Code of Alabama
Article 3 - Council.
Section 11-43-57 - Annual Appropriation of Funds for Expenditures of Departments and Interest on Indebtedness.

In all cities, the council shall appropriate the sums necessary for the expenditures of the several city departments and for the interest on its bonded and other indebtedness, not exceeding in the aggregate within 10 percent of its estimated receipts, and such city council shall not appropriate in the aggregate an amount in excess of its annual legally authorized revenue. But nothing in this section shall prevent such cities from anticipating their revenues for the year for which such appropriation was made, or from contracting for temporary loans as provided in the applicable provisions of this title, or from bonding or refunding their outstanding indebtedness or from appropriating anticipated revenue at any time for the current expenses of the city and interest on the bonded and other indebtedness of the city.

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Code of Alabama

Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.

Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.

Chapter 43 - Mayor and Council, Other Officers, Employees, Departments, Etc.

Article 3 - Council.

Section 11-43-40 - Composition of City Councils; Voting by President of Council.

Section 11-43-41 - Filling of Vacancies in Office of Aldermen.

Section 11-43-42 - Exercise of Functions of Mayor During Absence or Disability of Mayor; Filling of Vacancies in Offices of Mayor, President, and President Pro Tempore of Council.

Section 11-43-43 - Powers and Duties Generally.

Section 11-43-44 - Organizational Meeting.

Section 11-43-45 - Officers - Election or Appointment.

Section 11-43-46 - Officers - Terms of Service.

Section 11-43-47 - Officers - Powers and Duties.

Section 11-43-48 - Proceedings - Quorum.

Section 11-43-49 - Proceedings - Time and Place of Meetings Generally; Appointment of Temporary Chairman or Election of President Pro Tempore.

Section 11-43-50 - Proceedings - Regular and Special Meetings; Cancelling and Rescheduling Meetings.

Section 11-43-51 - Proceedings - Compulsion of Attendance of Members.

Section 11-43-52 - Proceedings - Rules of Procedure; Journal.

Section 11-43-53 - Aldermen Not to Hold Other Municipal Offices or Have Interest, etc., in Municipal Contracts, etc.; Penalty.

Section 11-43-54 - Aldermen Not to Vote on Certain Matters; Removal.

Section 11-43-55 - Establishment, Organization, etc., of Police Force.

Section 11-43-56 - Management and Control of Finances and Property of Municipality.

Section 11-43-57 - Annual Appropriation of Funds for Expenditures of Departments and Interest on Indebtedness.

Section 11-43-58 - Judging of Qualifications and Election of Mayor, President of Council, Etc.

Section 11-43-59 - Adoption of Fire Limits, Building Laws and Ordinances, etc.; Condemnation of Buildings, etc.; Charges for Inspections.

Section 11-43-60 - Regulation of Storage, Use, etc., of Explosives; Compulsion of Efficient Service by Public Utility Corporations.

Section 11-43-61 - Regulation of Running, Switching, etc., of Cars, Trains, and Locomotives on Streets, Crossings, Highways, Etc.

Section 11-43-62 - Regulation of Use of Streets for Telephone, Telegraph, etc., Lines; Sale or Lease of Franchises and Disposition of Moneys Therefrom.

Section 11-43-63 - Division of Municipality Into Single-Member Districts.

Section 11-43-64 - Procedural Requirements for Increasing Number of Single-Member Districts in Class 3 Municipalities.

Section 11-43-65 - Filling Vacancies on City Council in Class 6 Municipalities.

Section 11-43-66 - Increases to Compensation for Members of City Council in Class 1 Municipalities.