Each municipal corporation in the State of Alabama may divide the territory within its corporate limits into business, industrial and residential zones or districts and may provide the kind, character and use of structures and improvements that may be erected or made within the several zones or districts established and may, from time to time, rearrange or alter the boundaries of such zones or districts and may also adopt such ordinances as necessary to carry into effect and make effective the provisions of this article.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.
Chapter 52 - Planning, Zoning and Subdivisions.
Section 11-52-71 - Number, Shape, and Area of Districts; Uniformity of Regulations.
Section 11-52-77 - Procedure for Adoption of Ordinances Authorized by Article.
Section 11-52-79 - Zoning Commission.
Section 11-52-85 - Pre-Zoning of Territory Proposed for Annexation by Municipality.