Lee County, AL Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)

01, enacted by Act 2019-201, makes it unlawful for any person to engage in solicitation, including requests for charitable contributions, along the right-of-way or at the intersection of a four-way stop on any public road, street or highway in Lee County. The section covers any solicitation, not narrowly aggressive conduct, so simply standing at an intersection asking drivers for money or collecting for a charity at a stop sign is enough to trigger it. A person who violates the section is subject to a civil fine that cannot exceed $100, and the case is adjudicated in the municipal court or the district court, as appropriate, rather than treated as a circuit-court criminal prosecution.

That civil framing distinguishes it from the county's separate political-sign law, which routes violations into the criminal littering statute; this solicitation ban stays civil. The rule reaches only county roads in the unincorporated territory; Auburn, Opelika, Smiths Station and the county's other cities enforce their own separate panhandling and solicitation ordinances inside their own limits.