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AL Code § 32-5A-115 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 5 - Right-of-Way.|Section 32-5A-115 - Operation of Vehicles on Approach of Authorized Emergency Vehicles; Signals on Emergency Vehicles; Duty of Emergency Vehicle Driver.

Section 32-5A-115Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles; signals on emergency vehicles; duty of emergency vehicle driver. (a) Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle equipped with at least one lighted lamp and audible signal as is required by law, the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in such position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer. (b) This section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with regard for the safety of all persons using the highways. (c) Authorized emergency vehicles shall be equipped with at least one lighted lamp exhibiting a colored light as hereinafter provided visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle and a siren, exhaust whistle, or bell capable of giving an audible signal. The color of the lighted lamp exhibited by police vehicles may be red or blue and the color of the lighted lamp exhibited by the fire department and other authorized emergency vehicles, including ambulances, shall be red. No vehicle other than a police vehicle will use a blue light. An amber or yellow light may be installed on any vehicle or class of vehicles designated by the Director of Public Safety, but such light shall serve as a warning or caution light only, and shall not cause other vehicles to yield the right-of-way. This provision shall not operate to relieve the driver of an emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway nor shall it protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of an arbitrary exercise of such right-of-way. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §4-106; Acts 1981, No. 81-803, p. 1412, §1.)
AL Code § 32-5A-116 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 5 - Right-of-Way.|Section 32-5A-116 - Highway Construction and Maintenance.

Section 32-5A-116Highway construction and maintenance. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any authorized vehicle or pedestrian actually engaged in work upon a highway within any highway construction or maintenance area indicated by official traffic-control devices. (b) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any authorized vehicle obviously and actually engaged in work upon a highway whenever such vehicle displays such flashing lights as may be required or permitted by law or by regulation of the department. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §4-107.)
AL Code § 32-5A-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-130 - Required Position and Method of Turning at Intersections.

Section 32-5A-130Required position and method of turning at intersections. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn shall do so as follows: (1) RIGHT TURNS. Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway. (2) LEFT TURNS. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn left shall approach the turn in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction of travel of such vehicle. Whenever practicable the turn shall be made to the left of the center of the intersection and so as to leave the intersection or other location in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the same direction as such vehicle on the roadway being entered. (3) The Department of Transportation and local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may cause official traffic-control devices to be placed and thereby require and direct that a different course from that specified in this section be traveled by turning vehicles and when such devices are so placed no driver shall turn a vehicle other than as directed and required by such devices. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §6-101.)
AL Code § 32-5A-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-131 - Turning on Curve or Crest of Grade Prohibited.

Section 32-5A-131Turning on curve or crest of grade prohibited. (a) The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless such movement can be made in safety and without interfering with other traffic. (b) No vehicle shall be turned so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any curve, or upon the approach to or near the crest of a grade, where such vehicle cannot be seen by the driver of any other vehicle approaching from either direction within 500 feet. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §6-102.)
AL Code § 32-5A-132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-132 - Starting Parked Vehicle.

Section 32-5A-132Starting parked vehicle. No person shall start a vehicle which is stopped, standing, or parked unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §6-103.)
AL Code § 32-5A-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-133 - Turning Movements and Required Signals.

Section 32-5A-133Turning movements and required signals. (a) No person shall turn a vehicle or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety nor without giving an appropriate signal in the manner hereinafter provided. (b) A signal of intention to turn right or left when required shall be given continuously during not less than the last 100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning. (c) No person shall stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided herein to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear when there is opportunity to give such signal. (d) The signals provided for in Section 32-5A-134(b) shall not be flashed on one side only on a disabled vehicle, flashed as a courtesy or "do pass" signal to operators of other vehicles approaching from the rear, nor be flashed on one side only of a parked vehicle except as may be necessary for compliance with this section. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §6-104.)
AL Code § 32-5A-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-134 - Signals by Hand and Arm or Signal Lamps.

Section 32-5A-134Signals by hand and arm or signal lamps. (a) Any stop or turn signal when required herein shall be given either by means of the hand and arm or by signal lamps, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b). (b) Any motor vehicle in use on a highway shall be equipped with, and the required signal shall be given by, signal lamps when the distance from the center of the top of the steering post to the left outside limit of the body, cab, or load of such motor vehicle exceeds 24 inches, or when the distance from the center of the top of the steering post to the rear limit of the body or load thereof exceeds 14 feet. The latter measurement shall apply to any single vehicle, also to any combination of vehicles. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §6-105.)
AL Code § 32-5A-135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-135 - Method of Giving Hand and Arm Signals.

Section 32-5A-135Method of giving hand and arm signals. All signals herein required given by hand and arm shall be given from the left side of the vehicle in the following manner and such signals shall indicate as follows: (1) LEFT TURN. Hand and arm extended horizontally. (2) RIGHT TURN. Hand and arm extended upward. (3) STOP OR DECREASE SPEED. Hand and arm extended downward. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §6-106.)
AL Code § 32-5A-136 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-136 - Stopping, Standing, or Parking Outside of Business or Residence Districts.

Section 32-5A-136Stopping, standing, or parking outside of business or residence districts. (a) Outside a business or residence district no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway when it is practicable to stop, park, or so leave such vehicle off the roadway, but in every event an unobstructed width of the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of such stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of 200 feet in each direction upon such highway. (b) This section, Sections 32-5A-137 and 32-5A-138 shall not apply to the driver of any vehicle which is disabled while on the paved or main-traveled portion of a highway in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such disabled vehicle in such position. And the provisions of this section, Sections 32-5A-137 and 32-5A-138 shall not apply to any vehicle nor to the driver of any vehicle engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire and operating over a fixed route and between regular termini operating under the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States or under authority of the Alabama Public Service Commission or any federal, state, or municipal authority while stopped on the right-hand side of the highway to pick up or discharge passengers nor to any vehicle nor to the driver thereof engaged in the official delivery of the United States mail when stopped on the right-hand side of the highway for the purpose of picking up or delivering mail, if a clear view of the vehicle may be obtained from a distance of 300 feet in each direction upon such highway. Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt any vehicle from the provisions of Section 32-5-244 and those provisions shall remain applicable to vehicles transporting the United States mail, anything in the section to the contrary notwithstanding. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §10-101.)
AL Code § 32-5A-137 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-137 - Stopping, Standing, or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places.

Section 32-5A-137Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited in specified places. (a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall: (1) Stop, stand, or park a vehicle: a. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; b. On a sidewalk; c. Within an intersection; d. On a crosswalk; e. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings; f. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; g. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure, upon a highway, or within a highway tunnel; h. On any railroad tracks; i. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping. (2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers: a. In front of a public or private driveway; b. Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant; c. Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; d. Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway; e. Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of the entrance (when properly signposted); f. At any place where official signs prohibit standing. (3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers: a. Within 50 feet of the nearest rail or a railroad crossing; b. At any place where official signs prohibit parking. (b) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §10-103.)
AL Code § 32-5A-138 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-138 - Additional Parking Regulations.

Section 32-5A-138Additional parking regulations. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway. (b) Except when otherwise provided by local ordinance, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a one-way roadway shall be so stopped or parked parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within 18 inches of the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, or its left-hand wheels within 18 inches of the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway. (c) Local authorities may by ordinance permit angle parking on any roadway, except that angle parking shall not be permitted on any federal-aid or state highway unless the Department of Transportation has determined by regulation that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without interfering with the free movement of traffic. (d) The Department of Transportation with respect to highways under its jurisdiction may place signs prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on any highway where in its opinion, as evidenced by regulation, such stopping, standing, or parking is dangerous to those using the highway or where the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles would unduly interfere with the free movement of traffic thereon. Such signs shall be official signs and no person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle in violation of the restrictions stated on such signs. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §10-104.)
AL Code § 32-5A-139 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 6 - Turning, Starting and Stopping Generally.|Section 32-5A-139 - Officers Authorized to Remove Vehicles.

Section 32-5A-139Officers authorized to remove vehicles. (a) Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of any of the provisions of Section 32-5A-136 such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or main-traveled part of such highway. (b) Any police officer is hereby authorized to remove or cause to be removed to a place of safety any unattended vehicle illegally left standing upon any highway, bridge, causeway, or in any tunnel, in such position or under such circumstances as to obstruct the normal movement of traffic. (c) Any police officer is hereby authorized to remove or cause to be removed to the nearest garage or other place of safety any vehicle found upon a highway when: (1) Report has been made that such vehicle has been stolen or taken without the consent of its owner; (2) The person or persons in charge of such vehicle are unable to provide for its custody or removal; (3) When the person driving or in control of such vehicle is arrested for an alleged offense for which the officer is required by law to take the person arrested before a proper magistrate without unnecessary delay; or (4) When a vehicle has been left unattended for 24 hours or more on or adjacent to any public highway and it is determined by the police officer that the vehicle constitutes a hazard to traffic upon the highway. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §10-102.)
AL Code § 32-5A-150 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 7 - Special Stops Required.|Section 32-5A-150 - Obedience to Signal Indicating Approach of Train.

Section 32-5A-150Obedience to signal indicating approach of train. (a) Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section, the driver of such vehicle shall stop within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet from the nearest rail of such railroad, and shall not proceed until he or she can do so safely. The foregoing requirements shall apply when: (1) A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal device gives warning of the immediate approach of a railroad train; (2) A crossing gate is lowered or when a human flagman gives or continues to give a signal of the approach or passage of a railroad train; (3) A railroad train approaching within approximately 1,500 feet of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from such distance and such railroad train, by reason of its speed or nearness to such crossing, is an immediate hazard; (4) An approaching railroad train is plainly visible and is in hazardous proximity to such crossing. (b) No person shall drive any vehicle through, around, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad crossing while such gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §7-101.)
AL Code § 32-5A-151 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 7 - Special Stops Required.|Section 32-5A-151 - Certain Vehicles Must Stop at All Railroad Grade Crossings; Exceptions.

Section 32-5A-151Certain vehicles must stop at all railroad grade crossings; exceptions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the driver of any vehicle described in regulations issued pursuant to subsection (c), before crossing at grade any track or tracks of a railroad, shall stop such vehicle within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet from the nearest rail of such railroad and while so stopped shall listen and look in both directions along such track for any approaching train, and for signals indicating the approach of a train and shall not proceed until he or she can do so safely. After stopping as required herein and upon proceeding when it is safe to do so the driver of any said vehicle shall cross only in such gear of the vehicle that there will be no necessity for manually changing gears while traversing such crossing and the driver shall not manually shift gears while crossing the track or tracks. Nothing contained in this section is intended to abrogate or modify the present Alabama doctrine of "stop, look, and listen" obtaining in the courts of Alabama. (b) This section shall not apply at: (1) Any railroad grade crossing at which traffic is controlled by a police officer or human flagman; (2) Any railroad grade crossing at which traffic is regulated by a traffic-control signal; (3) Any railroad grade crossing protected by crossing gates or any alternately flashing light signal intended to give warning of the approach of a railroad train; (4) Any railroad grade crossing at which an official traffic control device gives notice that the stopping requirement imposed by this section does not apply. (c) The Director of Transportation shall adopt such regulations as may be necessary describing the vehicles which must comply with the stopping requirements of this section. In formulating such regulations the Director of Transportation shall give consideration to the number of passengers carried by the vehicle and the hazardous nature of any substance carried by the vehicle in determining whether such vehicle shall be required to stop. Such regulations shall correlate with and so far as possible conform to the most recent regulation of the United States Department of Transportation. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §7-102.)
AL Code § 32-5A-152 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 7 - Special Stops Required.|Section 32-5A-152 - Moving Heavy Equipment at Railroad Grade Crossings.

Section 32-5A-152Moving heavy equipment at railroad grade crossings. (a) No person shall operate or move any crawler-type tractor, steam shovel, derrick, roller, or any equipment or structure having a normal operating speed of 10 or less miles per hour or a vertical body or load clearance of less than one-half inch per foot of the distance between any two adjacent axles or in any event of less than nine inches, measured above the level surface of a roadway, upon or across any tracks at a railroad grade crossing without first complying with this section. (b) Before making any such crossing the person operating or moving any such vehicle or equipment shall first stop the same not less than 15 feet nor more than 50 feet from the nearest rail of such railroad and while so stopped shall listen and look in both directions along such track for any approaching train and for signals indicating the approach of a train, and shall not proceed until the crossing can be made safely. (c) No such crossing shall be made when warning is given by automatic signal or crossing gates or a flagman or otherwise of the immediate approach of a railroad train or car. If a flagman is provided by the railroad, movement over the crossing shall be under his or her direction. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §7-103.)
AL Code § 32-5A-153 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 7 - Special Stops Required.|Section 32-5A-153 - Emerging From Alley, Driveway, or Building.

Section 32-5A-153Emerging from alley, driveway, or building. The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, building, private road, or driveway within a business or residence district shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across such alley, building entrance, road, or driveway, or in the event there is no sidewalk area, shall stop at the point nearest the street to be entered where the driver has a view of approaching traffic thereon. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §7-105.)
AL Code § 32-5A-155 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.|Article 7 - Special Stops Required.|Section 32-5A-155 - Visual Signals on School and Church Buses.

Section 32-5A-155Visual signals on school and church buses. (a) Every school bus shall, and every church bus may, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by this chapter, be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which shall be capable of displaying to the front two alternately flashing red lights located at the same level and to the rear two alternately flashing red lights located at the same level, and these lights shall have sufficient intensity to be visible at 500 feet in normal sunlight. (b) The alternately flashing lighting described in subsection (a) of this section shall not be used on any vehicle other than a school bus, a church bus, or an authorized emergency vehicle. (Acts 1980, No. 80-434, p. 604, §7-107.)