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32-5A-150
Section 32-5A-150 Obedience to signal indicating approach of train. (a) Whenever any person
driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated
in this section, the driver of such vehicle shall stop within 50 feet but not less than 15
feet from the nearest rail of such railroad, and shall not proceed until he or she can do
so safely. The foregoing requirements shall apply when: (1) A clearly visible electric or
mechanical signal device gives warning of the immediate approach of a railroad train; (2)
A crossing gate is lowered or when a human flagman gives or continues to give a signal of
the approach or passage of a railroad train; (3) A railroad train approaching within approximately
1,500 feet of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from such distance and such railroad
train, by reason of its speed or nearness to such crossing, is an immediate hazard; (4) An
approaching railroad train is plainly visible and is in hazardous proximity to...
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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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32-6-49.11
Section 32-6-49.11 Disqualification from driving commercial motor vehicle. (a) Any person is
disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for a period of not less than one year
if convicted of a first violation of one of the following: (1) Driving a motor vehicle under
the influence of alcohol, or a controlled substance or any other drug which renders a person
incapable of safely driving. (2) Driving a commercial motor vehicle while the alcohol concentration
of the person's blood, urine, or breath is 0.04 or more. (3) Knowingly and willfully leaving
the scene of an accident involving a motor vehicle driven by the person. (4) Using a motor
vehicle in the commission of any felony. (5) Refusal to submit to a test to determine the
driver's use of a controlled substance or alcohol concentration while driving a motor vehicle.
If any of the violations in subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, occurred while transporting
a hazardous material required to be placarded, the person is...
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32-6-49.18
Section 32-6-49.18 Reciprocity. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a person may drive
a commercial motor vehicle in this state if the person has a valid commercial driver license
or commercial driver license instruction permit issued by any state or provinces or territories
of Canada in accordance with the minimum federal standards for the issuance of commercial
motor vehicle driver licenses, if the license is not suspended, revoked, or canceled; and
if the person is not disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle, or subject to an
out of service order. (b) The department must give all out of state convictions full faith
and credit and treat them for sanctioning purposes under this article as if they occurred
in this state. (Acts 1989, No. 89-878, p. 1759, §18.)...
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32-18-5
Section 32-18-5 Stickers; control of tests. The Director of Public Safety of Alabama shall
approve the shape, size, color, and inscription of a sticker to be placed by any such city
so operating or in which are operated motor vehicle testing stations hereunder upon the windshield
of any motor vehicle so passing the tests herein provided. No such certificate shall be issued
or attached to any motor vehicle until and unless such vehicle shall, upon such inspection,
be found to comply with the terms and conditions and requirements imposed by law and the ordinance
adopted under this chapter. The director shall also have supervision and control over the
type of tests and the facilities therefor in any such motor vehicle testing station, and any
such city desiring to establish any such station or to designate any privately owned station
shall first procure the approval of such tests and facilities by the Director of Public Safety.
(Acts 1943, No. 542, p. 522, §5.)...
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32-6-8
Section 32-6-8 Temporary instruction and learner's licenses. (a) Any person 16 years of age
or older who, except for his or her lack of instruction in operating a motor vehicle, would
otherwise be qualified to obtain a driver's license under this article may apply for a learner's
license, and the Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division, may issue the license
upon a form which shall be provided by the Director of Public Safety, entitling the applicant,
while having the license in his or her immediate possession, to drive or operate a motor vehicle
upon the highways for a period of four years, except when operating a motorcycle, the person
shall be accompanied by a licensed driver who is at least 21 years of age and actually occupying
a seat beside the driver. At the time of applying for the license, the applicant shall pay
to the Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division, a fee of twenty dollars ($20),
and the Department of Public Safety, Driver License Division,...
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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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32-6-49.12
Section 32-6-49.12 Use of alcohol while driving; when placed out of service; when disqualified.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, or of existing law, a person may
not drive, operate, or be in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle within this state
while having any measurable or detectable amount of alcohol in his or her system. (b) A person
who drives, operates, or is in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle within this
state while having any measurable or detectable amount of alcohol in his or her system or
who refuses to submit to an alcohol test under Section 32-6-49.13, must be placed out of service
for 24 hours. (c) Any person who drives a commercial motor vehicle within this state with
an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or more must, in addition to any other sanctions which may
be imposed under this article, or under federal or state law, or rules or regulations of the
department, be disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle under...
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32-5-221
Section 32-5-221 Flares or other warning devices - Display. (a) Whenever any truck, passenger
bus, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer is disabled upon the traveled portion
of any highway or the shoulder thereof outside of any municipality at any time when lighted
lamps are required on vehicles the driver of such vehicle shall display the following warning
devices upon the highway during the time the vehicle is so disabled on the highway except
as provided in subsection (b) of this section: (1) A lighted fusee or other flare shall be
immediately placed on the roadway at the traffic side of the motor vehicle unless electric
lanterns are displayed. (2) Within the burning period of the fusee or other flare and as promptly
as possible three lighted flares (pot torches) or three electric lanterns shall be placed
on the roadway as follows: One approximately 100 feet in advance of the vehicle; one at a
distance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of the vehicle, each in the...
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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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