(a) Whenever all of the owners of property located and contained within an area contiguous to the corporate limits of any incorporated municipality located in the state and the property does not lie within the corporate limits or police jurisdiction of any other municipality, shall sign and file a written petition with the city clerk of the municipality requesting that the property be annexed to the municipality, and the governing body of the municipality adopts an ordinance assenting to the annexation of the property to the municipality, the corporate limits of the municipality shall be extended and rearranged so as to embrace and include the property, and the property shall become a part of the corporate area of the municipality upon the date of the publication of the ordinance.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-42-21

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • owners: as used in this article , shall mean the person in whose name the property is assessed for ad valorem tax purposes in the absence of proof to the contrary. See Alabama Code 11-42-20
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b)

(1) In the event any incorporated municipality’s police jurisdiction overlaps with the police jurisdiction of one or more other incorporated municipalities, the governing body of any one of the incorporated municipalities may exercise the authority of this article, in the overlapping portions of their police jurisdiction, to a boundary which is equidistant from the respective corporate limits of each of the incorporated municipalities which have overlapping police jurisdictions.
(2) If all of the owners of property located and contained within the area to be annexed sign and file a written petition with the city clerk of the incorporated municipality requesting that the property be annexed to the incorporated municipality, and the property is contiguous to the corporate limits of the incorporated municipality, and the governing body of the incorporated municipality adopts an ordinance assenting to the annexation of the property to the municipality, the corporate limits of the municipality shall be extended and rearranged so as to embrace and include the property and the property shall become part of the corporate area of the municipality upon the date of the publication of the ordinance.
(c) If an incorporated municipality intends to exercise its rights pursuant to subsection (b), but would have to perform more than one annexation pursuant to the equidistant rule provided by subsection (b) to acquire the entire parcel of property it intends to annex, the incorporated municipality may request that all of the municipalities whose police jurisdictions overlap assent to the annexation by adoption of a resolution of the governing body of each of the municipalities, and if the governing body of the annexing municipality adopts an ordinance assenting to the annexation of the property to the municipality, then the corporate limits of the municipality shall be extended and rearranged so as to embrace and include the property, and the property shall become a part of the corporate area of the municipality upon the date of the publication of the ordinance.
(d) The petition required by this section shall contain an accurate description of the property proposed to be annexed together with a map of the property showing its relationship to the corporate limits of the municipality to which the property is proposed to be annexed and the signatures of all of the owners of the property described. It shall be the duty of the governing body to file a description of the property annexed in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the municipality is located.
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