Title 23

Neither the director nor any other person in the employ of the Department of Transportation shall be, either directly or indirectly, interested in any contract or agreement for the construction or maintenance of any road or bridge in this state or in the sale of any machinery, ma…

(a) The State Department of Transportation shall have the right and power to adopt all reasonable and necessary rules and regulations for the better construction, repair, and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in Alabama under the jurisdiction of the department which the…

The following implementation of the provisions of the State Department of Transportation standard specifications for highways and bridges is hereby adopted as a statutory provision, any and all other laws in conflict notwithstanding: (1) ALTERATION OF PLANS OR CHARACTER OF WORK. …

There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Transportation for its use the entire net revenue derived by the state from the sale of motor vehicle, trailer, and tractor licenses, and such other appropriations or funds received by the State Department of Transportation …

(a) All proceeds arising from the sale of state highway bonds and the revenue appropriated to the State Department of Transportation, when received by the State Treasurer, shall be set aside in a special fund known as the State Highway Fund and be used for no other purpose than i…

The Director of Transportation shall not, on the inauguration date of an incoming Governor, have outstanding obligations, encumbrances, or commitments or shall have authorized the obligating, encumbering, or committing of, except for debt service, any more than seven twenty-fourt…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 41-16-120 to 41-16-125, inclusive, the State Department of Transportation shall be responsible for the distribution, transfer, or disposal of all surplus personal property owned by the department. (b) The State Department of Transpor…

(a) Surplus personal property shall be made available at such times and places as determined to be appropriate by the State Department of Transportation for inspection and acquisition by the agencies determined to be eligible for the acquisition under criteria developed and publi…

(a) This section shall apply only to the property which has been held by the State Department of Transportation for a period of not less than 60 days from the date the property is first published in the list of surplus personal property, as set out in subsection (b) of Section 23…

Unless different meanings are expressly specified in subsequent provisions of this article the term “captive county” means a county where the State Department of Transportation by local law or general law with local application is responsible for the construction, repair, and mai…

The county commission of each of the captive counties shall be solely responsible for the construction, repair, and maintenance of the county roads and bridges in its respective county in accordance with the laws of the State of Alabama. Each county governing body shall have all …

Any unexpended moneys remaining in the fund required by law to be maintained by the State Department of Transportation for use in the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads and bridges in each of the captive counties shall be paid over to the respective governing b…

The State Department of Transportation shall transfer and turn over to the governing body of each of the captive counties adequate facilities and properties to build, maintain, and repair roads in said county from equipment presently being used by the State Department of Transpor…

The State Department of Transportation shall furnish a list to each captive county with the name, position, rate of pay, and length of service of all persons who are presently employed by the State Department of Transportation in the respective captive county. The respective coun…

Any contract for the construction, repair, and maintenance of county roads and bridges in each of the captive counties entered into by the State Department of Transportation prior to the adoption of this article shall remain in full force and effect until the terms thereof shall …

All outstanding financial obligations which were incurred prior to the adoption of this article for the construction, repair, or maintenance of county roads and bridges in each of the captive counties shall, upon adoption of this article, become outstanding financial obligations …

This article after its passage and approval by the Governor, or upon its otherwise becoming state law shall become effective October 1, 1979, or October 1, 1980, at the discretion of the individual county commissions. (Acts 1979, No. 79-688, p. 1217, §10.)

The county commissions of the several counties of this state have general superintendence of the public roads, bridges, and ferries within their respective counties so as to render travel over the same as safe and convenient as practicable. To this end, they have legislative and …

(a) A county commission, by ordinance or resolution, may require all persons or firms that own timber in any unincorporated area of the county which plan to utilize county roads for delivery of pulpwood, logs, poles, posts, or wood chips to any wood yard or processing plant to pr…

(a) The county commission of each county is invested with authority to purchase or establish toll bridges, free bridges, causeways, and ferries or free ferries within their respective jurisdictions as provided in this article and may levy a special tax to purchase or build the br…

The county commissions of the several counties of the state are given the right of eminent domain for the purpose of establishing and changing public roads, bridges, and ferries in their respective counties, except in cases where the State Department of Transportation has jurisdi…

The county commission of any county in this state may transfer to the road fund of the county any surplus of the general funds of the county in the county treasury or any part of such surplus whenever, in the judgment of such commission, it will promote the interest of the county…

(a) The several counties of the state are hereby authorized to expend the funds derived from fees, excises, or license taxes levied by the state relating to the registration, operation, or use of motor vehicles upon the public highways, and also the money derived from any fees, e…

The right-of-way is granted to any person or corporation having the right to construct electric transmission, telegraph, or telephone lines within this state to construct them along the margin of the right-of-way of public highways, subject to the removal or change by the county …

The county commission of any county, with the consent or permission of the city council or governing body of any municipality, may establish, construct, and maintain any road, street, or bridge within the corporate limits of such municipality except in cases where the State Depar…

Whenever a bridge, ferry, or causeway is necessary on the line between two counties, the same must be built at the joint expense of such counties, in proportion to the amount of taxable property in each. When the cost of building any county line bridges is so great that it cannot…

Adjoining counties may purchase, establish, build, maintain, and operate bridges and ferries or public highways across streams, swamps, waters, or marshes which form the boundary between two counties upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the county commissions of the adjoining…

The county commission of any county in the state that will be benefited by the establishment of such means of communication as are set forth in Section 23-1-88 may also extend aid in the purchase, establishment, construction, and maintenance of such means of communication, althou…

The governing authority of any municipality that would be benefited by the purchase, establishment, construction, or maintenance of the bridges, causeways, highways, or ferries, or combination of same, mentioned in this article may extend aid to the establishment, construction, o…

The county commission of any county or governing body of any municipality in this state is hereby authorized, upon the adoption by a majority vote of a resolution duly recorded in its minutes, to aid and participate in the development of any access roads or bridges to any project…

No contract where the estimated cost of the work will exceed $250.00 shall be made except after advertisement for 30 days in some newspaper published in the county, describing the character of the work to be done and the time and place of letting, and then only to the lowest reas…

In the event of the destruction of a bridge, or damage thereto, rendering the same impassable, or in any other emergency, the county commission may contract for the repair or rebuilding of such bridge without advertisement if the public good requires it, except in cases where the…

Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the county commissions of the several counties to establish, promulgate, or enforce any rules, regulations, or laws which may be in conflict with a local or special law providing for the working, maintenance, change, discont…

No person shall violate any rule, regulation, or law which may be adopted or promulgated by the county commission of any county under the authority conferred by this article relating to the use, control, care, operation, or maintenance of any such public road, bridge, or ferry, e…

It is hereby declared by the Legislature of Alabama that city and town streets and roads or portions thereof, including viaducts and bridges, which constitute the route of connection between or extension of state roads in the Alabama state highway system, hereby designated as mun…

The State Department of Transportation, hereinafter referred to as the department, shall, as early as practicable after July 26, 1949, designate such streets or roads, including viaducts and bridges, as are municipal connecting link roads in each city or town of this state under …

The department is hereby authorized, empowered, directed, and required to maintain and repair, under its control and supervision, such designated municipal connecting link roads, to make appropriations and expenditures out of its funds for such program and is authorized to enter …

The following stipulations and conditions shall obtain as to state maintenance of municipal connecting link roads: (1) State maintenance of a city or town street traversed by a state maintained highway route shall not extend beyond the back of the curb where a curb and gutter sec…

Private roads may be established by the county commission on the application of any person, such roads not to exceed 15 feet in width and to be opened and kept in repair by the person on whose application they are established without exemption on public roads. (Code 1907, §5841; …

In establishing a private road, the same rules must be observed and the same proceedings had as in the case of public roads; but no road must be opened through any person’s yard, garden, orchard, garage, stable, lot, ginhouse, or curtilage without his consent, and the applicant m…

It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this article to authorize the incorporation of the Director of Finance, the Director of Transportation, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer and the Executive Secretary to the Governor of Alabama for the purpose of con…

The Director of Finance, the Director of Transportation, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer and the Executive Secretary to the Governor may become a corporation, with the powers and authorities provided in this article, by proceeding according to the provisions of this art…

To become a corporation, the Director of Finance, the Director of Transportation, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer and the Executive Secretary to the Governor shall present to the Secretary of State of Alabama an application signed by them which will set forth: (1) The n…

When the application has been made, filed and recorded as provided in Section 23-1-152, the applicants shall constitute a corporation under the name proposed in the application and the Secretary of State shall make and issue to the applicants a certificate of incorporation, pursu…

The Governor shall be the president of the corporation, the Director of Finance shall be the vice-president of the corporation, the Director of Transportation shall be the secretary of the corporation, and the State Treasurer shall be the treasurer of the corporation and shall ac…

The corporation shall have all of the following powers: (1) To have perpetual succession by its corporate name unless sooner dissolved pursuant to Section 23-1-160. (2) To maintain actions and have actions maintained against it and to prosecute and defend in any court having juri…