Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-51-104

  • 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.
  • 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

The council shall have power to license and tax, permit and regulate and restrain or prohibit all kinds of amusements and all athletic games and the use of public parks and places of resort within the corporate limits and within the police jurisdiction of the several cities or towns and shall prescribe the places and the manner and method of regulating and conducting all such amusements and games and fix the time when all or any of the places referred to may be opened or shall be closed, not inconsistent with the laws of the state.