Public Conduct in Alabama (2026)

Vestavia Hills bans panhandling outright in every public place under Code of Ordinances Section 8-262: any in-person…

Birmingham bans begging in an aggressive manner, within 30 feet of ATMs and business entrances, from drivers in…

Huntsville makes it illegal to stand in or near traveled traffic lanes soliciting money, selling goods, or handing out…

Mobile's 2024 aggressive-solicitation ordinance bans touching, blocking, following, or verbally abusing people while…

Tuscaloosa makes it unlawful to panhandle aggressively (touching, blocking, following, or persisting after a refusal)…

Lee County bans panhandling and charity solicitation along the right-of-way or at any four-way stop on a public road in…

Auburn bans riding a skateboard, roller skates or roller blades on sidewalks in the downtown business district…

Skateboarding, roller skating and similar wheeled recreation are banned outright inside Linn Park and Kelly Ingram…

Tuscaloosa bans skateboards, roller skates, and coasters from roadways except at marked crosswalks, and bans skating or…

Skateboards are banned from every part of Wald Park, Liberty Park Sports Complex, Cahaba Heights Park, SHAC, Meadowlawn…

Huntsville bans skateboards and other wheeled recreational vehicles in city parks unless the park is posted allowing…

Montgomery, Alabama's code doesn't use the word 'skateboard,' but City Code Sec. 27-12 bars anyone on roller skates or…

Montgomery treats a rental property as a 'disruptive residential rental property' and a public nuisance when loud…

Huntsville makes it unlawful to make -- or, as a host, to knowingly permit on premises you control -- any unreasonably…

Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County) bans loitering or prowling in a manner unusual for law-abiding people when it creates a…

Tuscaloosa's loitering law only applies once police have formally designated a street or block as an overcrowded area…

Birmingham makes it a crime to loiter or wander in a public place for begging, gambling, or soliciting prostitution or…

Huntsville makes it a misdemeanor to loiter, prowl or wander onto someone else's private premises, enclosed lot or…

Bessemer's general loitering rule is narrow: Code of Ordinances § 78-129 only bans loitering or congregating at a…

Mobile prohibits smoking and all tobacco product use in every municipally owned park, playground, and outdoor…

Bessemer's smoke-free ordinance reaches outdoors too. Code of Ordinances § 62-108 bans smoking within ten feet of doors…

Birmingham bans smoking within 7 feet of prohibited-smoking buildings, in outdoor restaurant/bar seating on public…

Tuscaloosa's clean-air ordinance, Sec. 13-92 through 13-98, bans smoking inside restaurants, city buildings, buses…

Code § 11-105 bars smoking within 20 feet of entrances, windows and vents of smoke-free buildings, within 20 feet of…

Auburn's smoke-free ordinance reaches outdoors too: Sec. 10-45 of the City Code bans smoking within a reasonable…

Hoover bans smoking in the seating areas of every outdoor arena, stadium and amphitheater in the city, and extends that…

Huntsville bans smoking in enclosed public places, city buildings and vehicles, and outdoor recreation venues like ball…

In the historic downtown core bounded by Jackson, Government, Royal and St. Michael Streets, Mobile bans jaywalking…

In Bessemer's business district, pedestrians can only cross a street at an intersection, at a right angle, and within…

In Montgomery, Alabama's business districts, City Code Sec. 27-344 requires pedestrians to cross only in a crosswalk…

Birmingham requires pedestrians crossing outside a marked crosswalk to travel by the shortest, right-angle route to the…

Huntsville adopts Alabama's pedestrian crossing rules as city law, and its municipal court fine schedule sets a flat…

Vestavia Hills bans the use, possession, solicitation or distribution of any controlled substance in every one of its…

Vestavia Hills bans drinking or holding an open container of liquor, wine or beer in any public place inside the city…

Auburn bans drinking or possessing alcohol in stadiums and at athletic events, and bars drinking in any public place…

Birmingham bans drinking liquor, wine, malt, or brewed beverages in any public place other than a licensed liquor or…

Hoover prohibits drinking or holding an open alcoholic beverage container in any public vehicle-parking area, inside…

Mobile makes it unlawful to drink liquor, wine, or beer on public streets, alleys, parks, or transit stations unless…

Montgomery, Alabama bans drinking or selling alcohol on streets, sidewalks, public buildings and public property…

Tuscaloosa bans drinking or carrying an open container of any alcoholic beverage in public, including inside a vehicle…

Bessemer bars anyone from drinking an intoxicating beverage in a public place unless it is on the licensed premises…

Huntsville bans drinking or holding an open alcoholic beverage in any public place unless it's a licensed premises or…