Title 23

(a) The Legislature of Alabama finds and declares the following: (1) Electric transmission infrastructure is critical to the economic growth and well-being of this state and Alabama has an immediate need to expand and facilitate such investment for the benefit of its residents. (…

(a) Whenever the Director of Transportation shall determine and order that the relocation of any utility facility is necessitated by the construction of any project on the national system of interstate and defense highways, including the extensions thereof within urban areas, the…

Signs, markers, and advertising on the rights-of-way of state controlled highways are prohibited except those official signs or markers placed thereon by the State Department of Transportation or under its authority. (Code 1923, §1344; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23…

(a) Upon the request of the Director of the Alabama Tourism Department, the Director of the State Department of Transportation may cause to be constructed and erected along state highways appropriate directional markers designating major tourist attractions of Alabama. (b) The Di…

All highways built or maintained by and through federal or state aid shall be designated by numbers and by names, where such highways are known by names, on the directional signs erected along said highways and upon the maps authorized and published by the state. Memorial or othe…

After September 1, 1979, no state funds shall be expended in this state for purposes of erecting and maintaining signs designating roads, bridges, or buildings in honor or in memory of any individual; provided, however, that the State Department of Transportation may continue to …

Whenever the funds of the state are being expended for the construction, maintenance, or repair of a public highway, the State Department of Transportation shall have the power and authority to compel all railways operating in this state to construct viaducts, tunnels, underpasse…

There shall be a State Department of Transportation. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever any act, section of the Code of Alabama 1975, or any other provision of law refers to the State Highway Department, it shall be deemed a reference to the State Department of …

The chief executive officer of the State Department of Transportation shall be known as the Director of Transportation, who shall be appointed by the Governor and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. All the powers, authority, and duties vested in the State Departme…

The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this section and Sections 23-1-21.2 and 23-1-21.3, shall have the following meanings, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) DIRECTOR. The Director of the State of Alabama State D…

The director, acting alone or through, and in cooperation with local entities, is hereby delegated the authority to: (1) Enter into agreements with local entities to provide public transportation and to administer any program or programs, whether rural or urban, relative to publi…

The director is authorized to administer any public transportation program with such flexibility as to permit full cooperation between federal, state, and local entities, so as to result in effective and economical programs which are responsive to needs and found to be in the pub…

(a) The Director of Transportation may appoint up to three deputy directors of transportation with the approval of the Governor. The Director of Transportation may assign duties and responsibilities to a deputy director as may be necessary for the proper administration and execut…

(a) There is hereby created within the State Department of Transportation the position of chief engineer, which shall be filled by appointment by the Director of Transportation, with the approval of the Governor. The chief engineer shall be allowed traveling expenses when traveli…

The chief engineer shall be a licensed professional engineer in the State of Alabama with a minimum of 15 years’ progressive professional engineering experience pertaining to the planning, development, construction, maintenance, and repair of highways and bridges. The chief engin…

The chief engineer of the State Department of Transportation shall coordinate the general mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences as applied to the planning, design, construction, maintenance, or repair of highways and bridges in this state. The Director of Transportatio…

There is hereby established and created in the State Department of Transportation a legal division, which shall be headed by and be under the direction, supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated as chief counsel for the State Department of Transportation, to b…

The Director of Transportation, with the approval of the Attorney General and subject to the state Merit System law, may appoint assistant counsel as may be necessary to transact the legal business of the Department of Transportation. The chief counsel and the assistant counsel s…

The salaries of the chief counsel and assistant counsel shall be fixed in accordance with the Merit System pay plan for assistant attorneys general and shall be paid as the salaries of other state officials and employees are paid from funds appropriated or otherwise available to …

The chief counsel and the assistant counsel shall be furnished with offices, necessary stenographic and clerical help, subject to the provisions of the state Merit System law, and office equipment, stationery, and postage and shall be allowed traveling expenses when traveling on …

The salaries of the chief counsel, assistant counsel, stenographic and clerical help, and other expenses of the legal division shall be charged, so far as practicable, to the division or function of the State Department of Transportation for which the expense was incurred. (Acts …

The functions and duties of the legal division of the State Department of Transportation shall, as all other assistant attorneys general, include the following: (1) To advise the Director of Transportation and other personnel of the State Department of Transportation on the legal…

The chief counsel and assistant counsel shall devote their full time to the State Department of Transportation and shall not, during their incumbency in office, engage in the private practice of law. (Acts 1963, No. 581, p. 1267, §7.)

The State Department of Transportation shall be provided with suitable offices at the State Capitol or such other places as the needs of the department may require, but no office in any other place than the Capitol shall be established as an office of said department without the …

The State Department of Transportation shall keep an official record of all its acts and doings. The Director of Transportation shall, under provisions of the Merit System, appoint such assistants and personnel as may be necessary for the proper carrying on of the work of the Sta…

The State Department of Transportation shall keep on file in its office copies of all plans and specifications prepared by the State Department of Transportation, and the files and records of such department shall, under reasonable regulations, be kept open for inspection of the …

On or before April 1 in each year, the State Department of Transportation shall submit a printed report to the Governor, stating as nearly as possible the number of miles of road built or improved and also the culverts and bridges constructed during the preceding fiscal year, sho…

Whenever responsibility for the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads and bridges is transferred by law from any county commission to the State Department of Transportation, the employees used by the State Department of Transportation in any such county in connect…

The State Department of Transportation may work convicts in the construction or maintenance of public roads and bridges of Alabama, as may now or may hereafter be provided by law, or may work convicts in the construction, repairing, or maintaining public roads or bridges by contr…

Any officer or employee of the State Department of Transportation who pays or authorizes to be paid the expense account of any person not employed by the State Department of Transportation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1951, No. 713, p. 1251.)

The State Department of Transportation shall have a seal and shall have the power to administer oaths, take affidavits, and make certificates. (Code 1923, §1305; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Acts 1931, No. 10, p. 7; Code 1940, T. 23, §6.)

(a) It shall be the duty of the Department of Transportation to designate the roads to be constructed, repaired, and maintained and to construct, standardize, repair, and maintain roads and bridges of this state; and it shall have authority to make contracts or agreements to cons…

(a) The State Department of Transportation is authorized and empowered and may, with the approval of the Governor provide for a self-insurance program covering a certain amount to be paid to the employees of the State Department of Transportation who may be killed or injured in t…

(a) The roads and streets, drives, and parking areas located on the campus of any state institution of higher learning, the Alabama state hospitals, the Partlow State School and Hospital and the Alabama Agricultural Center in the City of Montgomery shall be deemed a part of the s…

The State Department of Transportation shall construct, repair, and maintain all roads on land owned by the state which is located within the boundaries of any state agricultural experiment station or of any branch or substation, and such roads shall be considered a part of the s…

(a) All officers and employees of the State Department of Transportation are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon and go across the lands of any individual or corporation in the State of Alabama for the purpose of making any and all surveys necessary for the construction…

(a)(1) Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Director of Transportation shall have authority to acquire the rights-of-way deemed necessary by the State Department of Transportation for the construction of a state road, either by purchase or by the exerci…

The State Department of Transportation shall have full authority to make such changes or additions to the system of state roads to conform to the requirements of the Federal Aid Law as it may deem proper and construct or maintain the same with state aid under the provisions of th…

(a) It is hereby declared by the Legislature of Alabama that all city and town streets and roads in the State of Alabama, including viaducts, bridges, and culverts, do now, and will in the future, serve a state purpose and are of benefit to the people of the state, that said stre…

Whenever a county commission shall desire that a state road or bridge on a state road in said county be constructed or maintained with state aid, written application shall be made by the county to the State Department of Transportation under such rules and regulations as the depa…

The State Department of Transportation shall furnish a competent engineer, when needed, during the progress of road or bridge construction, repair, or maintenance in any county under the provisions of this title, who shall supervise said work and see that the plans and specificat…

Subject to the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 41, the State Department of Transportation is authorized to rent, construct, or purchase such buildings, stock, machinery, tools, materials, and other equipment as it may find necessary for use in carrying out the provisions of this c…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to give the State Department of Transportation authority to accumulate depreciation, equipment replacement allowances, and salvage value on road machinery and equipment sufficient to upgrade, replace, or make extraordinary repairs to the ro…

(a) All motor fuels, oils, greases, and lubricants bought by or for the State Department of Transportation for use in each county in which the construction, maintenance, and repair of the county roads and bridges have been transferred to the State Department of Transportation sha…

Motor vehicles used by the State Department of Transportation, its officials or engineers, shall not be subject to any state, county, or municipal license. (Code 1923, §1313; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §10.)

The State Department of Transportation may enter into contracts with any of the counties of the state or with any of the municipalities of this state, as it may with individuals, firms, or private corporations, to do any work in the construction, repair, or maintenance of the roa…