32-5A-185
Section 32-5A-185 Violations. Upon conviction of a school zone speed violation, the operator of the motor vehicle shall be assessed a fine of double the amount prescribed by law outside a school zone. The signs, placed at the entrance of the school zone, shall warn of the doubled fines for speeding within a school zone. The signs shall also state that the doubled fines are applicable only during the times posted on the signs. (Act 2010-692, p. 1679, ยง6.)...
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32-5A-176.1
Section 32-5A-176.1 Speed limits in construction zones. (a) The State Department of Transportation may set the speed limits in urban and rural construction zones along state and interstate highways and the county commission of a county may set the speed limits in urban and rural construction zones along county roads or highways. The construction zone speed limits shall be posted on the department's standard size speed limit signs at least one hundred feet in advance of the entrance to a construction zone. Law enforcement authorities shall enforce construction zone speed limits. Upon conviction of a construction zone speed violation, the operator of the motor vehicle shall be assessed a fine of double the amount prescribed by law outside a construction zone. The fine shall only be doubled for construction zone violations if construction personnel are present and that fact is indicated by appropriate signs. The signs, placed at the entrance of the construction zone, shall warn of the...
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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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23-1-274
Section 23-1-274 Erection or maintenance of signs - Controls; criteria. The director shall effectively control, or cause to be controlled, the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in all business areas that are erected subsequent to February 10, 1971. Whenever a bona fide state, county, or local zoning authority has made a determination of customary use as to size, lighting, and spacing, such determination may be accepted in lieu of controls by agreement in the zoned commercial and industrial area within the geographical jurisdiction of such authority. In all other controlled commercial and industrial areas, the criteria set forth below shall apply: (1) SIZE OF SIGNS. a. For sign structures erected after July 15, 1995, the maximum area for any one sign shall be 672 square feet with a maximum height of 14 feet and a maximum length of 48 feet, inclusive of any border and trim on the sign face, but excluding any embellishment on and cut-out...
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23-1-42
Section 23-1-42 Roads, etc., located on state institutions. (a) The roads and streets, drives, and parking areas located on the campus of any state institution of higher learning, the Alabama state hospitals, the Partlow State School and Hospital and the Alabama Agricultural Center in the City of Montgomery shall be deemed a part of the state highway system and may be constructed, maintained, and repaired by the State Department of Transportation in the same manner as other highways and roads in the state highway system. (b) The State Department of Transportation or the director thereof is hereby authorized and empowered to expend any funds in the Public Road and Bridge Fund to effectuate the purpose of this section, provided such expenditure is first approved by the Governor. (Acts 1959, No. 500, p. 1235.)...
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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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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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23-1-113
Section 23-1-113 Maintenance and repair - Stipulations and conditions. The following stipulations and conditions shall obtain as to state maintenance of municipal connecting link roads: (1) State maintenance of a city or town street traversed by a state maintained highway route shall not extend beyond the back of the curb where a curb and gutter section exists and not beyond the back or roadway ditch or the toe of fill slope where no curb and gutter is in place except as necessary in the placing and maintaining of highway markers, etc. (2) The city or town shall prepare a drawing, from which prints can be made, showing width of right-of-way of street traversed by a highway route maintained by the state and it shall indicate thereon the width of right-of-way on intersecting streets for a distance of 200 feet each way from the center of the highway. (3) City or town to perform routine clean-up operations such as removal of leaves, trash, soil from gutters, soil from drop inlets and catch...
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45-37A-100.03
Section 45-37A-100.03 Adoption of ordinance for photographic traffic signal enforcement; fines. (a) The city as provided in this article, is empowered to adopt an ordinance providing for the utilization by the city or its designee of a photographic traffic signal enforcement system, a photographic stop sign enforcement system, and a photographic vehicle speed enforcement system to detect and record traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding violations in the city, to issue notices of civil violations by mail, and to collect fines for the recorded traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding violations which may occur within the corporate limits of the city as provided in this article. (b)(1) Fines collected pursuant to an ordinance authorized by this article for traffic signal violations and stop sign violations shall not exceed one hundred ten dollars ($110). (2)a. Except for speeding violations that occur in school zones, fines collected pursuant...
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32-1-3
Section 32-1-3 When right to use highways may be restricted. Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution prohibit the operation of vehicles upon any highways or impose restrictions as to the weight of vehicles when operated upon any highway under the jurisdiction of and for the maintenance of which such local authorities are responsible, whenever any said highway by reason of deterioration, rain, snow, or other climatic conditions will be seriously damaged or destroyed unless the use of vehicles thereon is prohibited or the permissible weights reduced. Such local authorities enacting any such ordinance or resolution shall erect or cause to be erected and maintained signs designating the provisions of the ordinance or resolution at each end of that portion of any highway affected thereby, and the ordinance or resolution shall not be effective until or unless such signs are erected and maintained. Local authorities may also, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit the operation of...
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