Title 11 — Title 11

Public Utility or Private Enterprise; Fees. (a) No person, firm, association, or corporation may use the streets, avenues, alleys, and other public places of cities or towns for the construction or operation of any public utility or private enterprise without first obtaining the …

Building, Etc., Thereon - Authorized Generally. Whenever in the judgment of the council or other governing body of any town or city it is to the interest of the public convenience that a portion of any street in the limits of such city or town be vacated and discontinued as a hig…

Building, Etc., Thereon - Publication of Notice as to Introduction of Ordinance and Time for Consideration Thereof by Council, Etc. - Required. No ordinance vacating a portion of a street as provided by Section 11-49-100 shall be adopted until after the expiration of 30 days afte…

Building, Etc., Thereon - Publication of Notice as to Introduction of Ordinance and Time for Consideration Thereof by Council, Etc. - Payment of Costs Thereof. The state, county, or municipality or the railroad or street railroad company or corporation for whose use as a site in …

Building, Etc., Thereon - Two-Thirds Vote of Council, Etc., Required. Any ordinance for the vacation of a part of a street and erection of buildings thereon as is provided for in Section 11-49-100 shall be adopted only by a two-thirds vote of the council or other governing body. …

A sufficiently ample portion of the highway or thoroughfare which such street in whole or in part constitutes shall remain open to accommodate the travel and traffic of the owners of abutting property and of the general public, and not more than one half of the width of such high…

The fee of such vacated portion of a street shall remain in the city or town, but the council or other governing body may grant the right to maintain thereon a state, county, or municipal public building or a railroad station or depot or street railroad station or depot so long a…

The party for whom the street may be vacated under this article shall be liable to the owners of property adjacent thereto in any civil action for any special damages suffered by them. History: (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2244; Code 1940, T. 37, §669.)

Regulation, Construction, Etc., of Sidewalk Repairs. Cities and towns may prohibit openings being made on the sidewalks for cellar entrances and may close the same and may prescribe plans and specifications to be followed for such openings, if allowed. They may prohibit stationar…

of Ferries. (a) The mayor and council or other governing bodies of incorporated municipalities in this state have the exclusive power and authority to establish or authorize the establishment of ferries on rivers which in whole or in part constitute the dividing line between two …

Procedure Generally. On application for a license for establishment of a ferry, where the banks on each side belong to the same person, such person is entitled to the prior right of establishing a ferry; when the banks belong to different persons, the municipal authorities may gr…

Publication, Posting, Etc., of Notice of Application. No license for a ferry shall be granted until 20 days’ notice of the intended application shall have been given by notice published in a newspaper and posted at the city hall of such municipality and at the courthouse door of …

Crossings Only; Annulment of Nonconforming Licenses. Such license for a ferry shall be granted only at the crossing of a river at a point where a public highway has been established. All licenses granted at points governed by this article and not in conformity with the provisions…

Streets in Repair, Etc. Street and other railroad companies shall be required to keep their tracks in repair, using such rails as may be prescribed, and shall maintain and keep in repair the streets between their rails and for 18 inches on each side in such manner as the council …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this code, each municipality shall fix by ordinance the speed at which motor vehicles may be operated within its corporate limits and shall fix the punishment for any violation of the ordinance in accordance with state law. (b) Notwithstanding …

The city council or other governing body of each city in the State of Alabama having according to the most recent federal census a population of more than 35,000 inhabitants shall have full power and authority to require railroad companies to construct and maintain within the cit…

Provided For. No viaduct, bridge, or tunnel shall be constructed under this article unless said governing body shall have provided for a vacation of the street upon completion of said viaduct, bridge, or tunnel throughout that portion thereof over, along, or under which the said …

Tunnel, Etc.; Apportionment of Costs Between Railroads. Whenever any such governing body shall deem any such improvement necessary, it shall pass an ordinance requiring the construction of such improvement, describing the character and location of such proposed improvement with r…

Ordering Construction, Etc., of Bridge, Tunnel, Etc. Any such governing body may penalize the failure of any such railroad company or of such railroad companies to construct within a reasonable time or to maintain any such viaduct, bridge, or tunnel ordered by a proper ordinance,…

Such governing body may also, by complaint filed in the circuit court in the county in which the city is situated, compel compliance with any or all proper ordinances ordering the construction or maintenance of viaducts, bridges, or tunnels passed under the authority of this arti…

Etc., of Bridges, Tunnels, Etc., and from Orders Imposing Penalties for Failure to Comply Therewith. Any railroad companies so ordered by ordinance of such governing bodies to construct and maintain viaducts, bridges, and tunnels shall have the right to appeal to any circuit cour…

Any city or town passing any such ordinance shall immediately post on each public highway leading into such city or town where the same enters such corporate limits a sign board on which shall be plainly and legibly written or printed the speed limit adopted. History: (Acts 1920,…

Prior to the exercise of the power of a municipality incorporated in this state to vacate the public right-of-way for a road, street, alley, or other dedicated public way, open or unopen, as a condition of exercise of such power to vacate, the governing body may require abutting …

Highway, Street, Etc., Within Municipality Constructed, Improved, Etc., by County, State, or Federal Government Authorized; Assessment of Proportionate Share of Cost Against Property Benefited. Whenever the United States, the State of Alabama, or any county within the State of Al…

Etc. Such cities and towns shall have a lien on the lots or parcels of land so assessed as provided in Section 11-49-60, which lien may be enforced as provided by the general laws covering assessment liens for public improvements, and property owners shall have the right to pay s…

Street, Etc. Any city or town proceeding under Section 11-49-60 may issue bonds of the city or town for the improvements mentioned in said section to pay the cost of such public improvements agreed to be paid by said city or town, and may contract with the United States, the Stat…

The proceeding under this article shall be held and governed by the general laws of the State of Alabama relating to assessments against property for public improvements insofar as said laws are applicable. History: (Acts 1919, No. 760, p. 1122; Code 1923, §2255; Code 1940, T. 37…

County; Annexation of Unincorporated Territory; Alternative Arrangements; Evacuation Routes. (a) For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY-MAINTAINED STREET. A public street, road, or bridge that the county commission has …

Such resolution shall designate the sum or sums ascertained to be the reasonable charge to be paid by such county for being relieved of the burden of the control, management, supervision, repair, maintenance and improvement of such street or streets or part thereof designated in …