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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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