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AL Code § 11-46-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-1 - Municipalities May Provide for Election, Compensation, Bond, etc., of Officers.

Section 11-46-1Municipalities may provide for election, compensation, bond, etc., of officers. Cities and towns may, except as otherwise provided by law, by ordinance provide for the election at any regular municipal election or for the appointment of such officers as are deemed needful or proper for the good government of the city or town and the due exercise of its corporate powers, fix their terms of office, fix their compensation and prescribe the duties of such officers, their liabilities and powers and require them to give bond in such sum and to be conditioned and approved as the council may prescribe. (Code 1907, §1171; Code 1923, §1887; Code 1940, T. 37, §34.)
AL Code § 11-46-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-2 - Establishment of Qualification Fee for Candidates for Office.

Section 11-46-2Establishment of qualification fee for candidates for office. The governing body of all municipal corporations of this state may, by ordinance, establish and fix a qualification fee to be imposed upon all candidates seeking election in municipal elections conducted under the provisions of Sections 11-46-20 through 11-46-25, 11-46-27 through 11-46-73, as amended, and of Sections 11-46-90 through 11-46-96, 11-46-98 through 11-46-144, as amended. Such fee, if established as provided for in this section, shall in no event be less than $10.00 and shall not exceed $50.00 for any office for which a candidate qualifies for election. The ordinance establishing and fixing such qualification fee shall be adopted by the governing body at least five days prior to the first day upon which a candidate seeking election in a municipal election may qualify for the office to be filled at the municipal election. (Acts 1969, No. 1109, p. 2045.)
AL Code § 11-46-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-3 - Primary Elections by Political Parties and Partisan Elections Abolished in Municipalities Having 300,000 Inhabitants or Less.

Section 11-46-3Primary elections by political parties and partisan elections abolished in municipalities having 300,000 inhabitants or less. Primary elections of political parties are hereby abolished in cities and towns of this state which have a population of 300,000 inhabitants or less, according to the latest federal decennial census, and election of the members of the municipal governing body of said cities and towns shall be by and on a nonpartisan ballot in all elections held for the purpose of electing members of the governing body. (Acts 1971, No. 2234, p. 3592.)
AL Code § 11-46-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-4 - Identification of Electors Eligible to Vote; Municipality, County Contracts; Official Poll List.

Section 11-46-4Identification of electors eligible to vote; municipality, county contracts; official poll list. (a) The incorporated municipalities of this state are hereby authorized to enter into contracts with the counties of this state and their boards of registrars to conduct an identification program of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. The said municipalities are authorized to expend public funds in payment of services rendered by such counties and boards of registrars in such identification program. Such contracts shall be authorized by appropriate resolution of the governing body of the municipality. It shall be the duty of the various boards of registrars to conduct an identification program of electors residing in the municipality and eligible to vote in municipal elections upon adoption of an appropriate resolution of the governing body of the municipality and upon approval of a contract between the municipality and the county and its board of registrars. The county and its board of registrars shall not unreasonably withhold approval of a contract with any municipality for such purposes nor shall such county or its board unreasonably delay acceptance of such contract; it being the intention of the legislature that the said county and its board shall cooperate fully with the municipalities which adopt the said appropriate resolution and attempt in good faith to contract with such municipality. Any such program contracted for shall be completed at least 180 days prior to any municipal election held within a municipality to elect officers of the municipality. It is the intention of the legislature that any such contracts, as herein authorized, be detailed and sufficiently complete so that any elector may look to it for all requirements of the program of identification. It is likewise the intention of the legislature that after the identification program is completed that the list of electors established may be used as the official poll list for the immediately ensuing municipal election held within a municipality to elect officers of the municipality and the mayor of the municipality is authorized to certify such poll list as the official poll list of the municipality. (b) All moneys paid as consideration for such contracts shall be deposited in the general fund of the county. (Acts 1979, No. 79-630, p. 1112.)
AL Code § 11-46-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-5 - Date of Elections in Certain Municipalities.

Section 11-46-5Date of elections in certain municipalities. The governing body of a municipality having a general municipal election or runoff election required by general or local act at a time different from the dates now or hereafter provided by Article 2, Chapter 46 of Title 11, may elect by ordinance to have the election at the same time required by Article 2 and the election made by ordinance shall not have the effect of changing the beginning of a term of office or the time for taking office. (Acts 1980, No. 80-243, p. 320; Acts 1993, No. 93-760, p. 1514, §1.)
AL Code § 11-46-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-6 - Date of Elections in Certain Class 5 Municipalities.

Section 11-46-6Date of elections in certain Class 5 municipalities. (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to all Class 5 cities, according to Section 11-40-12. (b) Any Class 5 city may hold its city election on the second Tuesday in July, 1980, and the runoff election four weeks after that second Tuesday, with the city election every three years thereafter to be held at the same appointed time, upon adoption of a resolution by the city governing body. (c) The provisions of this section are cumulative and shall not be construed to repeal or supersede any laws or parts of laws not directly inconsistent herewith. (Acts 1980, No. 80-363, p. 483; Act 2021-157, §1; Act 2021-164, §1.)
AL Code § 11-46-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-7 - Polling Places for Municipal Elections in Class 1 Municipalities.

Section 11-46-7Polling places for municipal elections in Class 1 municipalities. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, except for those citizens of Birmingham that reside in Shelby County and those citizens of Birmingham that vote in the general election outside the Birmingham city limits, the polling places for municipal elections in any Class 1 municipality shall be the same as the polling places for general elections. (b) The polling places in which the Class 1 municipal election are held shall be in compliance with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Justice for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, shall submit all required information to the U.S. Department of Justice for pre-clearance to hold the election in time to receive the appropriate approval and conduct the election at the time specified by law, and shall provide all notification to the voters of Birmingham regarding their assigned voting locations and any special procedures to be implemented to accommodate ballots for any city council district within the same polling place. (Act 2008-416, p. 817, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 11-46-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-8 - Election of Mayor and Members of City Council in Class 1 Municipalities.

Section 11-46-8Election of mayor and members of city council in Class 1 municipalities. (a) This section shall only apply in a Class 1 municipality. (b) Commencing with the municipal election in 2011, the mayor shall be elected for a two-year term of office. Commencing with the municipal election in 2013, and thereafter, the mayor and the members of the city council shall be elected at the same election for a four-year term of office. (Act 2010-721, p. 1797, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 11-46-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-46-9 - Election Commission in Class 1 Municipality.

Section 11-46-9Election commission in Class 1 municipality. In any Class 1 municipality, the mayor, the city attorney, and the president of the city council shall constitute an election commission for the city. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if either the mayor or the president of the council is a candidate for office, the mayor shall appoint a member of the city council who is not a candidate for office to serve on the election commission for the election in which the mayor or the president is a candidate. In the event that both the mayor and the president of the council are candidates for office at the same election, the mayor shall appoint two members of the council who are not candidates for office to serve on the election commission in place of the mayor and the president. If the mayor and all members of the council are candidates for office at the same election, the mayor shall designate a senior member of his or her staff and the council president shall designate a senior member of the council administrative staff to serve in place of the mayor and the president. The election commission shall have charge of and hold all municipal elections, including bond elections, initiative, referendum, and recall elections. The election commission shall appoint all election managers, clerks, and returning officers, designate places for the holding of municipal elections, shall arrange and prepare the ballot, shall decide as to the validity of all petitions necessary or incidental to elections, make such laws and rules as may be necessary to prohibit illegal voting, shall canvass the vote and declare the results of elections, and shall be custodian of the ballots after election until the time of filing contest shall have passed, after which they shall destroy the ballots in accordance with state election law. It shall be the duty of the commission to give notice of elections as required by law and to do and perform all acts relating to municipal elections, which are now or which may hereafter be vested by law in the governing body of the city. Two members of the commission shall constitute a quorum and may exercise the powers and duties herein mentioned. The city clerk or secretary of the city commission shall act as secretary of the commission. The expenses of elections shall be paid out of the city treasury. (Act 2012-222, p. 407, §1.)
AL Code § 11-46-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 2 - Elections in Certain Cities or Towns Having Mayor-Council Form of Government.|Section 11-46-20 - Cities and Towns Governed by Article; Costs of Elections; Standard of Time Applicable; Effect of Legal Holidays or Closing Days.

Section 11-46-20Cities and towns governed by article; costs of elections; standard of time applicable; effect of legal holidays or closing days. (a) General and special elections in cities and towns of this state, in all municipalities except Class 1 municipalities and except cities and towns organized under a commission form of government, shall be held and conducted at the times and in the manner prescribed in this article, and the expenses and costs incident to the conduct of all such elections shall be paid out of the treasury of the city or town holding the election. (b) Whenever in this article an hour of the day is prescribed for the doing of any act, the time used shall be that of the official time established by the law of the State of Alabama then in effect. (c) Whenever the last day on which an act may be done pursuant to this article falls on a legal holiday, as defined in Section 1-3-8, or on a day on which the office in which the act must be done is authorized by law to be closed, such act may be done on the next succeeding secular or working day. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §1; Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 219, p. 306; Acts 1976, No. 358, p. 403, §1; Acts 1982, No. 82-458, p. 711, §1.)
AL Code § 11-46-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 2 - Elections in Certain Cities or Towns Having Mayor-Council Form of Government.|Section 11-46-21 - Time of Elections; Notice; Assumption of Duties by Elected Officers.

Section 11-46-21Time of elections; notice; assumption of duties by elected officers. (a) The regular municipal elections in cities and towns shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in August 2025, and quadrennially thereafter, and, when necessary as provided in subsection (d) of Section 11-46-55, a second or runoff election shall be held on the fourth Tuesday following the regular election. (b) Special elections shall be held on the second or fourth Tuesday of any month when ordered by the municipal governing body; provided, that notice of the election shall be published in the manner prescribed in Section 11-46-22 on or before the corresponding Tuesday of the second month preceding the month in which the special election is to be held. (c) Municipal officers elected at regular elections shall assume the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday in November following their election unless otherwise provided in this article and shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. (d) This section shall not apply to any municipal election required by general or local act at a time different from the dates provided for in this section. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §2; Acts 1971, No. 159, p. 434; Acts 1980, No. 80-94, p. 140, §1; Acts 1982, No. 82-458, p. 711, §2; Acts 1987, No. 87-581, p. 928, §1; Act 2006-354, p. 937, §2; Act 2021-157, §1; Act 2021-164, §1.)
AL Code § 11-46-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 2 - Elections in Certain Cities or Towns Having Mayor-Council Form of Government.|Section 11-46-23 - Authority and Procedure for Adjustment of Boundary Lines of Wards, Division of Wards Into Voting Districts, Etc.

Section 11-46-23Authority and procedure for adjustment of boundary lines of wards, division of wards into voting districts, etc. The boundaries of wards within municipalities which have been divided into wards as now defined shall so remain until changed by ordinance. Hereafter the municipal governing body may, in its discretion, readjust the boundary lines of wards and may divide or consolidate any number of wards and resubdivide the same into voting districts; provided, that no such adjustment shall be made within three months of any election unless such adjustment is made during calendar year 1984 for the purpose of complying with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended. Whenever the municipal governing body readjusts any ward lines or divides a ward into voting districts, the ordinance whereby the ward is established or subdivided into voting districts shall describe the territory composing the ward, and when the ward has been subdivided, the territory composing each district therein, by metes and bounds, and the municipal clerk, within five days after adoption of the ordinance, shall file with the judge of probate of the county in which the municipality lies a certified copy of such ordinance, accompanied by a map or plat of the city or town showing the bounderies of all wards and voting districts in wards into which the municipality is then divided and shall also publish notice of all such changes or adjustments of boundaries of wards and voting districts within wards in a newspaper published in such city or town, or if there is no newspaper is published therein then by posting notice thereof at three public places in such city or town. This published notice need not be accompanied by a map or plat of the city or town. (Acts 1961, No. 633, p. 827, §4; Acts 1984, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 84-703, p. 32.)
AL Code § 11-46-24.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 2 - Elections in Certain Cities or Towns Having Mayor-Council Form of Government.|Section 11-46-24.1 - Designation of Voting Places in Class 8 Municipalities by Combination of Districts and Wards.

Section 11-46-24.1Designation of voting places in Class 8 municipalities by combination of districts and wards. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of Section 11-46-24, the municipal governing body of a Class 8 municipality, for the purpose of designating voting places in a municipal election, may provide by ordinance for the combination of any district in a ward with any other district in the ward, and may provide for the combination of any ward with one or more wards. Voting places shall be designated by the municipal governing body when it orders an election in the same manner as provided in Chapter 46.  (Act 2004-361, p. 590, §1.)
AL Code § 11-46-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 2 - Elections in Certain Cities or Towns Having Mayor-Council Form of Government.|Section 11-46-26 - Proceedings Where Only One Candidate or Nominee for Office.

Section 11-46-26Proceedings where only one candidate or nominee for office. In the event only one individual has filed a statement of candidacy for an office by 5:00 P.M. on the fourth Tuesday in June preceding the date set for an election of municipal officers pursuant to subsection (g) of Section 11-46-25, then that individual shall for all purposes be deemed elected to office, any provisions of this article to the contrary notwithstanding. The mayor or other chief executive officer shall not cause the name of that individual so elected or the office for which his or her candidacy was declared to be printed on the ballot, but shall immediately file a written statement with the governing body of the municipality, attested by the clerk, certifying the fact that only one individual filed a statement of candidacy for the office of _____ (naming the office) by 5:00 P.M. on the fourth Tuesday in June preceding the day of _____, 2__, the date set for an election of municipal officers in the City (Town) of _____, Alabama, and setting forth the name of the individual. At its first regular meeting after receiving the mayor or other chief executive officer's statement the governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution declaring the individual named in the statement duly elected to the office described in the statement and shall issue a certificate of election for the individual. Certificates of election shall be filed as provided in Section 11-46-55(d). For the purpose of this article, each place on the council of a municipality organized under the mayor-council form of government shall be considered a separate office. (Acts 1965, No. 404, p. 582; Acts 1976, No. 358, p. 403, §5; Acts 1980, No. 80-94, p. 140, §4; Acts 1987, No. 87-581, p. 928, §5; Act 2021-157, §1.)
AL Code § 11-46-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 2 - Elections in Certain Cities or Towns Having Mayor-Council Form of Government.|Section 11-46-29 - Appointment of Election Officers Upon Failure of Others to Attend Polls.

Section 11-46-29Appointment of election officers upon failure of others to attend polls. On the failure of any person who has been duly appointed an election officer to attend the polls at the hour prescribed for his attendance, such of the election officers appointed for that voting box or machine as are present may appoint such election officers as are needed to complete the number of election officials for the box or machine. All persons so appointed shall be qualified electors who are entitled to vote at that polling place. Should all the appointed election officers fail to be present at a polling place by the hour prescribed on election day, then any three qualified electors who are entitled by law to vote at that polling place at the election then to be held may open the polls, act as three of the election officers for such box or machine and appoint such other officers as are required to fill the place of those absent; provided, that every person so appointed shall be a qualified elector entitled to vote at the polling place. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §9.)
AL Code § 11-46-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 46 - Elections.|Article 2 - Elections in Certain Cities or Towns Having Mayor-Council Form of Government.|Section 11-46-30 - Schools for Instruction of Election Officials in Use of Voting Machines; Qualifications and Certification of Election Officials.

Section 11-46-30Schools for instruction of election officials in use of voting machines; qualifications and certification of election officials. (a) When voting machines are to be used in any municipal election, the municipal governing body shall provide for holding a school or schools of instruction for those who will actually conduct the election. The municipal clerk shall notify those persons who have been appointed election officials of the time and place of the holding of such school of instruction and shall also publish notice thereof at least 48 hours before the same is to be held. (b) No election official shall serve in any election district in which a voting machine is used, unless he has received such instruction, is fully qualified to perform the duties in connection with the machine and has received a certificate to that effect from the authorized instructor; provided, that this requirement shall not prevent the appointment of an uninstructed person as an election official to fill a vacancy among the election officials. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §10.)