Code of Alabama - Title 32: Motor Vehicles and Traffic - Chapter 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety-responsibility Act

• Section 32-7-1 Citation of chapter
  This chapter may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act.
• Section 32-7-2 Definitions
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances where...
• Section 32-7-3 Administration of chapter; appeal to court
  (a) Director to administer chapter. The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and may make rules and regulations necessary for its...
• Section 32-7-4 Director to furnish operating record
  The director shall upon request furnish any person an abstract of the operating record of any person subject to the provisions of this chapter, which...
• Section 32-7-5 Report required following accident
  The operator of every motor vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident within this state, in which any person is killed or...
• Section 32-7-6 Security required; suspensions; applicability
  (a) If 20 days after the receipt of a report of a motor vehicle accident within this state which has resulted in bodily injury or...
• Section 32-7-6.1 Motor vehicle liability insurance coverage
  Repealed by Act 2000-554, p. 1005, §3, effective January 1, 2001.
• Section 32-7-7 Further exceptions to requirement of security
  The requirements as to security and suspension in Section 32-7-6 shall not apply to any of the following persons: (1) The operator or the owner...
• Section 32-7-8 Duration of suspension
  The license and registration and nonresident's operating privilege suspended as provided in Section 32-7-6 shall remain suspended and shall not be renewed, nor shall any...
• Section 32-7-9 Application to nonresidents, unlicensed drivers, unregistered motor vehicles and accidents in other states
  (a) In case the operator or the owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident within this state has no license or registration or...
• Section 32-7-10 Form and amount of security
  The security required under this chapter shall be in such form and in such amount as the director may require but in no case in...
• Section 32-7-11 Custody, disposition and return of security
  Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this chapter shall be placed by the director in the custody of the State Treasurer and shall...
• Section 32-7-12 Matters not to be evidence in civil actions
  Neither the report required by Section 32-7-5, the action taken by the director pursuant to this chapter, the findings, if any, of the director upon...
• Section 32-7-13 Courts to report nonpayment of judgments
  Whenever any person fails within 60 days to satisfy any judgment, upon the written request of the judgment creditor or his or her attorney, it...
• Section 32-7-14 Suspension of license, registration, or operating privilege for nonpayment of judgment
  (a) Suspension for nonpayment of judgment. The director upon the receipt of a certified copy of a judgment shall forthwith suspend the license and registration...
• Section 32-7-15 Suspension to continue until judgments paid and proof given
  The license, registration, and nonresident's operating privilege shall remain suspended and shall not be renewed, nor shall any such license or registration be thereafter issued...
• Section 32-7-16 Payments sufficient to satisfy requirements
  Judgments herein referred to shall, for the purpose of this chapter only, be deemed satisfied: (1) When twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) has been credited upon...
• Section 32-7-17 Installment payment of judgments
  (a) A judgment debtor, upon due notice to the judgment creditor, may apply to the court in which such judgment was rendered for the privilege...
• Section 32-7-18 Proof of financial responsibility required upon certain convictions
  (a) Whenever the director, under any law of this state, suspends or revokes the license of any person upon receiving record of a conviction or...
• Section 32-7-19 Alternate methods of giving proof; registration of motor vehicle of person required to give proof
  (a) Proof of financial responsibility when required under this chapter with respect to a motor vehicle or with respect to a person who is not...
• Section 32-7-20 Certificate of insurance as proof
  (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be furnished by filing with the director the written certificate of any insurance carrier duly authorized to do business...
• Section 32-7-21 Certificate furnished by nonresident as proof
  (a) The nonresident owner of a motor vehicle not registered in this state may give proof of financial responsibility by filing with the director a...
• Section 32-7-22 Motor vehicle liability policy defined; policy provisions
  (a) A motor vehicle liability policy, as the term is used in this chapter, means an owner's or an operator's policy of liability insurance, certified...
• Section 32-7-23 Uninsured motorist coverage; "uninsured motorist" defined; limitation on recovery
  (a) No automobile liability or motor vehicle liability policy insuring against loss resulting from liability imposed by law for bodily injury or death suffered by...
• Section 32-7-24 Notice of cancellation or termination of certified policy
  (a) When an insurance carrier has certified a motor vehicle liability policy under Section 32-7-20 or a policy under Section 32-7-21, the insurance so certified...
• Section 32-7-25 Chapter not to affect other policies
  (a) This chapter shall not be held to apply to or affect policies of automobile insurance against liability which may now or hereafter be required...
• Section 32-7-26 Bond as proof of financial responsibility
  (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be furnished by a bond of a surety company duly authorized to transact business in this state, or by...
• Section 32-7-27 Money or securities as proof
  (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the certificate of the State Treasurer that the person named in the certificate has deposited with...
• Section 32-7-28 Owner may give proof for others
  Whenever any person required to give proof of financial responsibility under this chapter is or later becomes an operator in the employ of any owner,...
• Section 32-7-29 Substitution of proof
  The director shall consent to the cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance or the director shall direct and the State Treasurer shall return...
• Section 32-7-30 Additional proof may be required
  Whenever any proof of financial responsibility filed under the provisions of this chapter no longer fulfills the purposes for which required, the director shall, for...
• Section 32-7-31 Duration of proof; when proof may be cancelled or returned
  (a) The director shall upon request consent to the immediate cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance, or the director shall direct and the...
• Section 32-7-32 Transfer of registration to defeat purpose of chapter prohibited
  If an owner's registration has been suspended hereunder, such registration shall not be transferred nor the motor vehicle in respect of which such registration was...
• Section 32-7-33 Surrender of license and registration
  Any person whose license or registration shall have been suspended as provided in this chapter, or whose policy of insurance or bond, when required under...
• Section 32-7-34 Self-insurers
  (a) Any person in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are registered may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued...
• Section 32-7-35 Assigned risk plans
  After consultation with insurance companies authorized to issue automobile liability policies in this state, the Commissioner of Insurance shall approve a reasonable plan or plans...
• Section 32-7-36 Exceptions
  This chapter shall not apply with respect to any motor vehicle owned by the United States, this state or any political subdivision of this state...
• Section 32-7-37 Other violations; penalties
  (a) Failure to report an accident as required in Section 32-7-5 shall be punished by a fine not in excess of $25.00, and in the...
• Section 32-7-38 Employment of necessary employees
  The Director of Public Safety, subject to the provisions of the merit system, may appoint such clerical assistants, stenographers, or employees as may be necessary...
• Section 32-7-40 Chapter supplemental to other laws
  This chapter shall in no respect be considered as a repeal of the state motor vehicle laws, but shall be construed as supplemental thereto.
• Section 32-7-41 Chapter not to prevent other process
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the plaintiff in any civil action from relying for relief upon the other processes provided by
• Section 32-7-42 Uniformity of interpretation
  This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.
• Section 32-7-43 Nondiscriminatory application
  Enforcement and investigative activities as they relate to Act 2011-688 shall not be based on an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age,...

Last modified: May 3, 2021