Code of Alabama

Ala. Code § 13A-11-74 (2026)

License to Carry Pistol in Vehicle or Concealed on Person - Exceptions.

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The provisions of Section 13A-11-72(c) shall not apply to marshals, sheriffs, prison and jail wardens and their regularly employed deputies, police officers and other law enforcement officers of any state or political subdivision thereof, or to the members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Space Force of the United States or of the National Guard, or to the members of the National Guard organized reserves or state guard organizations when on duty or going to or from duty, or to the regularly enrolled members of any organization duly authorized to purchase or receive the weapons from the United States or from this state; provided, that those members are at or are going to or from their places of assembly or target practices, or to officers or employees of the United States duly authorized to carry a pistol, or to any person engaged in manufacturing, repairing, or dealing in pistols, or the agent or representative of a person possessing, using, or carrying a pistol in the usual or ordinary course of pistol manufacturing, repairing, or dealing business, or to any common carrier, except taxicabs, licensed as a common carrier, or to any person permitted by law to possess a pistol while carrying it unloaded in a secure wrapper, from the place of purchase to his or her home or place of business, or to or from a place of repair or in moving from one place of abode or business to another.

(Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 82, p. 51; Code 1940, T. 14, §176; Acts 1947, No. 616, p. 463, §4; Acts 1951, No. 784, p. 1378; Code 1975, §13-6-154; Act 2022-133, §1.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 2003–2015 · leading case: State v. Lutters, 853 A.2d 434 (Conn. 2004).

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State v. Lutters, 853 A.2d 434 (Conn. 2004). “See Ala. Code § 13A-11-74 (Michie 1994) (providing exception for “any common carrier, except taxicabs”); Colo.”

Matchum v. State, 880 So. 2d 1202 (Ala. Crim. App. 2003). “' "[Nunnery] says that he `contends, quite simply, that the punishment for the pistol offense is "otherwise specifically provided" by Section 13A-11-74[sic, which we believe is meant to refer to § 13A-11-84 (a)].”

Smoak v. State, 186 So. 3d 493 (Ala. Crim. App. 2015). “) “Subject to the exceptions provided by Section 13A-11-74,” which are not applicable in Smoak’s ease, § 13A-ll-72(c), Ala.”

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