32-5A-154
Section 32-5A-154 Overtaking and passing school bus or church bus; penalties and fines. (a)
The driver of a vehicle upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which
has stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school children on a highway,
on a roadway, on school property, or upon a private road or any church bus which has stopped
for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers shall bring the vehicle to a complete
stop before reaching the school or church bus when there is in operation on the school or
church bus a visual signal as specified in Section 32-5A-155. The driver shall not proceed
until the school or church bus resumes motion or is signaled by the school or church bus driver
to proceed or the visual signals are no longer actuated. (b) Every bus used for the transportation
of school children shall bear upon the front and rear thereof plainly visible signs containing
the words "school bus" in letters not less than eight inches in...
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32-9-21
Section 32-9-21 Maximum permissible length and width of motor bus. (a) The term motor bus,
wherever used in this section, means any motor-propelled vehicle used on the highways of this
state for the transportation of passengers for hire. (b) Except as provided in subsection
(d), it shall be lawful to drive or operate upon any highway in this state any motor bus which
does not exceed 45 feet in length, and eight and one-half feet in width, exclusive of detachable
wind deflection devices which have been approved by the State Department of Transportation
and safety equipment. (c) The term articulated motor bus, wherever used in this section, means
any motor bus, divided into joined sections, that actuates in a manner ensuring a turning
radius which is less than a motor bus of the same length without such joined actuation. (d)
It shall be lawful to drive or operate on any highway in this state an articulated motor bus
which does not exceed 60 feet in length, and eight and one-half feet in...
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23-1-57
Section 23-1-57 Agreements and contracts with adjoining states and federal government relative
to bridges. The State Department of Transportation may enter into agreements and contracts
with adjoining states and the federal government relative to the acquisition, construction,
maintenance, and repair of bridges across any river or stream forming the boundary between
this state and an adjoining state upon the following terms and conditions: (1) Any bridge,
the subject of such agreement or contract, shall be open to the public and no toll or other
charge shall be levied for the privilege of crossing it. (2) Any bridge, the subject of such
agreement or contract, shall connect a highway in this state designated as a "state highway"
or a "United States highway" with a highway in the adjoining state designated as
a "state highway" or a "United States highway." (3) The agreement or contract
may fix the amount the State of Alabama will pay, but the amount so agreed upon shall not
be governed...
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25-4-76
Section 25-4-76 Maritime employment and benefit rights. (a) As used in this section, "maritime
employment" means employment in connection with the construction, repair, loading or
unloading of vessels, and in connection with the handling of cargoes for vessels. The secretary
shall, after a study of previous employment records and after investigation and hearing, determine,
and may thereafter from time to time redetermine which industries are maritime industries
within the meaning of this section. Until such determination by the secretary, no industry
shall be deemed to be a maritime industry. (b) The term "maritime worker" means
an employee who is customarily or regularly employed in "maritime employment," such
as men engaged in the construction or repair of vessels and in the operation of plants at
which vessels are constructed or repaired, and it shall include longshoremen, dock workers,
harbor workers, and other employees in occupations which, after the secretary has studied
the...
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32-3-3
Section 32-3-3 Problems to be specifically studied. The State Safety Coordinating Committee
shall study specifically the problems of interstate and intrastate highway safety; the feasibility
and advisability of the adoption of interstate highway safety compacts; the adoption of uniform
laws and ordinances, uniform signs, signals and markings; the means of obtaining more uniform
enforcement of traffic laws, the use of motor vehicle safety equipment; and the problem of
engineering safety control in roads and highways. (Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 92, p. 107,
§3.)...
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32-5-242
Section 32-5-242 Requirements as to head lamps and auxiliary driving lamps. (a) Visibility
distance and mounted height of lamps. (1) Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as
to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within
which such lamps or devices shall be visible, the provisions shall apply during the times
stated in Section 32-5-240 in respect to a vehicle without load when upon a straight, level,
unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different time or condition
is expressly stated. (2) Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the mounted height
of lamps or devices it shall mean from the center of such lamp or device to the level ground
upon which the vehicle stands when such vehicle is without a load. (b) Multiple-beam road-lighting
equipment. Except as hereinafter provided, the head lamps or the auxiliary driving lamp or
the auxiliary passing lamp or combination thereof on motor vehicles other...
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32-5-316
Section 32-5-316 Courts may prohibit operation of motor vehicles by persons convicted of violation
of automobile laws. Whenever a defendant is convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction
of operating a motor vehicle in violation of any criminal statute or ordinance, the court
trying the case, in its discretion, may, in addition to the other punishment fixed by law,
enter an order forbidding such person to drive a motor vehicle upon any street or highway
in the State of Alabama for a period to be specified by the court, or perpetually, as the
court may determine. Any person driving a motor vehicle in violation of such an order of court
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any defendant against whom such an order has been entered
shall have the same right of appeal and supersedeas as is now granted him or her with reference
to the sentence of the court imposing punishment fixed by law, and the appellate court shall
have the right to modify or annul the order forbidding the operation by...
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32-5A-115
Section 32-5A-115 Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles; signals
on emergency vehicles; duty of emergency vehicle driver. (a) Upon the immediate approach of
an authorized emergency vehicle equipped with at least one lighted lamp and audible signal
as is required by law, the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and
shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right-hand
edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in such position
until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police
officer. (b) This section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency
vehicle from the duty to drive with regard for the safety of all persons using the highways.
(c) Authorized emergency vehicles shall be equipped with at least one lighted lamp exhibiting
a colored light as hereinafter provided visible under normal...
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32-5A-58.3
Section 32-5A-58.3 Yielding right-of-way to vehicles and pedestrian workers engaged in collection
of garbage, trash, refuse, or recycling materials. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall
yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian worker engaged in the collection of garbage, trash,
refuse, or recycling materials along a roadway whenever the driver is reasonably notified
of the presence of the worker by the presence of a garbage, trash, refuse, or recycling collection
vehicle or by a warning sign or device. (b) The driver of a motor vehicle on a public highway
shall yield the right-of-way to a garbage, trash, refuse, or recycling collection vehicle
that is stopped along a roadside or traveling in the same direction and which is engaged in
the collection of garbage, trash, refuse, or recycling materials along a roadway or which
has signaled and is reentering the traffic flow. (c) This section does not relieve the driver
of a garbage, trash, refuse, or recycling collection vehicle from the...
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32-5A-82
Section 32-5A-82 Overtaking vehicle on left. The following rules shall govern the overtaking
and passing of vehicles proceeding in the same direction, subject to those limitations, exceptions,
and special rules hereinafter stated: (1) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle
proceeding in the same direction shall pass to the left thereof at a safe distance and shall
not again drive to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle.
(2) Except when overtaking and passing on the right is permitted, the driver of an overtaken
vehicle shall give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle on audible signal and
shall not increase the speed of his or her vehicle until completely passed by the overtaking
vehicle. (3) For purposes of a vehicle overtaking and passing a bicycle, a safe distance shall
mean not less than three feet on any of the following: (a). A roadway that has a marked bicycle
lane. (b). A roadway without a marked bicycle lane if the...
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