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Statutes > Alabama > Title11 > Title2 > 11-44-28Section 11-44-28
Selection, compensation, removal, etc., of officers and employees generally.
Every city or town adopting the form of government provided for by this article shall be governed and managed by the board of commissioners provided for in this article. Each and every officer and employee of said city or town other than the commissioners shall be selected and employed by the said board or under its direction, and all salaries and wages paid by said city or town, except as otherwise provided by the terms of this article, shall be fixed by said board. The board of commissioners shall have the authority to create all necessary offices and shall prescribe and may at any time change the power, duties, and titles of all subordinate officers and employees of said city or town, and all such officers and employees shall hold office and be removable at the pleasure of the board of commissioners; provided, however, that all salaried officials, except members of the boards and commissioners above mentioned who are holding office at the time of the adoption of such form of government under an election, appointment, or other selections for a definite term, shall be permitted to serve out such term in the position and with the duties and compensation and subject to the conditions, restrictions, and regulations which would have existed had there been no change in the government of such city or town.
(Acts 1911, No. 504, p. 591; Code 1923, §2351; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 150, p. 139; Acts 1935, No. 505, p. 1083; Code 1940, T. 37, §50.)