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2019 Code of Alabama
Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.
Chapter 7 - Rights of Blind and Otherwise Physically Disabled Persons.
Section 21-7-6 - Duty of drivers to pedestrians carrying cane or accompanied by guide dog.
Universal Citation: AL Code § 21-7-6 (2019)
Section 21-7-6Duty of drivers to pedestrians carrying cane or accompanied by guide dog.
The driver of a vehicle approaching a totally or partially blind pedestrian who is carrying a cane predominantly white or metallic in color, with or without a red tip, or using a guide dog, or a person employed by an accredited school for training guide dogs who provides notice through a sign or other method that he or she is training a dog as a guide dog shall take all necessary precautions prescribed by law to avoid injury to the blind pedestrian, and the dog trainer. Any driver who fails to take all necessary precautions shall be liable in damages for any injury caused the pedestrian, or the guide dog trainer.
(Acts 1975, No. 869, p. 1711, §3; Act 99-698, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 298, §1.)
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