(a) Within 60 days after the adoption and approval of the fifth annual budget for any self-help business improvement district, the board of directors of the district management corporation shall set a hearing to determine whether the district should be continued, modified, or terminated. At least 20 days before the hearing, notice of the date, place, and time of such hearing shall be posted in at least three places within the district and mailed to each real property owner who paid assessments to the district during the previous year as certified by an officer of the district management corporation collecting such assessments.
(b) Whenever a petition is presented to the board of directors of the district management corporation signed by real property owners in the district which paid 50 percent or more of the assessments paid in the district during the last fiscal year for which assessments were collected, the board of directors of the district management corporation shall set a public hearing as provided for in subsection (a).
(c) After a hearing, the board of directors of the district management corporation shall adopt a resolution approving the continuation of the district, modifying the district or the services rendered thereby, or the assessments levied, or terminating the district as of the end of the fiscal year during which the hearing is held.
(d) If it should be demonstrated at any hearing held under this section that the owners of real property which either (1) pay one-half or more of the assessments levied in the district during the last fiscal year for which assessments were collected, or (2) represent one-half or more (by number) of all parcels of real property located within the geographical area of the district object to the continuation of the district, the district shall be terminated as of the end of the fiscal year next following the hearing.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.
Chapter 54B - Self-Help Business Improvement Districts.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 11-54B-1 - Legislative Findings.
Section 11-54B-2 - Definitions.
Section 11-54B-3 - Development and Maintenance of Self-Help Business Improvement Districts.
Section 11-54B-5 - Requirements of Request for Creation of Self-Help Business Improvement District.
Section 11-54B-6 - Mailing of Proposed Ordinance and Notice of Hearing.
Section 11-54B-7 - Review of Self-Help Business Improvement District Plan and Adoption of Ordinance.
Section 11-54B-8 - Costs of Supplemental Services; Assessment of Classes; Exemptions.
Section 11-54B-10 - Amendment of Self-Help Business Improvement District Ordinance.
Section 11-54B-11 - District Management Corporation Limits, Powers, and Duties.
Section 11-54B-12 - Annual Budget of District Management Corporation.
Section 11-54B-13 - Retention of Municipal Police Powers.
Section 11-54B-14 - Eminent Domain Utilization.
Section 11-54B-15 - Furniture, Structure of Facility Not Deemed Nuisance.
Section 11-54B-16 - District Management Corporation Contracts.
Section 11-54B-17 - Operation in Other Designated Project Areas.
Section 11-54B-18 - Annual Reports and Audits.
Section 11-54B-19 - Continuation, Modification, or Termination of District.
Section 11-54B-20 - Tax Exemption.
Section 11-54B-22 - Merger of Business Improvement Districts.