Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 17A - Colbert County Municipalities

• Article 1 Big Spring.
• Section 45-17A-10 Reserved
• Article 2 Cherokee.
• Section 45-17A-20 Regulation of alcoholic beverage sales on Sunday
  The governing body of the Town of Cherokee in Colbert County, by ordinance, may regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours...
• Article 3 Leighton.
• Section 45-17A-30 Reserved
• Article 4 Littleville.
• Part 1 Alcoholic Beverages
• Section 45-17A-40 Regulation of alcoholic beverage sales on Sunday
  The governing body of the Town of Littleville in Colbert County, by ordinance, may regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours...
• Article 5 Muscle Shoals.
• Part 1 Civil Service System.
• Section 45-17A-50 Applicability
  This part shall apply only in the City of Muscle Shoals.
• Section 45-17A-50.01 Definitions
  As used in this part, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING...
• Section 45-17A-50.02 Approval and implementation of rules and regulations; classified services; reduction in compensation; order of layoff
  (a) All covered employees of the City of Muscle Shoals shall be subject to this part and the rules and regulations prescribed in or promulgated...
• Section 45-17A-50.03 Civil Service Board - Composition; meetings
  (a) On June 18, 1999, the current board members shall complete their term of office. The board shall be composed of five members designated, respectively,...
• Section 45-17A-50.04 Civil Service Board - Compensation
  The compensation of each board member shall be set by the city council.
• Section 45-17A-50.05 Civil Service Board - Minutes; examination of records; clerical assistance
  The board shall keep minutes of its meetings and a record of all business transacted by it. Its records, except those which the rules of...
• Section 45-17A-50.06 Vacancies; appointments; eligibility lists
  (a) All covered vacancies, except for heads of departments, shall be filled by the civil service board. The mayor shall notify the board when a...
• Section 45-17A-50.07 Appointment of department heads
  The mayor and city council shall appoint all head of department vacancies in the city. The head of each department shall come under this part.
• Section 45-17A-50.08 Appointments probationary for six months
  All appointments, including new appointments, employee reassignments to covered vacant positions, including head of department positions, shall be on a probationary basis for a period...
• Section 45-17A-50.09 Disciplinary action; predetermination hearing; submission of charges; public hearing
  (a) The mayor or head of the department shall have authority to discipline any employee pursuant to this part and the rules and regulations adopted...
• Section 45-17A-50.10 Finality of disciplinary action; record of hearing and determination; procedures of hearings; review
  (a) No disciplinary action taken against a regular status employee, except a head of a department, that involves suspension without pay, demotion, dismissal, or any...
• Section 45-17A-50.11 Political activities
  No individual shall use, or promise to use, directly or indirectly, any official authority or influence, whether possessed or anticipated, to affect employment, promotion, pay,...
• Section 45-17A-50.12 Violations
  The violation by any employee of this part, or of any of the rules and regulations adopted by the city pursuant to this part, shall...
• Section 45-17A-50.13 Rules and regulations
  Commencing June 18, 1999, the city shall adopt and have printed the rules and regulations in accordance with this part. The rules and regulations and...
• Part 2 Utilities.
• Section 45-17A-51 Compensation of Utilities Board
  The compensation of the chair of the Utilities Board of the City of Muscle Shoals shall be one hundred five dollars ($105) per month and...
• Part 3 Courts.
• Section 45-17A-52 Warrant recall fee
  (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipal judge or a municipal magistrate of the City of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, may assess a defendant...
• Part 4 Alcoholic Beverages
• Section 45-17A-53 Regulation of alcoholic beverage sales on Sunday
  The governing body of the City of Muscle Shoals in Colbert County, by ordinance, may regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain...
• Article 6 Ococoposo.
• Section 45-17A-60 Reserved
• Article 7 Sheffield.
• Part 1 Nuisances.
• Section 45-17A-70 Abatement of weeds
  (a) All weeds growing upon streets or sidewalks or upon private property within the city limits of Sheffield, in Colbert County, which bear seeds of...
• Part 2 Alcoholic Beverages.
• Section 45-17A-71 Regulation of sales for on-premises consumption
  (a) This section applies only in the City of Sheffield in Colbert County. (b) The sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption during certain hours...
• Section 45-17A-71.01 Regulation of alcoholic beverage sales on Sunday
  The governing body of the City of Sheffield in Colbert County, by ordinance, may regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours...
• Article 8 Tuscumbia.
• Part 1 Historic Preservation.
• Section 45-17A-80 Purpose
  The purposes of this part are to provide for the establishment of an Historic Preservation Commission and Architectural Review Board, and to promote the educational,...
• Section 45-17A-80.01 Historic Preservation Commission and Architectural Review Board
  The governing body of Tuscumbia electing to enact an ordinance, pursuant to this part, to provide for the creation, protection, and enhancement of historic properties...
• Section 45-17A-80.02 Composition of board; personnel; annual report; meetings
  (a) An historic preservation commission created by an ordinance enacted pursuant to this part shall be composed of not less than seven members, who shall...
• Section 45-17A-80.03 Commission a nonprofit agency; tax exempt status
  The commission shall constitute a nonprofit governmental agency whose funds shall be used exclusively for public purposes. The commission shall have tax exempt status, and...
• Section 45-17A-80.04 Powers and duties
  The commission created by an ordinance enacted pursuant to this part shall be authorized to: (1) Preserve and protect buildings, structures, and sites of historic...
• Section 45-17A-80.05 Recommendation for designation of historic properties and districts
  (a) On recommendation of the historic preservation commission, the City of Tuscumbia may designate historic properties and historic districts within the territorial jurisdiction of Tuscumbia....
• Section 45-17A-80.06 Public hearing; notice
  (a) Before the commission shall recommend the designation of an historic property or historic district, it shall hold a public hearing on the proposed recommendation...
• Section 45-17A-80.07 Notice of designation
  Upon the designation of any historic property or historic district by Tuscumbia pursuant to an ordinance enacted pursuant to this part, the historic preservation commission...
• Section 45-17A-80.08 Certificate of appropriateness for modification, erection, or demolition; applications; rules and regulations; design standards; records
  (a) No change in the exterior appearance of an historic property or any building, structure, or site within an historic district may be made, and...
• Section 45-17A-80.09 Appeal of denial
  Any person having a request for a certificate of appropriateness denied by the historic preservation commission, or architectural review board as hereinafter provided, may appeal...
• Section 45-17A-80.10 Approval of application; rejection
  (a) The commission shall approve an application and issue a certificate of appropriateness if it finds that the proposed change, erection, or demolition conforms to...
• Section 45-17A-81.11 Court action to prevent improper changes; damages
  The commission, or Tuscumbia, shall be authorized to institute any appropriate action or proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent any change in...
• Section 45-17A-80.12 Architectural review board
  (a) Tuscumbia, upon enacting an ordinance pursuant to this part, may elect to create an architectural review board, hereinafter sometimes called the board, to perform...
• Section 45-17A-80.13 Creation of joint commission and board
  Tuscumbia may create a joint commission and board with other municipalities within Colbert County or with Colbert County pursuant to an ordinance enacted pursuant to...
• Section 45-17A-80.14 Continuation of prior commissions or boards
  No provision of this part shall be construed to require the dissolution of any historic development commission or architectural review board created by an ordinance...
• Part 2 Nuisances.
• Section 45-17A-81 Abatement of weeds
  (a) All weeds growing upon streets or sidewalks or upon private property within the city limits of Tuscumbia which bear seeds of a wingy or...
• Part 3 Civil Service System.
• Section 45-17A-82 Applicability
  This part shall apply only to the City of Tuscumbia.
• Section 45-17A-82.01 Definitions
  As used in this part, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following words, terms, and all phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1)...
• Section 45-17A-82.02 Applicability; implementing rules and regulations; job descriptions; regular status; reduction in salary or compensation
  (a) All covered employees of the City of Tuscumbia shall be subject to this part and the rules and regulations prescribed in or promulgated pursuant...
• Section 45-17A-82.03 Civil Service Board - Composition; termination; meetings; oath
  (a) On June 7, 2007, the current board members shall complete their terms of office. The board shall be composed of five members designated respectively...
• Section 45-17A-82.04 Civil Service Board - Compensation
  The compensation of board members shall be set and determined by resolution of the city council.
• Section 45-17A-82.05 Civil Service Board - Recordkeeping; clerical assistance
  The board shall keep minutes of its meetings and a record of all business transacted by it. Its records, except those which the rules of...
• Section 45-17A-82.06 Civil Service Board - Filling of vacancies; eligibility lists; rules and regulations
  (a) All covered vacancies, other than department heads, shall be filled by the civil service board. The mayor will notify the board when a vacancy...
• Section 45-17A-82.07 Appointments to fill department head vacancies
  The mayor and city council shall appoint all heads of departments' vacancies in the city. The head of each department shall come under this part.
• Section 45-17A-82.08 Probationary period for appointments
  All appointments, including new appointments, employee reassignments to cover vacant positions, and head of department positions, shall be on a probationary basis for a period...
• Section 45-17A-82.09 Disciplinary action
  (a) The mayor or the head of the department may discipline any employee pursuant to this part and the rules and regulations adopted by the...
• Section 45-17A-82.10 Use of authority to influence official action; candidates for municipal office to take leave of absence
  No individual shall use, or promise to use, directly or indirectly, any official authority of influence, whether possessed or anticipated, to affect employment, promotion, pay,...
• Section 45-17A-82.11 Violations
  The violation by an employee of this part, or of any of the rules and regulations adopted by the city pursuant to this part, shall...
• Section 45-17A-82.12 Availability of rules and regulations
  On June 7, 2007, the city shall adopt and have printed the rules and regulations in accordance with this part. The rules and regulations otherwise...
• Part 4 Utilities Board.
• Section 45-17A-83 Definitions
  The following words and phrases used in this part shall, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations herein:...
• Section 45-17A-83.01 Revision of board
  (a) On June 14, 2007, the board shall be composed of three directors, each of whom shall be a resident and qualified elector of the...
• Section 45-17A-83.02 Compensation of the directors
  Each director shall be paid two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225) per month unless otherwise set by the board.
• Section 45-17A-83.03 Meetings of the board
  The board shall hold a regular monthly meeting on the second Monday of each month, or such other day of the month as subsequently determined...
• Section 45-17A-83.04 Authority and duties of the board
  The board shall be responsible for the management, control, and operation of the electric, water, sewer, gas, or other utilities presently owned or hereafter acquired...
• Section 45-17A-83.05 Establishment of utility rates
  The board is authorized to establish all utility rates for the City of Tuscumbia public utility system. Any electric rate adjustment must be approved by...
• Section 45-17A-83.06 Accountant; duties of accountant
  The board shall appoint, on mutually agreeable terms, a duly licensed certified public accountant or firm to make an annual audit of all books and...
• Section 45-17A-83.07 Report of board to city council
  Within 60 days after the expiration of its fiscal year, the board shall make an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to...
• Section 45-17A-83.08 Expenditures for system improvements
  No expenditures for any new construction, additions, or replacements to any public utility system or equipment shall be made by the board where the total...
• Section 45-17A-83.09 Deposit and expenditure of funds
  All funds of the board shall be kept separate from other funds of the city and in accounts established by the board. The funds shall...
• Section 45-17A-83.10 Electric distribution system
  All revenues generated from the sale of electricity or in any way from the use of the electric distribution system, shall be deposited in board...
• Section 45-17A-83.11 Water, sewer, gas, and other utility systems
  All revenues generated from the sale of water and gas, or received in any way from the use of the water, sewer, and gas systems...
• Section 45-17A-83.12 Construction; repeal of conflicting provisions of law
  All parts of the enabling law which conflict with this part are hereby repealed; provided, however, that nothing in this part shall be construed to...
• Part 5 Alcoholic Beverages
• Section 45-17A-84 Regulation of alcoholic beverage sales on Sunday
  The governing body of the City of Tuscumbia in Colbert County, by ordinance, may regulate and permit the sale of alcoholic beverages during certain hours...

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