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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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32-9A-2
Section 32-9A-2 Compliance with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; in-service
training by law enforcement officers. (a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b),
no person may operate a commercial motor vehicle in this state, or fail to maintain required
records or reports, in violation of the federal motor carrier safety regulations as prescribed
by the U.S. Department of Transportation, 49 C.F.R. Part 107, Parts 171-180, Parts 382-387,
and Parts 390-399 and as they may be amended in the future. Except as otherwise provided herein,
this chapter shall not be construed to repeal or supersede other laws relating to the operation
of motor vehicles. (2)a. No person may operate a commercial motor vehicle in this state in
violation of 49 C.F.R. §393.120, as amended, relating to load securement for certain metal
coils. b. No one owning, leasing, or allowing a commercial vehicle to be operated in this
state shall knowingly or negligently be in violation of 49 C.F.R. §393.120,...
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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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40-12-240
Section 40-12-240 Definitions. (a) For the purpose of this article, the following terms
shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama
Department of Revenue. (2) ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS. A place actually occupied either
continuously or at regular periods at or from which a business or a part thereof is transacted.
(3) FARM TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for
drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements designed and used for agricultural purposes
and only incidentally moved upon public highways. (4) FARMER. An individual, partnership,
cooperative corporation, or other entity actively engaged in agriculture or agricultural activities
as the same are circumscribed and defined in paragraphs a. and b. of Section 41-14-51(1).
(5) FLEET. A group of similarly classified fleet vehicles comprised of 50 or more units or
other amount as prescribed by the department. (6) FLEET OPERATOR. A person,...
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32-5A-60
Section 32-5A-60 Throwing, dropping, etc., destructive or injurious materials onto highway,
road, etc., prohibited; removal; penalty. (a) No person shall throw or deposit upon or alongside
any highway, road, street, or public right-of-way any bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans,
cigarettes, cigars, containers of urine, or any other substance likely to injure any person,
animal, or vehicle upon or alongside the highway, road, street, or public right-of-way. (b)
Any person who throws, drops, or permits to be thrown or dropped, upon any highway any destructive
or injurious material shall immediately remove the material or cause it to be removed. (c)
Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or
other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from the vehicle. (d) No person shall throw
or drop litter from a motor vehicle upon or alongside any highway, road or street, or public
right-of-way. (e) The uniform traffic citation may be used for...
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13A-7-29
Section 13A-7-29 Criminal littering. (a) A person commits the crime of criminal littering
if he or she engages in any of the following acts: (1) Knowingly deposits in any manner litter
on any public or private property or in any public or private waters without permission to
do so. For purposes of this subdivision, any series of items found in the garbage, trash,
or other discarded material including, but not limited to, bank statements, utility bills,
bank card bills, and other financial documents, clearly bearing the name of a person shall
constitute a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name appears on the material knowingly
deposited the litter. Advertising, marketing, and campaign materials and literature shall
not be sufficient to constitute a rebuttable presumption of criminal littering under this
subsection. (2) Negligently deposits, in any manner, glass or other dangerously pointed or
edged objects on or adjacent to water to which the public has lawful access for...
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32-9-29
Section 32-9-29 Permits for movement of oversized vehicles or loads. (a) Authorized;
application; issuance; seasonal, etc., limitations; refusal, revocation, or cancellation.
(1) The Director of the Department of Transportation or the official of the department designated
by the director, upon application and for good cause being shown therefor, may issue a permit
in writing authorizing the applicant to operate or move upon the state's public roads a vehicle
or combination of no more than two vehicles and loads whose weight, width, length, or height,
or combination thereof, exceeds the maximum limit specified by law; provided, that the load
transported by such vehicle or vehicles is of such nature that it is a unit which cannot be
readily dismantled or separated; provided, however, that bulldozers and similar construction
equipment shall not be deemed readily separable for purposes of this chapter; and further
provided, that no permit shall be issued to any vehicle whose operation upon...
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32-9-20
Section 32-9-20 Schedule of restrictions. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to
drive or move on any highway in this state any vehicle or vehicles of a size or weight except
in accordance with the following: (1) WIDTH. Vehicles and combinations of vehicles, operating
on highways with traffic lanes 12 feet or more in width, shall not exceed a total outside
width, including any load thereon, of 102 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices
approved by the Department of Transportation. The Director of Transportation may, in his or
her discretion, designate other public highways for use by vehicles and loads with total outside
widths not exceeding 102 inches, otherwise; vehicles and combinations of vehicles, operating
on highways with traffic lanes less than 12 feet in width, shall not exceed a total outside
width, including any load thereon, of 96 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices
approved by the Department of Transportation. No passenger vehicle shall...
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32-7-2
Section 32-7-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances
where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) DIRECTOR. The Director of Public
Safety of the State of Alabama. (2) JUDGMENT. Any judgment which shall have become final by
expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or
by final affirmation on appeal rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state
or of the United States, upon a cause of action arising out of the ownership, maintenance
or use of any motor vehicle, for damages, including damages for care and loss of services,
because of bodily injury to or death of any person, or for damages because of injury to or
destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, or upon a cause of action on an
agreement of settlement for those damages. (3) LICENSE. Any license, temporary instruction...
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32-5-78
Section 32-5-78 Operation of dump truck on highway, road, or street with bed raised
over a 20-degree angle. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall
have the following meanings: (1) DUMP TRUCK. A motor vehicle which has a bed attached to the
truck which allows the front of the bed near the passenger compartment to be raised to over
a 20-degree angle to allow the load to be dumped from the rear of the bed. (2) HIGHWAY. Any
public highway, road, or municipal street. (b) A dump truck may not be driven on any highway
of this state with the bed of the truck raised to more than a 20-degree angle except when
the dump truck is actively engaged in dumping its load. (c) A violation of this section
is a Class C misdemeanor on the first offense. Any second or subsequent offense is a Class
B misdemeanor. (d) This section shall not be construed to repeal any other criminal
law. Whenever conduct prohibited by this section is also prohibited by any other provision
of law, the...
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