Code of Alabama
Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.

Section 37-1-3 - Election or Appointment of Commissioners; Terms of Office; Filling of Vacancies. - (a) The terms of office of the commissioners shall be...

Section 37-1-4 - Oath. - The members of the commission shall be state officers, and...

Section 37-1-5 - Commissioners and Clerks Not to Render Professional Service to Utilities. - No public service commissioner or clerk of the commission shall,...

Section 37-1-6 - Certain Persons Ineligible to Be Commissioners. - No person owning any stock in any utility, or in...

Section 37-1-7 - Impeachment and Removal of Commissioners. - The commissioners may be impeached and removed from office by...

Section 37-1-8 - Office; Meetings; Record of Proceedings. - The commissioners shall have an office at Montgomery, Alabama, and...

Section 37-1-9 - Residency of Commissioners; Full Time Devoted to Official Business. - Each member of the commission shall devote his or her...

Section 37-1-10 - Domicile of Commission; Jurisdiction of Actions or Proceedings Against Commission. - The domicile of the Public Service Commission is fixed at...

Section 37-1-11 - Salaries and Expense Allowances of Commissioners. - Subject to the provisions of this section, the President of...

Section 37-1-12 - Employees - Appointment or Employment; Salaries; Special Counsel. - The commission, under the provisions of the merit system, shall...

Section 37-1-12.1 - Employees - Accountant, Utility Rates Analyst, Economist, Etc. - The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to employ technically...

Section 37-1-12.2 - Employees - Stenographic and Other Clerical Assistants; Special Investigators. - The commission shall employ such stenographic and other clerical assistants,...

Section 37-1-13 - Employees - Penalty for Divulging Certain Information. - Any regular or special employee of the Public Service Commission...

Section 37-1-14 - Bond of Supervisor of Accounts. - Before entering upon the duties of his office, the supervisor...

Section 37-1-15 - Free Tickets, Free Passes or Free Transportation. - The following persons may, at the discretion of such carrier,...

Section 37-1-16 - Assignment of Assistant Attorney General to Represent Consumers and State in Proceedings Before Commission; Powers and Duties of Attorney General in Connection With Public Utility Services Generally; Commission to Furnish Copies of... - (a) In addition to such staff assistants and investigators as...

Section 37-1-17 - Economic and Financial Studies and Surveys of Public Utility Services; Compilation of Financial and Economic Data, Statistics and Analysis; Evaluations of Future Needs. - It shall be the duty and responsibility of the commission's...

Section 37-1-18 - Consumer's Utility Rate Hearing Fund. - Each fiscal year, including the fiscal year of the enactment...

Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.

Division 1 - General Provisions.

Section 37-1-30 - Use of Word "Utility" or "utilities." - Whenever the word "utility" or "utilities" is used in this...

Section 37-1-31 - Exclusive Powers and Jurisdiction. - The rights, powers, authority, jurisdiction and duties by this title...

Section 37-1-32 - General Supervision of Utilities. - The Public Service Commission shall have general supervision of all...

Section 37-1-33 - Jurisdictional Exemptions or Limitations - Distribution or Furnishing, etc., of Electricity, Gas, or Steam. - None of the provisions of this title shall apply to...

Section 37-1-34 - Jurisdictional Exemptions or Limitations - Municipal Utilities. - Nothing contained in this title shall be deemed to confer...

Section 37-1-35 - Jurisdictional Exemptions or Limitations - Exercise of Certain Municipal Powers. - Nothing in this title is intended or shall be construed:...

Section 37-1-36 - Jurisdictional Exemptions or Limitations - Nonutility Business. - When a person is engaged in business, a portion of...

Section 37-1-37 - Jurisdictional Exemptions or Limitations - Logging or Private Railroads. - This title shall not apply to logging or private railroads...

Section 37-1-38 - Adoption of Rules. - The commission may adopt and publish rules to govern its...

Section 37-1-39 - Publication of Orders and Opinions. - Every order of the commission shall be in writing, and...

Section 37-1-40 - Duty of Utilities to Comply With Orders. - Every utility subject to the supervision of the Public Service...

Section 37-1-41 - Reports to Governor. - On or before January 10 of each year, the Public...

Section 37-1-42 - Furnishing Information to Department of Revenue. - The commission shall, on request of the Director of the...

Section 37-1-43 - Jurisdiction Over Utilities Engaged in Interstate Commerce Not Regulated Under Acts of Congress. - All the authority, powers and jurisdiction which have been given...

Section 37-1-44 - Proceedings When Interstate Rates or Rules, etc., Deemed Excessive or Discriminatory. - When the commission is of the opinion that the interstate...

Section 37-1-45 - Sitting or Conferring With Commissions of Other States. - The members of the commission may sit with and confer...

Section 37-1-46 - Sitting or Conferring With Federal Commissions or Agencies. - In any proceedings involving directly or indirectly any rate, charge,...

Section 37-1-47 - Intervention, Initiation or Participation in Federal Proceedings Involving Interstate Rates, etc., in Alabama. - When, in any proceeding before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal...

Section 37-1-48 - Waiver by Utility of Terms or Conditions in Municipal Ordinances or Contracts. - Any utility accepting under the provisions of this title any...

Section 37-1-49 - Duty of Utility to Render Adequate Service and Maintain Facilities. - Every utility shall maintain its plant, facilities and equipment in...

Section 37-1-50 - Certificate for Abandonment of Service. - No utility shall abandon all or any portion of its...

Section 37-1-51 - Classification of Utility Services. - The commission may provide for a comprehensive classification of service...

Section 37-1-52 - Prescribing Standards of Service; Regulations for Testing of Service. - The commission may prescribe adequate standard of service rendered or...

Section 37-1-52.1 - Operator Service to Include Access to Live Operator. - Each telecommunications utility and/or company that provides operator service shall...

Section 37-1-53 - Providing for Accuracy of Meters or Measuring Devices, Etc. - (a) The commission may prescribe reasonable rules, regulations and standards...

Section 37-1-54 - Establishing Uniform Systems of Accounts for Utilities. - (a) The commission may, when it deems it advisable to...

Section 37-1-55 - Separation of Intrastate Railroad Operations for Accounting Purposes. - Where railroads are required to keep their accounts and records...

Section 37-1-56 - Prescribing Changes in Form for Schedules and Service Regulations. - The commission may prescribe such changes in the form in...

Section 37-1-57 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Generally. - Every utility, when and as required by the commission, shall...

Section 37-1-58 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Annual Return of Business. - Every utility doing business in this state must, within 90...

Section 37-1-59 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Additional Reports of Earnings and Operating Expenses. - The commission may also require utilities to file additional reports...

Section 37-1-60 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Form of Reports and Records. - The Public Service Commission shall prescribe the form of the...

Section 37-1-61 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Originals to Be Subscribed and Sworn To; Preservation in Office of Commission. - The originals of the reports shall be subscribed and sworn...

Section 37-1-62 - Reports, Records and Accounts to Be Open for Public Inspection. - All reports, records and accounts in the possession of the...

Section 37-1-63 - Powers of Commissioners and Examiners to Administer Oaths, Issue Subpoenas, Etc. - Each of the commissioners, and any examiners appointed by the...

Section 37-1-64 - Attorney General to Represent Commission in Legal Proceedings; Employment of Special Counsel. - The Attorney General shall represent the Public Service Commission in...

Section 37-1-65 - Actions to Enforce Penalties or Forfeitures. - Unless otherwise in this title provided, all actions to enforce...

Section 37-1-66 - Powers of Members of Enforcement Division. - Members of the enforcement division of the Public Service Commission...

Division 2 - Rates and Other Regulations.

Section 37-1-80 - Rates to Be Just and Reasonable; Right of Utility to Earn Fair Net Return; Alternative Methods of Regulation. - (a) The rates and charges for the services rendered and...

Section 37-1-80.1 - Review and Adjustment of Rates of Connecting Telephone Companies When South Central Bell Telephone Company Receives Increase in Net Return. - When South Central Bell Telephone Company receives an increase in...

Section 37-1-80.2 - Dual Party Relay System and Fund; Board of Trustees; Funding of Other Services; Liability of Trustees. - (a) The Alabama Public Service Commission shall impose a surcharge...

Section 37-1-81 - Schedules of Rates or Service Regulations. - (a) Whenever a utility desires to put in operation a...

Section 37-1-82 - Production and Inspection of Books or Records, etc., of Utilities. - (a) The commission, by order, may require any utility or...

Section 37-1-83 - Investigation of Unfair Rates or Inadequate Service; Who May File Complaints; Continuance. - Upon a complaint in writing made against any utility by...

Section 37-1-84 - Filing and Contents of Complaint. - Such action or complaint shall be commenced by filing a...

Section 37-1-85 - Time and Place of Hearing. - Whenever the commission shall determine to conduct an investigation either...

Section 37-1-86 - Notice and Process. - (a) Before proceeding to make such investigation, the commission shall...

Section 37-1-87 - Intervention in Proceedings Before Commission. - Every person, firm, corporation, copartnership, association, or organization affected thereby...

Section 37-1-88 - Right of Party to Be Heard in Person or by Attorney. - In any hearing, proceeding or investigation conducted by the commission,...

Section 37-1-89 - Taking of Testimony; Further Investigation; Laws Governing Conduct of Hearing; Transcript. - (a) At the hearing held pursuant to such notice, the...

Section 37-1-90 - Separate Hearings on Several Matters. - When complaint is made of more than one rate or...

Section 37-1-91 - Witnesses Not Excused for Reasons of Incrimination or Forfeiture; Perjury Prosecution Not Barred. - No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or...

Section 37-1-92 - Depositions of Witnesses. - The commission or, with the consent of the commission, any...

Section 37-1-93 - Fees of Witnesses. - Each witness who shall appear before the commission by its...

Section 37-1-94 - Time Allowed Commission for Making Decision. - The commission shall, within 90 days after the completion of...

Section 37-1-95 - Order Requiring Discontinuance or Rectification of Violation. - Whenever, after investigation in accordance with the provisions of this...

Section 37-1-96 - Necessity for Hearing Prior to Order Affecting Rate or Service. - No order shall be made by the commission affecting any...

Section 37-1-97 - Order Fixing Reasonable Rate. - Whenever, upon an investigation made under the provisions of this...

Section 37-1-98 - Certified Copies of Orders. - Certified copies of orders of the commission shall be delivered...

Section 37-1-99 - Rates and Orders of Commission Deemed Prima Facie Reasonable and Valid. - All rates, fares, charges, classifications and joint rates and orders...

Section 37-1-100 - Effective Date of Orders. - Unless a different time is prescribed by the commission, every...

Section 37-1-101 - Modification of Orders. - At any time after the entry thereof, the commission, in...

Section 37-1-102 - Record of Proceedings. - A full and complete record of all proceedings before the...

Section 37-1-103 - Substantial Compliance by Commission With Requirements of Title Sufficient. - A substantial compliance by the commission with the requirements of...

Section 37-1-104 - Power of Circuit Court to Compel Compliance With Commission Orders, Etc. - In case of failure or refusal on the part of...

Section 37-1-105 - Rehearing. - At any time after an order has been made by...

Division 3 - Appeals.

Division 1 - General Provisions.

Section 37-1-120 - Right of Appeal to Circuit Court of Montgomery County - Generally. - From any final action or order of the commission in...

Section 37-1-121 - Right of Appeal to Circuit Court of Montgomery County - Intervenors or Interested Parties. - Any intervenor or interested party may appeal from any final...

Section 37-1-122 - Time for Appeal; How Appeal Perfected. - All appeals shall be taken within 30 days from the...

Section 37-1-123 - Record or Transcript of Proceedings Before Commission. - Within 30 days after the perfecting of the appeal and...

Section 37-1-124 - Proceedings on Appeal. - The commission's order shall be taken as prima facie just...

Section 37-1-125 - Right to Supersede Order by Giving Bond. - On any such appeal any utility, interested party or intervenor...

Section 37-1-126 - Superseding Order - Order of Stay or Supersedeas. - An appeal to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County shall...

Section 37-1-127 - Superseding Order - Statement of Approximate Effect on Revenues. - In the application for supersedeas, the utility shall, under oath,...

Section 37-1-128 - Superseding Order - Amount of Bond. - The bond required to be filed as provided in this...

Section 37-1-129 - Superseding Order - Additional Bond. - An additional bond of like amount and with the same...

Section 37-1-130 - Superseding Order - Order Stayed and Superseded Upon Giving Bond; Termination of Stay or Supersedeas. - After the required bond shall have been given, the order...

Section 37-1-131 - Rate Suspension to Affect Only Utilities Giving Bond. - If any rate or rates or order or orders shall,...

Section 37-1-132 - Right of Appeal to Supreme Court. - Any party may appeal to the Supreme Court of Alabama...

Section 37-1-133 - Appeal by Commission or State. - If the Public Service Commission or the State of Alabama...

Section 37-1-134 - Appeal by Utility. - If said appeal is taken by the utility, security for...

Section 37-1-135 - Action on Bond for Damages Resulting From Suspension of Rates or Orders. - Any person, firm, company, or corporation who shall sustain any...

Division 2 - Appeals in Cases Involving Rates and Charges of Telephone Companies or Public Utilities.

Section 37-1-140 - Direct Appeal to Supreme Court as Matter of Right; Preferred Setting of Appeals; Time for Taking Appeals; Bond Required When Appellant Is Utility or Person. - In all cases involving controversies respecting rates and charges of...

Section 37-1-141 - Who May Appeal; Manner of Taking Appeal; Application for Supersedeas; Supersedeas Bonds; Collection of Denied Rate Increases Prior to Final Disposition of Case. - Either party or any intervenor may appeal to the supreme...

Section 37-1-142 - Certification to Supreme Court of Record or Transcript of Proceedings Before Commission. - Within 30 days after the perfection of the appeal as...

Section 37-1-143 - Review of Case to Be Upon Certified Record or Transcript; Remand of Case to Commission for Additional Proceedings; Employment of Special Masters, Accountants, Consultants, etc., by Chief Justice. - The court shall review the case upon the certified record...

Section 37-1-144 - Subdivision Cumulative; Repeal of Conflicting Laws. - The provisions of this subdivision 2 are cumulative and supplemental...

Division 4 - Injunction or Restraining Order.

Section 37-1-150 - Bond as Condition Precedent to Issuance of Injunction or Restraining Order. - No judge or court shall grant any preliminary injunction or...

Section 37-1-151 - Notice to Commission. - No preliminary injunction or interlocutory order or process suspending or...

Section 37-1-152 - Filing of Bond; Condition to Pay Damages. - The bonds required to be given as a condition precedent...

Section 37-1-153 - Right to Appeal. - Either party may appeal to the supreme court from the...

Section 37-1-154 - Bond Required Upon Appeal by Utility. - If the utility desires to take an appeal from the...

Section 37-1-155 - Action on Bond. - Any person, firm, company or corporation, who shall sustain any...

Section 37-1-156 - Delivery of Bond Upon Dissolution of Injunction; Receipt in Evidence. - Immediately after the dissolution or vacating of the injunction or...

Section 37-1-157 - Costs. - If, upon the appeal of any action originating under this...

Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.

Section 37-2-1 - "Transportation Company" Defined. - The term "transportation company" shall mean and include every person...

Section 37-2-2 - Governmentally Owned Transportation Companies. - The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any...

Section 37-2-3 - Duty of Commission to Supervise, Regulate, and Control Transportation Companies. - The Public Service Commission is charged with the duty of...

Section 37-2-4 - When Certificate of Convenience and Necessity Required. - No transportation company shall undertake the extension of its service...

Section 37-2-4.1 - Owners of Land Proposed to Be Acquired by Utility or Telephone Company to Be Given Notice of Filing of Application for Certificate of Convenience and Necessity. - Any utility or telephone company that is required to obtain...

Section 37-2-5 - When Permit to Abandon Service Required. - No transportation company subject to this chapter shall abandon all...

Section 37-2-6 - Application for Certificate or Permit - Notice and Hearing. - The application for and issuance of any such certificate of...

Section 37-2-7 - Application for Certificate or Permit - Grant or Refusal; Conditions; Revocation; Exception. - The commission, as it deems to the best interest of...

Section 37-2-8 - List of Tickets, Passes and Mileage Books to Be Filed With Commission. - Every transportation company shall, on or before September 1 in...

Section 37-2-9 - Repairs, Improvements or Changes in Property or Devices. - If, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, repairs...

Section 37-2-10 - Filing and Posting of Tariffs. - Every transportation company shall print and cause to be filed...

Section 37-2-11 - Joint Rates. - Whenever any transportation company shall refuse or neglect to establish...

Section 37-2-12 - Changes in Rates. - No change shall be made in any rate, fare, charge...

Section 37-2-13 - Posted Rates to Be Legally Applicable Rates. - No transportation company shall charge or demand, or collect or...

Section 37-2-14 - Temporary or Emergency Rates. - (a) The commission, when deemed by it necessary to prevent...

Section 37-2-15 - Special Rates. - (a) The Public Service Commission, upon its own motion or...

Section 37-2-16 - Penalty for Discrimination. - (a) If any transportation company subject to the provisions of...

Section 37-2-17 - Penalty for Excessive Rates. - (a) If any transportation company doing business in this state...

Section 37-2-18 - Treble Damages. - In addition to the penalties and forfeitures provided in this...

Section 37-2-19 - Reparation. - (a) Where complaint has been made to the commission concerning...

Section 37-2-20 - Concentration and Transit Privileges and Rates. - Concentration and transit privileges and rates may be permitted or,...

Section 37-2-21 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - When Issued; Contents; Receipt for Cotton in Bales; Common-Law Liability Not Affected. - (a) Every transportation company receiving property for transportation, originating and...

Section 37-2-22 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Not Given Until Property Delivered to Carrier; Duplicates. - A transportation company engaged in the business of carriage, or...

Section 37-2-23 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Liability for False or Second Bill of Lading or Receipt or for Failure to Endorse Partial Delivery. - If any transportation company, not having received things or property...

Section 37-2-24 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Delivery to Cotton Compress. - A delivery of cotton at or to a compress for...

Section 37-2-25 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Unauthorized Sale or Transfer of Property Prohibited. - A transportation company or other person engaged in the business...

Section 37-2-26 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Charges to Be Settled According to Stipulated Rate. - All transportation companies doing business in this state shall settle...

Section 37-2-27 - Notice to Consignees of Arrival of Freight. - A transportation company, if the place of destination of freight...

Section 37-2-30 - Sale of Unclaimed Freight - Insurance; Application of Proceeds; Record; Disposition of Surplus. - (a) The transportation company may insure the freight, at the...

Section 37-2-29 - Sale of Unclaimed Freight - Perishable or Live Freight. - Where such unclaimed freight is perishable or live, such transportation...

Section 37-2-28 - Sale of Unclaimed Freight - Nonperishable Freight. - (a) Any transportation company having an office or place of...

Section 37-2-31 - Duty to Receive or Transport Freight; Liability for Failure or Delay. - Every transportation company subject to the provisions of this chapter,...

Section 37-2-32 - Partial Delivery of Consignment. - Whenever any freight shall be received by any transportation company...

Section 37-2-33 - Overcharges. - (a) In case of any overcharge on published or lawful...

Section 37-2-34 - Joint Actions Against Connecting Carriers. - When goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property are shipped...

Section 37-2-35 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Free Transportation Within Certain Weight Limits. - Every transportation company in this state, which shall engage in...

Section 37-2-36 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Charge for Excess Baggage. - Every transportation company in this state shall charge passengers, on...

Section 37-2-37 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Baggage, etc., of Commercial Travelers. - The baggage, samples, goods, wares, appliances, and catalogues of commercial...

Section 37-2-38 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Maximum Size and Weight Limits; Exceptions. - No transportation company shall be required to transport any piece...

Section 37-2-39 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Storage Charges for Baggage Left in Baggage Rooms or Station Houses. - All passengers of whatever character having baggage transported by companies...

Section 37-2-40 - Free Transportation or Reduced Rates. - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the...

Section 37-2-41 - Inspection and Supervision Fees; Election. - (a) Each transportation company doing business in this state and...

Section 37-2-42 - Refund of Excessive Charges Upon Submission of Expense Bill or Receipt. - Any person, firm or corporation may submit to the commission,...

Section 37-2-43 - Soliciting Claims Against Transportation Companies Forbidden. - No agent, officer or attorney of any traffic association or...

Section 37-2-44 - Rights of Action Not Waived; Penalties Cumulative. - This chapter shall not release or waive any right of...

Section 37-2-45 - Recovery of Penalties or Forfeitures. - A civil action to recover the forfeitures provided for in...

Section 37-2-46 - Each Violation Constitutes Separate Offense; Act of Employee Act of Company. - Every violation of the provisions of this chapter, or of...

Division 2 - Damages for Loss, Injury,or Delay in Delivery.

Section 37-2-60 - Measure of Damages for Loss, Injury, or Delay in Delivery, Etc. - In all cases of loss, destruction, injury to, delay in...

Section 37-2-61 - Claim for Damages. - (a) When any property, chattels, or goods have been received...

Section 37-2-62 - Action for Damages. - (a) If the value of such goods, property or chattels...

Division 3 - Regulations Affecting Public Safety.

Section 37-2-80 - Railroad Signs. - Every railroad company must erect, at all points where its...

Section 37-2-81 - Duty of Locomotive Engineer to Ring Bell or Blow Horn, Etc. - The engineer or other person operating a locomotive on any...

Section 37-2-82 - Stopping Trains at Crossings; Right-of-Way. - When the tracks of two railroads cross each other at...

Section 37-2-83 - Liability of Railroad for Failure to Comply With Sections 37-2-80 Through 37-2-82; Burden of Proof. - A railroad company is liable for all damages done to...

Section 37-2-84 - Abandonment and Discontinuance of Grade Crossings. - (a) The Department of Transportation is given authority and power...

Section 37-2-85 - Examination and Licensing of Railroad Employees. - (a) It shall be the duty of every person or...

Section 37-2-86 - Employment of Unlicensed Persons. - Any person or corporation operating a railroad in this state...

Section 37-2-86.1 - Conductor and Engineer's Qualification Permit Contents; Display. - Every railroad conductor and engineer in this state shall carry...

Section 37-2-87 - Instruction of Engineers and Conductors. - The chief superintendent of every railroad shall instruct the engineers...

Section 37-2-88 - Railroad Drawbridges. - (a) All steamboats approaching, with the intention of passing through,...

Section 37-2-89 - Railroad Fences; Liability for Injury to Stock. - (a) Whenever the Public Service Commission deems it necessary that...

Section 37-2-90 - Locomotive Headlights. - All companies, corporations, lessees, owners, operators, or receivers of any...

Section 37-2-91 - Railroad Accident Reports. - Every person, corporation, company or association operating a railroad shall...

Division 4 - Regulations for Convenience of Passengers.

Section 37-2-110 - Duty of Railroad to Provide Accommodations Generally. - Every railroad company in this state, on the order of...

Section 37-2-111 - Union Stations. - Any two or more railroads which enter any city or...

Section 37-2-112 - Orders of Commission - Notice; Time for Compliance. - Whenever the Public Service Commission shall make an order requiring...

Section 37-2-113 - Orders of Commission - Remedy for Noncompliance. - The Public Service Commission must notify the district attorney of...

Section 37-2-114 - Failure of Trains to Stop at Advertised Stations. - Railroad trains for the carriage of passengers must stop at...

Section 37-2-116 - Action for Damages Not Barred. - Nothing in this division shall be so construed as to...

Division 5 - Commercial Regulations and Regulations for Convenience of Shippers.

Section 37-2-130 - Duty of Railroad to Maintain Depots, Etc. - All railroads shall on the order of the Public Service...

Section 37-2-131 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Generally. - Railroads may be constructed so as to cross or connect...

Section 37-2-132 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Railroads Running to or Through Same Town or City. - When two or more railroad companies have roads running to...

Section 37-2-133 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Switch Connections. - Every railroad subject to the provisions of this division shall...

Section 37-2-134 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Duty to Provide Equal and Reasonable Facilities. - All railroad companies subject to the provisions of this division...

Section 37-2-135 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Duty to Deliver Freight or Cars Without Unreasonable Delay or Discrimination; Precedence Given Livestock and Perishable Freight. - All railroads shall afford all reasonable and proper facilities for...

Section 37-2-136 - Spur Tracks and Sidetracks. - Every railroad is required to construct and maintain spur tracks...

Section 37-2-137 - Cattle Guards. - Every person or corporation operating a railroad must put cattle...

Division 6 - Railway Policemen.

Section 37-2-150 - Appointment. - (a) Any company or corporation operating a railway may apply...

Section 37-2-151 - Oath; Bond. - Every policeman so appointed shall, before entering upon the duties...

Section 37-2-152 - Badge. - Such railway policemen shall, when on duty, severally wear a...

Section 37-2-153 - Powers. - (a) A railroad policeman may exercise the same powers of...

Section 37-2-154 - Compensation. - The compensation of such policemen shall be paid by the...

Section 37-2-155 - Liability of Corporation for Acts of Policemen. - The corporation or company which applied for the appointment of...

Section 37-2-156 - Filing of Notice That Services No Longer Required. - Whenever any such corporation or company shall no longer require...

Section 37-2-157 - Removal by Governor. - The Governor may, at any time, remove any such policeman...

Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.

Section 37-2A-1 - Short Title. - This chapter shall be known as the Communications Reform Act...

Section 37-2A-2 - Definitions. - When used in this chapter, the following words have the...

Section 37-2A-3 - Purpose. - The Legislature finds that advancements in communications technology and innovation...

Section 37-2A-4 - Jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the...

Section 37-2A-5 - Process for Election. - (a) An incumbent local exchange carrier, local exchange carrier, or...

Section 37-2A-5.1 - Waiver of Federal Exemptions, Suspensions, and Modification. - Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, those provisions...

Section 37-2A-6 - Customer Notification. - (a) Carriers that become regulated under subsection (a) of Section...

Section 37-2A-7 - Universal Service Programs; Fees; Access to Data Files for Required Administrative Functions. - (a)(1) The commission shall implement, supervise, and control state and...

Section 37-2A-8 - Provision of Basic Telephone Service and Optional Telephone Features. - (a)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an...

Section 37-2A-9 - Standards for New Entrants. - (a) The commission shall retain its jurisdiction to prescribe reasonable...

Section 37-2A-10 - (Effective Until October 1, 2019) Supervision and Inspection Fees. - REPEALED I BY ACT 2015-70 EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2019. Telecommunications...

Section 37-2A-10.1 - Application of Fees. - For fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, supervision and inspection...

Section 37-2A-11 - Interpretation. - (a) This chapter is intended to supersede the remainder of...

Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.

Section 37-3-1 - Short Title. - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

Section 37-3-2 - Definitions. - The following words and phrases used in this chapter, where...

Section 37-3-3 - Applicability of Chapter to Interstate Commerce. - This chapter and every part thereof shall apply to and...

Section 37-3-4 - Exemptions. - (a) This chapter shall not be construed to apply to:...

Section 37-3-5 - Operations to Be in Accordance With Chapter; Carriers Subject to Regulation of Commission. - No motor carrier, as defined in this chapter, not exempt...

Section 37-3-6 - Proprietary or Property Rights in Use of Highways Not Conferred by Chapter. - Nothing in this chapter shall confer any proprietary or property...

Section 37-3-7 - Powers and Duties of Commission Generally. - It shall be the duty of the commission: (1) To...

Section 37-3-8 - Commission Members Not to Have Pecuniary Interest, etc., in Carriers or Brokers. - No member of the commission, nor any employee of the...

Section 37-3-9 - Disposition of Matters Requiring Hearing. - Except as otherwise provided, any matter arising in the administration...

Section 37-3-10 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - When Required; Application; Determination by Commission. - (a) No common carrier by motor vehicle subject to the...

Section 37-3-11 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Issuance Generally. - (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 37-3-14 and to...

Section 37-3-12 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Scope of Authority Granted; Deviations; Charter Parties; Transportation of Newspapers, Baggage or Mail; Abandonment or Discontinuance. - (a) Any certificate issued under Sections 37-3-10 and 37-3-11 shall...

Section 37-3-12.1 - Grant of Intrastate Charter Rights to Certain Common Carriers Authorized. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 37-3-11 or any other provision...

Section 37-3-13 - Contract Carrier Permits - Generally. - (a) No person shall engage in the business of a...

Section 37-3-14 - Contract Carrier Permits - Dual Operations. - No person shall at the same time hold under this...

Section 37-3-15 - Licensing and Regulation of Brokers. - (a) No person shall for compensation sell or offer for...

Section 37-3-16 - Effective Date of Certificates, Permits or Licenses; Suspension, Change or Revocation. - Certificates, permits and licenses shall be effective from the date...

Section 37-3-17 - Transfer of Certificates or Permits. - Subject to the provisions of Section 37-3-14, any certificate or...

Section 37-3-18 - Bond or Other Security. - (a) No certificate or permit shall be issued to a...

Section 37-3-20 - Tariffs of Common Carriers. - (a) Every common carrier by motor vehicle shall file with...

Section 37-3-19 - Duty of Common Carrier to Provide Service, Equipment, and Facilities; Rates and Charges Generally; Rules, Regulations, and Practices; Other Remedies Not Extinguished. - (a) It shall be the duty of every common carrier...

Section 37-3-21 - Schedules or Contracts of Contract Carriers; Charges Generally; Rules, Regulations or Practices. - (a) It shall be the duty of every contract carrier...

Section 37-3-22 - Accounts, Records and Reports. - (a) The commission is hereby authorized to require annual, periodical...

Section 37-3-23 - Bills of Lading. - Every common carrier by motor vehicle subject to the provisions...

Section 37-3-23.1 - Unenforceability of Certain Motor Vehicle Transportation Contract Provisions. - (a) In this section, the following words shall have the...

Section 37-3-24 - Effective Date of Commission Orders. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all orders...

Section 37-3-25 - Penalties for Violations. - (a) Any person knowingly and willfully violating any provision of...

Section 37-3-26 - Collection of Rates and Charges. - No common carrier by motor vehicle shall deliver or relinquish...

Section 37-3-27 - Employment of Personnel to Aid Commission in Administration and Enforcement of Chapter. - The commission is authorized to employ such assistants and employees...

Section 37-3-28 - Examiners. - The commission is empowered to designate by its order such...

Section 37-3-29 - Appeals. - From any final action or order of the commission in...

Section 37-3-30 - Additional Compensation of Commission Members. - For the extra, new and additional duties imposed upon the...

Section 37-3-31 - Appropriation. - There is appropriated out of the moneys of the treasury,...

Section 37-3-32 - Fees. - In addition to all of the taxes and fees prescribed...

Section 37-3-32.1 - Administration of Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005. - (a) Foreign and domestic motor carriers, motor private carriers, leasing...

Section 37-3-33 - Municipal Privilege License Fees or Taxes. - (a) Any incorporated city or town in this state shall...

Section 37-3-34 - Rules and Regulations of Commission. - The commission is given the power and authority to make...

Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.

Article 1 - Rate and Other Regulations.

Section 37-4-1 - Definitions. - Unless otherwise specified, when used in this article, these terms...

Section 37-4-2 - Jurisdiction of Commission Limited as to Nonutilities. - The commission shall not have any jurisdiction, authority, power or...

Section 37-4-2.1 - Regulation of Certain Private Water System Utilities in Class 8 Municipalities. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any private water system...

Section 37-4-3 - Officers and Directors Occupy Fiduciary Relationship. - The officers and directors of every corporation operating as a...

Section 37-4-4 - Directors Not to Delegate or Relinquish Duties. - The directors of corporations which are utilities engaged in any...

Section 37-4-5 - Sale or Purchase of Securities by Utility Employees. - No utility shall permit any employee to sell, offer for...

Section 37-4-6 - Payment of Dividends. - (a) No utility engaged in intrastate business in this state...

Section 37-4-7 - Application to Issue Securities or Assume Obligations - When Required; Order of Commission. - No utility shall issue any securities, or assume any obligation...

Section 37-4-8 - Application to Issue Securities or Assume Obligations - Form; Contents; Oath; Signatures; by Whom Filed. - Every application for authority for such issue or assumption shall...

Section 37-4-9 - Application to Issue Securities or Assume Obligations - Time for Disposition by Commission. - All applications for the issuance of securities or assumption of...

Section 37-4-10 - Application to Issue Securities or Assume Obligations - Grant or Denial; Modifications; Supplemental Orders. - The commission, by its order, may grant or deny the...

Section 37-4-11 - Sale, Pledge or Other Disposition of Securities. - Whenever any securities set forth and described in any such...

Section 37-4-12 - Guarantee or Obligation on Part of State Not to Be Implied. - Nothing in this article shall be construed to imply any...

Section 37-4-13 - Provisions of Article Not Applicable to Certain Notes. - The provisions of Sections 37-4-7 through 37-4-12 shall not apply...

Section 37-4-14 - Receiver's Certificate or Debentures. - Nothing contained in this chapter shall limit the power of...

Section 37-4-15 - Reports by Utility. - The commission shall require periodical or special reports from each...

Section 37-4-16 - Validity of Securities Issued Without Authorization; Penalty for Violation. - Securities issued and obligations and liabilities assumed by a utility,...

Section 37-4-17 - Valuation of Utility Property - When Made; Assistants and Examiners; Factors Considered. - The commission may, upon its own motion, at any time,...

Section 37-4-18 - Valuation of Utility Property - Notice; Filing of Protest; Finality. - Whenever the commission shall have completed its valuation and report...

Section 37-4-19 - Valuation of Utility Property - Hearing Upon Protest; Corrections; Final Order. - If notice of protest is filed, the commission shall fix...

Section 37-4-20 - Valuation of Utility Property - Revaluation. - (a) If the valuation of the property of any utility...

Section 37-4-21 - Valuation of Utility Property - Appeals. - When any order of valuation or of revaluation of the...

Section 37-4-22 - Contract Rates. - (a) Rates and service regulations may be established by contract...

Section 37-4-23 - Inspection and Supervision Fees - Generally. - Each utility, as defined in this chapter, doing business in...

Section 37-4-24 - Inspection and Supervision Fees - Recovery of Delinquent Fees. - (a) Supervision and inspection fees provided for in this chapter...

Section 37-4-25 - Intercorporate Relations - Treatment of Utility as Part of General System. - For all the purposes of this chapter the commission may,...

Section 37-4-26 - Intercorporate Relations - Agreements With Holding Companies or Affiliated Interests. - Every utility engaged in any intrastate business in this state...

Section 37-4-27 - Special or Reduced Rates. - All utilities may grant free transportation or service, or transportation...

Section 37-4-28 - Certificate of Convenience and Necessity - When Required; Application; Issuance. - No plant, property or facility for the production, transmission, delivery...

Section 37-4-29 - Certificate of Convenience and Necessity - Time for Exercising Authority Conferred. - Unless exercised within a period designated by the commission, but...

Section 37-4-30 - Obtaining Electric Service Under a Private Contract; Definitions. - (a) No existing electric customer shall obtain electric service under...

Article 2 - Property and Franchises.

Division 1 - Sale of Lease in General

Section 37-4-40 - Right to Sell or Lease Property. - The property of a utility, together with its franchises, contracts,...

Section 37-4-41 - Approval by Commission - Generally. - In cases other than those covered by Section 37-4-42, the...

Section 37-4-42 - Approval by Commission - Property Located Within Single Municipality. - In cases where the property of the utility proposed to...

Section 37-4-43 - Otherwise Legal Sales, etc., Not Affected. - Nothing in this division shall be construed to limit or...

Section 37-4-44 - Sale of Property in Interstate Commerce Contrary to Federal Law Not Authorized. - Nothing contained in this division shall be construed to authorize...

Section 37-4-45 - Conveyance of Water Distribution Facilities to Public Authority or Corporation by Not-for-Profit Entity Without Necessity of Commission Approval. - Any provision of this division to the contrary notwithstanding, any...

Division 2 - Purchase by Municipality or Governmental Agency.

Section 37-4-60 - Notice of Intention to Engage in Business. - Whenever any municipal corporation, county improvement authority, power district, federal...

Section 37-4-61 - Voluntary Sales. - If within 30 days after receipt of such notice the...

Section 37-4-62 - Forced Sales - Application to Commission; Notice and Hearing; Order. - If acquisition of the property sought to be acquired by...

Section 37-4-63 - Forced Sales - Appeals to Circuit Court. - Any party shall have the right to appeal from the...

Section 37-4-64 - Forced Sales - Time for Complying With Order; Tender of Deed; Acceptance or Rejection. - The owner shall have 30 days after a final determination...

Section 37-4-65 - Certain Systems or Projects Exempted. - Nothing in this division shall be deemed to require the...

Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.

Section 37-4-80 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this article, the following words and...

Section 37-4-81 - Compliance With Federal Minimum Safety Standards. - All pipeline systems used in this state for the transportation...

Section 37-4-82 - Powers of Commission - Generally. - The commission shall have the right, power and authority: To...

Section 37-4-83 - Powers of Commission - Promulgation of Rules; Requiring Records; Inspections. - In order to determine whether or not each such pipeline...

Section 37-4-84 - Powers of Commission - Employment of Personnel. - The Alabama Public Service Commission shall be authorized to employ,...

Section 37-4-85 - Powers of Commission - Limitations. - Nothing in this article shall be deemed to confer upon...

Section 37-4-86 - Jurisdiction of Circuit Court. - Upon petition of the commission, the circuit court in any...

Section 37-4-87 - Penalties. - (a) Any person who violates any provision of this article...

Section 37-4-88 - Safety Inspection Fees. - (a) Any gas system operated by any investor-owned company, city,...

Article 3A - Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Facilities.

Section 37-4-90 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this article the following words and...

Section 37-4-91 - Operation and Maintenance. - All facilities used in this state for the transportation of...

Section 37-4-92 - Commission - Power and Authority. - The commission shall have the right, power and authority: to...

Section 37-4-93 - Commission - Power to Promulgate Rules and Regulations. - In order to determine whether or not each such pipeline...

Section 37-4-94 - Jurisdiction to Restrain Violations of Article. - Upon petition of the commission, the circuit court in any...

Section 37-4-95 - Authorization to Employ Inspectors and Other Qualified Employees. - The Alabama Public Service Commission shall be authorized to employ,...

Section 37-4-96 - Penalties. - (a) Any person who violates any provision of this article...

Section 37-4-97 - Limitation on Commission's Powers. - Nothing in this article shall be deemed to confer upon...

Article 4 - Radio Utilities.

Section 37-4-100 - Short Title. - This article shall be known, and may be cited, as...

Section 37-4-101 - Definitions. - The following words, when used in this article, shall have...

Section 37-4-102 - When Certificate Required; Rules Governing Issuance; Form of Application. - No person shall begin or continue the construction or operation...

Section 37-4-103 - Hearing Upon Application for Certificate; Notice; Issuance of Certificate; Factors Considered in Determining Whether to Issue Certificate. - (a) Upon the filing of an application for such certificate,...

Section 37-4-104 - Continuation of Facilities Existing Prior to September 28, 1971. - Any person who, on September 28, 1971, either is engaged...

Section 37-4-105 - Transfer, Assignment or Encumbrance of Certificate. - No such certificate of public convenience and necessity may be...

Section 37-4-106 - Merger or Consolidation. - No radio utility shall combine, merge or consolidate with, or...

Section 37-4-107 - Revocation, Suspension or Alteration of Certificate. - The commission may, after affording the holder an opportunity to...

Section 37-4-108 - Powers and Duties of Commission Generally. - (a) The commission shall have the power and jurisdiction to...

Section 37-4-109 - Rates, Charges and Classifications for Services. - The commission shall prescribe just and reasonable rates, charges and...

Section 37-4-110 - Entry or Extension Into Established Service Area. - Except as provided in Section 37-4-104, the commission shall not...

Section 37-4-111 - Article Not Applicable to Certain Mobile Radio Telephone Service. - The provisions of this article relate only to "radio utilities"...

Section 37-4-112 - Interconnection With Other Communications. - Each radio utility holding a certificate from the commission may...

Section 37-4-113 - Construction and Maintenance of Antennas and Towers; Right of Eminent Domain. - Any radio utility operating a radio system under authority of...

Section 37-4-114 - Appeals. - From any final action or order of the commission in...

Section 37-4-115 - Violations; Injunctions Against Persons Operating Without License or Certificate. - (a) Any person or the officer, agent or employee of...

Section 37-4-116 - Fees for Inspection and Supervision; Payment. - (a) Each radio utility, as defined in this article, doing...

Section 37-4-117 - Treatment of Utility as Part of General System. - For all the purposes of this article, the commission may,...

Article 5 - Condemnation by Electric Utilities.

Section 37-4-130 - Right to Condemn. - Every electric public utility corporation organized under the laws of...

Section 37-4-131 - Procedure for Condemnation. - The procedure for condemnation under Section 37-4-130 shall be in...

Article 6 - Distributed Generation Facilities.

Section 37-4-140 - Purchase of Electricity. - (a) For purposes of this section only, the following terms...

Article 7 - Energy Security Act of 2015.

Section 37-4-150 - Electric Transmission Facilities. - (a) This section shall be known and may be cited...

Chapter 5 - Power Districts.

Section 37-5-1 - Definitions. - Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms, when used...

Section 37-5-2 - Creation; Alteration; Consolidation; Dissolution. - A municipal power district may be created as provided in...

Section 37-5-3 - Purpose and General Powers. - A district shall be created for the purpose of conducting...

Section 37-5-4 - Board of Directors - Appointment; Terms; Oath; Vacancies; Compensation and Expenses. - The government of the district shall be vested in a...

Section 37-5-5 - Board of Directors - Powers. - The board of directors of any district shall have power...

Section 37-5-6 - Bonds - Authorization to Issue; Manner of Issuance; Repurchase; Interim Receipts, Etc. - Each district shall have power and is authorized from time...

Section 37-5-7 - Bonds - Consent of Department of Finance. - No bonds or other evidence of indebtedness of a district...

Section 37-5-8 - Bonds - Rights and Remedies of Bondholders. - In addition to all other remedies, any holder of a...

Section 37-5-9 - Municipal Aid. - Any municipality situated within the territorial limits of a district...

Chapter 6 - Electric Cooperatives.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 37-6-1 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall...

Section 37-6-2 - Organization and Purpose. - Cooperative, nonprofit membership corporations may be organized under this chapter...

Section 37-6-3 - Enumerated Powers. - A cooperative shall have the power: (1) To sue and...

Section 37-6-4 - Name. - The name of each cooperative primarily engaged in the distribution...

Section 37-6-5 - Incorporators. - Five or more natural persons or two or more cooperatives...

Section 37-6-6 - Articles of Incorporation - Generally. - The articles of incorporation of a cooperative shall recite in...

Section 37-6-7 - Articles of Incorporation - Amendment. - A cooperative may amend its articles of incorporation by complying...

Section 37-6-8 - Bylaws. - The original bylaws of a cooperative shall be adopted by...

Section 37-6-9 - Qualifications for Membership; Meetings; Voting. - (a) No person who is not an incorporator shall become...

Section 37-6-10 - Board of Trustees. - The business and affairs of a cooperative shall be managed...

Section 37-6-11 - Voting Districts. - Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the bylaws may...

Section 37-6-12 - Officers. - The officers of a cooperative shall consist of a president,...

Section 37-6-13 - Consolidation Generally. - Any two or more cooperatives, each of which is hereinafter...

Section 37-6-14 - Merger Generally. - Any one or more cooperatives, each of which is hereinafter...

Section 37-6-15 - Effect of Consolidation or Merger. - The effect of consolidation or merger shall be as follows:...

Section 37-6-16 - Conversion of Existing Corporation Into Cooperative. - Any corporation organized under the laws of this state for...

Section 37-6-18 - Dissolution. - (a) A cooperative which has not commenced business may dissolve...

Section 37-6-19 - Filing of Articles. - Articles of incorporation, amendment, consolidation, merger, conversion or dissolution, as...

Section 37-6-20 - Disposition of Excess Revenues. - Revenues of a cooperative for any fiscal year in excess...

Section 37-6-21 - Sale, Lease or Encumbrance of Property; Offeror's Disclosure Statement; Invitations for Competing or Alternative Proposals; Exceptions; Effect of Violation. - A cooperative may not sell or lease all or any...

Section 37-6-22 - Nonliability of Members for Debts of Cooperative. - The private property of the members of a cooperative shall...

Section 37-6-23 - Liens. - Any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument executed by...

Section 37-6-24 - Waiver of Notice. - Whenever any notice is required to be given under the...

Section 37-6-25 - Acknowledgment of Instruments. - No person who is authorized to take acknowledgments under the...

Section 37-6-26 - Foreign Corporations. - Any corporation or association organized under generally similar laws of...

Section 37-6-28 - Bonds or Other Indebtedness - Consent of Department of Finance. - No bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of any cooperative...

Section 37-6-27 - Exemption From Jurisdiction of Public Service Commission. - Cooperatives transacting business in this state pursuant to this chapter...

Section 37-6-30 - Terminating or Declining Service Because of Indebtedness to Cooperative; When Account in Dispute. - (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms...

Section 37-6-29 - Bonds or Other Indebtedness - Exemption From Provisions of Securities Law. - The provisions of the Alabama Securities Law shall not apply...

Article 2 - Rural Telephone Service.

Section 37-6-40 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall...

Section 37-6-41 - Electric Cooperatives Empowered to Furnish Telephone Service. - Any electric cooperative presently or hereafter organized and any corporation...

Section 37-6-42 - Enumerated Powers. - (a) Any such electric cooperative shall have power: (1) To...

Section 37-6-43 - Name of Cooperative Furnishing Service. - The name of an electric cooperative which engages in the...

Section 37-6-44 - Cooperatives Possess Same Powers in Connection With Telephone Service as With Electricity. - Except as otherwise provided in this article, electric cooperatives shall...

Section 37-6-45 - Cooperatives Authorized to Supply Electrical Energy or Telephone Service or Both. - Electric cooperatives are authorized to supply to their members and...

Section 37-6-46 - Power to Furnish Telephone Service Exclusive. - The power to furnish telephone service conferred in this article...

Section 37-6-47 - Duty of Public Service Commission to Encourage Improvement and Expansion of Facilities. - It shall be the duty of the Alabama Public Service...

Section 37-6-48 - Additional Compensation for Members of Commission. - For the extra, new and additional duties imposed upon the...

Section 37-6-49 - Vesting of Certain Powers; Validation of Acts Relating to Organization. - Any cooperative organized under the provisions of this chapter prior...

Chapter 7 - Electric Membership Corporations.

Section 37-7-1 - Definitions. - The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this...

Section 37-7-2 - Formation and Purpose Generally. - Any number of natural persons not less than three may...

Section 37-7-3 - Form and Contents of Certificate of Incorporation. - The certificate of incorporation shall be entitled and endorsed "CERTIFICATE...

Section 37-7-4 - Persons Executing Certificate to Be Residents; Acknowledgment and Filing. - The natural persons executing the certificate of incorporation shall be...

Section 37-7-5 - Board of Directors - Election; Expenses; President; Secretary. - Each corporation formed under this chapter shall have a board...

Section 37-7-6 - Board of Directors - Powers. - The board shall have power to do all things necessary...

Section 37-7-7 - Certificates of Membership; Voting. - A corporation may issue to its members certificates of membership,...

Section 37-7-8 - Corporate Purpose; Membership Fees; Service to Nonmembers; Service Outside State. - The corporate purpose of each corporation formed under this chapter...

Section 37-7-9 - Vesting of Powers for Accomplishment of Corporate Purpose. - Each corporation formed under this chapter is vested with all...

Section 37-7-10 - Enumerated Powers. - A corporation created under the provisions of this chapter shall...

Section 37-7-11 - Encumbering or Disposing of Property. - No corporation may sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise encumber or...

Section 37-7-12 - Bonds or Obligations - Consent of Department of Finance. - No bonds or obligations of any corporation formed under this...

Section 37-7-13 - Bonds or Obligations - Manner of Sale or Issuance. - A corporation formed under this chapter shall have power and...

Section 37-7-14 - Bonds or Obligations - Covenants or Agreements. - In connection with the issuance of any obligations, a corporation...

Section 37-7-16 - Consolidation. - Any two or more corporations created under the provisions of...

Section 37-7-15 - Bonds or Obligations - Purchase of Own Obligations. - A corporation shall have power out of any funds available...

Section 37-7-17 - Extension of Territory. - Any corporation, as originally formed under this chapter, or a...

Section 37-7-18 - Charges for Services Rendered. - A corporation formed under this chapter shall have power to...

Section 37-7-19 - Dissolution. - Any corporation created under this chapter may be dissolved by...

Section 37-7-20 - Foreign Corporations. - Any corporation or association organized under generally similar laws of...

Section 37-7-21 - Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation. - A corporation created under this chapter may amend its certificate...

Chapter 8 - Penal Provisions.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 37-8-1 - Violation of Commission Orders Generally. - (a) Any utility doing business in this state or any...

Section 37-8-2 - Venue for Violations of Commission Rules or Orders or Statutes Relating to Commission. - Any officer, agent or employee shall be subject to indictment...

Section 37-8-3 - Compelling Testimony of Employees Who Violate Code. - The agent or employee who locally, in any county, violates...

Section 37-8-4 - Requiring Witnesses to Testify Before Grand Jury. - Witnesses before the grand jury, summoned to give evidence of...

Section 37-8-6 - Furnishing of Meters; Meters Open for Inspection. - Every person, company or corporation now engaged or hereafter engaging...

Article 2 - Rate or Tariff Violations.

Section 37-8-20 - Violation of Statutes Relating to Reasonable Rates, Adequate Service and Unjust Discriminations. - Every officer, agent or employee of a common carrier or...

Section 37-8-21 - Charging Rate in Violation of Tariff Generally. - Any utility doing business in this state or any of...

Section 37-8-22 - Charging or Accepting Rate Lower Than Published Tariff. - Any person or corporation operating a utility who offers, demands...

Section 37-8-23 - Charging or Collecting Higher Than Lawful Rate. - Any corporation, partnership, association or person owning or operating a...

Section 37-8-24 - Granting Unlawful Concessions or Rebates. - Any utility doing business in this state or any of...

Section 37-8-25 - Accepting Rebates, Concessions or Discrimination. - Any person who shall demand or knowingly accept or receive...

Section 37-8-27 - Free Passes, Rebates or Discounts, Etc. - Penalties for Violations. - Any common carrier, whether a corporation, association, partnership or person,...

Section 37-8-28 - Free Passes, Rebates or Discounts, Etc. - Exemptions. - Section 37-8-27 shall not apply to employees of railroads, or...

Section 37-8-30 - Unlawful Pooling of Freights. - Any officer, agent or servant of a person or corporation...

Section 37-8-31 - Failure of Railroad to Post Freight Tariffs at Depots. - Any person or corporation operating a railroad who fails to...

Article 3 - Offenses Involving Sale, Use, or Distribution of Electricity.

Section 37-8-52 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Generally. - (a) No person shall either personally or through an employee...

Section 37-8-53 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Warnings Signs. - Whoever operates or employs any person to operate any crane,...

Section 37-8-54 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Exemptions. - The provisions of Sections 37-8-52 through 37-8-55 shall not apply...

Section 37-8-55 - Operations in Proximity to High Voltage Overhead Conductors of Electricity - Utility Companies Not Relieved of Civil Liability. - Nothing in Sections 37-8-52 through 37-8-55 shall be interpreted to...

Article 5 - Offenses Involving Common Carriers Generally.

Division 1 - General Provisions.

Section 37-8-91 - Jumping on or Off Trains. - Any person not a passenger or intended passenger, employee or...

Section 37-8-94 - Venue for Violations Committed on Trains or Buses. - Any person charged with a violation of the provisions of...

Division 2 - Violations by Railroad or Its Employees.

Section 37-8-110 - Noncompliance With Commission Order to Erect Depot or to Provide Conveniences for Travelers - Generally. - Any person or corporation operating a railroad which fails for...

Section 37-8-111 - Noncompliance With Commission Order to Erect Depot or to Provide Conveniences for Travelers - Failure of Commission to Notify District Attorney or Attorney General. - For failure to notify the proper district attorney and Attorney...

Section 37-8-112 - Failure to Ring Bell or Blow Horn or Whistle on Trains. - Any engineer or other person having the control of the...

Section 37-8-113 - Failure of Railroad Superintendent to Instruct Engineers and Conductors Regarding Blowing Horn, Whistle, Etc. - Any superintendent of a railroad who fails to instruct the...

Section 37-8-114 - Failure to Use Proper Precautions to Prevent Accidents. - Any engineer, conductor or other person who, having the control...

Section 37-8-115 - Crew Member Acting on Instructions Not Responsible for Obstructing Streets, Etc. - No member of a train crew, yard crew or engine...

Section 37-8-117 - Failure to Provide Power Headlights on Engines. - Any company, corporation, lessee, owner, operator, receiver or officer of...

Section 37-8-118 - Violation of Judgment Confirming Commission Award Regulating Railroad's Business With Connecting Line. - Any officer or agent of a person or corporation operating...

Division 3 - Damages to or Interference With Railroad Property.

Section 37-8-148 - Procuring Railroad Cars Without Bona Fide Intention for Use. - Any person, firm, company or corporation who shall make application...

Section 37-8-149 - Unlawful Purchase or Receipt, etc., of Railroad Property. - Any person who shall, without written authority from the railroad...

Division 4 - Public Drinking or Intoxication.

Section 37-8-160 - Public Drinking of Prohibited Liquors and Beverages on Railway Passenger Cars or in Waiting Rooms. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.

Section 37-8-161 - Intoxication of Persons Employed Upon Railways or Vessels While Engaged in Discharge of Duties. - Every person who, being employed upon any railway as engineer,...

Division 5 - Transportation of Explosives.

Section 37-8-180 - Prohibited Generally on Passenger Conveyances; Exceptions. - It shall be unlawful to transport, carry or convey, or...

Section 37-8-181 - Nitroglycerine or Other Like Explosives. - It shall be unlawful to transport, carry or convey, or...

Section 37-8-182 - Marking of Packages Containing Explosives. - Every package containing explosives or other dangerous articles, when presented...

Section 37-8-183 - Regulations. - The Public Service Commission of Alabama shall formulate regulations for...

Section 37-8-184 - Penalties for Violations. - (a) Any person, partnership or corporation who knowingly violates or...

Division 6 - Signs Resembling Railroad Signs.

Section 37-8-200 - Erection or Maintenance of Advertising Signs Resembling Railroad Signs. - (a) No person, firm, association or corporation shall erect or...

Article 6 - Offenses Involving Telephones and Telegraphs.

Section 37-8-212 - Unlawful Disclosure of Messages. - (a) Any owners, manager, operator or employee of any telegraph...

Section 37-8-213 - Failure to Relinquish Party Line for Emergency Call; Falsely Requesting Party Line for Emergency; Notice in Directories. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.

Section 37-8-217 - Prohibited Instruments - Defined. - For the purposes of this section, and Sections 37-8-218, 37-8-220,...

Section 37-8-218 - Prohibited Instruments - Manufacture or Sale, Etc. - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to make,...

Section 37-8-220 - Prohibited Instruments - Penalties. - Any person who violates any provision of this section, Section...

Section 37-8-221 - Prohibited Instruments - Search and Seizure. - (a) In addition to the grounds enumerated in Section 15-5-2...

Article 9 - Offenses Involving Payment of Wages.

Section 37-8-270 - Biweekly Payment of Wages. - Every public service corporation engaged in transportation doing business in...

Article 10 - Unlawful Solicitation of Claims.

Section 37-8-280 - Soliciting Claims From Shippers or Consignees Against Carriers. - Any agent, officer or attorney of any traffic association or...

Chapter 9 - Regulation of Air Commerce.

Section 37-9-1 - Title of Chapter. - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

Section 37-9-2 - Definitions. - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

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Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.