Title 11

All municipal corporations which may have heretofore regularly issued bonds as provided by law for all or any of the purposes of constructing a wharf or wharves and a landing or landings and purchasing such real estate as may be necessary for such wharf or wharves and landing or …

(a) Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds that the Tombigbee Waterway will soon be completed, and the transportation opportunities afforded thereby must be fully utilized if Alabama is to benefit from economic growth and job development potential afforded by this…

The council or other governing body of any town or city may alter and change the channel of any watercourse in the police jurisdiction of the city or town and may construct and maintain wharves and construct buildings and other improvements on and near wharves and wharf sites and…

Each county, city, and town in this state shall have power to establish, operate, maintain, or contract with others to operate and maintain public cultural facilities consisting of museums, art galleries, art centers, music halls, and related facilities, and, if necessary, to acq…

The council or other governing body of any town or city may provide public scales and an inspection of weights and measures and may provide punishment for persons, firms and corporations using fraudulent weights and measures. (Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470; Act…

The council or other governing body of any town or city may provide for lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning the streets by contract or otherwise. (Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470; Acts 1961, No. 820, p. 1206.)

The council or other governing body of any town or city may establish, lay out and improve public grounds, parks, and boulevards and regulate the same and may provide music and other exhibitions for the amusement of the inhabitants. (Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §4…

Any incorporated city or town in this state may borrow money for temporary or any other lawful purpose or use to the extent of its constitutional debt limit and pay all costs, fees, and commissions agreed upon in connection with any such loans, and the governing body thereof may,…

The governing body of any city or town in this state may, by ordinance to be entered on its minutes, direct the disposal of any real property not needed for public or municipal purposes and direct the mayor to make title thereto, and a conveyance made by the mayor in accordance w…

The governing body of any city or town in this state may, by ordinance to be entered on its minutes, lease any of its real property not needed for public or municipal purposes, and a lease made by the mayor in accordance with such ordinance shall be binding for the term specified…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to exercise police jurisdiction over all lands purchased or acquired by the city or town for the purpose of being used or occupied as a hospital, quarantine station, poorhouse, pesthouse, workhouse or house of correction, sc…

All claims against the municipality (except bonds and interest coupons and claims for damages) shall be presented to the clerk for payment within two years from the accrual of said claim or shall be barred. Claims for damages growing out of torts shall be presented within six mon…

(a) Whenever any employee of a municipal corporation of the State of Alabama shall be sued for damages arising out of the performance of his official duties, and while operating a motor vehicle or equipment engaged in the course of his employment, such government agency shall be …

(a) This section shall apply only in a Class 1 municipality. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any office or unit of a Class 1 municipality government required or authorized to receive or collect any payments to the municipality or to state or local …

(a) A municipality may adopt a policy to require new employees hired by the municipality after the adoption of the policy to participate in direct deposit of the employee’s wages. (b) If a municipality elects to pay the wages of its employees by direct deposit, the municipality s…

(a) The governing body of any city or town may contract for the construction, reconstruction, extension, or repair of any municipal building, plant, waterworks system, or electric light and power plant or system or may on credit employ labor and purchase on credit all materials a…

Bonds authorized to be issued by cities and towns of the state by act of the legislature before the adoption of the constitution or by laws adopted since the adoption of said constitution may be issued by such municipality, the same after becoming reorganized under the applicable…

Contracts entered into by a municipality shall be in writing, signed and executed in the name of the city or town by the officers authorized to make the same and by the party contracting. In cases not otherwise directed by law or ordinance, such contracts shall be entered into an…

(a) The award of each contract for which bids have been submitted to a municipality shall be made to the lowest responsible bidder who may comply with such reasonable regulations as may be prescribed before the bids are called for. (b) Any person who violates any of the provision…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails, morgues, houses of refuge, stationhouses and prisons, public baths and bathhouses, and to own, establish, maintain, and regulate public hospitals, and to purchase and provid…

(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized, any municipal governing body, by majority vote of the municipal governing body, may individually or jointly with one or more municipalities in the county levy and assess additional court costs and fees up to…

If the jail of any municipality is destroyed or becomes overcrowded, insufficient or unsafe or any epidemic dangerous to life is prevalent in the vicinity, or there be danger of rescue or lawless violence to any prisoner, any circuit judge of the county, on application of the may…

All municipalities in the State of Alabama shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts or agreements with any persons, firms, or corporations for the advertisement of such municipality or any function or undertaking of such municipality both within an…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to own, regulate, improve, lay out, and control town or city cemeteries and permit additions thereto and the establishment of new ones, either within or without the town or city limits, and to sell burial lots in the same, a…

Any incorporated city or town having within its corporate limits an ancient family cemetery or burial ground or owning a cemetery or burial ground may make and enter into a contract with any interested party or parties obligating and binding the city or town to forever protect, m…

All contracts made under the provisions of Section 11-47-41 shall be by ordinance, which shall state all the terms and conditions of the contract, and the same shall be passed and approved as other ordinances of such city or town and recorded upon the minutes thereof. (Code 1907,…

(a) Any cemetery corporation or association, including religious bodies, owning or controlling any cemetery within this state may, with the consent and approval of the governing body of the city or town in which such cemetery is located or with the consent and approval of the gov…

Any resolution or declaration for abandonment and removal duly adopted and made under the provisions of Section 11-47-60 shall specify and declare that at any time after the expiration of two months from and after the first publication of the notice of declaration of abandonment …

(a) Notice of the said declaration of abandonment and of the proposed removal of the human remains from any such cemetery or part thereof shall be given to all persons interested therein by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or town wherein sa…

(a) After the completion of the publication, posting and mailing of the “Notice of declaration of abandonment of lands for cemetery purposes and of intention to remove the human bodies interred therein,” as provided for in Section 11-47-62, and after the expiration of the period …

(a) Any cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such cemetery shall, before disinterring, transporting or removing human remains under the provisions of this division, make a written report to the State Board of Health setting for…

At any time prior to the removal by said cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling said cemetery lands of the remains of any person buried therein, any relative or friend of said person may voluntarily remove such remains and dispos…

(a) Whenever any such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling any such cemetery lands from which the bodies interred therein are to be removed in accordance with the provisions of this division shall have purchased or otherwise ac…

Whenever under the provisions of this division the remains of any person shall have been removed from any cemetery or part thereof abandoned as such burial place under the provisions of the division by the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person having…

After the removal and reinterment or deposit in a mausoleum or columbarium of the bodies disinterred from any such abandoned cemetery or part thereof the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such abandoned cemetery lands and ma…

Whenever any cemetery corporation or association having a board of directors or other governing body shall have caused the removal from any cemetery or part thereof owned by it or under its charge or control the human remains therein interred and said cemetery corporation or asso…

(a) Whenever the remains of any person shall have been removed from any cemetery by any relative or friend of such person under the provisions of Section 11-47-65, the person causing such removal shall also be entitled to remove any vault, monument, headstone, coping, or other im…

(a) Whenever such a cemetery or part thereof has been abandoned as a cemetery or place of burial for the human dead as provided for in Section 11-47-60 by the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling the same, the parts or portion…

After the removal of all human remains interred in any part or the whole of the cemetery lands abandoned as a burial place for the human dead as provided in this division, the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling such cemetery…

(a) Whenever any cemetery corporation or association shall have resolved upon the abandonment of any cemetery or part thereof and the removal of the human remains therefrom under the provisions of this division, such cemetery corporation or association shall have power to employ …

Nothing contained in this division shall authorize or permit or be construed or deemed to authorize or permit the heirs, relatives, or friends of any deceased person whose body has been interred in any cemetery owned, governed, or controlled by any religious corporation or by any…

Municipal corporations may by ordinance require a census to be taken of the inhabitants residing within the corporate limits of such municipality. Such census shall be taken by enumerators, who shall be responsible citizens appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council. Suc…

Such enumeration shall be alphabetically arranged and returned to the mayor, together with the original books of enumeration. The mayor shall thereupon certify to the Secretary of State the result of such census, giving the total number of each race residing within the corporate …

Any city or town may by ordinance provide for a census of all persons residing within the corporate limits of such city or town to be taken by the bureau of the census of the United States Department of Commerce, but no such census may be conducted more often than every five year…

Any census taken under the provisions of Section 11-47-92 shall be used only as the basis for any law which provides for the levy or collection of license taxes where such levy or collection of license taxes is based on population and as the basis for any law which provides for t…

Where the census of any city or town in this state has been or may hereafter be taken as provided by this article and the report of the census thus taken has been or may hereafter be filed with the Secretary of State, the census, purporting to be a true and correct enumeration of…