Section 11-44A-15
Applicability of article.
For all purposes the provisions of Sections 11-44A-6 through 11-44A-14 shall become applicable to the municipality at the time when the first council elected under the provisions hereof takes office and qualifies, otherwise, this article shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval by the governor, or upon its otherwise becoming a law.
(Acts 1984, No. 84-397, p. 922, §15.)