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AL Code § 11-43C-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-36 - Mayor - Vacancies; Acting Mayor; Special Election to Fill Vacancy; Term of Office.

Section 11-43C-36Mayor - Vacancies; acting mayor; special election to fill vacancy; term of office. Whenever any vacancy in the office of mayor shall occur by reason of death, resignation, removal or any other cause, the president of the council shall assume the duties of the office of mayor effective on the date such vacancy occurs and shall serve as acting mayor until a mayor is elected and qualified as herein provided. The acting mayor shall receive no compensation, expenses or allowances as a council member while acting as mayor, but he will receive the same rate of pay and allowances provided for the mayor whose vacated office he fills, and the compensation received for days of service as acting mayor shall not be counted in determining the maximum annual per diem compensation permitted council members. While the president of the council is serving as acting mayor he may attend council meetings but may not vote on any matters before the council. The council shall within 10 days of the occurrence of the vacancy in the office of the mayor call a special election to fill such vacancy, such election to be held in accordance with general municipal election laws. The successor to the mayor chosen at any such election shall qualify for office as soon as practicable thereafter, and shall assume the duties, responsibilities, and powers of such office immediately upon such qualification, and shall hold office for the unexpired term of his predecessor and until his successor is elected and qualified. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §36.)
AL Code § 11-43C-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-37 - Mayor - Powers and Duties.

Section 11-43C-37Mayor - Powers and duties. All executive powers of the city shall be vested in the mayor and the mayor shall be the head of the executive and administrative branches of the city government. He may attend council meetings but may not vote in its proceedings and he shall have the power and duties herein conferred. The mayor shall be responsible for the proper administration of all affairs of the city, and, except as otherwise provided herein, he shall have the power and shall be required to: (1) Enforce all laws and ordinances; (2) Appoint and remove, when necessary for the good of the service, all officers and employees of the city except those appointed by the council. Such appointment and removal of personnel are subject to any merit system provisions in effect at such time, except for those officers and employees who are exempted from the merit system by other sections of this chapter; (3) Appoint the members of the industrial development authority and housing board. The members of the industrial development authority shall be subject to confirmation by a vote of three members of the council. The members of the planning commission shall be appointed pursuant to Section 11-52-3; (4) Exercise administrative supervision and control over all departments created by this chapter or by law or hereafter created by the council, except those otherwise given independent status under this chapter; (5) Keep the council fully advised as to the financial conditions and needs of the city; prepare and submit the budget annually to the council and be responsible for its administration after its adoption; prepare and submit, as of the end of the fiscal year, a complete report on the financial and administrative activities of the city for such year; (6) Recommend to the council such actions as he may deem desirable; (7) Prepare and submit to the council such reports as may be required of him; (8) Perform such other duties as may be prescribed by this chapter; and (9) Fix the salaries or compensation of all officers and employees of the city who are appointable by the mayor, subject, however, to the provisions of any merit law applicable to the city. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §37.)
AL Code § 11-43C-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-38 - Divisions of City Government; Executive Directors of Divisions; City Attorney; Outside Counsel.

Section 11-43C-38Divisions of city government; executive directors of divisions; city attorney; outside counsel. (a) There are hereby created three divisions of city government: Public works, finance, and public safety. The mayor shall appoint department heads to the above divisions. Upon the first vacancy, of any nature whatsoever, in the office of police chief or fire chief, the mayor may appoint the police chief and fire chief, respectively, from outside the said merit system, with the approval of four members of the council who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor; provided, however, such officers shall be removed from office only upon recommendation of the mayor with the approval of four council members. (b) The mayor also is authorized to appoint a city attorney who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor and shall be compensated in the manner and at a rate approved by the mayor. In addition to the city attorney, the mayor, from time to time in his sole discretion, is authorized to obtain additional legal counsel outside of the city merit system to advise and defend him in his capacity of mayor and in the pursuit of the operation of government. (c) Upon approval by a majority of those present and voting, the council, from time to time when it deems necessary and reasonable, is authorized to obtain legal counsel outside the city merit system to advise and defend them in their respective capacities as council members and in the pursuit of the operation of government. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §38.)
AL Code § 11-43C-39 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-39 - Distribution of Work Among Departmental Divisions.

Section 11-43C-39Distribution of work among departmental divisions. The work of each department may be distributed among such divisions thereof as may be established by ordinance upon the recommendation of the mayor. Pending the passage of an ordinance or ordinances distributing the work of departments under the supervision and control of the mayor among specific divisions thereof, the mayor may establish temporary divisions. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §39.)
AL Code § 11-43C-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-40 - Mayor - Employment of Additional Personnel; Amount Available for Salaries; Not Subject to Merit System.

Section 11-43C-40Mayor - Employment of additional personnel; amount available for salaries; not subject to merit system. The mayor may employ additional personnel who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor, and for such purposes an additional seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per annum shall be made available for the salaries of the personnel from the city treasury. The personnel shall not be subject to the merit system. This section shall not limit the authority of the mayor to appoint other employees of the city under the merit system or otherwise where authorized by any other law. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §40; Acts 1994, No. 94-697, p. 1351, §1.)
AL Code § 11-43C-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-41 - Fiscal, Budget, and Accounting Years.

Section 11-43C-41Fiscal, budget, and accounting years. The fiscal year of the city government shall end on the last day of September of each calendar year. Such fiscal year shall also constitute the budget and accounting year. As used in this chapter, the term "budget year" shall mean the fiscal year for which any particular budget is adopted and in which it is administered. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §41.)
AL Code § 11-43C-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-42 - Mayor to Submit Budget to Council.

Section 11-43C-42Mayor to submit budget to council. On a day to be fixed by the council but in no case later than the twentieth day of August in each year, the mayor shall submit to the council:  (1) A separate current revenue and expense budget for the general operation of the city government, to be known as the "general fund budget"; (2) A budget for each public utility owned and operated by such city; (3) A capital budget; and (4) A budget message.   When submitting the budgets to the council, the mayor shall submit his recommendation of new sources of revenue or manner of increasing existing sources of revenue, sufficient to balance the budgets, if such additional revenue is necessary to accomplish that purpose. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §42.)
AL Code § 11-43C-43 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-43 - Estimates of Revenue and Expenditures for Each Department, etc.; Compilation of Budget Information by Director of Finance; Review and Revision of Estimates.

Section 11-43C-43Estimates of revenue and expenditures for each department, etc.; compilation of budget information by director of finance; review and revision of estimates. It shall be the duty of the head of each department, and each other office or agency supported in whole or in part by the city, to file with the head of the division of finance, at such time as the mayor may prescribe, estimates of revenue and expenditures for that department, office, or agency for the ensuing fiscal year. Such estimates shall be submitted on the forms furnished by the head of the division of finance and it shall be the duty of the head of each department, office, or agency to supply all the information which the head of the division of finance may require to be submitted. The head of the division of finance shall assemble and compile these estimates and supply such additional information relating to the financial transactions of the city as may be required by the mayor in the preparation of the budgets. The mayor shall hold such hearings as he may deem advisable and with the assistance of the head of the division of finance shall review the estimates and other data pertinent to the preparation of the budgets and make such revisions in such estimates as he may deem proper, subject to the laws of the State of Alabama and any municipal ordinance relating to obligatory expenditures for any purpose. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §43.)
AL Code § 11-43C-44 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-44 - General Fund Budget.

Section 11-43C-44General fund budget. The general fund budget shall include for each public utility owned by the city only the net amounts estimated to be received from or to be appropriated to each public utility. The general fund budget shall be prepared in accordance with accepted principles of municipal accounting and budgetary procedures and techniques, and shall show: (1) Such portion of the general fund cash surplus as it is estimated will exist, at the end of the current fiscal year, and is proposed to be used for meeting expenditures in the general fund budget for the ensuing year; (2) An estimate of the receipts from current ad valorem taxes on real estate and tangible personal property during the ensuing fiscal year, assuming that the percentage of the levy collected be no greater than the average percentage of the levy collected in the last three completed tax years; (3) An estimate of receipts from all other sources of revenue, provided that the estimated receipts from each such source shall not exceed the percentage of estimated revenue in the current fiscal year from the same source over the amount of the revenue received from the same source in the last completed fiscal year, unless a law or ordinance under which revenue from any source is derived, has been amended or a new source of revenue has been provided by law or ordinance, in the course of the current year, in which case the estimated receipts from that source may be fixed by the mayor. If additional revenue is to be derived from the state, the amount fixed by the mayor shall not exceed the amount which the proper state official shall certify in writing to be the reasonable expectation of receipts from such source; (4) A statement to be furnished by the head of the division of finance of the debt service requirements for the ensuing year and future years; (5) An estimate of the general fund cash deficit, if any, at the end of the current fiscal year and of any other obligations required by law to be budgeted for the ensuing fiscal year; and (6) An estimate of expenditures and appropriations for all other purposes to be met from the general fund in the ensuing fiscal year. All the estimates shall be in detail showing receipts by sources and expenditures by operating units, character, and object, so arranged as to show receipts and expenditures as estimated for the current fiscal year and actual receipts and expenditures for the last fiscal year, in comparison with estimated receipts and recommended expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §44.)
AL Code § 11-43C-45 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-45 - Recommended Expenditures Not to Exceed Estimated Receipts Unless Additional Revenue Measures Adopted; Recommendations Where Receipts Estimated to Exceed Expenditures; Public Utility Budgets.

Section 11-43C-45Recommended expenditures not to exceed estimated receipts unless additional revenue measures adopted; recommendations where receipts estimated to exceed expenditures; public utility budgets. In no event shall the expenditures recommended by the mayor in the general fund budget exceed the receipts estimated, taking into account the estimated cash surplus or deficit at the end of the current fiscal year, as provided in the preceding section hereof, unless the mayor shall recommend an increase in or levy of new or increased taxes or licenses within the power of the city to levy and collect in the ensuing fiscal year, the receipts from which, estimated on the basis of the average experience with the same or similar taxes during the three full tax years last past, will make up the difference. If estimated receipts exceed estimated expenditures, the mayor may recommend revisions in the tax and license ordinances of the city in order to bring the general fund budget into balance. The same balanced budget restrictions shall apply in the adoption of any public utility budget. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §45.)
AL Code § 11-43C-46 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-46 - Contents of Budget Message.

Section 11-43C-46Contents of budget message. The budget message shall contain the recommendations of the mayor concerning the fiscal policy of the city, a description of the important features of the budget plan, an explanation of all changes in each budget submitted, as to estimated receipts and recommended expenditures as compared with the current fiscal year and the preceding fiscal year, and a summary of the proposed budgets showing comparisons similar to those required herein. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §46.)
AL Code § 11-43C-47 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-47 - Printing and Distribution of Budget Message and General Fund, Public Utility, and Capital Budgets.

Section 11-43C-47Printing and distribution of budget message and general fund, public utility, and capital budgets. The mayor shall cause the budget message to be printed, mimeographed, or otherwise reproduced for general distribution at the time of its submission to the council and sufficient copies of the proposed general fund, public utility, and capital budgets to be made, to supply copies to each member of the council and each newspaper of general circulation published in the city and all other members of the news media in the city, and two copies to be deposited in the office of the city clerk where they shall be open to public inspection during regular business hours. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §47.)
AL Code § 11-43C-48 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-48 - Public Hearing on Budget.

Section 11-43C-48Public hearing on budget. At the meeting of the council at which the budget and budget message are submitted, the council shall determine the place and time of the public hearing on the budget, and shall cause to be published a notice of the place and time, not less than seven days after the date of publication, and the council will hold a public hearing at which any citizen of the city shall be given an opportunity to be heard, for or against the estimates of any item. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §48.)
AL Code § 11-43C-49 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-49 - Revision of Budget After Hearing; Increase in Expenditures Over Mayor's Recommendation; Expenditures Not to Exceed Receipts and Surplus Unless Additional Revenue Measures Adopted.

Section 11-43C-49Revision of budget after hearing; increase in expenditures over mayor's recommendation; expenditures not to exceed receipts and surplus unless additional revenue measures adopted. After the conclusion of the public hearing the council may insert new items of expenditures or may increase, decrease, or strike out items of expenditure in the general fund budget, except that no item of expenditure for debt service, or any other item required to be included by this chapter or other provision of law, shall be reduced or stricken out. The council shall not alter the estimates of receipts contained in the budget except to correct omissions or mathematical errors, and it shall not cause the total of expenditures as recommended by the mayor to be increased without a public hearing on such increase, which shall be held not less than three days after notice thereof by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city. The council shall in no event adopt a general fund budget in which the total of expenditures exceeds the receipts and available surplus, estimated as herein provided by this chapter, unless at the same time it adopts measures to provide for additional revenue in the ensuing fiscal year estimated to be sufficient to make up the difference. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §49.)
AL Code § 11-43C-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-50 - Summary of Budget.

Section 11-43C-50Summary of budget. At the head of the budget there shall appear a summary of the budget, which need not be itemized further than by principal sources of anticipated revenue, stating separately the amount to be provided by property tax, kinds of expenditures itemized according to departments, doing so in such manner as to present to the taxpayers a simple and clear summary of the detailed estimates of the budget. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §50.)
AL Code § 11-43C-51 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-51 - Adoption of General Fund Budget and Any Necessary Revenue Measure; Failure to Adopt Budget.

Section 11-43C-51Adoption of general fund budget and any necessary revenue measure; failure to adopt budget. Not later than the twentieth day of September of the current fiscal year, the council by a majority vote shall adopt the general fund budget, and such ordinance providing for additional revenue as may be necessary to put the budget in balance, including a two percent reserve. If for any reason the council fails to adopt the general fund budget on or before such day, the general fund budget of the current fiscal year shall be the general fund budget for the ensuing year, until such time as a newly revised budget shall be adopted by the council and, until such time, it shall have full force and effect to the same extent as if the same had been adopted by the council. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §51.)
AL Code § 11-43C-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 43C - Mayor-Council Form of Government in Class 5 Municipalities.|Section 11-43C-52 - Disapproval by Mayor of Expenditure Line Item; Adherence by Council to Expenditure.

Section 11-43C-52Disapproval by mayor of expenditure line item; adherence by council to expenditure. If the mayor shall disapprove of any expenditure line item contained in the budget transmitted to him by the council, he shall, within 10 days of the time of its passage by the council, return the same to the clerk with his objections in writing, and the clerk shall make report thereof to the next regular meeting of the city council, and if four of the council members shall at the meeting adhere to said expenditure line item by yeas and nays and spread upon the minutes, then said expenditure line item shall become effective. (Acts 1987, No. 87-102, p. 116, §52; Acts 1991, No. 91-169, p. 229, §1.)