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AL Code § 32-7-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-26 - Bond as Proof of Financial Responsibility.

Section 32-7-26Bond as proof of financial responsibility. (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be furnished by a bond of a surety company duly authorized to transact business in this state, or by a bond with at least two individual sureties each owning real estate within this state and together having equities equal in value to at least twice the amount of such bond, which real estate shall be scheduled in the bond and approved both as to title and value by the judge of probate of the county in which such real estate is located. Such bond shall be conditioned for payments in amounts and under the same circumstances as would be required in a motor vehicle liability policy and shall not be cancelable except after 10 days' written notice to the director. The principal and sureties shall execute and deliver an original and one copy of such bond and schedule and, in addition, when the real property or any part thereof listed or described in such schedule shall be located in more than one county, then as many extra copies as there are other counties in which such real property, or any part thereof, shall lie, to the probate judge to whom such bond is presented for approval, who shall endorse upon the original and the copy of such bond the date the same were presented to him or her; and such probate judge shall immediately file one of such extra copies in the probate office in each other county in which is located any of the real property so scheduled. Any probate judge who approves an extra copy of such bond shall endorse upon such copy the date upon which such extra copy was filed in his or her office and after recording the same shall return the extra copy thereof to the probate judge from whom he or she received the same. The latter, after tabulating the total value of the real estate described therein, shall, if he or she approves the same, endorse upon the original and a copy of such bond the fact and date of his or her approval and shall forward the bond to the director and deliver the extra copy or copies thereof to the principal. Such bond shall constitute a lien in favor of the state upon the real estate so scheduled of any surety from the time when a copy of such bond is filed in the probate office in and for the county in which such real property so scheduled is located, which lien shall exist in favor of any holder of a judgment against the person who has filed such bond. (b) If such a judgment rendered against the principal on such bond shall not be satisfied within 60 days after it has become final, the judgment creditor may, for his or her own use and benefit and at his or her sole expense, bring an action or actions (in the name of the state) against the company or persons executing such bond, including an action or proceeding to enforce any lien that may exist upon the real estate of a person who has executed such bond. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §24.)
AL Code § 32-7-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-27 - Money or Securities as Proof.

Section 32-7-27Money or securities as proof. (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the certificate of the State Treasurer that the person named in the certificate has deposited with him or her $50,000 in cash, or securities that may legally be purchased by savings banks or for trust funds of a market value of $50,000. The State Treasurer shall not accept the deposit and issue a certificate pursuant to this section and the director shall not accept the certificate unless accompanied by evidence that there are no unsatisfied judgments of any character against the depositor in the county where the depositor resides. (b) The deposit shall be held by the State Treasurer to satisfy, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, any execution on a judgment issued against the person making the deposit, for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person, or for damages because of injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use of property resulting from the ownership, maintenance, use, or operation of a motor vehicle after the deposit was made. Money or securities so deposited shall not be subject to attachment or execution unless the attachment or execution shall arise out of an action for damages as provided in this subsection. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §25; Acts 1993, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-903, p. 192, §4.)
AL Code § 32-7-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-28 - Owner May Give Proof for Others.

Section 32-7-28Owner may give proof for others. Whenever any person required to give proof of financial responsibility under this chapter is or later becomes an operator in the employ of any owner, or is or later becomes a member of the immediate family or household of the owner, the director shall accept proof given by such owner in lieu of proof by such other person to permit such other person to operate a motor vehicle for which the owner has given proof as herein provided. The director shall designate the restrictions imposed by this section on the face of such person's license. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §26.)
AL Code § 32-7-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-29 - Substitution of Proof.

Section 32-7-29Substitution of proof. The director shall consent to the cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance or the director shall direct and the State Treasurer shall return any money or securities to the person entitled thereto upon the substitution and acceptance of other adequate proof of financial responsibility pursuant to this chapter. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §27.)
AL Code § 32-7-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-30 - Additional Proof May Be Required.

Section 32-7-30Additional proof may be required. Whenever any proof of financial responsibility filed under the provisions of this chapter no longer fulfills the purposes for which required, the director shall, for the purpose of this chapter, require other proof as required by this chapter and shall suspend the license and registration or the nonresident's operating privilege pending the filing of such other proof. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §28.)
AL Code § 32-7-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-31 - Duration of Proof; When Proof May Be Cancelled or Returned.

Section 32-7-31Duration of proof; when proof may be cancelled or returned. (a) The director shall upon request consent to the immediate cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance, or the director shall direct and the State Treasurer shall return to the person entitled thereto any money or securities deposited pursuant to this chapter as proof of financial responsibility, or the director shall waive the requirement of filing proof, in any of the following events: (1) At any time after three years from the date such proof was required when, during the three-year period preceding the request, the director has not received record of a conviction or a forfeiture of bail which would require or permit the suspension or revocation of the license, registration, or nonresident's operating privilege of the person by or for whom such proof was furnished; or (2) In the event of the death of the person on whose behalf such proof was filed or the permanent incapacity of such person to operate a motor vehicle; or (3) In the event the person who has given proof surrenders his or her license and registration to the director. (b) The director shall not consent to the cancellation of any bond or the return of any money or securities in the event any action for damages upon a liability covered by such proof is then pending or any judgment upon any such liability is then unsatisfied or in the event the person who has filed such bond or deposited such money or securities has within one year immediately preceding such request been involved as an operator or owner in any motor vehicle accident resulting in injury or damage to the person or property of others. An affidavit of the applicant as to the nonexistence of such facts, or that he or she has been released from all of his or her liability or has been finally adjudicated not to be liable for such injury or damage shall be sufficient evidence thereof in the absence of evidence to the contrary in the records of the director. (c) Whenever any person whose proof has been cancelled or returned under subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of this section applies for a license or registration within a period of three years from the date proof was originally required, any such application shall be refused unless the applicant shall reestablish such proof for the remainder of such three-year period. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §29.)
AL Code § 32-7-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-32 - Transfer of Registration to Defeat Purpose of Chapter Prohibited.

Section 32-7-32Transfer of registration to defeat purpose of chapter prohibited. If an owner's registration has been suspended hereunder, such registration shall not be transferred nor the motor vehicle in respect of which such registration was issued registered in any other name until the director is satisfied that such transfer of registration is proposed in good faith and not for the purpose or with the effect of defeating the purposes of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall in anywise affect the rights of any conditional vendor, chattel mortgagee, or lessor of a motor vehicle registered in the name of another as owner who becomes subject to the provisions of this section. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §30.)
AL Code § 32-7-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-33 - Surrender of License and Registration.

Section 32-7-33Surrender of license and registration. Any person whose license or registration shall have been suspended as provided in this chapter, or whose policy of insurance or bond, when required under this chapter, shall have been cancelled or terminated or who shall neglect to furnish other proof upon request of the director shall immediately return his or her license and registration to the director. If any person shall fail to return to the director the license or registration as provided herein, the director shall forthwith direct any peace officer to secure possession thereof and to return the same to the director. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §31.)
AL Code § 32-7-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-34 - Self-Insurers.

Section 32-7-34Self-insurers. (a) Any person in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are registered may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by the director as provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) The director may, in his or her discretion, upon the application of such a person, issue a certificate of self-insurance when he or she is satisfied that such person is possessed and will continue to be possessed of ability to pay judgments obtained against such person. (c) Upon not less than five days' notice and a hearing pursuant to such notice, the director may upon reasonable grounds cancel a certificate of self-insurance. Failure to pay any judgment within 30 days after such judgment shall have become final shall constitute a reasonable ground for the cancellation of a certificate of self-insurance. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §34.)
AL Code § 32-7-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-35 - Assigned Risk Plans.

Section 32-7-35Assigned risk plans. After consultation with insurance companies authorized to issue automobile liability policies in this state, the Commissioner of Insurance shall approve a reasonable plan or plans for the equitable apportionment among such companies of applicants for such policies and for motor vehicle liability policies who are in good faith entitled to but are unable to procure such policies through ordinary methods. When any such plan has been approved, all such insurance companies shall subscribe thereto and participate therein. Any applicant for any such policy, any person insured under any such plan and any insurance company affected may appeal to the Commissioner of Insurance from any ruling or decision of the manager or committee designated to operate such plan. Any person aggrieved hereunder by any order or act of the Commissioner of Insurance may, within 10 days after notice thereof, file a petition in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama for a review thereof. The court shall summarily hear the petition and may enter any appropriate order or judgment. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §35.)
AL Code § 32-7-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-36 - Exceptions.

Section 32-7-36Exceptions. This chapter shall not apply with respect to any motor vehicle owned by the United States, this state or any political subdivision of this state or any municipality therein; nor, except for Sections 32-7-5 and 32-7-28, with respect to any motor vehicle which is subject to the supervision and regulation of the Alabama Public Service Commission which have filed with such commission a bond or insurance policy, the liability under which is not less than that required of the operator of a motor vehicle under the terms of this chapter. Any person, firm, association, or corporation licensed and engaged in the business of renting or leasing motor vehicles to be operated on the public highways shall only be required to furnish proof of financial ability to satisfy any judgment or judgments rendered against the person, firm, association, or corporation in his or her or its capacity as owner of the motor vehicles and shall not be required to furnish proof of its financial ability to satisfy any judgment or judgments rendered against the person to whom the motor vehicle was rented or leased at the time of the accident. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §33.)
AL Code § 32-7-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-37 - Other Violations; Penalties.

Section 32-7-37Other violations; penalties. (a) Failure to report an accident as required in Section 32-7-5 shall be punished by a fine not in excess of $25.00, and in the event of injury or damage to the person or property of another in such accident, the director shall suspend the license of the person failing to make such report or the nonresident's operating privilege of such person until such report has been filed and for such further period not to exceed 30 days as the director may fix. (b) Any person who gives information required in a report or otherwise as provided for in Section 32-7-5, knowing or having reason to believe that such information is false, or who shall forge or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility, or who files or offers for filing any such evidence of proof knowing or having reason to believe that it is forged or signed without authority, shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. (c) Any person whose license or registration or nonresident's operating privilege has been suspended or revoked under this chapter and who, during such suspension or revocation drives any motor vehicle upon any highway or knowingly permits any motor vehicle owned by such person to be operated by another upon any highway, except as permitted under this chapter, shall be fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both. (d) Any person willfully failing to return license or registration as required in Section 32-7-33 shall be fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned not to exceed 30 days, or both. (e) Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter for which no penalty is otherwise provided shall be fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned not more than 90 days, or both. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §32.)
AL Code § 32-7-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-38 - Employment of Necessary Employees.

Section 32-7-38Employment of necessary employees. The Director of Public Safety, subject to the provisions of the merit system, may appoint such clerical assistants, stenographers, or employees as may be necessary to discharge the duties imposed by this chapter. The salaries of such clerical assistants, stenographers, and employees and all expenses incurred incident to carrying out their duties shall be paid in the same manner as those of other state employees. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §40.)
AL Code § 32-7-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-40 - Chapter Supplemental to Other Laws.

Section 32-7-40Chapter supplemental to other laws. This chapter shall in no respect be considered as a repeal of the state motor vehicle laws, but shall be construed as supplemental thereto. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §36.)
AL Code § 32-7-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-41 - Chapter Not to Prevent Other Process.

Section 32-7-41Chapter not to prevent other process. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the plaintiff in any civil action from relying for relief upon the other processes provided by law. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §38.)
AL Code § 32-7-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-42 - Uniformity of Interpretation.

Section 32-7-42Uniformity of interpretation. This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it. (Acts 1951, No. 704, p. 1224, §39.)
AL Code § 32-7-43 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.|Section 32-7-43 - Nondiscriminatory Application.

Section 32-7-43Nondiscriminatory application.  Enforcement and investigative activities as they relate to Act 2011-688 shall not be based on an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, economic status, or geography. (Act 2011-688, p. 2076, §7.)
AL Code § 32-7A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7A - Mandatory Automobile Liability Insurance.|Section 32-7A-1 - Short Title.

Section 32-7A-1Short title. This chapter may be cited as the Mandatory Liability Insurance Act. (Act 2000-554, p. 1005, §1.)
AL Code § 32-7A-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 7A - Mandatory Automobile Liability Insurance.|Section 32-7A-3 - Powers and Duties of Department.

Section 32-7A-3Powers and duties of department. (a) The department shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and shall make such reasonable rules and regulations concerning any matter administered in this chapter and shall provide for hearings upon the request of persons aggrieved by orders or acts of the department under the provisions of this chapter. (b) The department may prescribe and provide suitable notices and forms necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (c) The department: (1) May make necessary investigations to procure information required to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (2) Shall suspend the motor vehicle registrations pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (3) Shall require insurance companies doing business in this state to regularly report the vehicle identification numbers covered by their mandatory liability insurance policies in a manner specified by the department.  (4) May operate a pilot program to study the extent of the uninsured motorist problem in this state, to make operational changes that it sees necessary in order to reduce the number of uninsured motorists, and to manage the registration selection, suspension, and reinstatement processes in the most productive manner possible. Funding for the pilot program, including performance-based or fixed fees, or both, shall be derived from registration reinstatement fees. (5) May enter into a personal services contract with a consulting firm having personnel with extensive operational and management experience in the development, deployment, and operation of insurance verification programs. This firm shall assist in operating a pilot program by analyzing and using available data to share nationally-recognized best practices for operating insurance verification programs, to study existing and planned practices and implement recommendations for improvement, and to have responsibility for reducing uninsured motorist rates in this state. (d) At any time within 30 calendar days after the rendition of any suspension, or decision under the provisions of this chapter, any person may appeal to the administrative law judge pursuant to Section 40-2A-8. After exhausting his or her appeal rights provided under Section 40-2A-8, and, upon providing evidence of payment of the reinstatement fee provided in this chapter, the person may appeal to the circuit court. The appeals to the administrative law judge or circuit court shall be as provided in Section 40-2A-9. (Act 2000-554, p. 1005, §1; Act 2011-688, p. 2076, §2.)