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AL Code § 37-8-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-8-4 - Requiring Witnesses to Testify Before Grand Jury.

Section 37-8-4Requiring witnesses to testify before grand jury. 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 offense, but no witness shall be prosecuted for any offense as to which he testifies before the grand jury, and any member of the grand jury or district attorney may be a witness to prove this fact. (Code 1907, §7693; Code 1923, §5374; Code 1940, T. 48, §425.)
AL Code § 37-8-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-8-6 - Furnishing of Meters; Meters Open for Inspection.

Section 37-8-6Furnishing of meters; meters open for inspection. 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 meter properly tested and in good order and shall arrange such meters so that the patron can, at any time, see the meter dial and ascertain how much electricity or gas he is consuming and how much he is liable to pay for. (Code 1923, §4302; Code 1940, T. 14, §309; Code 1975, §13-2-86.)
AL Code § 37-8-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-20 - Violation of Statutes Relating to Reasonable Rates, Adequate Service and Unjust Discriminations.

Section 37-8-20Violation of statutes relating to reasonable rates, adequate service 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, adequate service and unjust discriminations of the public service of any common carrier of this state, or who shall fail to obey, observe or comply with any order of the public service commission or any provisions of any order of said commission, or who procures, aids or abets any such common carrier or corporation in its failure to obey, observe and comply with any such order, direction or provision relating to reasonable rates, adequate service and unjust discrimination by common carriers of this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding $1,000.00, to be fixed by the court. (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 12, p. 23; Code 1923, §5350; Code 1940, T. 48, §400.)
AL Code § 37-8-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-21 - Charging Rate in Violation of Tariff Generally.

Section 37-8-21Charging rate in violation of tariff generally. 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 with the Alabama Public Service Commission shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 for each offense. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §5392; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 201, p. 209; Code 1940, T. 48, §399.)
AL Code § 37-8-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-22 - Charging or Accepting Rate Lower Than Published Tariff.

Section 37-8-22Charging or accepting rate lower than published tariff. 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 nor more than $5,000.00. (Code 1886, §4147; Code 1896, §5551; Code 1907, §7689; Code 1923, §5370; Code 1940, T. 48, §420.)
AL Code § 37-8-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-23 - Charging or Collecting Higher Than Lawful Rate.

Section 37-8-23Charging or collecting higher than lawful rate. 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 passengers or property than prescribed or authorized by law, or fixed by the Public Service Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 for each offense. (Code 1923, §5376; Code 1940, T. 48, §426.)
AL Code § 37-8-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-24 - Granting Unlawful Concessions or Rebates.

Section 37-8-24Granting unlawful concessions or rebates. 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 and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 for each offense. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §5392; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 201, p. 209; Code 1940, T. 48, §399.)
AL Code § 37-8-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-25 - Accepting Rebates, Concessions or Discrimination.

Section 37-8-25Accepting rebates, concessions or discrimination. 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 the schedule or service regulations of such utility filed with the commission, whereby such person shall receive any service or advantage other than is provided by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §5397; Code 1940, T. 48, §404.)
AL Code § 37-8-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-27 - Free Passes, Rebates or Discounts, Etc. - Penalties for Violations.

Section 37-8-27Free passes, rebates or discounts, etc. - Penalties for violations. 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 passes, tickets or free transportation for any person, or give, make or allow any rebate, discount or reduction from such rates as are offered or given to the public at large, except as provided in Section 37-8-28; and any person other than the persons excepted in Section 37-8-28, who accepts or uses any such free ticket, free passes or free transportation, rebate, discount or reduction shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be indicted as such corporation, partnership or person for each offense and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $2,000.00, or be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months, one or both, at the discretion of the jury trying the case. (Code 1907, §7691; Code 1923, §5372; Code 1940, T. 48, §422.)
AL Code § 37-8-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-28 - Free Passes, Rebates or Discounts, Etc. - Exemptions.

Section 37-8-28Free passes, rebates or discounts, etc. - Exemptions. 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 and dependent children of the latter, nor to officers or agents, surgeons, physicians and attorneys-at-law of such carriers, and the immediate families of such persons, to sheriffs, to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work; to indigent, destitute and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies and hospitals and the necessary agents, employed in such transportation; to the widows of soldiers who served during the Civil War; to inmates of the national home or state home for disabled volunteer soldiers, and of sailors and soldiers homes, including those about to enter, and those returning home after discharge and boards of managers of such homes; to necessary caretakers of livestock, poultry and fruit, to employees on sleeping cars and express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies, to railway mail service employees, postoffice inspectors, custom inspectors, and immigration inspectors, to newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the carrier is interested, persons injured in wrecks when being transported from the place of injury to their homes and places of treatment and physicians and nurses attending such persons; and members of the public service commission, and its agents and employees when traveling on official business only; but this section shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of railroads and other common carriers and their immediate families, nor prohibit any such carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence or other calamitous visitation. Editors and publishers of newspapers in Alabama may exchange with railroads and other common carriers in this state advertisements and space in the columns of their newspapers for mileage issued to editors and publishers of newspapers over the railroads and other common carriers. (Code 1907, §7692; Acts 1911, No. 197, p. 193; Acts 1915, No. 500, p. 566; Acts 1923, No. 145, p. 107; Acts 1923, No. 209, p. 218; Code 1923, §5373; Code 1940, T. 48, §423.)
AL Code § 37-8-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-30 - Unlawful Pooling of Freights.

Section 37-8-30Unlawful pooling of freights. 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 is restrained by the establishment of extortionate rates and the prevention of free competition, unless such agreement has been approved by the Public Service Commission, must, on conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00. (Code 1886, §4145; Code 1896, §5549; Code 1907, §7687; Code 1923, §5368; Code 1940, T. 48, §418.)
AL Code § 37-8-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.|Section 37-8-31 - Failure of Railroad to Post Freight Tariffs at Depots.

Section 37-8-31Failure of railroad to post freight tariffs at depots. 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 Public Service Commission pursuant thereto, must, on conviction, be fined not less than $20.00 nor more than $100.00. (Code 1886, §4148; Code 1896, §5552; Code 1907, §7690; Code 1923, §5371; Code 1940, T. 48, §421.)
AL Code § 37-8-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 3 - Offenses Involving Sale, Use, or Distribution of Electricity.|Section 37-8-52 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Generally.

Section 37-8-52Operations in proximity to high voltage overhead conductors of 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 thereof within 10 feet of a high voltage overhead conductor of electricity except where the person has arranged effectively to safeguard against danger of accidental contact with the high voltage overhead conductor of electricity by any of the following: (1) The erection of mechanical barriers which shall prevent physical contact with the high voltage overhead conductor. (2) Deenergizing the high voltage overhead conductor and grounding the same. (3) Temporary or permanent relocation of the high voltage overhead conductor. (b) Only in the case of compliance with one or more of the above safety measures, after the negotiation of mutually agreeable arrangements with the owner or operator of the high voltage overhead conductor, may the 10-foot clearance requirement be reduced. In no event shall the provisions of this section be construed to permit any contact being made with high voltage overhead conductors and their supports, whether energized or not. The required 10-foot clearance shall not be provided by impressing strains, by attachment or otherwise, upon the conductors or their supporting structures or upon their appurtenances or associated equipment. (c) Each person who fails to comply with or who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or both. (d) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) HIGH VOLTAGE. A voltage in excess of 750 volts, measured between conductors or measured between the conductor and the ground. (2) OVERHEAD CONDUCTOR. Any electrical conductor, either bare or covered, installed above the ground, except conductors that are enclosed in iron pipe or other metal covering of equal strength. (Acts 1967, No. 504, p. 1216, §1; Act 2018-402, §1.)
AL Code § 37-8-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 3 - Offenses Involving Sale, Use, or Distribution of Electricity.|Section 37-8-53 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Warnings Signs.

Section 37-8-53Operations in proximity to high voltage overhead conductors of 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 plain view of the operator thereof a durable, weather-resistant warning sign legible at 12 feet, reading "WARNING, unlawful to operate this equipment within 10 feet of overhead high voltage lines," is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) and imprisoned for not more than 12 months, or both fined and imprisoned. Each day's failure to post or maintain such a sign shall constitute a separate offense. (Acts 1967, No. 504, p. 1216, §2; Act 2018-402, §1.)
AL Code § 37-8-54 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 3 - Offenses Involving Sale, Use, or Distribution of Electricity.|Section 37-8-54 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Exemptions.

Section 37-8-54Operations in proximity to high voltage overhead conductors of 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 the owner; (2) The operation of standard railway equipment which is normally used in the transportation of freight or passengers, or the operation of relief trains or other emergency railroad equipment by persons authorized by the owner; (3) Any construction, reconstruction, operation or maintenance of any overhead structures covered by rules prescribed by the Alabama Public Service Commission; nor (4) Any person employed or engaged in the electrical generating, transmission, distribution or communication business, nor any agents, employees, lessees, licensees or contractors in connection with work performed or activity conducted for such person engaged or employed in such business. (Acts 1967, No. 504, p. 1216, §3.)
AL Code § 37-8-55 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 3 - Offenses Involving Sale, Use, or Distribution of Electricity.|Section 37-8-55 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Utility Companies Not Relieved of Civil Liability.

Section 37-8-55Operations in proximity to high voltage overhead conductors of 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. (Acts 1967, No. 504, p. 1216, §3(a).)
AL Code § 37-8-212 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 6 - Offenses Involving Telephones and Telegraphs.|Section 37-8-212 - Unlawful Disclosure of Messages.

Section 37-8-212Unlawful disclosure of messages. (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 said line or lines without the consent of either the sender or receiver of the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months. (b) Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this section shall apply when such information is called for by any writ or summons from any court. (Acts 1915, No. 301, p. 321; Code 1923, §§5543, 5545; Code 1940, T. 48, §§416, 417.)
AL Code § 37-8-213 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 6 - Offenses Involving Telephones and Telegraphs.|Section 37-8-213 - Failure to Relinquish Party Line for Emergency Call; Falsely Requesting Party Line for Emergency; Notice in Directories.

Section 37-8-213Failure to relinquish party line for emergency call; falsely requesting party line for emergency; notice in directories. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. (Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 71, p. 1946.)
AL Code § 37-8-217 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 6 - Offenses Involving Telephones and Telegraphs.|Section 37-8-217 - Prohibited Instruments - Defined.

Section 37-8-217Prohibited instruments - Defined. 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, adapted or may be used to avoid billing to the proper person or payment of the lawful price, charge or toll, in whole or in part, for any telephone, telegraph or other telecommunication service or for the transmission of a message, signal or other communication by or over the facilities of telephone, telegraph or other telecommunication, or to conceal the existence, place of origin or destination or the true identity of the sender, addressee or receiver of any message, signal or other communication by or over the facilities of telephone, telegraph or other telecommunication from the supplier thereof or any lawful authority or to violate any provision of this section, Section 37-8-218, Section 37-8-220, or Section 37-8-221. (Acts 1965, No. 698, p. 1297, §5.)
AL Code § 37-8-218 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.|Article 6 - Offenses Involving Telephones and Telegraphs.|Section 37-8-218 - Prohibited Instruments - Manufacture or Sale, Etc.

Section 37-8-218Prohibited instruments - Manufacture or sale, etc. (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 foregoing, any prohibited instrument, as defined in this section, Sections 37-8-217, 37-8-220, and 37-8-221, with intent to use or employ or to allow same to be used or employed, or with knowledge or good reason to believe that such instrument is intended to be used or employed, or designed or adapted to be used or employed, to violate any provision of this section, Section 37-8-217, Section 37-8-220, or Section 37-8-221, or to conceal the existence, place of origin or destination, or the true identity of the sender, addressee or receiver of any message, signal or other communication by or over the facilities of telephone, telegraph or other telecommunication from the supplier of such service or any lawful authority. (b) The unexplained making or manufacturing, possessing, using, employing, transporting, purchasing, selling, giving or transferring, offering or advertising to sell, give or otherwise transfer to another, or attempting, aiding, assisting or causing any other person to do any of the foregoing, of any prohibited instrument shall be prima facie evidence of violation of this section, Section 37-8-217, Section 37-8-220, or Section 37-8-221. (Acts 1965, No. 698, p. 1297, §§4, 6.)