Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781332096275

Excerpt from An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Montgomery Is Now Organized: In Effect April 10, 1911 To provide and create a commission form of municipal government and to establish same in all cities of Alabama which now have, or which may hereafter have, a population of as much as twenty-five thousand and less than fifty thousand people according to the last federal census, or any such census which may hereafter be taken; to regulate the selection and election of commissioners and their terms of office and recall from office; to fix their powers, duties and compensation; to punish improper conduct in connection with elections and petitions hereunder; to abolish police commissioners, aldermen, and certain other city officials; and otherwise provide for the creation and maintenance of said commission form of government. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: Section 1. All cities of the State of Alabama which have a population of as many as twenty-five thousand and less than fifty thousand people, according to the last federal census, or which shall hereafter have such population according to any census that may be taken hereafter, shall become organized under the commission form of government according to the terms of this act and shall be known as cities of class "C." Sec. 2. In all cities of the State of Alabama which have such population according to the last federal census, the governor is authorized and required to appoint from and after the approval of this act four persons to hold office as commissioners of said city, who shall hold office until the first Monday in October, 1915, and until their successors shall be elected and shall qualify as hereinafter provided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.