Title 37 — Title 37

(a) Any utility doing business in this state or any of its authorized agents, officers or employees who knowingly or willfully violate or procure, aid or abet a violation of any lawful order or decree of said commission shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall…

Conveniences for Travelers - Generally. Any person or corporation operating a railroad which fails for more than 90 days after its receipt, and for such further time, if any, as may be allowed by the Public Service Commission, to comply with a legal order of the public service co…

Conveniences for Travelers - Failure of Commission to Notify District Attorney or Attorney General. For failure to notify the proper district attorney and Attorney General, or either, of the failure of any railroad company or person operating the railroad to comply with any order…

Any engineer or other person having the control of the running of a locomotive on any railroad who shall fail to perform any of the duties required of him by Section 37-2-81 must, on conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $1,000.00, and imprisoned in the county j…

Conductors Regarding Blowing Horn, Whistle, Etc. Any superintendent of a railroad who fails to instruct the engineers and conductors thereof as to the provisions of this title in regard to blowing the horn or whistle, ringing the bell and stopping and handling the train, and orde…

Any engineer, conductor or other person who, having the control or management of any engine or electric motor running on any railroad in this state, fails to use proper precautions to prevent accidents by ringing the bell, blowing the horn or whistle or checking the speed of his …

Streets, Etc. No member of a train crew, yard crew or engine crew of a railroad, which is a common carrier, shall be held personally responsible or found guilty of violating any law of this state or any municipal ordinance regulating or intended to regulate the occupying or block…

Any company, corporation, lessee, owner, operator, receiver or officer of any company, corporation, owner, lessee, operator or receiver owning or operating a railroad or railway in whole or in part in this state, violating or causing to be violated any of the statutes of this sta…

Railroad’s Business with Connecting Line. Any officer or agent of a person or corporation operating a railroad who knowingly violates a judgment of the circuit court confirming the public service commission’s award, regulating such railroad’s business with any connecting line, mu…

Any person, firm, company or corporation who shall make application to any common carrier by rail for, and shall procure from such common carrier any number of cars without a bona fide intention to use the same for the transportation of freight, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, …

Any person who shall, without written authority from the railroad company owning the same, purchase or receive for sale, or in pledge or on storage, or for safekeeping, any article of iron, brass or other metal which has been manufactured and is used exclusively for railroad purp…

Passenger Cars or in Waiting Rooms. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. History: (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 60, p. 87; Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4641; Code 1940, T. 29, §116.)

Engaged in Discharge of Duties. Every person who, being employed upon any railway as engineer, conductor, baggage master, brakeman, switch tender, flagman or signal man or person having charge of stations or the starting, regulating or running of trains upon any railway, or being…

It shall be unlawful to transport, carry or convey, or cause to be transported, carried or conveyed, any dynamite, gunpowder or other explosive, between any points or places within the State of Alabama, on any vessel, car or vehicle of any description, operated by any common carr…

It shall be unlawful to transport, carry or convey, or cause to be transported, carried or conveyed, liquid nitroglycerine, fulminate in bulk in dry condition or other like explosive between any points or places within the State of Alabama, on any vessel, car or vehicle of any de…

Every package containing explosives or other dangerous articles, when presented to a common carrier for shipment, shall have plainly marked on the outside thereof the contents thereof, and it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation to deliver for transportati…

The Public Service Commission of Alabama shall formulate regulations for the safe transportation of explosives between points or places in Alabama, which shall be binding upon all common carriers and shippers and their agents. Said commission of its own motion, or upon applicatio…

(a) Any person, partnership or corporation who knowingly violates or causes to be violated any of the foregoing provisions of this division or any regulation made by the Public Service Commission of Alabama in pursuance thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon co…

Relating to Commission. Any officer, agent or employee shall be subject to indictment or prosecution in any county in which a subordinate agent or employee of a common carrier violates any of the provisions of this Code relating to the Public Service Commission, or any rule or or…

and Unjust Discriminations. Every officer, agent or employee of a common carrier or railroad corporation who shall violate or procure, aid or abet any violation by such common carrier or railroad corporation of any of the statutes of this state relating to reasonable rates, adequ…

Signs. (a) No person, firm, association or corporation shall erect or maintain on any public road or street in the State of Alabama, or on private property within one fourth of a mile of the right-of-way of any public road or street, any advertising sign that resembles or that ca…

Any utility doing business in this state or any of its authorized agents, officers or employees who are guilty of knowingly or willfully charging, demanding or receiving any rate or charge for any commodity or service different from that authorized by its lawful tariffs on file w…

(a) Any owners, manager, operator or employee of any telegraph or telephone lines operated in the State of Alabama who shall publish or communicate in any way whatsoever or cause or allow to be communicated the contents of any telegram or telephone message sent or received over s…

Party Line for Emergency; Notice in Directories. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. History: (Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 71, p. 1946.)

For the purposes of this section, and Sections 37-8-218, 37-8-220, and 37-8-221, the term “prohibited instrument” shall mean and include any instrument, apparatus, equipment, device or appliance, or the plan or instruction for the making or assembling thereof, which is designed, …

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to make, manufacture, possess, use, employ, transport, purchase, sell, give, transfer to another or offer or advertise to sell, give or otherwise transfer to another, or to conspire with, aid, assist or cause another to do any of the forego…

Any person or corporation operating a utility who offers, demands or collects, and any person who knowingly accepts, a lower transportation rate, fare or charge for persons or property than that which is applicable at the time must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00 n…

Any person who violates any provision of this section, Section 37-8-217, Section 37-8-218, or Section 37-8-221 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $1,000.00, to which, at the discretion of the court or judge trying the case…

(a) In addition to the grounds enumerated in Section 15-5-2 for the issuance of search warrants, search warrants may be issued as prescribed in Title 15, for the seizure of any prohibited instrument, as defined in Sections 37-8-217, 37-8-218, 37-8-220, and this section. (b) Any s…

Any corporation, partnership, association or person owning or operating a railroad or other utility transporting passengers or property, or officer, servant or agent of any such, who shall knowingly charge or collect a fee or charge at a higher rate for the transportation of pass…

Any utility doing business in this state or any of its authorized agents, officers or employees who are guilty of knowingly or willfully granting or giving to any person or persons any concession or rebate in respect to its lawful charges or rates shall be guilty of a misdemeanor…

Any person who shall demand or knowingly accept or receive any rebate, concession or discrimination in respect to charges or rates of service of any utility subject to the laws of this state, or who shall knowingly, by any device whatever, secure a less rate than that named in th…

Any common carrier, whether a corporation, association, partnership or person, engaged in the business of a common carrier of passengers in this state, or the agent, officer, servant or employee of such, who shall give, procure for or deliver to any person or accept any free pass…

Every public service corporation engaged in transportation doing business in this state, employing as many as 50 or more employees, shall be required to make full payment to employees for services performed as often as once every two weeks, or twice during each calendar month, an…

Section 37-8-27 shall not apply to employees of railroads, or other common carriers and their families, nor to the widows and dependent children of deceased employees, nor to employees who have retired from active service, by reason of age or physical infirmities, and the wives a…

Any agent, officer or attorney of any traffic association or freight bureau who asks, solicits or bids for any claim from any shipper or consignee against any carrier shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined for each offense not less than $500.00 nor …

The agent or employee who locally, in any county, violates any of the provisions of this Code relating to the Public Service Commission or any of the rules or orders of the commission, in pursuance of the direction or authority of his superior officer or agent of the common carri…

Any officer, agent or servant of a person or corporation operating a railroad who aids in making or carrying out an agreement between railroads, commonly called a pool, for the division between themselves of the freight-carrying business of any place in this state, whereby trade …

Any person or corporation operating a railroad who fails to post and keep posted at all freight depots the tariff of rates for transporting freight, showing general and special rates for each class as prescribed by law and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Alabama Publ…

Witnesses before the grand jury, summoned to give evidence of any violation of this title, may be required to answer generally as to any such offense within their knowledge committed within 12 months next preceding, without being specially interrogated as to any particular offens…

Electricity - Generally. (a) No person shall either personally or through an employee or agent, or as an employee or agent of another, use, operate, place, erect, or move any tools, machinery, equipment, apparatus, or material, or move any building or other structure or any part …

Electricity - Warnings Signs. Whoever operates or employs any person to operate any crane, derrick, power shovel, drilling rig, pile driver, or like apparatus, any part of which is capable of vertical, lateral, or swinging motion, without there being posted and maintained in plai…

Electricity - Exemptions. The provisions of Sections 37-8-52 through 37-8-55 shall not apply to: (1) The construction, reconstruction, operation or maintenance of any overhead conductor or its supporting structures, appurtenances and associated equipment by persons authorized by …

Electricity - Utility Companies Not Relieved of Civil Liability. Nothing in Sections 37-8-52 through 37-8-55 shall be interpreted to relieve any utility company of civil liability that it would otherwise have except for Sections 37-8- 52 through 37-8-55. History: (Acts 1967, No. …

Every person, company or corporation now engaged or hereafter engaging in the business of furnishing electricity or natural or artificial gas for heating, illuminating or other purposes, to be used and paid for by patrons by meter measure, shall furnish to each and every patron a…

Any person not a passenger or intended passenger, employee or agent of a railroad, or an officer of any city or town, or sheriff or his deputy, or such persons as may go upon the train to act as escort to assist some person who has taken passage, who jumps on or off any train whi…

Any person charged with a violation of the provisions of this article committed on a train or bus may be tried in any county in which such violation may have occurred or may be discovered; or in any county in which said person may ride on said train or bus, or part thereof, durin…