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AL Code § 32-8-64.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 3 - Security Interests.|Section 32-8-64.2 - Release of Certain Liens.

Section 32-8-64.2Release of certain liens. (a) Except for liens and security interests listed on certificates of title for travel trailers or vehicles that weigh more than 12,000 pounds gross weight, which shall be satisfied only in conformity with Section 32-8-64, any lien or security interest shall be considered satisfied and release shall not be required after four years from the date of the security agreement as recorded on the certificate of title for vehicles which are 12 or more model years old. Nothing in this section shall preclude the perfection of a lien or security agreement, or the perfection of an extension of a lien or security agreement beyond a period of four years, by application for a new certificate of title on which the lien or security agreement is listed. In order to provide for the continuous perfection of a lien or security interest originally entered into for a period of more than four years for a vehicle other than a travel trailer or vehicle that weighs more than 12,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, an application for a second title on which the lien or security interest is listed shall be submitted to the designated agent before four years from the date of the security agreement as recorded on the original title. Otherwise, the lien or security interest shall be perfected as provided by Section 32-8-61. (b) The department may require that all lien releases shall be electronically submitted to the department within 10 days of the date that a lien or security interest in a motor vehicle is satisfied. (Act 2011-633, p. 1507, §3; Act 2013-224, p. 541, §1.)
AL Code § 32-8-65 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 3 - Security Interests.|Section 32-8-65 - Duty of Lienholder to Disclose Information.

Section 32-8-65Duty of lienholder to disclose information. A lienholder named in a certificate of title shall, upon written request of the owner or of another lienholder named on the certificate, disclose any pertinent information as to his or her security agreement and the indebtedness secured by it. (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §23.)
AL Code § 32-8-66 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 3 - Security Interests.|Section 32-8-66 - Exclusiveness of Procedure.

Section 32-8-66Exclusiveness of procedure. The method provided in this article of perfecting and giving notice of security interest in motor vehicles required to be titled under the terms of this chapter or titled under the terms hereof, shall be exclusive. Security interests in motor vehicles required to be titled or which are titled under this chapter, are hereby exempted from the provisions of law which otherwise require the filing or recording of financing statements or of other instruments creating or evidencing security interests. Security interests in motor vehicles not required to be titled under this chapter or not titled under the terms hereof, which are perfected under any other applicable laws of this state shall not be affected by this chapter but shall continue in all respects to be governed by such other laws of this state. (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §24.)
AL Code § 32-8-67 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 3 - Security Interests.|Section 32-8-67 - Filing and Recording of Notices of Security Interests; Examination of Record.

Section 32-8-67Filing and recording of notices of security interests; examination of record. (a) The department shall file each notice of security interest received by the department with the required fee and maintain a record of all notices of security interests filed by the department: (1) Alphabetically, under the name of the owner; (2) Under the vehicle identification number; (3) Under the certificate of title number; and (4) In the discretion of the department, by any other method it determines. (b) The department before issuing or reissuing a certificate of title shall check the name of the owner and the certificate of title number of the vehicle against the record provided for in subsection (a). (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §30.)
AL Code § 32-8-68 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 3 - Security Interests.|Section 32-8-68 - Recording and Releasing Security Interests by Electronic Means.

Section 32-8-68Recording and releasing security interests by electronic means.  Notwithstanding any requirement in this chapter that a lien on a motor vehicle shall be noted on the face of the certificate of title, if there is one lien or more liens or encumbrances on the motor vehicle, the department may electronically transmit the lien to the first lienholder and notify the first lienholder of any additional liens. Subsequent lien satisfactions may be electronically transmitted to the department and shall include the name and address of the person satisfying the lien. If liens and lien releases are processed electronically and the last lien is satisfied, a title will be issued to the owner of the vehicle in a manner prescribed by the department. When a vehicle is subject to an electronic lien, the certificate of title for the vehicle shall be considered to be physically held by the lienholder for purposes of compliance with state or federal odometer disclosure requirements. A duly certified copy of the department's electronic record of the lien shall be admissible in any civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding in this state as evidence of the existence of the lien. (Act 2009-281, p. 472, §2; Act 2009-746, p. 2236, §3.)
AL Code § 32-8-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 4 - Antitheft Laws.|Section 32-8-80 - Exceptions From Provisions of Article.

Section 32-8-80Exceptions from provisions of article. This article does not apply to the following unless a title certificate has been issued on such vehicles under this chapter: (1) A vehicle moved solely by animal power; (2) An implement of husbandry; (3) Special mobile equipment; and (4) A self-propelled wheelchair or invalid tricycle. (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §34.)
AL Code § 32-8-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 4 - Antitheft Laws.|Section 32-8-81 - Unauthorized Use of Vehicles.

Section 32-8-81Unauthorized use of vehicles. A person not entitled to possession of a vehicle who, without the consent of the owner and with intent to deprive him or her, temporarily or otherwise, of the vehicle or its possession, takes, uses, or drives the vehicle is guilty of a felony. (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §36.)
AL Code § 32-8-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 4 - Antitheft Laws.|Section 32-8-82 - Unauthorized Receiving or Disposing of Vehicles.

Section 32-8-82Unauthorized receiving or disposing of vehicles. A person not entitled to the possession of a vehicle who receives, possesses, conceals, sells, or disposes of it, knowing it to be stolen or converted under circumstances constituting a crime, is guilty of a felony. (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §36.)
AL Code § 32-8-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 4 - Antitheft Laws.|Section 32-8-83 - Unauthorized Damaging or Tampering With Vehicles.

Section 32-8-83Unauthorized damaging or tampering with vehicles. (a) A person who, willfully and without right to do so, damages a vehicle or damages or removes any of its parts or components is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) A person who, without right to do so and with intent to commit a crime, tampers with a vehicle, or goes in or on it, or works or attempts to work any of its parts or components, or sets or attempts to set it in motion is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §37.)
AL Code § 32-8-85 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 8 - Uniform Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act.|Article 4 - Antitheft Laws.|Section 32-8-85 - False Report of Theft or Conversion.

Section 32-8-85False report of theft or conversion. A person who knowingly makes a false report of the theft or conversion of a vehicle to a peace officer or to the department is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §39.)
AL Code § 32-9-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-9-1 - Trailers.

Section 32-9-1Trailers. Trailers, when used in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination may be operated on the national system of interstate and defense highways and other highways upon designation by the Director of Transportation and final approval by the Governor. The Director of Transportation shall, at a minimum, designate those highways necessary to cause the State of Alabama to be in compliance with the Federal Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982. Except as provided above, no person shall operate any trailer, as defined in this title, on any highway unless such trailer is operated for the purpose of constructing highways or other facilities of the state or a political subdivision thereof. The Department of Transportation is authorized to regulate the movement of such trailers from one job to another by special permits issued in the same manner as permits are issued under Section 32-9-29. No trailer or semitrailer of any kind shall be used for the hauling of passengers for hire except as provided by Article 2 of this chapter. The provisions of this article relating to trailers shall not apply to the movement over the highways of trailers manufactured, reconditioned, or repaired in this state when reasonably necessary for the delivery of such trailers to the owners or purchasers thereof outside the state; provided, that such movement shall be subject to special permit to be issued by the Director of the Department of Transportation. Such permits may be issued and may be renewed upon such terms and conditions, in the interest of public safety and the preservation of the highways, as the Director of the Department of Transportation may in his or her discretion require, and he or she may designate the route over which such trailers may be moved and the hours of movement thereof. (Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 58, p. 68; Code 1940, T. 36, §80; Acts 1947, No. 690, p. 526; Acts 1965, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 138, p. 190; Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-912, p. 188, §1.)
AL Code § 32-9-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-9-2 - Towing Cotton Wagons and Module-Movers.

Section 32-9-2Towing cotton wagons and module-movers. The provisions of any other law or the provisions of any administrative rule, regulation, or order to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful to tow cotton wagons and module-movers on the highways of the state when the wagons or module-movers are being used to haul cotton from the field to the gin and to return them to the farm from the gin, but it shall not be lawful to tow the cotton wagons on any interstate or limited-access highway in the state; provided, that no more than two wagons shall be attached to one truck, the width of each wagon or module-mover shall not exceed 10 feet, and the overall length of the wagons or module-mover and truck shall not exceed 85 feet. (Acts 1971, No. 2236, p. 3593; Acts 1987, No. 87-562, p. 875, §1; Act 2000-457, p. 856, §1.)
AL Code § 32-9-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-9-3 - Enforcement of Chapter.

Section 32-9-3Enforcement of chapter. Any peace officer, including sheriffs and their deputies, constables and their deputies, police officers and marshals of cities or incorporated towns, county police or patrols, state or county license inspectors and their deputies, state troopers and special officers appointed by any agency of the State of Alabama for the enforcement of its laws relating to motor vehicles, now existing or hereafter enacted, shall be authorized, and it is hereby made the duty of each of them to enforce the provisions of this chapter and to make arrests for any violation or violations thereof, without warrant, if the offense is committed in his or her presence, and with warrant if he or she does not observe the commission of the offense. If the arrest is made without warrant, the accused may elect to be immediately taken before the nearest court having jurisdiction, whereupon it shall be the duty of the officer to so take him or her. If the accused elects not to be so taken, then it shall be the duty of the officer to require of the accused a bail bond in a sum not to exceed $300.00, conditioned that the accused binds himself or herself to appear in the nearest court having jurisdiction at the time fixed in the bond. In case the arrested person fails to appear on the day fixed, the bond shall be forfeited in the manner as is provided for the forfeiture of bonds in other cases. No officer shall be permitted to take a cash bond. The officer making the arrest and taking the bond shall report the same to the court having jurisdiction within 18 hours after taking such bond. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 58, p. 68; Code 1940, T. 36, §86.)
AL Code § 32-9-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-9-4 - Courts Having Jurisdiction.

Section 32-9-4Courts having jurisdiction. All courts having jurisdiction of misdemeanors punishable by a fine of $500.00 or less and by imprisonment or hard labor, as above provided, shall have concurrent jurisdiction of the trial of all offenses under this chapter committed within their respective territorial jurisdictions. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 58, p. 68; Acts 1939, No. 484, p. 687; Code 1940, T. 36, §84.)
AL Code § 32-9-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-9-5 - Penalties.

Section 32-9-5Penalties. The operation of any truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer in violation of any section of this chapter or of the terms of any permit issued under this chapter, shall constitute a misdemeanor, and the owner thereof, if such violation was with his or her knowledge or consent, and the operator thereof shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 and may also be imprisoned or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 58, p. 68; Acts 1939, No. 484, p. 687; Code 1940, T. 36, §83.)
AL Code § 32-9-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 32-9-6 - Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures.

Section 32-9-6Disposition of fines and forfeitures. All fines and forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter constituting a misdemeanor, shall be, within 30 days after such fine or forfeiture is collected, forwarded to the State Treasurer. All amounts received from such fines or forfeitures shall be credited to the State General Fund. Failure, refusal, or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be ground for removal therefrom. All fines and forfeitures collected by district courts or municipal courts for violation of ordinances, whether for acts constituting violations of the provisions of this chapter or not, shall be paid into the treasury of such municipality in which the same were collected. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 58, p. 68; Code 1940, T. 36, §88; Acts 1943, No. 459, p. 421; Acts 1949, No. 518, p. 773, §4; Acts 1951, No. 363, p. 658.)
AL Code § 32-9-20.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 2 - Size and Weight.|Section 32-9-20.1 - Appurtenance Exceeding Maximum Prescribed Width.

Section 32-9-20.1Appurtenance exceeding maximum prescribed width. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 32-9-20, an appurtenance attached to a motor home, travel trailer, self-propelled camper or house car, truck camper, or recreational vehicle commonly known as an R.V. may exceed the maximum prescribed width provided in Section 32-9-20 if the appurtenance does not extend six inches beyond the sidewall of the vehicle. For the purpose of this section, an appurtenance is a part which is an integral part of the vehicle including, but not limited to, awnings, grab handles, lighting equipment, cameras, and vents. An appurtenance may not be used as a load-carrying device. (Act 2005-323, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 787, §1.)
AL Code § 32-9-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 2 - Size and Weight.|Section 32-9-21 - Maximum Permissible Length and Width of Motor Bus.

Section 32-9-21Maximum permissible length and width of motor bus. (a) The term motor bus, wherever used in this section, means any motor-propelled vehicle used on the highways of this state for the transportation of passengers for hire. (b) Except as provided in subsection (d), it shall be lawful to drive or operate upon any highway in this state any motor bus which does not exceed 45 feet in length, and eight and one-half feet in width, exclusive of detachable wind deflection devices which have been approved by the State Department of Transportation and safety equipment. (c) The term articulated motor bus, wherever used in this section, means any motor bus, divided into joined sections, that actuates in a manner ensuring a turning radius which is less than a motor bus of the same length without such joined actuation. (d) It shall be lawful to drive or operate on any highway in this state an articulated motor bus which does not exceed 60 feet in length, and eight and one-half feet in width, exclusive of detachable wind deflection devices which have been approved by the State Department of Transportation and safety equipment. (e) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to change in any way any law affecting the regulation of any motor bus except with respect to the maximum permissible length and width thereof. (Acts 1951, No. 801, p. 1400; Acts 1979, No. 79-792, p. 1445, §1; Acts 1981, No. 81-402, p. 631; Act 2010-694, p. 1683, §1.)
AL Code § 32-9-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 2 - Size and Weight.|Section 32-9-22 - Exemptions - Generally.

Section 32-9-22Exemptions - Generally. (a) There shall be exempt from the provisions of this article trucks, semitrailer trucks, or trailers owned by the United States, or any agency thereof, the State of Alabama, or any county or city, or incorporated town; nor shall the provisions of this article apply to implements of husbandry temporarily propelled or moved upon the highways; nor shall the provisions of this article apply to trucks, semitrailer trucks, or trailers used exclusively for carrying 50 bales or less of cotton. (b) If any truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer shall be licensed by any city or incorporated town and the registration plate or plates issued as evidence of the license shall be conspicuously exhibited on the truck, semitrailer truck, or trailer, in the manner required by law, the provisions of this article shall not apply to the operation of such vehicles within the limits of the municipality or within the police jurisdiction thereof; provided, that municipalities may provide by ordinance maximum limits with respect to the weight, height, width, and length of trucks, semitrailer trucks, and trailers within their police jurisdiction; provided, that the maximum limits prescribed shall not be less than those fixed in Section 32-9-20 and may impose license taxes on such vehicles and require all such vehicles to have affixed thereto, in some conspicuous place, a registration plate or plates. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 58, p. 68; Code 1940, T. 36, §90; Acts 1947, No. 100, p. 26; Acts 1949, No. 255, p. 377, §1; Acts 1963, No. 295, p. 762, §2.)
AL Code § 32-9-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 2 - Size and Weight.|Section 32-9-23 - Exemptions - Milk Transporters.

Section 32-9-23Exemptions - Milk transporters. There shall be exempt from the provisions of this article as to weight any truck or semitrailer truck transporting milk for human consumption, for which refrigeration and transit is reasonably necessary in the interest of public health, when moving under refrigeration to or from market from the territory in which such commodity is collected or concentrated. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 58, p. 68; Code 1940, T. 36, §92; Acts 1951, No. 876, p. 1514.)
AL Code § 32-9-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 2 - Size and Weight.|Section 32-9-24 - Exemptions - Farm Tractors.

Section 32-9-24Exemptions - Farm tractors. Farm tractors shall be exempt from the restrictions of this article as to width, but, however, shall not exceed nine feet in width. (Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 36, §93.)
AL Code § 32-9-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.|Chapter 9 - Trucks, Trailers and Semitrailers.|Article 2 - Size and Weight.|Section 32-9-25 - Exemptions - Length.

Section 32-9-25Exemptions - Length. There shall be exempt from this article as to length, detachable wind deflection devices which have been approved by the State Department of Transportation, loads of poles, logs, lumber, laminated wood building materials, structural steel, piping, and timber, and vehicles transporting same. Trucks, trailers, and semitrailers which are constructed and used exclusively for the hauling of livestock, shall also be exempt from the restrictions of this article as to length, but shall not exceed 65 feet in length. (Acts 1939, No. 484, p. 687; Code 1940, T. 36, §94; Acts 1949, No. 607, p. 939; Acts 1979, No. 79-430, p. 677; Acts 1979, No. 79-792, p. 1445, §1; Acts 1993, No. 93-630, p. 1076, §1.)