Title 11

The amount to be paid to the authority by the principal municipality during each fiscal year shall be ascertained by determining the amount of ad valorem tax collected for the authorizing county within the city limits of the principal municipality, in addition to the amount deter…

On or prior to the beginning of the seventh month before the start of each fiscal year, the principal municipality and each municipality located in the authorizing county which desires to be served by the authority during the forthcoming fiscal year shall file a written request w…

On or prior to the beginning of the fifth month before the start of each fiscal year, the authority shall prepare and submit to the authorizing county, the principal municipality, and each municipality which has requested to be served by the authority pursuant to Section 11-32-26…

On or prior to the beginning of the fourth month before the start of each fiscal year, the principal municipality and each municipality in the authorizing county which elects to be served by the authority shall certify in writing to the authority the routes to be operated in the …

All of the municipalities served by any route operated by the authority may by written agreement filed with the authority agree to allocate the costs of operation of the route on a basis different from that otherwise provided by this chapter. (Act 2013-380, p. 1389, §29.)

(a) One or more public corporations may be organized pursuant to this chapter in a county having a population of not less than 600,000 according to the last or any subsequent federal decennial census. Once incorporated under or governed by this chapter, each corporation shall con…

Subject to any agreement filed with the authority pursuant to Section 11-32-29, the annual amount to be paid to the authority by the principal municipality and each municipality in the authorizing county which elects to be served by the authority is to be ascertained by multiplyi…

(a) The amounts required to be paid to the authority under this chapter shall be paid by the authorizing county tax collector for the authorizing county, the principal municipality, and participating municipalities upon the payment schedule established pursuant to the terms of th…

(a) The payments required hereby for the authorizing county, principal municipality, and each participating municipality shall be made on a monthly basis or upon other payment schedule of the authorizing county, the principal municipality, or such participating municipality shall…

The authorizing county, principal municipality, and each participating municipality shall have the right to examine and audit, at their expense, the books and records of the authority at any time during its regular business hours. (Act 2013-380, p. 1389, §33.)

(a) Within 40 days following the adoption of an authorizing resolution by that governing body that was the last to adopt an authorizing resolution, but only if the governing bodies of both the county and the municipality with which applications were filed have theretofore adopted…

(a) The certificate of incorporation of any authority incorporated under or governed by this chapter may be amended in the manner provided in this section. The board shall first adopt a resolution proposing an amendment to the certificate of incorporation which shall be set forth…

(a) Each authority shall be governed by a board. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by or under the authority of, and the business and affairs of the authority shall be managed under the direction of, the board or pursuant to its authorization. In making appointments …

(a) The authority shall exercise powers and duties necessary to the discharge of its powers and duties in corporate form as follows: (1) Have succession by its corporate name in perpetuity subject to Section 11-32-20. (2) Sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions…

(a) Rates, fees, and charges for public transportation service rendered by the authority from any of its transit systems shall be so fixed and from time to time revised as at all times to provide funds that, when added to all other revenues including tax proceeds anticipated to b…

(a) All bonds issued by the authority shall be signed by the chair, vice chair, or executive director and attested by its secretary or assistant secretary, and the seal of the authority shall be affixed thereto except that a facsimile of the signature of the officers may be print…

All municipal organizations now existing in the State of Alabama, whether incorporated under the general laws of the state or by special act of the legislative department of the state government, and now exercising corporate powers or functions and all towns and cities that may h…

(a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the police jurisdiction in municipalities having 6,000 or more inhabitants shall cover all adjoining territory within three miles of the corporate limits, and in municipalities having less than 6,000 inhabitants, the police jur…

(a) The governing body of a Class 6 municipality may enter into contracts which provide for the police department of the municipality to provide law enforcement services beyond the corporate limits of the municipality, but within the police jurisdiction of the municipality, and m…

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a Class 5, Class 6, Class 7, or Class 8 municipality may rehire a retired law enforcement officer to perform duties as needed if the mayor, or town or city council, as appropriate, declares all of the following: (1) There …

No change from the mayor-council form of municipal government to the commission form of municipal government hereafter directed by vote of the electors of any municipality in this state shall become effective until October 1 of the general municipal election year next following t…

(a) There are hereby established eight classes of municipalities based on the population as certified by the 1970 federal decennial census, as authorized by Amendment No. 375, Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as follows: Class 1: All cities with a population of 300,000 inhabitant…

No general law which at the time of its enactment applies to only one municipality of the state shall be enacted unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been given and shown as provided in Section 106 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 for special, private…

(a) The council or other governing body of Class 1 municipalities in Alabama and all municipalities in Alabama having a population of 250,000 or more according to the last and any subsequent federal decennial census, shall have the power and authority to grant to any member of su…

The incorporated municipalities and incorporated municipal boards of this state shall be exempt from the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, which is codified in sections 35-12-20 through 35-12-48. (Acts 1982, No. 82-483, p. 801.)

(a) The Legislature of Alabama hereby finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Class 1 cities are enhanced by the continual encouragement, development, growth, and expansion of private enterprise within this state. That there are certain economical…

In all Class 1 municipalities, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any section of Article VI of Act No. 929, S. 676, Regular Session 1951 (Acts 1951, p. 1579), as amended, any benefit payable on a monthly basis to a participant or retiree under Act No. 929, S. 676, R…

The city council of any Class 1 municipality may grant pension plan benefit increases to retired employee participants, and their beneficiaries, in terminated or inactive former pension plans of any Class 1 municipality, provided the increases shall not exceed the increases grant…

(a) The Legislature finds that in all Class 1 municipalities some recipients of extraordinary disability benefits awarded prior to May 23, 1977, did not have a longevity component included in the monthly salary used to calculate their extraordinary disability benefit and hereby i…

(a) This section shall apply to Class 1 municipalities only. (b) There is established a Retroactive Deferred Retirement Option (“Back Drop”) Plan for any retirement and relief system established pursuant to Act 1272, 1973 Regular Session (Acts 1973, p. 2124), as amended. A partic…

In all Class 1 municipalities, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any benefit payable on a monthly basis to a participant or retiree under the Policemen’s Pension and Relief Plan provided by Act No. 502 of the 1923 Session of the legislature of Alabama, as amen…

Notwithstanding any other laws, in Class 1 municipalities, any benefit payable on a monthly basis to a participant or retiree under the Policemen’s Pension and Relief Fund provided by Act No. 502 of the 1923 Session of the Legislature, as amended, the Firemen’s Pension and Relief…

In the absence of wantonness or willful misconduct, in any Class 1 municipality, the board of firemen and policemen for the Class 1 municipality, the members of the board of firemen and policemen, and any officer, employee, or agent of a Class 1 municipality or of the board of fi…

In addition to all other powers heretofore granted by law, any Class 1 municipality that owns a civic center, or any public corporation that owns a civic center located within a Class 1 municipality, shall have the power to own and operate a hotel, together with any related resta…

All cities and towns shall have a seal, in the center of which shall be the words, “city seal” or “town seal,” as the case may be, and around the margin the name of the city or town, which shall be affixed to all transcripts, orders or certificates which it may be necessary or pr…

Any municipality or separate public corporation authorized to own and operate a hotel pursuant to the provisions of Section 11-40-19 and this section may operate such hotel through one or more management contracts with private companies experienced in the operation of hotels, and…

In any Class 3 municipality, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the number of members who shall serve on any existing or future municipal board, committee, or like body, shall be the same as the number of members on the municipal governing body unless the municipal governin…

(a) Notwithstanding any limitations of law pertaining to the municipality, the mayor of any municipality in Alabama is hereby authorized, subject to budget restraints approved by the governing body, to make cash or non-cash awards not to exceed $1,000 to employees of the municipa…

Each person engaged in the business of purchasing and receiving or collecting waste grease and animal by-products for rendering or recycling, from businesses, schools, and institutions located in various cities of the state, shall pay the following annual license tax in cities of…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, employees of any separately incorporated public corporation authorized to be created by a municipality pursuant to state law are employees of that separately incorporated entity and are not employees of the municipality authorizing the …

(a) For purposes of this section, the term elected municipal official means any mayor, council member, or commission member elected or appointed to municipal office whose presence at council or commission meetings is counted towards establishing a quorum. (b) Any elected municipa…

(a) Only 10 percent of a municipality’s general operating budget may come from fines and penalties retained by a municipality from traffic tickets. Any remaining amount in excess of the 10 percent threshold shall be transferred to the Department of Finance for allocation, in equa…

Affirmative action shall not be necessary for cities and towns to acquire the rights, power, and authority granted in this title. Municipalities shall, however, hold such elections and pass such ordinances and resolutions as are required by this title. (Code 1907, §1049; Code 192…

Notwithstanding any provision of law, any municipal corporation that was organized pursuant to the Code of Alabama of 1896, Chapter 94, Article 1, commencing with §2937, prior to the adoption of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, that is currently functioning as an active munic…

Rights of action and rights of property arising before or existing at the time of a change of corporate organization, as directed in this title, shall be enforced against or in favor of such city or town, and all civil actions then pending in favor of or against municipal corpora…

The corporate limits of any city or town shall not be altered or affected by the adoption of this Code. (Code 1907, §1051; Code 1923, §1742; Code 1940, T. 37, §4.)