32-5A-92
Section 32-5A-92 Restrictions on use of controlled-access roadway. (a) The Department of Transportation
by resolution or order entered in its minutes, and local authorities by ordinance, may regulate
or prohibit the use of any controlled-access roadway (or highway) within their respective
jurisdictions by any class or kind of traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal
and safe movement of traffic. (b) The Department of Transportation or the local authority
adopting any such prohibition shall erect and maintain official traffic-control devices on
the controlled-access highway on which such prohibitions are applicable and when in place
no person shall disobey the restrictions stated on such devices. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p.
604, §3-113.)...
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32-1-1.1
Section 32-1-1.1 Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this title, for
the purpose of this title, shall have meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section,
except when the context otherwise requires: (1) ALLEY. A street or highway intended to provide
access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts and not intended for the
purpose of through vehicular traffic. (2) ARTERIAL STREET. Any United States or state numbered
route, controlled-access highway, or other major radial or circumferential street or highway
designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial
system of streets or highways. (3) AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Such fire department vehicles,
police vehicles, and ambulances as are publicly owned, and such other publicly or privately
owned vehicles as are designated by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency
or the chief of police of an incorporated city. (4) BICYCLE....
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32-5A-87
Section 32-5A-87 One-way roadways and rotary traffic islands. (a) The Department of Transportation
and local authorities with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions may designate
any highway, roadway, part of a roadway, or specific lanes upon which vehicular traffic shall
proceed in one direction at all or such times as shall be indicated by official traffic-control
devices. (b) Upon a roadway so designated for one-way traffic, a vehicle shall be driven only
in the direction designated at all or such times as shall be indicated by official traffic-control
devices. (c) A vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall be driven only to the
right of such island. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §3-108.)...
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32-5A-138
Section 32-5A-138 Additional parking regulations. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this
section, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked
with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge
of the roadway. (b) Except when otherwise provided by local ordinance, every vehicle stopped
or parked upon a one-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked parallel to the curb or edge
of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels
within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, or its left-hand wheels within
18 inches of the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway. (c) Local authorities may by ordinance
permit angle parking on any roadway, except that angle parking shall not be permitted on any
federal-aid or state highway unless the Department of Transportation has determined by regulation
that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking...
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32-5A-113
Section 32-5A-113 Authority to designate through highways and stop and yield intersections.
The Department of Transportation with reference to state highways and local authorities with
reference to highways under their jurisdictions may erect and maintain stop signs, yield signs,
or other official traffic-control devices to designate through highways, or to designate intersections
or other roadway junctions at which vehicular traffic on one or more of the roadways should
yield or stop and yield before entering the intersection or junction. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434,
p. 604, §4-104.)...
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32-5A-130
Section 32-5A-130 Required position and method of turning at intersections. The driver of a
vehicle intending to turn shall do so as follows: (1) RIGHT TURNS. Both the approach for a
right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or
edge of the roadway. (2) LEFT TURNS. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn left shall
approach the turn in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the
direction of travel of such vehicle. Whenever practicable the turn shall be made to the left
of the center of the intersection and so as to leave the intersection or other location in
the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the same direction as such
vehicle on the roadway being entered. (3) The Department of Transportation and local authorities
in their respective jurisdictions may cause official traffic-control devices to be placed
and thereby require and direct that a different course from that specified in...
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32-5A-173
Section 32-5A-173 When local authorities may and shall alter maximum limits. (a) Whenever local
authorities in their respective jurisdictions determine on the basis of an engineering and
traffic investigation that the maximum speed permitted under this article is greater or less
than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon a highway or part of
a highway, the local authority may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit
thereon which: (1) Decreases the limit at intersections; (2) Increases the limit within an
urban district but not to more than the maximum rate of speed that may be prescribed by the
Governor under subdivision (6) of Section 32-5A-171; (3) Decreases the limit on any street,
unpaved road, or highway under the jurisdiction and control of any county commission; or (4)
Increases the limit on any street, unpaved road, or highway under the jurisdiction and control
of any county commission but not to more than the maximum rate of speed...
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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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22-32-1
Section 22-32-1 Enactment of Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact.
The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact is hereby enacted
into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally joining
therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHEAST INTERSTATE
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT Article I. Policy and Purpose There is hereby
created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party
states recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the availability
of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste
generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities
of the federal government or federal research and development activities. They also recognize
that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most...
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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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