Section 17-3-50 Registration deadline - Alabama Statutes

Section 17-3-50

Registration deadline

(a) The boards of registrars in the several counties of the state shall not register any person as a qualified elector within 10 days prior to any election; provided, that the boards shall maintain open offices during business days in such 10-day period and on election day during the hours of voting.

(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply in any county having a population of not less than 600,000 inhabitants according to the 1970 or any succeeding federal decennial census, and any currently effective local law or general law of local application providing for a deadline on registration in such county shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be repealed by operation of this section.

(Acts 1950, 4th Ex. Sess., No. 6, p. 45; Code 1975, §17-4-4; Acts 1978, No. 584, p. 667, §14; §17-4-120; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §11.)