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AL Code § 11-42-49 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-49 - Ballots.

Section 11-42-49Ballots. Each voter may furnish his own ballot with the following words written or printed thereon: "For annexation," if he desires to vote in favor of annexing the territory to the city or "Against annexation," if he desires to vote against annexing the territory to the city. It shall not be necessary for the ballot to be of any particular size, form, or color. (Code 1907, §1084; Code 1923, §1778; Code 1940, T. 37, §147.)
AL Code § 11-42-50 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-50 - Ascertainment, Certification, and Delivery of Election Results.

Section 11-42-50Ascertainment, certification, and delivery of election results. The inspectors at the respective voting places must, as soon as the polls are closed, ascertain and certify the results of the election at their respective voting places to the judge of probate and deliver the same to the returning officer, who must at once return the same to the judge of probate. (Code 1907, §1085; Code 1923, §1779; Code 1940, T. 37, §148.)
AL Code § 11-42-51 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-51 - Canvassing of Returns; Entry, Recordation, etc., of Orders, Maps, etc., as to Annexation of Territory.

Section 11-42-51Canvassing of returns; entry, recordation, etc., of orders, maps, etc., as to annexation of territory. The judge of probate must canvass the returns as made by the inspectors and if it appears that a majority of the votes cast at the election were "for annexation" the judge shall make and enter an order on the records of the probate court adjudging and decreeing the corporate limits of the city to be extended so as to embrace the territory described in the resolution and designated on the plat or map attached to the resolution, and must cause the certified resolution and all orders or decrees or judgments to be recorded in the records in his office and must also cause the map or plat to be recorded in the map records in his office, and from the time of the entry of such order such territory shall be a part of and within the corporate limits of the city with the limitations, rights, powers, and privileges set forth in this article. If it appears that a majority of the votes cast at the election are "against annexation," the judge of probate shall make and enter an order on the records of the court adjudging and decreeing that a majority of the votes cast at such election were cast against coming into the corporate limits of the city and that the territory described and designated in the resolution and plat or map attached shall not form a part of or be embraced in the city until it may thereafter be brought into the city as a part thereof. (Code 1907, §1086; Code 1923, §1780; Code 1940, T. 37, §149.)
AL Code § 11-42-52 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-52 - Contests of Election.

Section 11-42-52Contests of election. The result of such election may be contested by any qualified elector voting at the election in the manner provided for control of general municipal elections, making the city the contestee. (Code 1907, §1087; Code 1923, §1781; Code 1940, T. 37, §150.)
AL Code § 11-42-53 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-53 - Costs of Election.

Section 11-42-53Costs of election. The city at whose instance the election is held shall pay all cost and expense incident to the election. (Code 1907, §1088; Code 1923, §1782; Code 1940, T. 37, §151.)
AL Code § 11-42-54 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-54 - Subsequent Extensions of Corporate Limits.

Section 11-42-54Subsequent extensions of corporate limits. Any city having extended its corporate limits under the provisions of this article or any other act or law may again extend its corporate limits under this article or under any other act or law authorizing an extension of corporate limits by such city. (Code 1907, §1123; Code 1923, §1817; Code 1940, T. 37, §185.)
AL Code § 11-42-55 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-55 - Requirement as to Resolutions, Orders, or Notices Under Article.

Section 11-42-55Requirement as to resolutions, orders, or notices under article. In every proceeding to extend the corporate limits of any city under the provisions of this article the council of such city shall declare in each and every resolution provided for in this article and the probate judge shall declare in each and every order directing and ordering an election to be held under this article and in every notice given hereunder and in every order made and entered on the records of the probate court under this article, that such resolution, order, or notice, as the case may be, is passed, ordered, or given under the provisions of this article. (Code 1907, §1124; Code 1923, §1818; Code 1940, T. 37, §186.)
AL Code § 11-42-56 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-56 - Subsequent Elections Not to Be Held Within 12 Months of Preceding Election.

Section 11-42-56Subsequent elections not to be held within 12 months of preceding election. After an election has been held in any territory under the provisions of this or any other similar law, no other or subsequent election shall be ordered or held for the same territory or any part thereof within 12 months next after said election. (Code 1907, §1125; Code 1923, §1819; Code 1940, T. 37, §187.)
AL Code § 11-42-57 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-57 - Exemption From Taxation of Territory Annexed and Property Therein.

Section 11-42-57Exemption from taxation of territory annexed and property therein. All territory brought within the corporate limits of a city under the provisions of this article and all property having a situs within such territory shall be exempt from city taxation or the payment of taxes to the city for the period of not less than 10 nor more than 15 years from the time when such territory is brought within the corporate limits of the city, which period of exemption shall be fixed in the resolution passed by the council or governing body of the city authorized under the provisions of section 11-42-41, except as provided in sections 11-42-58 and 11-42-59. (Code 1907, §1090; Code 1923, §1784; Code 1940, T. 37, §153.)
AL Code § 11-42-58 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-58 - Certain Annexed Territory and Property Therein Subject to Taxation After Five Years.

Section 11-42-58Certain annexed territory and property therein subject to taxation after five years. From time to time after the lapse of five years from the time when such territory is brought within the corporate limits of the city, all portions of such territory as has residing on it a population of at least 20 persons on a contiguous 10 acres of land (in form of a square or any other shape) and all property having a situs on such populated territory shall thereafter be subject to taxation by the city and taxes thereon shall be paid to the city. (Code 1907, §1091; Code 1923, §1785; Code 1940, T. 37, §154.)
AL Code § 11-42-59 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-59 - Exemption From Taxation of Mining, Manufacturing, or Industrial Plants, etc., in Annexed Territory.

Section 11-42-59Exemption from taxation of mining, manufacturing, or industrial plants, etc., in annexed territory. All portions of such territory which is at the time it is brought within the corporate limits of the city used or occupied as or as a part of a mining, manufacturing, or industrial plant or construction or which is used or occupied as or as a part of a railroad or street railroad or for any other quasi-public use and continues to be so used and all property having a situs on such territory (but not including residences, dwelling houses, storehouses, commissaries, warehouses, or the land on which they are situated) shall be exempt from city taxation for a period of 10 years, and all portions of such territory which, after it is brought within the corporate limits of the city, is used or occupied by a new construction as or as a part of a mining, manufacturing, or industrial plant or construction or which is used or occupied as or as a part of a railroad or a street railroad or for any other quasi-public use and continues to be so used and all property having a situs on such territory (but not including residences, dwelling houses, storehouses, commissaries, warehouses, or the land on which they are situated) shall be exempt from city taxation for a period of 10 years from the time of construction, use, or occupation, but in no event is the exemption to extend beyond 15 years from the time when such territory is brought within the corporate limits of the city. (Code 1907, §1092; Code 1923, §1786; Code 1940, T. 37, §155.)
AL Code § 11-42-60 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-60 - Passage, Certification, Filing With Probate Judge, etc., of Resolution Declaring Annexed Territory Subject to Taxation and Map of Same.

Section 11-42-60Passage, certification, filing with probate judge, etc., of resolution declaring annexed territory subject to taxation and map of same. Whenever and as often as the facts exist which authorize a city to collect taxes from and on any portion of the territory brought within the corporate limits under the provisions of this article, the council or governing body of the city shall pass a resolution declaring the territory (described in the resolution) subject to taxation, and thereupon the mayor or governing head of the city shall make and file with the judge of probate of the county in which the city is situated a certified copy of such resolution, together with a map of such territory attached thereto showing respectively the land owned by the respective owners, if the owners are known, or "unknown owners" where owners are not known. (Code 1907, §1093; Code 1923, §1787; Code 1940, T. 37, §156.)
AL Code § 11-42-61 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-61 - Notice of Passage of Resolution and Hearing for Property Owners to Show Cause Why Property Should Not Be Subject to Taxation.

Section 11-42-61Notice of passage of resolution and hearing for property owners to show cause why property should not be subject to taxation. The mayor or other governing head of the city, within five days of the time he files the certified copy of such resolution with map attached as provided in section 11-42-60, shall give notice by publication once a week for three sucessive weeks in some newspaper published in the city to the person or persons owning the land described in the resolution of the passing of the resolution by the council or governing body, and shall further state in said notice that a certified copy of the resolution with map attached is on file in the office of the judge of probate of the county, and shall cite the property owner or owners (without naming them) to appear before the judge of probate of said county on a day fixed in the notice, which must not be less than 30 days from the first publication of the notice, to show cause, if any, why said land or any part thereof or property having a situs thereon should not thereafter pay taxes to the city or be subject to taxation by the city. (Code 1907, §1094; Code 1923, §1788; Code 1940, T. 37, §157.)
AL Code § 11-42-62 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-62 - Separately Owned Lands May Be Embraced in Single Resolution or Notice.

Section 11-42-62Separately owned lands may be embraced in single resolution or notice. Land owned by any number of separate and distinct owners may be embraced in the same resolution passed by the board or governing body of the city, and notice or citation by publication may be given to all owners by the mayor in one notice, but each owner shall have the right of contest as provided in this article as to any land owned by him. (Code 1907, §1095; Code 1923, §1789; Code 1940, T. 37, §158.)
AL Code § 11-42-63 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-63 - Filing of Contest as to Right of City to Tax Lands or Property; City to File Separate Causes Against Contesting Property Owners.

Section 11-42-63Filing of contest as to right of city to tax lands or property; city to file separate causes against contesting property owners. (a) On the day fixed in the notice or any day to which said cause may be continued, any owner of any of the property declared to be subject to taxation by the city in the resolution may file with the judge of probate a contest contesting the right of the city to tax any of the land or property owned by him, assigning as grounds for such contest the nonexistence of some one or more of facts required by this article to be in existence before the property is subject to city taxation. (b) A separate case shall be docketed by the city against each property owner who files a contest, and thereafter such cause shall be a separate and distinct cause. (Code 1907, §1096; Code 1923, §1790; Code 1940, T. 37, §159.)
AL Code § 11-42-64 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-64 - Rendition of Decree Adjudging Property Subject to Taxation, etc., as to Noncontesting Property Owners.

Section 11-42-64Rendition of decree adjudging property subject to taxation, etc., as to noncontesting property owners. On the day fixed in the citation published by the mayor for the hearing before the judge of probate or the day to which such case is continued, as to such property owner or owners as do not file a contest, the judge of probate shall render a decree adjudging that the land owned by such property owner or owners and all property having a situs thereon shall thereafter be subject to taxation by the city, and taxes thereon shall be paid to the city, and shall cause the map attached to the certified resolution passed by the board or governing body of the city to be recorded, and after the said map is recorded, the judge of probate shall endorse on said map, "adjudged subject to city taxation," on such portion of the property covered by said map as is adjudged to be subject to city taxation. (Code 1907, §1097; Code 1923, §1791; Code 1940, T. 37, §160.)
AL Code § 11-42-65 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-65 - Hearings on Contests as to Right to Tax; Rendition of Decree as to Taxation of Property.

Section 11-42-65Hearings on contests as to right to tax; rendition of decree as to taxation of property. (a) As to each cause against a property owner who filed a contest, the judge of probate may set the same for hearing at such time as he sees fit, and on the hearing shall hear such evidence as is introduced by either the property owner or the city and shall determine as to whether or not the facts which authorize the property to be taxed by the city under the terms of this article did or did not exist at the time the certified resolution was passed by the board or governing body of the city. (b) If the judge of probate decides that the requisite facts did exist at the time of the passing of the resolution, he shall render a decree adjudging that thereafter the land and property having a situs thereon (described in the decree) shall be subject to taxation by the city and that taxes thereon shall thereafter be paid to the city. If the judge of probate decides that the requisite facts did not exist at the time of the passing of said resolution, the judge of probate shall render a decree adjudging that the land and property having a situs thereon is not subject to taxation by the city, and that taxes thereon shall not be paid to the city until the facts thereafter authorize such taxation in accordance with the provisions of this article. (Code 1907, §1098; Code 1923, §1792; Code 1940, T. 37, §161.)
AL Code § 11-42-66 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-66 - Appeals From Judgment of Probate Judge - Filing; Security for Costs; Right to Jury Trial.

Section 11-42-66Appeals from judgment of probate judge - Filing; security for costs; right to jury trial. The property holders of the city shall have the right to appeal from the judgment of the judge of probate to the circuit court of the county in which the land is situated, within 10 days from the rendition of the judgment by the judge of probate, the property owner giving security for cost of appeal, to be approved by the judge of probate, if the appeal is taken by the property owner. On an appeal taken by either party, the action shall be entered on the trial docket and tried de novo in the circuit court, without a jury unless a trial by jury is demanded by the party taking the appeal by serving upon the other party a demand therefor in writing not less than 10 days after filing the notice of appeal or unless a trial by jury is demanded by the other party in the action by serving a demand therefor in writing upon the other party within 10 days from the time that notice of such appeal is served on him. (Code 1907, §1099; Code 1923, §1793; Code 1940, T. 37, §162.)
AL Code § 11-42-67 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-67 - Appeals From Judgment of Probate Judge - Issuance and Service of Notice of Appeal.

Section 11-42-67Appeals from judgment of probate judge - Issuance and service of notice of appeal. The judge of probate, within 10 days after an appeal is taken, shall issue notice to the opposite party of the appeal, and place such notice in the hands of the sheriff of the county, and the sheriff shall serve such notice upon the party to whom the same is issued and make returns thereof to the said judge of probate, but if the city takes the appeal, such notice issued to the property holder may be served upon the property holder or his agent or attorney, and if the property holder, his agent or attorney cannot be found by the sheriff, upon any person over the age of 19 years residing on or having custody of the property of such property owner. (Code 1907, §1100; Code 1923, §1794; Code 1940, T. 37, §163.)
AL Code § 11-42-68 (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 3 - Annexation of Territory by Cities of 25,000 Inhabitants or More.|Section 11-42-68 - Appeals From Judgment of Probate Judge - Transmittal of Papers to Clerk of Circuit Court; Withdrawal of Map and Certified Resolution From Files of Probate Judge for Use in Circuit Court.

Section 11-42-68Appeals from judgment of probate judge - Transmittal of papers to clerk of circuit court; withdrawal of map and certified resolution from files of probate judge for use in circuit court. If an appeal is taken, the judge of probate shall transmit all papers in the action, except the map and certified resolution, to the clerk of the court to which the appeal is taken, and such map and certified resolution, after the same have been recorded by the judge of probate as provided in this article, may be withdrawn from the file in the judge of probate's office by either party for use in the trial of the action in the circuit court, but must be returned to the judge of probate immediately after the trial of said action in the circuit court. (Code 1907, §1101; Code 1923, §1795; Code 1940, T. 37, §164.)