(a) No person shall throw or deposit upon or alongside any highway, road, street, or public right-of-way any bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, cigarettes, cigars, containers of urine, or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle upon or alongside the highway, road, street, or public right-of-way.

Attorney's Note

Under the Alabama Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class B misdemeanorup to 6 monthsup to $3,000
Violationup to 30 daysup to $200
For details, see Ala. Code § 13A-5-7

Terms Used In Alabama Code 32-5A-60

  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(b) Any person who throws, drops, or permits to be thrown or dropped, upon any highway any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the material or cause it to be removed.
(c) Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from the vehicle.
(d) No person shall throw or drop litter from a motor vehicle upon or alongside any highway, road or street, or public right-of-way.
(e) The uniform traffic citation may be used for any violation of this section.
(f) “Litter” as used in this section is the same as defined in Section 13A-7-29.
(g)

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section guardian; applicability of article” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2021″ statecd=”AL” title=”32″>32-5A-266, any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor pursuant to Section 13A-7-29, the criminal littering statute.
(2) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall adopt rules to implement this subsection.
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