11-43D-14
Section 11-43D-14 Powers and duties of mayor. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer,
and shall have general supervision and control of all other officers, employees, and affairs
of the city, which shall include the management of the public utilities, either owned and
operated by the city or operated by private corporations under contracts with the city. The
general law applicable to mayor-council municipalities notwithstanding, the mayor shall have
the power to appoint all officers and employees of the city subject to the rules and regulations
of any civil service or merit system that may be applicable to said city. The mayor may remove
any person appointed by him subject to the rules and regulations of any civil service or merit
system that may be applicable to said city. (Acts 1989, No. 89-750, p. 1518, §14.)...
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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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11-44C-11
Section 11-44C-11 Government known as "mayor-council form of government"; powers
of city vested in council; manner in which powers exercised. The municipal government of any
such city proceeding under this chapter shall be known as the "mayor-council form of
government." Pursuant to the provisions and limitations of this chapter and subject to
the limitations imposed by the Constitution of Alabama and its laws, all powers of the city
shall be vested in the council elected as herein provided and hereinafter referred to as "the
council," which shall enact ordinances, adopt budgets and determine policies. All powers
of the city shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or if the manner
be not prescribed, then in such manner as may be prescribed by law or by ordinance. (Acts
1985, No. 85-229, p. 96, §11.)...
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11-44E-2
Section 11-44E-2 Authority to adopt mayor/commission/city manager form of government; ordinance
for election of commissioners. At any time upon passage of this chapter and said chapter becoming
law, any Class 5 municipality may adopt the mayor/commission/city manager form of government
by adopting an ordinance by a majority vote of the members of that governing body adopting
the mayor/commission/city manager form of government. Within 30 days of the adoption of the
ordinance adopting the mayor/commission/city manager form of government, members of that governing
body shall adopt a second ordinance for the election of commissioners from six single-member
districts with the district boundaries established therein. (Acts 1988, No. 88-445, p. 660,
§1.02; Acts 1990, No. 90-287, p. 379, §1.)...
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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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45-42-162.08
Section 45-42-162.08 Elections. The metropolitan-government shall be governed by a commission
of nine part-time members and a full-time mayor. The election for the first officers of the
metropolitan-government shall be held on the date established by the judge of probate. Before
such election the governing body of the municipalities and the county shall cause the metropolitan
area to be divided into nine districts containing as nearly as possible an equal number of
people. The division of the metropolitan-government into districts shall be by a committee
appointed as follows: Three persons appointed by the Limestone County Commission; two persons
appointed by the Athens City Commission; two persons by a committee of mayors from the four
incorporated cities; one person appointed by the Limestone County School Board; and one person
appointed by the Athens City School Board. Candidates for metropolitan-government offices
shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general municipal...
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11-44B-6
Section 11-44B-6 Meetings; quorum; majority vote requirements; procedure for adoption of ordinances
and resolutions; approval or veto of mayor; record of proceedings; power of council as to
city employees; all powers of city vested in council. (a) The council shall hold regular public
meetings at least once a week at some regular hour to be fixed by the council. The council
may hold such adjourned, called, or other meetings as may be necessary or convenient. (b)
All council meetings shall comply with the applicable law concerning open or public meetings.
(c) A majority of the elected membership of the council shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of any and every power conferred upon the council. For the purposes of determining
a quorum, the mayor shall not be counted. (d) The affirmative vote of a majority of the council
members present, and the mayor in the event of a tie, as provided by this article, shall be
sufficient for the passage of any resolution, bylaw, or ordinance,...
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11-98-2
Section 11-98-2 Districts; creation; composition; powers and duties. The creating authority
may by ordinance or resolution, as may be appropriate, create within its respective jurisdiction
districts composed of the territory lying wholly within the municipality or of any part or
all of the territory lying wholly within the county. The districts shall be political and
legal subdivisions of the state, with power to sue and be sued in their corporate names and
to incur debt and issue bonds. The bonds shall be negotiable instruments and shall be solely
the obligations of the district and not the State of Alabama. The bonds and the income thereof
shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama. The bonds shall be payable out
of the income, revenues, and receipts of the district. The bonds shall be authorized and issued
by resolution or ordinance of the creating authority of the district and shall be of such
series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not to...
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11-43A-1.1
Section 11-43A-1.1 Organization of council-manager form of government; election of council
members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, after the judge of probate has
certified to the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality the sufficiency
of a petition asking that the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
be submitted to the qualified voters of the municipality, any Class 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 municipality
having the mayor-council form of government, by resolution of the council, may provide for
the council in a municipality proposing to adopt the council-manager form of government to
be composed of either five or seven members as follows: One member shall be the mayor elected
at large, who shall be a voting member of the council and either four or six members shall
be council members elected either at large or from single-member districts, as the resolution
shall provide. If a municipality has single-member districts for the...
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11-43C-90
Section 11-43C-90 Reapportionment of council districts because of population change. Whenever
there shall be a change in the population in any of the five districts heretofore established
following a decennial federal census beginning in 1990, there shall be a reapportionment of
the council districts in the following manner: (1) The mayor shall within six months after
the publication of the 1990 federal census, and each decennial federal census thereafter,
file with the council a report containing a recommended plan for the reapportionment of the
council district boundaries to comply with the following specifications: a. Each district
shall be formed of contiguous, and to the extent reasonably possible, compact territory, and
its boundary lines shall be the centerlines of streets or other well-defined boundaries. b.
Each district shall contain as nearly as is reasonable the same population. The report shall
include a map and description of the districts recommended and shall be drafted...
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