1. (A) There will be a uniform traffic ticket used by all law enforcement officers in arrests for traffic offenses and for the following additional offenses:

   Offense Citation

   Interfering with Police Officer Serving Process Section 16-5-50

   Dumping Trash on Highway/Private Property Section 16-11-700

   Indecent Exposure Section 16-15-130

   Disorderly Conduct Section 16-17-530

   Damaging Highway Section 57-7-10

   Place Glass, Nails, Etc. on Highway Section 57-7-20

   Obstruction of Highway by Railroad Cars, Etc. Section 57-7-240

   Signs Permitted on Interstate Section 57-25-140

   Brown Bagging Section 61-5-20

   Drinking Liquors in Public Conveyance Section 61-13-360

   Poles Dragging on Highway Section 57-7-80

   Open Container Section 61-9-87

   Purchase or Possession of Beer or Wine by a Person Section 63-19-2440

   Under Age

   Purchase or Possession of Alcoholic Liquor by a Person Section 63-19-2450

   Under Age Twenty-One

   Unlawful Possession and Consumption of Alcoholic Section 61-5-30

   Liquors

   Sale of Beer or Wine on Which Tax Has Not Been Paid Section 61-9-20

   Falsification of Age to Purchase Beer or Wine Section 61-9-50

   Unlawful Purchase of Beer or Wine for a Person Who Section 61-9-60

   Cannot Legally Buy

   Unlawful Sale or Purchase of Beer or Wine, Giving Section 61-9-85

   False Information as to Age, Buying Beer or Wine

   Unlawfully for Another

   Employment of a Person Under the Age of Twenty-One as Section 61-13-340

   an Employee in Retail or Wholesale or Manufacturing

   Liquor Business

   Failure to Remove Doors from Abandoned Refrigerators Section 16-3-1010

   Malicious Injury to Animals or Personal Property Section 16-11-510

   Timber, Logs, or Lumber Cutting, Removing, Section 16-11-580

   Transporting Without Permission, Valued at Less Than

   Fifty Dollars

   Littering Section 16-11-700

   Larceny of a Bicycle Valued at Less Than One Hundred Section 16-13-80

   Dollars

   Shoplifting Section 16-13-110

   Cock Fighting Section 16-17-650

   Ticket Scalping Section 16-17-710

   Criminal Domestic Violence, First Offense and Second Section 16-25-20

   Offense (B)(1) and (2)

   Glue Sniffing Section 44-53-1110

   Trespassing Section 16-11-755

   Trespassing Section 16-11-600

   Trespassing Section 16-11-610

   Trespassing Section 16-11-620

   Negligent Operation of Watercraft; Operation of Section 50-21-110

   Watercraft While Under Influence of Alcohol or Drugs

   Negligence of Boat Livery to Provide Proper Equipment Section 50-21-120

   and Registration

   Interference with Aids to Navigation or Regulatory Section 50-21-170

   Markers or Operation of Watercraft in Prohibited

   Area

   Operation of Watercraft Without a Certificate of Title Section 50-23-190

   Parking on private property without permission Section 16-11-760

   Certificate of Veterinary Inspection; Requirement for Section 47-4-60

   Out-of- State Livestock or Poultry

   Inhibition of Livestock Inspection Section 47-4-120

   Imported Swine Section 47-6-50

   Operating Equine Sales Facility or Livestock Market Section 47-11-20

   Without Permit

   Liability of Person Removing Livestock for Slaughter Section 47-11-120

   Notice to Disinfect Section 47-13-310

   Quarantine of Livestock or Poultry Section 47-4-70

   Unlawful for Horse to Enter State Unless Tested Section 47-13-1350

   Quarantine of Exposed Horses Section 47-13-1360

   Proof of Test Required for Public Assembly of Horses Section 47-13-1370

   False Certificates Section 47-13-1390

   Unlawful to Feed Garbage to Swine Section 47-15-20

   Notification Required from Certain Persons Disposing Section 47-15-40

   of Garbage

   Sale of Uninspected Meat and Meat Products Section 47-17-60

   Sale of Uninspected Poultry and Poultry Product Section 47-19-70

2. (B) In addition to the offenses contained in subsection (A), a uniform traffic ticket may be used in an arrest for a misdemeanor offense within the jurisdiction of magistrates court that has been freshly committed or is committed in the presence of a law enforcement officer.
3. (C) No other ticket may be used for these offenses. The service of the uniform traffic ticket shall vest all traffic, recorders', and magistrates' courts with jurisdiction to hear and to dispose of the charge for which the ticket was issued and served. This ticket will be designed by the department and approved by the Attorney General within thirty days of submission by the department. A law enforcement agency may utilize computers and other electronic devices to issue uniform traffic citations and store information resulting from the issuance of a traffic citation if this method of issuing a citation has been approved by the Department of Public Safety.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-871; 1967 (55) 203; 1971 (57) 474; 1980 Act No. 353, Section 1; 1984 Act No. 467; 1985 Act No. 158, Section 1; 1987 Act No. 185 Section 2; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1468; 1996 Act No; 459, Section 214; 2003 Act No. 54, Section 2; 2005 Act No. 68, Section 1, eff May 23, 2005; 2013 Act No. 78, Section 1, eff June 13, 2013.