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AL Code § 11-47-116 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 4 - General Police Powers.|Section 11-47-116 - Taking Up and Storing of Abandoned and Stolen Personal Property; Redemption by Owner; Sale and Disposition of Proceeds.

Section 11-47-116Taking up and storing of abandoned and stolen personal property; redemption by owner; sale and disposition of proceeds. (a) All municipalities are hereby authorized to provide by ordinance for the taking up and storing of abandoned and stolen personal property found within the corporate limits or outside the corporate limits but within the police jurisdictions and to sell the same in the manner provided in subsection (b) of this section. A permanent record giving the date of the taking of each piece of such property, the place where found and taken and a description of the property shall be kept. The property so taken shall be stored in a suitable place to protect it from deterioration; provided, that if the property be perishable the same may be sold at once without notice, in which case the proceeds shall be held for a period of six months for the account of the owner and if not called for within that time shall be converted into the general fund. (b) At least every six months the chief officer of the law enforcement department of each such city and town adopting an ordinance under subsection (a) of this section shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the property which shall have then been taken up and stored for a period of three months or more, the sales to be made after notice of the time and place thereof shall have first been given by publication of notice once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or town in question and, in cities and towns in which no newspaper is published, by posting such notice in a conspicuous place at the city hall or police station. The first publication or posting of notice, as the case may be, shall be at least 20 days before the sale. The owner of any of the property taken up and stored may redeem the same at any time prior to its sale by paying the reasonable expense of taking the property in charge, its maintenance and storage and a pro rata of the cost of publication. Each article shall be sold separately and a notation in the storage record book shall be made of the amount received for each article. The person making the sale shall have the right to reject any and all bids if the amount bid be unreasonably low and shall have the right to continue the sales from time to time if no bidders are present. After deducting and paying all expenses incurred in the taking up, storing, maintaining and selling of the property, the balance, if any, shall be paid into the general fund of the municipality making the sale. (Acts 1943, No. 533, p. 507.)
AL Code § 11-47-117 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 4 - General Police Powers.|Section 11-47-117 - Abatement of Nuisances, etc., Generally; Assessment of Costs of Abatement.

Section 11-47-117Abatement of nuisances, etc., generally; assessment of costs of abatement. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to prevent injury or annoyances from anything dangerous or offensive or unwholesome and to cause all nuisances to be abated and assess the cost of abating the same against the person creating or maintaining the same. (Code 1907, §1278; Code 1923, §2034; Code 1940, T. 37, §505.)
AL Code § 11-47-118 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 4 - General Police Powers.|Section 11-47-118 - Maintenance of Civil Actions to Enjoin and Abate Public Nuisances.

Section 11-47-118Maintenance of civil actions to enjoin and abate public nuisances. Municipalities may maintain a civil action to enjoin and abate any public nuisance, injurious to the health, morals, comfort, or welfare of the community or any portion thereof. (Acts 1919, No. 49, p. 50; Code 1923, §2055; Code 1940, T. 37, §506.)
AL Code § 11-47-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-130 - Maintenance of Health and Cleanliness Generally.

Section 11-47-130Maintenance of health and cleanliness generally. All cities and towns in this state shall have the power to maintain the health and cleanliness of the city or town within its limits and within the police jurisdiction thereof. (Code 1907, §1290; Code 1923, §2048; Code 1940, T. 37, §491.)
AL Code § 11-47-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-131 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine Generally.

Section 11-47-131Powers as to health, sanitation and quarantine generally. In addition to the powers granted to them by the applicable provisions of this title or any other provisions of law, all cities and towns of this state shall have the following powers, and the councils or other governing bodies of such cities and towns may provide by ordinance or resolution for the exercise or enforcement of the same: (1) To prevent the introduction of contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases into such cities or towns; (2) To establish and regulate a sufficient quarantine, not inconsistent with laws of the state, in the towns and cities and within the police jurisdiction thereof and to punish any breach of quarantine law; (3) To adopt such ordinances and regulations as the council or other governing body may deem necessary to insure good sanitary condition in public places or in private premises in the cities and towns; and (4) To prescribe the duties and fix the salaries and compensation for such health officials as they may deem necessary. (Code 1907, §1276; Code 1923, §2032; Code 1940, T. 37, §492.)
AL Code § 11-47-132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-132 - Provision for System of Compulsory Vaccination, Etc.

Section 11-47-132Provision for system of compulsory vaccination, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to adopt all necessary ordinances and enforce the same to prevent the introduction or spread of contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases in such cities or towns and, to that end, may provide for a system of compulsory vaccination and enforcement of the same. (Code 1907, §1289; Code 1923, §2047; Code 1940, T. 37, §493.)
AL Code § 11-47-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-133 - Appropriation of Funds for Care of Certain Sick and Wounded Persons in Municipal Hospitals.

Section 11-47-133Appropriation of funds for care of certain sick and wounded persons in municipal hospitals. The board of mayor and aldermen or other governing body of cities or towns in this state may make appropriations out of the revenues of their respective cities or towns to aid in maintaining and taking care of sick or wounded persons who are unable to provide such maintenance and care for themselves in any hospital maintained in their respective cities or towns exclusively for the care of the sick or wounded within the limits of such cities or towns. (Code 1907, §1460; Code 1923, §2316; Code 1940, T. 37, §494.)
AL Code § 11-47-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-134 - Establishment, Aid, etc., of Hospitals, Poorhouses, etc., in Counties; Removal and Detention of Persons With Contagious, etc., Diseases.

Section 11-47-134Establishment, aid, etc., of hospitals, poorhouses, etc., in counties; removal and detention of persons with contagious, etc., diseases. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to aid, establish, set up, and regulate hospitals, poorhouses, workhouses, houses of correction, and pesthouses anywhere in the county in which the city or town is situated and cause persons afflicted with contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases to be removed to such hospitals or pesthouses as may be provided for the purpose and to cause persons who have been exposed to such diseases, or any of them, to be removed to some suitable place of detention and detained for a reasonable length of time. (Code 1907, §1277; Code 1923, §2033; Code 1940, T. 37, §495.)
AL Code § 11-47-135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-135 - Establishment of Incinerators, etc., for Disposal of Garbage, etc.; Hauling and Disposal of Garbage and Trash; Fees.

Section 11-47-135Establishment of incinerators, etc., for disposal of garbage, etc.; hauling and disposal of garbage and trash; fees. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish and maintain incinerators for the destruction of garbage and like substances or to otherwise dispose of garbage, either within or without the city limits, and to haul or cause to be hauled to such incinerators or other places of disposal trash and garbage of all kinds and cause the destruction of the same in such manner as may be deemed expedient by the proper municipal authorities and to fix and collect such reasonable fees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. (Code 1907, §1282; Code 1923, §2039; Code 1940, T. 37, §496; Acts 1947, No. 61, p. 26.)
AL Code § 11-47-136 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-136 - Prohibition of Sale, etc., of Impure, Adulterated, etc., Food, Drink, etc.; Provision for Inspections; Fees.

Section 11-47-136Prohibition of sale, etc., of impure, adulterated, etc., food, drink, etc.; provision for inspections; fees. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to prohibit and prevent the gift, barter, sale, or display of impure or adulterated foods and drinks and of diseased or unsound meats or decayed fruits and vegetables or impure, adulterated, unsound, or unwholesome articles of food or drink of any kind and to provide all such inspection laws as may be deemed advisable or necessary and to prescribe and require the payment of all such reasonable fees as may be necessary to defray the expenses of carrying out the powers granted in this section. (Code 1907, §1295; Code 1923, §2053; Code 1940, T. 37, §497.)
AL Code § 11-47-137 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-137 - Regulation, etc., of Markets and Marketing of Food Products, Etc.

Section 11-47-137Regulation, etc., of markets and marketing of food products, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, regulate and control markets and market houses and to require and provide for the proper inspection of food products and articles offered for sale or barter within the police jurisdiction of the city or town and for the punishment of persons or corporations offering for sale unsound or unwholesome articles in markets or other places in the city or town or within the police jurisdiction thereof. Such cities and towns shall have the power to inspect all dairies and the products of the same in the county in which the city or town or any part thereof is located and the owner of which sells or disposes of milk or butter in such city or town and to regulate the same, and the council or other governing body of such city or town may fix and prescribe the payment of a reasonable fee for such inspection. Such council or other governing body shall have the power to regulate the sale of meats, vegetables, fruits, and other articles and to prescribe the localities in which the same may be sold, but any person may keep and sell fresh meats in such localities in any grocery store, green grocery store, or other store of similar nature, subject to the ordinances of the city or town regulating the slaughtering, inspecting, and keeping and selling of such meats, and this right shall not be restrained or denied by the imposition of unnecessary, unreasonable, or discriminatory regulations or excessive licenses. In the territory outside of the corporate limits and inside of the police jurisdiction of a municipality, any person shall have the right to sell fresh meats subject to the inspection of such meats on the premises where sold and subject to the same sanitary and slaughtering regulations governing meats sold inside of the corporate limits and subject to a license to be fixed by the city or town. (Code 1907, §1279; Acts 1915, No. 555, p. 619; Code 1923, §2035; Code 1940, T. 37, §498.)
AL Code § 11-47-138 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-138 - Establishment, Regulation, etc., of Slaughterhouses and Pens; Regulation of Sale, etc., of Fresh Meats, etc.; Fees and Charges.

Section 11-47-138Establishment, regulation, etc., of slaughterhouses and pens; regulation of sale, etc., of fresh meats, etc.; fees and charges. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, control, and regulate slaughterhouses and pens and to confine the same to a specified limit in or outside of the city or town or prohibit the same within the police jurisdiction of the city or town, and to regulate the sale of fresh meats within the city or town, whether butchered therein or not, and to establish a system of inspecting such slaughterhouses and such meats, either before or after the same are butchered, and to prohibit the sale of such meats after the same are condemned, and provide for the disposition thereof. Such cities and towns shall also have the power to provide for the weighing and herding outside of the city or town of all livestock intended for slaughter and to fix, regulate, and collect reasonable fees and charges to pay the expenses of carrying out the powers granted in this section. (Code 1907, §1281; Code 1923, §2038; Code 1940, T. 37, §499.)
AL Code § 11-47-139 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-139 - Inspection of Dairies, Meats, etc., for Other Municipalities.

Section 11-47-139Inspection of dairies, meats, etc., for other municipalities. All municipalities of this state may inspect dairies, milk, meats and other food products for other municipalities and may make contracts and agreements with such other municipalities with reference to payment or compensation for such services, and the governing bodies of such municipalities may apportion the costs of such inspections or agree upon such terms as they deem proper. (Acts 1919, No. 43, p. 41; Code 1923, §2036; Code 1940, T. 37, §500.)
AL Code § 11-47-140 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.|Section 11-47-140 - Construction, Regulation, etc., of Public Wells, Cisterns, etc.; Requirement of Cutting of Weeds, Proper Setting of Gutters, Etc.

Section 11-47-140Construction, regulation, etc., of public wells, cisterns, etc.; requirement of cutting of weeds, proper setting of gutters, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to construct, repair, and regulate public wells and cisterns and to compel the screening of all wells, cisterns, and other places in the city or town in which water is collected where mosquitoes or other insects of like kind are apt to propagate. Such cities and towns shall also have the power to compel the proper setting of gutters so as to prevent stagnant water therein and to require weeds to be cut or other things or conditions favorable to the harboring of such insects to be abated or to do such work at the expense of the owner, the same to be a lien on the property to be collected as any other debts are collected or liens enforced. (Code 1907, §1280; Code 1923, §2037; Code 1940, T. 37, §501.)
AL Code § 11-47-171 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 7 - Acquisition of Lands, Easements, Rights-of-Way, Etc.|Section 11-47-171 - Authorization of Acquisition by Municipal Governing Body.

Section 11-47-171Authorization of acquisition by municipal governing body. Whenever in the opinion of the council or other governing body of a city or town, a right-of-way through the lands of others (whether in or out of the city or town) is necessary for obtaining a water supply or for sewerage or drainage purposes and whenever the council or other governing body may determine to change the grade of any street, sidewalk, or public place and whenever any property is needed for any city or town purpose, the council or other governing body shall authorize the mayor or other chief executive officer to attempt to acquire such right by purchase from the owner or owners thereof and, in case of failure, to acquire the same by condemnation. (Code 1907, §1440; Code 1923, §2296; Code 1940, T. 37, §508.)
AL Code § 11-47-173 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 7 - Acquisition of Lands, Easements, Rights-of-Way, Etc.|Section 11-47-173 - Right of Entry of Municipality Pending Appeal.

Section 11-47-173Right of entry of municipality pending appeal. When an appeal is taken from any preliminary assessment as provided for in subsection (c) of Section 11-47-172, such appeal shall not deprive the municipal corporation obtaining the judgment of condemnation from a right of entry for any or all of the purposes provided for in Section 11-47-171 or subsection (a) of Section 11-47-172; provided, that the amount of damages assessed shall be paid into court in money and a bond shall be given in not less than double the amount of damages assessed, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the clerk of the court to which the appeal is taken, conditioned to pay such damages as the owner of the property may sustain. (Code 1907, §1442; Code 1923, §2298; Code 1940, T. 37, §510.)
AL Code § 11-47-190 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.|Article 8 - Liability for Negligence of Agents, Etc.|Section 11-47-190 - When Municipality Liable; Joint Liability of Other Persons or Corporations.

Section 11-47-190When municipality liable; joint liability of other persons or corporations. No city or town shall be liable for damages for injury done to or wrong suffered by any person or corporation, unless such injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect, carelessness, or unskillfulness of some agent, officer, or employee of the municipality engaged in work therefor and while acting in the line of his or her duty, or unless the said injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect or carelessness or failure to remedy some defect in the streets, alleys, public ways, or buildings after the same had been called to the attention of the council or other governing body or after the same had existed for such an unreasonable length of time as to raise a presumption of knowledge of such defect on the part of the council or other governing body and whenever the city or town shall be made liable for damages by reason of the unauthorized or wrongful acts or negligence, carelessness, or unskillfulness of any person or corporation, then such person or corporation shall be liable to an action on the same account by the party so injured. However, no recovery may be had under any judgment or combination of judgments, whether direct or by way of indemnity under Section 11-47-24, or otherwise, arising out of a single occurrence, against a municipality, and/or any officer or officers, or employee or employees, or agents thereof, in excess of a total $100,000 per injured person up to a maximum of $300,000 per single occurrence, the limits set out in the provisions of Section 11-93-2 notwithstanding. (Code 1907, §1273; Code 1923, §2029; Code 1940, T. 37, §502; Acts 1994, No. 94-641, p. 1202, §1.)