23-1-48
Section 23-1-48 Application by counties for construction or maintenance of state road or bridge.
Whenever a county commission shall desire that a state road or bridge on a state road in said
county be constructed or maintained with state aid, written application shall be made by the
county to the State Department of Transportation under such rules and regulations as the department
may prescribe. Such application, when made, shall be considered by the department and, if
approved by it, the commissioners shall direct an engineer to view said road or bridge and
cause to be made surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates of the cost of construction
or maintenance, and the State Department of Transportation may thereupon appropriate out of
the State Highway Fund such part of the estimated cost of such work as it may deem proper,
and the State Department of Transportation shall proceed to do such work by contract or with
its own force. If it deems best, the department may accept...
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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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23-1-30
Section 23-1-30 Legal division - Functions and duties. The functions and duties of the legal
division of the State Department of Transportation shall, as all other assistant attorneys
general, include the following: (1) To advise the Director of Transportation and other personnel
of the State Department of Transportation on the legal aspects of all State Department of
Transportation business; (2) To examine and advise as to the legality of all contracts and
agreements entered into by the State Department of Transportation or the Director of Transportation;
(3) To take all legal action necessary or desirable in the acquisition of rights-of-way for
state and interstate highways; (4) To appear in court as attorney for the State of Alabama
and the State Department of Transportation in the acquisition of rights-of-way for state and
interstate highways; and (5) To represent the State Department of Transportation and the Director
of Transportation in all legal proceedings to which the State...
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23-1-36
Section 23-1-36 Employees used on transferred county roads and bridges. Whenever responsibility
for the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads and bridges is transferred by
law from any county commission to the State Department of Transportation, the employees used
by the State Department of Transportation in any such county in connection with the construction,
maintenance, and repair of the county's roads and bridges shall be drawn insofar as possible
from residents of the county. In the event of a vacancy in any such position of employment
in the classified service of the state, the personnel director, upon request of the Director
of Transportation that the personnel director certify to him the names of persons eligible
for appointment to the position, shall establish a county register of eligibles who are residents
of the county in which the vacancy occurs, and the personnel director shall certify the names
of persons appearing on the county register for appointment...
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23-1-53
Section 23-1-53 Contracts to do work - Authority. The State Department of Transportation may
enter into contracts with any of the counties of the state or with any of the municipalities
of this state, as it may with individuals, firms, or private corporations, to do any work
in the construction, repair, or maintenance of the roads, bridges, or highways in this state.
(Code 1923, §1327; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §22.)...
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23-3-1
Section 23-3-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) INTERSTATE HIGHWAY. Any highway
now included or which shall hereafter be included as a part of the national system of interstate
highways, selected by joint action of the State Department of Transportation and the United
States Bureau of Public Roads. (2) CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITY. A highway or street included
in the national system of interstate highways especially designed for through traffic and
over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right
of easement or access from abutting properties. Such highways or streets may be parkways from
which trucks, buses, or other commercial vehicles shall be excluded or they may be freeways
open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess.,
No. 104, p. 148, §2.)...
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23-3-2
Section 23-3-2 Declaration of policy. It is the declared policy of this state to facilitate
the flow of traffic and promote public safety by controlling access to highways included in
the national system of interstate highways as selected by joint action of the State Department
of Transportation and the United States Bureau of Public Roads. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess.,
No. 104, p. 148, §1.)...
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23-1-104
Section 23-1-104 Furnishing of counties with lists of persons employed by State Department
of Transportation therein; employment by counties of persons on lists; employment status of
other persons employed by department in counties; liability for accumulated obligations due
and payable to present employees of department; payment by department of accumulated sick
leave of transferred employee. The State Department of Transportation shall furnish a list
to each captive county with the name, position, rate of pay, and length of service of all
persons who are presently employed by the State Department of Transportation in the respective
captive county. The respective counties may employ personnel not to exceed 75 percent of the
employees on the list furnished by the State Department of Transportation for the construction,
repair, and maintenance of county roads and bridges in accordance with personnel policy as
adopted by the respective counties. The remaining employees now employed by the...
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23-1-105
Section 23-1-105 Effect of article upon contracts for construction, repair and maintenance
of county roads and bridges entered into by State Department of Transportation. Any contract
for the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads and bridges in each of the captive
counties entered into by the State Department of Transportation prior to the adoption of this
article shall remain in full force and effect until the terms thereof shall have been complied
with. (Acts 1979, No. 79-688, p. 1217, §6.)...
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23-1-24
Section 23-1-24 Chief engineer - Duties. The chief engineer of the State Department of Transportation
shall coordinate the general mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences as applied to
the planning, design, construction, maintenance, or repair of highways and bridges in this
state. The Director of Transportation may assign general engineering, administrative, and
operational activities to other qualified employees of the department. The chief engineer
shall sign the title sheets of all plans let to contract by the department. The duties of
the chief engineer shall be subject to and under the direction, control, and supervision of
the Director of Transportation. (Acts 1959, No. 497, p. 1231, §3; Acts 1969, No. 506, p.
963; Act 2012-396, p. 1076, §1.)...
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