Title 45

The board shall have the power and it shall be its duty to distribute to the various member associations the tax proceeds as provided in Section 45-49A-65.05. The board shall have all other powers necessary to effect the purposes for which it has been established. (Act 83-502, p.…

Each association enumerated in Section 45-49A-65 shall register youths under 19 years of age who reside inside the corporate limits of the City of Mobile and who are participants in the sports programs of the association. Registration shall consist of listing the name, address, a…

(a) Fifty percent of the tax proceeds distributed to the City of Mobile pursuant to Section 28-3-281, shall be transferred by the city treasurer to the board to be deposited as provided in Section 45-49A-65.02. (b) During the 1983 calendar year, tax proceeds shall be distributed …

Each association shall submit an annual audit to the board on or before April 30 of each year as to how the funds were spent during the previous year. (Act 83-502, p. 708, §7.)

(a) The Judge of Probate of Mobile County shall divide the City of Prichard into five districts which shall be homogeneous in area and nearly equal in population, with the number of persons residing in each district, according to the last federal census, not to vary by over five …

Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor in the City of Prichard in Mobile County, Alabama, with six months or more remaining in the vacating mayor’s term, the president of the city council shall immediately instruct the city clerk to provide for holding a special electio…

The Prichard City Council shall meet not less than 48 times per year on dates and at times to be decided by the city council. (Act 96-309, p. 351, §1.)

For the purpose of this subpart, “interested parties” means the owner, heirs of the owner, any mortgagee or purchaser of the subject property or any part of the property, and any party with a legal or equitable interest in the property or any part of the property, in severalty or…

(a) The City of Prichard may initiate an expedited quiet title and foreclosure action under this section against a parcel of tax sale property within its municipal limits which the municipality purchased from the state land commissioner. The municipality shall record a notice of …

The municipality may file a single petition with the clerk of the circuit court, seeking an order to quiet title and expedite foreclosure of one or more parcels of property under this subpart. The petition shall identify each parcel by its tax parcel number and street address and…

Upon filing of the circuit court petition under Section 45-49A-80.22, the circuit court shall set the date, time, and place for a hearing on the petition. A hearing on the petition shall be no later than 90 days from the scheduling order. On the request of a party, the court may …

(a) No less than 30 days before the scheduled date of the hearing on the quiet title and foreclosure petition, the municipality shall do both of the following: (1) Send a notice of the hearing to the interested parties identified under Section 45-49A-80.21 for each parcel named i…

If the municipality is unable to identify the names and addresses of interested parties or to provide notice under Section 45-49A-80.24, it shall apply to the circuit court for an order authorizing notice by publication. If so ordered, the municipality shall publish a notice once…

Before the circuit court hearing on the expedited quiet title and foreclosure action, the municipality shall file with the clerk of the circuit court proof of notice to the interested parties by certified and regular mail, proof of posting on the property under Section 45-49A-80.…

(a) If an interested party appears at the hearing and asserts a right to redeem the property, the party may redeem the property in accordance with Chapter 10 of Title 40. (b) If an interested party appears and fails to redeem or if no person appears, the circuit court shall enter…

No later than 42 days after the judgment’s effective date, a municipality or interested party may appeal the circuit court’s judgment to the Court of Civil Appeals. Any party appealing from an order vesting title in the municipality, as a condition of the appeal, shall identify t…

The municipality shall record the court’s order in the probate court after the 42-day period following the entry of the order if no appeal is filed, or after a final judgment on appeal of the circuit court’s decision on the municipality’s petition for an expedited quiet title and…

There is hereby created and provided for in the City of Prichard, Alabama, a special fund to be known as the Municipal Employees Pension and Relief Fund, which shall exist and be maintained for the benefit of the persons hereinafter referred to and shall be derived and raised in …

Such funds shall be set apart by the city clerk or other person performing the duties of the City Clerk of the City of Prichard, Alabama, into separate funds which shall be held and maintained in trust as hereinafter provided. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §2; Acts …

(a) There shall be a pension and relief system which shall apply to and include all permanent employees of the City of Prichard, Alabama, and any permanent employee of the City of Prichard, who leaves the employment of the City of Prichard to become an elected official of the Cit…

Monies or other things of value may be donated to the fund by any person, firm, or corporation. Such donations or gifts may be outright, in which such event the corpus thereof shall become a portion of the fund, or may be held in trust by the person or persons responsible for the…

All monies properly belonging to the fund shall be kept in a separate account or accounts, and may, in the discretion of the persons charged with the duties of administering the fund, be invested in any securities provided by law to be a suitable investment for trust fund monies …

Every present active permanent employee of the City of Prichard shall come under the provisions and benefits of this part; provided, that no elected officials of the City of Prichard shall be entitled to the benefits thereof. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §6; Acts 1…

The City Council of the City of Prichard, Alabama, shall hear and decide all applications for pensions and relief under this part, and the decision upon such application shall be final and conclusive, and not subject to review or reversal except by such city council. The city cou…

Directions to the trustee for payments provided herein shall be signed by the regular constituted authorities of the City of Prichard, Alabama. The trustee shall be protected in acting upon any direction delivered to it which upon its face appears to be genuine. No portion of the…

(a) If any employee of the City of Prichard, Alabama, while in the performance of his or her duties, becomes and is found to be temporarily totally disabled, mentally or physically, for services to the City of Prichard, by reason of service therein, the City Council of the City o…

If any employee of the City of Prichard, Alabama, while in the performance of his or her duties, becomes or is found to be physically or mentally permanently disabled for service in his or her respective department, by reason of service therein, so as to render his or her retirem…

(a) Any employee of the City of Prichard, except as herein otherwise provided, who has been in the service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting a major fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and who is then employed by the …

(a) Any employee of the City of Prichard who has been in the service thereof for as long as 25 years, the last four years of which, counting a major fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, upon making written application to the City Council of the City of Prichar…

(a) In the event of the death of a married employee and if at the time of such death the employee (1) is in the active employment of the city, or (2) is receiving a pension either for disability or for longevity from the city a pension shall be paid to his or her spouse. (b) The …

In all matters involving the sickness or disability of an employee of the city, the city council, or other governing body shall have such disabled member or such sick member, as it sees fit, examined by a reputable physician who shall make his or her report in writing to the city…

The benefits provided for the employees of the City of Prichard hereunder shall not be reduced or prorated among those properly entitled thereto and should, at any time, the fund be insufficient to pay in full the benefits and to defray the expenses provided for, it shall be the …

There shall be kept by the Clerk of the City of Prichard, or some person designated by such clerk, a book to be known as the list of retired employees. Such book shall also give a full and complete history and record of the action of the City Council of the City of Prichard in re…

It shall be the duty of the city attorney to give advice to the City Council of the City of Prichard, and to those selected by the City Council of the City of Prichard to act as trustee or agent for the fund, on all matters pertaining to the administration of this part, and the m…

There is hereby created a board to be known as the board of pensions, for the purpose of carrying out this part. The board shall consist of four members to be selected by the City Council of the City of Prichard and three members elected by the employees of the city. The members …

Any employee of the City of Prichard at the original date of this part could elect at any time not to come within the provisions of this part, and should he or she so elect, no part of his or her salary or compensation could be deducted for the pension and relief fund. His or her…

This part shall apply to all persons except elected officials who are now or who may hereafter be in the permanent employment of the City of Prichard, Alabama, but payment of benefits or any other sums, including refunds, hereunder shall not commence until the first day of Januar…

If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word, or other provision of this part shall be held or declared to be unconstitutional or void by any court of competent jurisdiction it shall not affect or destroy the validity or constitutionality of any other section, paragraph, sen…

Whenever any person who contributes to the fund provided for by this part shall leave the service for any reason he or she will be entitled to the return of all monies contributed by him or her to such fund, but without interest. (Acts 1956, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 107, p. 154, §22; A…

This part shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor or its otherwise becoming a law; provided, that this part shall never be construed nor enforced so as to authorize any municipal authorities to grant any extra compensation, fee, or allowance to…

The Legislature of Alabama finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the City of Prichard, in Mobile County, Alabama, are enhanced by the continual encouragement, development, growth, and expansion of private enterprise within this state. That there…

In order to further the purposes of this part, the municipal governing body is hereby authorized to create by ordinance one or more specific areas as enterprise zones which the governing body finds are areas of pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general economic distress, and, …

In carrying out any program established in an enterprise zone created hereunder, the governing body of the county in which the city is situated, and all agencies of such city and county agencies created thereby, and the State of Alabama and all agencies thereof, are hereby author…

For purposes of this subpart, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) AUTHORIZING ORDINANCE. An ordinance adopted by the Prichard City Council which authorizes the formation or renewal of a district and the levying of benefit assessments. (2) BENEFIT ASSESSMENT. A le…

The city council may create and maintain districts within its corporate limits pursuant to this subpart. (Act 2026-410, §2.)

(a)(1) Upon receipt of a written petition signed by 60 percent or more of the business owners or authorized representatives of the businesses proposed to be subject to the benefit assessment, the city council may initiate proceedings to form a district by adopting a resolution ex…