Title 11

All laws and parts of laws relating to pension, retirement, and relief funds for any employees of the municipality, as the same may apply and be in effect with respect to the municipality at the time when it shall elect to be governed by the provisions of this article, shall cont…

All laws relating to the school board, library board, hospital board, airport board, housing authority, plumbers or electricians board, planning board, zoning board, park or recreation board, municipally owned public utility, and any municipally owned service enterprise, includin…

For all purposes the provisions of Sections 11-44A-6 through 11-44A-14 shall become applicable to the municipality at the time when the first council elected under the provisions hereof takes office and qualifies, otherwise, this article shall become effective immediately upon it…

All ordinances and resolutions of the municipality in effect at the time of adoption of the mayor-council form of government herein set up shall continue in effect unless and until changed or repealed by the council. (Acts 1984, No. 84-397, p. 922, §16.)

If a majority of the voters voting in said election approve the proposition, then, (1) Within 90 days thereafter the commission shall adopt an ordinance establishing the boundaries of the five council districts herein provided for and shall take such steps as are necessary to com…

On noon of the seventh day following the canvass of the election results, the newly elected mayor and council members shall assume office and the terms, powers, duties, responsibilities, and emoluments of office of the commissioners shall end. (Acts 1984, No. 84-397, p. 922, §3.)

The mayor and council members elected hereunder shall serve until the first Monday in October, 1988. (Acts 1984, No. 84-397, p. 922, §4.)

The election and referendum provided for herein shall be conducted, the vote canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner as provided by Chapter 46, Title 11, in respect to other municipal elections conducted in any such municipality. (Acts 1984, No. 84-397, p. 922, §5.)

Whenever there shall be a change in population in any of the districts heretofore established, evidenced by a federal census of population, or by virtue of a substantial change in the corporate limits, there shall be a reapportionment of the council districts in the manner herein…

Nothing contained in this article, except as specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers or employees of the municipality or of any office, department, board, or agency existing at the time when this article shall take effect, or any provisi…

All persons holding administrative office at the time the mayor-council form of government is adopted shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been made in accordance therewith for the performance of such duties or the discontinua…

Any person holding such an office or position in the civil service of such municipality when the mayor-council form of government shall be adopted shall continue to hold such office in the civil service under the mayor-council form of government and with the same status, rights, …

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…

The ordinance establishing the districts shall describe the territory composing each district and its boundary line shall be the centerline of streets or other well-defined boundaries. (Acts 1988, No. 88-556, p. 872, §1.)

The municipality shall thereafter and as provided herein be governed by a mayor elected at large and a five-member council elected from single-member districts, and shall have the same powers and duties as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Title 11, as amended, a…