the county residing in the unincorporated areas of the county
and voting in a referendum election held on the question of whether the powers authorized
under this chapter shall be effective in the county. Except as provided in subsection (h)
of Section 11-3A-2, the election shall be called upon resolution adopted by affirmative vote
of the majority of the members of the county commission. The referendum election shall be
conducted in accordance with the election laws of the state and may be held only in conjunction
with a primary, general, or special election held for another purpose in the county. In no
case may any election authorized by this chapter be held more often than once every 48 months.
(Act 2005-200, p. 399, §5.)...
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