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23-1-3
Section 23-1-3 Closing of public roads to traffic; acquisition of materials. The state, acting
through the State Department of Transportation and its duly authorized employees, and the
various counties of the state, acting through the county commissions and their duly authorized
employees, in the doing of public roads work shall have and exercise the right, power, and
authority, when deemed necessary or advisable to do so, to close public roads to traffic and,
when possible so to do, to make detour roads and to contract for such land as may be necessary
for such detour roads; also to acquire, by purchase, or by condemnation, land necessary for
drainage ditches and borrow pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand
pits and gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other material of every character
that may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways
and bridges, and to tap and draw materials from the same to such...
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23-1-44
Section 23-1-44 Right of entry for purpose of making surveys and taking soil samples. (a) All
officers and employees of the State Department of Transportation are hereby authorized and
empowered to enter upon and go across the lands of any individual or corporation in the State
of Alabama for the purpose of making any and all surveys necessary for the construction of
any highways, roads, and bridges to be constructed by it or under its supervision and to enter
upon the property of individuals or corporations for the purpose of securing samples of the
land to determine if same can be used as a source of material for the construction, maintenance,
and improvement of public highways, roads, and bridges. (b) Such officers or employees are
not relieved of civil liability for any damages caused by any acts authorized in subsection
(a) of this section. (c) Such officers or employees may erect or place such stobs, stakes,
monuments, or other markers as may be required in carrying out such...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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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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23-1-59
Section 23-1-59 Rules and regulations of department. (a) The State Department of Transportation
shall have the right and power to adopt all reasonable and necessary rules and regulations
for the better construction, repair, and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in Alabama
under the jurisdiction of the department which the department shall deem proper. The department
shall have the power to enter into contracts and agreements with the owners or operators of
telegraph or telephone lines, community antenna television systems, power transmission lines,
gas districts, gas, water, sewer, or other pipelines which are constructed, to be constructed,
or operated along or across the right-of-way of public roads, bridges, and highways of this
state and to prescribe all reasonable rules and regulations as to the construction, repair,
or maintenance of the poles, wires, and lines of such telegraph, telephone, community antenna
television systems, or power companies, and pipelines of gas...
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45-36-180.06
Section 45-36-180.06 Office supplies and transportation; limitations on private property. (a)
The county commission shall furnish the county engineer office supplies and necessary transportation
in connection with his or her duties under this article. The county engineer shall be the
only department of public works employee authorized to drive a county vehicle to and from
the job. The county engineer shall be prohibited from using a county vehicle for strictly
personal reasons. (b) When county vehicles are long distances from the central county shop,
such vehicles may be left overnight in the custody of a trustworthy person until the next
work day. (c) It shall be unlawful for any person to use any county equipment or material
on any private property and any person upon conviction therefor shall be punished as for a
Class C misdemeanor as provided by state law. (d) The department of public works is prohibited
from authorizing or performing any work on private property with the...
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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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23-1-331
Section 23-1-331 Definitions. Where used in this article, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) BRIDGE REPLACEMENT. Bridge replacement includes the replacement of
existing bridge structures and, if necessary, the realignment of the adjacent approaches.
If the route is to be four-laned, it includes the construction of a new bridge for the two
new lanes. (2) CONSTRUCTION, CONSTRUCT, or CONSTRUCTING. The act of completing a project.
The physical building of the roadway, bridges, and appendages thereto. (3) COUNTY ROADS. All
paved or unpaved public roads, including bridges, within a county on the county road system
and continuing into or through the corporate limits of any city or town in a county which
are not a part of the state highway system. (4) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. That state department
created by Section 23-1-20. (5) OBLIGATION LIMIT. That point in obligating or budgeting funds
for projects that the Transportation Director may not exceed by approving...
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23-1-40
Section 23-1-40 Duties and powers generally. (a) It shall be the duty of the Department of
Transportation to designate the roads to be constructed, repaired, and maintained and to construct,
standardize, repair, and maintain roads and bridges of this state; and it shall have authority
to make contracts or agreements to construct or pave the roadway only of the street or streets
which will serve to connect the state highway constructed or repaired by the department within
any municipality in the State of Alabama. (b) In such municipalities in which the Department
of Transportation has not designated the street or streets which are a part of the state highways
constructed or repaired by the department, it shall be the duty of the department to designate
such street or streets. The department may also cooperate or contract with any municipality
or county in the paving or improving of any street or streets, highway or highways, or walkway
or walkways upon which a state educational or...
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40-12-242
Section 40-12-242 License taxes and registration fees - Private passenger automobiles and motorcycles;
electric vehicles; Electric Transportation Infrastructure Grant Program. (a) The following
annual license taxes and registration fees are hereby imposed and shall be charged on each
private passenger automobile operated on the public highways of this state and on each motorcycle
operated on the public highways: (1) For each private passenger automobile $13.00 (2) For
each motorcycle $7.00 No private passenger automobile and no motorcycle shall be used on any
public highway in the state unless the proper license tag therefor has been procured and is
securely attached to the rear end thereof, the tag to be attached right side up with the number
thereof in an upright position and plainly visible. (b)(1) In addition to the annual license
taxes and registration fees imposed in subsection (a) and in this article, there is hereby
imposed and shall be charged: a. An annual license tax and...
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