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3-5-14
Section 3-5-14 Authority of municipalities to adopt ordinances; municipal ordinances not repealed.
(a) The governing bodies of all cities or towns may adopt all such ordinances and laws as
shall be necessary to prevent the running at large within the limits of the municipality of
all livestock or animals and to take up and impound all such livestock or animals found so
running at large and to fix, prescribe and provide for the collection of penalties and impounding
fees for all such livestock or animals so taken up and impounded. (b) This chapter shall not
be construed to repeal any municipal stock law. (Code 1907, §5898; Code 1923, §10224; Acts
1939, No. 368, p. 487; Code 1940, T. 3, §§94, 101.)...
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37-1-35
Section 37-1-35 Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Exercise of certain municipal powers.
Nothing in this title is intended or shall be construed: (1) To limit or restrict the police
jurisdiction or power of municipalities over their streets and other highways and public places
or the power to maintain or the power to require maintenance of the same; (2) To limit or
restrict any right or power, by contract or otherwise, of any municipality to require utilities
to pave and maintain the portions of highways used and occupied by them; (3) In respect of
matters other than rates and service regulations and equipment, over which exclusive jurisdiction
is conferred by this title upon the commission to affect existing rights and powers or rights
and powers hereafter acquired by municipalities under valid contracts with utilities; (4)
In respect of matters other than rates and service regulations and equipment, to repeal any
power of any municipality to adopt and enforce reasonable...
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3-5-11
Section 3-5-11 Refunding of counties or municipalities where livestock or animals kept and
fed in county or municipal pounds. In counties or municipalities where livestock or animal
pounds are maintained, any person or officer seizing any livestock or animal may deliver such
livestock or animal so seized to the poundkeeper for safekeeping and the county or municipality
shall be refunded any amounts which may be expended for keeping and feeding any livestock
or animal as provided in this chapter. (Acts 1939, No. 368, p. 487; Code 1940, T. 3, §87.)...

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41-9-166
Section 41-9-166 Adoption, etc., of building codes by municipalities and counties. Any municipality
in the State of Alabama may adopt any model building code published by the Southern Building
Code Congress International and the National Electrical Code published by the National Fire
Protection Association as a municipal ordinance, enlarging the applicability thereof to include
private buildings and structures other than private schoolhouses, hotels, public and private
hospitals, and moving picture houses as it deems necessary and to prescribe penalties for
violations thereof in the same manner in which other ordinances and related penalty provisions
are adopted and prescribed. Any county commission similarly may adopt and enlarge the applicability
of any model building code published by the Southern Building Code Congress International
and the National Electrical Code published by the National Fire Protection Association for
the county, prescribing penalties for violations thereof, by...
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11-45-9.1
schedule of fines; additional penalty for failure to appear; disposition of fines. (a) By ordinance,
the governing body of any municipality may authorize any law enforcement officer of a municipality
or any law enforcement officer of the state, in lieu of placing persons under custodial arrest,
to issue a summons and complaint to any person charged with violating any municipal littering
ordinance; municipal ordinance which prohibits animals from running at large, which shall
include leash laws and rabies control laws; or any Class C misdemeanor or violation
not involving violence, threat of violence or alcohol or drugs. (b) Such summons and complaint
shall be on a form approved by the governing body of the municipality and shall contain the
name of the court; the name of the defendant; a description of the offense, including the
municipal ordinance number; the date and time of the offense; the place of the offense; signature
of the officer issuing the citation; the scheduled...
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2-15-5
Section 2-15-5 Care and handling of livestock and animal husbandry practices on private property.
(a) For the purpose of this section and Sections 2-4-1 and 13A-11-14, the term livestock shall
include, but is not limited to, bovines, swine, sheep, goats, equine or equidae, ratites,
poultry, pen-raised livestock such as quail, deer, pheasants, or similar livestock, and other
farm animals. (b) This section shall not affect the authority or the responsibility of any
law enforcement agency or its officers to investigate or prosecute any violation of the law.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving a farm or farm operation from
complying with public health and sanitation statutes, rules, and orders administered or enforced
by or through the Department of Public Health and any county health department. (d) Except
as otherwise provided by state or federal law or as provided in subsection (f), the entire
subject matter concerning the care and handling of livestock and...
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34-14A-12
Section 34-14A-12 Standards of practice; building laws and codes. (a) The board may establish
or adopt residential building codes and standards of practice for residential home builders
within the state. A residential building code or standard of practice adopted or established
by the board does not supersede or otherwise exempt residential home builders from a local
building law or code adopted by the governing body of a county or municipality or from a local
or general law. (b) The county commissions of the several counties may adopt building laws
and codes by ordinance which shall apply in the unincorporated areas of the county. The building
laws and codes of the county commission shall not apply within any municipal police jurisdiction,
in which that municipality is exercising its building laws or codes, without the express consent
of the governing body of that municipality. The building laws and codes of the county commission
may apply within the corporate limits of any...
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11-44D-4
Section 11-44D-4 Mayor-council form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors
voting in the referendum provided herein choose a mayor-council form of government, the following
provisions of this chapter shall be applicable: (1) The municipality shall thereafter and
as provided in this chapter be governed by a mayor elected at-large and a five-member council
elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties
as herein enumerated and as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Chapter 43,
Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter which may be
now or hereafter granted to such municipality. (2) The council shall include five members
who shall be elected from districts, which shall be, as near as practicable, of equal population
according to the last federal decennial census, but not more than five percent, more or less,
than the average of the five districts. (3) The council members shall...
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11-44B-25
Section 11-44B-25 Procedures to reduce or delete areas from police jurisdiction. Notwithstanding
any law to the contrary, any Class 4 municipality that is organized pursuant to this article
may from time to time reduce or delete various portions and areas from the territorial limits
of its respective police jurisdiction or its planning jurisdiction or both as established
by law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11-40-10 and 11-52-30, Act 76-594 and as amended
by Act 94-539, the reduction and deletion shall be pursuant to the following procedure: (1)
INITIATION. The governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution calling for public
hearings to consider the adoption of an ordinance or ordinances for the purpose of deleting
a portion or portions of territory from its respective police jurisdiction or planning jurisdiction,
or both, as the case may be. The resolution shall state the time, date, and place of all public
hearings in regard to the ordinance and a reasonably...
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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence
in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with
tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to
requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer
has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among
other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal
within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of
resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and
fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those
specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing
shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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