Birmingham, AL

Birmingham has no separate 'tiny home' ordinance; a detached tiny home on a residential lot is regulated as an accessory dwelling unit, capped at 800 square feet (or the size of the…

Converting a detached garage or other accessory building into living space is treated as an accessory dwelling in Birmingham. It is permitted only in specified districts, limited to…

Birmingham permits one accessory dwelling unit per lot in specified districts (D-4, D-5, UN, MU and certain commercial zones), capped at 800 square feet or the size of the primary…

Accessory buildings such as sheds may be built in a required rear yard but may not occupy more than 30 percent of the required rear yard and must be at least three feet from any side…

An accessory dwelling unit in unincorporated Jefferson County cannot be rented out to the public. Zoning Resolution Section 1207(b) restricts ADU occupancy to members of the property…

Birmingham's zoning ordinance allows a backyard chicken coop as an accessory use to a single-family home in D-1, D-2 and D-3 districts: no more than 6 hens, roosters prohibited, and an…

Birmingham makes it unlawful to keep any cat over three months old without a current rabies inoculation and tag issued under state law. The city runs no feral-colony or…

Birmingham's Zoning Ordinance permits veterinary clinics, kennels, dog training, and boarding facilities as a listed use in the M-1A General Industrial District, but an outdoor kennel…

No Birmingham-specific ordinance sets a fixed maximum number of household dogs or cats; Alabama state law does not impose a numeric pet limit either. Animals must still be confined…

Birmingham's Zoning Ordinance lets a homeowner keep up to ten beehives as an accessory use to a residential structure or community garden, but every apiary must sit in the rear yard…

It is unlawful for a Birmingham owner to let a dog or cat run at large, meaning off-leash and not confined by a wall, fence or vehicle. Fines escalate fast: $100 minimum for a first…

Birmingham does not list which exotic species are banned outright; instead it requires that any wild or vicious animal kept in the city be securely confined so it cannot bite or attack…

Birmingham flatly bans maiming or killing any wild or migratory bird within city limits, no exceptions written into the section. The rule sits in the same animal chapter as the city's…

Birmingham does not impose a breed-specific ban. Alabama's dangerous-dog law (Emily's Law) is expressly breed-neutral: a dog is judged dangerous by its conduct, regardless of breed…

Alabama Department of Conservation regulations restrict baiting and feeding of deer and other game animals statewide during hunting seasons, with separate rules on bear feeding and…

General Birmingham fence requirements prohibit any fence, wall, or planting that obstructs traffic visibility and creates a 'line of sight' problem as determined by the Traffic…

Birmingham's Walls and Fences ordinance lists allowed materials by yard: natural wood is permitted in front, side, and rear; brick, stucco-over-masonry, and chain link are permitted in…

A retaining wall is defined in Birmingham's ordinance as a block, brick, or stone structure erected to retain or prevent encroaching soil. A front-yard retaining wall built to level…

Birmingham requires a fence permit (with a Council-adopted fee) before any fence or wall can be erected or placed on any property in the City. A separate Permit to Develop in a Flood…

Alabama's partition-fence law (Ala. Code § 35-7-1 et seq.) makes a boundary fence between improved lands a shared expense of adjoining owners, with § 35-7-3 apportioning costs. Alabama…

Birmingham allows family day care homes and family group care homes as home occupations under the Zoning Ordinance (No. 90-130, Title 1, Ch. 4, Art. IV, Sec. 1.F), with special…

Birmingham permits home occupations as an accessory use in a wide range of districts (D-1 through D-5, UN, the MU and MU-D districts, C-1, C-2, PRD, MXD and AG) provided the business…

Birmingham generally bans any exterior sign or advertising for a home occupation: the Zoning Ordinance (No. 90-130) prohibits external evidence of the operation, with the only…

Birmingham strictly limits client and employee activity at a home occupation: no non-resident employees may work on premises, no more than two patrons or clients may be present at one…

Alabama runs one of the plainer cottage food laws in the country. Ala. Code § 22-20-5.1(b) states that a cottage food production operation is not a food service establishment and is…

Alabama has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. The words "microenterprise" and "home kitchen" return no sections at all in the Code of Alabama, and Ala. Admin. Code…

Birmingham City Code section 11-8-23(8) makes amplified sound, stereos, TVs and musical instruments a nuisance when plainly audible 50 feet from a building or 10 feet from a vehicle…

Birmingham City Code section 11-8-23 bars sounding a vehicle horn or signal device for more than 30 seconds except as a danger warning, requires effective mufflers, prohibits loud…

Birmingham's noise ordinance does not reach the airport: Sec. 11-8-25(3) exempts noise from the operation of Birmingham International Airport outright, so flight operations, ground…

Birmingham City Code section 11-8-23(2) makes it a noise violation to keep any animal that creates excessive noise across a property line, defining a barking dog as one barking…

Birmingham sets no citywide decibel curfew. Its noise code (Title 11, Ch. 8, Art. B) instead uses a reasonable-person nuisance standard mirroring Alabama's statutory definition of…

Birmingham City Code section 11-8-23(15) prohibits construction, demolition, grading and related work between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 500 feet of any residentially zoned…

Birmingham does not impose a blanket residential overnight on-street parking ban, but Title 10, Chapter 9 of the City Code prohibits leaving a vehicle parked on any public street or…

Birmingham declares lost, stolen or abandoned automobiles left on private parking lots or land to be health and safety hazards and public nuisances, letting police impound and store…

Birmingham bars parking a motor vehicle, RV, boat or trailer in a residential front yard unless it sits on a paved, permitted driveway leading to a garage, carport or side or rear…

Birmingham's traffic engineer designates passenger and freight curb loading zones and posts the hours each applies. A passenger zone may only be used for the expeditious loading or…

On-street parking in Birmingham is governed by Title 10, Chapter 9 (Stopping, Standing and Parking) of the City Code, layered on top of the Alabama Rules of the Road (Ala. Code Title…

Birmingham's Off-Street Parking ordinance (Zoning Ordinance Title 1, Chapter 5, adopted 2024) treats RVs, campers, boats, trailers and similar non-daily-use vehicles as stored…

Birmingham's Off-Street Parking ordinance (Zoning Ord. Title 1, Ch. 5, adopted 2024) governs where commercial vehicles and trailers may be stored, requires off-street loading spaces…

Alabama regulates the paperwork of a nonconsensual tow far more tightly than the price of one. Ala. Code § 32-13-2(d) lets a property owner or lessee have a car removed once it has…

Birmingham does not require a building permit to construct a residential swimming pool, but the applicant must submit a site plan and obtain Zoning approval before starting work, and…

Public, apartment, and condominium pools in Birmingham must be maintained to Jefferson County Board of Health standards: a minimum free available chlorine residual of 1.5 ppm tested at…

Birmingham bars anyone from cutting down, destroying, removing, stealing or injuring, without proper authority, a shade or ornamental tree, plant or shrub standing in a public street…

Birmingham Code section 11-8-8(c) makes it unlawful to let weeds, shrubs, grass or other vegetable growth on an uncultivated lot exceed ten inches, and Alabama Code section 11-67-60…

Birmingham has no permanent municipal lawn-watering ordinance. Outdoor watering limits are set by the Birmingham Water Works Board through voluntary drought-stage advisories tied to…

Birmingham requires tree limbs and trimmings to be properly hauled away and not left in yards; work on public/street trees and tree-protection plans is governed by the City's zoning…

Planned Unit Developments in unincorporated Jefferson County must plant only native tree species in rights-of-way and common areas, with substitutions allowed only if the County…

Birmingham's zoning amendments define a short-term rental and route operating limits to Title 12, Chapter 23 of the City Code, but as of mid-2026 the City had not yet adopted a numeric…

Birmingham's zoning ordinance defines a short-term rental and requires approval of a short-term rental permit from the Department of Planning, Engineering and Permits (plus a City of…

Unincorporated Jefferson County's Zoning Resolution defines a short-term rental as renting any residence, or part of one, to a transient for overnight stays under 90 consecutive…

Alabama imposes a statewide lodgings tax on rooms and accommodations rented for fewer than 180 continuous days, applying universally to short-term rentals across all municipalities…

A backyard recreational fire in Birmingham is allowed mainly during the November-through-March window, because Jefferson County bans open outdoor burning (except cooking) from April…

Only Class C 'common' consumer fireworks are legal in Alabama, and Birmingham city code separately prohibits discharging firecrackers, skyrockets, roman candles, pinwheels, or other…

Birmingham is in Jefferson County, where the County Board of Health bans open outdoor burning from April through October every year, except fires used for food preparation. The ban…

The Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board regulates the storage, handling, transportation, and installation of propane and LP-gas systems statewide under Title 9, Chapter 17, with…

Alabama's State Forestry Commission may declare a drought emergency by regulation under Ala. Code § 9-13-141, making all outdoor burning unlawful in the affected counties. Such…

Birmingham's Stormwater Protection Ordinance bans dumping anything but stormwater into the city's storm drain system (the MS4) and requires an NPDES notice of intent for industrial and…

New construction and substantial improvements in a Birmingham flood hazard area must have the lowest floor, including any basement, elevated at least one foot above the base flood…

Any land-disturbing construction work in Birmingham needs a soil erosion and sediment control permit from the city engineer before grading starts. The rule exempts routine home…

Birmingham requires a floodplain development permit before any construction, fill, grading, or other development in an area of special flood hazard, under the zoning ordinance's…

Alabama's Coastal Area Management Program, administered by ADEM under Code §9-7, regulates development in Mobile and Baldwin counties' coastal zones, requiring permits for construction…

Birmingham classifies every business into 2002 NAICS sectors and subsectors to set the license tax rate under Code of Ordinances Sec. 3A-1-21. A business with a second line generating…

Birmingham taxes hotel, motel and other transient lodging at 6.5% of the room charge plus a flat $3.00 per room per night. Operators must hold a city license and file monthly returns…

Any retail dealer in Birmingham selling tobacco products, whether or not tobacco is the main stock in trade, must hold a city business license under Schedule 238 of the Code of…

Birmingham requires every secondhand dealer to log each purchase, sale, or exchange of used goods, check the seller's photo ID, and report the day's transactions to police by noon…

Birmingham requires every massage parlor to hold a city business license before opening, priced on a sliding scale of gross receipts, plus a per-worker fee for each masseur or…

Birmingham requires a permit from the Department of Planning, Engineering and Permits before any adult bookstore, cabaret, or adult theater can open, and bars these adult…

Birmingham licenses pawnbrokers and pawnbroker's agents under Schedule 189 of the Appendix A business license schedule, charging two-tenths of one percent of gross receipts with a $900…

Birmingham requires every towing and vehicle immobilization service to hold a city license before booting or towing a vehicle without the owner's consent. City Code caps what a…

Jefferson County's home-occupation rule flatly excludes auto repair from the businesses a resident may run out of a house in the unincorporated county. Section 1701.02 of the Zoning…

Birmingham law makes it unlawful to sound or allow any exterior burglar alarm or motor vehicle burglar alarm unless it automatically shuts off within 15 minutes of activation, absent…

Birmingham bans refuse collection and loading/unloading noise, including box and crate handling, between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 500 feet of a residentially zoned district…

Birmingham caps generator noise from permitted mobile food vehicles and pushcarts at 80 dBA and makes vendors submit the manufacturer's decibel specs when they apply for a right-of-way…

Birmingham bans smoking within 7 feet of prohibited-smoking buildings, in outdoor restaurant/bar seating on public property, and within 30 feet of arena bleachers, and establishes a…

Skateboarding, roller skating and similar wheeled recreation are banned outright inside Linn Park and Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham's two downtown civic parks, plus the sidewalks…

Birmingham makes it a crime to loiter or wander in a public place for begging, gambling, or soliciting prostitution or deviate sexual intercourse, or to loiter in a bus or transit…

Birmingham requires pedestrians crossing outside a marked crosswalk to travel by the shortest, right-angle route to the opposite curb, and to use the right half of any crosswalk…

Birmingham bans drinking liquor, wine, malt, or brewed beverages in any public place other than a licensed liquor or beer establishment. Section 12-10-9 extends that licensed-place…

Birmingham bans begging in an aggressive manner, within 30 feet of ATMs and business entrances, from drivers in traffic, in groups of two or more, or with profane language or physical…

Every mobile food vehicle or pushcart operating in Birmingham's public rights-of-way needs a city council-approved permit, starting with a $150 or $40 online application fee and review…

Birmingham requires every mobile food vehicle and pushcart working the public right-of-way to hold a city permit, approved through the mobile food vendors committee and city council…

Mobile food vehicles and pushcarts can only vend in the public rights-of-way inside a city council-approved 'food zone,' created at the vendor's request from up to three preferred…

Under Birmingham's Technical Codes, every elevator and escalator in the city, existing or new, must be kept in a safe and sanitary condition, with all required safety devices…

Birmingham requires a zoning certificate of operation for any child care center, defined as a facility caring for 13 or more children, before it can open, and keeps centers out of…

Before any Birmingham building permit closes out, the Building and Fire Officials must sign off on a fixed sequence of inspections under Code of Ordinances Sec. 7-1-3, Section 105.6…

Birmingham enforces the International Plumbing Code, 2015 Edition, for every plumbing installation in the city, adopted at Sec. 7-1-2(c) of the Technical Code. A permit from the…

Birmingham law bars anyone from erecting, enlarging, altering, repairing, moving, converting, or demolishing a building, or installing electrical, gas, fire protection, mechanical, or…

Birmingham requires a permit from the Building Official before any electrical installation, alteration or repair, under the city's Technical Code, which adopts the 2014 National…

Jefferson County does not require automatic fire sprinklers in one- and two-family homes. The county's amendment to Section R313 of the 2018 International Residential Code keeps the…

Jefferson County's Building Code lets basement garages and crawl spaces skip Type X sheetrock or a sprinkler system if the builder instead installs a hard-wired heat detector in line…

When Birmingham's Building Official finds a building unsafe to the extent it is a public nuisance, the owner and mortgagees get written notice by certified mail giving at least 30 days…

Birmingham law bars leaving any lot or premises, developed or vacant, littered with garbage, junk, debris, or inoperable vehicles under City Code Sec. 11-8-8. On a residential lot, no…

Anyone soliciting money, goods, or ticket sales in Birmingham on the claim it benefits a charitable, educational, patriotic, or philanthropic cause needs a mayor-issued permit good for…

Birmingham bars hucksters, peddlers, itinerant merchants, and transient vendors from entering a private residence's premises, ringing the doorbell, or knocking once the homeowner has…

Birmingham businesses that need more than four garbage cans under City Code § 4-3-4 must instead provide a special garbage and rubbish container, a dumpster, and pay for regular…

Every Birmingham dwelling, hotel, restaurant or store that generates garbage must keep enough approved containers on site to hold it, and disposing of garbage any other way than in an…

Birmingham lets residents set out bulky furniture and appliances at the curb for city pickup with no bags, boxes or other packaging required, just a neat stack, under City Code §…

Birmingham residents and businesses can't set garbage cans, bags or dumpsters out on the sidewalk any earlier than 6 p.m. the day before pickup, and must bring them back in by 6 p.m…

Birmingham makes it a crime to knowingly dump litter on public or private property or waters without permission, drop injurious material on a highway without removing it, or discharge…

Grass clippings, leaves, pine straw and small brush, defined as 'yard rubbish' under City Code § 4-3-1.1, must go between the sidewalk and curb or another spot the department of public…

Alabama imposes no mandatory recycling on residents or businesses. Under the Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials Management Act, every county and municipality must file an…

Birmingham's City Council can designate any individual property, or a whole geographic area, as a local historic property or district under Code of Ordinances Sec. 7-1-414, entering…

Birmingham lets vendors sell at a permitted sidewalk or street sale inside the downtown study area and neighborhood retail districts under § 12-14-4, but only if a nonprofit or…

Birmingham requires a permit from the city traffic engineer before any parade, demonstration, race, or special event uses city streets, sidewalks, or city-owned property. Nonprofit…

Birmingham has no separate "block party permit" form: closing a public street for an event runs through the city council's general authority to shut down a public way for safety or…

A Birmingham restaurant that wants to serve customers on the sidewalk needs an outdoor cafe permit from the city engineer, not just a business license. The permit requires the design…

Birmingham's zoning sign ordinance lists political signs among the displays exempt from the city's sign permit requirement, so a campaign yard sign or event sign doesn't need…

Window signs advertising goods, services, or activities available inside a Birmingham building need no sign permit as long as they cover 20 percent or less of the window glass surface…

Birmingham's zoning sign ordinance bars off-premises billboards from using intermittent lighting, defined as any flashing light or arrangement that spells messages, simulates motion…

Birmingham's Zoning Ordinance bars garage and rummage sale advertising on public property outright and limits any yard sign to six square feet, with no illuminated or animated signs…

Within the U.S. Highway 280 Corridor Overlay District, Jefferson County's sign regulations exempt holiday lights and decorations from the permit, site-plan and inspection requirements…

Jefferson County restricts billboards to a short list of designated highway corridors rather than allowing them anywhere: Interstates 22, 20, 59, 65 and 459, Alabama Highways 75 and…

Birmingham's R-1 Single-Family District requires a 40-foot front yard, a 40-foot rear yard, an 8-foot side yard on each side (18 feet total), a 15,000-square-foot minimum lot, and a…

Birmingham caps most residential buildings at 35 feet under the Zoning Ordinance's district tables, from R-1 Single-Family through the R-4A Medium Density Residential District, where…

Birmingham's Mixed Use District ties maximum impervious surface, meaning rooftop, paved parking, and similar hard surfaces, to how a parcel is used: retail, services, and light…

Birmingham keeps its designated bicycle lanes clear of other vehicles: pedal buses must move with traffic instead of using them, and shared e-scooters and rental bikes cannot be parked…

Birmingham requires a shared micromobility operator, whether renting scooters or e-bikes, to obtain a city council-approved system permit before deploying any device, and forbids…

Alabama has no general statute putting golf carts or low-speed vehicles on public roads. The only statewide scheme, Ala. Code §§ 11-73-1 to 11-73-7, applies by its own terms in Class 2…

Birmingham allows a garage or rummage sale in any residential district only once every six consecutive months, capped at three consecutive days, and only after the homeowner or…

Birmingham bars minors under 17 from public places during school hours, from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Friday, Saturday and…

Birmingham's park and recreation board sets each park's closing hours by its own resolution rather than one citywide curfew fixed in the code. Once a resolution restricts a park's…

Birmingham has no separate right-to-farm statute; instead its Zoning Ordinance carves out A-1 and A-2 Agricultural Districts where poultry farms, dairies, ranching, general and truck…

Alabama Code Section 6-5-127 protects established farms from nuisance lawsuits when surrounding non-agricultural land use changes, supporting long-term agricultural operations.

Anyone building a driveway, paved sidewalk, sidewalk opening or vault under a Birmingham sidewalk needs a written permit from the building official first. Vaults and sidewalk openings…

Birmingham's general obstruction ordinance bars anyone from blocking a street or sidewalk with an animal, vehicle, boxes, barrels, trash, merchandise displays or sidewalk signs…

Birmingham puts the burden of fixing a broken or dangerous sidewalk on the abutting property owner, not the city. Once the city engineer gives written notice of a defect, the owner has…

Birmingham's zoning ordinance bars illuminated or highly reflective signs, billboards included, unless they're shielded so light doesn't beam onto streets or into nearby homes and…

Jefferson County caps outdoor lighting inside the U.S. Highway 280 Corridor Overlay at one footcandle spilling onto adjacent property or the public right-of-way under Sec. 1502.07…

Birmingham's adopted 2015 International Property Maintenance Code sets minimum habitability standards for rented housing: every habitable room needs a window with glazing equal to at…

Under Ala. Code § 35-9A-421 an Alabama landlord must give 7 business days' written notice for unpaid rent (pay or quit) and 7 business days to cure a material lease violation. After…

Alabama's Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (Ala. Code Title 35, Chapter 9A) provides the exclusive statutory framework for residential evictions. The act sets uniform notice…

Under Ala. Code § 35-9A-303 an Alabama landlord must give the tenant at least two days' notice and enter only at reasonable times for legitimate purposes such as repairs, inspection…

Alabama's Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act sets no maximum late fee and no mandatory grace period. Late fees are governed entirely by the lease; rent is late the day after…

Under Ala. Code § 35-9A-441 either party ends a month-to-month tenancy with 30 days' written notice and a week-to-week tenancy with 7 days' notice. Breaking a fixed lease early…

Rent control is illegal at the local level in Alabama. Ala. Code § 11-80-8.1 preempts the field, barring any county, city, town, or municipality from enacting, maintaining, or…

Alabama's Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act sets no specific notice period or dollar limit for raising rent. A landlord generally cannot raise rent mid-lease, but for…

Alabama caps a residential security deposit at one month's rent under Ala. Code § 35-9A-201, with exceptions for pets, alterations, and added liability risk. Landlords must return the…

Alabama recognizes two adverse-possession paths: 20 years of open, continuous possession by prescription, or 10 years under Ala. Code § 6-5-200 with color of title recorded, annual tax…

Birmingham bars planting any tree that grows taller than 25 feet at maturity under or within 10 feet of an overhead utility wire, or over or within 5 feet of an underground water…

In Birmingham's mapped special flood hazard areas, the Zoning Ordinance requires new or substantially improved residential structures to elevate the lowest floor, including any…

Birmingham requires any common-ownership subdivision, including gated and private-road developments, to form a property owners association before the city approves the final plat…

Under the Alabama Homeowners' Association Act, an association has a lien on each lot for unpaid assessments, plus interest and costs the declaration allows. The lien is recorded in…

An Alabama homeowners' association governed by Ala. Code § 35-20-13 must hand over ten named categories of records to any member or potential purchaser who asks in writing, within a…

Alabama sets no maximum dollar figure for a homeowners' association fine. Ala. Code § 35-20-11 lets a board assess only "reasonable penalties," only to the extent the declaration and…

An Alabama homeowners' association governed by the Alabama Homeowners' Association Act cannot foreclose on its own. Ala. Code § 35-20-12 requires it to give the lot owner 30 days'…

Any Birmingham building used to sell, store or manufacture food, feed or grain, or to house poultry or animals, must be kept reasonably free of rats through effective rat control and…

Unincorporated Jefferson County allows solar panels, solar farms, and photovoltaic electricity production as a by-right use in the I-1 Light Industrial District. Section 1001.01 of the…

Jefferson County's Zoning Resolution lets residential developments earn up to a 10% density increase, compoundable to 20%, in exchange for specific public benefits. Section 504.02…

Alabama medical cannabis dispensaries operate only under Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission licenses with statewide siting standards including 1,000-foot school buffers; cities may…

Alabama prohibits all home cultivation of cannabis statewide. Even patients enrolled in the medical cannabis program cannot grow plants at home; only licensed cultivators authorized by…

Alabama's Uniform Minimum Wage and Right-to-Work Act (Ala. Code § 25-7-40 et seq.) preempts cities and counties from setting a local minimum wage. Alabama has no state minimum wage, so…

Alabama allows permitless concealed carry of handguns for lawful adults, while still issuing optional permits for reciprocity, with state preemption blocking local restrictions.

Alabama law preempts most local firearm regulations, reserving authority over guns, ammunition, and accessories exclusively to the state legislature under Code Section 13A-11-61.3.

Alabama has no statewide charitable gaming law. Nonprofit bingo is legal only in the roughly 18 counties that adopted their own constitutional amendment authorizing it, Jefferson…

Alabama makes being a player in unlawful gambling a Class C misdemeanor, but Ala. Code § 13A-12-21(b) gives players a defense if they were in a "social game in a private place." The…

Alabama has no legalized sports betting. Wagering on the outcome of a sporting event is "gambling" under Ala. Code § 13A-12-20(4), and a bettor who knowingly advances or profits from…

The Alabama Legislature has never written a checkpoint statute. Searching the Code of Alabama on the Legislature's ALISON database returns zero sections containing roadblock…

Alabama never enacted an express right to record police, so the question is answered by the definitions in its eavesdropping article. Section 13A-11-30(1) defines eavesdropping as…

Alabama Code § 15-5-30 lets a named list of officers stop a person who is abroad in a public place on reasonable suspicion of a felony or other public offense and demand three things…

Alabama has no statute telling officers to ask for consent, to warn you that you may refuse, or to log the answer, and a full-text search of the Code returns nothing at all for the…

Alabama prohibits the sale of tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21 under Code Section 28-11-13, aligning with federal Tobacco 21 law.

Alabama counts auxiliary lamps one by one rather than leaving them to a general glare rule. Section 32-5-241(a) permits not more than one spot lamp, not more than two fog lamps mounted…

Alabama is one of the few states whose code says the words dash camera. Section 32-5A-350.1(g)(5), added by the 2023 hands-free act, exempts from the distracted-driving offense the use…

Lane splitting and lane filtering are illegal in Alabama with no exception for stopped or slow traffic. Ala. Code § 32-5A-242(c) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes…

Alabama has no statute that names license plate covers, tinted shields or frames. A full-text search of the Code of Alabama on the Legislature's own code database returns zero sections…

No section of the Code of Alabama mentions a radar detector. The ban that does apply to commercial drivers arrives indirectly: § 32-9A-2(a)(1) makes it an offense to operate a…

Alabama never sets a studded-tire season. Ala. Code § 32-5-210(b) instead bans every block, stud, flange, cleat or spike made of any material other than rubber that projects beyond the…

Alabama's tint chapter carries its own numbers, so nothing has to be looked up in an inspection regulation. Section 32-5C-2(a)(2) forbids operating a vehicle registered in this state…