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32-5A-86
Section 32-5A-86 No-passing zones. (a) The Department of Transportation and local authorities
are hereby authorized to determine those portions of any highway under their respective jurisdictions
where overtaking and passing or driving to the left of the roadway would be especially hazardous
and may by appropriate signs or markings on the roadway indicate the beginning and end of
such zones and when such signs or markings are in place and clearly visible to an ordinarily
observant person every driver of a vehicle shall obey the directions thereof. (b) Where signs
or markings are in place to define a no-passing zone as set forth in subsection (a) no driver
shall at any time drive on the left side of the roadway within such no-passing zone or on
the left side of any pavement striping designed to mark such no-passing zone throughout its
length. (c) This section does not apply under the conditions described in Section 32-5A-80(a)(2),
nor to the driver of a vehicle turning left into or from...
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32-5A-171
Section 32-5A-171 Maximum limits. Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed
for compliance with Section 32-5A-170, the limits hereinafter specified or established as
hereinafter authorized shall be maximum lawful speeds, and no person shall drive a vehicle
at a speed in excess of the maximum limits. (1) No person shall operate a vehicle in excess
of 30 miles per hour in any urban district. (2)a. No person shall operate a motor vehicle
in excess of 35 miles per hour on any unpaved road. For purposes of this chapter the term
unpaved road shall mean any highway under the jurisdiction of any county, the surface of which
consists of natural earth, mixed soil, stabilized soil, aggregate, crushed sea shells, or
similar materials without the use of asphalt, cement, or similar binders. b. No person shall
operate a motor vehicle on any county-maintained paved road in an unincorporated area of the
state at a speed in excess of 45 miles per hour unless a different maximum speed...
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32-5-92
Section 32-5-92 Special speed limitations on bridges. (a) The Department of Transportation
or other proper state body upon request from any local authorities shall, or upon its own
initiative may, conduct an investigation of any public bridge, causeway or viaduct, and if
it shall thereupon find that such structure cannot with safety to itself withstand vehicles
traveling at the speed otherwise permissible under this article, the department shall determine
and declare the maximum speed of vehicles which such structure can withstand, and shall cause
or permit suitable signs stating such maximum speed to be erected and maintained at a distance
of 100 feet before each end of such structure. When such public bridge, causeway or viaduct
is within a municipality, such suitable signs stating such maximum speed shall be erected
within such less distance of 100 feet before each end of such structure as the governing body
of such municipality shall so ordain. The findings and determination of the...
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32-9-31
Section 32-9-31 Measuring and weighing vehicles. Any officer enumerated in Section 32-9-3 having
reason to believe that the height, length, width, or weight of any truck, semitrailer truck,
or trailer is in excess of the maximum limits prescribed by Section 32-9-20 or permitted by
any permit issued under authority of Section 32-9-29 is authorized to measure or weigh the
same, either by means of portable or stationary scales, and may require such vehicle to be
driven to the nearest stationary scales, in the event such scales are within a distance of
five miles. All scales used for the weighing of vehicles as provided in this section shall
be approved by the weights and measures division of the Department of Agriculture and Industries.
The officer shall require the operator of the truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer to unload
such portion of load as may be necessary to decrease the gross weight of such vehicle to the
maximum gross weight permitted by this title or by the terms of any...
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32-5-1
Section 32-5-1 Powers of local authorities. (a) Except as herein otherwise provided, local
authorities shall have no power to pass, enforce, or maintain any ordinance, rule, or regulation
requiring from any owner or chauffeur or other authorized driver to whom this chapter is applicable,
any additional license or permit for the use of the public highways, or excluding any such
owner, chauffeur, or other authorized driver from the public highway, nor to pass, enforce,
or maintain any ordinance, rule, or regulation regulating motor vehicles or their speed contrary
to the provisions of this chapter, nor shall any such law now in force or hereafter enacted
have any effect. (b) Local authorities shall have no power or authority to charge a license
or tax upon any motor carrier hauling passengers or any truck hauling freight for hire, when
such motor carriers in the usual course of operations enter or pass through any county, municipality,
or town of this state; provided, that this...
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32-5A-172
Section 32-5A-172 Establishment of state speed zones. Whenever the Director of Public Safety
and the Director of Transportation, with the approval of the Governor, shall determine upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any maximum speed hereinbefore
set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist
at any intersection or other place or upon any part of the state highway system, the directors
may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereat, which shall be effective
when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected. Such a maximum speed limit may be
declared to be effective at all times or at such times as are indicated upon the signs; and
differing limits may be established for different times of day, different types of vehicles,
varying weather conditions, and other factors bearing on safe speeds, which shall be effective
when posted upon appropriate fixed or variable signs. (Acts 1980, No....
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23-1-60
Section 23-1-60 Authority of Director of Transportation to alter plans or character of work,
determine need for extra work, make supplemental agreements, etc. The following implementation
of the provisions of the State Department of Transportation standard specifications for highways
and bridges is hereby adopted as a statutory provision, any and all other laws in conflict
notwithstanding: (1) ALTERATION OF PLANS OR CHARACTER OF WORK. The Director of Transportation
shall have the authority to make, at any time during the progress of any construction on any
highway project under his or her jurisdiction, such changes or alterations of construction
details, including alterations in grade or alignment of roadway or bridges, or both, as may
be necessary or desirable for the successful completion of the project. The aforementioned
changes or alterations may or may not increase or decrease the original planned quantities;
however, under no circumstances shall changes or alterations involve...
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16-6F-6
Section 16-6F-6 Authorization of establishment; Alabama Public Charter School Commission; registration
requirements; powers and duties of authorizers. (a) Eligible authorizing entities. (1) A public
charter school shall not be established in this state unless its establishment is authorized
by this section. No governmental entity or other entity, other than an entity expressly granted
chartering authority as set forth in this section, may assume any authorizing function or
duty in any form. The following entities shall be authorizers of public charter schools: a.
A local school board, for chartering of schools within the boundaries of the school system
under its jurisdiction, pursuant to state law. b. The Alabama Public Charter School Commission,
pursuant to this section. (2) A local school board that registers as an authorizer may approve
or deny an application to form a public charter school within the boundaries of the local
school system overseen by the local school board. (3) All...
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23-1-271
Section 23-1-271 Definitions. For the purposes of this division, unless otherwise indicated,
the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) ADJACENT AREA. An area which is adjacent to and within 660 feet of the nearest edge of
the right-of-way of any interstate or primary highway, which 660 feet distance shall be measured
horizontally along a line normal or perpendicular to the centerline of the highway. (2) BUSINESS
AREA. Any part of an adjacent area which is zoned for business, industrial, or commercial
activities under the authority of any law of this state or not zoned, but which constitutes
an unzoned commercial or industrial area as defined in this section. (3) CENTERLINE OF THE
HIGHWAY. A line equidistant from the edges of the median separating the main-traveled ways
of a divided highway or the centerline of the main-traveled way of a nondivided highway. (4)
COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES FOR PURPOSES OF UNZONED INDUSTRIAL AND...
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4-6-4
Section 4-6-4 Authority of counties and municipalities to adopt regulations; zoning jurisdiction
of counties and municipalities. (a) Counties. - In order to prevent the creation or establishment
of airport hazards, any county having an airport hazard area within its zoning jurisdiction,
as hereinafter defined, may adopt, administer and enforce, under the police power and in the
manner and upon the conditions hereinafter prescribed, airport zoning regulations for such
airport hazard area, which regulations may divide such area into zones, and within such zones
specify the land uses permitted and regulate and restrict the height to which structures and
trees may be erected or allowed to grow. The zoning jurisdiction of the county is hereby declared
to be all unincorporated areas in the county, except within the police jurisdiction of any
municipality and the area within two miles of an airport owned or operated by a municipality
when said municipality exercises or declares its intention...
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