9-10A-10
Section 9-10A-10 Election of directors. If an original director who is required to reside in a particular county is to be selected by means of an election, the board of supervisors who determined that an election would be the method of selection shall call the election. Said election shall be held, within 30 days after need for a watershed management authority has been determined, as provided in Section 9-10A-8. Due notice shall be required prior to said election. All residents of the county where the director must reside who also reside within the boundaries of the authority shall be eligible to vote in said election, and only said residents shall be eligible to vote. Said residents shall be 18 years of age or older. Each person who is qualified to vote for a resident director who desires to be elected a resident director of the watershed management authority shall file not later than 10 days prior to the date set for an election a nominating petition with the board of supervisors who...
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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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17-6-4
Section 17-6-4 Designating and equipping voting places; county voting centers. (a) Except as may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the county governing bodies shall designate the places of holding elections in the precincts established hereunder, and, whenever the county has alphabetically divided the list of registered qualified voters of a precinct into groups, it shall designate not only the voting place but also the number of electronic voting machines at each voting place in the precinct, being sure that it designates an electronic voting machine for each group of qualified voters. The county governing body is specifically authorized to provide for installing as many electronic voting machines as are needed in each precinct, and the electronic voting machines may be installed at one designated voting place or there may be more than one voting place designated and such number of electronic voting machines installed at each place...
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45-2-261.07
Section 45-2-261.07 Procedure for exercising jurisdiction in each district. The Baldwin County Commission shall not exercise its planning and zoning powers and jurisdiction in any district established hereunder until the majority of the qualified electors of the district voting in an election shall have voted their desire to come within the planning and zoning authority of the Baldwin County Commission. The election shall be held if 10 percent of the qualified electors in any district submit a written petition to the county commission expressing a desire to be subject to the planning and zoning jurisdiction of the Baldwin County Commission under authority of this subpart. For the purposes of the establishment of districts after June 1, 2010, a district shall correspond to a voting precinct or precincts in the county unless the county governing body determines that the use of voting precinct boundaries is not feasible. A party or parties seeking to file a petition shall notify the...
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17-9-15
Section 17-9-15 Disposition of records and forms after close of polls. After the close of the polls in all primary, special, general, and municipal elections held in the state, the records and forms produced at the polling places shall be returned as follows: (1) The list of registered voters, the affirmations of provisional voters, the statements of election officials challenging provisional voters, and the voter reidentification forms shall be sealed in an envelope addressed to the board of registrars and the inspectors and any poll watchers present shall sign across the seal. The board of registrars shall hold the list of registered voters while using it to update their voter histories in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter 4. A copy of the list of registered voters shall be made a public record after the information specified in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of Section 17-4-33 has been redacted by the board of registrars. The original and copies of the list shall then be...
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45-37-240.20
Section 45-37-240.20 Election procedures. (a)(1) Those deputy or assistant county officials serving in the branch offices in the City of Bessemer in Jefferson County maintained as required by Act No. 490, H. 1566, Regular Session, (General Acts of Alabama 1915, p. 549), hereinafter listed, in lieu of being appointed by the principal county officers, shall be elected and nominated in the same manner that the circuit judges sitting at Bessemer and the deputy district attorney of the Bessemer Division of Jefferson County are nominated and elected, as follows, by the qualified voters of the territory over which the Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit sitting at Bessemer has and exercises jurisdiction, and each of such officials shall at the time of his or her election and during his or her term of office reside within the territory from which he or she is elected. a. The assistant tax collector shall be elected at the general election held on the first Tuesday after the first...
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17-9-3
Section 17-9-3 Persons entitled to have names printed on ballots; failure of Secretary of State to certify nominations. (a) The following persons shall be entitled to have their names printed on the appropriate ballot for the general election, provided they are otherwise qualified for the office they seek: (1) All candidates who have been put in nomination by primary election and certified in writing by the chair and secretary of the canvassing board of the party holding the primary and filed with the judge of probate of the county, in the case of a candidate for county office, and the Secretary of State in all other cases, on the day next following the last day for contesting the primary election for that office if no contest is filed. If a contest is filed, then the certificate for the contested office must be filed on the day next following the date of settlement or decision of the contest. (2) All candidates who have been put in nomination by any caucus, convention, mass meeting,...
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11-65-1
Section 11-65-1 Legislative declarations and findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (1) As the basis for enacting Act No. 84-131, the Legislature found and determined that the conduct within Class 1 municipalities in the state of horse racing events and pari-mutuel wagering thereon will generate additional revenues for governmental and charitable purposes, provide additional jobs for the residents of the state and benefit the businesses related to tourism and recreation within any such municipality and throughout the surrounding areas of the state; it is desirable to permit the qualified voters of any Class 1 municipality to determine through referendum whether horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon will be permitted in such municipality; and for each Class 1 municipality in which horse racing is approved by the voters thereof, it is necessary and desirable to provide for the establishment of a racing commission to regulate horse racing and pari-mutuel...
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45-37-140.12
Section 45-37-140.12 Service charge ordinances; election. (a) Subject to the conditions stated below in this section, the board of trustees shall be authorized to adopt service charge ordinances levying service charges provided for in Section 45-37-140.11. No service charge ordinance shall take effect and be enforced until the substance of the ordinance has been published in some newspaper of general circulation in the district and at least eight days have elapsed after such newspaper publication and at least eight days have also elapsed after such ordinance in full was posted in each fire station in the district, or at some other public place in the district if there is no such fire station. It is further provided that no such ordinance shall become effective unless it is approved at an election held in response to the petition hereinbelow provided for, or unless the time prescribed for filing such petition expires without the petition being filed. (b) Upon the petition, prescribed in...
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45-37-140.13
Section 45-37-140.13 Annexation; referendum; hearing; reestablishment of boundaries. (a) Whenever any municipal corporation in Jefferson County annexes any portion of a district and a petition is filed with the clerk of the municipality requesting annexation of the remaining portion of the district, the petition containing the following: (1) signatures of 20 percent of the qualified electors residing within the district or signatures of 200 qualified electors, whichever is less, and (2) a written statement signed by at least two members of the board of trustees of the district reciting that those signing the petition constitute either 10 percent of the qualified electors residing within the district or 100 qualified electors residing within the district, whichever is applicable, and (3) a description of the district; then the governing body of such municipal corporation shall provide for and finance the cost of a referendum election wherein the remaining qualified voter residents of...
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