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AL Code § 11-42-123 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-123 - Ordering of Election by Proclamation.

Section 11-42-123Ordering of election by proclamation. If the council or governing body of each city or town confirms the agreement, then the mayor of the city or town proposed to be annexed to the other city or town shall, by proclamation, order an election to be held on a day fixed in the proclamation in his city or town, submitting to a vote of the qualified electors in his city or town the following proposition: "Shall the agreement for the annexation of (naming the city or town) to (naming the city or town) be ratified?" and stating in such proclamation that one of the triplicates of the agreement made which is submitted for ratification is on file in the office of the clerk of such city or town, open to the inspection of the public. (Code 1907, §1136; Code 1923, §1831; Code 1940, T. 37, §198.)
AL Code § 11-42-124 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-124 - Inspectors.

Section 11-42-124Inspectors. Inspectors of election in the city or town proposed to be annexed shall be appointed and the election in all particulars held in the same manner as elections are held in such city or town for the election of municipal officers, except as changed by the provisions of this division. (Code 1907, §1137; Code 1923, §1832; Code 1940, T. 37, §199.)
AL Code § 11-42-125 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-125 - Form and Marking of Ballots; Ascertainment of Election Results; Contests of Election.

Section 11-42-125Form and marking of ballots; ascertainment of election results; contests of election. (a) The mayor of the city or town shall cause the ballots to be used in such election to be printed with the following words thereon: "Shall the agreement for the annexation of (naming the city or town) to (naming the city or town) be ratified?" and printed on the ballot with the above quoted words immediately thereunder the words "Yes" and "No," and the elector shall designate his choice by marking with ink or pencil a cross mark (X) in a place to be left before the word expressing his wish. The ballots provided under the terms of this division need not be of any particular size, form, or color. (b) The result of the election shall be ascertained in the same manner that the result of the election of city or town officers is ascertained, and the election may be contested in the same manner as is provided for the contest of the election of any city or town officers. (Code 1907, §1138; Code 1923, §1833; Code 1940, T. 37, §200.)
AL Code § 11-42-126 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-126 - Declaration of Election Result; Declaration of Annexation of Municipality.

Section 11-42-126Declaration of election result; declaration of annexation of municipality. If a majority of the votes cast in such city or town is in favor of ratifying the agreement of annexation and merger, the result shall be so declared, and the mayor of each city or town shall by joint proclamation, published in some newspaper published in the city or town or in the county, if no newspaper is published in the city or town, declare the annexation of the one city or town to the other city or town under the agreement of annexation and merger. (Code 1907, §1139; Code 1923, §1834; Code 1940, T. 37, §201.)
AL Code § 11-42-127 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-127 - Filing and Recordation of Copy of Agreement and Merger.

Section 11-42-127Filing and recordation of copy of agreement and merger. The mayor of the city or town to which another city or town is annexed under the provisions of this division shall, within 10 days from the day of the issuing of the joint proclamation of annexation and merger of the one city or town into the other city or town, file with the Secretary of State one of the triplicates of the agreement of annexation and merger, which must be kept on file in the office of the Secretary of State, and must also, within said time, file one of the triplicates of the agreement of annexation and merger in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which such city or town is situated, and the same must be recorded by the judge of probate in a record of deeds or mortgages kept in his office. (Code 1907, §1140; Code 1923, §1835; Code 1940, T. 37, §202.)
AL Code § 11-42-128 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-128 - When Annexation Deemed Perfected.

Section 11-42-128When annexation deemed perfected. From the time the said triplicate of the agreement is filed in the office of the judge of probate, as required in Section 11-42-127, the proclamations having been made and published as required by Section 11-42-126, the one city or town shall be and shall be held to be annexed to and merged into the other city or town under the terms and provisions as set forth in the agreement of annexation and merger. (Code 1907, §1141; Code 1923, §1836; Code 1940, T. 37, §203.)
AL Code § 11-42-129 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-129 - Costs and Expenses of Annexation.

Section 11-42-129Costs and expenses of annexation. The costs and expenses incurred by each city or town previous to holding the election by the city or town proposed to be annexed to the other city or town shall be paid respectively by each city or town, and all other costs and expenses incurred shall be paid by the city or town to which the other city or town is annexed. (Code 1907, §1142; Code 1923, §1837; Code 1940, T. 37, §204.)
AL Code § 11-42-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-130 - Ownership of Property of Municipality Annexed.

Section 11-42-130Ownership of property of municipality annexed. All property and rights of property and assets and interests of every kind and character owned by the city or town annexed to the other city or town shall vest in and become the property and assets of the city or town to which it is annexed. (Code 1907, §1143; Code 1923, §1838; Code 1940, T. 37, §205.)
AL Code § 11-42-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-131 - Continuation of Civil Actions Against Municipality Annexed.

Section 11-42-131Continuation of civil actions against municipality annexed. All civil actions pending against the city or town annexed shall, on notice, be made a civil action against the city or town annexing the other city or town, and the right to prosecute to final judgment such civil action or actions against the annexing city or town shall exist the same as if the right of action originally existed against the annexing city or town. (Code 1907, §1144; Code 1923, §1839; Code 1940, T. 37, §206.)
AL Code § 11-42-132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-132 - Provisions in Annexation Agreement as to Taxation in Municipality Annexed.

Section 11-42-132Provisions in annexation agreement as to taxation in municipality annexed. The agreement of annexation may provide for specific property having a situs thereon embraced in the annexed city or town to be exempt from city or town taxation or the payment of taxes to the annexing city or town for a period not exceeding 10 years and may provide a maximum license tax to be annually assessed and collected by the annexing city or town from each and every person, firm, company, or corporation engaging in or carrying on any business, vocation, occupation, or profession in the territory exempt from taxation. (Code 1907, §1153; Code 1923, §1848; Code 1940, T. 37, §215.)
AL Code § 11-42-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-133 - Creation, etc., of Wards; Election of Aldermen; Division of Wards Into Voting Precincts; Rearrangement, etc., of Boundaries of Wards or Voting Precincts.

Section 11-42-133Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen; division of wards into voting precincts; rearrangement, etc., of boundaries of wards or voting precincts. (a) The council or governing body of the annexing city or town shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed to be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the annexing city or town on the number of wards, or enlarge wards so as to embrace all territory embraced in the annexed city or town and so as to afford opportunity to all persons in the territory embraced in the annexed city or town to vote in all elections and participate in the government of the annexing city or town, and each ward in the annexing city or town shall have the same number of aldermen, but in no event shall there be more than 30 aldermen or representatives in the council or governing body of the city or town. (b) The council or governing body of the city or town shall elect aldermen for the wards, embracing all the territory of the annexed city or town, as in case of a vacancy, the aldermen so elected to hold office until the next regular election of the annexing city or town. At such elections and thereafter aldermen for such wards shall be elected as other aldermen are elected in the city or town, and if the agreement of annexation names the aldermen to be elected to fill the office of aldermen until the next ensuing election, the parties named shall be elected aldermen by the council or governing body of the annexing city or town. (c) The council or governing body of the annexing city or town shall, by ordinance or resolution, create new wards or change the lines of wards, as often as may be necessary, covering the territory embraced in the annexed city or town for the purpose of making equal as near as practicable the voting population in each ward in the annexing city or town, and the council or governing body of the annexing city or town shall divide the respective wards in the city or town into voting precincts, as many as may be necessary, and each elector shall vote in the precinct of his residence, and the boundary of such voting precincts shall be arranged and rearranged from time to time so that, as near as practicable, not more than 300 electors reside in any voting precinct, except where voting machines are used. (Code 1907, §1154; Code 1923, §1849; Code 1940, T. 37, §216.)
AL Code § 11-42-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 42 - Alteration of Corporate Limits.|Article 4 - Consolidation of Contiguous Municipalities.|Division 2 - Alternate Mode.|Section 11-42-134 - Provisions of Division Not Exclusive.

Section 11-42-134Provisions of division not exclusive. The provisions of this division shall in no wise preclude any city or town from being annexed and merged into another city or town in any way that may be provided by law. (Code 1907, §1155; Code 1923, §1850; Code 1940, T. 37, §217.)
AL Code § 11-47-40 (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 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-47-40 - Ownership, Regulation, etc., of Municipal Cemeteries; Regulation, etc., of Establishment or Use of Private Cemeteries Within Police Jurisdiction.

Section 11-47-40Ownership, regulation, etc., of municipal cemeteries; regulation, etc., of establishment or use of private cemeteries within police jurisdiction. 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, and to regulate or prohibit the establishment or use of private cemeteries within the police jurisdiction of a city or town elsewhere than in the city or town cemeteries. (Code 1907, §1284; Code 1923, §2041; Code 1940, T. 37, §478.)
AL Code § 11-47-41 (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 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-47-41 - Contracts for Municipal Care and Maintenance of Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, and Graves - Authorized.

Section 11-47-41Contracts for municipal care and maintenance of burial grounds, cemeteries, and graves - Authorized. 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, maintain, and properly care for such cemetery or burial ground or for graves of individuals in the cemeteries or burial grounds owned by such city or town, upon terms and conditions as may be agreed upon and for such compensation as it may see fit to accept. (Code 1907, §1309; Acts 1919, No. 165, p. 153; Code 1923, §2122; Code 1940, T. 37, §479.)
AL Code § 11-47-42 (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 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-47-42 - Contracts for Municipal Care and Maintenance of Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, and Graves - Manner of Contracting.

Section 11-47-42Contracts for municipal care and maintenance of burial grounds, cemeteries, and graves - Manner of contracting. 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, §1310; Code 1923, §2123; Code 1940, T. 37, §480.)
AL Code § 11-47-60 (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 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.|Division 2 - Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains.|Section 11-47-60 - Declaration for Abandonment of Cemetery and Removal of Human Remains Interred Therein - Adoption, Etc.

Section 11-47-60Declaration for abandonment of cemetery and removal of human remains interred therein - Adoption, etc. (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 governing body of the county if such cemetery is located outside the limits of an incorporated municipality, by resolution of its board of directors or other governing body, when assented to in writing filed with the secretary by at least three fourths of the lot owners and holders of such corporation or association or ratified and approved by like vote thereof at any regular meeting of the cemetery corporation or association or at a meeting specially called for that purpose, declare for the abandonment in whole or in part of such cemetery as a burial place for the human dead and for the removal of human remains interred therein to another cemetery or cemeteries in this state or for the depositing of such remains in a memorial mausoleum or columbarium as provided in this division. (b) Any corporation sole or other person owning or controlling any cemetery or the lands on which any grave or cemetery is located in this state may also declare for the abandonment in whole or in part of any such cemetery owned or controlled by such corporation sole or other person and for the removal of human remains interred therein to another cemetery or cemeteries in this state or the depositing of such remains in a memorial mausoleum or columbarium as provided in this division. (Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §1; Acts 1965, No. 155, p. 224, §2.)
AL Code § 11-47-61 (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 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.|Division 2 - Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains.|Section 11-47-61 - Declaration for Abandonment of Cemetery and Removal of Human Remains Interred Therein - Specification as to Removal of Remains After Two Months.

Section 11-47-61Declaration for abandonment of cemetery and removal of human remains interred therein - Specification as to removal of remains after two months. 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 and removal required to be published under the provisions of Section 11-47-62 the human remains then remaining in such cemetery or part thereof will be removed by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation, or other person owning or controlling such cemetery. (Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §2.)
AL Code § 11-47-62 (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 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.|Division 2 - Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains.|Section 11-47-62 - Declaration for Abandonment of Cemetery and Removal of Human Remains Interred Therein - Publication, Posting, and Mailing of Notice.

Section 11-47-62Declaration for abandonment of cemetery and removal of human remains interred therein - Publication, posting and mailing of notice. (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 said cemetery or part thereof is situated or in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county wherein the same is situated if located outside the limits of an incorporated municipality, which publication shall be made once a week for two successive months. (b) Said notice shall be entitled "Notice of declaration of abandonment of lands for cemetery purposes and of intention to remove the human bodies interred therein," and shall specify a date, not less than two months after the first publication of such notice, when the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such cemetery lands and causing such notice to be published will proceed to remove the human remains then remaining in such cemetery or part thereof. (c) Copies of said notice so published shall within 10 days after the first publication thereof be posted in at least three conspicuous places in the cemetery or part thereof from which said removals of the human remains interred therein are to be made, and a further copy of said notice shall be mailed to every person who owns or holds or had the right of burial in any lot or plat in said cemetery or part thereof affected by such resolution or declaration of abandonment and removal whose name appears as such owner or holder upon the records of such cemetery, which such notice so mailed shall be addressed to the last known post office address of said respective lot owner or lot holder as the same appears from the records of said cemetery and, if no such address appears or is known, then the same shall be addressed to such person at the city or town or post office address wherein said cemetery land is situated. Such notice shall be mailed to each known living heir at law of any person whose remains are resting in said cemetery when the address of such heir is known. (Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §3; Acts 1965, No. 155, p. 224, §3.)
AL Code § 11-47-64 (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 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.|Division 2 - Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains.|Section 11-47-64 - Notice to Board of Health of Removal of Remains, etc.; Removal of Remains, etc., Subject to Rules and Regulations of Board of Health.

Section 11-47-64Notice to board of health of removal of remains, etc.; removal of remains, etc., subject to rules and regulations of board of health. (a) Any cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such cemetery shall, before disinterring, transporting or removing human remains under the provisions of this division, make a written report to the State Board of Health setting forth the name and date of death of each person whose remains are to be removed, if known, the location of the grave and the location of the grave to which such remains are to be removed. (b) Such disinterment, transportation, or removal of human remains shall be performed subject to such reasonable rules and regulations relative to the manner of disinterring, transporting, or removing such remains as may be adopted by the State Board of Health. (Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §14; Acts 1965, No. 155, p. 224, §4.)