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2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-2 - Borrowing of Money Authorized - Thirty-Year Loans.

Section 11-47-2
Borrowing of money authorized - Thirty-year loans.
Any incorporated city or town in this state may borrow money for temporary or any other lawful purpose or use to the extent of its constitutional debt limit and pay all costs, fees, and commissions agreed upon in connection with any such loans, and the governing body thereof may, without an election, issue evidences of indebtedness in the form of interest-bearing warrants, notes, or bills payable, maturing at such times as such governing body may determine, not exceeding 30 years from the date of issue, and any such city or town may as security for any such evidences of indebtedness and, as a part of the contract whereunder any money is borrowed, pledge to the payment thereof so much as may be necessary therefor of any tax or license or revenues that such city or town may then be authorized to pledge to the payment of bonded or other indebtedness.
(Acts 1921, Ex. Sess., No. 8, p. 6; Code 1923, §2011; Acts 1927, No. 472, p. 515; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 188, p. 203; Code 1940, T. 37, §466; Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-712, p. 126.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-3 - Contracts and Indebtedness for Municipal Buildings and Public Utility Systems; Consolidation of Systems; Ancillary Service Contracts.

Section 11-47-3
Contracts and indebtedness for municipal buildings and public utility systems; consolidation of systems; ancillary service contracts.
(a) The governing body of any city or town may contract for the construction, reconstruction, extension, or repair of any municipal building, plant, waterworks system, or electric light and power plant or system or may on credit employ labor and purchase on credit all materials and supplies needed in such construction, reconstruction, extension, or repair and may, without an election, issue evidences of indebtedness in the forms and of the maturities described in Section 11-47-2 to the extent of any indebtedness incurred in such contract or purchase or construction, reconstruction or extension and may secure such evidences of indebtedness by mortgage or deed of trust (in such form and with such provisions as such governing body may determine) on such municipal building, plant, waterworks system, or electric light and power plant or system.
(b) The governing body may consolidate or combine their waterworks systems or plants with their lighting or power plants and systems and use any part of the one system or plant for the operation of the other plant or system, and may use the net proceeds, receipts and revenues from the lighting or power plant for the payment or security of any debt incurred in the construction, maintenance, extension, or operation of the waterworks system.
(c) The governing body may enter into agreements with companies duly registered as service contract providers under Chapter 32 of Title 8 to make available ancillary service contracts to residential utility customers of the city or town's utilities system, including residential water, sewer, gas, and electric utility services customers, with the endorsement of the city or town if deemed appropriate, and the governing body may apply any fees it receives pursuant to the agreements to its general revenue fund. No city or town shall require utility customers to purchase an ancillary service contract.
(Acts 1921, Ex. Sess., No. 8, p. 6; Code 1923, §2011; Acts 1927, No. 472, p. 515; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 188, p. 203; Code 1940, T. 37, §466; Act 2013-117, §1.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-4 - Authority for Issuance of Bonds After Reorganization.

Section 11-47-4
Authority for issuance of bonds after reorganization.
Bonds authorized to be issued by cities and towns of the state by act of the legislature before the adoption of the constitution or by laws adopted since the adoption of said constitution may be issued by such municipality, the same after becoming reorganized under the applicable provisions of this title as before.
(Code 1907, §1181; Code 1923, §1897; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 213, p. 215; Acts 1935, No. 68, p. 155; Code 1940, T. 37, §465.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-5 - Execution of Contracts.

Section 11-47-5
Execution of contracts.
Contracts entered into by a municipality shall be in writing, signed and executed in the name of the city or town by the officers authorized to make the same and by the party contracting. In cases not otherwise directed by law or ordinance, such contracts shall be entered into and executed by the mayor in the name of the city or town and all obligations for the payment of money by the municipality, except for bonds and interest coupons, shall be attested by the clerk. This section shall not be construed to cover purchases for the ordinary needs of the municipality.
(Code 1907, §1183; Code 1923, §1899; Code 1940, T. 37, §467.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-6 - Contracts to Be Awarded to Lowest Responsible Bidder.

Section 11-47-6
Contracts to be awarded to lowest responsible bidder.
(a) The award of each contract for which bids have been submitted to a municipality shall be made to the lowest responsible bidder who may comply with such reasonable regulations as may be prescribed before the bids are called for.
(b) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $1,000.00 and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
(Code 1907, §1195; Acts 1909, No. 200, p. 197; Code 1923, §§1911, 5084; Code 1940, T. 37, §468.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-7 - Erection, Maintenance, etc., of Jails, Morgues, Hospitals, Etc.

Section 11-47-7
Erection, maintenance, etc., of jails, morgues, hospitals, etc.
All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails, morgues, houses of refuge, stationhouses and prisons, public baths and bathhouses, and to own, establish, maintain, and regulate public hospitals, and to purchase and provide for any and all things which may be deemed advisable or necessary thereto and to receive donations and bequests of property or money in trust or otherwise for the exercise of all such powers, rights, and duties incident to the same.
(Code 1907, §1287; Code 1923, §2045; Code 1940, T. 37, §469.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-7.1 - Additional Court Costs and Fees on Certain Municipal Cases; Disposition of Funds.

Section 11-47-7.1
Additional court costs and fees on certain municipal cases; disposition of funds.
(a) In addition to any court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized, any municipal governing body, by majority vote of the municipal governing body, may individually or jointly with one or more municipalities in the county levy and assess additional court costs and fees up to an amount not to exceed the court costs and fees in the district court of the county for a similar case on each case hereafter filed in any municipal court of the municipality or municipalities. The cost or fee shall not be waived by any court unless all other costs, fees, assessments, fines, or charges associated with the case are waived. The costs and fees when collected by the clerks or other collection officers of the courts, shall be paid into a special municipal fund designated as the corrections fund. The affected governing body shall allocate the funds exclusively for the purchase of land for, and the construction, equipment, operation, and maintenance of, the municipal jail or jails, other correctional facilities, if any, any juvenile detention center, or any court complex.
(b) The municipal governing body may appropriate other funds, space, and property sufficient to maintain and equip any municipal jail or court complex. The municipal governing body may also receive gifts, grants, and property for the use of the jail or court complex and may contract for services related to the construction, equipment, and maintenance of the jail or court complex.
(c) The municipal governing body or municipal governing bodies may provide for the implementation of this section with another governmental entity by entering into a contract pursuant to a resolution or ordinance for the construction and operation of joint municipal correctional facilities or a court complex and may adopt joint rules and regulations applicable to the jurisdiction of each entity relative to the correctional or court facilities.
(Acts 1994, No. 94-694, p. 1334, §§1-3; Acts 1995, No. 95-401, p. 835, §1; Act 2010-586, p. 1317, §1.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-8 - Removal of Prisoners From Municipal Jail to Another Jail.

Section 11-47-8
Removal of prisoners from municipal jail to another jail.
If the jail of any municipality is destroyed or becomes overcrowded, insufficient or unsafe or any epidemic dangerous to life is prevalent in the vicinity, or there be danger of rescue or lawless violence to any prisoner, any circuit judge of the county, on application of the mayor or governing body of such municipality and proof of the fact, may direct the removal of any prisoner or prisoners, either before or after conviction, to the nearest sufficient jail in any other municipality or county, and it is the duty of such judge in such case to make an endorsement on the order or process of commitment stating the reason why such removal is ordered and to date and sign such endorsement.
The maintenance and cost of removal of said prisoners shall be borne by the municipality requesting said removal.
(Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 247, p. 344.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-9 - Advertisement of Municipalities - Authorized.

Section 11-47-9
Advertisement of municipalities - Authorized.
All municipalities in the State of Alabama shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts or agreements with any persons, firms, or corporations for the advertisement of such municipality or any function or undertaking of such municipality both within and without the limits of such municipality through the use of any recognized medium of advertising.
(Acts 1953, No. 869, p. 1167, §1.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-10 - Advertisement of Municipalities - Costs.

Section 11-47-10
Advertisement of municipalities - Costs.
The reasonable cost of or charge for such advertising shall be a legal charge against any available funds of the municipality engaged in such advertising.
(Acts 1953, No. 869, p. 1167, §2.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-11 - Appropriations, etc., for Promotion, etc., of Municipal Resources and for Promotion of Industry, etc., Within Municipality, Etc.

Section 11-47-11
Appropriations, etc., for promotion, etc., of municipal resources and for promotion of industry, etc., within municipality, etc.
In addition to all other powers which may be conferred on it by law, every incorporated city or town shall have the power to set aside, appropriate and use municipal funds or revenues for the purpose of developing, advertising and promoting the agricultural, mineral, timber, water, labor and all other resources of every kind within its police jurisdiction, and for the purpose of locating and promoting agricultural, industrial and manufacturing plants, factories and other industries within the municipality or elsewhere inside the county not more than 15 miles from the boundaries of the municipality.
(Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 300, p. 2361.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-12 - Provision of Building for Storage of Gunpowder, Etc.

Section 11-47-12
Provision of building for storage of gunpowder, etc.
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
(Code 1852, §1119; Code 1867, §1299; Code 1876, §1604; Code 1886, §1380; Code 1896, §2971; Code 1907, §1453; Code 1923, §2309; Code 1940, T. 37, §472.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-13 - Purchase of School Property and Erection of School Buildings; Levy of Tax Therefor.

Section 11-47-13
Purchase of school property and erection of school buildings; levy of tax therefor.
All municipal corporations may purchase school property or purchase lots and erect school buildings thereon for the use and benefit of the citizens of their respective towns or cities. For said purpose the town council or board of aldermen may levy a tax not exceeding one-fourth of one percent; provided, that the city or town tax shall not exceed the constitutional limitation. The town council or board of aldermen may purchase school property, from time to time, for the maintenance and improvement of such school property and the maintenance of public schools therein within the limits prescribed in this section. Any purchase of school property under the power granted in this section shall only be made by the majority vote of the town council or board of aldermen of such city or town and approved by the mayor.
(Code 1907, §1458; Code 1923, §2314; Code 1940, T. 37, §474.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-14 - Provision of Wharves and Landings and Improvement of Waterfronts Generally.

Section 11-47-14
Provision of wharves and landings and improvement of waterfronts generally.
All municipal corporations which may have heretofore regularly issued bonds as provided by law for all or any of the purposes of constructing a wharf or wharves and a landing or landings and purchasing such real estate as may be necessary for such wharf or wharves and landing or landings and the equipping and furnishing of the same and improving of the waterfront for such municipalities may expend the proceeds of the sale of such bonds for all or any of the purposes of constructing a wharf or wharves and a landing or landings and acquiring such real estate as may be necessary for such wharf or wharves, landing or landings, either by purchase or condemnation proceedings in the manner provided by Title 18 of this Code, and of equipping and furnishing the same and improving the waterfront for such municipality, within its limits and outside its limits within five miles of the corporate limits of such municipality as such limits are now or may hereafter be established, and for the purpose of securing the complete use and enjoyment of all of said improvements for such municipality whether located within or without its limits.
(Acts 1919, No. 141, p. 123; Code 1923, §2044; Code 1940, T. 37, §475.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-15 - Alteration of Channel of Watercourse; Construction, Maintenance, Leasing, etc., of Wharves and Buildings, etc., on and Near Wharves and Wharf Sites.

Section 11-47-15
Alteration of channel of watercourse; construction, maintenance, leasing, etc., of wharves and buildings, etc., on and near wharves and wharf sites.
The council or other governing body of any town or city may alter and change the channel of any watercourse in the police jurisdiction of the city or town and may construct and maintain wharves and construct buildings and other improvements on and near wharves and wharf sites and may collect wharfage dues and other charges thereon and rentals with respect thereto. Said council or other governing body may lease to others all or any part of wharves or sites for wharves constructed, maintained, or owned by such town or city and any buildings and other improvements so constructed on or near any wharf or wharf site for public or private use for a period or periods not exceeding 40 years from the completion of such construction or for a period or periods not exceeding 40 years from the delivery of the lease if such construction shall have been completed before the date of delivery of the lease, and may authorize the lessees in such leases and their sublessees to construct or maintain buildings and other improvements upon the properties so leased and collect wharfage due thereon and to sublet all or any part of said wharves, buildings and other improvements.
(Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470; Acts 1961, No. 820, p. 1206.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-16 - Establishment, Acquisition, Administration, etc., of Public Cultural Facilities.

Section 11-47-16
Establishment, acquisition, administration, etc., of public cultural facilities.
Each county, city, and town in this state shall have power to establish, operate, maintain, or contract with others to operate and maintain public cultural facilities consisting of museums, art galleries, art centers, music halls, and related facilities, and, if necessary, to acquire sites for, construct, or otherwise acquire such facilities, all to the end of making cultural facilities available to the public, whether separately or grouped two or more in the same building. Whenever any such facilities shall have been so established they may be administered by and through such instrumentality or instrumentalities as may be designated for that purpose by the governing body of such county, city, or town.
(Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 151, p. 168; Code 1940, T. 37, §511; Acts 1963, No. 541, p. 1159; Acts 1983, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 83-163, p. 333.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-17 - Provision of Public Scales, Inspection of Weights and Measures, Etc.

Section 11-47-17
Provision of public scales, inspection of weights and measures, etc.
The council or other governing body of any town or city may provide public scales and an inspection of weights and measures and may provide punishment for persons, firms and corporations using fraudulent weights and measures.
(Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470; Acts 1961, No. 820, p. 1206.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-18 - Provision for Lighting, Sprinkling, and Cleaning of Streets.

Section 11-47-18
Provision for lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning of streets.
The council or other governing body of any town or city may provide for lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning the streets by contract or otherwise.
(Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470; Acts 1961, No. 820, p. 1206.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-19 - Establishment, etc., of Public Grounds, Parks, etc., and Provision of Music and Other Exhibitions.

Section 11-47-19
Establishment, etc., of public grounds, parks, etc., and provision of music and other exhibitions.
The council or other governing body of any town or city may establish, lay out and improve public grounds, parks, and boulevards and regulate the same and may provide music and other exhibitions for the amusement of the inhabitants.
(Acts 1939, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1940, T. 37, §470; Acts 1961, No. 820, p. 1206.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-20 - Disposition of Unneeded Real Estate - Generally.

Section 11-47-20
Disposition of unneeded real estate - Generally.
The governing body of any city or town in this state may, by ordinance to be entered on its minutes, direct the disposal of any real property not needed for public or municipal purposes and direct the mayor to make title thereto, and a conveyance made by the mayor in accordance with such ordinance invests the grantee with the title of the municipality.
(Acts 1953, No. 843, p. 1135, §1.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-21 - Disposition of Unneeded Real Estate - Leasing Thereof.

Section 11-47-21
Disposition of unneeded real estate - Leasing thereof.
The governing body of any city or town in this state may, by ordinance to be entered on its minutes, lease any of its real property not needed for public or municipal purposes, and a lease made by the mayor in accordance with such ordinance shall be binding for the term specified in the lease, not to exceed a period of 99 years; provided, that in counties having a population of not less than 225,000 and not more than 400,000 inhabitants according to the most recent federal decennial census, such limitation of the term to a period of 99 years shall not apply to any oil, gas, or mineral lease made in accordance with such ordinance.
(Acts 1953, No. 843, p. 1135, §2; Acts 1957, No. 412, p. 574.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-22 - Exercise of Police Jurisdiction Over Hospitals, Poorhouses, Cemeteries, Etc.

Section 11-47-22
Exercise of police jurisdiction over hospitals, poorhouses, cemeteries, etc.
All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to exercise police jurisdiction over all lands purchased or acquired by the city or town for the purpose of being used or occupied as a hospital, quarantine station, poorhouse, pesthouse, workhouse or house of correction, schoolhouse, sanitary or storm water sewers, rights-of-way, cemeteries and parks, and the laws and ordinances of the cities and towns shall apply to and extend over all the lands so used or occupied and the inhabitants thereof.
(Code 1907, §1288; Code 1923, §2046; Code 1940, T. 37, §477.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-23 - Limitation Periods for Presentation of Claims Against Municipalities.

Section 11-47-23
Limitation periods for presentation of claims against municipalities.
All claims against the municipality (except bonds and interest coupons and claims for damages) shall be presented to the clerk for payment within two years from the accrual of said claim or shall be barred. Claims for damages growing out of torts shall be presented within six months from the accrual thereof or shall be barred.
(Code 1907, §1191; Code 1923, §1907; Code 1940, T. 37, §476.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-24 - Government Agency Required to Provide Defense Counsel to Any Employee Sued for Damages Arising Out of Performance of Official Duties; Municipal Corporation Authorized to Obtain Liability Insurance.

Section 11-47-24
Government agency required to provide defense counsel to any employee sued for damages arising out of performance of official duties; municipal corporation authorized to obtain liability insurance.
(a) Whenever any employee of a municipal corporation of the State of Alabama shall be sued for damages arising out of the performance of his official duties, and while operating a motor vehicle or equipment engaged in the course of his employment, such government agency shall be authorized and required to provide defense counsel for such employees in such suit and to indemnify him from any judgment rendered against him in such suit. In no event shall a municipal corporation of the state be required to provide defense and indemnity for employees who may be sued for damages arising out of actions which were either intentional or willful or wanton.
(b) All municipal corporations of the State of Alabama are hereby authorized to contract at governmental expense for policies of liability insurance to protect employees in the course of their employment.
(Acts 1988, No. 88-657, p. 1055.)
2023 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 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-47-26 - Payment of Municipal Employees by Direct Deposit of Wages.

Section 11-47-26
Payment of municipal employees by direct deposit of wages.
(a) A municipality may adopt a policy to require new employees hired by the municipality after the adoption of the policy to participate in direct deposit of the employee's wages.
(b) If a municipality elects to pay the wages of its employees by direct deposit, the municipality shall do all of the following:
(1) Provide a municipal employee with an electronic fund transfer authorization form.
(2) Deposit the wage of a municipal employee into a personal bank account at a financial institution selected by the employee on the electronic fund transfer authorization form.
(3) Each time the municipality pays the wage of a municipal employee by direct deposit, provide the employee with a direct deposit statement that includes:
a. The total amount of the wage.
b. Any amount deducted from the wage.
c. The amount of the wage directly deposited into the personal bank account selected by the employee.
(c) A municipality may not require an employee to participate in direct deposit of the employee's wages if the employee would incur fees charged to the employee's account as a result of the direct deposit and a comparable financial institution that would not charge a fee for a direct deposit is not available to the employee in the municipality.
(d) An employe may opt out of the direct deposit requirement by submitting a written request to his or her employer prior to the end of the first pay period, or once annually thereafter.
(Act 2014-334, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 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 11-47-40
Ownership, 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.)
2023 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 11-47-41
Contracts 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.)
2023 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 11-47-42
Contracts 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.)
2023 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 11-47-60
Declaration 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.)
2023 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 11-47-61
Declaration 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.)
2023 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 11-47-62
Declaration 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.)
2023 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 11-47-64
Notice 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.)
2023 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 11-47-66 - Purchase and Sale of Lands, etc., for Reinterment of Remains From Abandoned Cemeteries; Reservation of Lands in Abandoned Cemeteries for Erection of Memorial Mausoleum, Etc.

Section 11-47-66
Purchase and sale of lands, etc., for reinterment of remains from abandoned cemeteries; reservation of lands in abandoned cemeteries for erection of memorial mausoleum, etc.
(a) Whenever any such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling any such cemetery lands from which the bodies interred therein are to be removed in accordance with the provisions of this division shall have purchased or otherwise acquired lands or a mausoleum or columbarium or the possession or use thereof for the purpose of providing a place for the reinterment or depositing of any human remains which may be removed from any such abandoned cemetery or part thereof, such new lands may be surveyed and subdivided into lots and plats and avenues and walks for cemetery purposes, and any such mausoleum or columbarium or any part thereof may be divided into niches, compartments, or receptacles for the receipt of such remains as may be therein deposited. Thereafter such lots or plats, niches, compartments, or receptacles may be sold to persons desiring to make reinterments or to deposit human remains therein and the board of directors or other governing body of any such cemetery corporation or association may receive and accept as part or full consideration for the purchase price of such new lots or plats, niches, compartments, or receptacles and under such terms and conditions as to the value or price thereof as the said directors or other governing body may deem equitable, full or partial releases from the members of such corporation of their respective right in or to the whole or any part of the assets of said corporation or association other than the lot or plat, niche, compartment, or receptacle conveyed to such purchasers respectively. Any retransfer to said cemetery corporation or association of any lot or plat in the cemetery from which the removal of the human remains are to be made shall operate as such a release.
(b) Sufficient lands may be reserved from any such cemetery lands abandoned as a burial place for the dead and from which the human remains have been removed to erect a memorial mausoleum or columbarium for the depositing of the bodies disinterred from such cemetery lands and to provide sufficient grounds around the same and to preserve such historical vaults or monuments as the board of directors or other governing body of any such cemetery corporation or association may determine to be proper or necessary.
(Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §10.)
2023 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 11-47-67 - Reinterment of Remains Generally.

Section 11-47-67
Reinterment of remains generally.
Whenever under the provisions of this division the remains of any person shall have been removed from any cemetery or part thereof abandoned as such burial place under the provisions of the division by the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person having charge or control of such cemetery lands, such remains shall be transported to and reinterred in any other cemetery in this state where burials are permitted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person having charge or control of such cemetery lands or part thereof or deposited in a mausoleum or columbarium as provided in this section.
The remains of each person so reinterred shall be placed in a separate and suitable receptacle and decently and respectfully interred under such rules and regulations now in force or that may be adopted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person making such removal. If the remains of any such person so removed from said cemetery lands are deposited in a memorial mausoleum or columbarium built for that purpose, each body so removed shall be inclosed in a separate and suitable receptacle or container and shall be so deposited in a decent and respectful manner in accordance with such rules and regulations now existing or that may hereafter be adopted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such cemetery lands.
(Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §6.)
2023 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 11-47-68 - Erection of Markers Upon and Preparation, Filing, etc., of Maps, Plans, etc., of Lands, etc., Where Remains Reinterred.

Section 11-47-68
Erection of markers upon and preparation, filing, etc., of maps, plans, etc., of lands, etc., where remains reinterred.
After the removal and reinterment or deposit in a mausoleum or columbarium of the bodies disinterred from any such abandoned cemetery or part thereof the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such abandoned cemetery lands and making such removals shall cause to be erected upon or imbedded in any lot or plat wherein any such body is reinterred a suitable permanent marker identifying such remains and shall prepare a complete map or plat describing and showing the location and subdivision into lots and plats of the cemetery lands where such bodies are reinterred or a plan of any mausoleum or columbarium wherein such bodies may be deposited, and there shall also be attached to any such map or plat or plans a description of the name of each person whose body is so reinterred or deposited, where known, and the lot or plat in the cemetery or the niche or compartment in any mausoleum or columbarium where such body is reinterred or deposited. Such map or plat shall be kept on file in the office of such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person making such removals and reinterments or depositing bodies in a mausoleum or columbarium and shall at all times be open to inspection by the relatives or friends of those so reinterred or deposited.
(Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §11.)