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32-5A-176.1
Section 32-5A-176.1 Speed limits in construction zones. (a) The State Department of Transportation
may set the speed limits in urban and rural construction zones along state and interstate
highways and the county commission of a county may set the speed limits in urban and rural
construction zones along county roads or highways. The construction zone speed limits shall
be posted on the department's standard size speed limit signs at least one hundred feet in
advance of the entrance to a construction zone. Law enforcement authorities shall enforce
construction zone speed limits. Upon conviction of a construction zone speed violation, the
operator of the motor vehicle shall be assessed a fine of double the amount prescribed by
law outside a construction zone. The fine shall only be doubled for construction zone violations
if construction personnel are present and that fact is indicated by appropriate signs. The
signs, placed at the entrance of the construction zone, shall warn of the...
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32-5A-116
Section 32-5A-116 Highway construction and maintenance. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield
the right-of-way to any authorized vehicle or pedestrian actually engaged in work upon a highway
within any highway construction or maintenance area indicated by official traffic-control
devices. (b) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any authorized vehicle
obviously and actually engaged in work upon a highway whenever such vehicle displays such
flashing lights as may be required or permitted by law or by regulation of the department.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, ยง4-107.)...
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41-16-52
Section 41-16-52 Expenditures for repair or lease of heavy duty off-highway construction equipment
may be made without regard to provisions of article. (a) All expenditures of funds of whatever
nature for repair parts and the repair of heavy duty off-highway construction equipment or
of any vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 25,000 pounds or greater, including
machinery used for grading, drainage, road construction, and compaction for the exclusive
use of county and municipal highway, street, and sanitation departments, involving not more
than twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) made by or on behalf of any county
commissions and the governing bodies of the municipalities of the state, and the governing
bodies of instrumentalities, including waterworks boards, sewer boards, gas boards, and other
like utility boards and commissions, shall be made, at the option of the governing boards,
bodies, instrumentalities, and commissions, without regard to this article....
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32-5A-58.2
Section 32-5A-58.2 Moving over or reducing speed when approaching law enforcement vehicles,
emergency vehicles, etc. (a) This section shall be known as the "Alabama Move Over Act."
(b)(1) When an authorized law enforcement vehicle or emergency vehicle making use of any visual
signals is parked, when a wrecker displaying amber rotating or flashing lights is performing
a recovery or loading on the roadside, when a utility service vehicle operated by or on behalf
of an entity providing utility services displaying any rotating lights, flashing lights, or
other visual signals is parked on the roadside while performing tasks associated with the
provision of utility services, when a vehicle displaying flashing lights is parked or engaged
in the performance of official duties on or along a road, or when a garbage, trash, refuse,
or recycling collection vehicle is actively collecting garbage, trash, refuse, or recycling
materials on the roadside, the driver of every other vehicle, as soon as it...
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32-5-240
Section 32-5-240 Required lighting equipment and illuminating devices of vehicles. (a) When
lighted headlamps required. (1) Every vehicle upon a highway within this state, except a parked
vehicle, which shall be subject to Section 32-5-244, shall display lighted lamps and illuminating
devices required by this section for different classes of vehicles at the following times:
a. From a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise. b. At any time when the windshield
wipers of the vehicle are in use because of rain, sleet, or snow, except when the use is intermittent
because of misting rain, sleet, or snow. c. At any time when there is not sufficient light
to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of 500 feet.
(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (1), whenever motor vehicles or other vehicles are operated
in combination during a time that lamps and illuminating devices are required to be lighted,
any lamp, other than a tail lamp, that, by reason of...
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32-5-92
Section 32-5-92 Special speed limitations on bridges. (a) The Department of Transportation
or other proper state body upon request from any local authorities shall, or upon its own
initiative may, conduct an investigation of any public bridge, causeway or viaduct, and if
it shall thereupon find that such structure cannot with safety to itself withstand vehicles
traveling at the speed otherwise permissible under this article, the department shall determine
and declare the maximum speed of vehicles which such structure can withstand, and shall cause
or permit suitable signs stating such maximum speed to be erected and maintained at a distance
of 100 feet before each end of such structure. When such public bridge, causeway or viaduct
is within a municipality, such suitable signs stating such maximum speed shall be erected
within such less distance of 100 feet before each end of such structure as the governing body
of such municipality shall so ordain. The findings and determination of the...
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32-5A-191
Section 32-5A-191 (Effective until July 1, 2023) Driving while under influence of alcohol,
controlled substances, etc. (a) A person shall not drive or be in actual physical control
of any vehicle while: (1) There is 0.08 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her
blood; (2) Under the influence of alcohol; (3) Under the influence of a controlled substance
to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving; (4) Under the combined influence
of alcohol and a controlled substance to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely
driving; or (5) Under the influence of any substance which impairs the mental or physical
faculties of such person to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving.
(b) A person who is under the age of 21 years shall not drive or be in actual physical control
of any vehicle if there is 0.02 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her blood.
The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall suspend or revoke the...
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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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45-37A-100.03
Section 45-37A-100.03 Adoption of ordinance for photographic traffic signal enforcement; fines.
(a) The city as provided in this article, is empowered to adopt an ordinance providing for
the utilization by the city or its designee of a photographic traffic signal enforcement system,
a photographic stop sign enforcement system, and a photographic vehicle speed enforcement
system to detect and record traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding
violations in the city, to issue notices of civil violations by mail, and to collect fines
for the recorded traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding violations
which may occur within the corporate limits of the city as provided in this article. (b)(1)
Fines collected pursuant to an ordinance authorized by this article for traffic signal violations
and stop sign violations shall not exceed one hundred ten dollars ($110). (2)a. Except for
speeding violations that occur in school zones, fines collected pursuant...
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45-37A-42.03
Section 45-37A-42.03 Adoption of ordinance for photographic traffic signal enforcement; fines.
(a) The city as provided in this part, is empowered to adopt an ordinance providing for the
utilization by the city or its designee of a photographic traffic signal enforcement system,
a photographic stop sign enforcement system, and a photographic vehicle speed enforcement
system to detect and record traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding
violations in the city, to issue notices of civil violations by mail, and to collect fines
for the recorded traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding violations
which may occur within the corporate limits of the city as provided in this part. (b)(1) Fines
collected pursuant to an ordinance authorized by this part for traffic signal violations and
stop sign violations shall not exceed one hundred ten dollars ($110). (2)a. Except for speeding
violations that occur in school zones, fines collected pursuant to an...
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