45-8A-23.002
Section 45-8A-23.002 Call of election by mayor. The mayor or other chief executive officer
of such city shall immediately upon receipt of such certificate from the judge of probate,
by proclamation, submit the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
for such city, under this part, at a special election to be held at a time specified in such
proclamation, not less than 40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt of the certificate
from the judge of probate, unless a general or regular election is to be held within 90 days
after receipt of such certificate, in which event the special election herein provided for
shall be held at the same time as such general or regular election. Should the election not
be called by proclamation within 10 days after receipt of his or her certificate, the judge
of probate shall call such election by order at a time specified therein but not less than
40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt by the mayor or...
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11-43A-1
Section 11-43A-1 Applicability of chapter to classes of municipalities; short title. Any Class
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 municipality in the State of Alabama may adopt the council-manager
form of government by proceeding in the manner hereafter in this article provided. This article
shall be known as the "Council-Manager Act of 1982." (Acts 1982, No. 82-517, p.
851, §1.)...
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11-43A-3.1
Section 11-43A-3.1 Election in Class 6 municipalities - Time, procedure, etc. Any law to the
contrary notwithstanding, an election shall be held in every Class 6 municipality wherein
the municipal governing body has elected to have a nine-member council, at the same time that
the election for members of the Alabama legislature is held in 1983; and the question submitted
at such election shall be: "shall the council-manager form of government, provided in
the Council-Manager Act of 1982, with the change in the form of government of such municipality
to become operative on the first Monday in October 1986, be adopted for the municipality of
_____?" The election shall be held and in all things governed as nearly as possible by
the provisions regulating elections on the question the adoption of the council-manager form
of government provided in the Council-Manager Act of 1982, except that no petition of any
of the qualified voters of the municipality need be filed and the mayor of any city...
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11-43A-3
Section 11-43A-3 Submission of question for election; proclamation of mayor; order of judge
of probate. The mayor or other chief executive officer of such municipality shall immediately
upon receipt of such certificate from the judge of probate, by proclamation, submit the question
of the adoption of the council-manager form of government for such municipality under this
article, at a special election to be held at a time specified in such proclamation, not less
than 40 days nor more than 90 days after the receipt of said certificate from said judge of
probate, unless a general election is to be held within 120 days after receipt of such certificate
in which event the special election herein provided for may be held at the same time as such
general election. Should the election not be called by proclamation within 10 days after receipt
of the certificate, the judge of probate shall call such election by order at a time specified
therein but not less than 40 days and not more than 90...
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11-43A-4
Section 11-43A-4 Subsequent elections not to be held within two years of preceding election.
If the council-manager form of government is not adopted at the election so called the question
of adopting such form of government shall not be resubmitted to the voters of such municipality
for adoption within two years thereafter, and then the question of adopting said form of government
may be resubmitted in the manner above provided. (Acts 1982, No. 82-517, p. 851, §4.)...

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45-8A-23.001
Section 45-8A-23.001 Petition for election. The filing of a petition signed by 10 percent or
more of the number of qualified voters who voted in the last city general election held in
such city, asking that the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
for such city be submitted to the qualified voters thereof, with the judge of probate of the
county in which such city is located, shall mandatorily require an election to be held as
herein provided. Whenever such a petition purporting to be signed by at least 10 percent of
the number of qualified voters who voted in the last city general election held in such city
shall be presented to such judge of probate, he or she shall examine such petition and determine
whether or not the same is signed by at least 10 percent of the number of qualified voters
who voted in the last city general election held in such city, and if such petition is signed
by the requisite number of voters to require such an election, he or she...
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45-8A-23.003
Section 45-8A-23.003 Second election not called within four years. If the council-manager form
of government is not adopted at the special election so called, the question of adopting such
form of government shall not be resubmitted to the voters of such city for adoption within
four years thereafter, and then the question of adopting the form of government may be resubmitted
in the manner above provided. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.04.)...
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45-37A-52.250
Section 45-37A-52.250 Abandonment of the mayor-council plan. No city may change from the mayor-council
form of government within two years after the adoption thereof. At the end of such period,
or at any time thereafter, the city may change its form of municipal government to: (1) The
form of municipal government applicable to the city prior to its adoption of the mayor-council
form of government, or to (2) The council-manager form of municipal government provided by
Act Number 518 of the 1953 session of the Legislature of Alabama. (3) One of the commission
forms of municipal government provided by Title 37, Alabama Code of 1940, as amended and supplemented.
(Acts 1955, No. 452, p. 1004, §9.01.)...
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45-8A-23.239
Section 45-8A-23.239 When provisions take effect. For the purpose of nominating and electing
members of the council, the provisions of this part shall become applicable to any city adopting
the council-manager form of government upon the filing of the certificate of adoption by the
judge of probate with the mayor of the city as provided for in Section 45-8A-23.004. For all
other purposes the provisions of this part shall become applicable to the city at the time
when the first council of such city elected under the provisions hereof takes office and qualifies.
(Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §8.10.)...
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11-44C-2
Section 11-44C-2 Special election as to adoption of commission or mayor-council form of government.
Upon March 28, 1985, the mayor or chief executive officer of any city to which this chapter
applies shall call a special election to be held on May 14, 1985, said call for the purpose
of determining whether such city shall adopt the court ordered district 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, or in the alternative the mayor-council form of government, authorized by this chapter,
and shall give notice of the time and purpose of such election by publication once each week
for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in said city. All qualified electors of
such city may participate in said election, as provided by this chapter, and such questions
shall be plainly printed upon the ballot as provided in Section...
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