Code of Alabama
Article 2 - Self-Help Business Improvement Districts in Class 2 Municipalities.
Section 11-54B-46 - Review of Self-Help Business Improvement District Plan and Adoption of Ordinance.

The governing body of the municipality, upon review of the self-help business improvement district plan and after public hearing, may adopt an ordinance to designate, establish, and maintain the area described in the plan as a self-help business improvement district. The ordinance shall provide for an effective date of 30 days from the date of adoption of the ordinance by the governing body of the municipality and shall provide that, if the owners of nonexempt real property representing 60 percent of the total fair market value of all real property located within the district, or the owners of at least 50 percent of the parcels of property located within the district; or, alternatively with respect to a district funded by assessments against a particular class of businesses, if the owners of businesses, consistent with the signatures required under subdivision (2) of Section 11-54B-44, file written objections to the establishment of the district with the clerk of the municipality, the provisions of the ordinance shall be null and void and no district shall be created. The ordinance shall designate the district management corporation provided for in the plan as the district management corporation authorized to provide administrative and other services to the district and authorize the execution of a contract between the municipality and the district management corporation setting out the services to be provided by the district and the municipality. The contract shall provide that the municipality shall continue the same level of services in the district as provided prior to the creation thereof.

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