Code of Alabama - Title 32: Motor Vehicles and Traffic - Chapter 2 - Department of Public Safety

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 32-2-1 Creation; headed by director; appointment and term of director
  There is hereby created a department of the State of Alabama which shall be known as the Department of Public Safety and shall be headed...
• Section 32-2-2 Assistant director
  There is hereby created within the Department of Public Safety the position of Assistant Director of Public Safety, which position shall be in lieu of...
• Section 32-2-3 Divisions - Creation; age of law enforcement officers or trainees
  (a) The director shall create divisions within the Department of Public Safety as shall be necessary. The divisions shall include all of the following: (1)...
• Section 32-2-4 Divisions - Chiefs; employees
  The director shall appoint chiefs of said divisions and all other employees subject to the provisions of the Merit System Act, and said chiefs and...
• Section 32-2-5 What laws director to enforce
  It shall be the duty of the Director of the Department of Public Safety, and he shall have power to do all that is necessary...
• Section 32-2-6 Compensation and expenses of officers, employees, etc. - Method of payment generally
  The compensation of the officers, agents, and employees provided for by this chapter shall be paid by warrants drawn by the Comptroller on the funds...
• Section 32-2-7 Compensation and expenses of officers, employees, etc. - Controlling civil disturbances; rescue or protective duties
  Whenever any officer, agent, or employee of the Department of Public Safety shall be called upon by the Governor, or the appointing authority of said...
• Section 32-2-8 Fees for copies of records and reports
  Whenever the Director of Public Safety is required or allowed by law to furnish a copy of any record or report in the department's files,...
• Section 32-2-8.1 Fee for criminal history records search
  When the Director of Public Safety is allowed by Alabama law to provide a criminal history records search of convictions within the State of Alabama,...
• Section 32-2-9 Promulgation of rules and regulations
  The Director of Public Safety, with the approval of the Governor, may establish and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations not in conflict with the laws...
• Section 32-2-10 Insurance for employees
  The state Department of Public Safety is authorized, subject to approval by the Governor, to insure its employees in some insurance company or companies authorized...
• Section 32-2-11 Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund
  (a) There is hereby established a separate fund in the State Treasury, the "Alabama Bureau of Investigation Cost of Evidence Fund." Distributions may be made...
• Article 2 Highway Patrol.
• Section 32-2-20 Establishment and maintenance
  The Governor is authorized to establish and maintain a state highway patrol.
• Section 32-2-21 Disposition of costs, fees, and mileage otherwise collectible by officers
  No state trooper shall be entitled to any costs, fees, or mileage for attending any court, but instead the proper authority shall collect such costs,...
• Section 32-2-22 Officers have powers of peace officers
  Members of the state highway patrol, when duly appointed, shall have the powers of peace officers in this state and may exercise such powers anywhere...
• Section 32-2-23 Bonds of officers and members
  Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, all officers and members of the state highway patrol shall execute to the State of Alabama...
• Section 32-2-24 Liabilities under bonds
  The officers and members of the state highway patrol shall be subject to the same liabilities, penalties, and damages under their bonds as sheriffs are...
• Section 32-2-25 Arrest fee; when fees and costs not to be paid by county
  In all cases where arrests are made by a state trooper, an arrest fee of $5.00 for such arrest shall be collected by the proper...
• Section 32-2-26 Officers to receive badge, pistol, etc., as part of retirement benefits
  Any person who, at the time of his or her retirement, is employed by the state Department of Public Safety as a state trooper or...
• Article 3 State Trooper Reserve.
• Section 32-2-40 Establishment authorized; composition; members to serve without compensation
  The Director of the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to establish a state trooper reserve of the Alabama state troopers to be composed...
• Section 32-2-41 Reserve troopers to serve under direction and supervision of Director of Public Safety; privileges and immunities of reserves
  Reserve state troopers serving with the Alabama state troopers shall at all times serve under the direction and supervision of the Director of the Department...
• Section 32-2-42 Determination of fitness of persons to serve
  The Director of the Department of Public Safety shall determine the fitness of persons to serve as state trooper reserves.
• Section 32-2-43 Duties of members of reserve
  The duties of a state trooper reserve officer shall be limited to assisting the Department of Public Safety in the performance of its regularly constituted...
• Section 32-2-44 Authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty
  State trooper reserves shall have the authority to carry firearms when summoned to duty.
• Article 4 Criminal History Information.
• Section 32-2-60 Definitions
  When used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) CRIMINAL HISTORY INFORMATION....
• Section 32-2-61 Release of information and fees
  (a) The director may open to any person for inspection, copying, and mechanical reproduction, during the department's regular business hours, criminal history information on any...
• Section 32-2-62 Promulgation of procedures and regulations
  In accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, the director shall promulgate reasonable procedures and regulations for the implementation of this article.
• Section 32-2-63 Unauthorized dissemination of information
  Any person who willfully disseminates information other than the information authorized by this article, is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof...
• Article 5 Public Safety Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund.
• Section 32-2-80 Creation; purpose
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Public Safety Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund of the Alabama Department of Public Safety. This fund shall...
• Section 32-2-81 Funds - Deposit, expenditure, and carry over
  Any funds created from depreciation, equipment replacement allowance, and salvage value for replacement of law enforcement motor vehicles in the department shall be deposited in...
• Section 32-2-82 Transfer of vehicles; notification of purchase
  The Department of Public Safety may not transfer automotive vehicles from law enforcement personnel nor vehicles designated for law enforcement purposes to other personnel in...
• Section 32-2-83 Disposal of vehicles
  (a) Any other provisions to the law contrary notwithstanding, the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall be responsible for the disposal of...
• Section 32-2-84 Funds designated in addition to money transferred to department
  The funds designated by this article to be deposited to the Motor Vehicle Replacement Fund are intended to be in addition to the amounts transferred...
• Article 6 State Capitol Police Officers.
• Section 32-2-100 State Capitol police officers
  (a) The Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety shall employ the necessary state Capitol police officers, subject to the state Merit System laws,...
• Article 7 Blue Alert System.
• Section 32-2-120 Creation of system; activation of alert; powers and duties; boundaries of alert area; termination of alert; liability
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ALERT SYSTEM. The Blue Alert system. (2) DEPARTMENT. The...

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