45-49-261.06
Section 45-49-261.06 Procedures for exercising planning and zoning powers. The Mobile County
Commission shall not exercise its planning and zoning powers established hereunder until the
majority of the qualified electors in the proposed planning jurisdiction shall have voted
their desire to come within the planning and zoning authority of the Mobile County Commission.
The election shall be held if 10 percent of the qualified electors in the planning jurisdiction
submit a written petition to the county commission expressing a desire to be subject to the
planning and zoning jurisdiction of the Mobile County Commission under authority of this part
or upon a resolution of the county commission. The county commission and the Judge of Probate
of Mobile County shall certify or reject the accuracy of the petition no later than 45 days
after receiving the petition, or in the case of an election to be held by resolution of the
county commission, the county commission shall certify the adoption...
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45-37A-52-51
Section 45-37A-52-51 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate in any
election for the office of council member may become such candidate by filing in the office
of the judge of probate of the county in which such city is situated, a statement in writing
of such candidacy and an 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 he or she desires to
be a candidate. Such statement shall be filed at least 45 days before the day set for such
election and shall be 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 the state and county, and reside at ______ in the City of ______, that I desire
to become a candidate for office as a member of the city council, district number ______,
in the City at the election for that office to be held on the ______ day of...
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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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45-17-90.53
Section 45-17-90.53 Duration of tax; referendum. (a) Subject to subsection (b), the taxes herein
authorized shall continue so long as securities secured by a pledge of such taxes shall remain
outstanding. Such taxes shall expire and the Local Public Corporation shall be abolished when
the original securities, including refunding securities hereafter issued to refund the original
securities, for the Shoals Economic Development Project shall have been paid in full. Securities,
for which an irrevocable trust fund consisting of cash or direct general obligations of the
United States of America, or both, shall be established for retirement of all of the principal
of or interest on any outstanding security, shall be deemed paid in full for the purposes
of this subpart. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), on the date when the original securities
for the Shoals Economic Development Project shall have been paid in full, the taxes herein
authorized and the Local Public Corporation shall continue...
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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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11-50B-8
Section 11-50B-8 Meetings, hearings, etc., open to public; notice; petition; election; procedure.
(a) Actions of the governing body of a public provider relating to the provision of cable
service or telecommunications service by the public provider, shall be taken in meetings open
to the public consistent with any one or more of Sections 11-43-49, 11-43A-21, 11-44C-25,
and 13A-14-2, as amended, respectively, or other similar statutory provisions, as shall otherwise
govern meetings of the governing body of the affected public provider. (b) Prior to the determination
of the governing body of a public provider of cable service to commence furnishing cable service
to subscribers in the exercise of authority granted under this chapter, the governing body
of the public provider shall conduct a public hearing. Actual notice of the date, time, and
place of the public hearing shall be given not less than 30 days prior thereto, to each private
provider furnishing cable service in the...
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11-41-1
Section 11-41-1 Authority; petition to probate judge for order of incorporation. When the inhabitants
of an unincorporated community, which has a population of not less than 300, constituting
a body of citizens whose residences are contiguous to and all of which form a homogeneous
settlement or community, desire to become organized as a municipal corporation, they may apply
to the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated, or the greater portion
thereof if it is situated in two or more counties, for an order of incorporation, by a petition
in writing signed by not less than 15 percent of the qualified electors residing within the
limits of the proposed municipality and by the persons, firms, or corporations owning at least
60 percent of the acreage of the platted or unplatted land of the proposed municipality. No
platted or unplatted territory shall be included within the boundary unless there are at least
four qualified electors, according to government survey,...
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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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45-25-100
Section 45-25-100 Election of members. (a) The DeKalb 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) Beginning with the next term of office, members shall be elected for a term of six
years, and every six years thereafter 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 which the member
is elected. (d) DeKalb County, excluding the area located within the corporate limits of the
City of Fort Payne, shall be divided into five districts which shall be substantially equal
in population (within five percent plus or minus) according to the last federal decennial
census. The initial boundaries of the districts shall be based upon a...
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45-49-120.04
Section 45-49-120.04 Supervisory committee. (a) There is hereby established the Supervisory
Committee of the Mobile County Personnel Board. The supervisory committee hereby created shall
succeed to and exercise all the rights, powers, and authority, and shall perform all the duties
and functions now vested in and required of the Citizen's Supervisory Committee created by
Act 470, 1939 Regular Session (Acts 1939, p. 298) and the Supervisory Committee of the Mobile
County Personnel Board created by Act 167, 1955 Regular Session (Acts 1955, p. 431). (b) The
Supervisory Committee of the Mobile County Personnel Board shall be composed of the following:
(1) The persons holding each of the following elective offices in Mobile County, Alabama,
namely, the presiding judge of the circuit court, the judge of probate, the revenue commissioner,
the presiding judge of the District Court of Mobile County, the county license commissioner,
the Chair of the Mobile County Commission, the Sheriff of...
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