Title 13A

It shall be unlawful for any person to display in public any bumper sticker, sign or writing which depicts obscene language descriptive of sexual or excretory activities. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be pun…

For the purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) BREAST NUDITY. The lewd showing of the post-pubertal human female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola. (2) CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL. Any visual depiction of an ind…

(a) Any person who shall knowingly disseminate or display publicly any child sexual abuse material shall be guilty of a Class B felony. (b) Any person who shall knowingly advertise, promote, present, distribute, or solicit by any means, including by computer, any material or purp…

(a) Any person who knowingly possesses with intent to disseminate any child sexual abuse material shall be guilty of a Class B felony. Any transfer of child sexual abuse material from any electronic device to any other device, program, application, or any other place with storage…

(a) In proving that an individual in a visual depiction who is engaged in any sexually explicit conduct is under 18 years of age, the state is not required to introduce into evidence a birth certificate, produce testimony as to the date of birth of the individual, or produce test…

The state shall not be required to establish the actual existence or identity, either in the indictment or in any subsequent proceeding, of the individual alleged to be under 18 years of age who is engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct. (Acts 1978, No. 592, p. 705, §5; …

Any responsible person, as defined in Section 26-15-2, who knowingly permits or allows his or her child, ward, or dependent under 18 years of age to engage in the production of any child sexual abuse material containing a visual depiction of the child, ward, or dependent shall be…

Any person who knowingly films, prints, records, photographs, or otherwise produces any child sexual abuse material shall be guilty of a Class A felony. (Acts 1978, No. 592, p. 705, §8; Code 1975, §13-7-237; Acts 1984, No. 84-285, p. 492, §8; Act 2006-112, p. 166, §§1, 2; Act 202…

(a) For the purposes of this division, each depiction of child sexual abuse material that violates any section constitutes a separate offense. (b) No Internet service provider, search engine, cloud service provider, or affiliate or subsidiary of any of the same, shall be held to …

Any article, equipment, machine, materials, matter, vehicle, or other thing used in the commercial production, transportation, dissemination, display, or storage of any child sexual abuse material shall be contraband and shall be forfeited to the State of Alabama. The manner, met…

As used in this division, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) ADULT BOOKSTORES and ADULT VIDEO STORES. A commercial establishment in which is offered for sale or rent any book, video, film, or other medium which in the ag…

The criminal provisions of this division shall not apply to bona fide public libraries, or public school or college or university libraries, or their employees or agents acting on behalf of the legitimate educational purposes of such public libraries, or public school or college …

It shall be unlawful for any business establishment or any private club to show or allow to be shown for entertainment purposes the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a …

(a) Any business establishment that operates as an “adult bookstore,” “adult movie house,” “adult video store,” or other form of adult-only entertainment enterprise shall obtain in addition to any licenses required by existing law a special operating license, except that a video …

(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly distribute, possess with intent to distribute, or offer or agree to distribute any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for any thing of pecuniar…

It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly procure or write advertisement for obscene material or disseminate publicly any obscene material. Any person who violates this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not mor…

It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of violating Sections 13A-12-200.2 and 13A-12-200.3 that the act charged was done for a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial, or law enforcement purpose. (Acts 1989, No. 89-402, p. 791, §6.)

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly or recklessly distribute to a minor, possess with intent to distribute to a minor, or offer or agree to distribute to a minor any material which is harmful to minors. Any person who violates this subsection shall be guilty of a…

The Governor of this state may demand from the governor of any other state the extradition of any person found in such other state who is charged with any violation of any of the provisions of this division. (Acts 1989, No. 89-402, p. 791, §8.)

(1) When there is reason to believe that any person is violating or is about to violate any of the provisions of this division, the Attorney General or district attorney may initiate a civil action in the circuit court in the name of the State of Alabama against such person for p…

(a) The following property is subject to forfeiture: (1) All obscene material and material which is harmful to minors used, intended to be used or obtained in violation of the provisions of this division; (2) All moneys, negotiable instruments, and funds used, intended to be used…

The provisions of this division shall not be deemed to repeal, amend, affect, or limit the Alabama Red Light Abatement Act or the provisions of the Code of Alabama pertaining to obscene materials displaying or depicting children, as contained in Sections 13A-12-190 through 13A-12…

This division shall be entitled “The Drug Predator Control Act of 1987.” (Acts 1987, No. 87-612, p. 1061, §1; Code 1975, §20-2-160; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-918, p. 512, §2(6).)

(a) A person is guilty of criminal solicitation to commit a controlled substance crime if he engages in the conduct defined as criminal solicitation in Section 13A-4-1(a), and the crime solicited is a controlled substance crime. (b) The principles of liability and defenses for cr…

(a) A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a controlled substance crime if he engages in the conduct defined in Section 13A-4-2(a), and the crime attempted is a controlled substance crime. (b) The principles of liability and defenses for an attempt to commit a controlled subs…

(a) A person is guilty of criminal conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime if he engages in the conduct defined in Section 13A-4-3(a), and the object of the conspiracy is a controlled substance crime. (b) The principles of liability and defenses for criminal conspiracy …

Attempt, criminal solicitation, and criminal conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime are offenses included in any controlled substance crime that is charged, and a defendant charged with any controlled substance crime may be convicted of attempt, solicitation, or conspi…

This division shall be entitled “The Drug Crimes Amendments Act of 1987.” (Acts 1987, No. 87-603, p. 1047, §1; 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-918, p. 512, §2(11).)

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful distribution of controlled substances if, except as otherwise authorized, he or she sells, furnishes, gives away, delivers, or distributes a controlled substance enumerated in Schedules I through V. (b) Unlawful distribution of controlle…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of controlled substance if: (1) Except as otherwise authorized, he or she possesses a controlled substance enumerated in Schedules I through V. (2) He or she obtains by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge or by the…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of marihuana in the first degree if, except as otherwise authorized: (1) He or she possesses marihuana for other than personal use; or (2) He or she possesses marihuana for his or her personal use only after having been previo…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of marihuana in the second degree if, except as otherwise authorized, he possesses marihuana for his personal use only. (b) Unlawful possession of marihuana in the second degree is a Class A misdemeanor. (Acts 1987, No. 87-603…

(a) The possession of salvia divinorum or salvinorum A, including all parts of the plant presently classified botanically as salvia divinorum, whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, any extract from any part of such plant, and every compound, manufacture, salts, derivative, m…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as “Carly’s Law.” (b) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) AUTHORIZED BY THE UAB DEPARTMENT. Authorized by the UAB Department means that Cannabidiol (CBD) has been prescribed by a heal…

(a)(1) This section shall be known and may be cited as Leni’s Law. (2) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: a. CANNABIDIOL (CBD). [13956-29-1]. A (nonpsychoactive) cannabinoid found in the plant Cannabis sativa L. or any other p…

If the offender is over the age of 18 and the offense consists of selling, furnishing or giving such controlled substances as enumerated in Schedules I, II, III, IV and V to a person who has not attained the age of 18 years the offender shall be guilty of a Class A felony. The im…

The Schedules I through V referred to in this division are the schedules contained in Sections 20-2-20 through 20-2-31, or in those schedules as revised and republished annually by the State Board of Health pursuant to Section 20-2-32. (Acts 1987, No. 87-603, p. 1047, §10; Code 1…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance in the second degree if, except as otherwise authorized in state or federal law, he or she does any of the following: (1) Manufactures a controlled substance enumerated in Schedules I to V, inclusive…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance in the first degree if he or she violates Section 13A-12-217 and two or more of the following conditions occurred in conjunction with that violation: (1) Possession of a firearm. (2) Use of a booby t…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of anhydrous ammonia if he or she purchases, possesses, transfers, or distributes any amount of anhydrous ammonia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that the anhydrous ammonia will be used to un…

Except as authorized in Chapter 2, Title 20: (1) Any person who knowingly sells, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, in excess of one kilo or 2.2 pounds of any part of the plant of the genus Cannabis, whe…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 22, Title 15, or any other provision of law, with respect to any person who is found to have violated Section 13A-12-231, adjudication of guilt or imposition of sentence shall not be suspended, deferred, or withheld, nor shall such pe…

(a) This section shall be known as the “Alabama Drug Trafficking Enterprise Act.” For purposes of this section, a person is engaged in a criminal enterprise for the purpose of trafficking in illegal drugs if that person violates any provision of Section 13A-12-231, and such viola…

In addition to any penalties heretofore or hereafter provided by law for any person convicted of an unlawful sale of a controlled substance, there is hereby imposed a penalty of five years incarceration in a state corrections facility with no provision for probation if the situs …

(a) As used in this section, the term “drug paraphernalia” means all equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing…

In addition to any penalties heretofore or hereafter provided by law for any person convicted of an unlawful sale of a controlled substance, there is hereby imposed a penalty of five years incarceration in a state corrections facility with no provision for probation if the situs …