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32-9-20
Section 32-9-20 Schedule of restrictions. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive
or move on any highway in this state any vehicle or vehicles of a size or weight except in
accordance with the following: (1) WIDTH. Vehicles and combinations of vehicles, operating
on highways with traffic lanes 12 feet or more in width, shall not exceed a total outside
width, including any load thereon, of 102 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices
approved by the Department of Transportation. The Director of Transportation may, in his or
her discretion, designate other public highways for use by vehicles and loads with total outside
widths not exceeding 102 inches, otherwise; vehicles and combinations of vehicles, operating
on highways with traffic lanes less than 12 feet in width, shall not exceed a total outside
width, including any load thereon, of 96 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices
approved by the Department of Transportation. No passenger vehicle shall...
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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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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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13A-8-71
Section 13A-8-71 Possession of traffic sign; notification; destruction, defacement, etc., of
traffic sign or traffic control device; defacement of public building or property. (a) No
person may unlawfully possess any traffic sign erected by the state, a county, or a municipality.
(b) Any person who voluntarily notifies a law enforcement agency of the presence on their
property of a traffic sign shall not be guilty of violating the provisions of subsection (a).
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally destroy, knock down, remove, deface,
or alter any letters or figures on a traffic sign, or in any way damage any traffic control
device, erected on a highway, public road, or right of way of this state, by the Department
of Transportation, a county, or municipality. (d) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally
deface any public building or public property. (Acts 1993, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-887, p. 157,
§2; Acts 1996, No. 96-425, p. 539, §1.)...
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32-5-1
Section 32-5-1 Powers of local authorities. (a) Except as herein otherwise provided, local
authorities shall have no power to pass, enforce, or maintain any ordinance, rule, or regulation
requiring from any owner or chauffeur or other authorized driver to whom this chapter is applicable,
any additional license or permit for the use of the public highways, or excluding any such
owner, chauffeur, or other authorized driver from the public highway, nor to pass, enforce,
or maintain any ordinance, rule, or regulation regulating motor vehicles or their speed contrary
to the provisions of this chapter, nor shall any such law now in force or hereafter enacted
have any effect. (b) Local authorities shall have no power or authority to charge a license
or tax upon any motor carrier hauling passengers or any truck hauling freight for hire, when
such motor carriers in the usual course of operations enter or pass through any county, municipality,
or town of this state; provided, that this...
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32-5A-36
Section 32-5A-36 Display of unauthorized signs, signals, or markings as public nuisance; signs,
markings, etc., to be approved; procedure for approval. (a) No person shall place, maintain,
or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device
which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device
or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which
hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of an official traffic-control device
or any railroad sign or signal. (b) No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public
authority permit upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial
advertising. (c) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property
adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot
be mistaken for official signs. (d) Every such prohibited sign, signal,...
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23-3-3
Section 23-3-3 Authority to plan, etc., facilities; regulation, etc., thereof. The Director
of Transportation, acting alone or in cooperation with counties, cities, towns or any federal,
state or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction
and maintenance of highways, is authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate,
alter, improve, maintain, and provide controlled access facilities for public use wherever
such authority or authorities are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future,
will justify such special facilities; provided, that in the case of designation or vacation,
such designations or vacations must be approved by the Director of Transportation. Said authorities
may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of such controlled access facilities by the various
classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with Section 23-3-1. (Acts 1956, 1st
Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §3.)...
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32-5A-174
Section 32-5A-174 Minimum speed regulation. (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such
a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced
speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law. (b) Whenever the Director
of Public Safety and the Director of Transportation, with the approval of the Governor, or
local authorities within their respective jurisdictions determine on the basis of an engineering
and traffic investigation that slow speeds on any highway or part of a highway consistently
impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the directors or such local authority
may determine and declare a minimum speed limit below which no person shall drive a vehicle
except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law, and that limit shall be
effective when posted upon appropriate fixed or variable signs. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p.
604, §8-105.)...
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6-5-700
Section 6-5-700 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) AWARDING AUTHORITY. a. The Alabama Department of Transportation,
if the contractor enters into a contract with the State of Alabama to construct, repair, or
maintain a highway, a road, or a street for the State of Alabama; or b. The county governing
body, if the contractor enters into a contract with that county to construct, repair, or maintain
a highway, a road, or a street for that county; or c. The governing body of any other local
government, if the contractor enters into a contract with that local government to construct,
repair, or maintain a highway, a road, or a street for that local government. (2) CONCLUSION
OF PROJECT. The date that the awarding authority notifies the contractor, in writing, that
the awarding authority has assumed maintenance responsibilities for the roadway or 60 days
after the contractor has notified, in writing, the awarding authority...
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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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