2006 Alabama Code - Section 11-44-29 — Distribution of executive and administrative powers and duties among departments; determination and exercise of powers and duties of departments by commissioners.

(a) The executive and administrative powers and duties in such cities or towns shall be distributed into and among three departments as follows:

(1) Department of public safety and public health;

(2) Department of streets, parks, municipal and public property and municipal and public improvements; and

(3) Department of accounts, finances and public affairs.

(b) The powers and duties pertaining to each of said departments shall be fixed by the said board of commissioners and altered from time to time as they may deem best, and one of the members of said board shall be assigned to take charge of each such department and shall, as head of such department, exercise the duties and powers so provided by said board, and said assignments may be changed at any time by a majority of said board.

(Acts 1911, No. 504, p. 591; Code 1923, §2352; Code 1940, T. 37, §51.)