2006 Alabama Code - Section 11-43-82 — Issuance of proclamation closing shops and forbidding sale of arms, ammunition, etc., during riots, etc.

Whenever any mob, riot or tumult has occurred or there is reasonable cause to apprehend an occurrence thereof in any city, town or village or in the vicinity thereof, the mayor shall have power to issue his proclamation ordering the closing of all shops or other places where the business of selling arms, ammunition, dynamite or other explosives is carried on and forbidding the selling, lending, giving away, bartering or otherwise disposing of any of such articles until such time as, in his judgment, such occupation may be carried on without danger to the public peace and safety.

(Code 1896, §2972; Code 1907, §1454; Code 1923, §2310; Code 1940, T. 37, §442.)