Title 6, Cities And Towns

A municipality shall have no authority to forward to a collection agency unpaid parking tickets for collection without notifying the owner of record of the motor vehicle for which the parking ticket was issued. The notification shall be sent by postal mail to the owner of record …

(a) Incorporated cities and towns are authorized to enter into contracts and mutual aid agreements with other incorporated cities and towns, with counties, with private incorporated fire departments, with utility districts that provide firefighting service, with metropolitan airp…

In authorizing or permitting its fire department to answer calls outside the corporate limits as authorized in this part, and in answering such calls, the city or town and its officers and employees shall be considered as acting in a governmental capacity.

Any officer or employee of a fire department of an incorporated city or town, while engaged in any duty or activity in connection with this part or pursuant to orders or instructions from such person's officers or superiors, shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, exemptions…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Governing body” means the official or officials authorized by law to exercise ordinance or other law-making power of a municipality;(2) “Local transfer and storage business” means the business of transferring an…

(a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, or by resolution, create a transfer and storage regulatory board, which shall be authorized to exercise its functions upon the appointment and qualification of the first members of such board. (b) Upon adoption of an ordinance or resolution…

Immediately upon appointment, the members of the regulatory board shall select from among the members a chair and a secretary of the board and, as soon thereafter as is feasible, the board shall submit to the governing body a set of rules and regulations that it deems necessary a…

(a) The governing body may then adopt or reject the recommendations of the board by ordinance or resolution or make such modifications as it deems proper. (b) When proper regulations, satisfactory to the board and governing body, have been established, the governing body shall em…

The members of the regulatory board shall serve without compensation; provided, that the governing body may expend such sums of money as it deems necessary to provide secretarial help and office supplies to the board as might be required, and may by ordinance or resolution levy a…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Department” means the fire department or police department of any municipality that pays wages to its employees for services rendered;(2) “Employee” means any person who, on the adoption of this part, is a paid …

(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the governing body of any municipality may by ordinance adopt this part to establish and to authorize the payment of the minimum retirement allowance provided in § 6-54-803. The adoption of this part shall not authorize a decrease in t…

(a) The minimum retirement allowance for an employee, during the remainder of such employee's life, shall be computed as follows:(1) The retirement allowance of such employee who retires upon reaching the minimum age of fifty (50) years or older after a total of not less than twe…

(a) Notwithstanding any public or private act to the contrary, in all municipalities of the state, any mayor and any member of the local governing body, and any board or committee member elected or appointed by the mayor or local governing body, and any official or employee of th…

To the extent not adequately documented as provided in § 6-54-901, expense allowances shall be considered compensation for purposes of any salary limitations as may be provided by statute, charter or private act.

All municipal travel and expense reimbursement policies, and any amendments to the policies, must be made available for review and audit by the office of the comptroller of the treasury or the comptroller of the treasury's designee.

The municipal technical advisory service (MTAS) shall disseminate, and amend from time to time as necessary, a model travel and expense policy to provide guidance for the various municipalities. Such policy and amendments thereto are subject to the approval of the comptroller of …

Municipalities may provide vehicles for the use of the mayor, any member of the local governing body, any board or committee member elected or appointed by the mayor or local governing body, and any official or employee whose salary is set by charter or general law. Such vehicles…

In addition to the authority to reimburse expenses provided in this part, municipalities may pay directly for travel expenses, including meals and lodging, and registration fees for conferences, conventions, seminars, and other education programs on behalf of the mayor, and any m…

This part does not apply to municipalities nor to metropolitan governments with a population greater than one hundred thousand (100,000), according to the most recent federal decennial census. Those municipalities and metropolitan governments may elect to pay and/or reimburse exp…

(a) The collector of every municipal corporation shall collect and pay over to the treasurer, on the first Monday of January and July, each year, all taxes, fines, and forfeitures due and owing to the same; and, on failure, shall be liable for the amount of such collector's delin…

Each municipality is empowered to levy privilege taxes upon merchants and such other vocations, occupations, or businesses as are declared to be privileges, not exceeding in amount that levied by the state for state purposes.

(a) If taxes assessed upon real estate in the corporation, according to its ordinances, are not paid by the owner of the property within the year for which they were assessed, the collector shall report the facts to the recorder or other officer, and the recorder or other officer…

It is lawful for any incorporated municipality to sue in the chancery court of the county in which it is located for taxes due the municipality upon real estate, whenever the taxes are past due and unpaid. The fact that the complaint contains the names of more than one (1) defend…

Should any person interested pay, after the bill is filed, and before sale of the land, to the attorney representing the municipality, or such other person as may be designated by the municipality to receive it, the amount of taxes sued for, and interest thereon, it shall be the …

The court may proceed to judgment or decree against all defendants who do not settle the taxes due as provided above, and enforce the judgment or decree and the lien for the taxes due by sale of the lands upon which such taxes are assessed, under the rules applicable to other cha…

The same fees for clerks and other officers as are allowed by law, providing for collection of delinquent state and county taxes, shall be allowed the clerk and other officers acting under §§ 6-55-202 — 6-55-205.

If any person or corporation required by law to pay privilege taxes to any municipal corporation, or to obtain a license before engaging in same, presumes to sell goods or exercise a privilege without first obtaining a license as required by law, such clerk, recorder, or collecti…

The officer to whose hands such warrants shall come shall immediately execute the same, on pain of being held personally liable in the circuit court, on motion by the clerk, recorder, or collecting officer, for the double tax, cost, and charges lost by such officer's delay.

The officer, having seized the goods and chattels of the delinquent, shall give ten (10) days' notice of the time and place of sale, which the officer shall make at the time specified, unless the owner, at or before the time of sale, produces the clerk's, recorder's, or collectin…

In all cases in which the penalty prescribed against breaches of the revenue laws in relation to license is recovered, double fees shall be allowed to the clerk, recorder, and collecting officer or attorney prosecuting the case.

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner or such official designated by the city ordinance, to be appointed by the municipality;(2) “Inspector” means an inspector of the department of licenses;(3) “License” means a …

No person, firm or corporation shall publish or conduct any sale of the type defined in § 6-55-401 without a license for the publication or conduct of such sale.

(a) The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to supervise and regulate sales or special sales defined in § 6-55-401, and to issue appropriate licenses or license for such sales. (b) Such licenses or license shall be issued in the discretion of the commissioner of licen…

Upon receipt of such application and payment of the fee prescribed in § 6-55-406, the commissioner shall cause the same to be examined and investigated. If after such investigation the commissioner is satisfied as to the truth of the statements contained in such application and a…

Upon satisfactory proof by the licensee that the stock itemized in the original application has not been disposed of, the commissioner may renew such license for an additional thirty-day period upon payment of the prescribed renewal fee. Such proof for a renewal license shall be …

Upon filing an original application or a renewal application for a license to advertise and conduct a sale or special sale, as defined in § 6-55-401, the applicant shall pay to the commissioner a fee in the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00). If any application or renewal applic…

(a) All advertisements or advertising and the language contained therein shall be in accordance with the purpose of the sale as stated in the application pursuant to which a license was issued and the wording of such advertisements shall not vary from the wording as indicated in …

(a) Upon commencement of any sale, as defined in § 6-55-401, the license issued by the commissioner shall be prominently displayed near the entrance of the premises. (b) A duplicate of the original application and stock list pursuant to which the license was issued shall at all t…

The commissioner is further empowered to make such rules and regulations for the conduct and advertisement of such sale or special sale as in the commissioner's opinion will serve to prevent deception and to protect the public.

The commissioner has the power to suspend or revoke at any time any license granted in accordance with this part.

Any person who violates, neglects or refuses to comply with any of the provisions of this part commits a Class C misdemeanor.

(1) This part shall not apply to or affect the following persons:(1) Persons acting pursuant to an order or process of court of competent jurisdiction;(2) Persons acting in accordance with their powers and duties as public officers, such as sheriffs and marshals; or(3) Duly licen…

Any municipality desiring to adopt this part may do so and in addition shall have the necessary power to take whatever additional steps are required to carry out the purpose of this part.

The licensing as a privilege of the driving of any motor driven vehicle upon the roads, streets or other highways of the state is declared an exclusive state privilege and no tax for such privilege under any guise or shape shall hereafter be assessed, levied or collected by any m…

(a) All ordinances, rules or regulations heretofore passed, enacted or promulgated by any incorporated municipality of the state in conflict with § 6-55-501 are declared inoperative and of no effect. (b) Neither § 6-55-501 nor this section shall prohibit municipalities from maint…

(1) The governing body of any municipality is authorized to:(1) Elect an assessor of property, who shall be required to make and subscribe to an oath as provided by the general laws of the state for county assessors of property;(2) Prescribe the bond that the assessor of property…