45-26-142.13
Section 45-26-142.13 Abolition of district. (a) The district may be abolished in the
manner provided for in this section; however, the district shall not be abolished or
diminished when it has any indebtedness. (b) Upon the petition for abolition of the district
being filed with the judges of probate, the judges of probate of both counties, acting jointly,
shall order an election on the abolition of the district to be held in the district within
the time provided for by Section 45-26-142.04. The qualified property owners residing
within the district shall be entitled to vote in the election. The petition shall be signed
by at least 300 qualified property owners of the district. It shall contain a recital that
the district is not indebted and it shall request the judges of probate to order an election
on whether the district shall be abolished. Upon the officers canvassing the returns of the
votes and determining that abolition of the district was approved by a majority of the votes...

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45-31-141.04
Section 45-31-141.04 Time of election. (a) When a petition for the holding of any 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 an 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 is held. (b) If the petition is not filed at a time that will permit
the election sought thereby to be held at the time some other election is held, as herein
provided, the judge of probate shall order the election sought by the petition to be held
on a day not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days from the date on which the judge of probate
enters the order with the costs assumed by the district requesting the special election. (c)
This section shall apply to all elections provided for by this article. (Act 2010-546,
p. 958, §5.)...
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45-49-140.33
Section 45-49-140.33 Election requirements. (a) If the planned expansion of a municipal
police jurisdiction includes any portion of the Turnerville fire protection district, the
council or governing body of the respective municipality may request that the Judge of Probate
of Mobile County order an election to be held in the affected area. Only those qualified electors
residing within the boundaries of the affected area shall participate in the election. (1)
The council or governing body of the municipality may pass a resolution stating that the public
health or public good requires that the affected area, as described in the resolution, shall
be brought within the police jurisdiction of the municipality. (2) The mayor or other executive
head of the municipality shall certify and file a copy of the resolution together with a map
of the area showing its relationship to the municipal police jurisdiction to which the property
is proposed to be included, with the judge of probate. (3) At...
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11-42-100.1
Section 11-42-100.1 Mode of consolidation - When municipality to annex city or town.
(a) When two or more municipalities lying contiguous to each other desire to consolidate and
operate as one municipality, they may do so by proceeding in the manner hereafter provided
in this section. (b) If it is the purpose to annex a city or town to another municipality,
then the governing body of each city or town shall adopt an ordinance expressing a willingness
to such annexation. After both ordinances are passed and published as provided for by law,
the governing body of the municipality to be annexed shall, by resolution submit the question
of annexation at a special election to be held at a time specified in such resolution, not
less than 40 days nor more than 90 days after passage of the last adopted willingness ordinance
or at a time otherwise specified by law. No other proposition may be on the ballot. Said election
shall be held pursuant to the general municipal election laws. (c) In...
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45-49-91.04
Section 45-49-91.04 Certification of petition. The judge of probate, with assistance
from the revenue commissioner of the county, shall certify the accuracy of the petition within
30 days of receipt in his or her office. If the accuracy of the petition cannot be certified,
the judge of probate shall return the petition to the person or persons submitting it to the
probate court, and shall notify the persons submitting the petition of the reason or reasons
for returning the petition and that no election will be called. If the petition is certified,
the judge of probate shall provide for a special election on the question within that district
within 70 days from the date the petition was certified by the judge of probate. The judge
of probate shall certify no more than one petition for election per district during any calendar
year and no special election shall be held within the 12-month period since the previous special
election on this issue. (Act 2005-75, p. 111, § 5.)...
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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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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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11-48-8
Section 11-48-8 Hearing upon objections as to proposed improvement; amendment, modification,
rescission, etc., of ordinance or resolution; actions ratified and confirmed where prior to
ordinance, resolution or hearing. (a) At the meeting, to be held as provided for as specified
in Section 11-48-6, or at a place and time to which the same may be adjourned, all
persons whose property may be affected by the proposed improvement may appear in person or
by attorney or by petition and object or protest against said improvement, the material to
be used or the alternative types of material or any of them from which selection is later
to be made, if any, and the manner of making the same, and said council shall consider such
objection and protest and may confirm, amend, modify, or rescind the original ordinance or
resolution. But if objection to the proposed improvement is made by a majority in frontage
of the property owners to be affected thereby when the proposed improvement is to be...
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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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17-11-5
Section 17-11-5 Delivery of absentee ballots; maintenance of voter lists. (a) Upon receipt
of an application for an absentee ballot as provided in Section 17-11-3, if the applicant's
name appears on the list of qualified voters produced from the state voter registration list
in the election to be held, or if the applicant qualifies for a provisional absentee ballot,
the absentee election manager shall furnish the absentee ballot to the applicant by: (1) Forwarding
it by United States mail to the applicant's or voter's residence address or, upon written
request of the voter, to the address where the voter regularly receives mail; or (2) by handing
the absentee ballot to the applicant in person or, in the case of emergency voting when the
applicant requires medical treatment, his or her designee in person. If the absentee election
manager has reasonable cause to believe that the applicant has given a fraudulent address
on the application for the absentee ballot, the absentee election...
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