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32-5-244
Section 32-5-244 Lights on parked vehicles. (a) Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked upon
a street or highway during the hours between a half hour after sunset and a half hour before
sunrise where there is sufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance of
500 feet upon such street or highway no lights need to be displayed upon such parked vehicle.
(b) Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway or shoulder adjacent thereto, whether
attended or unattended, during the hours between a half hour after sunset and half hour before
sunrise and there is not sufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance
of 500 feet upon such highway, such vehicle so parked or stopped shall be equipped with one
or more lamps which shall exhibit a white or amber light on the roadway side visible from
a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle and a red light visible from a distance
of 500 feet to the rear. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a...
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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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32-5-220
Section 32-5-220 Flares or other warning devices - Carrying required by certain vehicles; specifications.
(a) No person shall operate any truck, passenger bus, or truck tractor upon any highway outside
the corporate limits of municipalities at any time from a half hour after sunset to a half
hour before sunrise unless there shall be carried in such vehicle the following equipment,
except as provided in subsection (b) of this section: (1) At least three flares or three red
electric lanterns each of which shall be capable of being seen and distinguished at a distance
of 500 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at nighttime. Each flare (liquid-burning pot
torch) shall be capable of burning for not less than 12 hours in five miles per hour wind
velocity and capable of burning in any air velocity from zero to 40 miles per hour. Every
such flare shall be substantially constructed so as to withstand reasonable shocks without
leaking. Every such flare shall be carried in the vehicle in a...
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32-5A-175
Section 32-5A-175 Special speed limitation on motor-driven cycles. No person shall operate
any motor-driven cycle at any time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise
nor at any other time when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions,
persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly discernible at a distance of 1,000 feet
ahead at a speed greater than 35 miles per hour unless such motor-driven cycle is equipped
with a head lamp or lamps which are adequate to reveal a person or vehicle at a distance of
300 feet ahead. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §8-106.)...
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32-5-211
Section 32-5-211 Flag or light at end of load. Whenever the load of any vehicle shall extend
more than four feet beyond the rear of the bed or body of the vehicle, there shall be displayed
at the end of the load in a position which shall be clearly visible at all times from the
rear of the load a red or orange flag not less than 12 inches both in length and width. Between
one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise there shall be displayed at the
end of any load a red light or amber strobe light plainly visible under normal atmospheric
conditions at least 200 feet from the rear of the vehicle. Any person violating this section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in Section
32-5-311. (Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 36, §77; Acts 1996, No. 96-473, p. 586,
§1.)...
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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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40-17-350
Section 40-17-350 Transportation of motor fuel; inspections. (a) Each person operating a refinery
or terminal in Alabama shall prepare and provide to the driver of every highway vehicle receiving
motor fuel at the facility a shipping document setting out on its face the destination state
as represented to the terminal operator by the shipper or the shipper's agent. Failure to
comply with this subsection may result in a department imposed penalty of not less than five
hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), to be multiplied by the
sum of the current violation plus prior violations of this subsection. (b) Every person transporting
motor fuel in Alabama in a highway vehicle other than in its supply tank shall carry on board
a shipping document issued by the facility where the motor fuel was obtained. The shipping
document shall set out on its face the state of destination of the motor fuel transported
in the highway vehicle. Violation of this subsection...
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32-5A-89
Section 32-5A-89 Following too closely. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow
another more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such
vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway. Except when overtaking and
passing another vehicle, the driver of a vehicle shall leave a distance of at least 20 feet
for each 10 miles per hour of speed between the vehicle that he or she is driving and the
vehicle that he or she is following. (b) The driver of any truck or motor vehicle drawing
another vehicle of 25 or more feet in length when traveling upon a roadway outside of a business
or residence district and which is following another truck or motor vehicle drawing another
vehicle of 25 or more feet in length shall, whenever conditions permit, leave sufficient space,
at least 300 feet, so that an overtaking vehicle may enter and occupy such space without danger,
except that this shall not prevent a truck or motor vehicle drawing...
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32-5-17
Section 32-5-17 Nuisance of casting light from motor vehicle on real property at night; exceptions;
penalty. (a) It shall be deemed a nuisance and shall be unlawful for any person, or one or
more of a group of persons together, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, to willfully
throw or cast, or cause to be thrown or cast, in a continuous and repeated manner, the rays
of a spotlight, headlight, or other artificial light from any motor vehicle or with the aid
of any motor vehicle, while the motor vehicle is on any highway or public road and casting
the light on any real property. The provisions of this section shall not apply to farmers
while checking livestock and repair upon land which they own, lease, or rent, nor to employees
of a utility company when such employees are acting within the scope of their employment.
The Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be empowered
to issue exceptional permits for the purpose of wildlife management,...
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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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