Code of Alabama
Chapter 16 - Relocation of County Seats and Erection of New Courthouses.
Section 11-16-40 - Penalties for Failure to Perform Duties Required by Chapter, Etc.

Any officer or person who shall willfully or corruptly fail to perform any duty required of him under any of the provisions of this chapter; or shall fraudulently alter or change the ballot of any elector after it has been cast; or shall make any false or fraudulent count of votes; or shall place in the receptacle for ballots any ballot not actually cast by an elector; or shall take therefrom any ballot cast by an elector, with the intention of unlawfully changing or affecting the result of the election; or shall make any false poll list or any false count of the ballots or any false certificate to a poll list or to the result of the count of the ballots; or shall wrongfully open the returns from any precinct or ward; or shall change, secrete, destroy, or mutilate the returns from any precinct or ward or attempt to do so; or shall prevent or attempt to prevent any such return from being made as required by this chapter; or shall attempt to commit any fraudulent act in connection with the ordering of said election, or the holding of the election, or making the returns or declaring the result thereof; and any person who votes more than once, or deposits more than one ballot as his vote at such election or knowingly attempts to vote when he knows he is not entitled to vote; and, any person who, by bribery or offering to bribe or by any other corrupt means attempts to influence any elector in giving his vote, or to deter him in giving the same, or to disturb or to hinder him in the free exercise of his right of suffrage at said election must, in every such case, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than five years.

Structure Code of Alabama

Code of Alabama

Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.

Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.

Chapter 16 - Relocation of County Seats and Erection of New Courthouses.

Section 11-16-1 - Petition of Qualified Electors for Election to Change County Seat.

Section 11-16-2 - Commissioners - Qualifications and Appointment; Notice of Appointment.

Section 11-16-3 - Commissioners - Designation; Chairman.

Section 11-16-4 - Commissioners - Oath.

Section 11-16-5 - Commissioners - Commission.

Section 11-16-6 - Commissioners - Vacancies.

Section 11-16-7 - Commissioners - Removal.

Section 11-16-8 - Order Establishing Date for Election - Issuance.

Section 11-16-9 - Order Establishing Date for Election - Form.

Section 11-16-10 - Notice of Election.

Section 11-16-11 - Inspectors, Clerks, and Returning Officers - Appointment.

Section 11-16-12 - Inspectors, Clerks, and Returning Officers - Notice of Appointment.

Section 11-16-13 - Inspectors, Clerks, and Returning Officers - Oath.

Section 11-16-14 - Powers and Duties of Returning Officers Generally.

Section 11-16-15 - Compensation of Returning Officers, Inspectors, Etc.

Section 11-16-16 - Attendance at and Opening of Polls by Inspectors, Clerks, and Returning Officers.

Section 11-16-17 - Appointment of Clerks, Inspectors, etc., Upon Failure of Others to Attend.

Section 11-16-18 - Opening of Polls to Be Proclaimed Prior to Receipt of Ballots.

Section 11-16-19 - Form of Ballot.

Section 11-16-20 - Preparation of Poll Lists; Numbering of Ballots.

Section 11-16-21 - Provision of Certified Lists of Registered Voters for Inspectors; Qualifications for Voting.

Section 11-16-22 - Preparation and Disposition of Certified Statements of Votes and Poll Lists.

Section 11-16-23 - Receipt of Returns, Counting of Votes, and Declaration of Election Result.

Section 11-16-24 - Proceedings When Returns Destroyed, Withheld, or Delayed.

Section 11-16-25 - Preparation, Recordation, Filing, and Publication of Certified Copy of Election Result.

Section 11-16-26 - Majority of Commissioners or Inspectors May Act.

Section 11-16-27 - Declaration of New County Seat.

Section 11-16-28 - Acquisition of Lands for New County Seat; Erection of Courthouse and Jail.

Section 11-16-29 - Removal of County Offices, Records, and Prisoners to New Courthouse and Jail.

Section 11-16-30 - Holding of Court of Record.

Section 11-16-31 - County Offices and Courts to Remain at Old County Seat Until Buildings Provided at New Site.

Section 11-16-32 - Discretion of Governor as to Petitions for Removal of County Seat; Proceedings as to Two or More Petitions.

Section 11-16-33 - Resolution of County Commission for Erection of Courthouse on New Site.

Section 11-16-34 - Ordering of Election for Determination as to Erection of Courthouse on New Site.

Section 11-16-35 - Notice of Election.

Section 11-16-36 - Preparation, Form, and Marking of Ballots.

Section 11-16-37 - Qualifications and Appointment of Election Managers and Returning Officers; Laws Governing Elections.

Section 11-16-38 - Erection of Courthouse on New Site.

Section 11-16-39 - Subsequent Elections Not to Be Held Within Four Years of Preceding Election.

Section 11-16-40 - Penalties for Failure to Perform Duties Required by Chapter, Etc.