2-1-13
Section 2-1-13 Agricultural tourist attractions. (a) For the purpose of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) AGRICULTURAL TOURIST ATTRACTIONS. Any agricultural based business providing any on-site attraction to tourists which meets criteria established by the Department of Agriculture and Industries. (2) DIRECTIONAL SIGN. A sign placed on the right-of-way of a state highway or county road to direct traffic to an agricultural tourist attraction. (b) The Department of Agriculture and Industries shall by rule establish the criteria and an application process to provide for agricultural tourist attractions. Each application for approval as an agricultural tourist attraction with the department shall be accompanied by a one-time application fee to be established by the department. In addition, each agricultural tourist attraction shall pay an annual renewal fee to be established by the department. The department shall maintain a registry of approved...
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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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23-1-50
Section 23-1-50 Authority to procure equipment; payment of expenses. Subject to the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 41, the State Department of Transportation is authorized to rent, construct, or purchase such buildings, stock, machinery, tools, materials, and other equipment as it may find necessary for use in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and pay for the same out of the State Highway Fund. It shall also, subject to the provisions of Chapter 4 of Title 41, pay out of said fund the necessary expenses of the department of every description, including traveling expenses of the officials and engineers, superintendents, foremen and clerks, etc., while in the actual performance of their duties authorized or imposed by this chapter and also the cost of all supplies or materials furnished for said department and for the maintenance of all machinery used by the department or its agent. (Code 1923, §1335; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §29.)...
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23-1-57
Section 23-1-57 Agreements and contracts with adjoining states and federal government relative to bridges. The State Department of Transportation may enter into agreements and contracts with adjoining states and the federal government relative to the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and repair of bridges across any river or stream forming the boundary between this state and an adjoining state upon the following terms and conditions: (1) Any bridge, the subject of such agreement or contract, shall be open to the public and no toll or other charge shall be levied for the privilege of crossing it. (2) Any bridge, the subject of such agreement or contract, shall connect a highway in this state designated as a "state highway" or a "United States highway" with a highway in the adjoining state designated as a "state highway" or a "United States highway." (3) The agreement or contract may fix the amount the State of Alabama will pay, but the amount so agreed upon shall not be governed...
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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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32-5A-183
Section 32-5A-183 Maintenance of signs. (a) Signs on a reduced speed school zone located on a county-maintained road shall be maintained by the county commission. (b) Signs on a reduced speed school zone located on a state-maintained road or highway within a county shall be maintained by the State Department of Transportation. (Act 2010-692, p. 1679, §3.)...
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45-36-180.03
Section 45-36-180.03 Employment of county engineer. The county commission may request the Director of the State Department of Transportation to send names of candidates for the position of qualified registered engineer or the commission, without said names, may employ a person who is a qualified registered engineer and who has as least five years' experience in the construction and maintenance of roads and highways. The person may be a Jackson County resident. This person shall head the department of public works in Jackson County and shall be referred to as the county engineer. During his or her employment, the engineer shall devote his or her entire time and attention to the maintenance and construction of county roads, bridges, and ferries and he or she shall reside in Jackson County. He or she shall select for the transfer to the county department of public works up to 75 percent of the state employees, at their option, who presently are employed by the State Department of...
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23-1-2
Section 23-1-2 Bid guaranty. Any other provisions of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, bidders for contract projects which contracts are with the State of Alabama, in behalf of the Department of Transportation, to be paid, in whole or in part, from funds allocated to the Department of Transportation from any source whatsoever, or where contracts are with any of the several counties of the state for a highway, road, street, or bridge project, to be paid for, in whole or in part, from funds allocated to the county from any source whatsoever, shall be required to file with the bid, as a bid guaranty, a certified check or bid bond payable to the awarding authority as follows: (1) A certified check payable to the awarding authority for an amount not less than five percent of the contractor's bid, but in no event more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000); or (2) A bid bond payable to the awarding authority in an amount not less than five percent of the bid, but in no event more than...
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23-1-45
Section 23-1-45 Acquisition of rights-of-way. Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Director of Transportation shall have authority to acquire the rights-of-way deemed necessary by the State Department of Transportation for the construction of a state road, either by purchase or by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings as provided under the laws of this state, or the county or municipality in which such road deemed necessary by the Director of Transportation is located shall acquire such rights-of-way deemed necessary by the Director of Transportation, when requested to do so by said Director of Transportation. Should the county or municipality fail or refuse to acquire said rights-of-way, the Director of Transportation shall have authority to acquire such rights-of-way as first above authorized. Rights-of-way acquired under the provision of this section shall be paid for in the manner prescribed by law. (Acts 1955, No. 566,...
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23-6-2
Section 23-6-2 Purposes of public corporation; supervision of construction by State Department of Transportation; department's power to assign, contract, etc., construction work; construction of chapter. It is the intention of the Legislature to authorize the incorporation of a public corporation for all of the following purposes: (1) To issue bonds to assure the availability of funds for payment of the cost of constructing industrial access roads and bridges as shall from time to time be constructed. (2) To use an annual appropriation from the state Public Road and Bridge Fund to assure the availability of funds for the cost of constructing industrial access roads and bridges as shall from time to time be constructed. (3) To construct industrial access roads and bridges through a corporation to be composed of the officials whose incorporation is hereby authorized. (4) To vest in the corporation all powers, authorities, rights, privileges, and titles necessary to enable it to...
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