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32-5A-114
Section 32-5A-114 Vehicles entering highway from private road or roadway. The driver
of a vehicle about to enter or cross a roadway from any place other than another roadway shall
yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the roadway to be entered or crossed.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §4-105.)...
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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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32-5A-85
Section 32-5A-85 Further limitations on driving on left of center of roadway. (a) No
vehicle shall be driven on the left side of the roadway under the following conditions: (1)
When approaching or upon the crest of a grade or a curve in the highway where the driver's
view is obstructed within such distance as to create a hazard in the event another vehicle
might approach from the opposite direction; (2) When approaching within 100 feet of or traversing
any intersection or railroad grade crossing; (3) When the view is obstructed upon approaching
within 100 feet of any bridge, viaduct, or tunnel. (b) The foregoing limitations shall not
apply upon a one-way roadway, nor under the conditions described in Section 32-5A-80(a)(2),
nor to the driver of a vehicle turning left into or from an alley, private road, or driveway.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §3-106.)...
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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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32-5A-211
Section 32-5A-211 Pedestrians' right-of-way in crosswalks. (a) When traffic-control
signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way,
slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within
a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is
traveling, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the
roadway as to be in danger. (b) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of
safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close as to constitute an immediate
hazard. (c) Subsection (a) shall not apply under the conditions stated in Section 32-5A-212(b).
(d) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at
an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle
approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle....
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32-5A-89
Section 32-5A-89 Following too closely. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not
follow another more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed
of such vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway. Except when overtaking
and passing another vehicle, the driver of a vehicle shall leave a distance of at least 20
feet for each 10 miles per hour of speed between the vehicle that he or she is driving and
the vehicle that he or she is following. (b) The driver of any truck or motor vehicle drawing
another vehicle of 25 or more feet in length when traveling upon a roadway outside of a business
or residence district and which is following another truck or motor vehicle drawing another
vehicle of 25 or more feet in length shall, whenever conditions permit, leave sufficient space,
at least 300 feet, so that an overtaking vehicle may enter and occupy such space without danger,
except that this shall not prevent a truck or motor vehicle drawing...
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32-5A-153
Section 32-5A-153 Emerging from alley, driveway, or building. The driver of a vehicle
emerging from an alley, building, private road, or driveway within a business or residence
district shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the
sidewalk area extending across such alley, building entrance, road, or driveway, or in the
event there is no sidewalk area, shall stop at the point nearest the street to be entered
where the driver has a view of approaching traffic thereon. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604,
§7-105.)...
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32-5A-56
Section 32-5A-56 Driving on mountain highways. The driver of a motor vehicle traveling
through defiles or canyons or on mountain highways shall hold such motor vehicle under control
and as near the right-hand edge of the roadway as reasonably possible and, except when driving
entirely to the right of the center of the roadway, shall give audible warning with the horn
of such motor vehicle upon approaching any curve where the view is obstructed within a distance
of 200 feet along the highway. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §11-107.)...
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40-17-350
Section 40-17-350 Transportation of motor fuel; inspections. (a) Each person operating
a refinery or terminal in Alabama shall prepare and provide to the driver of every highway
vehicle receiving motor fuel at the facility a shipping document setting out on its face the
destination state as represented to the terminal operator by the shipper or the shipper's
agent. Failure to comply with this subsection may result in a department imposed penalty of
not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), to
be multiplied by the sum of the current violation plus prior violations of this subsection.
(b) Every person transporting motor fuel in Alabama in a highway vehicle other than in its
supply tank shall carry on board a shipping document issued by the facility where the motor
fuel was obtained. The shipping document shall set out on its face the state of destination
of the motor fuel transported in the highway vehicle. Violation of this subsection...
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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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