Title 11 — Title 11

Form Violates Federal Voting Rights Act; Division into Single-Member Districts; Residence Requirements for Candidates and Electors. Any Class 7 municipality operating under a commission form of government with its members elected at large and which at large system has been decree…

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. History: (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…

The mayor and council members elected hereunder shall serve until the first Monday in October, 1988. History: (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. History: (Acts 1984, No. 84-397, p. …

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…

Employees, Etc. 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…

Formerly Exercised by Abolished Agency, Etc. 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 …

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, …

Mayor-Council Form. Within three months of January 29, 1985, the governing body of any Class 4 municipality with a commission form of government may by a majority vote of the members of that governing body adopt an ordinance abandoning the commission form of government and adopti…

Recommended Plan for Reapportionment; Redistricting Ordinance. (a) The initial territorial limits of any municipality which adopts the mayor-council form of government as provided by this chapter shall be the same as under its former organization. (b) If following a federal censu…

City Attorneys, and City Department Heads Continued in Office; Powers and Duties; Claims Against City; Financial Records; Warrants; Deposit of Public Money; Payment of Moneys Due Municipality; Office Space, Supplies, and Other Support. (a) If the city clerk of any city which adop…

Not Inconsistent with Personnel, Etc., Provisions of Article. 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 a…

Provisions Made; Powers and Duties of Abolished Offices, Etc.; Certain Offices, Etc., Deemed Continued; References to Existing Offices, Etc., in Laws, Contracts, Etc. All persons holding administrative office at the time the mayor-council form of government is adopted shall conti…

Civil Service System Continued. 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 an…

Powers and Duties Reassigned. All records, property, and equipment whatsoever of any office, department, board, or agency or part thereof, all the powers and duties of which are assigned to any other office, department, board, or agency by this article, shall be transferred and d…

Legislative Steps Taken. All contracts entered into by the municipality, or for its benefit, prior to the adoption by such municipality of the mayor-council form of government, shall continue in full force and effect. Public improvements for which legislative steps have been take…

No action or proceedings, civil or criminal, pending at the time of the adoption of the mayor-council form of government, brought by or against the municipality or any office, department, board, agency, or officer or employee thereof shall be affected or abated by the adoption of…

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…

Continued in Force. All laws relating to the school board, library board, hospital board, industrial development boards or authorities, housing authorities, medical clinic boards, plumbers or electricians boards or other technical boards, planning board, zoning board, park or rec…

Salaries of Mayor and Council Members; Compliance with Voting Rights Act; Election of Mayor and Council; Powers and Duties of Municipality. If said ordinance be adopted by the governing body of any municipality to which this chapter applies, then: (1) Within 90 days thereafter, t…

The city shall have all powers granted to municipal corporations and to cities by the Constitution and laws of this state, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry and execute all the powers granted. The city may acquire property within or without its corporate lim…

Officers or Governing Body in Existing Ordinances, Etc., Deemed References to Mayor or Council. All ordinances and resolutions of the municipality in effect at the time of the adoption of the mayor-council form of government herein established shall continue in effect unless and …

Conflicting Laws Relating to Exercise of Powers, Functions, and Duties of Commission or Other Form of Government. All laws and parts of laws, general, local or special, relating to or affecting the city, its powers, functions, duties and property, in force when this article shall…

Any law to the contrary notwithstanding and in addition to any other lawful charges, fees, or rates which may be imposed and collected under various state laws and municipal ordinances for water and/or sewer service, any Class IV incorporated municipality in this state organized …

Any Class IV incorporated municipality in this state organized in accordance with Section 11-44B-1, et seq., shall have the following power and authority: (a) To annex all or any portion of any unincorporated territory or any unincorporated territories which are enclosed within t…

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…

Commissioners Terminated. The newly elected mayor and council members elected as herein provided shall assume the duties of their respective offices at noon on the first Monday in October following their election, and the terms, powers, duties, responsibilities, and emoluments of…

The mayor and council members elected hereunder shall serve four-year terms with the first election being held as herein provided on the second Tuesday of July, 1985, and quadrennially thereafter on the month and the day established by the general law of the state pertaining to m…

Education. (a) This section shall only apply in a Class 4 municipality organized pursuant to this chapter. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any Class 4 municipality organized pursuant to this chapter, the election for the mayor, members of the city council, and …

This article shall apply only to Class 4 municipalities organized under Chapter 44B, and electing by ordinance within 30 days of March 15, 2006, to be subject to this article and participate in the personnel system provided for in this article. History: (Act 2006-233, p. 420, §1.…

As used in this article, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING AUTHORITY. Depending upon the context, either the mayor, who shall appoint all department heads, or the department hea…

Specifications; Employment Retention and Removal; Reduction of Base Pay. (a) All covered employees of the city shall be subject to this article and the rules and regulations prescribed in or promulgated pursuant to this article. (b) All rules and regulations promulgated pursuant …

Applicants; Promotions of Firefighters and Police Officers. (a) With the exception of promotions of firefighters and police officers which shall be made by the board, all vacancies for covered jobs shall be filled by the appointing authority as provided herein. (b) The human reso…

All appointments to covered jobs, including promotions, demotions, and transfers, shall be on a probationary basis for a period of one year from the beginning of employment. For those jobs in which the individual is required to meet state minimum standards, the probationary perio…

All persons shall be appointed or promoted to covered jobs on a nonpartisan merit basis. No person shall be appointed or promoted to, or dismissed from, any job, or in any way favored or discriminated against with respect to employment because of his or her political or religious…

Compensation; Records. (a) Upon election by ordinance of a city to participate in the personnel system provided for in this article, there shall be established a personnel board composed of five members designated, respectively, as place number 1, place number 2, place number 3, …

(a) The mayor or department head shall have authority to discipline any covered employee pursuant to this article and the rules and regulations adopted by the city council to implement this article. (b) No regular status employee may be suspended without pay, demoted, dismissed, …

(a) Within 90 calendar days after receipt of written charges or a written appeal of an employee from a decision after predisciplinary hearing, the board shall schedule and hold a public hearing in regard thereto and render a decision. The board shall provide notice of the hearing…

Office to Take Leave of Absence. No individual shall use, or promise to use, directly or indirectly, any official authority or influence, whether possessed or anticipated, to affect employment, promotion, pay, or other conditions of employment, either adversely or advantageously,…

Fee. The elections provided for herein, and all subsequent elections, shall be conducted, the vote canvassed, and the results declared in the same manner as provided by the general law of the state pertaining to municipal elections for mayor-council forms of government, except as…

The violation by any covered employee of this article, or of any of the rules and regulations adopted by the city pursuant to this article, shall constitute an offense for which charges may be preferred against the employee pursuant to the provisions hereof. History: (Act 2006-23…

Within 12 months from March 15, 2006, the city council shall adopt and have published the rules and regulations in accordance with this article. The rules and regulations and all amendments thereafter shall be adopted by ordinance of a general and permanent nature and codified in…

of Ordinances and Resolutions; Approval or Veto of Mayor; Record of Proceedings; Power of Council as to City Employees; All Powers of City Vested in Council. (a) The council shall hold regular public meetings at least once a week at some regular hour to be fixed by the council. T…

The mayor shall preside at all meetings of said council and sit with said council. Provided, however, the mayor shall not, for any purpose, be a member of the council, shall vote only in the case of a tie, and shall have the right of veto as provided herein. (1) The mayor shall b…

City Council. (a) Temporary Vacancy in the Office of Mayor. The council shall elect from its members, a president pro tempore of the council. In the case of the temporary absence of the mayor or his inability to serve temporarily on account of sickness or any other good reason, t…

Thoroughfares, or Public Ways. No resolution or ordinance, granting to any person, firm, or corporation any franchise, lease or right to use the streets, public highways, thoroughfares, or public ways of any city organized under the provisions of this article, either in, under, a…

This chapter shall apply to any Class 2 municipality in the state of Alabama. History: (Acts 1985, No. 85-229, p. 96, §1.)

When this mayor-council form of government becomes applicable to a city, said city shall continue as a municipal corporation, within the corporate limits as now established and as may hereafter be fixed in the manner prescribed by law, subject to all duties and obligations then p…

of City Vested in Council; Manner in Which Powers Exercised. The municipal government of any such city proceeding under this chapter shall be known as the “mayor-council form of government.” Pursuant to the provisions and limitations of this chapter and subject to the limitations…