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32-9-21
Section 32-9-21 Maximum permissible length and width of motor bus. (a) The term motor bus,
wherever used in this section, means any motor-propelled vehicle used on the highways of this
state for the transportation of passengers for hire. (b) Except as provided in subsection
(d), it shall be lawful to drive or operate upon any highway in this state any motor bus which
does not exceed 45 feet in length, and eight and one-half feet in width, exclusive of detachable
wind deflection devices which have been approved by the State Department of Transportation
and safety equipment. (c) The term articulated motor bus, wherever used in this section, means
any motor bus, divided into joined sections, that actuates in a manner ensuring a turning
radius which is less than a motor bus of the same length without such joined actuation. (d)
It shall be lawful to drive or operate on any highway in this state an articulated motor bus
which does not exceed 60 feet in length, and eight and one-half feet in...
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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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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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32-5-240
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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32-9-2
Section 32-9-2 Towing cotton wagons and module-movers. The provisions of any other law or the
provisions of any administrative rule, regulation, or order to the contrary notwithstanding,
it shall be lawful to tow cotton wagons and module-movers on the highways of the state when
the wagons or module-movers are being used to haul cotton from the field to the gin and to
return them to the farm from the gin, but it shall not be lawful to tow the cotton wagons
on any interstate or limited-access highway in the state; provided, that no more than two
wagons shall be attached to one truck, the width of each wagon or module-mover shall not exceed
10 feet, and the overall length of the wagons or module-mover and truck shall not exceed 85
feet. (Acts 1971, No. 2236, p. 3593; Acts 1987, No. 87-562, p. 875, §1; Act 2000-457, p.
856, §1.)...
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8-17-221
Section 8-17-221 Requirements as to storage, display, etc., of fireworks; retail sales of fireworks
from tents, motor vehicles, etc.; inspection by State Fire Marshal, etc., of premises where
fireworks are to be stored or sold. (a) Placing, storing, locating, or displaying of fireworks
in any window where the sun may shine through glass onto the fireworks so displayed or to
permit the presence of lighted cigars, cigarettes, or pipes within 10 feet of where the fireworks
are offered for sale is hereby declared unlawful and prohibited. At all places where fireworks
are stored or sold, there must be posted signs with the words "FIREWORKS - NO SMOKING"
in letters not less than four inches high. (b) No fireworks shall be sold at retail at any
permanent location where paints, oils or varnishes are for sale or use unless kept in the
original unbroken containers, nor where gasoline or other flammable liquid or gas is used,
stored or sold, if the use, storage, or sale creates an undue hazard to...
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25-9-134
Section 25-9-134 Blasting practices and procedures generally. (a) Only competent persons shall
be designated or permitted to handle explosives or do blasting. Only electric detonators of
proper strength may be used and the use of delay electric detonators is prohibited for blasting
coal or coal and other material. Primers shall be made up as needed for blasting and prepared
in accordance with the safety standards of the Institute of Makers of Explosives or of the
manufacturer of the explosives as approved by the chief; provided, however, that nothing provided
in this subsection shall prohibit the use of permissible millisecond blasting in conformity
with the requirements, exceptions, limitations, conditions, and restrictions on the use thereof
established or hereinafter established by the Bureau of Mines of the United States Department
of the Interior. (b) Care shall be used in placement and drilling of holes. Test roof, face,
ribs and timbers for dangerous conditions before drilling...
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40-12-255
Section 40-12-255 Manufactured homes. (a) Every person, firm, or corporation who owns, maintains
or keeps in this state a manufactured home as defined according to subsection (n) of this
section, except a manufactured home that constitutes a part of the inventory of a manufacturer
or dealer, shall pay an annual registration fee of $24 for an owner occupied single wide (one
transportable module) manufactured home, $48 for an owner occupied double wide or larger (two
or more transportable modules) manufactured home, $48 for a commercial single wide (one transportable
module) manufactured home, or $96 for a commercial double wide or larger (two or more transportable
modules) manufactured home, provided, however, that any manufactured home 10 years of age
or greater but less than 20 years of age shall pay 75 percent of the above stated fees, and
any manufactured home 20 years of age or greater shall pay 50 percent of the above stated
fees; and upon payment thereof such owner shall be...
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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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