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32-18-1
Section 32-18-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated: (1) PERSON. Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association,
or corporation. (2) OPERATOR. Every person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle
upon a street, alley, or thoroughfare. (3) MOTOR VEHICLE. Any vehicle propelled by any power
other than muscular power, including traction engines, tractor cranes, power shovels, road
building machines, road rollers, road sweepers, and sand spreaders, which are self-propelled;
and trailers, semitrailers, and motorcycles. This definition shall not include traction engines,
tractor cranes, power shovels, road building machines, road rollers, road sweepers, and sand
spreaders which are not self-propelled; or tractors used exclusively for agricultural purposes,
well drillers, electric trucks with small wheels used in factories, warehouses, and railroad
stations and operated principally on private property and...
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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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11-81-51
Section 11-81-51 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All municipalities shall have full
and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or
that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by an
election as provided in this article if such election is required by the Constitution, but
without an election if an election is not so required) for the following named purposes: (1)
For the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending public buildings,
sewers, streets, alleys, bridges and public schoolhouses and buildings and of constructing
or acquiring by purchase or otherwise water, electric light, electric power and gas plants
and systems or any two or more such plants or systems combined, including transmission and
distribution systems, and of constructing enlargements and extensions to any such plants or
systems; (2) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improvement authorized...
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23-1-5
Section 23-1-5 Payment of costs of relocation of utility facilities necessitated by construction
of highways. (a) Whenever the Director of Transportation shall determine and order that the
relocation of any utility facility is necessitated by the construction of any project on the
national system of interstate and defense highways, including the extensions thereof within
urban areas, the utility owning or operating the utility facility shall relocate the facility
in accordance with the order of the Director of Transportation. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
if the cost of the utility facility relocation is eligible and approved for reimbursement
by the federal government, the cost of the relocation of the utility facility shall be paid
by the state as a part of the cost of the construction of the project out of the funds then
or thereafter available for the highway construction after the utility has furnished the Director
of Transportation with all papers, records, or other supporting...
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40-12-240
Section 40-12-240 Definitions. (a) For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall
have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department
of Revenue. (2) ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS. A place actually occupied either continuously
or at regular periods at or from which a business or a part thereof is transacted. (3) FARM
TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows,
mowing machines, and other implements designed and used for agricultural purposes and only
incidentally moved upon public highways. (4) FARMER. An individual, partnership, cooperative
corporation, or other entity actively engaged in agriculture or agricultural activities as
the same are circumscribed and defined in paragraphs a. and b. of Section 41-14-51(1). (5)
FLEET. A group of similarly classified fleet vehicles comprised of 50 or more units or other
amount as prescribed by the department. (6) FLEET OPERATOR. A person,...
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23-4-20
Section 23-4-20 Vacation of street or alley. (a) Subject to the conditions set out in this
subsection, any street or alley may be vacated, in whole or in part, by the owner or owners
of the land abutting the street or alley or abutting that portion of the street or alley desired
to be vacated by following the procedures set out herein. The owner or owners of the land
abutting the street or alley to be vacated shall join in a written petition requesting that
the street or alley be vacated and shall file the petition with the governing body with jurisdiction
over the street or alley, or portion thereof, requesting the governing body's approval of
the vacation. The governing body shall set the request for vacation for public hearing within
100 days from the date the petition is received. Notice of the hearing shall be provided as
set out in Section 36-25A-3 for notice of meetings of the governing body and shall describe
the street or alley, or portion thereof, requested to be vacated in...
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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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23-2-144
Section 23-2-144 Powers of the authority. (a) The authority shall have the following powers:
(1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business. (2)
To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure. (3) To maintain a principal office
and branch offices at the place or places within the state as it may designate. (4) To sue
and be sued in its own name, including suits in tort. (5) With the consent and approval of
the department, to acquire and construct toll road, bridge, or tunnel projects at locations
as the authority may determine to be desirable, practicable, and economically feasible and
to maintain, repair, and operate the projects. (6) To issue toll road, bridge, or tunnel revenue
bonds of the authority for any of its corporate purposes, payable solely from its tolls, other
revenues, and proceeds of the bonds, and to refund its bonds, all as provided in this article.
No bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall constitute a...
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33-5-51
Section 33-5-51 Operation of personal watercraft. (a) As used in this section, "personal
watercraft" means a vessel which uses an inboard motor powering a water jet pump as its
primary source of motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing,
or kneeling on the vessel, rather than the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside
the vessel. (b) A person may not operate a personal watercraft on the waters of this state,
as waters are defined in Section 33-5-3, unless each person operating, riding on, or being
towed by the vessel is wearing a personal flotation device approved by the United States Coast
Guard, in accordance with rules and regulations by the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources. (c) A person operating a personal watercraft on the waters of this
state that does not have self circling capability, shall have a lanyard type engine cutoff
switch and must attach the lanyard to the person, clothing, or...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment set
forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient, and analogous
forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY. The
State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county charge
that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the following
forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney of
the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary to
law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the
unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales
of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised),
which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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