28-2-1
Section 28-2-1 Procedure for elections to determine classification of counties as wet or dry counties; laws applicable in dry counties. (a) In every county where a majority of the electors voting in an election, called by the Governor to determine whether Chapter 3 of this title shall be adopted in the county, vote "Yes," Chapter 3 and all of its provisions shall be immediately put into operation in such county, but in every county where a majority of the electors voting in the election vote "No," Chapter 3 shall not go into effect in such county and all laws prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors or beverages now in force and effect in Alabama shall remain in full force and effect in every such county. For the purpose of this chapter the term "wet county" shall mean any county which by a majority of those voting voted in the affirmative in the election provided for in this section, and "dry counties" shall be construed to mean all counties which by a majority of...
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45-42-162.08
Section 45-42-162.08 Elections. The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the metropolitan-government shall be held on the date established by the judge of probate. Before such election the governing body of the municipalities and the county shall cause the metropolitan area to be divided into nine districts containing as nearly as possible an equal number of people. The division of the metropolitan-government into districts shall be by a committee appointed as follows: Three persons appointed by the Limestone County Commission; two persons appointed by the Athens City Commission; two persons by a committee of mayors from the four incorporated cities; one person appointed by the Limestone County School Board; and one person appointed by the Athens City School Board. Candidates for metropolitan-government offices shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal...
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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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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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17-6-4
Section 17-6-4 Designating and equipping voting places; county voting centers. (a) Except as may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the county governing bodies shall designate the places of holding elections in the precincts established hereunder, and, whenever the county has alphabetically divided the list of registered qualified voters of a precinct into groups, it shall designate not only the voting place but also the number of electronic voting machines at each voting place in the precinct, being sure that it designates an electronic voting machine for each group of qualified voters. The county governing body is specifically authorized to provide for installing as many electronic voting machines as are needed in each precinct, and the electronic voting machines may be installed at one designated voting place or there may be more than one voting place designated and such number of electronic voting machines installed at each place...
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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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11-43A-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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11-44C-2
Section 11-44C-2 Special election as to adoption of commission or mayor-council form of government. Upon March 28, 1985, the mayor or chief executive officer of any city to which this chapter applies shall call a special election to be held on May 14, 1985, said call for the purpose of determining whether such city shall adopt the court ordered district commission form of government in accordance with the consent decree entered into by the parties and approved by the court on April 7, 1983, in the case of Bolden vs. City of Mobile, Civil Action No. 75-297, or in the alternative the mayor-council form of government, authorized by this chapter, and shall give notice of the time and purpose of such election by publication once each week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in said city. All qualified electors of such city may participate in said election, as provided by this chapter, and such questions shall be plainly printed upon the ballot as provided in Section...
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9-9-14
Section 9-9-14 Board of water management commissioners - Composition; qualifications, appointment, terms of office, oath and bond of commissioners; seal; officers and employees generally; meetings; vacancies; quorum. Upon the organization of the district, the court of probate shall appoint three water management commissioners to be designated "Board of Water Management Commissioners," who shall have control of the affairs of the district, and each commissioner shall be an owner of real property within the district and shall be over 19 years of age, and at least one of them shall be a resident of the county in which the proceedings are held. Whenever the owners of a majority in acres of the land comprising a district petition the court for appointment of a person qualified under this article to act as a water management commissioner, it shall be the duty of the court to appoint such person or persons, but in the absence of such petition it shall be the duty of the court to appoint such...
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16-13-184
Section 16-13-184 Election officers; conduct of election. (a) The inspectors and officers of the special county election shall be appointed and said election shall be held and the results of such election shall be declared in the same manner and by the same officers as the results of the regular election for county officers, under the general election laws of the state; provided, that the election may be held at the time for holding any regular election in the county; and, if held at such time, the inspectors and officers of the general election shall conduct at the same time the election herein provided for and for such services they shall receive no compensation other than that allowed them for the holding of the general election. If the election is held at some other time than that of holding the regular election in the county, then the election officers shall receive the same pay as that for holding the general election. (b) The managers and returning officers, provided for above,...
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