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Statutes > Alabama > Title45 > Chapter8A > 45-8A-23_214Section 45-8A-23.214
Duties of council on disapproval of manager's proposed division.
If the council shall disapprove the manager's proposed division it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution of disapproval. Such ordinance or resolution must contain the council's proposed division of the city into not less than five nor more than seven new wards. It shall describe with clarity and certainty each of the wards proposed therein. The ordinance or resolution must prescribe a date for the holding of an election by the voters as set out in Section 45- 8A-23.216. Such date shall be not less than 30 nor more than 90 days after the adoption of the ordinance or resolution. If the ordinance or resolution shall not prescribe the date for the holding of the election, or if it shall not describe with clarity and certainty each of the wards proposed therein, such ordinance or resolution shall be null and void.
(Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §7.05.)