Alabama § 11-42-207 - Question Submitted; Conduct of Election Generally; Form, Marking, Etc., of Ballots; Appointment, Etc., of Clerks, Inspectors, and Returning Officer; Ascertainment, Etc., of Election Results; Entry of Order as to Adoption of Proposed Corporate Limits, Etc.

§ 11-42-207. Question Submitted; Conduct of Election Generally; Form, Marking, Etc., of Ballots; Appointment, Etc., of Clerks, Inspectors, and Returning Officer; Ascertainment, Etc., of Election Results; Entry of Order as to Adoption of Proposed Corporate Limits, Etc.

(a) The election shall be to determine whether or not the proposed corporate limits shall be established, and such election must be conducted in all respects as provided by the general election laws and under the same sanctions and penalties, except as changed by the provisions of this article and except that no official ballot need be provided.

(b) Each voter may furnish his own ballot with the following words written or printed thereon: “For adoption of the proposed corporate limits,” if he desires to vote in favor of proposed corporate limits or “Against the adoption of proposed corporate limits,” if he desires to vote against the adoption of proposed corporate limits. It shall not be necessary for the ballot to be of any particular size, form, or color.

(c) The judge of probate shall appoint the inspectors and clerks and a returning officer to hold said election, and the inspectors at their respective voting places, as soon as the polls are closed, must ascertain and certify the result of the election at their respective voting places to the judge of probate and deliver the same to the returning officer who must at once return the same to the judge of probate, and the judge of probate must canvass the returns as made by the inspectors and if it appears that a majority of votes cast at the election was in favor of adoption of proposed corporate limits, the judge of probate must make and enter an order on the record of probate court adjudging and decreeing that the corporate limits of the city or town as proposed and as defined in the resolution and designated on the plat or map attached to the resolution have been duly adopted and are the legal corporate limits of said city or town and must order said resolution, together with said map, recorded in the records in his office, and from the time of the entry of such order said corporate limits shall be the corporate limits of said city or town.