Title 13A — Title 13A

All penalties provided for in this division shall be collected as provided for collection of fines and restitution in [Rule 26.11, Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure]. History: (Acts 1990, No. 90-655, p. 1271, §3.)

All moneys collected pursuant to this division shall be forwarded to the Department of Corrections to be deposited in a revolving fund to be known as the “Drug Demand Reduction Fund.” The moneys in the fund shall be expended by the Department of Corrections for drug education, pr…

Drug Rehabilitation Program; Amount of Reduction. (a) The court may suspend the collection of a penalty imposed pursuant to this division if the defendant agrees to enter a drug rehabilitation program approved by the court and if the defendant agrees to pay for all or some portio…

Section 13A-12-22. It is no defense under Section 13A-12-22 relating to a lottery that the lottery itself is drawn or conducted outside Alabama and is not in violation of the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is drawn or conducted. History: (Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §6135.)…

In addition to any other penalty provided by law, the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall suspend for a period of six months the driver’s license of any person, including, but not limited to, a juvenile, child, or youthful offender, convicted or adjudicated of, or subjecte…

(a) A driver’s license shall be suspended pursuant to Section 13A-12-290 for conviction of, adjudication of, or a finding of delinquency based on, the following crimes: (1) Criminal solicitation to commit the crime of trafficking in specified substances under Section 13A-12-231 o…

Upon conviction or adjudication of, or finding of delinquency based on, any of the offenses enumerated in Section 13A-12-291, the court shall take the defendant’s driver’s license and immediately forward it to the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. Drivers’ licenses from other…

For purposes of this division, if the conduct or acts punishable by reference in Section 13A-12-291 also constitute violations of a federal law or the law of another state, then conviction or adjudication under federal law, or conviction or adjudication, or a finding of delinquen…

The Director of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall establish and collect a nonrefundable fee in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25) for costs incurred by the department in the administration of this division. The fee shall be in addition to the fees established un…

Individuals Under the Age of 21 Years. Any person who sells, barters, exchanges, or gives to any individual under the age of 21 years any tobacco, tobacco product, electronic nicotine delivery system, or alternative nicotine product, on conviction, shall be fined not less than on…

For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCT. The same meaning as in Section 28-11- 2. (2) BOARD. The same meaning as in Section 28-11-2. (3) BRAND STYLE. A variety of cigarettes distinguished by the tobacco…

Acceptance of Purchase Order. (a) No person shall make a delivery sale of cigarettes to any individual who is under the legal minimum age. (b) Each person accepting a purchase order for a delivery sale shall comply with the provisions of this chapter and all other laws of this st…

No person, other than a delivery service, shall mail, ship, or otherwise cause to be delivered a shipping package in connection with a delivery sale unless the following occur: (1) The person, prior to the first delivery sale to the prospective consumer, obtains from the prospect…

(a) The notice required under subdivision (4) of Section 13A-12-3.3 shall include all of the following: (1) A statement that cigarette sales to consumers below the legal minimum age are illegal. (2) A statement that sales of cigarettes are restricted to those consumers who provid…

Each person, other than a delivery service, who mails, ships, or otherwise causes to be delivered a shipping package in connection with a delivery sale shall do all of the following: (1) Include as part of the shipping documents a clear and conspicuous statement stating: “Cigaret…

(a) Each person who makes a delivery sale of cigarettes to a consumer located within this state shall file with the department for each individual sale all of the following information: (1) A statement setting forth such person’s name, trade name, and address of such person’s pri…

(a) Each person who makes a delivery sale shall collect and remit to the department all excise taxes imposed by this state with respect to the delivery and maintain evidence of the payment unless the person is located outside the state and includes a statement on the outside of t…

(a) No person may conduct a delivery sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems or alternative nicotine products unless the seller has obtained a valid permit to conduct delivery sales of electronic nicotine delivery systems or alternative nicotine products issued by the board …

(a) Any gambling device or gambling record possessed or used in violation of this article is forfeited to the state, and shall by court order be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court directs. (b) Any vehicle possessed or used in violation of this article may be forfeite…

The provisions of this article shall not apply to pari-mutuel betting at race meetings authorized by statute. All presently effective state statutes and laws and locally adopted ordinances and laws pursuant thereto legalizing, authorizing or allowing greyhound races and betting o…

(a) It is unlawful for any person to deceptively obtain a controlled substance, as defined in Section 20-2-2(4), from a medical practitioner by intentionally and knowingly withholding information from the medical practitioner that the person has obtained a prescription for the sa…

(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) DEFRAUD. A misrepresentation of a material fact made willfully to deceive or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity. (2) SYNTHETIC URINE. A substance that is designed to simulate the com…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of inhalants if he or she does either of the following: (1) Inhales, ingests, uses, or possesses any compound, liquid, gas, or chemical that contains butyl nitrite, isobutyl nitrite, secondary butyl nitrite, tertiary butyl nit…

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful sale of inhalants if he or she does either of the following: (1) Produces, manufactures, sells, offers for sale, or otherwise transfers any compound, liquid, gas, or chemical that contains butyl nitrite, isobutyl nitrite, secondary butyl…

Any person who keeps a cockpit or who in any public place fights cocks shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $20.00 nor more than $50.00. History: (Code 1896, §4425; Code 1907, §6467; Code 1923, §3568; Code 1940, T. 14, §96; Code 1975, §13-6-13.)

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. History: (Acts 1996, No. 96-468, p. 581, §1.)

No person or persons shall maintain or use any electric bells, wires or signals or any elevators or dumbwaiters or other implements or appliances connected with any gaming place or rooms used for gaming, which may be used for the purpose of communicating with the occupants of suc…

When it shall be made known to any district attorney who prosecutes criminal cases in the county by the chief of police, sheriff or other officer or by any reputable citizen that any hotel, tavern, inn or other building has been provided with bells, wires, signals or dumbwaiters …

Tubes or Electric Signals Are Used. No person or persons shall exhibit or expose to view in any barred or barricaded house or room, in any place built or constructed in such manner as to make it difficult of access or ingress to police officers or other officers, or protected, fu…

Any person who, being the owner, proprietor, or keeper, or superintendent of any tavern, inn, restaurant, billiard room, poolroom or other public house, permits or suffers any person or persons on or about the premises to provide a barred or barricaded room or rooms to which pers…

When an affidavit is made before a court of competent jurisdiction that the complainant has probable cause to believe and does believe that any house or any part of a house, particularly designating the same, is being kept or maintained contrary to the provisions of this division…

The officer, in executing said warrant, shall break into and enter such house, room or part of a house, upon the refusal of the proprietor or any occupant thereof to open the same, and seize all gambling instruments and bring such instruments, together with all gambling devices a…

If it appears from the affidavit of the complainant or of any other witness that he produces what persons are the proprietors of or the occupants of the house, part of a house or room hereinabove described, the warrant shall order the arrest of such persons by name, but if such p…

The court shall thereupon proceed to hear the evidence in the case, and, if probable cause is shown for believing said parties or any of them to be guilty, he shall bind them over under proper bond to await the action of the grand jury in accordance with the laws of the state as …

The presence of electric bells, wires or signals or dumbwaiters or of other implements or appliances that may be used for the purpose of communicating with persons who are occupying a barred or barricaded room on or about the premises of a hotel, restaurant, billiard room, poolro…

(a) As used in this section, the term “hog” shall mean a pig, swine, or boar. (b) The crime of hog and canine fighting occurs when a person organizes or conducts any commercial or private event, commonly referred to as a “catch,” wherein there is a display of combat or fighting b…

Any transportation or conveyance within this state of any slip, ticket, card, paper, writing, article, thing or other device or paraphernalia which is customarily or usually used in the operation of a form or type of lottery commonly known as a numbers (or number) game or policy …

In order to condemn and confiscate any of the above mentioned conveyances or vehicles, it shall not be necessary for the state or prosecuting authority to show any actual movement of said conveyance or vehicles while loaded with, or in which there is contained or stored, any of s…

Except as otherwise herein provided, the manner, method and procedure for the forfeiture and condemnation of any such vehicle shall be the same as that provided by law for the confiscation or condemnation or forfeiture of automobiles, conveyances or vehicles in which alcoholic be…

Mortgagee. The court in condemnation proceedings shall sell the right of all interested persons in and to said conveyance or vehicle who aided or assisted any such person as described in Section 13A-12-70 in the illegal transportation or who had knowledge or notice thereof, or wh…

The proceeds of the sale of any such vehicle or conveyance forfeited to the state shall, after paying all expenses in the cause, including the costs of seizure and of keeping a property pending the proceedings, be applied as follows: One half shall be paid into the general fund o…

Game Not Unlawful. The provisions of this division shall not be construed to make unlawful the transportation of articles or paraphernalia not commonly used in the conduct of any form or type of lottery commonly known as a numbers (or number) game or policy game, and no vehicle u…

(a) Sections 13A-12-70 to 13A-12-75, inclusive, shall not apply to a coin-operated game or device designed and manufactured for bona fide amusement purposes which, by application of some skill, only entitles the player to replay the game or device at no additional cost if a singl…

Gambling Laws. The holding, owning, having in possession of, or paying the tax of a wagering occupational tax stamp issued by the internal revenue authorities of the United States shall be held in all the courts of this state as prima facie evidence against the person holding suc…

In cases where the proper prosecuting officers shall produce said stamp or certified copy, the grand jury may indict the holder of such stamp or the proper prosecuting officer may file information against the holder of such stamp without further proof, charging such holder with t…

Upon the trial of such person, proof of the owning, holding or possession of such stamp may be made by two witnesses who have seen such stamp in the place of business of the holder or on his person, or by the production of the original stamp with proof by one or more witnesses th…

(a) A person commits bigamy when he intentionally contracts or purports to contract a marriage with another person when he has a living spouse. A person who contracts a marriage outside this state, which would be bigamous if contracted in this state, commits bigamy by cohabiting …

(a) A person commits adultery when he engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is not his spouse and lives in cohabitation with that other person when he or that other person is married. (b) A person does not commit a crime under this section if he reasonably believe…

(a) A person commits incest if he or she marries or engages in sexual intercourse with a person he or she knows to be, either legitimately or illegitimately, any of the following: (1) His or her ancestor or descendant by blood or adoption. (2) His or her brother or sister of the …

(a) A man or woman commits the crime of nonsupport if he or she intentionally fails to provide support which that person is able to provide and which that person knows he or she is legally obligated to provide to a dependent spouse or child less than 19 years of age. (b) “Support…