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23-1-274
Section 23-1-274 Erection or maintenance of signs - Controls; criteria. The director shall
effectively control, or cause to be controlled, the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising
signs, displays, and devices in all business areas that are erected subsequent to February
10, 1971. Whenever a bona fide state, county, or local zoning authority has made a determination
of customary use as to size, lighting, and spacing, such determination may be accepted in
lieu of controls by agreement in the zoned commercial and industrial area within the geographical
jurisdiction of such authority. In all other controlled commercial and industrial areas, the
criteria set forth below shall apply: (1) SIZE OF SIGNS. a. For sign structures erected after
July 15, 1995, the maximum area for any one sign shall be 672 square feet with a maximum height
of 14 feet and a maximum length of 48 feet, inclusive of any border and trim on the sign face,
but excluding any embellishment on and cut-out...
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23-3-4
Section 23-3-4 Design authority; commercial establishments. (a) The Director of Transportation
is authorized to so design any controlled access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or
prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. In this
connection, such highway authority is authorized to divide and separate any controlled access
facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbing, central dividing sections
or other physical separations or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers,
stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and
other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from or across controlled
access facilities to or from abutting lands, except such designated points at which access
may be permitted or service roads provided, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified
from time to time. (b) Except to the extent authorized by law for toll...
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37-8-200
Section 37-8-200 Erection or maintenance of advertising signs resembling railroad signs. (a)
No person, firm, association or corporation shall erect or maintain on any public road or
street in the State of Alabama, or no private property within one fourth of a mile of the
right-of-way of any public road or street, any advertising sign that resembles or that can
reasonably be mistaken for a railroad crossing sign; and the owner or person in possession
of such private property shall not knowingly permit another to erect or maintain such sign
on such private property. (b) The person, firm, association or corporation whose name shall
appear on said sign as the beneficiary of the advertising thereon shall be prima facie presumed
to be the party guilty of erecting and maintaining the same, whether it be on a public road
or street or on private property, within one fourth of a mile of the right-of-way of a public
road or street. (c) No owner or person in possession of private property upon...
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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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23-5-13
Section 23-5-13 Violation of State Department of Transportation rules or regulations. Any person,
firm or corporation who violates any reasonable rule or regulation prescribed by the State
Department of Transportation for the better construction, repair and maintenance, protection
and preservation of the public roads, bridges, highways and rights-of-way of roads and highways
of this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 and, at the discretion of the judge trying
the case, may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for a term not to exceed six
months, unless otherwise provided by law. (Code 1923, §4449; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348;
Code 1940, T. 23, §127.)...
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32-5A-36
Section 32-5A-36 Display of unauthorized signs, signals, or markings as public nuisance; signs,
markings, etc., to be approved; procedure for approval. (a) No person shall place, maintain,
or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device
which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device
or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which
hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of an official traffic-control device
or any railroad sign or signal. (b) No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public
authority permit upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial
advertising. (c) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property
adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot
be mistaken for official signs. (d) Every such prohibited sign, signal,...
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23-1-284
Section 23-1-284 Agreement with United States Secretary of Transportation. The director, on
behalf of the state, is authorized and directed to seek agreement with the Secretary of Transportation
of the United States, acting under the provisions of Section 131, Title 23, United States
Code, as amended, that the provisions of this division are in conformance with Section 131,
Title 23, United States Code, and provide effective control of outdoor advertising signs as
set forth therein. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 276, p. 4544, §14.)...
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11-99A-2
Section 11-99A-2 Definitions. In this chapter the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) APPOINTING GOVERNMENT. The municipality or county that approves the creation
of a district and appoints members to the board. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of a district.
(3) CONTIGUOUS. Two tracts of land if touching for a continuous distance of not less than
200 feet. The term includes tracts of land divided by bodies of water, streets, railroad,
or utility rights-of-way, or by land owned by any public person. In determining whether land
is contiguous with a municipality, (i) land separated by bodies of water, streets, or railroad,
or utility rights-of-way is contiguous even though the bodies of water, streets, or rights-of-way
are within the city limits of another municipality and (ii) land separated by land owned by
a public person is not contiguous if the land owned by the public person is within the city
limits of another municipality. (4) COUNCIL. The governing body of a...
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23-1-271
Section 23-1-271 Definitions. For the purposes of this division, unless otherwise indicated,
the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) ADJACENT AREA. An area which is adjacent to and within 660 feet of the nearest edge of
the right-of-way of any interstate or primary highway, which 660 feet distance shall be measured
horizontally along a line normal or perpendicular to the centerline of the highway. (2) BUSINESS
AREA. Any part of an adjacent area which is zoned for business, industrial, or commercial
activities under the authority of any law of this state or not zoned, but which constitutes
an unzoned commercial or industrial area as defined in this section. (3) CENTERLINE OF THE
HIGHWAY. A line equidistant from the edges of the median separating the main-traveled ways
of a divided highway or the centerline of the main-traveled way of a nondivided highway. (4)
COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES FOR PURPOSES OF UNZONED INDUSTRIAL AND...
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23-1-3
Section 23-1-3 Closing of public roads to traffic; acquisition of materials. The state, acting
through the State Department of Transportation and its duly authorized employees, and the
various counties of the state, acting through the county commissions and their duly authorized
employees, in the doing of public roads work shall have and exercise the right, power, and
authority, when deemed necessary or advisable to do so, to close public roads to traffic and,
when possible so to do, to make detour roads and to contract for such land as may be necessary
for such detour roads; also to acquire, by purchase, or by condemnation, land necessary for
drainage ditches and borrow pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand
pits and gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other material of every character
that may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways
and bridges, and to tap and draw materials from the same to such...
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