2006 Alabama Code - Section 11-44-151 — Examination of petition and certification thereof to president of board of commissioners.

The judge of probate shall examine such petition and determine whether or not the same is signed by the requisite number of the qualified electors of such city or town to authorize an election in such city or town for the purpose of abandoning such commission form of government, and if such probate judge shall find that said petition contains the requisite number of electors to authorize such election, he shall, within 10 days from the receipt of such petition, certify such fact to the president of the board of commissioners of said city or town in which such election is so petitioned, and the certificate of the judge of probate as to the sufficiency of said petition shall be final.

(Acts 1915, No. 699, p. 770; Code 1923, §2395; Code 1940, T. 37, §121.)