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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45-49-261.16
Section 45-49-261.16 Construction setbacks. (a) The Mobile County Commission, through the county planning and zoning commission, shall regulate the construction setback from the centerline of any state or county public road or highway located within the jurisdiction of the commission. (b) The provisions of this section do not apply to poles, facilities, structures, water, gas, sewer, electric, telephone, billboards, or utility lines or other facilities of public utilities. (c) The construction setback from any state or county public road or highway shall vary according to the highway functional classifications submitted by the Mobile County Commission and approved by the Federal Highway Administration for Mobile County. (d) The functional classifications and the construction setbacks required for each classification are established as follows: (1) Principal arterials require a 125 foot setback from the centerline of the right-of-way. (2) Minor arterials require a 100 foot setback from...
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11-49-6
Section 11-49-6 Vacation of right-of-way fee. Prior to the exercise of the power of a municipality incorporated in this state to vacate the public right-of-way for a road, street, alley, or other dedicated public way, open or unopen, as a condition of exercise of such power to vacate, the governing body may require abutting landowners who will directly benefit from such vacation to pay to such municipality a vacation of right-of-way fee equal to the fair market value of the land which will be added to the holdings of such abutting landowners. Such fair market value shall be determined by the governing body of the municipality after a public hearing, notice of which shall be published in a daily newspaper of general circulation at least five days prior thereto and mailed to such address or addresses as may be set forth in the application by abutting owners for the vacation of right-of-way unless a waiver of such notice to abutting landowners is filed by such abutting landowners with the...
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32-15-2
Section 32-15-2 Renting to intoxicated person. Whoever rents a motor vehicle to any person to operate upon any public highway or street, knowing that such person is in an intoxicated condition or under the influence of drugs, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than 30 days nor more than 12 months, or shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00, or shall be both fined and imprisoned. (Acts 1927, No. 456, p. 507; Code 1940, T. 36, §97.)...
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32-5-240
Section 32-5-240 Required lighting equipment and illuminating devices of vehicles. (a) When lighted headlamps required. (1) Every vehicle upon a highway within this state, except a parked vehicle, which shall be subject to Section 32-5-244, shall display lighted lamps and illuminating devices required by this section for different classes of vehicles at the following times: a. From a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise. b. At any time when the windshield wipers of the vehicle are in use because of rain, sleet, or snow, except when the use is intermittent because of misting rain, sleet, or snow. c. At any time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of 500 feet. (2) Notwithstanding subdivision (1), whenever motor vehicles or other vehicles are operated in combination during a time that lamps and illuminating devices are required to be lighted, any lamp, other than a tail lamp, that, by reason of...
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45-2-260
Section 45-2-260 Regulation of setbacks. (a) This section shall apply only to Baldwin County. (b) The Baldwin County Commission, through the county planning and zoning commission, shall regulate the construction setback from the centerline of any state or county public road or highway located outside the corporate limits of a municipality in Baldwin County. (c) The provisions of this section do not apply to poles, facilities, structures, water, gas, sewer, electric, telephone, bill boards, or utility lines or other facilities of public utilities. (d) The construction setback from any state or county public road or highway shall vary according to the highway functional classifications submitted by the Baldwin County Commission and approved by the Federal Highway Administration for Baldwin County. (e) The functional classifications and the construction setbacks required for each classification are established as follows: (1) Principal arterials require a 125 foot setback from the...
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6-5-702
Section 6-5-702 Compliance with contract documents. During the course of construction, a contractor who constructs, maintains, or repairs a highway, road, street, or bridge for the awarding authority is not liable to a claimant for personal injury, property damage, or death arising from the performance of such construction, maintenance, or repair, if, at the time of the personal injury, property damage, or death, the contractor was in compliance with contract documents material to the condition, including the traffic control plan, that was the proximate cause of the personal injury, property damage, or death unless following the plans and specifications would result in a dangerous condition that should have appeared to be defective to a reasonably prudent contractor or that the contractor should have known that following the plans and specifications could create a dangerous condition that caused the injury or death. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §3.)...
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11-49-61
Section 11-49-61 Enforcement, etc., of lien on property assessed for highway, street, etc. Such cities and towns shall have a lien on the lots or parcels of land so assessed as provided in Section 11-49-60, which lien may be enforced as provided by the general laws covering assessment liens for public improvements, and property owners shall have the right to pay such assessments as provided by the general laws. (Acts 1919, No. 760, p. 1122; Code 1923, §2254; Code 1940, T. 37, §659.)...
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18-3-1
Section 18-3-1 Acquisition; width. The owner of any tract or body of land, no part of which tract or body of land is adjacent or contiguous to any public road or highway, shall have and may acquire a convenient right-of-way, not exceeding in width 30 feet, over the lands intervening and lying between such tract or body of land and the public road nearest or most convenient thereto provided written approval is obtained from the municipal government and the planning board of such municipality. (Acts 1919, No. 679, p. 982; Code 1923, §7529; Code 1940, T. 19, §56; Acts 1957, No. 537, p. 759; Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-784, p. 288.)...
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40-12-248
Section 40-12-248 License taxes and registration fees - Trucks or truck tractors - Generally. (a) For each truck or truck tractor using the public highways of this state, annual license taxes and registration fees based on the gross vehicle weight in pounds are imposed and shall be charged. For the purposes of this section, the term "gross vehicle weight" shall mean the empty weight of the truck or truck tractor plus the heaviest load to be carried and, in the case of combinations, shall be deemed to include also the empty weight of the heaviest trailer with which the power unit shall be placed in combination, plus the heaviest load to be carried. No tolerance or margin of error shall be allowable under this section, except as provided in subsection (b). (b) For each truck or truck tractor using the public highways of this state, the annual license taxes and registration fees herein imposed (i) shall consist of the base amount applicable to the truck or truck tractor under the schedule...
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