Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Chapter 49A - Mobile County Municipalities
- Article 1 Bayou La Batre.
- Section 45-49A-10 Authority to form public corporation
The governing body of the City of Bayou La Batre, Mobile County, Alabama, may declare by the adoption of appropriate resolution the need for the...
- Section 45-49A-10.01 Certificate of incorporation
The certificate of incorporation of the corporation shall state: The names of the persons forming the corporation, together with the residence of each thereof and...
- Section 45-49A-10.02 Filing of certificate
The certificates of incorporation with the documents attached shall be filed with the Judge of Probate of Mobile County and with the Secretary of State,...
- Section 45-49A-10.03 Board of directors
All powers of the corporation shall be exercised by the board of directors or pursuant to its authority. The directors shall be elected by the...
- Section 45-49A-10.04 Powers of corporation
A corporation organized and established under this article shall have the following powers: (1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the...
- Section 45-49A-10.05 Power to borrow money and issue revenue bonds
(a) The corporation shall have the power to borrow money and to issue revenue bonds as evidence of any money borrowed, which bonds shall be...
- Section 45-49A-10.06 Contract requirements
The contracts of the corporation shall be executed in the name of the corporation by the president of the corporation and attested by the secretary...
- Section 45-49A-10.07 Lease, sale, donation, or transfer of property to the corporation
Mobile County or the City of Bayou La Batre, or any city within the county, is authorized, but not required, to lease, sell, donate, or...
- Section 45-49A-10.08 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 45-49A-10.09 Exemption from taxation
All property of the corporation shall be exempt from state, county, and city taxation; and the corporation shall be exempt from license or privilege licenses...
- Article 2 Chickasaw.
- Section 45-49A-20 Demolition of unsafe structures
The governing body of the Municipality of Chickasaw shall have authority, after notice as provided herein, to move or demolish buildings and structures, or parts...
- Section 45-49A-20.01 Appropriate city officials; notice
The term appropriate city official, as used in this article shall mean any city official or city employee designated by the mayor or other chief...
- Section 45-49A-20.02 Hearings on unsafe structures; orders; appeals
Within the time specified in such notice, but not more than 60 days from the date such notice is given, any person, firm, or corporation...
- Section 45-49A-20.03 Report of cost of demolition; resolution fixing costs; sale of salvaged materials; notice
Upon demolition of such building or structure, the appropriate city official shall make report to the governing body of the cost thereof, and such governing...
- Section 45-49A-20.04 Assessment of costs; sale and redemption of lots
The city shall have the power to assess the costs authorized herein against any lot or lots, parcel or parcels of land purchased by the...
- Section 45-49A-20.05 Payment of assessments
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- Section 45-49A-20.06 Article cumulative in nature
This article shall be cumulative in its nature, and in addition to any and all power and authority which any such city may have under...
- Article 3 Citronelle.
- Article 4 Creola.
- Section 45-49A-40 Reserved
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- Article 5 Dauphin Island.
- Article 6 Mobile.
- Part 1 Elected Officials.
- Part 2 Employees.
- Part 3 Health and Environment.
- Part 4 Policemen's and Firemen's Pension and Relief System.
- Division 1 General Provisions.
- Section 45-49A-63 Definitions
As used in this part, the following words and terms shall have meanings as follows: (1) ANNUITY STARTING DATE. The first day for which a...
- Division 2 Membership.
- Division 3 Service.
- Division 4 Eligibility for and Amount of Benefits.
- Division 5 Payment of Benefits.
- Division 6 Contributions.
- Section 45-49A-63.100 Fines
The city shall pay into the fund monthly an amount equal to five percent of all fines and moneys, except costs of court, paid as...
- Section 45-49A-63.101 Insurance premiums
(a) On or before the first day of March of each year, each insurance company writing fire insurance on property within the city limits and...
- Section 45-49A-63.102 Member contributions
Eight percent of the salary of every uniformed officer with less than 30 years of service shall be deducted from his or her pay and...
- Section 45-49A-63.103 Donations
Any person, firm, association, or corporation may donate money to the fund and the board may take by gift, grant, devise, or bequest any money,...
- Section 45-49A-63.104 City contributions
(a) The city shall contribute to the fund an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the annual actuarial cost for the plan...
- Section 45-49A-63.105 Return of contributions
The city may recover without interest the amount of its contributions to the plan made on account of a mistake in fact, reduced by any...
- Division 7 Administration of Plan.
- Section 45-49A-63.120 Appointment of board
(a) The board is responsible for the general administration of the plan and for carrying out the plan. The board shall consist of (i) three...
- Section 45-49A-63.121 Elections
All elections of uniformed officers to the board shall be by secret ballot and shall be administered by the city clerk. Elections shall be held...
- Section 45-49A-63.122 Vacancies
Vacancies among the elected members of the board shall be filled by special election to be called by the city clerk not later than 30...
- Section 45-49A-63.123 Duties of board
(a) The members of the board shall elect a chair from their number; may appoint from their number such subcommittees with such powers as they...
- Section 45-49A-63.124 Establishment of rules
Subject to the limitations of the plan, the board from time to time shall establish rules for the administration of the plan and the transaction...
- Section 45-49A-63.125 Meetings
(a) The board shall meet not less than once each month and at such other times as may be considered necessary by the chair of...
- Section 45-49A-63.126 Compensation and bonding
No board member shall receive any compensation from the plan for his or her services as such; however, board members may be reimbursed for any...
- Section 45-49A-63.127 Prudent conduct
The members of the board shall use that degree of care, skill, prudence, and diligence that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and...
- Section 45-49A-63.128 Maintenance of accounts
The board shall maintain accounts showing the fiscal transactions of the plan and shall keep in convenient form such data as may be necessary for...
- Section 45-49A-63.129 Service in more than one fiduciary capacity
Any individual, entity, or group of persons may serve in more than one fiduciary capacity with respect to the plan and/or the fund.
- Section 45-49A-63.130 Limitation of liability
The city, the board, the members of the board, and any officer, employee, or agent of the city shall not incur any liability individually or...
- Section 45-49A-63.131 Indemnification
The members of the board and the officers, employees, and agents of the city shall be indemnified against any and all liabilities arising by reason...
- Section 45-49A-63.132 City attorney to represent board
It shall be the duty of the city attorney to give advice to the board in all matters pertaining to the duties of the board...
- Section 45-49A-63.133 Expenses of administration
Except as may be otherwise specified in this plan, all expenses that arise in connection with the administration of the plan including, but not limited...
- Section 45-49A-63.134 Deferred retirement option plan
The board may create and administer a deferred retirement option plan (DROP Plan) on such terms and conditions as the board may prescribe; however, any...
- Division 8 Management of Funds.
- Division 9 Amendment, Merger, and Termination.
- Division 10 Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Section 45-49A-63.190 Nonalienation
Except as required by any applicable law, no benefit under the plan shall in any manner be anticipated, assigned, or alienated, and any attempt to...
- Section 45-49A-63.191 Conditions of employment not affected by plan
The establishment of the plan shall not confer any legal rights upon any uniformed officer or other person for a continuation of employment, nor shall...
- Section 45-49A-63.192 Facility of payment
If the board shall find that a member or other person entitled to a benefit is unable to care for his or her affairs because...
- Section 45-49A-63.193 Information
Each member or other person entitled to a benefit, before any benefit shall be payable to him or her or on his or her account...
- Section 45-49A-63.194 Appeals from board decisions
(a) Within 10 days after any final decision of the board, the city or any person aggrieved at the decision of the board may appeal...
- Section 45-49A-63.195 Prevention of escheat
If the board cannot ascertain the whereabouts of any person to whom a payment is due under the plan, the board may, after such payment...
- Section 45-49A-63.196 Severability
The provisions of this plan are severable. If any part of the plan is declared invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration shall not affect the remaining...
- Section 45-49A-63.197 Construction
(a) The plan shall be construed, regulated, and administered under the laws of the State of Alabama, except where the provisions of the code or...
- Part 5 Public Transit System.
- Section 45-49A-64 Purpose; legislative findings
(a) The Legislature has found and determined and does hereby declare that in municipalities having a population of not less than 175,000 nor more than...
- Section 45-49A-64.01 Definitions
The following words and phrases used in this part, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise,...
- Section 45-49A-64.02 Use of phrases
(a) The following provisions shall be applied wherever appropriate herein: Herein, hereby, hereunder, hereof, and other equivalent words refer to this part as an entirety...
- Section 45-49A-64.03 Filing of application; authorization of incorporation
(a) A public corporation may be organized pursuant to this part in any municipality having a population of not less than 175,000 nor more than...
- Section 45-49A-64.04 Procedure to incorporate; contents and execution of certificate of incorporation
(a) Within 40 days following the adoption of an authorizing resolution by the governing body, the applicants shall proceed to incorporate an authority by filing...
- Section 45-49A-64.05 Amendments to certificate of incorporation
(a) The certificate of incorporation of any authority incorporated under this part may at any time and from time to time be amended in the...
- Section 45-49A-64.06 Board of directors
(a) Each authority shall be governed by a board of directors. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by the board pursuant to its...
- Section 45-49A-64.07 Powers of authority
The authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have...
- Section 45-49A-64.08 Rates, fees, and charges
Rates, fees, and charges for public transportation service rendered by the authority from any of its transit systems shall be fixed and from time to...
- Section 45-49A-64.09 Bonds of authority
(a) All bonds issued by the authority shall be signed by the chair of its board or other chief executive officer and attested by its...
- Section 45-49A-64.10 Contracts to secure bonds and assumed obligations
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- Section 45-49A-64.11 Statutory mortgage lien
Any resolution of the board or trust indenture under which bonds may be issued pursuant to this part may contain provisions creating a statutory mortgage...
- Section 45-49A-64.12 Proceeds from sale of bonds
All moneys derived from the sale of any bonds issued by the authority shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes for which the...
- Section 45-49A-64.13 Cooperation; aid from other public bodies
For the purpose of securing public transportation or aiding or cooperating with the authority in the planning, development, undertaking, construction, acquisition, extension, improvement, operation, or...
- Section 45-49A-64.14 Exemption from taxation
The property and income of the authority, all bonds issued by the authority, the income from such bonds, conveyances by or to the authority, and...
- Section 45-49A-64.15 Freedom of authority from Public Service Commission and other state supervision and control
This part is intended to aid the state in the execution of its duties by providing appropriate and independent instrumentalities of the state with full...
- Section 45-49A-64.16 Use of public roads
Each authority is hereby authorized to use the rights-of-way of all public roads in the state without securing the prior approval of the state or...
- Section 45-49A-64.17 Annual budget and audit
Within 30 days of the beginning of the fiscal year of an authority, the board shall adopt a budget for such fiscal year. Any such...
- Section 45-49A-64.18 Employee membership in union permitted; civil service or merit systems not applicable
Any employee of the authority may join or participate in a labor union. No employee of the authority shall be subject to the provisions of...
- Section 45-49A-64.19 Dissolution of authority and vesting of property
At any time when the authority has no bonds or other obligations outstanding, the board may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon...
- Section 45-49A-64.20 Employee protective provisions
(a) The rights, benefits, and other employee protective conditions and remedies of Section 13(c) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49...
- Section 45-49A-64.21 Limitation on eminent domain
Nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the acquisition by eminent domain of any real property or rights owned or held by railroads or utilities,...
- Section 45-49A-64.22 Existence of authority prevents subsequent incorporation
The existence of an authority incorporated under this part, shall prevent the subsequent incorporation hereunder of another authority in the same county.
- Part 6 Youth Athletic Board.
- Article 7 Mount Vernon
- Article 8 Prichard.
- Part 1 City Government.
- Section 45-49A-80 City council districts
(a) The Judge of Probate of Mobile County shall divide the City of Prichard into five districts which shall be homogeneous in area and nearly...
- Section 45-49A-80.01 Vacancies
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor in the City of Prichard in Mobile County, Alabama, with six months or more remaining in...
- Section 45-49A-80.02 Meetings
The Prichard City Council shall meet not less than 48 times per year on dates and at times to be decided by the city council.
- Part 2 Employees.
- Section 45-49A-81 Municipal Employees Pension and Relief Fund
There is hereby created and provided for in the City of Prichard, Alabama, a special fund to be known as the Municipal Employees Pension and...
- Section 45-49A-81.01 Maintenance of funds
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- Section 45-49A-81.02 Pension and relief system
In carrying out any program established in an enterprise zone created hereunder, the governing body of the county in which the city is situated, and...
- Section 45-49A-81.03 Donations or gifts to fund
Monies or other things of value may be donated to the fund by any person, firm, or corporation. Such donations or gifts may be outright,...
- Section 45-49A-81.04 Investment of funds
All monies properly belonging to the fund shall be kept in a separate account or accounts, and may, in the discretion of the persons charged...
- Section 45-49A-81.05 Coverage under part
Every present active permanent employee of the City of Prichard shall come under the provisions and benefits of this part; provided, that no elected officials...
- Section 45-49A-81.06 Applications for pensions and relief
The City Council of the City of Prichard, Alabama, shall hear and decide all applications for pensions and relief under this part, and the decision...
- Section 45-49A-81.07 Payments by trustee; exemption from garnishment levy, etc
Directions to the trustee for payments provided herein shall be signed by the regular constituted authorities of the City of Prichard, Alabama. The trustee shall...
- Section 45-49A-81.08 Temporary total disability of city employee
(a) If any employee of the City of Prichard, Alabama, while in the performance of his or her duties, becomes and is found to be...
- Section 45-49A-81.09 Permanent disability of city employee
If any employee of the City of Prichard, Alabama, while in the performance of his or her duties, becomes or is found to be physically...
- Section 45-49A-81.10 Pension eligibility for certain employees – 20 years of service
(a) Any employee of the City of Prichard, except as herein otherwise provided, who has been in the service of the city for as long...
- Section 45-49A-81.11 Pension eligibility for certain employees – 25 years of service
(a) Any employee of the City of Prichard who has been in the service thereof for as long as 25 years, the last four years...
- Section 45-49A-81.12 Benefits for widows and orphans
(a) In the event of the death of a married employee and if at the time of such death the employee (1) is in the...
- Section 45-49A-81.13 Examination of employee
In all matters involving the sickness or disability of an employee of the city, the city council, or other governing body shall have such disabled...
- Section 45-49A-81.14 Insufficiency of funds
The benefits provided for the employees of the City of Prichard hereunder shall not be reduced or prorated among those properly entitled thereto and should,...
- Section 45-49A-81.15 List of retired employees
There shall be kept by the Clerk of the City of Prichard, or some person designated by such clerk, a book to be known as...
- Section 45-49A-81.16 Duties of city attorney
It shall be the duty of the city attorney to give advice to the City Council of the City of Prichard, and to those selected...
- Section 45-49A-81.17 Board of pensions
There is hereby created a board to be known as the board of pensions, for the purpose of carrying out this part. The board shall...
- Section 45-49A-81.18 Election not to participate; subsequent application
Any employee of the City of Prichard at the original date of this part could elect at any time not to come within the provisions...
- Section 45-49A-81.19 Applicability of part
This part shall apply to all persons except elected officials who are now or who may hereafter be in the permanent employment of the City...
- Section 45-49A-81.20 Severability
If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word, or other provision of this part shall be held or declared to be unconstitutional or void by any...
- Section 45-49A-81.21 Return of contributions
Whenever any person who contributes to the fund provided for by this part shall leave the service for any reason he or she will be...
- Section 45-49A-81.22 Implementation, construction, and enforcement of part
This part shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor or its otherwise becoming a law; provided, that this part shall...
- Part 3 Enterprise Zones.
- Part 4 Utilities.
- Article 9 Saraland.
- Section 45-49A-90 Warrant recall fee
(a)(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a municipal magistrate of the City of Saraland may assess a defendant with a warrant recall fee that...
- Article 10 Satsuma.
- Article 11 Theodore.
- Article 12 Wilmer.
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