Code of Alabama
Part 5 - Budget.
Section 45-37A-52.121 - Submission of Budgets.

(a) On a day to be fixed by the council, but in no case later than the 20th day of May in each year, the mayor shall submit to the council all of the following:
(1) A separate current revenue and expense budget for the general operation of the city government, to be known as the general fund budget.
(2) A budget for each public utility owned and operated by such city.
(3) A capital budget.
(4) A budget message.
(b) When submitting the budgets to the council, the mayor shall submit his or her recommendation of new sources of revenue or manner of increasing existing sources of revenue, sufficient to balance the budgets, if such additional revenue is necessary to accomplish that purpose.
(c) If the council enacts the ordinance authorized by Section 45-37A-52.120, the mayor shall submit proposed budgets to the council no later than August 20 of any period in which the city’s fiscal year is October 1 to September 30, or the August 20 immediately preceding the expiration of the transitional financial reporting period selected by the council pursuant to Section 45-37A-52.120.

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