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11-49-104
Section 11-49-104 Portion of street to remain open to travel and traffic. A sufficiently ample
portion of the highway or thoroughfare which such street in whole or in part constitutes shall
remain open to accommodate the travel and traffic of the owners of abutting property and of
the general public, and not more than one half of the width of such highway or thoroughfare
shall be vacated for the purposes mentioned in Section 11-49-100. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102;
Code 1923, §2239; Code 1940, T. 37, §664.)...
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37-2-84
Section 37-2-84 Abandonment and discontinuance of grade crossings. (a) The Department of Transportation
is given authority and power to abandon and discontinue any portion of a state highway, or
street on a state highway route with the approval of the city council or governing body of
any municipality, crossing the tracks or right-of-way of any railroad or street railway within
the state, and to close the grade crossing, whenever in the judgment of the department the
grade crossing has ceased to be necessary for the public as a part of any state highway, because
of relocation of the highway, or because of the construction of an underpass or overpass,
or other provision made for the elimination of the grade crossing. Whenever the department
orders the abandonment of a portion of the highway or street and the closing of a grade crossing,
it shall enter its order providing therefor in the department minutes. Notice in writing of
the abandonment and discontinuance of the portion of the...
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32-1-1.1
Section 32-1-1.1 Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this title, for
the purpose of this title, shall have meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section,
except when the context otherwise requires: (1) ALLEY. A street or highway intended to provide
access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts and not intended for the
purpose of through vehicular traffic. (2) ARTERIAL STREET. Any United States or state numbered
route, controlled-access highway, or other major radial or circumferential street or highway
designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial
system of streets or highways. (3) AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Such fire department vehicles,
police vehicles, and ambulances as are publicly owned, and such other publicly or privately
owned vehicles as are designated by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency
or the chief of police of an incorporated city. (4) BICYCLE....
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23-1-111
Section 23-1-111 Designation. The State Department of Transportation, hereinafter referred
to as the department, shall, as early as practicable after July 26, 1949, designate such streets
or roads, including viaducts and bridges, as are municipal connecting link roads in each city
or town of this state under the then existing state highway system and, thereafter, shall
designate such municipal connecting link roads for additional state roads in the state highway
system at the time such roads are opened for travel. Such designation shall also be made promptly
of any street or road in any city or town not constituting a part or portion of the state
highway system wherever necessary to care for arterial or main highway traffic, and the provisions
of this article shall apply to such streets or roads so designated. The department shall keep
a record of such municipal connecting link roads so designated and shall promptly, after designation
in each case, furnish to the city or town involved...
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32-5A-80
Section 32-5A-80 Driving on right side of roadway; exceptions. (a) Upon all roadways of sufficient
width, a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except under any of the
following conditions: (1) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same
direction under the rules governing such movement. (2) When an obstruction exists making it
necessary to drive to the left of the center of the highway; provided, any person doing so
shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles traveling in the proper direction upon the unobstructed
portion of the highway within such distance as to constitute an immediate hazard. (3) Upon
a roadway divided into three marked lanes for traffic under the rules applicable thereon.
(4) Upon a roadway restricted to one-way traffic. (b) Upon all roadways, any vehicle proceeding
at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then
existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then...
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32-5A-35
Section 32-5A-35 Lane-direction-control signals. When lane-direction-control signals are placed
over the individual lanes of a street or highway, vehicular traffic may travel in any lane
over which a green signal is shown, but shall not enter or travel in any lane over which a
red signal is shown. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §2-105.)...
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32-5A-330
Section 32-5A-330 Definitions; applicability; violations. (a) As used in this section, the
following terms are defined: (1) OPEN CONTAINER. A container which is other than in the manufacturer's
sealed condition. (2) PUBLIC HIGHWAY or RIGHT-OF-WAY OF A PUBLIC HIGHWAY. The entire width
between and immediately adjacent to the boundary lines of any public road, street, highway,
interstate, or other publicly maintained way when any part is open to the use of the public
for purposes of motor vehicle travel. (b) It is unlawful for a person to have in his or her
possession alcoholic beverages in an open container in the passenger area of a motor vehicle
of any kind on a public highway or right-of-way of a public highway of this state. (c) This
section shall not apply to: (1) A passenger of a motor vehicle designed, maintained, or primarily
used for the transportation of persons for compensation and the driver holds a valid commercial
driver's license. (2) A passenger of a bus for which the...
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23-1-113
Section 23-1-113 Maintenance and repair - Stipulations and conditions. The following stipulations
and conditions shall obtain as to state maintenance of municipal connecting link roads: (1)
State maintenance of a city or town street traversed by a state maintained highway route shall
not extend beyond the back of the curb where a curb and gutter section exists and not beyond
the back or roadway ditch or the toe of fill slope where no curb and gutter is in place except
as necessary in the placing and maintaining of highway markers, etc. (2) The city or town
shall prepare a drawing, from which prints can be made, showing width of right-of-way of street
traversed by a highway route maintained by the state and it shall indicate thereon the width
of right-of-way on intersecting streets for a distance of 200 feet each way from the center
of the highway. (3) City or town to perform routine clean-up operations such as removal of
leaves, trash, soil from gutters, soil from drop inlets and catch...
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23-3-1
Section 23-3-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) INTERSTATE HIGHWAY. Any highway
now included or which shall hereafter be included as a part of the national system of interstate
highways, selected by joint action of the State Department of Transportation and the United
States Bureau of Public Roads. (2) CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITY. A highway or street included
in the national system of interstate highways especially designed for through traffic and
over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right
of easement or access from abutting properties. Such highways or streets may be parkways from
which trucks, buses, or other commercial vehicles shall be excluded or they may be freeways
open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess.,
No. 104, p. 148, §2.)...
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11-48-5
Section 11-48-5 Adoption of ordinance or resolution describing proposed improvement, ordering
preparation of plans, specifications, etc., thereof, etc. (a) When the council of any city
or town shall determine to open, widen, extend, construct, or improve any street, alley, avenue,
sidewalk, highway, or other public place or to make any other public improvements or undertake
any work authorized by the provisions of this article, the cost of which or any part thereof
it is proposed to assess against the property abutting on, served, illuminated, drained, elevated,
reclaimed, protected, or otherwise specially benefited or increased in value by said improvements,
it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution to that effect, describing the nature and extent
of the work, the general character of the materials to be used and the location and terminal
point thereof and the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or parts thereof embraced
therein, and it shall direct that full details,...
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