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AL Code § 45-8A-22.133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 3 - Police and Firefighters Retirement System.|Section 45-8A-22.133 - Construction.

Section 45-8A-22.133Construction. (a) Choice of Law. The plan shall be construed and enforced according to the Internal Revenue Code, this subpart, and the laws of the State of Alabama, other than its laws respecting choice of law. In the event of any discrepancy between the terms of the plan or this subpart and those of applicable federal law, federal law shall apply. (b) Gender and Number. Words used herein in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter, and whenever any words are used herein in the singular or plural form, they shall be construed as though they were also used in the other form in all cases where they would so apply. (c) Headings and Severability. The headings and subheadings of the plan have been inserted for convenience of reference and are to be ignored in any construction of the provisions hereof. If, for any reason, any clause, sentence, subsection, section, or provision of the plan, or the application thereof, to any person, body, situation, or circumstance is held invalid or inoperative, the remainder of the plan and the application thereof to any other person, body, situation, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. (d) Uniformity. All provisions of the plan shall be interpreted and applied in a uniform, nondiscriminatory manner. (Act 2012-484, p. 1349, §34.)
AL Code § 45-8A-22.134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 3 - Police and Firefighters Retirement System.|Section 45-8A-22.134 - No Contract of Employment.

Section 45-8A-22.134No contract of employment.  The plan shall not be deemed to constitute a contract between the City of Anniston and any participant or to be consideration or an inducement for the employment of any participant or employee of the City of Anniston's police department or fire department. Nothing contained in the plan shall be deemed to give any participant or employee the right to be retained in the service of the City of Anniston or to interfere with the right of the City of Anniston to discharge any participant or employee at any time regardless of the effect which such discharge shall have upon an employee as a participant in the plan. (Act 2012-484, p. 1349, §35.)
AL Code § 45-8A-22.135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 3 - Police and Firefighters Retirement System.|Section 45-8A-22.135 - Amendment and Termination.

Section 45-8A-22.135Amendment and termination. (a) Amendment of the Plan. (1) The retirement board shall have the right at any time to amend the plan, subject to the limitations of this section. Any such amendment must be consistent with this subpart, any other legislation relating to the trust, and consistent with other authority granted to the retirement board. Additionally, in the event that the Legislature amends this subpart or makes other statutory changes that impact the terms of the plan, the retirement board shall cause the plan to be amended as necessary to reflect such legislation. (2) Any amendment which affects the rights, duties, or responsibilities of the trustee may only be made with the trustee's written consent. Any such amendment shall become effective as provided therein upon its execution. The trustee shall not be required to execute an amendment unless such amendment affects the duties of the trustee hereunder. (3) Except as otherwise specifically provided for herein, no amendment to the plan shall be effective if it authorizes or permits any part of the trust, other than such part as is required to pay taxes and administration expenses, to be used for or diverted to any purpose other than for the exclusive benefit of participants or their beneficiaries or estates. (b) Termination of the Plan. In the event that the Legislature takes appropriate action to terminate the plan, or in the event of a partial termination of the plan, all amounts shall be allocated in accordance with the provisions hereof and the accrued benefit, to the extent funded as of such date, of each affected participant shall become fully vested and shall not thereafter be subject to forfeiture. Upon full termination of the plan, the retirement board shall direct the distribution of the assets in the trust to the participants. In such case, the trustee shall distribute the assets to the remaining participants in the plan and to retired participants and their beneficiaries in cash or through the purchase of irrevocable deferred commitments from an insurer, subject to provision for expenses of administration or liquidation. Such distributions shall be allocated in such order as set forth by the Legislature, or by the retirement board to the extent the retirement board receives such authorization, to the extent of the sufficiency of such assets, basing such allocation on the accrued benefit for each such participant at the date of termination of the plan. (Act 2012-484, p. 1349, §36.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23 - Cities to Which Part Applies.

Section 45-8A-23Cities to which part applies. Any city in the State of Alabama, which has a population of more than 30,000 and not exceeding 33,000 according to the last federal census, or which may hereafter have such population according to any federal census that may be taken hereafter, may adopt the council-manager form of government by proceeding in the manner hereafter in this part provided. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.01; Acts 1971, No. 1826, p. 2993, §2.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.001 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23.001 - Petition for Election.

Section 45-8A-23.001Petition for election. The filing of a petition signed by 10 percent or more of the number of qualified voters who voted in the last city general election held in such city, asking that the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government for such city be submitted to the qualified voters thereof, with the judge of probate of the county in which such city is located, shall mandatorily require an election to be held as herein provided. Whenever such a petition purporting to be signed by at least 10 percent of the number of qualified voters who voted in the last city general election held in such city shall be presented to such judge of probate, he or she shall examine such petition and determine whether or not the same is signed by at least 10 percent of the number of qualified voters who voted in the last city general election held in such city, and if such petition is signed by the requisite number of voters to require such an election, he or she shall within 15 days from the receipt of such petition certify such fact to the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city for which such election is so petitioned, and the certificate of the judge of probate as to the sufficiency of the petition shall be final. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.02.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.002 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23.002 - Call of Election by Mayor.

Section 45-8A-23.002Call of election by mayor. The mayor or other chief executive officer of such city shall immediately upon receipt of such certificate from the judge of probate, by proclamation, submit the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government for such city, under this part, at a special election to be held at a time specified in such proclamation, not less than 40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt of the certificate from the judge of probate, unless a general or regular election is to be held within 90 days after receipt of such certificate, in which event the special election herein provided for shall be held at the same time as such general or regular election. Should the election not be called by proclamation within 10 days after receipt of his or her certificate, the judge of probate shall call such election by order at a time specified therein but not less than 40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt by the mayor or other chief executive officer of the certificate of the judge of probate, unless a general or regular election is to be held within 90 days after receipt of such certificate, in which event the special election herein provided for shall be held at the same time as such general or regular election. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.03.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.003 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23.003 - Second Election Not Called Within Four Years.

Section 45-8A-23.003Second election not called within four years. If the council-manager form of government is not adopted at the special election so called, the question of adopting such form of government shall not be resubmitted to the voters of such city for adoption within four years thereafter, and then the question of adopting the form of government may be resubmitted in the manner above provided. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.04.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.004 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23.004 - Question Submitted; Form of Ballot.

Section 45-8A-23.004Question submitted; form of ballot. At such election the question to be submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on separate ballots and shall read as follows: "Shall the council-manager form of government, as provided by the City Manager Act of 1953, be adopted for the City of .......... ? "Yes .......... . "No .........." The voter shall mark his or her ballot with a cross mark before or after the word which expresses his or her choice. No other question shall be submitted to the voters of such city upon this ballot. If voting machines are used at any voting place in such election, the above question may at the discretion of the election commission of the city or other body having charge of the conduct of municipal elections in such city, be submitted as a separate question on voting machines so used. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.05.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.005 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23.005 - Conduct, Canvassing, and Declaration of Result of Election.

Section 45-8A-23.005Conduct, canvassing, and declaration of result of election. The election thereupon shall be conducted, the vote canvassed and the result declared in the same manner as provided by law in respect to other city elections. If the majority of the votes shall be "yes" or in favor of such question, the provisions of this subpart shall thereby be adopted for such city, and the mayor shall within five days of the election transmit to the Governor, to the Secretary of State, and to the judge of probate of the county in which the city is located, each, a certificate of adoption stating that such question was adopted by such city. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.06.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.006 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23.006 - Election of First Council; Term of Office.

Section 45-8A-23.006Election of first council; term of office. Within five days of the date of his or her receipt of the certificate of adoption the judge of probate with whom the certificate was filed shall call an election to be held on the first Tuesday in September, 1954. The expenses of this election shall be paid by the city. Before calling such election the judge of probate shall cause the city to be divided into five wards containing as nearly equal number of people as possible. Candidates shall qualify in the manner prescribed in Section 45-8A-23.051 and shall have the qualifications and eligibility set forth in Sections 45-8A-23.052 and 45-8A-23.053. Each candidate shall announce the ward from which he or she desires to become a candidate. Each voter in the election may cast one vote for a candidate from each of the wards. Any candidate receiving a majority of the total votes cast for the candidates from the ward from which he or she is a candidate shall be elected as the councilman from his or her ward. In the event that any or all of the wards shall not have a candidate who received such a majority in the election then as to such ward or wards there shall be a runoff election to be held two weeks after the first election. In the runoff election only those two candidates from each ward who receive the largest vote in the first election shall be eligible in the runoff election, and only these two shall have their names placed on the ballot for the runoff election. Any candidate receiving a majority of the total votes cast in the runoff election for the candidates from the ward from which he or she is a candidate shall be elected as councilman from his or her ward. The councilman so elected shall take office on the first Monday in October following the election. Each councilman shall hold office for four years, except those elected in 1973, but shall serve until his or her successor shall have qualified. A councilman may succeed himself or herself in office. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.07; Acts 1969, No. 283, p. 619, §2; Acts 1973, No. 247, p. 278, §1.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.007 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 1 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.|Section 45-8A-23.007 - Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government - Elections and Term of Council.

Section 45-8A-23.007Council. The councilmen provided for in this subpart shall be known collectively as the Council of the City of .......... (Name of said city to be inserted) and shall have the powers and duties hereinafter provided. The council first elected shall qualify and take office in the manner hereinafter prescribed on the first Monday in October following the date when the election of all councilmen is completed, and thereupon such city shall be and become organized under the council-manager form of government provided under this part, and shall thereafter be governed by the provisions of this part. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.08.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.030 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 2 - Legal Status; Form of Government; Powers.|Section 45-8A-23.030 - Legal Status; “city.”

Section 45-8A-23.030Legal status; “city.” Any municipal corporation which adopts the council-manager form of government shall continue its existence as a body corporate without change in the name of the municipal corporation. The word "city" as hereinafter used shall mean and refer to any municipal corporation which has adopted the council-manager form of government. The city shall continue as a municipal corporation, within the corporate limits as then established, and as thereafter fixed in the manner prescribed by law, subject to all the duties and obligations then pertaining to or incumbent upon it as a municipal corporation and shall continue to enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, and franchises then enjoyed by it, as well as those that may thereafter be granted to it. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §2.01.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.031 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 2 - Legal Status; Form of Government; Powers.|Section 45-8A-23.031 - Form of Government.

Section 45-8A-23.031Form of government. The municipal government of any such city proceeding under this part shall be known as the "council-manager form of government." Pursuant to the provisions and limitations of this part and subject to the limitations imposed by the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and its laws, all powers of the city shall be vested in the council elected as herein provided and hereinafter referred to as "the council." All powers of the city shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this part, or if the manner be not prescribed, then in such manner as may be prescribed by law or by ordinance. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §2.02.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.032 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 2 - Legal Status; Form of Government; Powers.|Section 45-8A-23.032 - Powers of City.

Section 45-8A-23.032Powers of city. The city shall have all the powers granted to municipal corporations and to cities by the constitution and laws of this state together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted. The city may acquire property within or without its corporate limits for any city purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, or condemnation, and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage, and control such property as its interest may require; and, except as prohibited by the constitution and laws of this state or restricted by this part the city shall and may exercise all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever. The enumeration of particular powers by this part shall not be deemed to be exclusive, and in addition to the powers enumerated herein or implied thereby, or appropriate to the exercise of such powers, it is intended that the city shall have and may exercise all powers which, under the constitution of this state, it would be competent for this part specifically to enumerate. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §2.03.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.050 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 3 - The Council.|Section 45-8A-23.050 - Number, Election, Term.

Section 45-8A-23.050Number, election, term. The council shall have five to seven members consisting of one councilman who shall be elected by all of the qualified voters of the city, and the remainder of such councilmen shall reside within a residential ward and be elected by all of the qualified voters from such ward. Any election of councilmen shall be held and conducted, at the same times and in the same manner, as provided by law in respect to municipal elections in cities of this state, not organized under a commission form of government. All municipal officers of the city shall have the same duties and responsibilities as they have with respect to said municipal elections. The officer or officers shall issue any orders necessary to cause all election requirements to be met. Each councilman shall hold office for four years, but shall serve until his or her successor shall have qualified. A councilman may succeed himself or herself in office. Each councilman elected from a residential ward shall reside within the limits of his or her ward during the term of his or her office, and if any such councilman shall remove from within the limits of his or her ward, his or her office shall become vacant. Electors from the city must vote only in the ward of his or her residence. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §3.01; Acts 1969, No. 283, p. 619, §3; Act 84-400, p. 938, §1.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.051 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 3 - The Council.|Section 45-8A-23.051 - Statement of Candidacy.

Section 45-8A-23.051Statement of candidacy. For the 1984 election and all subsequent elections candidates shall file statements of candidacy at the same times and in the same manner as provided by law in respect to municipal elections in cities of this state which have a population of its size according to the latest federal decennial census for cities not organized under a commission form of government. No person shall file a statement of candidacy for more than one position on the council unless a previous statement of candidacy is withdrawn by him or her and a subsequent statement of candidacy otherwise qualifies under the provisions of this section. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §3.02; Acts 1969, No. 283, p. 619, §4; Act 84-400, p. 938, §1.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.052 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 3 - The Council.|Section 45-8A-23.052 - Ballot.

Section 45-8A-23.052Ballot. At every such election, all such ballots to be used by voters shall be printed or prepared by the election commission or other body having charge of the conduct of municipal elections in the city, and shall contain the names of all candidates for the at large position on the council directly under the words "For the at large position on the council," and the names of all candidates from each ward directly under the words "For members of the council from the __________ ward." No name shall appear upon the ballot as a candidate for election except the names of such persons as have become candidates according to provisions as above set forth; no ballot shall be used at any such election except the official ballot prepared by the election commission or other body having charge of the conduct of municipal elections in the city, except that the names of candidates may be suitably placed on voting machines if such machines are used to conduct such election. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §3.03; Act 84-400, p. 938, §1.)
AL Code § 45-8A-23.053 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 8A - Calhoun County Municipalities.|Article 2 - Anniston.|Part 4 - Goverrning Body.|Division 3 - The Council.|Section 45-8A-23.053 - Eligibility.

Section 45-8A-23.053Eligibility. Any councilman shall be a qualified elector of the city, and at least 21 years of age at the time of his or her election. He or she shall hold no other elected or paid public office except as a member of the national guard or naval or military reserve. He or she shall not have been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude. If any councilman elect or councilman serving as such shall be convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, or shall enter into any other elected or paid public office, except as a member of the national guard or naval or military reserve, his or her office shall immediately become vacant. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §3.04; Act 84-400, p. 938, §1.)