39-7-4
Section 39-7-4 Form and verification of petition. (a) The petition shall be in substantially
the following form: "To the (herein insert the name of governing body) of the City (or
Town) or to the Probate Judge of _____ County. We, the undersigned, qualified electors of
the area embraced within the city or town or of the following described area _____ respectfully
petition that there be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors in said area the following
question: 'Shall the citizens of said city or town or the citizens of said described area
(describing it) be incorporated by the name of the Improvement Authority of (here insert name
of city or town, or area) for the purpose of engaging in the enterprise of furnishing to such
city, town or area and its inhabitants or to the inhabitants of such area described for public
and private uses the following services: ___ ___ ___' (Signatures of electors)...
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45-8A-110
Section 45-8A-110 Annexation based on resolution of public health or public good; elections.
(a) Whenever the council of the City of Oxford shall pass a resolution to the effect that
the public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution)
shall be brought within the limits of the City of Oxford: (1) It shall be the duty of the
mayor to certify a copy of such resolution to the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County and the
certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of the territory proposed to
be annexed, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate.
(2) Within 10 days from the date of the filing of such resolution, the judge of probate must
make and enter an order upon the minutes of the court, directing and ordering an election
to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory described, not less than
20 days nor more than 40 days from the date of the making of the order. The...
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11-41-3
Section 11-41-3 Conduct of election generally; provision and form of ballots; qualifications
for voting. The judge of probate shall appoint three qualified electors within the limits
of the proposed city or town as inspectors to manage the election, which shall be conducted
under the same sanction and penalties as are provided by the general election laws, except
that a voter may furnish his own ballot, upon which must be written or printed "corporation"
or "no corporation," and any person who is a qualified elector under the state law
and has resided within the boundaries of the proposed city or town for three months next preceding
may vote at such election. (Code 1907, §1055; Code 1923, §1746; Code 1940, T. 37, §12.)...

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11-54A-5
Section 11-54A-5 Procedure to incorporate; contents and execution of certificate of incorporation.
Within 40 days following the adoption of the authorizing resolution, the applicants shall
proceed to incorporate the authority by filing for record in the office of the judge of probate
of the county wherein the city is located a certificate of incorporation which shall comply
in form and substance with the requirements of this section and which shall be in the form
and executed in the manner herein provided. The certificate of incorporation of the authority
shall state all of the following: (1) The names of the persons forming the authority, and
that each of them is a duly qualified elector of the city. (2) The name of the authority,
which shall include the name of the city in its title as follows: The ___ Redevelopment Authority.
(3) The period for the duration of the authority (if the duration is to be perpetual, subject
to the provisions of Section 11-54A-20 hereof, that fact...
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38-1-3
Section 38-1-3 Legal representative for handling public assistance payments of incompetents.
If any otherwise qualified applicant for or recipient of public assistance appears to be incapable,
physically or mentally, or both, of managing his public assistance payments, and has no legal
guardian, he, his spouse, father, mother, child, brother or sister, with the consent of the
Department of Human Resources, or the Department of Human Resources may petition the probate
judge for the appointment of a legal representative to handle his public assistance payments
only. The petition shall be accompanied by a certificate in writing of a physician which certificate
shall state that the physician upon examination believes the applicant or recipient to be
physically or mentally, or both, incapable of managing his public assistance payments. The
probate judge shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of appointing a competent person as
legal representative after notice of at least 10 days in...
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39-7-6
Section 39-7-6 Publication of notice of filing of petition and of question to be submitted
to voters at election. The clerk or probate judge shall give notice of the submission of the
question by causing notice of the filing of the petition and the question to be submitted
to be published at least once on the same day of each week for three consecutive weeks in
a newspaper of general circulation in the territory. (Acts 1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940,
T. 50, §24.)...
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40-10-162
Section 40-10-162 Duty of judge of probate and Comptroller; payment by State Treasurer. The
judge of probate shall examine said petition and also the tax books of his county; and, if
the facts set forth in the petition are such as to entitle the petitioner to the refunding
of the money as prayed for, he shall so certify to the Comptroller, stating the amount to
be refunded by the state, and forward to the Comptroller a copy of the petition with his certificate
endorsed thereon; and, if the Comptroller shall be satisfied that the petitioner is entitled
to have the money refunded to him, he shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of
the petitioner for such an amount as the certificate of the probate judge shows should be
refunded. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §330.)...
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45-25A-40
Section 45-25A-40 Composition; election of members; vacancies. (a) Any law, whether special,
local, or general, or municipal ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding, the City of Fort
Payne, in DeKalb County, shall not designate by place number, or by other similar method,
seats for city council. (b)(1) In the election for the five members of the city council, if
there are more than five candidates, then the majority of the votes cast for the office in
the election shall be determined by dividing the total votes cast for all candidates for the
offices by the number of positions to be filled, and then dividing that result by two. Any
number of votes in excess of the number determined by the last division shall be the majority
necessary for election. (2) If it appears that any candidate in the election has received
a majority of the votes cast for that office, the municipal governing body shall declare that
candidate elected to the office, and a certificate of election shall be given...
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45-30-140.08
Section 45-30-140.08 Election procedures. (a) The election laws governing the registration
of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment of election officers,
voting, and canvassing returns at a general election shall apply to the elections for fire
district funding. (b) When a petition for the holding of an election is filed with the judge
of probate not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days prior to some other election to
be held in the territory in which the election is sought by the petition, the judge of probate
shall order the election sought by the petition to be held the same day as the other election
held. The county governing body shall pay for the necessary expenses of advertising and conducting
the election out of the general funds of the county. (c) The judge of probate shall give notice
of any election held under Section 45-30-140.04, publishing for three weeks, at least once
a week, on the same day of each week, in a newspaper of...
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45-31-141.12
Section 45-31-141.12 Approval of service charge or fee. (a) No service charge or fee shall
be levied unless the same has first been approved by the majority of the votes cast at an
election held hereunder by the qualified electors residing within the district, or within
the proposed district. (b) An election on the question levying a service charge or fee in
a proposed district may be held at the same time that the election is held on the creation
of the district; provided that the petition for the election on the question of the service
charge or fee accompanies the petition for the election on the establishment of the proposed
district as provided herein. An election on the question of a service charge or fee may be
held upon the board of the district submitting to the judge of probate a petition for an election
as provided. The board shall file in the office of the judge of probate a petition that he
or she call an election in the district on the question of whether the service...
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