Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 17-16-5 (2026)
Reimbursing Counties for Election Expenses - Constitutional Amendments in General.
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Except as provided in Section 17-8-12, the State of Alabama shall reimburse a county for one half of all sums expended by the county in payment of expenses incurred in holding and conducting an election at which both amendments to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 affecting one or more counties or subdivisions thereof and amendments affecting the State of Alabama as a whole are voted upon.
(Acts 1955, No. 160, p. 406, § 4; Act 2000-671, p. 1338, §1; §17-21-4; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §78.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1980–1998 · leading case: Reform Party of Alabama v. Bennett, 18 F. Supp. 2d 1342 (M.D. Ala. 1998).
Reform Party of Alabama v. Bennett, 18 F. Supp. 2d 1342 (M.D. Ala. 1998). “Nomination via primaries for “major” or “20 percent” parties is governed by Ala.Code (1975) § 17-16-5, which provides: Primary elections are not compulsory.”
Whig Party of Alabama v. Siegelman, 500 F. Supp. 1195 (N.D. Ala. 1980). “Though all Alabama major political parties are entitled to have primary elections and are indeed presumed to have opted for primary elections, they are not required to conduct primary elections.”
Bogard v. Hobbie, 569 F. Supp. 477 (M.D. Ala. 1983). “Code § 17-16-5 (1975) Plaintiffs contend that irrespective of the plain statutory provision that a political party is not required to have a primary, primaries are required for the 1983 election of members to the Alabama Legislature because such primaries were intended by the…”
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