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16-27-6
Section 16-27-6 Seat belts. (a) No school bus shall be operated on a public street, highway
or elsewhere unless it shall be equipped with a seat belt for the driver. (b) The driver of
a school bus while transporting pupils on a public street or highway or elsewhere shall wear
a properly fastened seat belt when the bus is in motion. Failure of a bus driver to comply
with this requirement shall be prima facie evidence of nonfeasance of duty, and any driver
who fails to comply with this requirement shall be subject to dismissal. (c) Every contract
between a board of education and a school bus contract operator shall contain a clause requiring
the driver of a school bus to wear a properly fastened seat belt when the bus is being used
for the transporting of pupils on a public street or highway or elsewhere. Failure of any
driver to comply with this requirement shall constitute a breach of contract on the part of
the contract operator. (Acts 1969, No. 281, p. 614, §5.)...
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32-5-76
Section 32-5-76 Spilling loads or litter; penalty. (a)(1) Whoever willfully and knowingly operates,
owns, or causes to be operated on any public highway, road, street, or public right-of-way
a motor vehicle so loaded with gravel, rock, slag, or bricks, in any manner or in any condition
that the contents of the vehicle spill out and cause it to be deposited upon the highway,
road, street, or public right-of-way is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor pursuant to Section
13A-7-29, the criminal littering statute. (2) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall
adopt rules to implement this subsection. (b) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway
unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping,
sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the
purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in
cleaning or maintaining the roadway. (c)(1) Whoever willfully and...
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3-2-20
Section 3-2-20 Duty of Director of Public Safety. The Director of Public Safety shall provide
for taking up and impounding livestock or animals running at large upon state and federal
aid highways which have been officially designated as such and regularly and customarily patrolled
by the state highway patrol or upon the rights-of-way of such highways and, to that end, within
the limit of the funds provided by this article, the Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized
and empowered to contract with persons, firms or corporations within the several counties
to take possession of and impound such livestock or animals. (Acts 1951, No. 822, p. 1454,
§1.)...
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32-18-5
Section 32-18-5 Stickers; control of tests. The Director of Public Safety of Alabama shall
approve the shape, size, color, and inscription of a sticker to be placed by any such city
so operating or in which are operated motor vehicle testing stations hereunder upon the windshield
of any motor vehicle so passing the tests herein provided. No such certificate shall be issued
or attached to any motor vehicle until and unless such vehicle shall, upon such inspection,
be found to comply with the terms and conditions and requirements imposed by law and the ordinance
adopted under this chapter. The director shall also have supervision and control over the
type of tests and the facilities therefor in any such motor vehicle testing station, and any
such city desiring to establish any such station or to designate any privately owned station
shall first procure the approval of such tests and facilities by the Director of Public Safety.
(Acts 1943, No. 542, p. 522, §5.)...
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45-2-181
Section 45-2-181 Highway maintenance, repair or construction; personnel; equipment; compensation.
(a) Any special, local, or general law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Baldwin County
governing body, upon adoption of a resolution, is authorized to employ, supervise, and direct
highway personnel necessary to construct, maintain, and repair public roads, bridges, and
ferries, together with or supplemental to those persons now employed by the State Department
of Transportation. (b) Any special, local, or general law to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Baldwin County governing body is authorized, upon adoption of a resolution, to purchase
or lease equipment and materials and to contract for the purchase or lease of equipment and
materials necessary for the construction, maintenance, and repair of public roads, bridges,
and ferries in Baldwin County. (c) The Baldwin County governing body is authorized to provide,
upon adoption of a resolution, for the compensation of personnel, and...
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32-5A-172
Section 32-5A-172 Establishment of state speed zones. Whenever the Director of Public Safety
and the Director of Transportation, with the approval of the Governor, shall determine upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any maximum speed hereinbefore
set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist
at any intersection or other place or upon any part of the state highway system, the directors
may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereat, which shall be effective
when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected. Such a maximum speed limit may be
declared to be effective at all times or at such times as are indicated upon the signs; and
differing limits may be established for different times of day, different types of vehicles,
varying weather conditions, and other factors bearing on safe speeds, which shall be effective
when posted upon appropriate fixed or variable signs. (Acts 1980, No....
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23-1-9
Section 23-1-9 Elimination of railroad grade crossings. Whenever the funds of the state are
being expended for the construction, maintenance, or repair of a public highway, the State
Department of Transportation shall have the power and authority to compel all railways operating
in this state to construct viaducts, tunnels, underpasses, or bridges to the full extent of
the width of the right-of-way and over the tracks as owned or operated by any railway when,
in the judgment of the State Department of Transportation, such viaducts, tunnels, underpasses,
or bridges are necessary for the safety of the general public and whereby a dangerous grade
crossing is eliminated. The State Department of Transportation may appropriate out of the
funds credited to the State Department of Transportation for the construction and maintenance
of highways an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the cost to construct said viaducts, tunnels,
underpasses, or bridges to the full extent of the width of the...
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23-4-2
Section 23-4-2 Procedure. (a) Whenever the governing body of a municipality or county proposes
to vacate a public street, alley, or highway, or portion thereof, the governing body shall
schedule a public hearing prior to taking final action and shall publish notice of the proposed
hearing on the vacation in a newspaper of general circulation in the portion of the county
where the street, alley, or highway lies once a week for four consecutive weeks in the county
prior to deciding the issue at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing body. A copy
of the notice shall be posted on a bulletin board at the county courthouse and shall also
be served by U.S. mail at least 30 days prior to the scheduled meeting on any abutting owner
and on any entity known to have facilities or equipment such as utility lines, both aerial
or buried, within the public right-of-way of the street, alley, or highway to be vacated.
The notice shall describe the street, alley, highway, or portion thereof...
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32-2-100
Section 32-2-100 State Capitol police officers. (a) The Director of the Alabama Department
of Public Safety shall employ the necessary state Capitol police officers, subject to the
state Merit System laws, to preserve order, to prevent and investigate crime, and protect
and save from injury persons and property at the Capitol and all state buildings occupied
by the state departments and agencies within the State of Alabama. The director shall prescribe
the duties and responsibilities of the state Capitol police officers. All officers employed
as state Capitol police officers shall meet the certification requirements as established
by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission prior to being granted permanent
employment status. (b) Upon September 1, 2003, all state Capitol police officers and employees
shall be transferred to the Alabama Department of Public Safety. Sworn officers transferred
in accordance with this section shall remain in their current Merit System...
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32-2-8
Section 32-2-8 Fees for copies of records and reports. Whenever the Director of Public Safety
is required or allowed by law to furnish a copy of any record or report in the department's
files, the director shall set and collect a fee not to exceed the sum of fifteen dollars ($15)
for each record or report, unless a different fee is otherwise prescribed by law. Ten dollars
($10) of the fee shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the State General Fund
and five dollars ($5) shall be credited to the Department of Public Safety Highway Traffic
Safety Fund. (Acts 1971, No. 959, p. 1717; Acts 1988, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 88-721, p. 112, §1;
Act 2001-471, p. 627, §1.)...
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