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AL Code § 32-2-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-5 - What Laws Director to Enforce.

Section 32-2-5What laws director to enforce. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Department of Public Safety, and he shall have power to do all that is necessary to administer and enforce: (1) All laws contained in this title, as the same may now or hereafter be amended; (2) All other laws relating or pertaining to the operation or movement of vehicles on the public highways of this state; (3) Such other laws as the Department of Public Safety has heretofore administered and enforced. (Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §5.)
AL Code § 32-2-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-6 - Compensation and Expenses of Officers, Employees, Etc. - Method of Payment Generally.

Section 32-2-6Compensation and expenses of officers, employees, etc. - Method of payment generally. The compensation of the officers, agents, and employees provided for by this chapter shall be paid by warrants drawn by the Comptroller on the funds appropriated by the Legislature therefor as the salaries of state officials and employees are paid, and the necessary expenses and costs of necessary equipment are likewise to be paid by warrant drawn by the Comptroller on the funds appropriated by the Legislature therefor, and the amount to be expended hereunder shall be limited to the amount appropriated therefor by the Legislature and shall be budgeted, allotted, and expended pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41 of this Code. (Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §8; Acts 1955, No. 44, p. 263, §1.)
AL Code § 32-2-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-7 - Compensation and Expenses of Officers, Employees, Etc. - Controlling Civil Disturbances; Rescue or Protective Duties.

Section 32-2-7Compensation and expenses of officers, employees, etc. - Controlling civil disturbances; rescue or protective duties. Whenever any officer, agent, or employee of the Department of Public Safety shall be called upon by the Governor, or the appointing authority of said department, to perform a duty or duties, or to be present at or on an alert basis at the scene of, or at any marshalling point for movement to such scene, of any public disorder for the control of civil disturbances, the restoration of the public order, or to perform rescue or protective duties at a natural or man-made disaster which shall extend beyond 24 hours, then any law or laws to the contrary notwithstanding, the compensation of such officers, agents, or employees of said department, the expenses of subsistence while so engaged at the call of the Governor, or of the appointing authority of said department, may be paid out of the general Treasury of the state upon the approval of the Governor, and not from the regular appropriations provided for the organization, maintenance, and upkeep of the Department of Public Safety. Warrants for these purposes shall be issued by the Comptroller on vouchers or payrolls, as may be required by the Governor, certified by the Director of Public Safety, and approved by the Governor. (Acts 1969, No. 167, p. 452.)
AL Code § 32-2-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-8 - Fees for Copies of Records and Reports.

Section 32-2-8Fees for copies of records and reports. Whenever the Director of Public Safety is required or allowed by law to furnish a copy of any record or report in the department's files, the director shall set and collect a fee not to exceed the sum of fifteen dollars ($15) for each record or report, unless a different fee is otherwise prescribed by law. Ten dollars ($10) of the fee shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the State General Fund and five dollars ($5) shall be credited to the Department of Public Safety Highway Traffic Safety Fund. (Acts 1971, No. 959, p. 1717; Acts 1988, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 88-721, p. 112, §1; Act 2001-471, p. 627, §1.)
AL Code § 32-2-8.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-8.1 - Fee for Criminal History Records Search.

Section 32-2-8.1Fee for criminal history records search. When the Director of Public Safety is allowed by Alabama law to provide a criminal history records search of convictions within the State of Alabama, the director shall set and collect a minimum fee of $20.00 or the actual cost incurred. All fees collected under the provisions of this section shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the State General Fund. (Acts 1988, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 88-814, p. 255, §1.)
AL Code § 32-2-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-9 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations.

Section 32-2-9Promulgation of rules and regulations. The Director of Public Safety, with the approval of the Governor, may establish and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations not in conflict with the laws of this state concerning operation of motor vehicles and concerning the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §15.)
AL Code § 32-2-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-10 - Insurance for Employees.

Section 32-2-10Insurance for employees. The state Department of Public Safety is authorized, subject to approval by the Governor, to insure its employees in some insurance company or companies authorized to do business in the State of Alabama against personal injury or death caused by accident or violence while discharging their duties as such employees; provided, the amount of insurance to be procured as to any such employee shall not exceed the amount which would be payable to such employee under the workmen's compensation laws of the State of Alabama if such employee were privately employed; except, that such policy may provide additional benefits not to exceed $10,000.00 per employee for the payment of hospital and medical expenses. The cost of such insurance shall be paid by the state Department of Public Safety out of any funds appropriated to its use in manner provided by law. (Acts 1943, No. 388, p. 606; Acts 1953, No. 722, p. 976.)
AL Code § 32-2-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-2-11 - Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund.

Section 32-2-11Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund. (a) There is hereby established a separate fund in the State Treasury, the "Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund." Distributions may be made from this fund by the State Comptroller only to the Alabama Department of Public Safety and only upon presentation to the Comptroller by the Director of the Department of Public Safety of proper documentation that the requested distribution from the fund is for the use of the Alabama Bureau of Investigation for the procurement of evidence to aid in the criminal enforcement of the laws of this state. (b) Any funds withdrawn from the fund which are not expended for the purposes authorized in subsection (a) or which are, after expenditure for such purposes, recovered by or reimbursed to the Department of Public Safety, shall be returned to the state Comptroller for deposit to the Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund. (c) Beginning with the 1997-1998 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, whenever the unexpended balance in the Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund falls below a balance of $90,000, the additional sum required to maintain a balance of $100,000 in the fund is hereby appropriated from the State General Fund to the fund provided, however, that the amount deposited to the fund from the State General Fund shall not exceed a cumulative total of $200,000 during any single fiscal year. Any funds deposited by the Comptroller to the Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund pursuant to subsection (b) shall not be counted for purposes of the $200,000 per fiscal year limit imposed by this subsection. (d) The Department of Public Safety shall include with the department's annual budget request to the Governor and the Legislature a statement of total expenditures from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund for the most recent complete fiscal year. (Act 98-557, p. 1257, §1.)
AL Code § 32-2-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 2 - Highway Patrol.|Section 32-2-20 - Establishment and Maintenance.

Section 32-2-20Establishment and maintenance. The Governor is authorized to establish and maintain a state highway patrol. (Acts 1939, No. 181, p. 300; Code 1940, T. 36, §71; Acts 1943, No. 446, p. 408; Acts 1953, No. 17, p. 22; Acts 1955, No. 43, p. 260, §3.)
AL Code § 32-2-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 2 - Highway Patrol.|Section 32-2-21 - Disposition of Costs, Fees, and Mileage Otherwise Collectible by Officers.

Section 32-2-21Disposition of costs, fees, and mileage otherwise collectible by officers. No state trooper shall be entitled to any costs, fees, or mileage for attending any court, but instead the proper authority shall collect such costs, fees, and mileage as may be due such officers for attendance on any court or for any official act and shall promptly turn the same over to the Director of Public Safety, who shall cover the same into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund. (Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §6.)
AL Code § 32-2-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 2 - Highway Patrol.|Section 32-2-22 - Officers Have Powers of Peace Officers.

Section 32-2-22Officers have powers of peace officers. Members of the state highway patrol, when duly appointed, shall have the powers of peace officers in this state and may exercise such powers anywhere within the state. (Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §7.)
AL Code § 32-2-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 2 - Highway Patrol.|Section 32-2-23 - Bonds of Officers and Members.

Section 32-2-23Bonds of officers and members. Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, all officers and members of the state highway patrol shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in the amount of $2,000.00, for the faithful performance of their duties. (Acts 1943, No. 122, p. 123; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 2190.)
AL Code § 32-2-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 2 - Highway Patrol.|Section 32-2-24 - Liabilities Under Bonds.

Section 32-2-24Liabilities under bonds. The officers and members of the state highway patrol shall be subject to the same liabilities, penalties, and damages under their bonds as sheriffs are under their bonds. (Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §9.)
AL Code § 32-2-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 2 - Highway Patrol.|Section 32-2-25 - Arrest Fee; When Fees and Costs Not to Be Paid by County.

Section 32-2-25Arrest fee; when fees and costs not to be paid by county. In all cases where arrests are made by a state trooper, an arrest fee of $5.00 for such arrest shall be collected by the proper authorities and promptly turned over to the Director of Public Safety, who shall cover the same into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund; provided, that no witness fee, arrest fee, mileage cost, or any other fees or costs shall be paid by any county out of its funds to said department and no fine and forfeiture claim shall be issued against the fine and forfeiture fund of any county to or for any such state trooper for or on account of those cases brought in any court or before any grand jury by any such officer wherein no indictment is found, the state fails to convict, or the indictment or complaint abates or is nolle prossed or is withdrawn and filed in such case. (Acts 1953, No. 585, p. 828, §10; Acts 1955, No. 44, p. 263, §1; Acts 1961, No. 834, p. 1237.)
AL Code § 32-2-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 2 - Highway Patrol.|Section 32-2-26 - Officers to Receive Badge, Pistol, etc., as Part of Retirement Benefits.

Section 32-2-26Officers to receive badge, pistol, etc., as part of retirement benefits. Any person who, at the time of his or her retirement, is employed by the state Department of Public Safety as a state trooper or other law-enforcement officer shall receive, as a part of his or her retirement benefit, without cost to him or her, his or her badge, pistol, and such other equipment as the Department of Public Safety may designate. (Acts 1971, No. 2340, p. 3774.)
AL Code § 32-2-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 3 - State Trooper Reserve.|Section 32-2-40 - Establishment Authorized; Composition; Members to Serve Without Compensation.

Section 32-2-40Establishment authorized; composition; members to serve without compensation. The Director of the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to establish a state trooper reserve of the Alabama state troopers to be composed of such persons who may volunteer to serve as state trooper reserves of the Alabama state troopers. Such service to be without compensation to the individual so volunteering. (Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 123, p. 1838, §1.)
AL Code § 32-2-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 3 - State Trooper Reserve.|Section 32-2-41 - Reserve Troopers to Serve Under Direction and Supervision of Director of Public Safety; Privileges and Immunities of Reserves.

Section 32-2-41Reserve troopers to serve under direction and supervision of Director of Public Safety; privileges and immunities of reserves. Reserve state troopers serving with the Alabama state troopers shall at all times serve under the direction and supervision of the Director of the Department of Public Safety and/or members of the Alabama state troopers. State trooper reserves, while serving under the supervision and direction of the director or a member of the Alabama state troopers, shall have the same protection and immunities afforded regularly employed state troopers, which shall be recognized by all courts having jurisdiction over offenses against the laws of this state. (Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 123, p. 1838, §2.)
AL Code § 32-2-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 3 - State Trooper Reserve.|Section 32-2-42 - Determination of Fitness of Persons to Serve.

Section 32-2-42Determination of fitness of persons to serve. The Director of the Department of Public Safety shall determine the fitness of persons to serve as state trooper reserves. (Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 123, p. 1838, §3.)
AL Code § 32-2-43 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 3 - State Trooper Reserve.|Section 32-2-43 - Duties of Members of Reserve.

Section 32-2-43Duties of members of reserve. The duties of a state trooper reserve officer shall be limited to assisting the Department of Public Safety in the performance of its regularly constituted duties and shall serve under the immediate supervision of a lawful Department of Public Safety officer. (Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 123, p. 1838, §4.)
AL Code § 32-2-44 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 3 - State Trooper Reserve.|Section 32-2-44 - Authority to Carry Firearms When Summoned to Duty.

Section 32-2-44Authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty. State trooper reserves shall have the authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty. (Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 123, p. 1838, §5.)
AL Code § 32-2-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 4 - Criminal History Information.|Section 32-2-60 - Definitions.

Section 32-2-60Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) CRIMINAL HISTORY INFORMATION. Information collected and stored in the criminal record repository of the Department of Public Safety reflecting the result of an arrest, detention, or initiation of a criminal proceeding by criminal justice agencies, including, but not limited to, arrest record information, fingerprint cards, correctional induction and release information, identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, indictments, or other formal charges. The term shall not include analytical records or investigative reports that contain criminal intelligence information or criminal investigation information. (2) CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY. Any municipal, county, state, or federal agency whose personnel have power of arrest and who perform a law enforcement function. This definition shall also include the Attorney General of the State of Alabama, all federal and state prosecuting attorneys, and all municipal, state, and federal judges. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Public Safety. (4) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Department of Public Safety. (5) PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, business, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other public or private entity. (Acts 1992, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 92-676, p. 56, §1.)
AL Code § 32-2-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 4 - Criminal History Information.|Section 32-2-61 - Release of Information and Fees.

Section 32-2-61Release of information and fees. (a) The director may open to any person for inspection, copying, and mechanical reproduction, during the department's regular business hours, criminal history information on any individual, if the individual has given written permission for the release of the information to the requester and if the opening of the information is not forbidden by order of any court of competent jurisdiction or by federal law. Any person requesting criminal history information from the department must present to the department, along with the request, a copy of the required written permission. (b) The director shall establish and collect a nonrefundable fee for costs incurred by the department in providing the requested criminal history information. The fee shall be $25.00. The proceeds shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Public Safety Automated Fingerprint Identification System Fund, which is hereby created. All money deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Public Safety Automated Fingerprint Identification System Fund shall be expended for the department's administrative costs for maintaining and providing the information and for operations and maintenance of the Automated Fingerprint Identification System. No money shall be withdrawn or expended from the fund for any purpose unless the money has been allotted and budgeted in accordance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 41-4-80) of Chapter 4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts and for the purposes provided by the Legislature in the general appropriations bill or other appropriation bills. (c) Criminal justice agencies and the Alabama Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission requests for criminal history information are hereby exempted from the fee requirements in subsection (b) except when such requests pertain to municipal or county ordinances intended to screen perspective employees of private entities. (d) Requests for national criminal history record access, authorized by federal law, passing through the criminal record repository of the department to the Federal Bureau of Investigation require the submission of an additional fee as specified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to cover their costs of processing the request. In addition to the fee specified in subsection (b) the director shall collect a fee and deposit same into the Public Safety Automated Fingerprint Identification System Fund for payment of the fee specified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for national criminal history record access. (Acts 1992, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 92-676, p. 56, §2.)
AL Code § 32-2-62 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 4 - Criminal History Information.|Section 32-2-62 - Promulgation of Procedures and Regulations.

Section 32-2-62Promulgation of procedures and regulations. In accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, the director shall promulgate reasonable procedures and regulations for the implementation of this article. (Acts 1992, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 92-676, p. 56, §3.)
AL Code § 32-2-63 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 4 - Criminal History Information.|Section 32-2-63 - Unauthorized Dissemination of Information.

Section 32-2-63Unauthorized dissemination of information. Any person who willfully disseminates information other than the information authorized by this article, is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed by law. (Acts 1992, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 92-676, p. 56, §4.)
AL Code § 32-2-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 5 - Public Safety Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund.|Section 32-2-80 - Creation; Purpose.

Section 32-2-80Creation; purpose. There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Public Safety Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund of the Alabama Department of Public Safety. This fund shall assist in providing the necessary funds to replace the Department of Public Safety law enforcement motor vehicles. Vehicles purchased from funds appropriated from the Public Safety Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund shall be used specifically for law enforcement purposes. None of the funds appropriated from this fund may be expended by the department for salaries nor for any purpose other than the purchase of law enforcement vehicles. (Acts 1995, No. 95-389, p. 795, §1.)
AL Code § 32-2-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety.|Article 5 - Public Safety Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund.|Section 32-2-81 - Funds - Deposit, Expenditure, and Carry Over.

Section 32-2-81Funds - Deposit, expenditure, and carry over. Any funds created from depreciation, equipment replacement allowance, and salvage value for replacement of law enforcement motor vehicles in the department shall be deposited in the Public Safety Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund created pursuant to Section 32-2-80; however the expenditure of any monies appropriated from this fund shall be budgeted and allotted pursuant to the Budget Management Act and Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41. These funds shall not revert at the end of each fiscal year, but shall be carried over to each succeeding fiscal year. (Acts 1995, No. 95-389, p. 795, §2.)