Title 11

(a) Any election officer appointed as such by a municipal governing body who shall fail to attend a municipal election without a lawful excuse shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $100.00. (b) Any election officer who drinks any intoxicating liquors while any election is …

(a) Any inspector of an election who shall, without challenging him, permit any person to vote in a municipal election knowing that he is not a qualified elector shall be fined not less than $100.00. (b) Any inspector of an election who shall willfully exclude any vote duly tende…

Any returning officer of the ward who fails to deliver the statement of votes and poll list of a municipal election to the municipal clerk within the time required by law must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 and must also be imprisoned in the …

Any marker or helper or assistant authorized to aid a disabled voter at a municipal election who willfully deceives any elector in preparing his ballot must, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 8…

Any duly appointed watcher at a municipal election who drinks any intoxicating liquors while the election is being held shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §45.)

(a) Any elector who takes or removes or attempts to take or remove any ballot from the polling place at a municipal election before the close of the polls or who remains longer than the time allowed by law in the booth or compartment after being notified his or her time has expir…

(a) Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to perform or discharge any duty relating to absent voters required of him by this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than $100.00. (b) Any person found drunk or intoxicated at or …

(a) The election of any person declared elected to any office of a city or town may be contested by any person who was at the time of the election a qualified elector of such city or town for any of the following causes: (1) Misconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of any ele…

If, on the trial of the contest of any municipal election, it shall appear that any person other than the one whose election is contested, received or would have received, had the ballots intended for him and illegally rejected been received, the requisite number of votes for ele…

No misconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of the election officers, the marker, the municipal governing body, or any other person, nor any offers to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or other misconduct which prevented a fair, free, and full exercise of the elective franchise c…

If any municipal election provided for in this article should not take place on the day appointed, the municipal corporation shall not for that cause be dissolved, but the incumbent officers shall remain in office until their successors shall be elected and qualified. The municip…

It is specifically declared that the designation in this article of certain acts and omissions relative to municipal elections as offenses shall not be exclusive and that any act or omission relative to a municipal election which is by law designated as an offense but which is no…

Any municipality whose election dates have been established by classification act, local act, or general act of local application may continue to use said election dates unless a majority of the members of the governing body vote to use the election dates established in this arti…

Cities and towns shall have the right to borrow money for any purpose or purposes not in excess of any limitation imposed by the Constitution and, in case of loans for temporary use, the same may be evidenced either by negotiable notes or by nonnegotiable warrants or certificates…

The reasonable cost of or charge for such advertising shall be a legal charge against any available funds of the municipality engaged in such advertising. (Acts 1953, No. 869, p. 1167, §2.)

In addition to all other powers which may be conferred on it by law, every incorporated city or town shall have the power to set aside, appropriate and use municipal funds or revenues for the purpose of developing, advertising and promoting the agricultural, mineral, timber, wate…

All municipal corporations may purchase school property or purchase lots and erect school buildings thereon for the use and benefit of the citizens of their respective towns or cities. For said purpose the town council or board of aldermen may levy a tax not exceeding one-fourth …

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…