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32-9-20
Section 32-9-20 Schedule of restrictions. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive
or move on any highway in this state any vehicle or vehicles of a size or weight except in
accordance with the following: (1) WIDTH. Vehicles and combinations of vehicles, operating
on highways with traffic lanes 12 feet or more in width, shall not exceed a total outside
width, including any load thereon, of 102 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices
approved by the Department of Transportation. The Director of Transportation may, in his or
her discretion, designate other public highways for use by vehicles and loads with total outside
widths not exceeding 102 inches, otherwise; vehicles and combinations of vehicles, operating
on highways with traffic lanes less than 12 feet in width, shall not exceed a total outside
width, including any load thereon, of 96 inches, exclusive of mirrors or other safety devices
approved by the Department of Transportation. No passenger vehicle shall...
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32-9-29
Section 32-9-29 Permits for movement of oversized vehicles or loads. (a) Authorized; application;
issuance; seasonal, etc., limitations; refusal, revocation, or cancellation. (1) The Director
of the Department of Transportation or the official of the department designated by the director,
upon application and for good cause being shown therefor, may issue a permit in writing authorizing
the applicant to operate or move upon the state's public roads a vehicle or combination of
no more than two vehicles and loads whose weight, width, length, or height, or combination
thereof, exceeds the maximum limit specified by law; provided, that the load transported by
such vehicle or vehicles is of such nature that it is a unit which cannot be readily dismantled
or separated; provided, however, that bulldozers and similar construction equipment shall
not be deemed readily separable for purposes of this chapter; and further provided, that no
permit shall be issued to any vehicle whose operation upon...
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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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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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32-5-242
Section 32-5-242 Requirements as to head lamps and auxiliary driving lamps. (a) Visibility
distance and mounted height of lamps. (1) Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as
to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within
which such lamps or devices shall be visible, the provisions shall apply during the times
stated in Section 32-5-240 in respect to a vehicle without load when upon a straight, level,
unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different time or condition
is expressly stated. (2) Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the mounted height
of lamps or devices it shall mean from the center of such lamp or device to the level ground
upon which the vehicle stands when such vehicle is without a load. (b) Multiple-beam road-lighting
equipment. Except as hereinafter provided, the head lamps or the auxiliary driving lamp or
the auxiliary passing lamp or combination thereof on motor vehicles other...
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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-134
Section 32-5A-134 Signals by hand and arm or signal lamps. (a) Any stop or turn signal when
required herein shall be given either by means of the hand and arm or by signal lamps, except
as otherwise provided in subsection (b). (b) Any motor vehicle in use on a highway shall be
equipped with, and the required signal shall be given by, signal lamps when the distance from
the center of the top of the steering post to the left outside limit of the body, cab, or
load of such motor vehicle exceeds 24 inches, or when the distance from the center of the
top of the steering post to the rear limit of the body or load thereof exceeds 14 feet. The
latter measurement shall apply to any single vehicle, also to any combination of vehicles.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, ยง6-105.)...
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40-12-242
Section 40-12-242 License taxes and registration fees - Private passenger automobiles and motorcycles;
electric vehicles; Electric Transportation Infrastructure Grant Program. (a) The following
annual license taxes and registration fees are hereby imposed and shall be charged on each
private passenger automobile operated on the public highways of this state and on each motorcycle
operated on the public highways: (1) For each private passenger automobile $13.00 (2) For
each motorcycle $7.00 No private passenger automobile and no motorcycle shall be used on any
public highway in the state unless the proper license tag therefor has been procured and is
securely attached to the rear end thereof, the tag to be attached right side up with the number
thereof in an upright position and plainly visible. (b)(1) In addition to the annual license
taxes and registration fees imposed in subsection (a) and in this article, there is hereby
imposed and shall be charged: a. An annual license tax and...
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40-12-240
Section 40-12-240 Definitions. (a) For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall
have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department
of Revenue. (2) ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS. A place actually occupied either continuously
or at regular periods at or from which a business or a part thereof is transacted. (3) FARM
TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows,
mowing machines, and other implements designed and used for agricultural purposes and only
incidentally moved upon public highways. (4) FARMER. An individual, partnership, cooperative
corporation, or other entity actively engaged in agriculture or agricultural activities as
the same are circumscribed and defined in paragraphs a. and b. of Section 41-14-51(1). (5)
FLEET. A group of similarly classified fleet vehicles comprised of 50 or more units or other
amount as prescribed by the department. (6) FLEET OPERATOR. A person,...
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32-5-241
Section 32-5-241 Additional permissible lights on vehicles. (a) Spot lamps and auxiliary lamps.
(1) SPOT LAMPS. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed one spot lamp and every
lighted spot lamp shall be so aimed and used upon approaching another vehicle that no part
of the high intensity portion of the beam will be directed to the left of the prolongation
of the extreme left side of the vehicle nor more than 100 feet ahead of the vehicle. (2) FOG
LAMPS. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed two fog lamps mounted on the front
at a height not less than 12 inches nor more than 30 inches above the level surface upon which
the vehicle stands and so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high intensity
portion of the light to the left of the center of the vehicle shall at a distance of 25 feet
ahead project higher than a level of four inches below the level of the center of the lamp
from which it comes. (3) AUXILIARY PASSING LAMPS. Any motor vehicle...
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