45-8A-23.173
Section 45-8A-23.173 Director of finance - Powers and duties. The director of finance shall
have charge of the administration of the financial affairs of the city, and to that end he
or she shall have authority and shall be required to: (1) Compile the current expense estimates
for the budget for the city manager; (2) Compile the capital estimates for the budget for
the city manager; (3) Supervise and be responsible for the disbursement of all monies and
have control over all expenditures to insure that budget appropriations are not exceeded;
(4) Maintain a general accounting system for the city government and each of its offices,
departments, and agencies; keep books for and exercise financial budgetary control over each
office, department, and agency; keep separate accounts for the items of appropriation contained
in the city budget, each of which accounts shall show the amount of the appropriation, the
amounts paid therefrom, the unpaid obligations against it and the unencumbered...
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11-44B-46
Section 11-44B-46 Establishment of personnel board; composition; terms; meetings; compensation;
records. (a) Upon election by ordinance of a city to participate in the personnel system provided
for in this article, there shall be established a personnel board composed of five members
designated, respectively, as place number 1, place number 2, place number 3, place number
4, and place number 5. Each member shall be of recognized good character and ability and a
resident and qualified elector of the city. No person shall be eligible for membership on
the board who holds any civil office of profit under the city, county, or state. No board
member shall be a member of any local committee of a political party, or an official of a
local partisan political club, or a candidate for nomination or election to any public office,
nor shall he or she take any part in the management or affairs of any local political party
or in any city political campaign, except to exercise his or her right as a...
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11-44C-21
Section 11-44C-21 Powers of council; dealings with officers and employees in administrative
service. All legislative powers of the city, including all powers vested in it by this chapter,
by the laws, general and local, of the state, and by the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended,
and the determination of all matters of legislative policy, shall be vested in the council.
Without limitation of the foregoing, the council shall have power to: (1) Upon recommendation
of the mayor, establish administrative departments and distribute the work of divisions, (2)
Adopt the budget of the city, (3) Authorize the issuance of bonds or warrants, (4) Inquire
into the conduct of any office, department or agency of the city and make investigations as
to municipal affairs, (5) Appoint the members of all boards except the planning commission
and the housing board and the Airport Authority and the Industrial Development Authority,
(6) Succeed to all the powers, rights and privileges conferred upon the former...
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45-17A-50.03
Section 45-17A-50.03 Civil Service Board - Composition; meetings. (a) On June 18, 1999, the
current board members shall complete their term of office. The board shall be composed of
five members designated, respectively, as Member No. 1, Member No. 2, Member No. 3, Member
No. 4, and Member No. 5. Each member shall be of recognized good character and ability and
a resident and qualified elector of the city. No person shall be eligible for membership on
the board who holds any civil office of profit under the city, county, or state. No employee
or official of the City of Muscle Shoals shall serve as a member of this board. (b) The members
of the board shall be appointed as follows: (1) Members No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 shall
be appointed by the mayor and city council. (2) Member No. 5 shall be elected by the covered
employees pursuant to guidelines established by the mayor and city council. (c) As the term
of each member shall expire, the proper appointing body shall appoint the...
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45-8A-23.055
Section 45-8A-23.055 Presiding officer; mayor and assistant mayor. (a) The councilman elected
by all of the qualified electors of the city shall have the title of mayor. He or she shall
preside at meetings of the council, shall be recognized as the head of the city government
for all ceremonial purposes and by the Governor for the purposes of military law, shall serve
as chief executive officer for the city, shall develop the basic objectives and policies of
the city in conjunction with the council and with advice from the city manager, shall ensure
the preparations of adequate plans for the long-range growth and development of the city and
annually present such plans for the review of the public and approval by the council, shall
ensure the preparations of plans for the development of resources in this the city and periodically
present such plans to the council for review and approval, shall maintain programs along with
the council to ensure successful future management of the city,...
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11-42-73
Section 11-42-73 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen or representatives. (a) The
council or governing body of the city shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed to
be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the city on the number of wards,
or may enlarge the wards so as to embrace all territory brought within the corporate limits
of the city and so as to afford opportunity to all persons entitled to vote at elections in
the city to vote thereat. (b) Each ward in the city shall have the same number of aldermen
or representatives in the council or governing body of the city, and as new wards are created
the council or governing body of the city shall elect aldermen or representatives to represent
such wards in the council or governing body of the city, as in the case of a vacancy, the
aldermen or representatives so elected to hold office until the next regular election in the
city; provided, however, that no person residing on territory which is exempt...
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11-44B-20
Section 11-44B-20 Powers of city; vesting of existing rights, powers, and properties. The city
shall have all powers granted to municipal corporations and to cities by the Constitution
and laws of this state, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry and execute
all the powers granted. The city may acquire property within or without its corporate limits
for any purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise,
lease, or condemnation, and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage and control such property
as the interest may require; and except as prohibited by the Constitution of this state, or
restricted by this article, the city shall and may exercise all municipal powers, functions,
rights, privileges and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever. The enumeration of
particular powers by this article shall not be deemed to be exclusive, and in addition to
the powers enumerated therein or implied thereby, or appropriate to the...
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11-44C-92
Section 11-44C-92 Commission form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors voting
in the election provided herein choose the court ordered districted commission form of government
in accordance with the consent decree entered into by the parties and approved by the court
on April 7, 1983, in the case of Bolden vs.City of Mobile, Civil Action No. 75-297, then the
provisions of said court ordered districted commission form shall be applicable to said city.
The three commissioners elected under said court ordered plan from single member districts
shall sit as a board and shall possess and exercise all municipal powers, legislative, executive,
and judicial, possessed and exercised by city governing bodies as provided by sections 11-44-70
through 11-44-105, as amended, and other applicable laws, except that all functions, responsibilities
and operations of the city shall be under the direction and supervision of the board of commissioners
as a whole. All three commissioners...
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11-43B-30
Section 11-43B-30 Purchase of labor services, materials, etc., from elected officials or employees.
Notwithstanding any statute or law to the contrary, any Class 4 municipality which adopts
this form of mayor-council government may legally purchase or lease from any of the elected
officials or employees of such municipality any labor, services, work, materials, equipment,
or supplies under the competitive bidding procedures established by Section 41-16-50 et seq.,
and such elected official or employee may legally sell same to the municipality under those
procedures. The elected official or employee, if he or she proposes to bid, shall not participate
in the decision-making process determining the need for or the purchase of such personal service
or personal property, or in the determination of the successful bidder. The council shall
affirmatively find that the elected official or employee, from whom the purchase is to be
made, is the lowest responsible bidder as required by said...
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11-44B-10
Section 11-44B-10 Initial territorial limits; reapportionment of council districts; recommended
plan for reapportionment; redistricting ordinance. (a) The initial territorial limits of any
municipality which adopts the mayor-council form of government as provided by this chapter
shall be the same as under its former organization. (b) If following a federal census of population
or an alteration of the corporate limits, any council district shall contain a population
of 10 percent more or less than the total population of the city divided by seven, then there
shall be a reapportionment of the council districts in the manner hereinafter provided. (1)
The mayor shall, within six months after the publication of such federal census of population
for the municipality or within six months after there shall have been such substantial change
in the corporate limits of the municipality, file with the council a report containing a recommended
plan for reapportionment of the council district...
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