Code of Alabama - Title 37: Public Utilities and Public Transportation - Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers

• Section 37-3-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama Motor Carrier Act."
• Section 37-3-2 Definitions
  The following words and phrases used in this chapter, where not in conflict with the context, shall have the following meanings: (1) BROKER. Any person...
• Section 37-3-3 Applicability of chapter to interstate commerce
  This chapter and every part thereof shall apply to and be construed to apply to interstate commerce, except insofar as the same may be in...
• Section 37-3-4 Exemptions
  (a) This chapter shall not be construed to apply to: (1)a. School buses or other motor vehicles which are owned by county boards of education...
• Section 37-3-5 Operations to be in accordance with chapter; carriers subject to regulation of commission
  No motor carrier, as defined in this chapter, not exempt in this chapter, shall operate any motor vehicle for the transportation of passengers or property...
• Section 37-3-6 Proprietary or property rights in use of highways not conferred by chapter
  Nothing in this chapter shall confer any proprietary or property rights in the use of the public highways.
• Section 37-3-7 Powers and duties of commission generally
  It shall be the duty of the commission: (1) To regulate common carriers by motor vehicle as provided in this chapter, and, to that end,...
• Section 37-3-8 Commission members not to have pecuniary interest, etc., in carriers or brokers
  No member of the commission, nor any employee of the commission appointed or employed in the administration of this chapter, shall in any manner have...
• Section 37-3-9 Disposition of matters requiring hearing
  Except as otherwise provided, any matter arising in the administration of this chapter requiring a hearing shall be heard and decided by the commission or...
• Section 37-3-10 Certificate of public convenience and necessity - When required; application; determination by commission
  (a) No common carrier by motor vehicle subject to the provisions of this chapter shall engage in intrastate commerce on any highway in this state...
• Section 37-3-11 Certificate of public convenience and necessity - Issuance generally
  (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 37-3-14 and to the provisions of subsection (b), a certificate shall be issued to any qualified applicant therefor,...
• Section 37-3-12 Certificate of public convenience and necessity - Scope of authority granted; deviations; charter parties; transportation of newspapers, baggage or mail; abandonment or discontinuance
  (a) Any certificate issued under Sections 37-3-10 and 37-3-11 shall specify the service to be rendered and the routes over which, the fixed termini, if...
• Section 37-3-12.1 Grant of intrastate charter rights to certain common carriers authorized
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 37-3-11 or any other provision of general law, local law, or any rule or regulation of a state agency to...
• Section 37-3-13 Contract carrier permits - Generally
  (a) No person shall engage in the business of a contract carrier by motor vehicle in intrastate commerce on any highway of this state unless...
• Section 37-3-14 Contract carrier permits - Dual operations
  No person shall at the same time hold under this chapter a certificate as a common carrier and a permit as a contract carrier authorizing...
• Section 37-3-15 Licensing and regulation of brokers
  (a) No person shall for compensation sell or offer for sale transportation subject to this chapter or shall make any contract, agreement or arrangement to...
• Section 37-3-16 Effective date of certificates, permits or licenses; suspension, change or revocation
  Certificates, permits and licenses shall be effective from the date specified therein and shall remain in effect until terminated as herein provided. Any such certificate,...
• Section 37-3-17 Transfer of certificates or permits
  Subject to the provisions of Section 37-3-14, any certificate or permit may be transferred or leased pursuant to such rules and regulations as the commission...
• Section 37-3-18 Bond or other security
  (a) No certificate or permit shall be issued to a motor carrier or remain in force, and no motor carrier subject to the provisions of...
• Section 37-3-20 Tariffs of common carriers
  (a) Every common carrier by motor vehicle shall file with the commission and keep open to the public inspection tariffs showing all the rates, fares...
• Section 37-3-19 Duty of common carrier to provide service, equipment, and facilities; rates and charges generally; rules, regulations, and practices; other remedies not extinguished
  (a) It shall be the duty of every common carrier of passengers by motor vehicle to establish and provide safe and adequate service, equipment and...
• Section 37-3-21 Schedules or contracts of contract carriers; charges generally; rules, regulations or practices
  (a) It shall be the duty of every contract carrier by motor vehicle to file with the commission, publish and keep open for public inspection,...
• Section 37-3-22 Accounts, records and reports
  (a) The commission is hereby authorized to require annual, periodical or special reports from all motor carriers, to prescribe the manner and form in which...
• Section 37-3-23 Bills of lading
  Every common carrier by motor vehicle subject to the provisions of this chapter receiving property for transportation originating and terminating in this state shall issue...
• Section 37-3-23.1 Unenforceability of certain motor vehicle transportation contract provisions
  (a) In this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) MOTOR CARRIER. The same meaning ascribed in subdivision (10) of Section 37-3-2,...
• Section 37-3-24 Effective date of commission orders
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all orders of the commission shall take effect within such reasonable time as the commission may prescribe...
• Section 37-3-25 Penalties for violations
  (a) Any person knowingly and willfully violating any provision of this chapter or any rule, regulation, requirement or order thereunder or any term or condition...
• Section 37-3-26 Collection of rates and charges
  No common carrier by motor vehicle shall deliver or relinquish possession at destination of any freight transported by it in intrastate commerce until all tariff...
• Section 37-3-27 Employment of personnel to aid commission in administration and enforcement of chapter
  The commission is authorized to employ such assistants and employees as are necessary to aid the commission in the proper administration and enforcement of this...
• Section 37-3-28 Examiners
  The commission is empowered to designate by its order such of its employees to act as examiners under this chapter as may be found to...
• Section 37-3-29 Appeals
  From any final action or order of the commission in the exercise of the jurisdiction, power or authority, conferred upon the commission by this chapter,...
• Section 37-3-30 Additional compensation of commission members
  For the extra, new and additional duties imposed upon the commission and the members thereof by this chapter and for the performance of duties which...
• Section 37-3-31 Appropriation
  There is appropriated out of the moneys of the treasury, to the credit of the motor carrier fund, the sum of $50,000.00 annually, to meet...
• Section 37-3-32 Fees
  In addition to all of the taxes and fees prescribed by law, motor carriers shall pay to the commission under the provisions of this chapter...
• Section 37-3-32.1 Administration of Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005
  (a) Foreign and domestic motor carriers, motor private carriers, leasing companies, brokers, and freight forwarders shall not operate in interstate commerce in this state without...
• Section 37-3-33 Municipal privilege license fees or taxes
  (a) Any incorporated city or town in this state shall have the right by proper ordinance to tax and collect reasonable privilege license fees or...
• Section 37-3-34 Rules and regulations of commission
  The commission is given the power and authority to make such general rules and regulations not incorporated herein or inconsistent herewith by general order or...

Last modified: May 3, 2021