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23-5-2
Section 23-5-2 Driving around, destruction, etc., of detour or warning sign, or barricade or
fence. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively
ascribed to them by this subsection: (1) DETOUR SIGN. Any sign placed across or on a public
road of the state by the state, the county or municipal authorities, or by their contractors,
indicating that such road is closed or partially closed, which sign also indicates the direction
of an alternate route to be followed to give access to certain points. (2) WARNING SIGN. A
sign indicating construction work in area. (3) BARRICADE. A barrier for obstructing the passage
of motor vehicle traffic. (4) FENCE. A barrier to prevent the intrusion of motor vehicle traffic.
(5) OFFICIALLY CLOSED. A highway or road that has been officially closed by a governmental
unit, the State Department of Transportation, a city or a county. (b) Any person who wilfully
destroys, knocks down, removes, defaces or alters...
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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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23-3-1
Section 23-3-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) INTERSTATE HIGHWAY. Any highway
now included or which shall hereafter be included as a part of the national system of interstate
highways, selected by joint action of the State Department of Transportation and the United
States Bureau of Public Roads. (2) CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITY. A highway or street included
in the national system of interstate highways especially designed for through traffic and
over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right
of easement or access from abutting properties. Such highways or streets may be parkways from
which trucks, buses, or other commercial vehicles shall be excluded or they may be freeways
open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess.,
No. 104, p. 148, §2.)...
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32-5A-130
Section 32-5A-130 Required position and method of turning at intersections. The driver of a
vehicle intending to turn shall do so as follows: (1) RIGHT TURNS. Both the approach for a
right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or
edge of the roadway. (2) LEFT TURNS. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn left shall
approach the turn in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the
direction of travel of such vehicle. Whenever practicable the turn shall be made to the left
of the center of the intersection and so as to leave the intersection or other location in
the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the same direction as such
vehicle on the roadway being entered. (3) The Department of Transportation and local authorities
in their respective jurisdictions may cause official traffic-control devices to be placed
and thereby require and direct that a different course from that specified 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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23-3-4
Section 23-3-4 Design authority; commercial establishments. (a) The Director of Transportation
is authorized to so design any controlled access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or
prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. In this
connection, such highway authority is authorized to divide and separate any controlled access
facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbing, central dividing sections
or other physical separations or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers,
stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and
other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from or across controlled
access facilities to or from abutting lands, except such designated points at which access
may be permitted or service roads provided, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified
from time to time. (b) Except to the extent authorized by law for toll...
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23-8-3
Section 23-8-3 Definitions. Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words and
phrases shall have the following respective meanings unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise: (1) ALDOT. The Alabama State Department of Transportation provided for in Section
23-1-20. (2) ATRIP-II COMMITTEE. The Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement
Program Committee-II established pursuant to this chapter. (3) ATRIP-II PROJECTS. Those road
and bridge rehabilitation and improvement projects submitted to and received by the ATRIP-II
Committee for funding in accordance with this chapter. (4) COSTS. As applied to any road and
bridge project, all costs of construction or acquisition of any part thereof, including, but
without limitation to, the costs of supervising, inspecting, and constructing any such project
and all costs and expenses incidental thereto, the costs of locating, surveying and mapping,
development of engineering plans and specifications, resurfacing,...
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32-5A-138
Section 32-5A-138 Additional parking regulations. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this
section, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked
with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge
of the roadway. (b) Except when otherwise provided by local ordinance, every vehicle stopped
or parked upon a one-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked parallel to the curb or edge
of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels
within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, or its left-hand wheels within
18 inches of the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway. (c) Local authorities may by ordinance
permit angle parking on any roadway, except that angle parking shall not be permitted on any
federal-aid or state highway unless the Department of Transportation has determined by regulation
that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking...
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41-23-1
Section 41-23-1 Creation; composition; transfer of functions, etc., to department. There is
hereby created and established the Department of Economic and Community Affairs within the
Office of the Governor and directly under his supervision and control. The Department of Economic
and Community Affairs shall consist of: the Governor, the Office of State Planning and Federal
Programs, the Alabama Department of Energy, the Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency, the
Office of Highway and Traffic Safety, the Office of Employment and Training, and the Office
of Water Resources as presently created by and provided for in Sections 41-9-205 through 41-9-214,
Sections 41-6A-1 through 41-6A-11, Sections 41-8A-1 through 41-8A-4, Sections 41-8A-8 through
41-8A-10, and Sections 41-8A-12 through 41-8A-13, 32-4-1 through 32-4-7, Executive Order No.
34, 1980, and Sections 9-10B-1 through 9-10B-30, respectively, and in accordance with the
applicable federal laws. All respective functions, duties,...
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29-2-1
Section 29-2-1 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as
follows: improving the efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance of all branches of government
can only be achieved with proper oversight, accountability, and transparency in government
decision making and processes for service delivery; a long-range program of highway development
and maintenance in Alabama (herein "the state") is vital to the safety of the traveling
public as well as the industrial and agricultural growth of the state; the highway system
in the state must be adequate to meet expanding needs; highway construction, maintenance,
and administration to support such a system should include long-range planning, soundness
in scope of the highway program, efficient performance, and fiscal responsibility in both
policy and planning; the use of a long-range highway program will further the judicious expenditure
of highway funds, will promote the public safety and convenience, will...
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