37-2-133
Section 37-2-133 Connection of tracks and interchange of traffic - Switch connections. Every
railroad subject to the provisions of this division shall construct, maintain, and operate
upon reasonable terms, a switch connection with such other railroad or with any private sidetrack
which may be constructed to connect with its railroad, where such connection, in the judgment
of the Public Service Commission, is reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety
and will furnish sufficient business to justify the construction and maintenance of the same;
and to furnish cars for the movement of such traffic to the best of its ability without discrimination
in favor of or against any shipper. The Public Service Commission, upon the application of
any other railroad, or of any shipper tendering freight traffic for transportation, made either
to the commission or to said railroad company, may require them to comply with the provisions
of this section. (Code 1907, §5536; Code 1923, §10033,...
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11-49-43
Section 11-49-43 Penalization of railroad, etc., for failure to comply with ordinance ordering
construction, etc., of bridge, tunnel, etc. Any such governing body may penalize the failure
of any such railroad company or of such railroad companies to construct within a reasonable
time or to maintain any such viaduct, bridge, or tunnel ordered by a proper ordinance, such
penalties to be prescribed as provided in the charter of said city for violations of police
ordinances, and such penalties may be directed against said railroad company or railroad companies
or against its or their officers or agents having supervision, charge, or control of or operating
the same, any or all. (Code 1907, §1299; Code 1923, §2073; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code
1940, T. 37, §654.)...
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9-13-15
Section 9-13-15 Attachment of wires, etc., to trees in towns or cities by lighting or power
companies. No electric lighting or power company shall attach any wires or other lighting
appliances to any trees along any street of any town or city in this state. In towns and cities
where such wires and lighting appliances are already attached to trees, the persons, firms
or corporations owning the same shall remove the same. Any person, firm or corporation violating
any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 for each and every
offense so committed. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638; Code 1923, §4118; Code 1940, T. 8, §211.)...

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39-7-4
Section 39-7-4 Form and verification of petition. (a) The petition shall be in substantially
the following form: "To the (herein insert the name of governing body) of the City (or
Town) or to the Probate Judge of _____ County. We, the undersigned, qualified electors of
the area embraced within the city or town or of the following described area _____ respectfully
petition that there be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors in said area the following
question: 'Shall the citizens of said city or town or the citizens of said described area
(describing it) be incorporated by the name of the Improvement Authority of (here insert name
of city or town, or area) for the purpose of engaging in the enterprise of furnishing to such
city, town or area and its inhabitants or to the inhabitants of such area described for public
and private uses the following services: ___ ___ ___' (Signatures of electors)...
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11-49-40
Section 11-49-40 Authorized. The city council or other governing body of each city in the State
of Alabama having according to the most recent federal census a population of more than 35,000
inhabitants shall have full power and authority to require railroad companies to construct
and maintain within the city limits viaducts, bridges, and tunnels or parts of viaducts, bridges,
and tunnels and their approaches over, along, or under the tracks at their own expense, such
bridges and their approaches, tunnels or other conveniences at public crossings and such viaducts
and their approaches over their tracks where the same cross or extend along public highways
or streets. (Code 1907, §1296; Code 1923, §2070; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940,
T. 37, §651.)...
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40-21-61
Section 40-21-61 Express companies - Alternative tax. There shall be levied and collected from
every person doing an express business between points wholly within this state and without
reference to its interstate business, whether incorporated under the laws of this state or
any other state or whether incorporated at all, a license or privilege tax of $4,000, which
shall be paid to the Department of Revenue by check made payable to the Treasury by said company
on or before the expiration of the fifteenth day of each fiscal year; provided, that any express
company which operates on less than 50 miles of railroad, street railway, motor line, or boat
line shall pay an annual tax of $250; and provided, that any express company which operated
on 50 miles of railroad, street railway, motor line, or boat line, and less than 200 miles
of railroad, street railway, motor line or boat line, shall pay an annual license of $500;
and provided further, that all express companies that operate on 200...
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11-47-16
Section 11-47-16 Establishment, acquisition, administration, etc., of public cultural facilities.
Each county, city, and town in this state shall have power to establish, operate, maintain,
or contract with others to operate and maintain public cultural facilities consisting of museums,
art galleries, art centers, music halls, and related facilities, and, if necessary, to acquire
sites for, construct, or otherwise acquire such facilities, all to the end of making cultural
facilities available to the public, whether separately or grouped two or more in the same
building. Whenever any such facilities shall have been so established they may be administered
by and through such instrumentality or instrumentalities as may be designated for that purpose
by the governing body of such county, city, or town. (Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 151, p. 168;
Code 1940, T. 37, §511; Acts 1963, No. 541, p. 1159; Acts 1983, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 83-163,
p. 333.)...
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37-2-1
Section 37-2-1 "Transportation company" defined. The term "transportation company"
shall mean and include every person not engaged solely in interstate commerce or business
that now or may hereafter own, operate, lease, manage or control, as common carriers or for
hire: Any railroad or part of a railroad in this state or any cars or other equipment used
thereon, or bridges, terminals or sidetracks used in connection therewith, whether owned by
such railroad or otherwise; any express companies; any car companies; any sleeping car companies;
any steamboat or steam packet company or common carrier for hire by water regardless of the
propelling power used; any railroad depot or terminal station; any telegraph line; any telephone
line; any pipeline for the transportation of oil or other commodity, whether the transportation
is by pipeline or partly by pipeline and partly by rail, truck or water. This term shall also
mean and include two or more transportation companies rendering joint...
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11-47-137
Section 11-47-137 Regulation, etc., of markets and marketing of food products, etc. All cities
and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, regulate and control markets and
market houses and to require and provide for the proper inspection of food products and articles
offered for sale or barter within the police jurisdiction of the city or town and for the
punishment of persons or corporations offering for sale unsound or unwholesome articles in
markets or other places in the city or town or within the police jurisdiction thereof. Such
cities and towns shall have the power to inspect all dairies and the products of the same
in the county in which the city or town or any part thereof is located and the owner of which
sells or disposes of milk or butter in such city or town and to regulate the same, and the
council or other governing body of such city or town may fix and prescribe the payment of
a reasonable fee for such inspection. Such council or other governing body...
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35-2-55
Section 35-2-55 Validation, ratification, and confirmation of vacation of streets, etc. Every
change in location, or vacation, or attempted vacation of any road, street, avenue, or alley,
or any part thereof, by the owner or owners of lands abutting thereon, or upon which such
road, street, avenue, or alley is located, when such vacation, or attempted vacation, or change
of location was in a city or town and was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by the
governing body thereof (or if it was without a city or town when such vacation, or attempted
vacation, or change of location when made was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by
the county commission, or which has been or may be hereafter ratified or confirmed by the
county commission) is and shall be validated, ratified, and confirmed, and all rights of the
public in any such road, street, avenue, or alley, or the part thereof so vacated, or attempted
to be vacated, including all rights acquired by prescription, are and...
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