Section 45-8A-20 Legislative intent
The revitalization and redevelopment of the central business district of the City of Anniston in Calhoun County develops and promotes for the public good and...
Section 45-8A-20.01 Definitions
The following words and phrases used in this part, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein...
Section 45-8A-20.02 Use of phrases
The following provisions shall be applied wherever appropriate herein: "Herein," "hereby," "hereunder," "hereof," and other equivalent words refer to this part as an entirety and...
Section 45-8A-20.06 Board of directors
Each authority shall be governed by a board of directors. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by the board or pursuant to its...
Section 45-8A-20.07 Officers of the authority
The officers of the authority shall consist of a chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as its board shall deem necessary or...
Section 45-8A-20.08 Powers of 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 45-8A-20.09 Bonds of authority
(a) Source of payment. All bonds issued by the authority shall be payable solely out of the revenues and receipts derived from the leasing or...
Section 45-8A-20.11 Refunding bonds
Any bonds issued by the authority may from time to time be refunded by the issuance, by sale or exchange, of refunding bonds payable from...
Section 45-8A-20.12 Notice of bond resolution
Upon the adoption by the board of the authority of any resolution providing for the issuance of bonds, such authority may, in its discretion, cause...
Section 45-8A-20.13 Exemption from taxation
The authority formed under this part the property and income of the authority (whether used by it or leased to others), all bonds issued by...
Section 45-8A-20.14 Liability of city
The city shall not in any event be liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the authority or...
Section 45-8A-20.18 Earnings of the authority
The authority shall be a nonprofit corporation and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit...
Section 45-8A-20.21 Power of eminent domain
The authority is hereby granted the power of eminent domain and may exercise such power for the purpose of obtaining real property or any interest...
Section 45-8A-22.01 Definitions
As used in this subpart, the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTING AUTHORITY. The city manager or as otherwise authorized pursuant to Section...
Section 45-8A-22.02 Exemptions; opting out
(a) The provisions of this subpart shall not apply to the following: (1) Elective officers; (2) members of appointive boards, commissions, and committees; (3) all...
Section 45-8A-22.03 Civil service rules and regulations
All civil service employees and grandfathered employees of the city shall be governed by civil service rules and regulations prescribed in or promulgated pursuant to...
Section 45-8A-22.04 Civil Service Board
There shall be the Civil Service Board of the City of Anniston, which shall be composed of three members. The members serving on October 2,...
Section 45-8A-22.05 Expense allowances
The members of the board of the civil service commission of any city which has a civil service commission in any county having a population...
Section 45-8A-22.06 Meetings
The board shall fix the times for its regular meetings; and it may hold special, adjourned or call meetings at any time. A majority of...
Section 45-8A-22.07 Minutes; records
The board shall keep minutes of its meetings and a record of all business transacted by it. Its records, except those the rules of the...
Section 45-8A-22.08 Rules and regulations
The board shall have power to make rules and regulations applicable to civil service employees and, in part, to grandfathered employees, governing examinations, eligible registers,...
Section 45-8A-22.09 Salaries
The salary to be paid each civil service employee and each grandfathered employee shall be determined by his or her appointing authority; but in every...
Section 45-8A-22.12 Suspension of employee; hearing
An appointing authority shall have authority to suspend a civil service employee or a grandfathered employee for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning...
Section 45-8A-22.14 Political activity
No employee shall make, solicit, or receive any assessment, donation, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatsoever, or be a member of a committee...
Section 45-8A-22.15 Compensation and expenses
The compensation and all other expenses of the board arising under this subpart shall be paid from funds of the city on the order of...
Section 45-8A-22.16 Dismissal for violations
Any person in the service of the city by appointment under civil service rules or regulations who wilfully violates any of the provisions of this...
Section 45-8A-22.105 Reports
On a regular basis, but not less than annually, the retirement board shall provide a report to the City Council of the City of Anniston...
Section 45-8A-22.107 Retirement board's attorney
The retirement board shall be authorized to employ the services of such attorney as it deems appropriate to represent the interests of the plan and...
Section 45-8A-22.108 Reasonable and necessary expenses
The retirement board shall be authorized to pay out of the trust all benefits, expenses of administration, including the cost of advertising amendatory or supplementary...
Section 45-8A-22.109 Contributions to the trust
(a) The secretary-treasurer shall receive contributions to the trust that shall consist of the following: (1) All of the money, securities, things of value, and...
Section 45-8A-22.110 Participation
(a) Every individual who becomes employed by the City of Anniston, excluding any person who is employed as an independent contractor, as a sworn police...
Section 45-8A-22.112 Credit for military service
(a) Qualified Military Service. The plan will grant continuous service in accordance with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 ("USERRA"), 38...
Section 45-8A-22.114 Normal retirement age
(a) Effective with respect to retirements that occur before October 1, 2012, the retirement board shall retire from service any participant who has attained age...
Section 45-8A-22.116 Disability benefits
(a) Line of Duty Disability Benefit. (1) Effective for Disabilities Occurring Before October 1, 2012. a. Participants Hired Before July 1, 2002. A participant, who...
Section 45-8A-22.119 Death benefits
(a) Participant Death in the Line of Duty. (1) Effective for Deaths Occurring Before October 1, 2012. a. Surviving Spouse. If a participant dies as...
Section 45-8A-22.120 Optional benefit plans
(a) Optional Plans. Any participant terminating service on or after January 1, 1989, pursuant to the terms of Section 45-8A-22.113, Section 45-8A-22.114, or Section 45-8A-22.116...
Section 45-8A-22.121 Partial lump sum option
(a) Notwithstanding Section 45-8A-22.120, effective with respect to distributions before October 1, 2012, a participant may elect to receive a partial lump sum option whereby...
Section 45-8A-22.125 Claims procedure
Claims for benefits under the plan must be filed in writing with the secretary-treasurer on forms provided by the retirement board in accordance with procedures...
Section 45-8A-22.126 Claims review procedure
Within 30 days after any final decision of the retirement board, any party, including the governing body of the City of Anniston, aggrieved at the...
Section 45-8A-22.128 Actuary; reports
(a) The retirement board shall retain the services of a competent actuary and actuarial firm on continuous basis at a fee to be determined by...
Section 45-8A-22.129 Annual audits
The retirement board shall have an audit made annually of the trust by a certified public accountant.
Section 45-8A-22.130 Insufficiency of funds
If at any time there shall not be sufficient funds in the trust to pay each individual entitled to the benefits therefrom the full amount...
Section 45-8A-22.133 Construction
(a) Choice of Law. The plan shall be construed and enforced according to the Internal Revenue Code, this subpart, and the laws of the State...
Section 45-8A-22.134 No contract of employment
The plan shall not be deemed to constitute a contract between the City of Anniston and any participant or to be consideration or an inducement...
Division 1 Adoption of Council-Manager Form of Government-Elections and Term of Council.
Section 45-8A-23 Cities to which part applies
Any city in the State of Alabama, which has a population of more than 30,000 and not exceeding 33,000 according to the last federal census,...
Section 45-8A-23.001 Petition for election
The filing of a petition signed by 10 percent or more of the number of qualified voters who voted in the last city general election...
Section 45-8A-23.002 Call of election by mayor
The mayor or other chief executive officer of such city shall immediately upon receipt of such certificate from the judge of probate, by proclamation, submit...
Division 2 Legal status; Form of Government; Powers.
Section 45-8A-23.030 Legal status; “city.”
Any municipal corporation which adopts the council-manager form of government shall continue its existence as a body corporate without change in the name of the...
Section 45-8A-23.031 Form of government
The municipal government of any such city proceeding under this part shall be known as the "council-manager form of government." Pursuant to the provisions and...
Section 45-8A-23.032 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...
Division 3 The Council.
Section 45-8A-23.050 Number, election, term
The council shall have five to seven members consisting of one councilman who shall be elected by all of the qualified voters of the city,...
Section 45-8A-23.051 Statement of candidacy
For the 1984 election and all subsequent elections candidates shall file statements of candidacy at the same times and in the same manner as provided...
Section 45-8A-23.052 Ballot
At every such election, all such ballots to be used by voters shall be printed or prepared by the election commission or other body having...
Section 45-8A-23.053 Eligibility
Any councilman shall be a qualified elector of the city, and at least 21 years of age at the time of his or her election....
Section 45-8A-23.054 Compensation
The members of the council are hereby authorized to establish, by resolution, the compensation to which the next succeeding council shall be entitled during their...
Section 45-8A-23.056 Powers
All powers of the city, including all powers vested in it by this part by the laws, general and local, of the state, and by...
Section 45-8A-23.058 Removal of city manager
The council shall appoint the city manager for an indefinite term, but the council may remove him or her at any time by a majority...
Section 45-8A-23.060 Vacancies in council
Vacancies in the council, other than mayor, shall be filled by the council at any regular meeting. In the event of a deadlock, and for...
Section 45-8A-23.062 City clerk
If the city clerk of any city which adopts the council-manager form of government holds office subject to any civil service or merit system, such...
Section 45-8A-23.067 Granting of franchises
No ordinance, granting to any person, firm, or corporation any franchise, lease, or right to use the streets, public highways, thoroughfares, or public property of...
Section 45-8A-23.068 Codification authorized
The council may provide for the revision and codification of its ordinances and permanent resolutions, or for the adoption of a code or codes.
Section 45-8A-23.092 City manager - Absence
To perform his or her duties during his or her temporary absence or temporary disability, the manager may designate by letter filed with the city...
Section 45-8A-23.093 Administrative departments
There shall be a department of finance, and such other departments as may be established by ordinance upon the recommendation of the manager.
Section 45-8A-23.094 Directors of department
At the head of each department there shall be a director, who shall be an officer of the city and shall have supervision and control...
Section 45-8A-23.095 Departmental divisions
The work of each department may be distributed among such divisions thereof as may be established by ordinance upon the recommendation of the city manager....
Division 5 Budget.
Section 45-8A-23.120 Fiscal year
The fiscal year of the city government shall begin on the first day of each October and shall end on the last day of each...
Section 45-8A-23.126 Adoption of budget
After the public hearing prescribed in Section 45-8A-23.124, the council may at its next or any subsequent regular public meeting or any adjournment thereof adopt...
Section 45-8A-23.130 Budget establishes appropriations
From the effective date of the budget, the several amounts stated therein as proposed expenditures shall become appropriated to the several objects and purposes therein
Section 45-8A-23.134 Budget message - Supporting schedules
Attached to the budget message shall be such supporting schedules, exhibits, and other explanatory material, in respect to both current operations and capital improvements, as...
Section 45-8A-23.136 Anticipated revenues
In the budget and budget proposal anticipated revenues shall be classified as "surplus," "miscellaneous revenues," and "amount to be raised by property tax"; miscellaneous revenues...
Section 45-8A-23.138 Surplus
Surplus shall include: (a) Revenue receipts made available by the lapsing of unencumbered appropriation balances at the beginning of the budget year; (b) Receipts from...
Section 45-8A-23.139 Miscellaneous revenues - Generally
Miscellaneous revenues shall include anticipated revenues from the collection of taxes other than the general property tax; the amount of state aid to be received;...
Section 45-8A-23.146 Down payments on capital projects
In the budget and budget proposal under the special caption of "down payments on capital projects," as provided in subsection (1) of Section 45-8A-23.144, there...
Section 45-8A-23.174 Work programs; allotments
Before the beginning of the budget year, the head of each office, department, board, or agency shall submit to the city manager, when required by...
Section 45-8A-23.176 Transfers of appropriations
The city manager may at any time transfer any unencumbered appropriation balance or portion thereof between general classifications of expenditures within an office, department, board,...
Section 45-8A-23.181 Division of purchases
There may be established by the council upon recommendation by the city manager a division of purchases, the head of which shall be the city...
Section 45-8A-23.182 Competitive bidding
Before the city purchasing agent makes any purchase of supplies, materials or equipment, he or she shall give ample opportunity for competitive bidding, under such...
Section 45-8A-23.183 Contracts for city improvements
Any city improvement costing more than five hundred dollars ($500) shall be executed by contract. All such contracts for more than five hundred dollars ($500)...
Section 45-8A-23.186 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 expenditure,...
Section 45-8A-23.210 Purpose and number of wards
Originally there shall be established five wards for the purpose of securing as nearly as possible a council consisting of members who represent distinct geographical...
Section 45-8A-23.231 Continuance of present officers
All persons holding administrative office at the time the council-manager form of government is adopted shall continue in office and in the performance of their...
Section 45-8A-23.237 Pension and relief funds
All laws and parts of laws relating to pension, retirement, and relief funds for any employees of the city, contained in the general or local...
Section 45-8A-23.239 When provisions take effect
For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the council, the provisions of this part shall become applicable to any city adopting the council-manager...
Section 45-8A-23.264 Publicity of records
All records and accounts of every office, department, board, or agency of the city shall be open to inspection by any person at all reasonable...
Section 45-8A-23.266 Official bonds
The city manager, the director of finance, and such other officers or employees as the council may by general ordinance require so to do, shall...
Section 45-8A-23.267 Oath of office
Every councilman, officer, and employee of the city shall, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, take and subscribe to the following...
Section 45-8A-23.268 Personnel policies and procedures
All employees of the City of Anniston, except civil service employees and grandfathered employees who are subject to the civil service system, shall be employees...
Division 10 Abandonment of Council-Manager Form of Government.
Section 45-8A-25 Sale of alcoholic beverages
(a) This section only applies to the City of Anniston and provides for the Anniston Ecotourism Beverage Bill. (b) Alcoholic beverages may be sold each...
Section 45-8A-71.01 Definitions
As used in this part, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTING AUTHORITY. The mayor or city council, and in the case...
Section 45-8A-71.02 Exemptions
This part shall apply to all officers and employees in the service of the city or any board, agency, or instrumentality thereof except the following:...
Section 45-8A-71.15 Violations
Any person in the service of the city by appointment under civil service rules or regulations who willfully violates this part, or any rule or...
Section 45-8A-71.16 Penalties
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this part shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
Section 45-8A-72 Alcoholic beverages regulated
(a) This section only applies to the City of Jacksonville in Calhoun County. (b) Alcoholic beverages may be sold each day of the week for...
Section 45-8A-111 Legislative intent
The revitalization and redevelopment of the central business district of the City of Oxford in Calhoun County develops and promotes for the public good and...
Section 45-8A-111.01 Definitions
The following words and phrases used in this part, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein...
Section 45-8A-111.02 Use of phrases
The following provisions shall be applied wherever appropriate herein: "Herein," "hereby," "hereunder," "hereof," and other equivalent words refer to this part as an entirety and...
Section 45-8A-111.06 Board of directors
Each authority shall be governed by a board of directors. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by the board or pursuant to its...
Section 45-8A-111.07 Officers of the authority
The officers of the authority shall consist of a chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as its board shall deem necessary or...
Section 45-8A-111.08 Powers of 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 45-8A-111.09 Bonds of authority
(a) Source of payment. All bonds issued by the authority shall be payable solely out of the revenues and receipts derived from the leasing or...
Section 45-8A-111.11 Refunding bonds
(a) Any bonds issued by the authority may from time to time be refunded by the issuance, by sale, or exchange, of refunding bonds payable...
Section 45-8A-111.12 Notice of bond resolution
(a) Upon the adoption by the board of the authority of any resolution providing for the issuance of bonds, such authority may, in its discretion,...
Section 45-8A-111.13 Exemption from taxation
The authority formed under this part, the property and income of the authority (whether used by it or leased to others), all bonds issued by...
Section 45-8A-111.14 Liability of city
The city shall not in any event be liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the authority or...
Section 45-8A-111.18 Earnings of the authority
The authority shall be a nonprofit corporation and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit...
Section 45-8A-111.21 Power of eminent domain
The authority is hereby granted the power of eminent domain and may exercise such power for the purpose of obtaining real property or any interest...
Section 45-8A-112 Applicability
This part shall apply only in the City of Oxford in Calhoun County, Cleburne County, and Talladega County.
Section 45-8A-112.01 Definitions
For the purposes of this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTING AUTHORITY. In the case of the employees in the...
Section 45-8A-112.02 Exemptions
This part shall apply to all officers and employees in the service of the city, or any board, agency, or instrumentality of the city, except...
Section 45-8A-112.08 Civil Service Board - Rules and regulations
(a) The board shall have power to make rules and regulations governing examinations, eligible rosters, appointments, transfers, salaries, promotions, demotions, annual and sick leave, performance...
Section 45-8A-112.09 Salaries
The salary to be paid each subordinate employee and department head shall be determined by his or her appointing authority. In every case the salary...
Section 45-8A-112.12 Suspension of employee; hearing
Any permanent employee subject to this part may be suspended by his or her department head for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning...
Section 45-8A-112.14 Political activity
No employee shall assist any candidate for nomination or election to public office while on duty with the city. No employee shall receive any appointment...
Section 45-8A-130.01 Definitions
As used in this part, unless the content clearly requires a different meaning: "city" means the City of Weaver in Calhoun County; "employee" means any...
Section 45-8A-130.02 Exemptions
This part applies to all officers and employees in the service of the city or any board, agency, or instrumentality thereof except: (a) elective officers;...
Section 45-8A-130.08 Civil Service Board - Rules and regulations
The board shall have power to make rules and regulations governing examination, eligible registers, appointments, transfers, salaries, promotions, demotions, annual and sick leave, and such...
Section 45-8A-130.09 Salaries
The salary to be paid each subordinate employee shall be determined by his or her appointing authority; and the salary to be paid each department...
Section 45-8A-130.12 Suspensions; hearings
An appointing authority shall have authority to suspend an employee for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning his or her fitness or ability...
Section 45-8A-130.14 Political activity
No employee shall make, solicit, or receive any assessment, donation, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatsoever, or be a member of a committee...
Section 45-8A-130.17 Violations
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Part 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
Section 45-8A-131 Sale of alcoholic beverages
(a) This section only applies to the City of Weaver and provides for the City of Weaver Ecotourism Beverage Bill. (b) Alcoholic beverages may be...