11-49-100
Section 11-49-100 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Authorized generally. Whenever in the judgment of the council or other governing
body of any town or city it is to the interest of the public convenience that a portion of
any street in the limits of such city or town be vacated and discontinued as a highway and
that such vacated portion should be used for the erection and maintenance in whole or in part
thereon of any state, county, or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or
street railroad station or depot, such city or town council or other governing body may, by
ordinance duly adopted, vacate such portions of such street and discontinue its use as a public
highway and permit the erection and maintenance in whole or in part thereon of a state, county,
or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or street railroad station or depot.
(Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2238; Code 1940, T....
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11-49-101
Section 11-49-101 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Publication of notice as to introduction of ordinance and time for consideration
thereof by council, etc. - Required. No ordinance vacating a portion of a street as provided
by Section 11-49-100 shall be adopted until after the expiration of 30 days after its first
introduction, and after it has been introduced it shall be published in some newspaper published
in the city or town for two successive weeks, and such publication shall also contain a statement
of the time when it will be considered and that objections to its passage may then be heard
by the council or other governing body; provided, however, that if the city or town has no
newspaper published therein, such publication shall be made in some newspaper of general circulation
published within the county where such city or town is located. If, for any reason, the ordinance
is not acted on at the time stated in the...
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11-49-102
Section 11-49-102 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Publication of notice as to introduction of ordinance and time for consideration
thereof by council, etc. - Payment of costs thereof. The state, county, or municipality or
the railroad or street railroad company or corporation for whose use as a site in whole or
in part for a public building or a railroad station or depot or street railroad station or
depot the vacation is proposed to be made shall pay the cost of such publication and notice.
(Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2243; Code 1940, T. 37, §668.)...
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11-49-105
Section 11-49-105 Property rights in vacated portion of street. The fee of such vacated portion
of a street shall remain in the city or town, but the council or other governing body may
grant the right to maintain thereon a state, county, or municipal public building or a railroad
station or depot or street railroad station or depot so long and only so long as the same
shall be used for the purpose for which it was vacated. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923,
§2241; Code 1940, T. 37, §666.)...
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11-49-103
Section 11-49-103 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Two-thirds vote of council, etc., required. Any ordinance for the vacation
of a part of a street and erection of buildings thereon as is provided for in Section 11-49-100
shall be adopted only by a two-thirds vote of the council or other governing body. (Acts 1909,
No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2240; Code 1940, T. 37, §665.)...
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37-8-200
Section 37-8-200 Erection or maintenance of advertising signs resembling railroad signs. (a)
No person, firm, association or corporation shall erect or maintain on any public road or
street in the State of Alabama, or no private property within one fourth of a mile of the
right-of-way of any public road or street, any advertising sign that resembles or that can
reasonably be mistaken for a railroad crossing sign; and the owner or person in possession
of such private property shall not knowingly permit another to erect or maintain such sign
on such private property. (b) The person, firm, association or corporation whose name shall
appear on said sign as the beneficiary of the advertising thereon shall be prima facie presumed
to be the party guilty of erecting and maintaining the same, whether it be on a public road
or street or on private property, within one fourth of a mile of the right-of-way of a public
road or street. (c) No owner or person in possession of private property upon...
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37-2-84
Section 37-2-84 Abandonment and discontinuance of grade crossings. (a) The Department of Transportation
is given authority and power to abandon and discontinue any portion of a state highway, or
street on a state highway route with the approval of the city council or governing body of
any municipality, crossing the tracks or right-of-way of any railroad or street railway within
the state, and to close the grade crossing, whenever in the judgment of the department the
grade crossing has ceased to be necessary for the public as a part of any state highway, because
of relocation of the highway, or because of the construction of an underpass or overpass,
or other provision made for the elimination of the grade crossing. Whenever the department
orders the abandonment of a portion of the highway or street and the closing of a grade crossing,
it shall enter its order providing therefor in the department minutes. Notice in writing of
the abandonment and discontinuance of the portion of the...
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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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11-52-54
Section 11-52-54 Reservation not to impair use of reserved lands by owner, etc., thereof; compensation
not to be paid or recovered for taking of or injury to buildings, etc., erected on lands during
reservation period. The reservation of a street location as provided in Section 11-52-50 shall
not be deemed to prohibit or impair in any respect the use of the reserved land by the owner
or occupant thereof for any lawful purpose, including the erection of buildings thereon, but
no compensation other than the compensation awarded in the final report of said board of appraisers
as approved by the council as provided in Section 11-52-52 or, in the case of an appeal, as
awarded on such appeal as provided in Section 11-52-53 shall at any time be paid by the municipality
or public to or recovered from the municipality or public by any person for the taking of
or injury to any building or structure built or erected within the period fixed in the resolution
of council upon any such reserved...
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23-1-113
Section 23-1-113 Maintenance and repair - Stipulations and conditions. The following stipulations
and conditions shall obtain as to state maintenance of municipal connecting link roads: (1)
State maintenance of a city or town street traversed by a state maintained highway route shall
not extend beyond the back of the curb where a curb and gutter section exists and not beyond
the back or roadway ditch or the toe of fill slope where no curb and gutter is in place except
as necessary in the placing and maintaining of highway markers, etc. (2) The city or town
shall prepare a drawing, from which prints can be made, showing width of right-of-way of street
traversed by a highway route maintained by the state and it shall indicate thereon the width
of right-of-way on intersecting streets for a distance of 200 feet each way from the center
of the highway. (3) City or town to perform routine clean-up operations such as removal of
leaves, trash, soil from gutters, soil from drop inlets and catch...
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