45-16-71
Section 45-16-71 Composition and election of county commission. (a) The Coffee County Commission shall be composed of seven members, elected from single-member districts one through seven, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The seven districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The chair of the commission, who shall be a voting member of the commission, shall be elected at the first meeting after the election of the county commission from among the seven members of the commission to serve for a one-year term. A successor shall be elected each year in the same manner and any person serving as chair may serve succeeding terms. (b) The composition and election of the county commission as it existed on January 1, 2003, is ratified and confirmed. The districts for the election of commissioners in 2004 shall be the...
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45-17-70
Section 45-17-70 Membership. (a) The Colbert County Commission shall be composed of six members, elected from single-member districts one through six, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The six districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The chair of the commission shall rotate among the six members of the commission with each commissioner serving as chair for one-sixth of his or her four-year term of office. (b) The composition and election of the county commission as it existed on January 1, 2003, is ratified and confirmed. This section shall continue to apply to commissioners elected for a term of office for county commissioners in Colbert County on or after that date. (Act 2005-138, p. 242, §§1, 2.)...
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45-40-72
Section 45-40-72 Commission members; districts; chair. (a) The Lawrence County shall be composed of five , elected from single-member one through five, inclusive, by the qualified voters residing within each district. The five districts shall be apportioned as provided by law. Each commissioner shall reside in the district he or she represents at the time of qualifying for office and during his or her tenure. The of the commission shall rotate among the five members of the commission with each commissioner serving as chair for one-fifth of his or her four-year term of office. (b) The composition and election of the county commission as it existed on January 1, 2003, is ratified and confirmed. This section shall continue to apply to commissioners elected for a term of office for county commissioners in Lawrence County on or after that date. (Act 2003-222, p. 562, §§1, 2.)...
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45-11-71.01
Section 45-11-71.01 Composition. (a) This section shall apply only in Chilton County. (b) Effective for the election of the county commission in November 2008 and thereafter, the Chilton County Commission shall be composed of five members elected from single-member districts. The member from each respective district shall be elected by the qualified electors residing within that district. The districts for the election of the commissioners in November 2008 shall be apportioned by the county commission at least 180 days prior to the last date for qualifying for the primary election and thereafter may be apportioned as provided by law. (c) Each candidate for election shall have been a resident and qualified elector of the district he or she seeks to represent at least 180 days prior to qualifying for election and shall remain a resident of the same district during his or her tenure in office. The members of the county commission shall serve for terms of four years. (d) The members of the...
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45-13-71
Section 45-13-71 Composition; election by districts. (a) The county commission herein created shall consist of five members, one of whom shall serve as chairman as hereinafter provided. (b) The five members of the commission shall be elected from, be a qualified elector of, and reside in each of five single-member districts within Clarke County as herein defined. Commissioners for Districts 2, 4, and 5 shall run in 1992, and every four years thereafter. Commissioners for Districts 1 and 3 shall run in 1994, and every four years thereafter. Each commissioner will serve a four-year term. The term for the commissioners from Districts 2 and 4 elected in 1992 shall begin on the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January, 1993. The term of all the commissioners from District 5 elected in 1992, and the term of commissioners elected thereafter, shall begin at 12:01 a.m. on the seventh day next following his or her election, or as otherwise provided by the general laws of Alabama. (c)...
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45-37-72
Section 45-37-72 Single member districts; compensation; residency requirements. (a) It is the intent of this section to implement the amended federal court order, and related orders, dated October 31, 1985, Civil Action No. 84-C-1730-S, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, in the case of Taylor, et al. v. The Jefferson County Commission, and subsequently redrawn by the county commission pursuant to Section 11-3-1.1. (b) There is created and established in and for Jefferson County a single-member district governing body. The Jefferson County Commission shall be composed of five members, elected from single-member districts one through five, inclusive, which districts are described in the amended federal court order dated October 31, 1985, and related orders, in Civil Action No. 84-C-1730-S in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, in the case of Taylor, et al. v. The Jefferson...
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45-48-71
Section 45-48-71 Single member districts. Pursuant to the authority of Section 11-3-1.1, the Marshall County Commission shall adopt a plan of four single member districts for the election of the county commission and shall submit the plan to the United States Justice Department by July 1, 1993, for preclearance. The initial terms shall be staggered as follows: One commissioner from District 1 or District 2 shall be elected for a six year term of office in 1994 and one commissioner from District 3 or District 4 shall be elected for a six year term of office. The remaining commission members shall be elected for terms of office of four years each. The county commission shall draw lots to determine the two districts with initial terms of office of four years, and the two districts with initial terms of office of six years. Thereafter, successors shall serve terms of office of four years each. (Act 92-391, p. 807, § 1.)...
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11-44A-30
Section 11-44A-30 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for candidates and electors. Any Class 7 municipality operating under a commission form of government with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts. The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal population and shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council shall have resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days immediately preceding the date of the election, and...
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11-44F-1
Section 11-44F-1 Adoption of mayor-council form of government where commission form violates federal Voting Rights Act; division into single-member districts; residence requirements for candidates and electors. Any Class 8 municipality operating under a commission form of government with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decreed to be in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act by a court of law may, by an ordinance duly adopted not less than three months prior to the regular municipal election, adopt a mayor-council form of government with the mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts. The ordinance shall divide the municipality into five single-member districts of nearly equal population and shall provide that candidates for election for a place on the council shall have resided within the district from which he or she seeks election for a period of 90 days immediately preceding the date of the election, and...
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45-32-72
Section 45-32-72 Greene County Districting Commission. (a) In Greene County, there is hereby created a three member Greene County Districting Commission, hereinafter referred to as districting commission, to establish districts for the election of members of the Greene County Commission and the Greene County Board of Education. One member of the districting commission shall be appointed by the Greene County Board of Education, hereinafter referred to as board; one member shall be appointed by the Greene County Commission, hereinafter referred to as commission; and, one member shall be appointed by the state representative and state senator representing Greene County, hereinafter referred to as delegation. The board, commission, and delegation may hereinafter be referred to as appointing authorities. If the board or the commission does not appoint its member to the districting commission within 45 days from May 8, 1985, the delegation shall make the appointments within 10 days...
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