45-5-72
Section 45-5-72 Members elected from single member districts; reapportionment. (a) Effective the next election of the Blount County Commission, the members of the Blount County Commission shall be elected from single-member districts. Each member of the commission shall be a resident and qualified elector of the district he or she represents. (b) Not later than January 1, 2002, the Blount County Commission shall adopt a plan dividing the county into districts of approximately equal population based on the immediately preceding federal decennial census. The variation between districts shall not exceed five percent plus or minus based on districts of equal population. (c) The county commission shall reapportion the commission districts in accordance with the standard in subsection (b) after each federal decennial census. (d) The members of the Blount County Commission serving pursuant to this section shall serve full-time. (Act 99-656, 2nd Sp. Sess., §§1-4; Act 2000-335, p. 532, §1.)...
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45-24-90
Section 45-24-90 Selma and Dallas County Economic Development Authority. (a) In Dallas County, there is created the Selma and Dallas County Economic Development Authority. The authority is created for the purpose and has the responsibility of aiding and assisting current industries and coordinating efforts of all municipal and county agencies of Dallas County, Alabama, as well as aiding organizations in the development of new industries which will provide job opportunities for the citizens of the City of Selma and Dallas County, Alabama. (b)(l) The authority shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of five members. Three of the five members shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Selma and the Judge of Probate of Dallas County. One member shall be appointed by the Craig Field Airport and Industrial Authority and one member shall be appointed by the Selma and Dallas County Chamber of Commerce. There shall be racial minority representation on the board. Subsequently,...
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45-31-71.01
Section 45-31-71.01 Election of members. For purposes of electing members of the Geneva County Commission in 1988 and 1990, the county is hereby divided into four county commission districts as defined by resolution duly adopted by the Geneva County Commission on July 12, 1976, and spread upon the minutes of the regular session of the county commission held on that date. For purposes of electing members of the Geneva County Commission in 1992 and thereafter, the members serving on the Geneva County Commission during the months of February and March of 1991, shall divide the county into four contiguous commission districts in such manner that each district shall have approximately the same population as every other district, as nearly as practicable. The judge of probate shall continue to serve as the ex-officio chair of the commission and shall vote only in case of tie votes on matters before the commission. Each candidate for district commissioner shall be a resident and qualified...
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11-44G-2
Section 11-44G-2 Procedures in event of vacancy - Mayor. (a)(1) In the event of the absence or disability of the mayor in any Class 7 or Class 8 municipality, the functions of the office shall be exercised by the chair pro tempore of the city council and, during his or her absence or disability, by such person as the city council may appoint from its membership, which appointment shall be entered upon the minutes of the city council. (2) In the event of a vacancy from any cause in the office of mayor, the city council shall fill the vacancy either from its own membership or from without the membership of the city council. The person elected by the city council to fill the vacancy in the office of mayor shall be a qualified elector in the municipality and shall meet all other legal qualifications required by law for the performance of the duties of the office to which elected. (3)a. In the event a vacancy in the office of mayor is not filled within 60 days after it occurs in a Class 7...
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11-46-23
Section 11-46-23 Authority and procedure for adjustment of boundary lines of wards, division of wards into voting districts, etc. The boundaries of wards within municipalities which have been divided into wards as now defined shall so remain until changed by ordinance. Hereafter the municipal governing body may, in its discretion, readjust the boundary lines of wards and may divide or consolidate any number of wards and resubdivide the same into voting districts; provided, that no such adjustment shall be made within three months of any election unless such adjustment is made during calendar year 1984 for the purpose of complying with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended. Whenever the municipal governing body readjusts any ward lines or divides a ward into voting districts, the ordinance whereby the ward is established or subdivided into voting districts shall describe the territory composing the ward, and when the ward has been subdivided, the territory composing each district...
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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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11-50-342
Section 11-50-342 Qualifications, appointment, terms of office, compensation, and removal of members of board; oath and bond thereof; vacancies; election of officers; quorum. (a) Each board of water and sewer commissioners shall consist of three members appointed by the council. The members first appointed shall serve for terms of two, four, and six years, respectively, from the date of the judge of probate's certificate mentioned in subsection (c) of Section 11-50-341 and until their successors shall be duly appointed and qualified; provided, however, that a council which has heretofore created or hereafter creates a board as provided in this article may, at its option, increase the board from three to five members to serve according to all the conditions and terms set forth in this article. In the event the council elects to increase the membership of the board from three to five members, one member added to the board shall be appointed to serve for a term of four years, and the...
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32-6-130
Section 32-6-130 Design and issuance of special plates; plates nontransferable; fees. (a) Any veteran, as defined in Section 31-5-1, who is a resident of this state and who is suffering a physical disability which requires that any motor vehicle he or she operates be equipped with special mechanical control devices or whose physical disability exceeds 50 percent, upon application accompanied by proof of eligibility to the judge of probate of the county for the special license plates provided herein, as may be prescribed by the State Department of Revenue, and upon payment of five dollars ($5), unless exempted from the payment of such fee by law, shall be issued license plates, by the judge of probate as provided by law, for private or pleasure motor vehicles, upon which, in lieu of the number now prescribed by law shall be inscribed in legible letters the words, "Disabled Veteran," and shall designate the branch of service and an identifying number as prescribed by the State Department...
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45-2-21.03
Section 45-2-21.03 Referendum - Procedures; districts; notification; exclusion of incorporated areas; approval in incorporated areas. (a) Any county commission district, or areas within a district to be defined by the county commission, may hold a referendum administered by the Judge of Probate of Baldwin County for the approval of the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption within those areas on Sunday under the same license authority applicable to other days of the week by one of the following procedures: (1) A resolution of the county commission. (2) A petition for a referendum certified by the Judge of Probate of Baldwin County consisting of at least 10 percent of the registered voters at any date within six months prior to the certification of the petition in the county commission district or the defined areas of that county commission district. (b) County commission districts shall be those areas defined by law at the time of the referendum. Subsequent changes in...
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45-2-21.33
Section 45-2-21.33 Referendum - Procedures; districts; notification; exclusion of incorporated areas; approval in incorporated areas. (a) Any county commission district, or areas within a district to be defined by the county commission, may hold a referendum administered by the Judge of Probate of Baldwin County for the approval of the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the licensed selling premises within those areas on Sunday under the same license authority applicable to other days of the week by one of the following procedures: (1) A resolution of the county commission. (2) A petition for a referendum certified by the Judge of Probate of Baldwin County consisting of at least 10 percent of the registered voters at any date within six months prior to the certification of the petition in the county commission or the defined areas of that county commission district. (b) County commission districts shall be those areas defined by law at the time of the referendum. Subsequent...
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