Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 37A - Jefferson County Municipalities
- Article 1 Adamsville.
- Article 2 Argo.
- Article 3 Avondale.
- Article 4 Bessemer.
- Part 1 Education.
- Section 45-37A-40 Board of education
(a) Beginning with the municipal elections in 2002, a school board for the City of Bessemer, Alabama, is established and shall be elected in 2002,...
- Part 2 Nuisances.
- Part 3 Photographic Traffic Enforcement.
- Section 45-37A-42 Short title
This part shall be known and may be cited as the Bessemer Automated Traffic Safety Act.
- Section 45-37A-42.01 Traffic safety system authorized; legislative findings
(a) The City of Bessemer, Alabama, by ordinance, may provide for the implementation of an automated traffic safety system within the city as provided for...
- Section 45-37A-42.02 Definitions
As used in this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CITY. The City of Bessemer, Alabama. (2) CIVIL VIOLATION. A violation...
- Section 45-37A-42.03 Adoption of ordinance for photographic traffic signal enforcement; fines
(a) The city as provided in this part, is empowered to adopt an ordinance providing for the utilization by the city or its designee of...
- Section 45-37A-42.04 Notice of violation
(a) The city or its designee shall mail a notice of violation by U.S. mail to the owner of the motor vehicle which is recorded...
- Section 45-37A-42.05 Administrative hearings; contesting liability; fines and costs; affirmative defenses
(a) An Administrative Hearing Officer appointed by the Mayor of the city is vested with the power and jurisdiction to conduct administrative hearings of civil...
- Section 45-37A-42.06 Order of administrative hearing officer; judicial review
(a) Following an administrative hearing, the Administrative Hearing Officer shall issue an order stating: (1) Whether the person charged with the civil violation is liable...
- Section 45-37A-42.07 Petition for judicial review
The circuit court hearing a petition for judicial review shall utilize the procedures applicable to proceedings in the Jefferson County District Court with the following...
- Section 45-37A-42.08 Identifying owner of vehicle
In the event the evidence produced by a photographic traffic signal enforcement system, a photographic stop sign enforcement system, or a photographic vehicle speed enforcement...
- Section 45-37A-42.09 Late fees; record of civil violations
The city may provide by ordinance that late fees not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) shall attach to untimely paid fines that are authorized pursuant this...
- Section 45-37A-42.10 Civil actions
The city is authorized to file civil actions to enforce the provisions of an ordinance authorized by this part, including but not limited to pursuing...
- Section 45-37A-42.11 Statistical data
(a) The city shall keep statistical data regarding the effectiveness of photographic traffic signal enforcement systems or photographic stop sign enforcement systems in reducing traffic-control...
- Section 45-37A-42.12 Control devices and timing
The placement of control devices in the city and timing of yellow lights and red light clearance intervals shall conform to the most recent edition...
- Section 45-37A-42.13 Criminal violations
No fine may be imposed and no adjudication of liability for a civil violation may be made under this part if the operator of the...
- Section 45-37A-42.14 Civil action against person operating vehicle
Any person against whom a determination of liability for a civil violation is made pursuant to an ordinance authorized by this part, and who actually...
- Section 45-37A-42.15 Compensation of trained technician
Under no circumstances shall the salary or other compensation of the trained technician be related to the number of notices of violation issued or amount...
- Section 45-37A-42.16 Relation to Administrative Procedure Act
Nothing in this part shall be construed as invoking the provisions of the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act, Sections 41-22-1 et seq.
- Article 5 Birmingham.
- Part 1 Education.
- Part 1 Board of Education.
- Part 2 Vocational Trade School Commission.
- Part 2 Employees.
- Part 1 Firemen's and Policemen's Pension and Relief System.
- Section 45-37A-51 Definitions
The following words, terms, and phrases, wherever used in this subpart, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them, unless the context plainly indicates that...
- Section 45-37A-51.01 Purpose
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the additional benefits provided by this subpart shall be payable solely from the fund established by...
- Section 45-37A-51.02 Pension system established; payment of employee contributions
(a) There is established in and for the city a pension system which shall be known as the Firemen’s and Policemen’s Supplemental Pension System. For...
- Section 45-37A-51.03 Board of managers
(a)(1) In order to assure representation of all participants of this system, there shall be a board of managers of five members for the administration,...
- Section 45-37A-52.13
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- Section 45-37A-51.04 Membership
(a) The following shall be members of the supplemental pension system hereby created: Members of the fire department or police department of the city who...
- Section 45-37A-51.05 Retirement and relief fund
(a) For the purpose of the deductions from salary provided for in this section, the salary of a fireman or policeman shall be deemed to...
- Section 45-37A-51.06 Supplemental ordinary disability allowance
The words, terms, and phrases used in this section shall have the meaning ascribed to them by Act 929, unless it appears from the context...
- Section 45-37A-51.07 Retirement allowance and survivor's allowance
(a)(1) The words, terms, and phrases of this section shall have the meaning ascribed to them by Act 929, unless it appears from the context...
- Section 45-37A-51.08 Retroactive Deferred Retirement Option Plan
(a) A member who retires at least 90 days following the effective date of this section, who has then completed at least 26 years, but...
- Section 45-37A-51.09 Compensation limits; forfeitures; required minimum
(a) Compensation in excess of one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000), or such other amount provided in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,...
- Section 45-37A-51.10 Transfer of assets and powers
This section is added to this subpart to transfer all assets and powers of the City of Birmingham Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund created and...
- Section 45-37A-51.11 Death benefit for spouses and children not receiving certain benefits
(a) The words, terms, and phrases used in this section shall have the meaning ascribed to them by Act 929, or Section 45-37A-51.07, unless it...
- Section 45-37A-51.12 Refund of contributions for certain participants
It is hereby provided that the provisions of those sections of Act 929 as amended by Act 1272, 1973 Regular Session (Acts 1973, p. 2141),...
- Section 45-37A-51.13 Severability
In the event that any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, idea, or other part, portion, or provision of this subpart is held unconstitutional, such holding shall...
- Part 2 Retirement and Relief System.
- Division 1 Establishment of Plan.
- Division 2 Definitions.
- Section 45-37A-51.120 Definitions
(a) The following words, terms, and phrases, wherever used in this subpart, including this section, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this...
- Division 3 Administration of Plan.
- Section 45-37A-51.130 Board of managers
The system shall be administered by a board of managers consisting of nine members as follows: (1) The mayor of the city, who shall serve...
- Section 45-37A-51.131 Method of selection and terms of appointment of board members
(a) The members of the board of managers, other than the mayor who shall always serve as chair, shall be selected and shall serve for...
- Section 45-37A-51.132 Meetings of the board of managers
The board of managers shall meet on the third Wednesday in each calendar month in the office of the chair or such other place as...
- Section 45-37A-51.133 Special meetings of the board of managers
Any five board members, after due notice having been given to all members of the board, may meet in special meeting and transact any business...
- Section 45-37A-51.134 Secretary of the board
The personnel director shall be secretary of the board and shall be present at every meeting of the board and keep a record of all...
- Section 45-37A-51.135 Quorum
Five members of the board, when assembled either in regular or special meeting, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business...
- Section 45-37A-51.136 Powers and duties of the board
The board shall have such powers as are necessary for the proper administration of the system including, but not limited to, the following: (1) To...
- Section 45-37A-51.137 The fund and its investment
(a) In each instance in which any provision of this section requires a determination of the value of a security, or securities, in the fund,...
- Section 45-37A-51.138 Legislative reports
(a) In addition to periodic actuarial valuations of the fund which the board may from time to time require, the board, upon request, shall transmit...
- Section 45-37A-51.139 Appeal of decisions of the board
(a) Any decision of the board denying a benefit claimed may be subject to review by the circuit court, in the manner and subject to...
- Section 45-37A-51.140 Repeal and amendment reservation
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- Division 4 Eligibility to Participate.
- Section 45-37A-51.160 General rule
Each qualified employee in the city who is in the classified service or full-time unclassified service hired after January 1, 1989, including each qualified employee...
- Section 45-37A-51.161 Exception to general rule
(a) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no member of the pension system provided by the following legislation, if such legislation is applicable to the...
- Section 45-37A-51.162 Elected officials, appointed employees, and employees in the unclassified service
(a) Elected officials. (1) Each officer shall be eligible to become a member of the system by exercising the option hereby given in the manner...
- Section 45-37A-51.163 Purchase of credit for certain prior unclassified service
Payment for such time under 10 years earned prior to January 1, 1989, has been made in full. If such service totals were more than...
- Section 45-37A-51.164 Board of health
Participants who were members of the system prior to June 1, 1994, and who made a written election to continue participation in the system are...
- Section 45-37A-51.165 Reemployment
(a) In the event a participant should cease to be a participant hereunder, should elect a return of his or her contributions as provided in...
- Section 45-37A-51.166 Employees of library board, airport authority, emergency management district agency, communication district, and civic center authority
Employees of the library board, airport authority, emergency management district/agency, communication district, and civic center authority may participate in the benefits of this plan under...
- Section 45-37A-51.167 Executive exempt service employees
Executive exempt service employees under Section 45-37-121.25 shall be members of the system for the department in which they serve unless the exempt person elects...
- Section 45-37A-51.168 Others authorized to participate
Any one for whom the Legislature has authorized participation herein is otherwise qualified to participate.
- Section 45-37A-51.169 Correction of errors
(a) The system shall have the authority to recalculate benefits if a mistake in payments has occurred. If the system mistakenly sets any benefit at...
- Division 5 Participants' and City's Contributions.
- Section 45-37A-51.190 Participants' contributions
(a) Each participant shall contribute to the cost of the system, and the city shall deduct from the participant's pay, an amount equal to not...
- Section 45-37A-51.191 Employer pickup of employee contributions
The board of managers upon approval of each employer, including the board of health, shall have authority to adopt a program and plan amendments relating...
- Section 45-37A-51.192 City's contributions
(a) The city shall pick up employer payment of required participants' contributions in lieu of salary or wages through a program and plan amendments relating...
- Section 45-37A-51.193 Health department payments
(a) The Jefferson County Department of Health shall pay into the fund from its general or otherwise appropriate funds its current service costs and its...
- Section 45-37A-51.194 Contributions previously required
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, contributions of participant and the city in effect immediately prior to the adoption of this subpart shall continue to...
- Section 45-37A-51.195 New participants
(a) Credit for service with the county or other municipality and with the city as a temporary employee hired on or after September 1, 1969,...
- Section 45-37A-51.196 Retirees of firefighters' and police officers' supplemental pension system
In the event of the retirement of a police officer or a firefighter from a supplemental pension system, as established by Subpart 1, with 20...
- Section 45-37A-51.197 Refund of erroneous contributions
In the event contributions shall have been deducted from an employee who is not a participant herein and shall have been paid into the fund,...
- Section 45-37A-51.198 Purchase of credit for prior unclassified service
(a) Any employee member having been a full-time employee in the unclassified service of the city, prior to January 1, 1989, as a common laborer...
- Section 45-37A-51.199 Contributions of constructive employees of city
Constructive employees of the city, excluding the employees of the board of health, who are eligible to participate in the plan under Division 9 shall...
- Section 45-37A-51.200 Contributions of subsidiaries of city
Constructive subsidiaries of the city, excluding the board of health as set forth herein, the employees of which are eligible to participate in the plan...
- Division 6 Benefits.
- Section 45-37A-51.220 Normal retirement benefit
(a) A participant having attained age 60 or older and having completed five or more years of credited service, or having completed 30 or more...
- Section 45-37A-51.221 Minimum and maximum normal retirement benefit
(a) The minimum retirement benefit payable under Section 45-37A-51.220 shall be four hundred dollars ($400) per month. The maximum normal retirement benefit payable under Section...
- Section 45-37A-51.222 Participants vesting
(a) (1) All participants who are participants before July 1, 2017, shall vest at five years of credited service. (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary...
- Section 45-37A-51.223 Participants retiring under the firefighters' and police officers' supplemental pension system
With respect to participants who shall belong to and retire under the supplemental pension system established by Subpart 1 after having accumulated 20 or more...
- Section 45-37A-51.224 Involuntary retirement
(a) In the event a participant shall be involuntarily retired after having completed 20 or more years of credited service prior to attaining the age...
- Section 45-37A-51.225 Ordinary disability allowance
(a) In the event a participant, after having accrued five or more years of credited service, shall become totally disabled to perform his or her...
- Section 45-37A-51.226 Extraordinary disability allowance
(a) Extraordinary disability allowance for participants joining the system prior to January 1, 1989. (1) In the event a participant who joins the system prior...
- Section 45-37A-51.227 Determination of disability
(a) In order for disability allowances to be awarded under Section 45-37A-51.225 or Section 45-37A-51.226, the board shall first have satisfactory proof thereof by certification...
- Section 45-37A-51.228 Survivor's benefits
(a) Effective July 1, 2002, in the event of the death of a retiree or participant who, on the date of his or her death...
- Section 45-37A-51.229 Eligibility for survivor's benefits
(a) The surviving spouse of the deceased or participant described in Section 45-37A-51.228 shall be eligible to receive a survivor’s benefit. The next foregoing sentence...
- Section 45-37A-51.230 Service connected death benefit
Should a participant be killed in the line of his or her duty, there may be payable to his or her spouse and child or...
- Section 45-37A-51.231 Eligibility for service connected death benefit
(a) The survivors of the deceased participant described in Section 45-37A-51.229 shall be eligible to receive a service connected death benefit if they continued to...
- Section 45-37A-51.232 Firefighters' and police officers' supplemental pension survivors pension
Effective as of July 1, 2002, in the event a firefighter or police officer retires under the supplemental pension system established by Subpart 1, after...
- Section 45-37A-51.233 Death prior to retirement; return of contributions
In the event a participant shall die prior to retirement and without a surviving spouse or children eligible for benefits hereunder, there shall be payable...
- Section 45-37A-51.234 Termination of employment; ineligibility; return of contribution
(a) In the event a participant shall terminate or be terminated from his or her employment with the city due to disability and such participant...
- Section 45-37A-51.235 Payment of return of contributions
Only in the event a return of contributions is otherwise required herein shall this section apply. A return of contributions, as provided herein, shall be...
- Section 45-37A-51.236 Designation of severance beneficiary
(a) The custodian shall keep a book or record in which any employee member may designate the name of a person to receive return of...
- Section 45-37A-51.237 Payment of benefits during period of reemployment
(a) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding and except as provided in subsection (b), no retirement benefits of whatever kind or description shall be payable...
- Section 45-37A-51.238 Determination of right to benefits
The determination of the rights of a retiree to benefits or rights of survivors or named beneficiaries to death or other benefits under this system...
- Section 45-37A-51.239 Payment of benefits to minor children
In the event that benefits become payable hereunder to minor children, payments shall be made to the legal guardian of the minor children or, in...
- Section 45-37A-51.240 Law applicable to measurement of benefits
The rights of any person heretofore or hereafter retired shall continue to be measured and governed by the terms of the system in effect at...
- Section 45-37A-51.241 Board of health retired employees
(a) Employees of the board of health, upon termination of such employment after 10 years of actual service to the board of health, shall have...
- Section 45-37A-51.242 Cost of living increases; future benefits
(a) Upon approval of the governing body of the municipality primarily served by the system and upon approval of the board of managers, an increase...
- Section 45-37A-51.243 Supplemental benefit
(a) In addition to the benefits described herein for normal retirement, ordinary disability, and extraordinary disability, every participant retired from city service or receiving a...
- Section 45-37A-51.244 Early retirement benefit
Participants in the city and other participating employing entities, except the board of health, having attained age 55 or older and completed 25 or more...
- Section 45-37A-51.245 Retroactive deferred retirement option plan
(a) Effective July 1, 2002, a participant who retires at least 90 days following July 1, 2002, who has then completed at least 23 years...
- Section 45-37A-51.246 Board of health department retirees' supplemental benefit
(a) Effective July 1, 2006, in addition to the benefits described herein for normal retirement, ordinary disability, and extraordinary disability, every participant retired from the...
- Section 45-37A-51.247 Required minimum distributions
(a) Notwithstanding any provision in this subpart to the contrary, the distribution of a participant's benefits shall be made in accordance with the following requirements...
- Section 45-37A-51.248 Direct rollovers
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this subpart to the contrary that would otherwise limit a distributee's election under this section, a distributee may elect, at...
- Section 45-37A-51.249 Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 provisions
In the case of a death or disability occurring on or after January 1, 2007, if a participant dies while performing qualified military service, as...
- Section 45-37A-51.250 Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004
Solely for purposes of calculating DROP benefits and for converting lump sum amounts for compliance with § 415, Internal Revenue Code, if the system provides...
- Division 7 Participant Loans.
- Division 8 Miscellaneous.
- Section 45-37A-51.280 Liabilities of employee members to fund
Any debt or liability of a participant to the fund or to the city shall be offset against, recouped from, and deducted from, any amount...
- Section 45-37A-51.281 False representations
It shall be a misdemeanor, and punishable as such, for any participant or beneficiary to knowingly make any false representation to the board or to...
- Section 45-37A-51.282 Exemptions
Neither all nor any portion of the fund, whether in cash, securities, or otherwise, nor any income or yield thereof, shall be subject to or...
- Section 45-37A-51.283 Members in Armed Forces
Notwithstanding any provision of this subpart to the contrary, contributions, benefits, and service credit with respect to qualified military service shall be provided in accordance...
- Section 45-37A-51.284 Actuarial assumptions
(a) Effective date. Except as provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Internal Revenue Service, the limitations of this section shall first...
- Division 9 Constructive Subsidiaries of the City.
- Section 45-37A-51.300 Participants in the system
It being recognized that it is desirable to allow as participants in the system employees of certain departments and authorities, the employees of the following...
- Section 45-37A-51.301 Board of health
Employees of the board of health, who were hired prior to June 1, 1994, and who have elected to continue to participate in the system...
- Section 45-37A-51.302 Civic center
(a) For the purpose of the application of the system to the extent herein provided, and for that purpose only, and except as may be...
- Section 45-37A-51.303 Civil defense agency
For the purpose of application of the terms of the system, and for such purpose only, and except as may be hereinafter otherwise or differently...
- Section 45-37A-51.304 Duties of board of health
After July 1, 1945, it shall be the duty of the board of health, as an independent agency and not as a subsidiary board or...
- Section 45-37A-51.305 Duties of the civil defense agency
After September 1, 1969, it shall be the duty of the civil defense agency, or its successor agency, as an independent agency and not as...
- Section 45-37A-51.306 Employees of the library board
(a) Employees of the library board shall be deemed constructive employees of the city during their time of service with the library board, whether past,...
- Section 45-37A-51.307 Birmingham Airport Authority
For the purpose of the application of the terms of the system, and for such purpose only, employees of the Birmingham Airport Authority, or for...
- Section 45-37A-51.308 Birmingham Emergency Management Agency/District
(a) Employees of the Birmingham Emergency Management Agency/District, or for any other entity having similar jurisdiction over the emergency management countywide, shall be deemed constructive...
- Part 3 Government.
- Part 1 Adoption of Mayor-Council Form of Government.
- Section 45-37A-52 Applicability
Any city in the State of Alabama, which has a population of more than 300,000, according to the last federal census, or which may hereafter...
- Section 45-37A-52.01 Petition for election
The filing of a petition signed by 10 percent or more of the qualified electors of such city, asking that the proposition of the adoption...
- Section 45-37A-52.02 Call of election
The mayor or other chief executive officer of such city shall immediately upon receipt of such certificate from the judge of probate, by proclamation, submit...
- Section 45-37A-52.03 Second election not to be called within two years
If the mayor-council form of government is not adopted at the special election so called, the question of adopting such form of government shall not...
- Section 45-37A-52.04 Proposition submitted; form of ballot
At such election the proposition to be submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on ballots separate and distinct from ballots used for any...
- Section 45-37A-52.05 Conduct, canvassing, and declaration of result of election
The election thereupon shall be conducted, the vote canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner as provided by law in respect to other...
- Section 45-37A-52.06 Election of first council and first mayor; terms of office
Immediately upon the adoption of such form of government, the judge of probate of the county with whom the petition was filed shall call an...
- Section 45-37A-52.07 The council
The council members provided for in this article shall be known collectively as the Council of the City of _______ (Name of city to be...
- Part 2 Legal Status.
- Section 45-37A-52.30 Legal status
Any such city which adopts the mayor-council form of government shall continue its existence as a body corporate under the name of City of _________...
- Section 45-37A-52.31 Form of government
The municipal government of any such city proceeding under this part shall be known as the mayor-council form of government. Pursuant to the provisions and...
- Section 45-37A-52.32 Powers of city
The city shall have all the powers granted to municipal corporations and to cities by the constitution and laws of this state together with all...
- Part 3 The Council.
- Section 45-37A-52.50 Number, election, term
The council shall have nine members elected from single member districts pursuant to Section 2 of Ordinance 89-46, adopted pursuant to Section 11-43-63. The district...
- Section 45-37A-52-51 Statement of candidacy
Any person desiring to become a candidate in any election for the office of council member may become such candidate by filing in the office...
- Section 45-37A-52.52 Qualification
Every person who shall be elected or appointed to the office of member of the council, on or before the fourth Tuesday of November of...
- Section 45-37A-52.53 Eligibility
Council members shall be qualified electors of the city, at least 21 years of age at the time of their election, and shall hold no...
- Section 45-37A-52.54 Compensation
The council shall receive such salary which shall be effective on such date as the council may by resolution or ordinance prescribe; provided, however, no...
- Section 45-37A-52.55 Officers
At the first meeting, which shall be held immediately following May 5, 2016, and then subsequently at the first meeting held after the election of...
- Section 45-37A-52.56 Powers
Except those powers specifically granted by this part to the mayor or as otherwise granted to the mayor by law, all powers of the city,...
- Section 45-37A-52.57 Council not to interfere in appointments or removals
Neither the council nor any of its members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to, or his or her removal from, office...
- Section 45-37A-52.58 Vacancies
Vacancies in the council shall be filled by the council at the next regular meeting or any subsequent meeting of the council, the person so...
- Section 45-37A-52.59 Creation of new departments or offices; change of duties
Upon the written approval of the mayor, the council by ordinance may create, change, and abolish offices, departments, or agencies, other than the offices, departments,...
- Section 45-37A-52.60 City clerk
If the city clerk of any city which adopts the mayor-council form of government holds office subject to any civil service or merit system, such...
- Section 45-37A-52.61 Meetings of council
The first meeting of each newly elected council shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in October of the year of its election, after which...
- Section 45-37A-52.62 Council to be judge of qualifications of its members
The council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its members and for such purpose shall have power to subpoena witnesses and...
- Section 45-37A-52.63 Rules of procedure; journal
The council shall determine its own rules and order of business. It shall keep a journal of its proceedings and the journal shall be open...
- Section 45-37A-52.64 Meetings; passage of ordinances, etc
The council shall hold regular public meetings on Tuesday of each and every week at a regular hour to be fixed by the order of...
- Section 45-37A-52.65 Granting of franchises
No resolution or ordinance, granting to any person, firm, or corporation any franchise, lease, or right to use the streets, public highways, thoroughfares, or public...
- Section 45-37A-52.66 Codification authorized
The council may provide at any time it may deem proper, for the revision and codification of its ordinances, bylaws, and permanent resolutions, or for...
- Section 45-37A-52.67 Examination of books and publication of accounts
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- Part 4 Mayor.
- Part 5 Budget.
- Section 45-37A-52.120 Fiscal year
(a) The fiscal year of the city government shall begin on the first day of July and shall end on the last day of June...
- Section 45-37A-52.121 Submission of budgets
(a) On a day to be fixed by the council, but in no case later than the 20th day of May in each year, the...
- Section 45-37A-52.122 Preparation of budgets
It shall be the duty of the head of each department, and each other office or agency supported in whole or in part by the...
- Section 45-37A-52.123 Scope of general fund budget
The general fund budget shall include only the net amounts estimated to be received from or to be appropriated to each public utility. The general...
- Section 45-37A-52.124 A balanced budget
In no event shall the expenditures recommended by the mayor in the general fund budget exceed the receipts estimated, taking into account the estimated cash...
- Section 45-37A-52.125 The budget message
The budget message shall contain the recommendations of the mayor concerning the fiscal policy of the city, a description of the important features of the...
- Section 45-37A-52.126 Availability of budgets for inspection and publication of the budget message
The mayor shall cause the budget message to be printed, mimeographed, or otherwise reproduced for general distribution at the time of its submission to the...
- Section 45-37A-52.127 Publication of notice of public budget
At the meeting of the council at which the budget and budget message are submitted, the council shall determine the place and time of the...
- Section 45-37A-52.128 Action by the council on the general fund budget
After the conclusion of the public hearing, the council, by an affirmative vote of five members and only if approved in writing by the mayor,...
- Section 45-37A-52.129 Adoption of general fund budget
(a) Not later than the 20th day of June of the current fiscal year, the council by a majority vote shall adopt the general fund...
- Section 45-37A-52.130 Effective date of budget; certification; copies made available
Upon final adoption, the budget shall be in effect for the budget year. A copy of the budget, as finally adopted, shall be certified by...
- Section 45-37A-52.131 Utility budgets
Separate budget estimates for any public utilities owned and operated by the city shall be submitted to the director of finance at the same time...
- Section 45-37A-52.132 Work plan and allotment
After the current expense budgets have been adopted and before the beginning of the fiscal year the head of each department, office, and agency, shall...
- Section 45-37A-53.133 Transfers of appropriations
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- Section 45-37A-52.134 Additional appropriations
Appropriations in addition to those contained in the original general fund budget ordinance, may be made by the council by not less than five affirmative...
- Section 45-37A-52.135 Emergency appropriations
At any time in any budget year, the council may, pursuant to this section, make emergency appropriations to meet a pressing need for public expenditures,...
- Section 45-37A-52.136 Lapsing of appropriations
Any portion of an appropriation remaining unexpended and unencumbered at the close of the fiscal year, shall lapse.
- Section 45-37A-52.137 Capital budget
At the same time that he or she submits the general fund budget, the mayor shall submit to the council a capital improvement program covering...
- Section 45-37A-52.138 Certification of funds; penalties for violation
No payment shall be made and no obligation incurred by or on behalf of the city except in accordance with an appropriation duly made and...
- Section 45-37A-52.139 Reserve for permanent public improvements
The council may by ordinance establish a reserve fund for permanent public improvements and may appropriate thereto any portion of the general fund cash surplus...
- Section 45-37A-52.140 Budget continuation
Any officially adopted budget in existence at the time that the council is first organized, shall continue in force and effect during the balance of...
- Section 45-37A-52.141 Budget summary
At the head of the budget there shall appear a summary of the budget, which need not be itemized further than by principal sources of...
- Part 6 Department of Finance.
- Section 45-37A-52.160 Director of finance - Appointment
There shall be a department of finance, the head of which shall be the director of finance, who shall be appointed by the mayor, subject...
- Section 45-37A-52.161 Director of finance - Qualifications
The director of finance shall be a person skilled in municipal accounting, taxation, and financial control.
- Section 45-37A-52.162 Director of finance - Surety bond
The director of finance shall provide a bond with such surety and in such amount as the council may require by resolution or ordinance. The...
- Section 45-37A-52.163 Director of finance - Powers and duties
The director of finance shall have general management and control of the several divisions and units of the department of finance. He or she shall...
- Section 45-37A-52.164 When contracts and expenditures prohibited
No officer, department, or agency, during any budget year, shall expend or contract to expend any money or incur any liability, or enter into any...
- Section 45-37A-52.165 Fees to be paid to city government
All fees received by any officer or employee of the city, shall belong to the city government and shall be paid daily to the department...
- Section 45-37A-52.166 Division of purchases
There shall be established in the department of finance a division of purchases, the head of which shall be the city purchasing agent. The purchasing...
- Section 45-37A-52.167 Competitive bidding
Before the purchasing agent makes any purchase of or contract for supplies, materials, or equipment, he or she shall give ample opportunity for competitive bidding,...
- Section 45-37A-52.168 Contracts for city improvements
Any city improvement costing more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) shall be executed by contract except where such improvement is authorized by the council to...
- Section 45-37A-52.169 Accounting control of purchases
All purchases made and contracts executed by the purchasing agent shall be pursuant to a written requisition from the head of the office, department, or...
- Section 45-37A-52.170 Borrowing in anticipation of revenues
In any budget year, in anticipation of the collection or receipt of revenues of the budget year, the council may by resolution authorize the borrowing...
- Section 45-37A-52.171 Borrowing to meet emergency appropriations
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- Section 45-37A-53.172 Notes redeemable prior to maturity
No notes shall be made payable on demand, but any note may be made subject to redemption prior to maturity on such notice and at...
- Section 45-37A-52.173 Sale of notes; report of sale
All notes issued pursuant to this part may be sold at not less than par and accrued interest at private sale without previous advertisement.
- Part 7 Succession in Government.
- Section 45-37A-52.190 Rights of officers and employees preserved
Nothing in this part, except as specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers or employees of the city or of...
- Section 45-37A-52.191 Continuance of officers
All persons holding administrative office at the time the mayor-council form of government is adopted shall continue in office and in the performance of their...
- Section 45-37A-52.192 Status of officers and employees holding positions when the mayor-council form of government is adopted
Any person holding an office or position in the classified service of the city under any civil service or merit system applicable to the city...
- Section 45-37A-52.193 Transfer of records and property
All records, property, and equipment whatsoever of any office, department, or agency or part thereof, all the powers and duties of which are assigned to...
- Section 45-37A-52.194 Continuity of offices, departments, or agencies
Any office, department, or agency provided for in this part with a name or with powers and duties the same or substantially the same as...
- Section 45-37A-52.195 Continuance of contracts and public improvements
All contracts entered into by the city, or for its benefit, prior to the adoption by such city of the mayor-council form of government, shall...
- Section 45-37A-52.196 Pending actions and proceedings
No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time of the adoption of the mayor-council form of government, brought by or against the...
- Section 45-37A-52.197 Pension and relief funds
All laws and parts of laws relating to pension, retirement, and relief funds for policemen, firemen, and other employees of the city, contained in the...
- Section 45-37A-52.198 Park, play ground, and fairground authority
Except as expressly provided by this part, all laws and parts of laws relating to establishment of an authority for fairgrounds, parks, exhibits, exhibitions, and...
- Section 45-37A-52.199 When part takes effect
For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the council and the mayor, this part shall become applicable to any city adopting the mayor-council...
- Section 45-37A-52.200 Continuance of ordinances and resolutions
To the extent consistent with the terms of this part, all ordinances and resolutions of the city in effect at the time of adoption by...
- Part 8 General Provisions.
- Section 45-37A-52.220 Removal of officers and employees
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- Section 45-37A-52.221 Right of mayor and other officers in council
The mayor, the heads of all departments, and such other officers of the city as may be designated by the council, shall be entitled to...
- Section 45-37A-52.222 Investigations by council or mayor
The council, the mayor, or any person or committee authorized by either of them, shall have power to inquire into the conduct of any office,...
- Section 45-37A-52.223 Contracts extending beyond one year
No contract involving the payment of money out of the appropriation of more than one year shall be made for a period of more than...
- Section 45-37A-52.224 Publicity of records
All records and accounts of every office, department, or agency of the city shall be open to inspection by any citizen, any representative of a...
- Section 45-37A-52.225 Officers and employees not to be privately interested in city contracts
No member of the council, officer, or employee elected or appointed shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract for work or material, or...
- Section 45-37A-52.226 Official bonds
The director of finance, and such other officers or employees as the council may by general ordinance require so to do, shall give bond in...
- Section 45-37A-52.227 Oath of office
Every officer of the city, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, shall take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation,...
- Part 9 Abandonment of Mayor-Council Form of Government.
- Part 10 General Statutory Provisions.
- Part 4 Health and Environment.
- Part 5 Parks, Recreation, and Tourism.
- Part 1 Parks and Playgrounds.
- Section 45-37A-54 Applicability
This subpart shall apply to all cities of the State of Alabama now or hereafter having a population of 100,000 or more, according to the...
- Section 45-37A-54.01 Use of property for parks, playgrounds, etc.; fees
Any such city in the State of Alabama may use for parks, playgrounds, recreational centers, and other recreational purposes and activities, any public parks or...
- Section 45-37A-54.02 Gifts, bequests, donations, etc
Any such city, by and through its park and recreation board, may accept any grant or devise of real estate or any gift or bequest...
- Section 45-37A-54.03 Purchase or acquisition of real property
For any or all of the purposes mentioned in this subpart, any such city upon the recommendation of the park and recreation board may purchase...
- Section 45-37A-54.04 Cooperation with other municipalities
Any such city, by and through its park and recreation board, may join or cooperate with one or more other municipalities having like powers, or...
- Section 45-37A-54.05 Park and recreation board - Creation; composition; compensation
There shall be established and constituted in accordance with the terms of this section a park and recreation board for the city. The planning of...
- Section 45-37A-54.06 Park and recreation board - Officers; powers and duties; impeachment or removal; interests of members
The members of the park and recreation board, when such board is constituted in accordance with Section 45–37A–54.05, shall immediately meet and organize by electing...
- Section 45-37A-54.07 Petition for election in issuance of bonds
If, in the opinion of the park and recreation board of any such city, the funds available for such purposes be inadequate to provide ample,...
- Section 45-37A-54.08 Park and recreation fund
The governing body of each such city shall cause to be set aside and kept and maintained a park and recreation fund, and cause to...
- Section 45-37A-54.09 Public and government functions
The establishment, conduct, equipment, and maintenance of parks, playgrounds, recreational centers, and recreational activities, by any such city shall each and all be public and...
- Part 2 Stadium and Exposition.
- Section 45-37A-54.30 Study commission
(a) There is created a study commission of nine members, to be appointed as follows: (1) Six members appointed by the Mayor of the City...
- Section 45-37A-54.31 Birmingham Stadium and Exposition District
There is created the Birmingham Stadium and Exposition District, hereinafter called the district, which shall be a body politic and corporate and political subdivision of...
- Section 45-37A-54.32 Board of commissioners
(a) The district shall be governed by a board of commissioners which shall be composed of the following members: (1) Two persons appointed by the...
- Section 45-37A-54.33 Purpose; taxes; recordkeeping; ethics requirements
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- Section 45-37A-54.34 Powers and duties
The district shall have the power to do any of the following: (1) Sue and be sued in its own name. (2) Plan, acquire, own,...
- Section 45-37A-54.35 Leases
(a) The authority may lease the facilities of the district or any portion thereof and provide for the payment of the consideration through the appropriation...
- Section 45-37A-54.36 Use of revenues
(a) Any revenues of the district derived from any source remaining at the end of each fiscal year after payment of all expenses of maintaining...
- Section 45-37A-54.37 Gifts, grants, donations, etc
The district may receive by gift, grant, donation, or otherwise any sum of money, aid, or assistance from private sources, from the United States, the...
- Section 45-37A-54.38 Relation to other programs
Nothing contained in this subpart shall be construed to deprive either the City of Birmingham or Jefferson County of its authority to conduct, under its...
- Part 3 State Fair Authority.
- Section 45-37A-54.60 Incorporation of authority
Provision is hereby made for the incorporation of an authority in any city of the State of Alabama, having a population of 300,000 or more...
- Section 45-37A-54.61 Certificate of incorporation - Contents
A certificate of incorporation shall be entitled and endorsed Certificate of Incorporation of ________ Authority. (Blank space being filled in with the name of the...
- Section 45-37A-54.62 Certificate of incorporation - Acknowledgement, filing, recording
The certificate of incorporation shall be acknowledged before an officer authorized by the laws of this state to take acknowledgement of deeds. When so acknowledged,...
- Section 45-37A-54.63 Board of directors
Such authority formed under this subpart shall constitute a public benefit agency of the State of Alabama and shall have a board of directors of...
- Section 45-37A-54.64 Lease, sale, or conveyance of property
The city is authorized, but not required, to lease or sell or convey to the authority real or personal property, including park property, without the...
- Section 45-37A-54.65 Powers of authority
The authority shall have the power to: (1) Sue and be sued. (2) Have a seal and alter the same at pleasure. (3) Appoint officers,...
- Section 45-37A-54.66 Sunday activities; ordinance procedures
It shall not be unlawful for the authority to conduct, operate, manage, or promote on Sunday any amusement or recreational activity within the corporate powers...
- Section 45-37A-54.67 Borrowing; revenue bonds
The authority shall have the power to borrow money and to issue revenue bonds as evidence of any money so borrowed, which bonds shall be...
- Section 45-37A-54.68 Meetings; recordkeeping
The authority shall meet at such time as may be appropriate or necessary. An accurate record in the form of a minute book shall be...
- Section 45-37A-54.69 Contracts
Contracts of the authority shall be executed in the name of the authority by the chair of the authority and attested by the secretary of...
- Section 45-37A-54.70 Examination of books and accounts
At least once every 12 months subsequent to July 24, 1947, the authority shall appoint and employ an expert accountant who shall make an examination...
- Section 45-37A-54.71 Bond of treasurer
The treasurer of the authority shall give bond in such sum as the authority may prescribe for the faithful performance of his or her duties...
- Section 45-37A-54.72 Funding from city
The city in which the authority is located is authorized, but not required, to make appropriations or to lend money from time to time to...
- Section 45-37A-54.73 Debts, obligations, or liabilities of corporation
No debt, obligation, or liability contracted or incurred by the corporation or by any director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation shall be a...
- Section 45-37A-54.74 Exemption from taxation
All property of the authority shall be exempt from state, county, and city taxation; and the authority shall be exempt from license or privilege taxes...
- Part 6 Taxation.
- Part 7 Zoning.
- Part 1 Board of Adjustment.
- Part 2 Parking Authority.
- Section 45-37A-56.20 Legislative findings
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- Section 45-37A-56.21 Application of subpart
This subpart shall apply to each city of the state having a population of 300,000 or more, according to the last or any subsequent federal...
- Section 45-37A-56.22 Definitions
Unless the context plainly indicates otherwise, the following words and terms shall have the meanings hereby ascribed to them: (1) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized...
- Section 45-37A-56.23 Authority and procedure to incorporate
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- Section 45-37A-56.24 Contents of certificate of incorporation
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- Section 45-37A-56.25 Execution and recording of certificate of incorporation
The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall be signed and acknowledged by the incorporators before an officer authorized by the laws of the state...
- Section 45-37A-56.26 Change of name and amendment of incorporation
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- Section 45-37A-56.27 Board of directors of the authority
(a) The authority shall be governed by a board of directors of three members, elected by the governing board of the Class 1 municipality. Each...
- Section 45-37A-56.28 Officers of the authority
The officers of the authority shall consist of a chair of the board, a vice chair of the board, a secretary of the authority, a...
- Section 45-37A-56.29 Powers of the authority
(a) The authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To...
- Section 45-37A-56.30 Operation or leasing of parking facilities
(a) As used in this section, the word person means a natural person, a corporation, a partnership, or unincorporated association. (b) It is hereby declared...
- Section 45-37A-56.31 Federal and state aid
The authority is hereby authorized to accept, receive, receipt for, disburse, and expend federal and state moneys and other moneys, public or private, made available...
- Section 45-37A-56.32 Cooperation
For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with the authority in the planning, development, undertaking, construction, extension, improvement, or operation of parking facilities, any county,...
- Section 45-37A-56.33 Bonds of the authority
The authority shall have the power and is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time to issue and sell its interest bearing...
- Section 45-37A-56.34 Execution of bonds
All bonds shall be signed by the chair or vice chair and the secretary or treasurer of the authority and the seal of the authority...
- Section 45-37A-56.35 Security of bonds
In the discretion of the authority any bonds may be issued under and secured by an indenture between the authority and a trustee. The trustee...
- Section 45-37A-56.36 Use of proceeds from sale of bonds
The proceeds derived from the sale of any bonds, other than refunding bonds may be used only to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, improving,...
- Section 45-37A-56.37 Refunding bonds
The authority may at any time and from time to time issue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding the principal of and the interest...
- Section 45-37A-56.38 Exemption from taxation
The bonds issued by the authority and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation in the state. All property and income of the...
- Section 45-37A-56.39 Investment in bonds
The governing body of any county, city, or town within this state is authorized in its discretion to invest in bonds of the authority any...
- Section 45-37A-56.40 Eligibility of bonds as investments for trust funds
Bonds issued under this subpart are hereby made legal investments for executors, administrators, trustees, and other fiduciaries, unless otherwise directed by the court having jurisdiction...
- Section 45-37A-56.41 Notice of bond resolution
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- Section 45-37A-56.42 Contracting and purchasing restrictions
Laws, regulations, and ordinances relating to the advertising and award of construction contracts and purchase contracts made by or in behalf of the authorizing subdivision...
- Section 45-37A-56.43 Audit; inspection of records
(a) At least once every 12 months subsequent to the date whereon an authority is created hereunder, the city shall appoint an expert accountant who...
- Section 45-37A-56.44 Dissolution of authority
At any time when no bonds of the authority are outstanding, the authority may be dissolved upon the filing with the judge of probate, in...
- Section 45-37A-56.45 Construction with other laws
The provisions of this subpart are cumulative and shall not be deemed to repeal existing laws, except to the extent such laws are clearly inconsistent...
- Part 3 Trains.
- Part 8 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Article 6 Brighton.
- Article 7 Brookside.
- Article 8 Brownville.
- Article 9 Cardiff.
- Article 10 Center Point.
- Section 45-37A-100 Short title
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- Section 45-37A-100.01 Traffic safety system authorized; legislative findings
(a) The City of Center Point, Alabama, by ordinance, may provide for the implementation of an automated traffic safety system within the city as provided...
- Section 45-37A-100.02 Definitions
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CITY. The City of Center Point, Alabama. (2) CIVIL VIOLATION. A...
- Section 45-37A-100.03 Adoption of ordinance for photographic traffic signal enforcement; fines
(a) The city as provided in this article, is empowered to adopt an ordinance providing for the utilization by the city or its designee of...
- Section 45-37A-100.04 Notice of violation
(a) The city or its designee shall mail a notice of violation by United States mail to the owner of the motor vehicle which is...
- Section 45-37A-100.05 Administrative hearings; contesting liability; fines and costs; affirmative defenses
(a) An administrative hearing officer appointed by the mayor of the city is vested with the power and jurisdiction to conduct administrative hearings of civil...
- Section 45-37A-100.06 Order of administrative hearing officer; judicial review
(a) Following an administrative hearing, the administrative hearing officer shall issue an order stating all of the following: (1) Whether the person charged with the...
- Section 45-37A-100.07 Petition for judicial review
The circuit court hearing a petition for judicial review shall utilize the procedures applicable to proceedings in the Jefferson County District Court with all of...
- Section 45-37A-100.08 Identifying owner of vehicle
In the event the evidence produced by a photographic traffic signal enforcement system, a photographic stop sign enforcement system, or a photographic vehicle speed enforcement...
- Section 45-37A-100.09 Late fees; record of civil violations
The city may provide by ordinance that late fees not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) shall attach to untimely paid fines that are authorized pursuant this...
- Section 45-37A-100.10 Civil actions
The city is authorized to file civil actions to enforce the provisions of an ordinance authorized by this article, including, but not limited to, pursuing...
- Section 45-37A-100.11 Statistical data
(a) The city shall keep statistical data regarding the effectiveness of photographic traffic signal enforcement systems or photographic stop sign enforcement systems in reducing traffic...
- Section 45-37A-100.12 Control devices and timing
The placement of control devices in the city and timing of yellow lights and red light clearance intervals shall conform to the most recent edition...
- Section 45-37A-100.13 Criminal violations
No fine may be imposed and no adjudication of liability for a civil violation may be made under this article if the operator of the...
- Section 45-37A-100.14 Civil action against person operating vehicle
Any person against whom a determination of liability for a civil violation is made pursuant to an ordinance authorized by this article, and who actually...
- Section 45-37A-100.15 Compensation of trained technician
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- Section 45-37A-100.16 Relation to Administrative Procedure Act
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- Article 11 East Lake.
- Article 12 East Thomas.
- Article 13 Elyton.
- Article 14 Ensley.
- Article 15 Fairfield.
- Part 1 City Council.
- Section 45-37A-150 Adoption of mayor-council form of government authorized
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- Section 45-37A-150.01 Establishment of districts
(a) The City Council of the City of Fairfield, may, not less than six months prior to the next regular general municipal election in 1992,...
- Section 45-37A-150.02 Powers of council
All legislative powers and other powers granted to cities and towns, and such powers as are now vested in or exercised by the city council,...
- Section 45-37A-150.03 Composition of council
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- Section 45-37A-150.04 Vacancies
(a) In the event of a vacancy of the council, the council shall elect a successor for the remainder of the term from the district...
- Section 45-37A-150.05 Qualifications and election of mayor, council members, etc.; resolutions and ordinance
The council shall judge the qualifications and election of the mayor, the president of the council, and each council member and such other officers as...
- Part 2 Civic Center.
- Part 3 Taxation.
- Article 16 Fultondale.
- Part 1
- Division 1
- Division 2 Fees.
- Article 17 Gadendale.
- Division 1 Fees.
- Section 45-37A-170 Warrant recall fee
(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipal judge or a municipal magistrate of the City of Gardendale in Jefferson County, Alabama, may assess...
- Article 18 Graymont.
- Article 19 Graysviile.
- Article 20 Helena.
- Article 21 Highlands.
- Article 22 Hollywood.
- Article 23 Homewood.
- Part 1 Nuisances.
- Part 2 Tax.
- Section 45-37A-231 Ad valorem taxation
(a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AMENDMENT 56. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 383,...
- Part 3 Courts.
- Section 45-37A-232 Warrant recall fee
(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipal judge or a municipal magistrate of the City of Homewood, Alabama, may assess a defendant with...
- Article 24 Hoover.
- Part 1 Courts.
- Part 1 Fees.
- Part 2 Pretrial Diversion.
- Part 2 Employees.
- Part 3 Taxation.
- Part 4 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Article 25 Hueytown.
- Part 1 Fire Districts.
- Part 2 Nuisances.
- Part 1 Applicability.
- Part 2 Declaration and Abatement of Weeds.
- Section 45-37A-251.20 Declaration of public nuisance; abatement of public nuisance
All weeds growing upon streets, sidewalks, or upon private property within any municipalities located in Jefferson County, Alabama, which bear seeds of a wingy or...
- Section 45-37A-251.21 Report of appropriate city official; resolution declaring public nuisance
The appropriate city official shall report to the city governing body the existence of any condition enumerated in Section 45-37A-251.20 which constitutes a nuisance. Upon...
- Section 45-37A-251.22 Notice to owner; contents; posting of signs
After the passage of a resolution, the appropriate city official shall send notice of the action to the last person or persons, firm, association, or...
- Section 45-37A-251.23 Hearing
Within the time specified in the notice, but not more than 14 days from the date the notice is given, any person, firm, or corporation,...
- Section 45-37A-251.24 Entry of municipal employees and agents on property to abate nuisance; abatement by private contractor
If the nuisance on the property has not been abated within 14 days after the city governing body’s resolution, the mayor of the city shall...
- Section 45-37A-251.25 Accounting of cost of abatement
The appropriate city official shall give an itemized written report to the city governing body regarding the cost of abating the nuisance. The cost of...
- Section 45-37A-251.26 Cost to constitute public nuisance lien; report to tax assessor; amounts to be included in tax bills; collection
The confirmed cost of abatement shall hereinafter be referred to as a public nuisance lien and thus made and confirmed shall constitute a public nuisance...
- Section 45-37A-251.27 Subpart cumulative in nature
This subpart shall be cumulative in its nature, and in addition to any and all power and authority which the city may have under any...
- Part 3 Demolition of Unsafe Structures.
- Section 45-37A-251.50 Demolition of unsafe structures by the City of Hueytown
The city shall have authority, after notice as provided in this subpart, to move or demolish buildings and structures, or parts of buildings and structures,...
- Section 45-37A-251.51 Notice of unsafe or dangerous condition
Whenever the appropriate city official of the city shall find that any building, structure, part of building or structure, party wall, foundation, abandoned or unused...
- Section 45-37A-251.52 Hearing procedure; order; appeal
(a) Within the time specified in the notice, but not more than 30 days from the date the notice is given, any person, firm, or...
- Section 45-37A-251.53 Report of cost of demolition; adoption of resolution fixing costs; proceeds of sale of salvaged materials; objections to findings of cost; notice
Upon demolition of the building or structure, the appropriate city official shall make an itemized written report to the governing body of the cost thereof....
- Section 45-37A-251.54 Assessment of costs; sale and redemption of lots
The city shall have the power to assess the costs authorized in this subpart against any lot or lots, parcel, or parcels of land purchased...
- Section 45-37A-251.55 Payment of assessments
Payment of any assessment, or if delinquent, the collection of the assessment, shall be made in the manner and as provided for the payment of...
- Section 45-37A-251.56 Subpart cumulative in nature
This subpart shall be cumulative in its nature, and in addition to any and all power and authority which the city may have under any...
- Article 26 Inglenook.
- Article 27 Irondale.
- Part 1 Courts.
- Part 1 Fees.
- Part 2 Pretrial Diversion.
- Article 28 Ironton.
- Article 29 Jonesboro.
- Section 45-37A-290 Reserved
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- Article 30 Kimberly.
- Article 31 Leeds.
- Article 32 Lipscomb.
- Article 33 Midfield.
- Part 1 Taxation.
- Part 2 Traffic.
- Part 1 Red Light Safety.
- Section 45-37A-331 Short title; adoption of procedures
(a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the Midfield Red Light Safety Act. (b) The City of Midfield, Alabama, may, by...
- Section 45-37A-331.01 Legislative findings
The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Accident data establishes that vehicles running red lights have been and are a dangerous problem in Midfield,...
- Section 45-37A-331.02 Definitions
As used in this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CITY. The City of Midfield, Alabama. (2) CIVIL FINE. The monetary...
- Section 45-37A-331.03 Utilization of photographic traffic signal enforcement system
(a) The city is authorized to utilize an automated photographic traffic signal enforcement system to detect and record traffic signal violations, to issue notices of...
- Section 45-37A-331.04 Notice of violation
(a) Prior to imposing a civil penalty under this part, the city shall first mail a notice of violation by first class United State mail...
- Section 45-37A-331.05 Power and jurisdiction of municipal court; contesting liability; fines and costs; affirmative defenses
(a) The municipal court is vested with the power and jurisdiction to hear and adjudicate the civil violations provided for in this part, and to...
- Section 45-37A-331.06 Order of municipal court; judicial review
(a) Following an adjudicative hearing, the municipal court judge shall issue an order stating: (1) Whether the person charged with the civil violation is liable...
- Section 45-37A-331.07 Appellate procedures
(a) The circuit court hearing an appeal shall use the procedures that apply to criminal convictions in municipal court with the following qualifications: (1) The...
- Section 45-37A-331.08 Identifying owner of vehicle
In the event the evidence produced by a photographic traffic signal enforcement system does not produce an image of the license plate with sufficient clarity...
- Section 45-37A-331.09 Late fees; record of civil violations
The city may provide by ordinance that a late fee not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) shall attach to untimely paid civil fines that are authorized...
- Section 45-37A-331.10 Statistical data
The city shall adopt the procedures authorized by this part, shall keep statistical data regarding the effectiveness of photographic traffic signal enforcement systems in reducing...
- Section 45-37A-331.11 Control devices and timing
The placement of control devices and timing of yellow lights and red light clearance intervals, adopted by the city, shall conform to the most recent...
- Section 45-37A-331.12 Criminal violations
No civil penalty may be imposed and no adjudication of liability for a civil violation may be made under this part if the operator of...
- Section 45-37A-331.13 Civil action against person operating vehicle
Any person against whom an adjudication of liability for a civil violation is made under this part, or the ordinance passed pursuant hereto, and who...
- Part 2 Speed Limit Safety.
- Section 45-37A-331.30 Short title
(a) This subpart shall be known and may be cited as the "Midfield Speed Limit Safety Act." (b) The City of Midfield, Alabama, by municipal...
- Section 45-37A-331.31 Legislative findings
The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Accident data establishes that speeding vehicles have been and are a dangerous problem in Midfield, Alabama. (2)...
- Section 45-37A-331.32 Definitions
As used in this subpart, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CITY. The City of Midfield, Alabama. (2) CIVIL FINE. The monetary...
- Section 45-37A-331.33 Automated photographic speeding enforcement system authorized
(a) The City of Midfield is empowered to utilize an automated photographic speeding enforcement system to detect and record speeding violations, to issue notices of...
- Section 45-37A-331.34 Notice of violation; civil penalty
(a) Prior to imposing a civil penalty pursuant to this subpart, the City of Midfield shall first mail a notice of violation by certified United...
- Section 45-37A-331.35 Jurisdiction of Midfield Municipal Court; hearings; liability; evidence and procedure; defenses
(a) The Midfield Municipal Court is vested with the power and jurisdiction to hear and adjudicate the civil violations provided for in this subpart and...
- Section 45-37A-331.36 Order of court; appeal
(a) Following an adjudicative hearing, the municipal court judge shall issue an order stating the following: (1) Whether the person charged with the civil violation...
- Section 45-37A-331.37 Appellate procedures
(a) The circuit court hearing an appeal shall use the procedures that apply to criminal convictions in municipal court with the following qualifications: (1) The...
- Section 45-37A-331.38 Identity of owner or vehicle
In the event the evidence produced by an automated photographic speeding enforcement system does not produce an image of the license plate with sufficient clarity...
- Section 45-37A-331.39 Fees; records of adjudication of civil violation
The city may provide by ordinance that a late fee not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25) shall attach to untimely paid civil fines that are authorized...
- Section 45-37A-331.40 Recordkeeping
The city shall keep statistical data regarding the effectiveness of automated photographic speeding enforcement systems in reducing speeding violations and collisions and shall communicate the...
- Section 45-37A-331.41 Violations of state statutes
No civil penalty may be imposed and no adjudication of liability for a civil violation may be made under this subpart if the operator of...
- Section 45-37A-331.42 Reimbursement of civil fine; civil action against person operating vehicle
Any person against whom an adjudication of liability for a civil violation is made pursuant to this subpart, or an ordinance passed pursuant hereto, and...
- Article 34 Morris.
- Article 35 Mountain Brook.
- Part 1 Nuisances.
- Part 2 Taxation.
- Part 3 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Article 36 North Birmingham.
- Article 37 North Haven.
- Article 38 Oxmoor.
- Article 39 Pelham.
- Article 40 Pinkney City.
- Article 41 Pleasant Grove.
- Part 1 Taxation.
- Part 2 Utilities.
- Article 42 Pratt City.
- Article 43 Pratt Mines.
- Article 44 Sandusky.
- Article 45 Smithfield.
- Article 46 Tarrant City.
- Part 1 Taxation.
- Part 2 Utilities.
- Article 47 Thomas.
- Article 48 Toad Vine.
- Article 49 Trafford.
- Article 50 Trussville.
- Article 51 Vestavia Hills.
- Part 1 Taxation.
- Part 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
- Part 3 Courts.
- Section 45-37A-512 Warrant recall fee
(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipal judge or municipal magistrate of the City of Vestavia Hills, Alabama, may assess a defendant with...
- Article 52 Warrior.
- Article 53 West End.
- Article 54 Woodlawn.
- Article 55 Wylam.
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