17-5-8.2
Section 17-5-8.2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature determines that there is a compelling
state and public interest in the disclosure of the source of funds used to advertise or otherwise
influence public opinion with regard to elections as defined in Section 17-5-2(3). The Legislature
further finds that these compelling interests should be designed to protect the public's right
to know while protecting free speech of individuals as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution
and the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (b) Currently, the Fair Campaign Practices Act, as
provided in this chapter, commencing with Section 17-5-1, et seq., regulates the disclosure
of contributions and expenditures made for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election.
This chapter is also intended to regulate the disclosure of contributions and expenditures
for electioneering communications. (c) The Legislature finds and declares that Alabama voters
have a right to know who pays for the costs of...
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22-3-8
Section 22-3-8 County quarantine officers. There shall be in each county having no health officer
a county quarantine officer, who shall be a licensed physician and who shall be appointed
by the State Committee of Public Health on the recommendation of the county board of health,
whose tenure of office shall expire on the election of a county health officer; provided,
that in no event shall his term of office extend more than three years from the date of his
appointment; and provided further, that the State Committee of Public Health shall have power
to remove a quarantine officer at any time, in its judgment, the public good requires such
removal. The salary of the county quarantine officer shall be fixed, at not exceeding $125.00
per month, by the county commission and shall be paid in monthly installments from funds available
to the county for this purpose. The county quarantine officer shall, under the supervision
and control of the state health officer and county board of health,...
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17-8-7
Section 17-8-7 Poll watchers. (a) Except in the case of municipal elections, each political
party or organization having candidates nominated, by a writing submitted to the inspector
by the chair of the county executive committee or nominees for office or beat committeeman,
may appoint a watcher for each voting place. In the event of an election in which there are
no candidates, each political party, through a writing submitted to the inspector by the chair
of the county executive committee, may appoint a watcher for each voting place. (b) Watchers
shall have the right to: (1) Observe the conduct of the election. (2) Monitor the preliminaries
of opening the polls. (3) Remain at the polling place throughout the election until the results
of the election have been posted and the voting machines sealed, as provided by law. (4) Observe
the ballots as they are counted. (5) Observe absentee ballots and affidavits when they are
called during the count. (6) See all oaths administered and...
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45-39-101.03
Section 45-39-101.03 Powers and duties; qualifications. The county superintendent of education
shall be charged with the same duties and shall exercise the same powers as are now or as
may hereafter be provided by the general school laws of the state in the conduct of the office
of county superintendent of education and no person shall be eligible for political party
nomination or for election to the office of County Superintendent of Education of Lauderdale
County who does not hold an Alabama Class A. Certificate in administration and supervision
based as a minimum upon graduation from a standard teachers college and one year of additional
study looking to a Masters Degree in administration and supervision of public education and
must give proof of three years of successful experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent,
or supervisor in the state in the last five years preceding the election and shall have and
possess such other qualifications as may be provided by the general...
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45-9A-50
Section 45-9A-50 City Board of Education; election. (a) If a majority of the qualified electors
of the municipality voting in the authorizing referendum election vote in favor of an elected
city board of education, the board shall be established as provided in this section and the
Legislature, as provided in Amendment 659, from time to time, by local law may provide further
for the election of the Lanett City Board of Education. The local laws may provide for the
termination of the terms of office of members of the existing city board of education; the
composition of the city board of education; initial and succeeding terms of office, including
staggered terms; election districts and at-large membership; qualifications; powers, duties,
and responsibilities; vacancies; compensation; and any other matter that the Legislature determines
necessary for the operation of the board. (b) If the majority of electors voting pursuant
to Act 2000-428 vote in favor of changing to an elected board,...
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17-13-17
Section 17-13-17 Canvass, tabulation, and declaration of results. The county executive committee
of the party or parties participating in the primary election shall meet at the courthouse
of its county, not later than noon on Tuesday next following the primary election, and receive
the returns, canvass and tabulate the same, by precincts, and publicly declare the results
thereof. The chair of each county executive committee shall forthwith and no later than the
close of business on the seventh day following the primary election certify and return to
the chair of the state executive committee a statement and tabulation, by precincts, of the
result of the primary election and of the number of votes received by each candidate therein
for office, except candidates for county office. Not later than noon on the Wednesday eight
days following such primary election, the state executive committee, or such subcommittee
thereof as may have been appointed by the chair thereof for such purpose,...
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45-48-111.05
Section 45-48-111.05 Demand for recanvass. Any candidate in an election shall have the right
to make demand in writing to the body which, under the general provisions of law, now have
charge of and control over ballot boxes, for an order to break the seals of voting machines
for the purpose of recanvassing the vote and the request shall be honored, whereupon all other
articles in the "Act to regulate and control primary elections for the nomination by
political parties of candidates for public office" and in the "Election Code"
shall be followed in making such recanvass and the machine shall be resealed as therein provided.
Such demand in writing shall be made not later than 10 days subsequent to such election. (Acts
1971, No. 1899, p. 3088, § 6.)...
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17-5-19.1
Section 17-5-19.1 Civil penalties. (a) Commencing with the 2018 election cycle, the appropriate
election official, based on the location of filing as required by Section 17-5-9, shall levy
an administrative penalty against any person who fails to timely file a report required by
this chapter and who does not remedy the filing of the report pursuant to subsection (h).
The State Ethics Commission shall have the authority to levy an administrative penalty against
any person who files a materially inaccurate report required by this chapter and who does
not remedy the filing of the report pursuant to subsection (g). (b) The schedule of civil
penalties shall be as follows: (1) The lesser of three hundred dollars ($300) or 10 percent
of the amount of contributions or expenditures not properly reported for a first offense in
an election cycle. (2) The lesser of six hundred dollars ($600) or 15 percent of the amount
of contributions or expenditures not properly reported for a second offense in...
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17-5-3
Section 17-5-3 Political action committees; officers; accounting and reporting. (a) Every political
action committee shall have a chair and a treasurer. (b) All funds of a political action committee
shall be segregated from, and shall not be commingled with, any personal funds of officers,
members, or associates of such committee. (c) It shall be the duty of the treasurer of a political
action committee to keep a detailed, exact account of: (1) All contributions made to or for
such committee. (2) All expenditures made by or on behalf of such committee. (3) The identification
of every person to whom an expenditure is made, the date and amount thereof, and the name
of each candidate on whose behalf such expenditure was made or a designation of the election
proposition the result of which the political action committee will attempt to influence by
making expenditures or receiving contributions. (d) It shall be the duty of the treasurer
to obtain and keep a receipted bill or cancelled...
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17-6-21
Section 17-6-21 Contents; amendments; withdrawal of name. (a) The official ballots shall contain
the names of all candidates nominated by caucus, convention, mass meeting, primary election,
or other assembly of any political party or faction, or by petition of electors and certified
as provided in Section 17-9-3, but no person's name shall be printed upon the ballots who,
within the time period set forth in subsection (c), notifies the judge of probate in writing,
acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments, that he or she will
not accept the nomination specified in the certificate of nomination or petition of electors.
The name of each candidate shall appear but one time on the ballot and under only one emblem.
(b) A nomination for a candidate in a primary or general election shall be finalized by the
respective state executive committees not later than 76 days before the primary or general
election. Any amendment to a certification of a candidate by a...
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