45-17-20.40
Section 45-17-20.40 Authorization; referendum. (a) This section only applies to Colbert County. (b) The sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours after 12:00 p.m. on Sundays is authorized within the county. The county commission may, by resolution, and the governing body of any municipality located within the county may, by ordinance, regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages after 12:00 p.m. on Sunday by properly licensed retail licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. (c) The county commission shall hold a referendum to determine if alcoholic beverages may be sold on Sunday. If a majority of the voters voting thereon vote in favor of the question, then the sale of alcoholic beverages after 12:00 p.m. on Sunday shall be authorized. (d) The referendum shall be held at the next regular election or at a special election called for that purpose by the county commission. Costs of the referendum shall be paid by the county. A second or subsequent referendum shall...
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45-39A-70
Section 45-39A-70 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2016 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE MAY 12, 2016. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) The voters of the Town of Lexington may authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages and draft beer for on-premises and off-premises consumption within the town each day of the week except Sunday by an election pursuant to this section, in the following manner: (1) The governing body of the town, by resolution, shall call an election to determine the sentiment of the voters of the town residing within the corporate limits, as to whether or not it may determine whether alcoholic beverages and draft beer can be legally sold or distributed each day of the week except on Sunday for on-premises and off-premises consumption within the town. (2) On the ballot to be used for such election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and draft beer for...
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45-9-20.02
Section 45-9-20.02 Alcoholic beverage sales on Sunday outside corporate limits of Cities of Valley and Lanett. (a) This section applies in Chambers County outside of the corporate limits of the City of Valley and the City of Lanett. (b) The sale of alcoholic beverages after 12:00 p.m. on Sundays may be authorized by the Chambers County Commission outside of the corporate limits of the City of Valley and the City of Lanett after approval by a referendum as provided in this section. If the Sunday sale of alcoholic beverages is approved by a referendum, the county commission, by ordinance, may permit the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on Sunday after 12:00 p.m. as determined by the county commission by properly licensed retail licensees of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board outside of the corporate limits of the City of Valley and the City of Lanett. Pursuant to this authority, the county commission may regulate which retail licensees may sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday,...
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45-44-20.02
Section 45-44-20.02 Distribution of funds from Sunday sales. (a) This section shall apply only to Macon County. (b) The Macon County Commission shall distribute forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per annum from the sale of alcoholic beverages after 12:00 P.M. on Sunday to the Macon County Public Library. (Act 99-555, p. 1199, §§ 1, 2.)...
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28-2A-1.1
Section 28-2A-1.1 Ratification and confirmation of municipal option elections and related taxes and licenses. (a) Each municipality with a population of 1,000 or more which held an election pursuant to Section 28-2A-1, as amended by Act 2009-546, of the 2009 Regular Session (Acts 2009, p. 1446), in which the majority of the voters voting in the municipal option election voted to allow the sale, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages within the municipality are hereby declared wet and may continue the sale, distribution, and consumption of such beverages. (b) Municipalities to which this section applies shall remain wet unless and until the municipality, in any subsequent municipal option election held pursuant to this chapter, elects to change to a dry municipality, notwithstanding the result of any subsequent county election or special method referendum. (c) Any taxes or licenses levied and collected pursuant to a municipal option election conducted in accordance with...
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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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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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28-2A-3
Section 28-2A-3 Legislative intent. It is hereby declared the intention and the purpose of this article to permit an election by the citizens of certain municipalities to determine the wet or dry status of such municipalities with regard to the sale, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages within the corporate limits of such municipalities; and further that such election shall be provided only in those municipalities which can provide safeguards for the protection of the public welfare, health, peace, and morals of the people. In the furtherance of the protection of the public welfare, health, peace, and morals, the Legislature has determined that a population classification should be established to provide this method of municipal option election only in those municipalities with a population of 1,000 or more people within a county, it being the judgment of the Legislature that municipalities with a lesser population would be unable to support and maintain such protection...
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45-36-20
Section 45-36-20 Charge of classification for incorporated municipalities. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 2A of Title 28, and pursuant to authority granted by Section 104 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the electors of an incorporated municipality located in Jackson County with a population of 2,500 or more inhabitants may change its classification from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option election as provided by this section. (b)(1) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of 2,500 or more inhabitants being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body shall call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether alcoholic beverages may be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for the municipal option...
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28-2-21
Section 28-2-21 Petitioners for election under Section 28-2-1 may request election on adoption of this article; question to be asked voters. Whenever petitioners for an election under Section 28-2-1 shall so desire, the petition shall contain the following: "It is requested that the election herein requested be on the adoption of the Special Method Referendum Act of 1971." In an election called for the above-stated act, the voters of the county shall be asked the question: "Do you favor the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this county under the Special Method Referendum Act of 1971? Yes _____, No _____." (Acts 1971, No. 1266, p. 2195, §2.)...
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