Code of Alabama
Article 3 - Traffic Offenses.
Section 12-12-53 - Requirement of Use of Uniform Traffic Ticket and Complaint.

(a) Every law enforcement agency in the state shall use traffic citations of the form known as the uniform traffic ticket and complaint, which shall be substantially uniform throughout the state and which shall be issued, except for an electronic traffic ticket or e-ticket, as defined in Section 32-1-4, in books with citations in no less than quadruplicate.
(b) The uniform traffic ticket and complaint shall be used in traffic cases where a complaint is made by a law enforcement officer or by any other person or an information is filed by the district attorney.

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Code of Alabama

Title 12 - Courts.

Chapter 12 - District Courts.

Article 3 - Traffic Offenses.

Section 12-12-50 - "Traffic Infraction" Defined.

Section 12-12-51 - District Court Jurisdiction of Misdemeanor Prosecutions for Traffic Infractions.

Section 12-12-52 - Receipt of Guilty Pleas in Traffic Infraction Prosecutions by Magistrates.

Section 12-12-53 - Requirement of Use of Uniform Traffic Ticket and Complaint.

Section 12-12-54 - Accounting for Uniform Traffic Tickets and Complaints; Disposition of Forms; Records and Reports.

Section 12-12-55 - Establishment of Schedules of Fines for Traffic Infractions; Provision for Manner of Payment and Accounting for of Fines and Costs.

Section 12-12-56 - Law Enforcement Officers, etc., Not to Dispose of Uniform Traffic Tickets or Complaints, etc., in Unauthorized Manner; Persons Soliciting, etc., Unauthorized Disposition, etc., of Uniform Traffic Ticket and Complaint Subject to Pun...