Ala. Code § 22-10B-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 10B / Section 22-10B-3
Section 22-10B-3 Duties
Status: in_force

(a) The Alabama Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission shall be designated as the agency to insure the delivery of sickle cell services pursuant to Section 22-10B-5 to affected persons in all counties in Alabama and assist in establishing geographical service delivery boundaries. The commission shall promulgate guidelines for creating uniformity in the delivery of services and the management of statewide programs.

(b) The commission shall also promulgate rules pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act for handling complaints regarding service and management of statewide programs and addressing any other discrepancies brought to the attention of the commission. The commission shall not have the authority to promulgate rules regarding medical care. Any rule promulgated shall not be construed to establish a standard of care for physicians licensed to practice medicine.
Ala. Code § 22-11A-41 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11A / Section 22-11A-41
Section 22-11A-41 Approval of Testing or Diagnostic Kits
Status: in_force

All individual testing and diagnostic kits or like kits for the identification of any of the designated notifiable diseases in Chapter 11A of Title 22 that are advertised, promoted or marketed for sale to the general public in the state shall be approved by the State Board of Health.
Ala. Code § 22-3A-14 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3A / Section 22-3A-14
Section 22-3A-14 Refunding Bonds
Status: in_force

(a) Any bonds issued by the authority under this chapter may from time to time thereafter be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds of the authority; provided, however, that no refunding bonds shall be issued unless the present value of all debt service on the refunding bonds (computed with a discount rate equal to the true interest rate of the refunding bonds and taking into account all underwriting discount and other issuance expenses) shall not be greater than 95 percent of the present value of all debt service on the bonds to be refunded (computed using the same discount rate and taking into account the underwriting discount and other issuance expenses originally applicable to such bonds) determined as if such bonds to be refunded were paid and retired in accordance with the schedule of maturities (considering mandatory redemption as a scheduled maturity) provided at the time of their issuance. Provided further that the average maturity of the refunding bonds, as measured from the date of issuance of such refunding bonds, shall not exceed by more than three years the average maturity of the bonds to be refunded, as also measured from such date of issuance, with the average maturity of any principal amount of bonds to be determined by multiplying the principal of each maturity by the number of years (including any fractional part of a year) intervening between such date of issuance and each such maturity, taking the sum of all such products, and then dividing such sum by the aggregate principal amount of bonds for which the average maturity is to be determined. Any such refunding bonds may be issued whether the bonds to be refunded shall have then matured or shall thereafter mature, and such refunding may be effected either by sale of the refunding bonds and the applications of the proceeds thereof to the payment or redemption of the bonds so refunded or by exchange of the refunding bonds for those to be refunded thereby. The holders of any bonds so to be refunded shall not be compelled without their consent to surrender their bonds for payment or exchange prior to the date on which they are payable, or if they are called for redemption, prior to the date on which they may be redeemed by the authority according to their terms. Any refunding bonds may be issued in such aggregate principal amount as the authority shall deem necessary to effect such refunding.

(b) The proceeds derived from any sale of refunding bonds remaining after payment of the expenses of their issuance shall be applied in accordance with the proceedings of the authority under which such refunding bonds are issued. Pending the application of said proceeds to the purchase, redemption or payment of such outstanding bonds, the said proceeds may be invested in permitted investments pursuant to a trust agreement providing for the future application of such proceeds to the purchase, redemption or payment of such outstanding bonds. Bonds refunded prior to their maturity with the proceeds of refunding bonds shall be deemed not outstanding if the authority, in the proceedings under which such refunding bonds are issued, establishes a trust fund consisting of cash or government securities, or both, sufficient to pay in accordance with the provisions of such trust fund when due, the entire principal of and the interest and premium (if any) on the refunded bonds; provided that such government securities shall not be subject to redemption prior to their maturities other than at the option of the holder thereof. Upon the establishment of such a trust fund, the refunded bonds shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding, shall no longer be secured by the funds pledged therefor in Section 22-3A-16, shall no longer be obligations of the authority, and shall be secured solely by and payable from the moneys and investments deposited in such trust fund.
Ala. Code § 22-21-336 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-336
Section 22-21-336 Transfer of Funds and Assets to Authority
Status: in_force

Any municipality, county, or educational institution, any public hospital corporation and any other public agency, authority or body is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to any authority, with or without consideration:

(1) Any health care facilities and other properties, real or personal, and all funds and assets, tangible or intangible, relative to the ownership or operation of any such health care facilities that may be owned by such municipality, county, educational institution, public hospital corporation or other public agency, authority or body, as the case may be, or that may be jointly owned by any two or more thereof, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any certificates of need, assurances of need or other similar rights appertaining or ancillary thereto, irrespective of whether they have been exercised; and

(2) Any funds owned or controlled by such municipality, county, educational institution, public hospital corporation or other public agency, authority or body, as the case may be, or jointly by any two or more thereof, that may have been raised or allocated for any of the purposes for which such authority shall have been organized, whether or not such property is considered necessary for the conduct of the governmental or public functions (if any) of such municipality, county, educational institution, public hospital corporation or other public agency, authority or body.

Such transfer or conveyance shall be authorized by an ordinance or resolution duly adopted by the governing body of such municipality, county, or educational institution or by the board of directors or other governing body of such public hospital corporation or other public agency, authority or body, as the case may be, and it shall not be necessary, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, to obtain any certificate of need, assurance of need or other similar permit for any such transfer or conveyance. In the event of the transfer of any health care facilities to the authority, any hospital tax proceeds, other tax proceeds and other revenues apportioned or allocated to or for the benefit of the prior owner or operator of such health care facilities or for patient care at such health care facilities shall thereafter be paid to the authority.
Ala. Code § 22-30B-2.1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30B / Section 22-30B-2.1
Section 22-30B-2.1 Annual Payments to Counties; Guaranteed Amount; Distribution of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby provided to all counties having less than 25,000 population and wherein on April 17, 1990, a commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste or hazardous substances is located, an annual payment of two and one-half percent of the gross receipts generated by Section 22-30B-2 as provided herein over those fees in existence on October 1, 1989.

(b) Any county identified in subsection (a) is hereby guaranteed an amount not to exceed the lesser of $4,200,000.00 or 100 percent of the receipts to the state paid on wastes or substances disposed of in the county. In determining whether a county is entitled to receive benefit of all or any portion of the guarantee herein made, there shall be charged against such county all receipts which it receives pursuant to this chapter and Alabama Act 83-480, 1983 Regular Session, as amended, or other applicable local act.

(c) Determination of entitlement to the guarantee shall be made quarterly by the Governor or his or her designee not later than 45 days following the end of each quarter of the state’s fiscal year. Such a determination shall be the difference in those fees payable to the county under this chapter and Alabama Act 83-480, as amended, and any other applicable local act for the three-month period ending the previous quarter as compared to the applicable guarantee amount of $1,050,000.00 per quarter.

(d) In the event the guarantee provided in subsection (b) is required to be exercised, the Department of Revenue shall, within 10 days of notification from the Governor or his or her designee, certify to the State Finance Director that an appropriate amount as determined in subsection (c) from the first receipts generated by Act 90-326, as amended, in each quarter of the fiscal year shall be paid to the appropriate county commission. The State Finance Director is hereby authorized to cause to be paid from current state revenues generated by Act 90-326, as amended, an amount which shall be paid as a reduction of current fiscal year revenues to the state, which payment shall not in any event exceed an amount equal to the total current fiscal year revenues generated by Act 90-326, as amended, and paid into the State Treasury. The county commission shall, within 10 days of receipt of the funds, disburse the funds according to Alabama Act 83-480, as amended, or other applicable general or local laws.

(e) In the event that, receipts to any county do not reach $4,200,000.00 and such receipts are supplemented by revenue which would have accrued to the State General Fund in order to reach the guaranteed level of $4,200,000.00, the county, beginning October 1, 1992, shall reimburse the State General Fund for any such revenue received by the county in those fiscal years in which the receipts to that county exceed $4,200,000.00 by the amount that such receipts exceed $4,200,000.00 until the State General Fund shall have been reimbursed in full.

(f) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, revenues generated pursuant to Section 22-30B-2(1) and (2), beginning October 1, 2015, shall be distributed as follows:

(1) Such amounts as are necessary to meet the annual guaranteed amount of four million two hundred thousand dollars ($4,200,000) to the county as provided by this section.

(2) After the distribution is made pursuant to subdivision (1), any remaining amounts shall be distributed as follows:

a. Fifty percent to the State General Fund.

b. Fifty percent to the county.
Ala. Code § 22-25A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 25A / Section 22-25A-5
Section 22-25A-5 Certification and Permitting Fees
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2009-773, p. 2388, §1, effective May 22, 2009.
Ala. Code § 11-32-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 32 / Section 11-32-1
Section 11-32-1 Legislative Findings
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature finds, determines, and hereby declares that, in counties having a population of not less than 600,000, there are conditions present that are not present in counties with lesser populations. Those conditions include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) The excessive growth in private vehicular traffic in the counties is placing excessive burdens upon the road systems and parking facilities, especially in commercial and industrial districts and in areas of high population density, which cannot be alleviated by private vehicular traffic.

(2) The number of vehicular miles the average citizen of those counties travels per day is among the highest nationally in terms of miles and commuting times.

(3) The projected continued economic growth of the counties and the general health and welfare of the citizens of the counties require those counties to provide the enhanced availability of public transportation facilities, operations, and services for mass transportation, thus it is necessary and desirable and in the best interests of the citizens of the counties that the provisions governing the administration of the authority be amended to expand and improve the existing public transportation services.

(b) The Legislature further declares its intention, by the passage of this chapter, to provide for solutions to the problems set out above that are not provided for by the general laws of the state, to promote public mass transportation in the authorizing county, and to provide a mechanism for transportation services in counties contiguous with a county having a population of not less than 600,000, through the authorization of public corporations, as agencies of the State of Alabama, with the powers conferred by this chapter.
Ala. Code § 22-37-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 37 / Section 22-37-5
Section 22-37-5 Notice to Customers of Water Suppliers of Potential for Lead Contamination
Status: in_force

Suppliers of water in public water systems shall provide notice to the customers of the potential for lead contamination from drinking water in a format to meet the department and federal act provisions.
Ala. Code § 22-3A-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3A / Section 22-3A-3
Section 22-3A-3 Creation of Corporation; Members. (Amended by Act 2026-327)
Status: in_force

AMENDED BY ACT 2026-327, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2026. SEE ACT FOR REVISED LANGUAGE.

The State Health Officer, the Governor or his designee, the Director of Finance of the state, the State Treasurer, one member of the state Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate (which member may be the President of the Senate), and one member of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives (which member may be the Speaker of the House of Representatives) may become a public corporation with the powers hereinafter provided by proceeding according to the provisions of Section 22-3A-4.
Ala. Code § 22-10B-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 10B / Section 22-10B-4
Section 22-10B-4 Approval and Funding to Provide Services; Budget
Status: in_force

All persons, firms, corporations, unincorporated associations, state agencies, units of local government, or any public or private entity requesting public funding to provide quality sickle cell services shall receive approval biannually from the commission. The commission shall allocate the funds from any appropriation by the state for sickle cell treatment and education, and shall be responsible for submitting a consolidated budget and any other financial information required of state agencies, pursuant to the Budget Management Act.
Ala. Code § 11-19-6 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 11-19-6
Section 11-19-6 Building Codes and Health Regulations
Status: in_force

Building codes and health regulations shall include all applicable state and local provisions and shall cover all public and private construction and development in flood-prone areas, including, but not limited to, private homes, farm buildings, all buildings (except accessory buildings of under 200 square feet of floor space), streets, avenues, roadways, alleyways, and easements, electricity, water systems, and sewerage disposal systems. Such regulations may require that all proposed improvements and developments in flood-prone areas will:

(1) Properly elevate structures so as to assure protection from reasonably expected flooding;

(2) Design buildings so as to prevent flotation and collapse, giving special attention to the adequacy of foundations and to prevent damage to nonstructural elements;

(3) Provide for the protection of heating systems and other critical mechanical or electrical installations from damage by flooding;

(4) Not create unhealthful areas of pondage or accumulation of debris and obstacles in flooding situations;

(5) Provide adequate controls on the placement of septic tanks to avoid contamination during flooding;

(6) Provide adequate sewerage and water systems which will not be adversely affected by flooding; and

(7) Require and encourage flood proofing to the maximum extent practicable in connection with all proposed major improvements, repairs, and rehabilitations of existing structures.
Ala. Code § 11-16-38 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 16 / Section 11-16-38
Section 11-16-38 Erection of Courthouse on New Site
Status: in_force

If at such election a majority of the qualified electors of the county voting at the election shall vote for the erection of a courthouse on the proposed site, it shall be permissible to erect a courthouse on such proposed site.
Ala. Code § 1-2-6 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 1-2-6
Section 1-2-6 Flag of the State - Display
Status: in_force

The flag of the state shall be hoisted on the dome of the Capitol when the two houses of the Legislature are in session, and shall be used by the state on all occasions when it may be necessary or customary to display a flag, except when, in the opinion of the Governor, the national flag should be displayed.
Ala. Code § 11-30-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30 / Section 11-30-2
Section 11-30-2 Establishment of Liability Self-Insurance Fund by Two or More Counties; Appropriation of Funds
Status: in_force

Any group of two or more counties of the State of Alabama may establish a liability self-insurance fund for the purpose of pooling its resources and funds to provide coverage for each member county and/or its officers and employees on account of a claim as defined in this chapter. Member counties may appropriate such funds as necessary to the liability self-insurance fund created hereunder.
Ala. Code § 22-18-61 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 18 / Section 22-18-61
Section 22-18-61 Development and Administration of Program. (Amended by Act 2026-520)
Status: in_force

AMENDED BY ACT 2026-520, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2026. SEE ACT FOR REVISED LANGUAGE.

(a) The ACCS, the fire college, and the University of South Alabama, in consultation with the associations, shall jointly develop and administer a student tuition reimbursement program for students who contract to provide two years of emergency medical services for volunteer rescue squads, volunteer fire departments, or ambulance services after becoming a licensed EMSP.

(b)(1) Tuition reimbursement under this article shall cover tuition costs paid by the student or the volunteer rescue squad, volunteer fire department, ambulance service, or association on behalf of the student of which the student is a member. Tuition paid by the volunteer rescue squad, volunteer fire department, ambulance service, or association shall be reimbursed directly to the volunteer rescue squad, volunteer fire department, ambulance service, or association.

(2) Tuition reimbursement under this article shall not include any tuition costs covered by grants or other monetary awards provided to a student including, but not limited to, federal education grants and scholarships, as determined by the ACCS.

(3) Tuition costs shall not be reimbursed until the student provides ACCS and the associations with documentation that he or she has successfully completed the approved course of instruction, proof of passing the certification exam, production of a valid EMSP license from the Alabama Department of Public Health, and a contractual agreement to comply with the service requirements.

(c) In the event that a tuition reimbursement recipient fails to meet the service requirements for any reason other than extreme hardship as defined within the joint agreement required in Section 22-18-64(b), the individual shall be deemed to have breached the underlying contract and shall be liable in the form of monetary damages to the state for the immediate repayment of the total tuition costs reimbursed, plus interest at the rate of eight percent. The associations shall notify ACCS of recipients who fail to meet the service requirements.

(d) Beginning with the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the amount of tuition reimbursement available to students shall be divided among volunteer fire departments, rescue squads, and ambulance services based on available appropriations. The ACCS shall create operational procedures to ensure that funds and volunteer service commitments are split equitably among volunteer fire departments, rescue squads, and ambulance services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, priority shall be given to volunteer fire departments, rescue squads, and nonprofit ambulance services.
Ala. Code § 22-6-6 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 22-6-6
Section 22-6-6 Subrogation of State to Rights of Recipients of Medical Assistance Under Program Against Persons, Etc., Causing Injury, Etc., Thereto; Manner of Enforcement of Rights of State; Effect of Action by State or Recipient Against Person, Etc., Causing Injury, Etc., Upon Rights of Other; Provision of Written Notice, Etc., by Recipients Instituting Civil Actions for Damages
Status: in_force

(a) If medical assistance is provided to a recipient under the Alabama Medicaid Program for injuries, disease or sickness caused under circumstances creating a cause of action in favor of the recipient against any person, firm or corporation, then the State of Alabama shall be subrogated to such recipient’s rights and shall be entitled to recover the proceeds that may result from the exercise of any rights of recovery which the recipient may have against any such person, firm or corporation to the extent of the actual amount of the medical assistance payments made by the Alabama Medicaid Program. The recipient shall execute and deliver instruments and papers to do whatever is necessary to secure such rights and shall do nothing after said medical assistance is provided to prejudice the subrogation rights of the State of Alabama.

(b) The State of Alabama may, to enforce such rights, institute and prosecute legal proceedings against any such person, firm or corporation against whom such recovery rights arise, intervene or join any action or proceeding brought by such recipient against such person, firm or corporation or compromise or settle any such claim. No action taken by the State of Alabama shall operate to deny such recipient’s recovery for that portion of his damages not subrogated to the State of Alabama under subsection (a) of this section and no action of the recipient shall prejudice the state’s subrogation rights.

(c) Any such recipient seeking to recover damages relating to or in any wise connected with such circumstances giving rise to recovery rights who institutes any civil action against such party shall, within 10 days of filing thereof, provide the director of the Alabama Medicaid Program and the Attorney General of the State of Alabama a written notice thereof and a copy of the complaint and all amendments thereto.
Ala. Code § 22-37A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 37A / Section 22-37A-5
Section 22-37A-5 Certification and Qualifications to Perform Lead-Based Paint Activities; Powers of Board
Status: in_force

(a) An individual may not be certified to engage in lead-based paint activities under this chapter unless the individual has successfully completed the appropriate training program, passed an examination approved by the board for the appropriate category of certification, and completed any additional requirements imposed by the board by rule.

(b) An individual may not perform or represent that he or she is qualified to perform any lead-based paint activities unless the individual possesses the appropriate certification as determined by the board or unless the individual is any of the following:

(1) An owner performing abatement or renovation upon his or her own residential property.

(2) An employee of a property management company doing minor repairs and maintenance activities upon property managed by that company where there is insignificant damage, wear, or corrosion of existing lead-containing paint or coating substances.

(3) An owner doing routine minor repairs and maintenance activities upon his or her property where there is insignificant damage to, wear of, or corrosion of existing lead-containing paint or coating substances.

(c) The board shall adopt rules establishing standards of acceptable professional conduct and work practices for the performance of lead-based paint activities, as well as specific acts and omissions that constitute grounds for any of the following:

(1) The reprimand of any certificate holder.

(2) The suspension, modification, or revocation of a certificate.

(3) The denial of issuance or renewal of a certificate.

(d) The board may issue a corrective action order to any person who violates this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter. The order shall specify the provision of this chapter or any rule alleged to have been violated and shall order necessary corrective action be taken within a reasonable time to be prescribed in the order.

(e) The board may revoke or suspend any certification or approval issued under this chapter, in accordance with the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.

(f) It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to provide training or engage in lead-based paint activities regulated under this chapter except in such a manner as to conform to and comply with this chapter and all applicable rules and orders established under this chapter.
Ala. Code § 11-3-40 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 11-3-40
Section 11-3-40 Short Title
Status: in_force

This article shall be known and cited as the “Alabama Local Government Training Act.”
Ala. Code § 22-29-9 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 29 / Section 22-29-9
Section 22-29-9 Bonds - Procedure for Sale
Status: in_force

The bonds of the authority may be sold at such time or times as the board of directors may deem advantageous; but unless sold to a local public body or to the United States of America or an agency of the United States of America, such bonds shall be sold at public sale, either on sealed bids or at public auction, to the bidder whose bid reflects the lowest net interest cost to the authority for the bonds being sold, computed to their respective absolute maturities; provided, that if no bid acceptable to the authority is received, it may reject all bids and readvertise; provided further, that if no bid shall be received, the authority may negotiate for a private sale of the bonds. Notice of any public sale shall be given by such publication or by such distribution of notices of sale, or both, as the board of directors may determine. The authority may pay from the proceeds of the sale of its bonds all expenses, including publication and printing charges, attorney’s fees and other expenses which the board of directors may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the authorization, advertisement, sale, execution and issuance thereof.
Ala. Code § 22-21-137 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-137
Section 22-21-137 Powers - Generally
Status: in_force

The authority shall have the following powers and capacities, among others specified in this article, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof:

(1) To have succession by its corporate name until dissolved as provided in Section 22-21-154;

(2) To maintain actions and have actions maintained against it by others in any form of litigation other than an action ex delicto, and to defend any litigation brought against it;

(3) To have and use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;

(4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business;

(5) To acquire, whether by purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, property of every description which the board may deem necessary or desirable to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, equipment, operation or maintenance of a project and to hold title thereto;

(6) To construct, enlarge, improve, equip, maintain and operate one or more projects;

(7) To borrow money for any of its corporate purposes and to sell and issue in evidence of such borrowing its interest-bearing revenue bonds as provided in this article;

(8) To sell and issue refunding revenue bonds;

(9) To secure any of its bonds by pledge and indenture as provided in this article;

(10) To appoint, employ and compensate such agents, architects and attorneys as the business of the authority may require;

(11) To provide for such insurance as the board may deem advisable;

(12) To invest any of its funds pending need therefor as provided in this article;

(13) To contract, lease and make lease agreements respecting its properties, or any part thereof, as provided in this article; and

(14) To sell and convey any of its properties that may have become obsolete or worn out or that may no longer be needed or useful in connection with, or in the operation of, any project; provided, that it shall not have the power to sell or convey any project substantially as a whole except as provided in this article.
Ala. Code § 22-30C-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30C / Section 22-30C-1
Section 22-30C-1 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the “Chemical Weapons Destruction Limitation Act.”
Ala. Code § 11-32-23 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 32 / Section 11-32-23
Section 11-32-23 Funding - Annual Payments
Status: in_force

The governing body of the authorizing county, principal municipality, and each participating municipality shall pay to the authority during each fiscal year a sum to be determined in accordance with Sections 11-32-24, 11-32-25, and 11-32-30.
Ala. Code § 22-27-14 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 27 / Section 22-27-14
Section 22-27-14 Commencement of Actions
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, actions to correct any violations of this article, the rules promulgated under this article, or for civil or criminal penalties under this article shall be commenced within a period of four years from the date the offense is discovered by the department or other enforcing agency or person.
Ala. Code § 11-9-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 9 / Section 11-9-3
Section 11-9-3 Pledges of Special Sanitary Tax for Payment of Principal and Interest
Status: in_force

The county commission of the county issuing any such warrants or certificates of indebtedness shall have the power to pledge and to use or cause to be used for the payment of the principal of and interest on such warrants and certificates of indebtedness so much as may be necessary for such purpose of the proceeds from the special sanitary tax levied by said county.

If more than one such pledge shall be made with respect to the proceeds from the special sanitary tax, then such pledges shall take precedence in the order in which they are made unless the proceedings making any such pledge shall expressly provide that such pledge shall be on a parity with or subordinate to a subsequent pledge of the special sanitary tax.

Any such warrants or certificates of indebtedness for which such pledge may be made shall constitute preferred claims against the proceeds of the special sanitary tax so pledged and shall have preference over claims against said proceeds for the maintenance, repair and operation of sanitary facilities and all other claims against said proceeds.
Ala. Code § 1-2-40 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 1-2-40
Section 1-2-40 State Agricultural Insect
Status: in_force

The queen honey bee is hereby named and designated as the official agricultural insect for the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 11-10-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 10 / Section 11-10-3
Section 11-10-3 Registration and Payment of Certificates
Status: in_force

All certificates evidencing loans made under the authority of this chapter shall be registered by the county treasurer in the order of their issue and the said treasurer shall retain out of the taxes collected for the year and paid over to him a sufficient amount to pay said certificates. Said certificates shall be in the order of their registration and they shall be entitled to priority of payment out of the proceeds of the taxes pledged to pay the same.
Ala. Code § 22-21-53 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-53
Section 22-21-53 Powers
Status: in_force

(a) Any district or regional hospital association is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the following powers in addition to others granted in this article:

(1) To cooperate with the State Board of Health for the purpose of constructing, equipping, maintaining and operating a hospital by making appropriate application to the State Board of Health; to enter into a cooperative contract with the State Board of Health for this purpose;

(2) To act as an agent for the State Board of Health under a cooperative contract to prepare, carry out and operate hospital projects;

(3) To provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration or repair of any hospital, or any part thereof;

(4) To take over, by purchase, lease or otherwise, any hospital;

(5) To manage, as agent of the State Board of Health, any hospital constructed or owned by the association;

(6) To arrange, with any appropriate local or state agencies, for the opening or closing of streets, roadways, alleys or other transportation facilities;

(7) To lease or rent any land, building, structure or facility needed in the operation of the hospital;

(8) To enter upon buildings or property in order to conduct investigations or to make surveys or soundings;

(9) To purchase, obtain options upon or acquire by eminent domain, gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise any property, real or personal, or interest therein, from any person, firm, corporation, city, county or government;

(10) To sell, exchange, transfer, assign or pledge any property, real or personal, or any interest therein, to any person, firm, corporation, city, county or government;

(11) To own, hold, clear and improve property;

(12) To insure or provide for insurance of the property or operation of the association against such risks as the association may deem advisable;

(13) To borrow money upon its bonds, notes, warrants, debentures or other evidences of indebtedness and to secure the same by pledges of its revenues;

(14) To have perpetual succession;

(15) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the association;

(16) To make and, from time to time, amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this article, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the association; and

(17) To do all things necessary to carry out the powers given in this article.

(b) The directors of any district or regional hospital association, together with the county commissions of the counties comprising such association, are hereby authorized and empowered to lease hospitals, clinics or hospital facilities to such persons, firms, partnerships, associations or corporations and on such terms as they deem to be necessary, and appropriate and consistent with the maintenance of public health services and facilities.
Ala. Code § 22-19-181 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 22-19-181
Section 22-19-181 Cooperation Between Coroner, Medical Examiner, and Procurement Organization
Status: in_force

(a) A coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official or a designee shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education when it has been determined that the recovery will not interfere with a death investigation. The organ procurement organization, tissue bank, and eye bank will make every reasonable effort to seek approval and release from the coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or designee prior to proceeding with consent approaches to the authorized parties as described in this article. The request for release process will begin with the coroner or designee, who may defer to the medical examiner or designee, who may subsequently defer to the district attorney or designee. At the time of coroner or medical examiner or district attorney notification, the organ procurement organization, tissue bank, or eye bank will share the decedent’s donor designation, if known. Despite the best efforts of the organ procurement organization, tissue bank, and eye bank, the topic of donation may be initiated on behalf of the family, a donor record, or any member of the health care team. In the event that jurisdiction is declined by the coroner or designee or medical examiner or designee and/or district attorney or designee, the organ procurement organization, tissue bank, and/or eye bank may proceed with the consent process from the authorized parties as described in this article.

(b) If a coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official receives notice from a procurement organization that an anatomical gift might be available or was made with respect to a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official and a postmortem examination is going to be performed, unless the coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official denies recovery in accordance with Section 22-19-182, the coroner or medical examiner or designee will attempt to conduct a postmortem examination of the body or the part in a manner and within a period compatible with its preservation for the purposes of the gift.

(c) A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a coroner or medical examiner for transplantation, therapy, research, or education unless the part is the subject of an anatomical gift and release for such part has been obtained from the coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official or a designee. The body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner may not be delivered to a person for research or education unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift and release for such body has been obtained by the coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official or a designee. This subsection does not preclude a coroner or medical examiner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner.

(d) Protocols for cooperation will be established and utilized during cases under the jurisdiction of a coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official. These protocols should specify procedures for maximizing donation, yet support and facilitate the medicolegal investigation. These protocols will be reviewed, modified (if required), and ratified unanimously as needed or by a written request from a representative of the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner Office, the State of Alabama’s Department of Forensic Sciences, the Alabama District Attorney’s Association, the Alabama Coroner’s Association, the Alabama Organ Center, and the Alabama Eye Bank.
Ala. Code § 22-14-14 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 22-14-14
Section 22-14-14 Penalty for Violation of Article or Rules, Regulations or Orders; Notice of Possible Liability for Civil Penalty; Civil Action by Attorney General; Considerations Affecting Amount of Civil Penalty; Maximum Penalty on Small Businesses; Payment of Penalty
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this article or rules, regulations or orders of the agency in effect pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail or by a sentence to hard labor for the county not exceeding 12 months, or by both fine and imprisonment or hard labor.

(b) Any person who

(1) Violates any licensing provision of Section 22-14-4 or Section 22-14-6 or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, or any term, condition, or limitation of any license issued thereunder, or

(2) Commits any violation for which a license may be revoked under Section 22-14-11, shall be subject to a civil penalty to be imposed by the State Radiation Control Agency not to exceed $10,000.00 for each such violation. If any violation is a continuing one, each day of such violation shall constitute a separate violation for the purpose of computing the applicable civil penalty. The State Radiation Control Agency shall have the power to compromise, mitigate, or remit such penalties.

(c) Whenever the State Radiation Control Agency has reason to believe that a person has become subject to the imposition of a civil penalty under the provisions of this section, it shall notify such person in writing:

(1) Setting forth the date(s), facts, and nature of each act or omission with which the person is charged,

(2) Specifically identifying the particular provision or provisions of the section, rule, or regulation, order, or license involved in the violation, and

(3) Advising of each penalty which the State Radiation Control Agency proposes to impose and its amount.

Such written notice shall be sent by registered mail by the State Radiation Control Agency to the last known address of such person. The person so notified shall be granted an opportunity to show in writing, within a reasonable period as the State Radiation Control Agency shall by regulation provide, why such penalty should not be imposed. The notice shall also advise such person that upon failure to pay the civil penalty subsequently determined by the State Radiation Control Agency, if any, the penalty may be collected by civil action.

(d) Upon the request of the director of the State Radiation Control Agency, the Attorney General is authorized to institute a civil action to collect a civil penalty imposed pursuant to this section. The Attorney General shall have the power to compromise, mitigate, or remit such civil penalties as are referred to him for collection.

(e) In determining the amount of civil penalty, the State Radiation Control Agency shall issue rules, regulations, or orders which consider:

(1) The class or types of licenses or vendors,

(2) The economic effect on the person,

(3) The severity of the violation,

(4) The compliance history of the person, and

(5) The person’s responsiveness with corrective actions.

In addition to the above, for those persons who qualify as a small business pursuant to the laws relating to small business administration loans and nonprofit institutions, the maximum civil penalty stated in subsection (b) above shall be $1,000.00.

(f) All civil penalties, less any costs to the Attorney General’s Office, shall be paid into the General Fund.
Ala. Code § 22-34-16 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 34 / Section 22-34-16
Section 22-34-16 Negotiable Instruments
Status: in_force

All bonds issued by the authority, while registered, shall be construed to be negotiable instruments even though they are payable from a limited source. All coupons applicable to any bonds issued by the authority, while the applicable bonds are registered as to both principal and interest, shall likewise be construed to be negotiable instruments although payable from a limited source.
Ala. Code § 11-28-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 28 / Section 11-28-1
Section 11-28-1 Legislative Intent
Status: in_force

It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to authorize each county in the State of Alabama: (i) to sell and issue warrants for the purpose of financing the costs of acquiring, by construction, purchase or otherwise, any public facilities described in Section 11-28-1.1 that such county may be lawfully authorized to acquire at the time of the issuance of such warrants and (ii) to sell and issue warrants for the purpose of refunding any bonds, notes, warrants or other instruments evidencing valid debt at any time incurred or assumed by such county to pay the costs of acquiring such public facilities or to refund debt that, through one or more prior refundings, had been initially incurred for the payment of such costs, it being the intention of this chapter that any debt of such county may be refunded by warrants issued under this chapter irrespective of whether such debt was initially incurred under this chapter or under other provisions of law, whether such debt constituted a general obligation of such county or was a limited obligation payable solely from one or more specified sources, whether such debt was initially incurred by such county or was initially incurred by another public body and thereafter assumed by such county, and whether such debt was incurred or assumed by such county before or after December 21, 1983. This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with the intention expressed in the preceding sentence; provided, however, that nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to give any county new or increased authority to acquire any public facility described in Section 11-28-1.1 beyond the authority with respect to such public facility which such county may have pursuant to laws other than this chapter.
Ala. Code § 22-37A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 37A / Section 22-37A-7
Section 22-37A-7 Violations; Review; Penalties
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who violates this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter is subject to a civil penalty as follows:

(1) For a first violation, the board may issue a civil penalty of up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per violation for each day during which the act or omission continues or occurs. The board may waive the penalty upon the person successfully completing an accredited lead abatement training course appropriate for the type of category of renovation abatement discipline, registering in the state accreditation registry, and becoming a board-certified firm.

(2) For a second violation, the board may assess a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500) per violation for each day during which the act or omission continues or occurs. The board may require the person to successfully complete an accredited lead abatement training course appropriate for the type or category of renovation abatement discipline, registering in the state accreditation registry, and becoming a board-certified firm.

(3) For a third or subsequent violation, the board may assess a civil penalty of up to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per violation for each day during which the act or omission continues or occurs, with a maximum penalty of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per violation.

(b) Any person against whom a civil penalty has been assessed may obtain a review of the assessment by filing with the board a written petition setting forth the grounds and reasons for the objection and requesting a hearing. If a petition for review is not filed within 30 days after the date the assessment is served, the violator shall be deemed to have consented to the assessment and it shall become final.

(c) Whenever an assessment has become final because of a person’s failure to appeal the board’s assessment, the board may apply to the appropriate court for a judgment and seek execution of the judgment. In such proceedings, the court shall treat a failure to appeal the assessment as a confession of judgment in the amount of the assessment.

(d) In determining the amount of the civil penalty to assess, the board may consider all of the following factors:

(1) Whether the civil penalty imposed will be a substantial economic deterrent to the unlawful activity.

(2) The potential or actual harm posed to individuals or the environment by the violation.

(3) The cause of the violation.

(4) The effectiveness of action taken by the violator to cease the violation.

(5) The economic benefit gained by the violator.

(e) All fees collected and all fines, penalties, and funds of any nature received by the State Health Officer under authority of this chapter shall be remitted to the State Board of Health to the credit of the Lead Reduction Fund. The expenses incurred by the board in carrying out this chapter shall be paid from monies in the Lead Reduction Fund; however, the expenditure from the fund shall be budgeted and allotted in accordance with Sections 41-4-80 through 41-4-96 and Sections 41-19-1 through 41-19-12.

(f) If it appears that a person has violated, is violating, or is threatening to violate this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under this chapter, the State Health Officer or a county health officer, as appropriate, may institute a civil suit in his or her own name in a circuit court to obtain injunctive relief to restrain the person from continuing the violation or threat of violation.

(g) In addition to any civil penalty provided under this section, any person violating this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(h) In addition to any penalties authorized under this section, the State Health Officer may require any person violating this chapter to complete additional training.
Ala. Code § 22-20-5.4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 20 / Section 22-20-5.4
Section 22-20-5.4 Serving Wine or Beer in Food Service Establishments or Dog Parks
Status: in_force

(a) A state or local health department may not prohibit the serving of wine or beer, including draft beer, in a food service establishment that allows pet dogs in accordance with Section 22-20-5.3 or a dog park if the establishment or dog park otherwise meets the requirements for having a retail license to serve wine or beer for on-premises consumption.

(b) For purposes of this section, dog park means an enclosed area used primarily for dogs to play off-leash in a controlled environment under the supervision of the dog’s owner and authorized to operate under existing laws.
Ala. Code § 22-25-11 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 25 / Section 22-25-11
Section 22-25-11 Certification of Operators - Term; Renewal; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations
Status: in_force

Certificates issued pursuant to this chapter shall continue in effect for three years from the date of issuance or renewal, unless sooner revoked by the director, but these certificates shall remain the property of the board and the certificates shall so state. The board may promulgate rules and regulations requiring continuing education and training as a condition of certificate renewal. Prior to expiration, application for renewal, which shall include evidence of required continuing education and training, shall be filed with the appropriate renewal fee.
Ala. Code § 11-22-9 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 22 / Section 11-22-9
Section 11-22-9 Bond Issues - Funds for Payment; Execution; Form; Redemption; Sale; Refunding; Negotiable Instruments
Status: reserved

(a) All bonds issued by the corporation shall be payable solely out of the revenues and receipts derived from the operation, leasing or sale by the corporation of its projects or of any thereof as may be designated in the proceedings of the board of directors under which the bonds shall be authorized to be issued.

(b) Such bonds may be executed and delivered by the corporation at any time and from time to time, may be in such form and denominations and of such tenor and maturities, may be in registered or bearer form either as to principal or interest or both, may be payable at such time or times not exceeding 40 years from the date thereof, may be payable at such place or places whether within or without the State of Alabama, may bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such time or times and at such place or places and evidenced in such manner, may be executed by such officers of the corporation and in such manner and may contain such provisions not inconsistent herewith, all as shall be provided in the proceedings of the board of directors whereunder the bonds shall be authorized to be issued.

(c) If deemed advisable by the board of directors, there may be retained in the proceedings under which any bonds of the corporation are authorized to be issued an option to redeem all or any part thereof as may be specified in such proceedings, at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in such proceedings and as may be briefly recited in the face of the bonds, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to confer on the corporation any right to redeem any bonds except as may be provided in the proceedings under which they shall be issued.

(d) Any bonds of the corporation may be sold at public or private sale in such manner and from time to time as may be determined by the board of directors of the corporation to be most advantageous, and the corporation may pay all expenses, premiums and commissions which its board of directors may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the issuance thereof.

(e) Issuance by the corporation of one or more series of bonds for one or more purposes shall not preclude it from issuing other bonds in connection with the same project or any other project, but the proceedings whereunder any subsequent bonds may be issued shall recognize and protect any prior pledge or mortgage made for any prior issue of bonds unless in the proceedings authorizing such prior issue the right was reserved to issue subsequent bonds on a parity with such prior issue.

(f) Any bonds of the corporation at any time outstanding may at any time and from time to time be refunded by the corporation by the issuance of its refunding bonds in such amount as the board of directors may deem necessary but not exceeding an amount sufficient to refund the principal of the bonds so to be refunded, together with any unpaid interest thereon and any premiums, commissions and expenses necessary to be paid in connection with such refunding. Any such refunding may be effected whether the bonds to be refunded shall have then matured or shall thereafter mature, either by sale of the refunding bonds and the application of the proceeds thereof for the payment of the bonds to be refunded thereby, or by the exchange of the refunding bonds for the bonds to be refunded thereby with the consent of the holders of the bonds so to be refunded, and regardless of whether or not the bonds to be refunded were issued in connection with the same projects or separate projects, and regardless of whether or not the bonds proposed to be refunded shall be payable on the same date or different dates or shall be due serially or otherwise.

(g) All such bonds and the interest coupons applicable thereto are hereby made and shall be construed to be negotiable instruments.
Ala. Code § 1-3-7 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 1-3-7
Section 1-3-7 Notice, Etc., Required to Be Served by Registered Mail May Be Served by Certified Mail
Status: in_force

In any case or matter in which the giving or serving of any notice, subpoena, citation or other writing by registered mail is authorized or required by law, such notice, subpoena, citation or other writing may be given or served by certified mail in lieu of registered mail. The person mailing such notices, subpoenas, citations or other writings shall stipulate that the delivery thereof shall be limited to the addressee only in those instances in which the law requires such limited delivery when service is by registered mail and shall demand a “return receipt” in those instances in which the law requires a “return receipt” when service is by registered mail. Whenever any statute authorizes or requires giving or serving any notice, subpoena, citation or other writing by registered mail, such statute shall be construed to authorize such giving or serving thereof also by certified mail.
Ala. Code § 22-30-5.2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30 / Section 22-30-5.2
Section 22-30-5.2 Construction of Provisions
Status: in_force

The provisions of Section 22-30-5.1 are to be construed in pari materia with the provisions of the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact, Section 22-32-1 et seq. If any provision of this section shall be held to be inconsistent with any provision of said compact, the provisions of said compact shall govern.
Ala. Code § 11-24-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 24 / Section 11-24-4
Section 11-24-4 Chapter Not to Impair Utilities Right of Eminent Domain, Etc
Status: in_force

This chapter shall not be construed to impair the right of eminent domain granted heretofore or hereafter by the laws of this state to utilities, whether public or private, or their right to exercise authority conferred by statutes, franchises, certificates of convenience and necessity, licenses, or easements.
Ala. Code § 22-11C-8 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11C / Section 22-11C-8
Section 22-11C-8 Exchange of Information with Other Registries
Status: in_force

(a) The State Health Officer may enter into agreements to exchange confidential information with other head and/or spinal cord injury registries to obtain complete reports of Alabama residents diagnosed or treated in other states and to provide information to other states regarding their residents diagnosed or treated in Alabama.

(b) The State Health Officer may furnish confidential information to other states’ head and/or spinal cord injury registries, federal head or spinal cord injury prevention or rehabilitation agencies, or health researchers in order to collaborate in a national head and/or spinal cord injury registry or to collaborate in head and/or spinal cord injury prevention and rehabilitation research studies.
Ala. Code § 22-21-387 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-387
Section 22-21-387 Use of Phrase “Dental Service Plan.”
Status: in_force

Any person or corporation, not licensed under the provisions of this article, shall not use in the name, logo, contracts, or literature thereof the phrase “dental service plan,” and any corporation, not licensed under the provisions of this article, shall not imply, either directly or indirectly, that it is a dental service plan corporation or hold itself out to be such a corporation.
Ala. Code § 22-19-21 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 22-19-21
Section 22-19-21 State of Alabama Anatomical Board - Powers; Records
Status: in_force

The said board shall have full power to establish rules and regulations for its government and to appoint and remove its officers and shall keep full and complete minutes of its transactions. Records shall also be kept under its direction of all bodies received and distributed by said board and of the persons or institutions to whom the same may be distributed, which minutes and records shall be open, at all times, to the inspection of each member of said board and of any district attorney of any district court in this state.
Ala. Code § 11-23-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 23 / Section 11-23-2
Section 11-23-2 Land Which May Be Included
Status: in_force

An industrial park may include any compact body of land which is used exclusively for industrial purposes or which is primarily suited for industrial development.
Ala. Code § 11-9-24 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 9 / Section 11-9-24
Section 11-9-24 Issuance of Refunding Warrants
Status: in_force

Each such county may in like manner from time to time issue refunding warrants, either by sale or by exchange, for the purpose of refunding a like or greater principal amount of warrants then outstanding which were issued under the provisions of this article and the interest thereon and paying any premium necessary to be paid to retire the outstanding warrants refunded thereby. The provisions of this article applicable to the warrants so refunded shall likewise be applicable to such refunding warrants.
Ala. Code § 22-8-12 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 8 / Section 22-8-12
Section 22-8-12 Health Care Providers and Governmental Entities Prohibited from Denying a Parent Access to Health Information of Minor Child; Exceptions
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no health care provider or governmental entity may deny a parent or legal guardian access to his or her minor child’s health information when:

(1) The health information is in the control of the health care provider or governmental entity; and (2) The parent or legal guardian requests access to the health information. (b) A health care provider or governmental entity may deny a parent or legal guardian access to his or her minor child’s health information if any of the following conditions exist: (1) The access is prohibited by a court order. (2) The parent or legal guardian is a subject of an investigation related to a crime against the minor child and a law enforcement officer has requested that the information not be released to the parent. (3) The health care provider has reported the minor child as a known or suspected victim of abuse or neglect pursuant to Chapter 14 of Title 26. (4) The provision of access to the parent or legal guardian would be in violation of any federal laws or regulations protecting the confidentiality of participant health information in substance use disorder treatment programs.

(2) The parent or legal guardian requests access to the health information.

(b) A health care provider or governmental entity may deny a parent or legal guardian access to his or her minor child’s health information if any of the following conditions exist:

(1) The access is prohibited by a court order.

(2) The parent or legal guardian is a subject of an investigation related to a crime against the minor child and a law enforcement officer has requested that the information not be released to the parent.

(3) The health care provider has reported the minor child as a known or suspected victim of abuse or neglect pursuant to Chapter 14 of Title 26.

(4) The provision of access to the parent or legal guardian would be in violation of any federal laws or regulations protecting the confidentiality of participant health information in substance use disorder treatment programs.
Ala. Code § 22-6-124 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 22-6-124
Section 22-6-124 Confidentiality of Information
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, all information and documents containing trade secrets, proprietary information, rebate amounts for individual drugs or individual manufacturers, percentage of rebates for individual drugs or manufacturers, and manufacturer’s pricing which are contained in records of the State Medicaid Agency and its agents shall be confidential and shall not be a public record for purposes of Section 41-13-1.
Ala. Code § 22-11B-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11B / Section 22-11B-1
Section 22-11B-1 Health Care Providers Upon Request Required to Give Immunization Status of Patients
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any of the confidentiality provisions in Chapter 11A of this title, or any other provisions of law, every public and private health care provider shall, upon request of the persons or entities herein identified, provide information concerning the immunization status of any patient in accordance with rules promulgated by the State Board of Health to the following persons and entities:

(1) Other public and private health care providers.

(2) Health care insurers of all descriptions.

(3) The Alabama Medicaid Agency.

(4) Individuals and organizations with a need to verify the immunization status of persons in their care, custody, or enrollment, including but not limited to, the chief executive officer, or a designee of the officer, of a public or private day care center, school, or postsecondary educational institution.

(b) The authorization granted pursuant to this chapter shall be exercised solely for the purpose of implementing and operating proper immunization programs as determined by the State Board of Health and for updating or verifying the immunization status of individuals in the care, custody, or enrollment of the person requesting or accessing the information pursuant to 42 C.F.R., Section 431.302, Subpart F, safeguarding information pertaining to Medicaid recipients.
Ala. Code § 22-21-106 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-106
Section 22-21-106 Issuance of Securities - in Anticipation of Tax; Funds from Which Payable; Nature of Obligation
Status: in_force

Any hospital corporation may anticipate the proceeds from any special county tax required to be paid to it in accordance with the provisions of this division, by issuing securities for any one or more of the purposes for which the tax shall have been voted, and may pledge for the payment of the principal thereof and interest thereon the annual proceeds from the said tax so paid to it; provided, that if any constitutional provisions applicable to the pledge of the said tax shall restrict the portion of such tax proceeds that may be so pledged, then the hospital corporation shall have the power to pledge only that portion of the said proceeds that may be so pledged without violation of the said constitutional provisions. All securities issued under this division shall be payable from the proceeds of the special tax in respect of which they were issued and from such other funds of the hospital corporation as its directors may determine, but this section shall not prohibit payment of the securities from any other funds which may be available therefor under any other provision of law; provided, that in no event shall such securities be payable from such other funds if the effect thereof would be to subject such securities to any constitutional requirement that they be authorized by vote of the qualified voters. Said securities shall be the obligation only of the hospital corporation issuing the same in accordance with the terms of such securities. No county shall, in any event, be liable for any obligation created by a hospital corporation or by the issuance of securities thereby, nor shall said securities be construed to be an indebtedness of, or against, any county or municipal corporation. All securities issued under this division shall have preference over claims for salaries or other operation expenses or any other purposes. All pledges of the said tax and all contracts made with respect thereto shall take precedence in the order in which they are made and shall create a charge on the proceeds of the said tax prior to the expenses of operation and maintenance of any hospital facilities.
Ala. Code § 22-10C-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 10C / Section 22-10C-4
Section 22-10C-4 (Effective until September 30, 2025, Unless Extended by the Legislature.) Distribution of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall allocate funds for research on tick borne illness in the state based on appropriations received by the commission from the Education Trust Fund.

(b) The commission shall award appropriated funds annually through a grant application process. Only research universities and research facilities may apply for grant moneys.

(c) In order to receive the funds before the first day of the fiscal year, the college or university requesting or receiving money shall provide information regarding the method, scope, and significance of its research as a prerequisite to receiving the funds. The commission may withdraw future funding from any university not performing adequate research in the opinion of the commission.
Ala. Code § 11-3-60 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 11-3-60
Section 11-3-60 Use of Credit or Debit Cards Issued to County Commission for Certain Purchases; Rewards or Rebates
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1) CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER. A person employed by the county commission of a county pursuant to Section 11-3-18.

(2) CREDIT CARD. A line of credit issued by a domestic lender or credit card bank.

(3) DEBIT CARD. A card issued by a bank in relation to a checking or savings account held by the county commission.

(b) To provide for convenience in making purchases of tangible personal property or services approved by the county commission, the county commission of a county may establish procedures for the chief administrative officer to make certain purchases through use of a credit or debit card issued to the county commission. The county commission shall promulgate written policy and procedures governing the utilization of credit or debit cards which, at a minimum, shall include each of the following:

(1) A monetary limit on the amount of any individual purchase which may be made with a credit or debit card.

(2) A monetary limit on the total monthly amount that may be purchased with a credit or debit card, taking into consideration the debt limit of the county, which shall not be greater than one-fourth of one percent (.25%) of the general fund budget of the county.

(3) Procedures to ensure that the chief administrative officer has sole access to any credit or debit card issued to the county commission.

(4) Procedures to ensure that the chief administrative officer has sole access to credit or debit card numbers, access codes, or security codes.

(5) Procedures for public officials and department heads to properly submit purchase orders to the chief administrative officer for the purchase of items or services which may be paid for utilizing a credit or debit card.

(6) Procedures for the chief administrative officer to keep accurate records of all purchases made with a credit or debit card, which records shall be periodically reviewed by the chair of the county commission and may be reviewed periodically by any other member of the county commission.

(7) Procedures to ensure that all credit or debit card bills are carefully reviewed by the chief administrative officer each month to make sure that no unauthorized charges appear on the bill.

(8) Procedures to ensure that all credit or debit card bills are paid in full on a timely basis each month to avoid service charges, late fees, or interest payments.

(9) Procedures to ensure that the county is at all times in compliance with the provisions of Title 39 and Article 3 of Chapter 16, Title 41.

(c) The county commission shall select the credit or debit card provider or providers taking into consideration each of the following:

(1) Whether the credit or debit card issuer requires an annual fee for utilizing the card.

(2) Whether the credit or debit card issuer offers rewards or rebates based upon purchases made utilizing the account.

(3) What interest rates, service charges, finance charges, or late fees will be assessed in the event a bill from the credit or debit card issuer is paid late or the balance is not paid in full.

(4) Whether penalties or fees will be assessed against the county in the event it decides to terminate the credit or debit card.

(5) Any other consideration deemed relevant by the county commission.

(d) In the event the credit or debit card provides rewards or rebates based upon use of the card, any rewards or rebates earned form the card or cards shall be deposited into the general fund of the county.
Ala. Code § 22-2-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 22-2-3
Section 22-2-3 State Board of Health - Annual Report to Governor
Status: in_force

The State Board of Health shall submit to the Governor an annual report of its transactions, in which report recommendations as to needed health legislation may be embodied.
Ala. Code § 22-21-145 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-145
Section 22-21-145 Bonds - Recital and Notice of Issuance; Limitation on Actions to Contest
Status: in_force

Any resolution authorizing any bonds under this article shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to the provisions of this article, which recital shall be conclusive evidence that said bonds have been duly authorized pursuant to the provisions of this article, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law now in force or hereafter enacted or amended. Upon the adoption by the board of any resolution providing for the issuance of bonds, the authority may, in its discretion, cause to be published once a week, for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper then published in the municipality or, if there is no newspaper then published in the municipality, then, in a newspaper published or circulated in the county, a notice in substantially the following form, with any appropriate changes, to the extent applicable and with the blanks being properly filled in:

“_____, a public corporation and a political subdivision of the State of Alabama, has authorized the issuance of $ _____ principal amount of bonds of the said authority to be dated _____ for purposes authorized in Article 5 of Chapter 21 of Title 22 of the Code of Alabama of 1975 and has entered into a lease with the (city or town) _____ of _____ respecting the project described therein and pledged said lease and the rentals payable thereunder as security for said bonds. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of the said bonds, or the pledge and the indenture to secure the same or the said lease, must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of this notice.

[here insert name of authority] ______________________ By _______________ Its President”

Any action or proceedings in any court to set aside or question the validity of the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds referred to in said notice or to contest the validity of any such bonds, or the validity of any lease agreement pledged therefor, or the validity of any pledge made therefor or the validity of the indenture must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of such notice. After the expiration of the said period, no right of action or defense questioning or attacking the validity of the said proceedings, or of the said bonds, or any such lease agreement, or any pledge herein authorized or the indenture shall be asserted, nor shall the validity of the said proceedings, bonds, lease agreement (if any), pledge or indenture be open to question in any court on any ground whatsoever except in an action commenced within said period.
Ala. Code § 22-17A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 17A / Section 22-17A-7
Section 22-17A-7 Powers and Duties of Department
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall perform each of the following duties:

(1) Enforce this chapter and the rules promulgated under this chapter.

(2) Promulgate rules necessary to implement this chapter, including, but not limited to, rules governing each of the following:

a. Tattoo facility design and construction.

b. Tattoo, branding, and body piercing equipment standards, including, but not limited to, cleaning and sterilization requirements.

c. Tattoo dye standards.

d. Inspection of tattoo facilities.

e. Tattoo facility license renewal.

(b) The department may exercise any of the following powers:

(1) Appoint an advisory committee to assist the department in rule development.

(2) After notice and an opportunity for a hearing, suspend, revoke, or deny a license or license renewal for a violation of this chapter or a rule promulgated pursuant to this chapter.

(c) Local county health departments may enforce this chapter and all rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter.

(d) In addition to any other enforcement action authorized by law, a person alleging a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action for appropriate injunctive relief.
Ala. Code § 11-3-18 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 11-3-18
Section 11-3-18 Chief Administrative Officer
Status: in_force

A county commission may employ a chief administrative officer, who shall carry out the administrative duties of the county and shall perform all of the following duties:

(1) Keep and record minutes of all meetings of the county commission.

(2) Have prepared and presented to the commission chair for proper execution all appropriate documents, such as resolutions, orders, contracts, or directives, as are necessary to carry out the actions of the county commission.

(3) Maintain at all times a detailed record of the financial status of the county which shall be kept up to date at all times and shall reflect the true status of all outstanding obligations of the county and the estimated revenue for the current fiscal year.

(4) Perform any other duties with reference to accounting, auditing claims, issuing warrants, and supplying the county commission with information as the county commission may deem necessary for the administration of the financial affairs of the county.

(5) Serve as signatory for the county on all appropriate documents as authorized or directed by policy adopted by resolution of the county commission.

(6) Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time and under procedures established by the county commission.
Ala. Code § 22-21-191 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-191
Section 22-21-191 Dissolution of Corporation
Status: in_force

If at any time the corporation shall have outstanding no unpaid securities and if each member of the board of directors of the corporation shall execute and file for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the corporation is organized a certificate of dissolution reciting the fact that the corporation has outstanding no unpaid securities, stating that it is in the best interests of the public for the corporation to be dissolved and declaring the corporation to be dissolved, the corporation shall thereupon stand dissolved, and title to all funds and properties owned by it at the time of such dissolution shall vest, jointly, in the county and the largest of the member municipalities, according to the federal decennial census next preceding the date of the filing of the certificate of incorporation of the corporation for record, whereupon possession of such funds and properties shall forthwith be delivered to the county and such largest member municipality.
Ala. Code § 1-2-12 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 1-2-12
Section 1-2-12 State Tree
Status: in_force

The southern longleaf pine, Pinus palustris Miller, is hereby designated and named as the official state tree of Alabama. A specimen of the state tree shall be deposited in the Auburn University Herbarium, which is the State Herbarium for Alabama.
Ala. Code § 11-8-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 8 / Section 11-8-2
Section 11-8-2 Purpose of Chapter
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of this chapter to vest in the county commission more efficient power and control over all public funds that may now or hereafter be under its management and control, to limit its power and authority to incur obligations and to approve and pay claims for current operating expenses in any fiscal year to the income of such year available for such purposes and to authorize the refunding of outstanding general obligations, other than bonded indebtedness, so that the provisions of this chapter may be put into effective operation.
Ala. Code § 22-21-153 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-153
Section 22-21-153 Taxation Exemption
Status: in_force

The properties of the authority, and the income therefrom, all lease agreements made by the authority, all bonds issued by the authority, and the coupons applicable thereto and the income therefrom, and all indentures executed with respect thereto shall be forever exempt from any, and all, taxation in the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 22-3-11 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 22-3-11
Section 22-3-11 Appropriations by Municipalities for Public Health Work
Status: in_force

Each incorporated municipality having a population of 5,000 or more, according to the last federal census, in counties which have provided for a health officer shall provide a sufficient sum of money properly to safeguard the public health and promote sanitation within the corporate limits of the municipality, and all municipalities may make appropriations especially for public health work.
Ala. Code § 22-11A-116 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11A / Section 22-11A-116
Section 22-11A-116 Confidentiality of Information
Status: in_force

Individual patient information submitted to the department under the provisions of this article shall not be public information. Reports and studies prepared and released by the department based upon such data shall be public information. Reports and studies prepared by the department shall be statistically risk adjusted using a generally accepted formula for such adjustments to account for variations in patient morbidity and diagnoses. The department shall not release any information obtained from the data in a form which could be used to identify a patient. The department may authorize the use of the data redacted to prevent the release of confidential patient information by legitimate research organizations, so long as patient confidentiality is maintained.
Ala. Code § 22-6-25 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 22-6-25
Section 22-6-25 Enforcement Remedies; Adoption of Criteria
Status: in_force

Medicaid shall have such specific civil remedies of enforcement as is required by OBRA as a minimum state enforcement remedy. In order to ensure compliance with this article, Medicaid rules and regulations and OBRA, Medicaid shall also specify criteria, as to when and how each of such enforcement remedies is to be applied, the amounts of any fines, and the severity of each of these remedies, to be used in the imposition of such remedies. Such criteria shall be designed so as to minimize the time between the identification of violations and final imposition of the remedies, and shall provide for the imposition of incrementally more severe fines for repeated or uncorrected deficiencies. Such enforcement remedies and criteria shall be promulgated by rule or regulation pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedures Act no later than October 1, 1989. Medicaid shall not have the power to implement such specific enforcement remedies until Medicaid has also adopted specific criteria as to when and how each of such remedies is to be applied, the amounts of any fines, and the severity of each of these remedies to be used in the imposition of such remedies.
Ala. Code § 22-21-132 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-132
Section 22-21-132 Incorporation - Application; Resolution
Status: in_force

Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the governing body an application in writing for permission to incorporate a public corporation under the provisions of this article, if it shall be made to appear to the governing body that each of the said persons is a duly qualified elector of, and property owner in, the municipality and if the governing body shall duly adopt a resolution wherein it shall be declared that it will be wise, expedient and necessary that such a public corporation be formed and that the persons filing such application shall be authorized to proceed to form such public corporation, then the said persons shall become the incorporators of and shall proceed to incorporate the authority in the manner provided in this article. No corporation shall be formed under this article unless the application provided for in this section shall be made and unless the resolution provided for in this section shall be adopted.
Ala. Code § 11-14-22 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 11-14-22
Section 11-14-22 Examination of Jail
Status: in_force

The chairman of the county commission and the probate judge are hereby authorized and empowered, once each week, without informing the sheriff or jailer of the time when such visit will be made, to visit and examine the condition of the jail, to make a memorandum in writing of such examination and to report under oath such examination to the grand jury.
Ala. Code § 22-11A-30 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11A / Section 22-11A-30
Section 22-11A-30 Commitment Petition - Order for Person to Appear for Hearing and Be Examined by Physician
Status: in_force

When a petition has been filed seeking to commit any person to the custody of the Alabama Department of Public Health, the probate judge shall order such person to appear at the places and times designated for hearing the petition, and may order the person to appear at designated times and places to be examined by licensed physicians. If the respondent does not appear as ordered by the probate judge, the probate judge may order the sheriff of the county in which the person is located to take the respondent into custody and compel his attendance as ordered by the probate judge.
Ala. Code § 11-25-8 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 25 / Section 11-25-8
Section 11-25-8 Power to Receive Gifts, Exchange Books, Etc.; Furnish Services to County and Court Officials Without Cost
Status: in_force

County law libraries shall have the power to receive gifts, grants, and to exchange books and materials with other libraries and may furnish the legal needs of books, materials, and copies to the county officials and circuit, probate, and district court officials at no cost.
Ala. Code § 11-15-14 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 15 / Section 11-15-14
Section 11-15-14 Refunding Warrants
Status: in_force

All or any warrants issued by the corporation may from time to time thereafter be refunded by the issuance of refunding revenue warrants of the corporation, but the amount of any refunding warrants so issued shall not exceed the principal of the warrants refunded thereby together with any unpaid interest thereon and any premiums, commissions and expenses necessary to be paid in connection with such refunding. Any such refunding may be done regardless of whether the warrants to be refunded shall have then matured or shall thereafter mature and may be effected either by sale of the refunding warrants and the application of the proceeds thereof or by exchange of the refunding warrants for the warrants to be refunded thereby; provided, that the holders of any warrants so to be refunded shall not be compelled without their consent to surrender their warrants for payment or exchange prior to the date on which they may be redeemed by the corporation under their provisions. Any refunding warrants of the corporation shall be payable solely from the revenues out of which warrants to be refunded thereby were payable.
Ala. Code § 22-21-368 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-368
Section 22-21-368 Contents of Proposed Contracts Issued to Subscribers
Status: in_force

Any proposed contracts issued to subscribers to the plan shall be written in a form that is readable and comprehensible by a layman of reasonable and ordinary intelligence, and shall:

(1) Clearly set forth the services to which the subscriber is entitled under the contract.

(2) Clearly set forth the limitations, if any, on the choice of dentists available to the subscriber.

(3) Clearly reflect the rate to be charged for each form of such contract.
Ala. Code § 22-23B-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 23B / Section 22-23B-5
Section 22-23B-5 Alabama Drinking Water Finance Authority - Incorporation
Status: in_force

(a) To become a corporation, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the director of the department and the Director of Finance shall present to the Secretary of State of Alabama an application signed by them which shall set forth:

(1) The name and official designation of each of the applicants, together with a certified copy of the commission evidencing each applicant’s right to office;

(2) The date on which each applicant was inducted into office and the term of office of each of the applicants;

(3) The name of the proposed corporation, which shall be the “Alabama Drinking Water Finance Authority”;

(4) The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation; and

(5) Any other matter relating to the incorporation which the applicants may choose to insert and which is not inconsistent with this chapter.

The application shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the applicants before an officer authorized by the laws of this state to take acknowledgments to deeds. The Secretary of State shall examine the application; and, if he or she finds that it substantially complies with the requirements of this section, he or she shall receive and file it and record it in an appropriate book of records in his office.

When the application has been made, filed and recorded as herein provided, the applicants shall constitute a corporation under the name proposed in the application, and the Secretary of State shall make and issue to the applicants a certificate of incorporation pursuant to this chapter, under the Great Seal of the State, and shall record the certificate with the application. There shall be no fees paid to the Secretary of State for any work done in connection with the incorporation or dissolution of the authority.

(b) The applicants named in the application and their respective successors in office shall constitute the members of the authority. The Governor shall be the president of the authority, the director of the department shall be the vice-president thereof and the Director of Finance shall be the secretary thereof. The members of the authority shall constitute all the members of the board of directors of the authority, and any three members of the said board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Should any person holding any state office named in this section cease to hold such office by reasons of death, resignation, expiration of term of office or for any other reason, then the successor in office to such director shall take his or her place as a member, officer or director of the authority. No member, officer or director of the authority shall draw any salary, in addition to that now authorized by law, for any service rendered or for any duty performed in connection with the authority.

(c) All proceedings had and done by the board of directors shall be reduced to writing by the secretary of the authority and shall be recorded in a substantially bound book and filed in the office of the secretary. Copies of such proceedings, when certified by the secretary of the authority, under the seal of the authority, shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the matters and things therein certified.
Ala. Code § 11-17-16 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 17 / Section 11-17-16
Section 11-17-16 Validation, Etc., of Prior Conveyances, Bequests, Etc
Status: in_force

All conveyances, transfers, devises, and bequests for any purpose set out in section 11-17-13 made prior to July 2, 1931, are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed.
Ala. Code § 22-21-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-3
Section 22-21-3 Scholarships for Professional and Technical Personnel at Public Hospitals
Status: in_force

(a) This section shall apply to any public hospital in this state, operated on a municipal-county basis, on a county basis, on a municipal basis or on a regional or statewide basis operating under the authority of any act or acts of the Legislature of Alabama, heretofore passed or hereinafter enacted, either local or general.

(b) The Board of Trustees or other like governing bodies of any hospital coming within the purview of this section is hereby authorized and permitted, but not required, to expend any funds such hospital has on hand by providing scholarships for the purpose of the educating and training of professional and technical personnel, and each such hospital, by and through its governing body, shall make and provide its own rules and regulations to govern the issuance of such scholarships.
Ala. Code § 22-9A-7.5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 9A / Section 22-9A-7.5
Section 22-9A-7.5 Entities That Collect Vital Statistics Required to Identify Individuals as Male or Female as Observed at Birth
Status: in_force

(a) Any school district or public school, and any state agency, department, bureau, or commission, or political subdivision that collects vital statistics related to sex as male or female for the purpose of complying with anti-discrimination laws or for the purpose of gathering accurate public health, crime, economic, or other data shall identify each individual who is part of the collected data set as either male or female. This subsection shall not be construed to prohibit the entry of “unknown” as the sex on a child’s certificate of birth, fetal death, or death when sex cannot be medically determined for developmental or other reasons at the time the facts of birth, fetal death, or death are reported to the Office of Vital Statistics.

(b) Compliance with subsection (a) shall not require the collection of data regarding sex unless otherwise required by law, and the requirements of subsection (a) shall not prevent the collection of additional data points besides biological sex.
Ala. Code § 22-30B-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30B / Section 22-30B-2
Section 22-30B-2 Operator Fees
Status: in_force

In addition to all other fees levied and collected prior to September 30, 1992, beginning on June 1, 2013, there is hereby levied fees on waste received for disposal to be paid by the operators of each commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste or hazardous substances as follows:

(1) A base fee of five dollars fifty cents ($5.50) per ton on all hazardous waste that is identified or listed under Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 as amended (RCRA), and on polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) wastes received for disposal which is required to be disposed of in a chemical waste landfill approved under the federal Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA).

(2) A fee of five dollars fifty cents ($5.50) per ton on all other waste not subject to taxation in subdivision (1) and disposed of at a commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste and hazardous substances.

Beginning on August 31, 1993, any hazardous waste or hazardous substance collected or removed from within the State of Alabama by any governmental entity or agency or any party performing those collection or removal activities pursuant to a contract with any governmental entity or agency, and any hazardous waste or hazardous substances collected or removed during an amnesty program authorized by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, shall be exempt from the payment of the fees levied by this section. Provided, however, nothing in this section shall exempt the payment of fees levied on any hazardous waste or hazardous substances collected or removed from any site or location which is listed on the federal National Priorities List of Superfund Sites.
Ala. Code § 11-32-29 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 32 / Section 11-32-29
Section 11-32-29 Costs of Operation
Status: in_force

All of the municipalities served by any route operated by the authority may by written agreement filed with the authority agree to allocate the costs of operation of the route on a basis different from that otherwise provided by this chapter.
Ala. Code § 22-27-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 27 / Section 22-27-4
Section 22-27-4 Hazardous Wastes; Unauthorized Dumps; Vermin Controls
Status: in_force

(a) Hazardous wastes. Hazardous wastes shall be managed in accordance with the provisions of Sections 22-30-1 through 22-30-24, and the rules promulgated thereunder.

(b) Unauthorized dumps. The creation, contribution to, or operation of unauthorized dumps shall be prohibited, removed, enjoined, and enforced upon and regulated as provided in this article generally, and Section 22-27-11, specifically.

(c) Vermin controls. Rodents and insects of public health importance, including, but not limited to, rats, flies, and mosquitoes shall be controlled in a manner consistent with the administrative rules of the Board of Health and the department, and the closure of any unauthorized dump where deemed necessary by the health officer and the department, shall be accompanied by an adequate vermin eradication program to prevent the spread of vermin to nearby properties.
Ala. Code § 22-6-251 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 22-6-251
Section 22-6-251 Legislative Findings
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds that it is in the best interest of the State of Alabama that the Alabama Medicaid Agency is not forced to reduce payments to medical providers or eliminate optional but essential medical benefits to Medicaid recipients when the fiscal year appropriation is insufficient to continue the operations of the Medicaid program. It is the intent of the Legislature that there be a Medicaid Emergency Reserve Fund to ensure the continued operation of the Alabama Medicaid Agency during budget shortfalls.
Ala. Code § 22-20-3.2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 20 / Section 22-20-3.2
Section 22-20-3.2 Administration and Use of Newborn Screening Panel; Conditions; Funding
Status: in_force

(a) This section shall have the same definitions as Section 22-20-3.

(b) The State Committee of Public Health shall adopt rules to administer the use of the Newborn Screening Panel, including the conditions for which screening is required. The Newborn Screening Panel shall include, but not be limited to, those conditions listed on the RUSP. Nothing in this section or Section 22-20-3 precludes the committee from adding conditions to the Newborn Screening Panel that do not appear on the RUSP.

(c)(1) No later than 36 months following the approval and addition of a new condition to the RUSP, the committee shall add the condition to the Newborn Screening Panel and implement and administer screening.

(2) Any condition added to the RUSP prior to January 1, 2024, shall be added to the panel by the committee no later than October 1, 2027.

(3) In the event that a RUSP-approved condition is not added to the Newborn Screening Panel in the time frame required by this subsection, the committee shall provide a written notice to the State Health Officer outlining the reasons for the delay. Following its presentation to the State Health Officer, the committee shall post the same written notice on its website.

(d) Testing for heritable diseases and conditions and the services and facilities required for testing shall be subject to the availability of funding and workforce in the State Laboratory, as determined by the committee.
Ala. Code § 11-23-8 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 23 / Section 11-23-8
Section 11-23-8 Rights and Responsibilities of County Not Limited by Creation of Industrial Park
Status: in_force

When an industrial park has been created, such action shall not limit or diminish the rights and responsibilities of the county commission concerning the industrial park. The county commission shall retain the right to tax the industrial park as it does all other areas of the county.
Ala. Code § 22-30E-10 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30E / Section 22-30E-10
Section 22-30E-10 Limitation of Liability Provisions
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature declares that, in order to achieve the economic redevelopment and site rehabilitation of contaminated properties in accordance with this chapter, it is imperative to encourage financing of real property transactions involving qualifying property. Accordingly, a lender, including one serving as a trustee, personal representative, or in any other fiduciary capacity in connection with a loan, and a lender holding evidence of ownership of a qualifying property primarily to protect a security interest, or as a result of foreclosure or a deed in lieu of foreclosure of a security interest, is entitled to the liability protection established in subsection (a) of Section 22-30E-9 if the lender meets each of the following requirements:

(1) The lender has not caused or contributed to a release of a contaminant at the qualified property.

(2) The lender seeks to sell, transfer, or otherwise divest the qualifying property at the earliest commercially practicable time.

(3) The lender has not divested the borrower of, or otherwise engaged in, decision-making control of assessment or cleanup activities at the qualifying property or operations at the qualifying property or undertaken management activities beyond those required to protect its financial interest while making a good faith effort to sell the qualifying property.

(b) The limitation of liability provided by subsection (a) of Section 22-30E-9 shall be contingent upon the applicant’s good faith implementation of the voluntary property assessment plan or voluntary cleanup plan as approved by the department. Such limitation of liability shall not be applicable to any activities conducted on the qualifying property before the department’s approval of the voluntary property assessment plan, cleanup plan, or concurrence with a certification of compliance, whichever first occurs.

(c) The limitation of liability provided by this chapter shall not affect any right of indemnification which any person has or may acquire by contract against any other person; shall not apply to persons who intentionally, wantonly, or willfully violate federal or state regulations in the cleanup process, including any civil or criminal penalties applicable thereto; and shall not apply to any release occurring after the date of the certification of compliance, unless the release is addressed in the department’s concurrence with the certification of compliance.

(d) The limitation of liability provided by this chapter shall extend to the heirs, assigns, and designees of the person to whom such limitation of liability is granted; provided, however, that, except as may be provided by subsection (a) or subsection (f) of Section 22-30E-9, such extension of the limitation of liability shall not operate to absolve from liability any party deemed to be a responsible person on the qualifying property. A transfer of the title to the qualifying property or any portion thereof from the applicant back to the owner from which the qualifying property was purchased, any other party deemed to be a responsible person on the qualifying property, or any person disqualified from obtaining a limitation of liability under Section 22-30E-8 shall not be eligible for the extension of the limitation of liability provided in this subsection.

(e) Nothing in this chapter shall limit the authority of the department to take action in response to any release or threat of release of regulated substances.
Ala. Code § 22-21-227 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-227
Section 22-21-227 Charging, Etc., for Assisting Person in Hospitalization
Status: in_force

Any person, firm or corporation who shall, either directly or indirectly, charge or receive anything of value for assisting any person in making application for, or obtaining, indigent hospitalization under the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed by law.
Ala. Code § 22-21-210 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-210
Section 22-21-210 Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(1) HOSPITAL. Any state, county, municipal or other public or private hospital licensed under the laws of this state, except a hospital, whether public or private, which is operated primarily for the care and treatment of tuberculosis, mental disorders or any other such chronic disease or illness.

(2) INDIGENT. Any person who has resided continuously in this state for not less than one year and who is acutely ill or injured and can be helped markedly by treatment in a hospital, but who is unable to pay the cost of such hospitalization from his own resources or from the resources of those upon whom he is legally dependent.

(3) PHYSICIAN. Any person who has been duly licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama.

(4) PARTICIPATING HOSPITAL. Any hospital, as defined by this section, which has been accepted for participation in the hospital service program for indigents.

(5) PARTICIPATING COUNTY. Any county in which the county commission of the county certifies in writing to the State Board of Health not later than January 1 of each year, that the county does desire to participate in the hospital service program for indigents during the current fiscal year.
Ala. Code § 22-21-271 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-271
Section 22-21-271 Certificates of Need - Application Fees; Appropriation of Funds; Disposition of Fees
Status: in_force

(a) Each application for a certificate of need shall be accompanied by a fee of one percent of the estimated cost of the proposed cost of the new Institutional Health Service, or a maximum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) (indexed) per application. Provided, that the application fee shall be three-fourths of one percent of the estimated cost of the proposed new Institutional Health Service, or a maximum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000) if the applicant has had an average daily census comprised of 50 percent or more Medicaid patients within the last year prior to the filing of the application and a maximum of six thousand dollars ($6,000) if a rural hospital applicant has had an average daily census comprised of 30 percent or more Medicaid/Medicare patients within the last year prior to the filing of the application. The minimum fee shall be set by the SHPDA. Fees shall be used for the purpose of defraying the lawful operating expense of the certificate of need program conducted by the SHPDA and of the Statewide Health Coordinating Council.

(b) Each request for an opinion from the State Agency as to whether a project is subject to review under this article shall be accompanied by a fee to be established by the SHPDA.

(c) SHPDA, by rule approved by the Certificate of Need Review Board or the Statewide Health Coordinating Council, as applicable, may impose additional reasonable fees for any administrative filing by a health care provider for which a fee is not specified in this chapter, and for any non-routine data compilation or summary. Nothing in this subsection shall authorize SHPDA to impose a fee for the initial publication of any report or statistical update which it is required to publish under law or rule.

(d) In addition to all other fees, SHPDA shall impose a temporary surcharge of two thousand dollars ($2,000) on each certificate of need application and three hundred dollars ($300) for each reviewability determination to defray expenses incurred in developing and implementing, by January 1, 2014, an online, searchable filing system for filings and orders in administrative proceedings and requests for reviewability or exemption determinations and related agency findings. The surcharge shall automatically terminate on the first day of the ninth month after certification to the CON Review Board by SHPDA’s Executive Director that the online filing system has been successfully implemented.

(e) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the General Fund of the State of Alabama such amounts as may be necessary from time to time to defray the costs of administering this article over and above such fees as may be collected under this section.

(f) Application fees collected under this article shall not be refundable. Fees collected under this article are hereby appropriated for the purposes stated in this article.

(g) All fees collected under this article shall be retained in a separate fund for the purpose of enforcing and administering this article, and shall be disbursed as other funds of the state are disbursed.
Ala. Code § 22-36-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 36 / Section 22-36-1
Section 22-36-1 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the “Alabama Underground Storage Tank and Wellhead Protection Act of 1988.”
Ala. Code § 22-11D-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11D / Section 22-11D-3
Section 22-11D-3 Establishment and Operation of Statewide Trauma System
Status: in_force

(a) The board, in consultation with, and having solicited the advice of the council, shall establish and maintain a statewide trauma system that shall include centralized dispatch for participating trauma centers and emergency medical services.

(b) The statewide trauma system shall become operational within 12 months after the State Health Officer certifies to the Governor in writing that the department has sufficient funds to finance its development, implementation, and operation.

(c) The board, in consultation with and having solicited the advice of the council, may establish and maintain other coordinated statewide systems of emergency medical and hospital care for other illnesses, such as stroke. Other statewide coordinated health care systems may be implemented by the board as funds become available to the board.
Ala. Code § 11-12-14 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12 / Section 11-12-14
Section 11-12-14 Books, Stationery, Telephones, Etc., for Probate Judge, Tax Assessor, Sheriff, Etc
Status: in_force

The judge of probate, the tax assessor, the tax collector, the sheriff, and the county treasurer or custodian must be allowed reasonable expenses for suitable books, stationery, postage stamps used exclusively for official business, and telephones, to be paid for by the county on the approval of the county commission, and the judge of probate shall also be allowed expense for his seal of office, to be paid for by the county.
Ala. Code § 22-34-10 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 34 / Section 22-34-10
Section 22-34-10 Refunding Bonds
Status: in_force

The authority may from time to time issue and sell its refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding any matured or unmatured bonds of the authority at the time outstanding and any premiums necessary to be paid to redeem any bonds so to be refunded. The holders of such refunding bonds shall be subrogated and entitled to all priorities, rights and pledges to which the bonds refunded thereby were entitled.
Ala. Code § 22-21-265.2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-265.2
Section 22-21-265.2 Certificates of Need - Legislative Intent Reiterated
Status: in_force

It is not the intent of the Legislature to forgive, ratify, or confirm any illegal actions or presentation of information known to be false on the part of applicants for certificates of need or the agents or employees of either the applicants or the State Health Planning and Development Agency.
Ala. Code § 22-23A-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 23A / Section 22-23A-4
Section 22-23A-4 Water Supply Assistance Fund Established; Deposits; Expenditures; Investments
Status: in_force

There is hereby established a special fund within the State Treasury to be known as the “Water Supply Assistance Fund.” Proceeds from the sale of bonds issued by the authority shall be deposited in this special “Water Supply Assistance Fund.” Money in such fund shall be expended in accordance with adopted regulations and policies of the authority and may be used to provide a loan or loans for community water system supply projects or to refinance debt of community water systems or to secure principal and interest on bonds issued by the authority. Money not currently needed for the operation of the Water Supply Assistance Fund may be invested, from time to time, by the board and all interest earned on such investments shall be credited to the Water Supply Assistance Fund.
Ala. Code § 22-7-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 22-7-3
Section 22-7-3 Waiver of Payment
Status: in_force

The State Board of Health, on recommendation of the county health officer, may waive all, or any part of, the payment of said fees upon a finding satisfactory to said board that the person obligated to pay is medically indigent.
Ala. Code § 1-1-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-1-5
Section 1-1-5 Public offenses defined
Status: repealed

Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §9901, as amended, effective January 1, 1980.
Ala. Code § 11-17-12 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 17 / Section 11-17-12
Section 11-17-12 Property Not Deemed Dedicated until Damages and Costs Paid
Status: in_force

The property set apart for burial places as provided in this chapter shall not be deemed as dedicated as provided in this chapter until all damages and costs awarded shall have been paid into the probate court by the parties interested in the proceedings.
Ala. Code § 22-18-10 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 18 / Section 22-18-10
Section 22-18-10 Community Paramedicine Program
Status: in_force

(a) The board may establish and administer a community paramedicine program to authorize paramedics to provide community paramedic services under the direction and oversight of the program medical director, as further provided in this section.

(b) The criteria for which an individual is eligible as a patient for a community paramedicine program includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:

(1) The individual has been discharged from a definitive care facility, and has declined or is not eligible for home health or hospice services.

(2) The individual has been identified as a patient for whom community paramedic services would likely prevent admission or readmission to, or allow discharge from, a definitive care facility.

(3) The individual has been referred to the community paramedicine program to receive preventive services.

(c) Community paramedic services include, but are not limited to:

(1) Coordination of community services.

(2) Chronic disease monitoring and education.

(3) Health assessment.

(4) Hospital discharge follow-up care.

(5) Laboratory specimen collection.

(6) Medication compliance.

(d) A community paramedic shall document and submit all services provided in accordance with the applicable patient care reporting rules or other rules as prescribed by the board.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow a community paramedic to practice medicine or surgery, to make a diagnosis, or to prescribe drugs.

(f) The board shall adopt rules to implement this section, including, but not limited to, the length of time after discharge a patient is eligible for community paramedic services.
Ala. Code § 22-19-85 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 22-19-85
Section 22-19-85 Retention by Medical Examiner of Organs from a Deceased Person for Additional Testing to Determine Identification or Cause or Manner of Death; Notice
Status: in_force

(a) Unless directed otherwise by the Governor, the Attorney General, a district attorney, or an order of a circuit court judge, a medical examiner performing his or her duties in any county in this state as provided under existing law, including a medical examiner employed by the Department of Forensic Sciences, shall notify the next of kin, through the appropriate law enforcement agency, when retaining a deceased person’s entire organ or organs for additional testing that is required to determine identification or the cause or manner of death.

(b) A medical examiner performing his or her duties in any county in this state as provided under existing law, including a medical examiner employed by the Department of Forensic Sciences, is prohibited from retaining a deceased person’s entire organ or organs for research or any other purpose not in conjunction with a determination of identification or cause or manner of death without notification to, and approval by, the appropriate next of kin.
Ala. Code § 22-6-196 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 22-6-196
Section 22-6-196 Privilege Assessment - Failure to Pay
Status: in_force

Any PACE provider that fails to pay the assessment levied by this article within the time required by this article shall pay, in addition to the assessment, a penalty of 10 percent of the amount of assessment due, together with interest thereon at the rate prescribed by Section 40-1-44, the penalty and interest to be assessed and collected as part of the taxes. Provided, however, the department, if a good and sufficient reason is shown, may waive or remit the penalty of 10 percent or a portion thereof. If payment is not received by the last day of the month, the department shall notify the Medicaid Agency which shall determine whether the PACE provider is a Medicaid provider, and if so, shall withhold the payment, interest, and penalty due from any reimbursement due the provider under the Medicaid program. The assessment levied by this article shall constitute a debt due the State of Alabama and may be collected by civil action in addition to the methods provided in this article. The department is empowered to assess, file liens, and collect the assessments levied by this article as prescribed in this article.
Ala. Code § 22-19-43 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 22-19-43
Section 22-19-43 Institutions or Persons Who May Become Donees; Purposes for Which Anatomical Gifts May Be Made
Status: in_force

The following persons may become donees of gifts of bodies, or parts thereof, for the purposes stated:

(1) Any hospital, surgeon or physician for medical or dental education, research, advancement or medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation;

(2) Any accredited medical or dental school or college or university for education, research, advancement of medical or dental science or therapy;

(3) Any bank or storage facility for medical or dental education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation; or

(4) Any specified individual for therapy or transplantation needed by him.
Ala. Code § 11-18-24 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 18 / Section 11-18-24
Section 11-18-24 Cooperation by Counties
Status: in_force

Any county may cooperate with another county in the acquisition of land for the establishment of a park or recreational area.
Ala. Code § 22-21-385 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-385
Section 22-21-385 Amendments and Changes in Charter, Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, Contracts and Rates Subject to Department Approval; Filing of Copy of Amendments or Changes
Status: in_force

No corporation subject to the provisions of this article shall amend its charter or certificate of incorporation, its bylaws, the terms or provisions of contracts executed or to be executed with dentists, or the terms or provisions of contracts issued or proposed to be issued to subscribers unless such proposed amendments have been submitted to and approved by the Department of Insurance. No change shall be made in the table of rates charged or proposed to be charged to subscribers, or in the table of payments made or proposed to be made to dentists, for any form of contract issued or to be issued until such proposed change has been submitted to and approved by the Department of Insurance. Such approval shall be deemed granted unless the department otherwise acts upon the proposed changes within 90 days of filing. Upon the adoption of any amendment or change following departmental approval, such corporation shall file with the department a copy thereof duly certified by at least two of the executive officers of the corporation.
Ala. Code § 11-17-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 17 / Section 11-17-2
Section 11-17-2 Commission - Appointment; Notice of Appointment and Issuance of Commission to Members
Status: in_force

Upon the filing of such petition, the judge shall appoint a commission, not to exceed five nor less than three, to locate the boundaries, survey, map, and plat such burial place and shall forthwith notify each member of such commission of his appointment and issue to him a commission directing him to perform the duties required of him under this chapter.
Ala. Code § 22-8-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 8 / Section 22-8-5
Section 22-8-5 Consent of Minor for Self and Child
Status: in_force

Any minor who is married, or having been married is divorced or has borne a child may give effective consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, health or mental health services for himself or his child or for herself or her child.
Ala. Code § 11-19-16 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 11-19-16
Section 11-19-16 Grant of Zoning Powers; Scope of Powers
Status: in_force

For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the state and counties, any county commission is hereby empowered to divide the portion of the county within the flood-prone area of the county into districts of such number, shape, and area as may be found best suited to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to provide within such districts for standards relating to the location, bulk, height, minimum elevation, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot which may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density and distribution of population, the uses of buildings and structures and of land for trade, residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, conservation, water supply, sanitation, floodways, public activities, and other purposes.

Such provisions shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan of the flood-prone area and shall be designed to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to secure safety from fire, flood, panic, and other dangers; to promote health and the general welfare; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water supply, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements.

Such provisions shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, of the character of the land and district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with a view of promoting desirable living conditions, sustaining the stability of neighborhoods, protecting property against blight and depreciation, securing economy in governmental expenditures, conserving the value of buildings, and encouraging the most appropriate use of land and of buildings and structures throughout the flood-prone area of the county.
Ala. Code § 11-16-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 16 / Section 11-16-1
Section 11-16-1 Petition of Qualified Electors for Election to Change County Seat
Status: in_force

A majority of the qualified electors of any county, except those counties that have built new courthouses in the past 20 years, may petition the Governor in writing, praying that an election be held in such county for the purpose of determining whether the county seat or site shall be removed from the city, town, or village where it is then located to another designated city, town, or village in such county.
Ala. Code § 11-4-20 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 11-4-20
Section 11-4-20 Election; Term of Office
Status: in_force

A county treasurer for each county having a population of more than 56,000 according to the 1930 federal census and not otherwise having a county depository or other custodian of its funds in lieu of a county treasurer shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof and he shall hold office for four years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next after his election and until his successor is elected and qualified.
Ala. Code § 22-11A-69 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11A / Section 22-11A-69
Section 22-11A-69 Confidentiality Standards; Uses of Information Gained During Investigation
Status: in_force

(a) The records, proceedings, deliberations, and documents related to the investigation and review of any infected health care worker are confidential and shall be used by committees, licensing boards of licensed health care workers, panels, and individuals only in the exercise of their official duties and shall not be public records nor be admissible in court for any purpose nor subject to discovery in any civil action except appeals governed by Sections 22-11A-64 and 22-11A-65 and appeals from adverse professional license determinations made pursuant to Sections 22-11A-66 and 22-11A-72(a). Information gained during the investigation of an infected health care worker and the decision about restriction of practice of an infected health care worker shall be made available to the appropriate licensing board and to the employer of an infected health care worker and may be used by the licensing board in any subsequent administrative hearing or procedure.

(b) However, nothing in this article shall preclude the notification of patients who have had an invasive procedure performed by an infected health care worker when deemed necessary by the State Health Officer to protect the patients of the health care worker.

(c) Any person violating the confidentiality provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500.

(d) Under no circumstances shall disclosure of the identity of the infected health care worker to members of the expert review panel pursuant to Section 22-11A-63 constitute a violation of the confidentiality provisions of this section.
Ala. Code § 22-4-14 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 22-4-14
Section 22-4-14 Construction, Operation, Etc., of Public Hospitals, Health Centers, Etc., by State Board of Health; Power of State Board of Health to Cooperate and Enter into Contracts with Federal Government, Nonprofit Associations, Etc., in Construction, Operation, Etc., of Public Hospitals, Health Centers, Etc
Status: in_force

The State Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, construct, equip, maintain and operate public hospitals, health centers and related facilities for the treatment of any type of disease.

The State Board of Health is authorized and empowered to cooperate and to make contracts with the United States Government, any local political subdivisions or their agencies, any nonprofit association or public improvement society in the acquisition, building, equipping, maintaining and operating of any public hospitals, health centers and related facilities for the treatment of any kind of disease.
Ala. Code § 22-8A-11 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 8A / Section 22-8A-11
Section 22-8A-11 Surrogate; Requirements; Considerations; Persons Who May Serve as Surrogate; Validity of Decisions; Liability; Form; Declaratory and Injunctive Relief; Violations
Status: in_force

(a) If no advance directive for health care has been made, or if no duly appointed health care proxy is reasonably available, or if a valid advance directive for health care fails to address a particular circumstance, subject to the provisions of subsection (c), a surrogate, in consultation with the attending physician, subject to the provisions of Section 22-8A-6, may, determine whether to provide, withdraw, or withhold life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration if all of the following conditions are met:

(1) The attending physician determines, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that:

a. The individual is no longer able to understand, appreciate, and direct his or her medical treatment, and

b. The individual has no hope of regaining such ability.

(2) Two physicians, one of whom is the attending physician and one of whom is qualified and experienced in making such diagnosis, have personally examined the individual and have diagnosed and certified in the medical record that the individual has a terminal illness or injury or has a condition of permanent unconsciousness.

(3) The attending physician or other health care provider and the surrogate have no actual knowledge of the existence of a valid advance directive for health care that would give guidance to the provider in treating the individual’s condition.

(4) The treating physician determines, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that withholding or withdrawing the life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration will not result in undue pain or discomfort for the patient.

(b) The surrogate shall be a competent adult.

(c) The surrogate shall consult with the attending physician and make decisions permitted herein that conform as closely as possible to what the patient would have done or intended under the circumstances, taking into account any evidence of the patient’s religious, spiritual, personal, philosophical, and moral beliefs and ethics, to the extent these are known to the surrogate. Where possible, the surrogate shall consider how the patient would have weighed the burdens and benefits of initiating or continuing life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration against the burdens and benefits to the patient of that treatment, except that any decision by a surrogate regarding the withdrawal or withholding of artificially provided nutrition and hydration from a person who is permanently unconscious shall only be made upon clear and convincing evidence of the patient’s desires. The decision to provide, withdraw, or withhold life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration by the surrogate shall be made in good faith and without consideration of the financial benefit or burden that will accrue to the surrogate or the health care provider as a result of the decision.

(d) Any of the following persons, in order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available or willing to serve, may serve as a surrogate pursuant to this section:

(1) A judicially appointed guardian, provided the appointment specifically authorizes the guardian to make decisions regarding the withholding of life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require a judicial appointment before a decision can be made under this chapter. In addition, this subsection shall not be construed to require a judicially appointed guardian who has not been specifically authorized by a court to make decisions regarding the providing, withholding, or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration to make those decisions or to seek court approval to make those decisions.

(2) The patient’s spouse, unless legally separated or a party to a divorce proceeding.

(3) An adult child of the patient.

(4) One of the patient’s parents.

(5) An adult sibling of the patient.

(6) Any one of the patient’s surviving adult relatives who are of the next closest degree of kinship to the patient.

(7) If the patient has no relatives known to the attending physician or to an administrator of the facility where the patient is being treated and none can be found after a reasonable inquiry, a committee composed of the patient’s primary treating physician and the ethics committee of the facility where the patient is undergoing treatment or receiving care, acting unanimously; or if there is no ethics committee, by unanimous consent of a committee appointed by the chief of medical staff or chief executive officer of the facility and consisting of at least the following: (i) The primary treating physician; (ii) the chief of medical staff or his or her designee; (iii) the patient’s clergyman, if known and available, or a member of the clergy who is associated with, but not employed by or an independent contractor of the facility, or a social worker associated with but neither employed by nor an independent contractor of the facility. In the event a surrogate decision is being made by an ethics committee or appointed committee of the facility where the patient is undergoing treatment or receiving care, the facility shall notify the Alabama Department of Human Resources for the purpose of allowing the department to participate in the review of the matter pursuant to its responsibilities under the Adult Protective Services Act, Chapter 9 of Title 38.

(e) The surrogate shall certify that he or she has contacted one or more of the person or persons who is or are in a class equal to or higher than the surrogate and that each class has either consented or expressed no objections to him or her acting as surrogate or to the decision made by the surrogate. The certification shall be included in the medical record.

(f)(1) A surrogate’s decision shall nevertheless be valid if he or she certifies that he or she is unable to contact an individual whose consent or non-objection would otherwise be required because the individual’s whereabouts are unknown, because the individual is in a remote location and cannot be contacted in sufficient time to participate in a decision to provide, withhold, or withdraw the treatment, or because the individual has been adjudged incompetent and remains under that disability.

(2) If the surrogate’s decision is valid under subdivision (1), the individual shall not be included in determining whether the individual’s class has consented or expressed no objection as required pursuant to subsection (e).

(g) A health care provider who provides, withholds, or withdraws life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration from a patient upon the instructions of a surrogate who has certified that he or she has qualified as a surrogate as required by this section shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or be found to have committed an act of unprofessional conduct for providing, withdrawing, or withholding the life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration, nor shall the health care provider be deemed to be under a duty to investigate the truthfulness of the information certified by the surrogate.

(h) A surrogate acting pursuant to this section shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or found to have committed an act of unprofessional conduct for decisions made in good faith to provide, withhold, withdraw, continue, or institute life-sustaining treatment, or artificially provided nutrition and hydration, unless the surrogate falsely or fraudulently certifies to information required by this section.

(i) The Alabama State Board of Health shall prescribe by rule a form, that, when completed by a surrogate and signed in the presence of two witnesses who are at least 19 years of age, shall constitute the certification of the surrogate as required by this chapter. To be valid, a certification requires the signature of the surrogate and both witnesses. Any form created pursuant to this subsection shall state the provisions set forth in subsections (a) through (f) and include the following statement: “Under penalty of perjury, I affirm that I am exercising my best independent judgment and agreeing to do what I believe the patient desires.” Under no circumstances may the patient’s health care provider, or an employee of the patient’s health care provider who is not a relative of the patient, serve as a witness to the certification of the surrogate.

(j) If any relative, health care provider who is involved directly in the care of the patient, or other individual who is involved directly in providing care to the patient desires to dispute the authority or the decision of a surrogate to determine whether to provide, withhold, or withdraw medical treatment from a patient, he or she may file an action for declaratory and injunctive relief in the circuit court for the county where the patient is under treatment. A health care provider who is confronted by more than one individual who claims authority to act as surrogate for a patient may file an action for declaratory relief in the circuit court for the county where the patient is under treatment.

(k)(1) An individual who knowingly certifies information that meets all of the following criteria shall be guilty of a Class C felony:

a. Is required by this chapter.

b. Is material to his or her authorization to act as a surrogate.

c. Is false.

(2) The felony offense described in subdivision (1) shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, penalties for other offenses of which the surrogate may be guilty by reason of this conduct.
Ala. Code § 22-21-310 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-310
Section 22-21-310 Short Title
Status: in_force

This article shall be known and may be cited as “The Health Care Authorities Act of 1982.”
Ala. Code § 11-7-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 7 / Section 11-7-3
Section 11-7-3 Removal
Status: in_force

The county commission has power to remove either or both such surveyors if satisfied the public good requires removal and, in the event of removal, to make a new appointment.
Ala. Code § 11-15-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 15 / Section 11-15-3
Section 11-15-3 Authority and Procedure for Incorporation
Status: in_force

Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the governing body an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation under the provisions of this chapter, if it shall be made to appear to the governing body that each of the said persons is a duly qualified elector of and property owner in the county and if the governing body shall duly adopt a resolution wherein it shall be declared that it will be wise, expedient and necessary that such a corporation be formed and that the persons filing such application shall be authorized to proceed to form such corporation, then the said persons shall become the incorporators of and shall proceed to incorporate the corporation in the manner provided in this chapter. No corporation shall be formed under this chapter unless the application herein provided for shall be made and unless the resolution provided for in this section shall be adopted.
Ala. Code § 22-21-361 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-361
Section 22-21-361 Definitions
Status: in_force

The following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed by this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) COMMISSIONER. The commissioner of insurance of this state.

(2) DENTAL SERVICE PLAN or PLAN. Any plan or other arrangement whereby dental services are provided in whole or in part through a dental service corporation by dentists participating in the plan to provide dental services to those members of the public who become subscribers to the plan under a contract with such corporation. The terms “dental service plan” or “plan” do not include an insurer authorized by the insurance department to transact insurance in this state or to a nonprofit health insurance plan organized pursuant to Section 10-4-100, or to any policy of insurance or contract which includes dental benefits issued by such insurer or nonprofit health insurance plan.

(3) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Insurance.

(4) LICENSE. The certificate of authority issued by the Department of Insurance to dental service plan corporations authorizing such corporations to issue contracts to subscribers or groups for dental services, pursuant to dental service plans as provided in this law, or the license issued to employees or representatives of such corporations authorizing such persons to carry on the business of such corporations as provided in this law, whichever is appropriate.

(5) SUBSCRIBER. A member of the public or group who has contracted with a dental service plan corporation for the provision of dental services.
Ala. Code § 22-20-5.1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 20 / Section 22-20-5.1
Section 22-20-5.1 Cottage Food Production
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings:

(1) COTTAGE FOOD. A non-potentially hazardous food that has been prepared in a person’s home that does not require time or temperature control for safety to limit pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation and that does not include meat, poultry, or fish. The term includes all of the following:

a. Cakes, breads, Danish pastries, donuts, pastries, and pies.

b. Jam, jellies, and fruit preserves.

c. Candy.

d. Dried and dehydrated herbs, herb mixes, vegetables, or fruits.

e. Roasted coffee.

f. Dried baking mixes.

g. Fermented or preserved vegetables or fruit that do not result in the production of alcohol and that have an acidity level allowed by the department.

(2) COTTAGE FOOD PRODUCTION OPERATION. A person operating out of his or her home who meets the following requirements:

a. Produces cottage food for sale.

b. Sells the foods produced under paragraph a. only directly to consumers, whether in-person, by phone, or online, in the state.

c. Delivers the foods produced under paragraph a. directly to consumers in the state, whether in person, through an agent of the producer, or by mail.

(3) DEPARTMENT. The State Department of Public Health.

(4) HOME. A primary residence that contains a kitchen and appliances designed for common residential use.

(b) A cottage food production operation is not a food service establishment and is not required to have a food service permit issued by the county health department.

(c) Neither the State Department of Public Health nor a county health department may regulate the production of food at a cottage food production operation except as provided by this section.

(d) The department may issue a stop sale, seize, or hold order for any food suspected of being the cause of a food borne illness.

(e) A cottage food production operation shall label all cottage foods that the operation sells to consumers, and shall complete a food safety course approved by the department. The label shall include in at least size 10-point font the common or usual name of the food, the name, home or P.O. Box address of the cottage food production operation, and a statement that the food is not inspected by the department or local health department. The label shall also contain a list of the ingredients in the food in descending order of predominance and shall include a disclaimer that the food may contain allergens. The operator of a cottage food production operation shall maintain certification of having attended and passed a food safety course approved by the department.
Ala. Code § 22-24-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 24 / Section 22-24-5
Section 22-24-5 Well Driller’s License - Required; Application; Annual Fee; Term
Status: in_force

Every person who intends to drill water wells within the State of Alabama shall annually obtain from the board a water well driller’s license and, in order to obtain said license, shall file with the board, in accordance with rules and regulations as established by the board, an application form, to be made available by the board. Any person, upon filing said application and receiving approval of the board, shall pay an annual fee of $200.00 to the board, and the payment of said fee shall entitle said person to the full and complete privileges of drilling water wells, as provided in this chapter, and the board shall issue a license for a period not to exceed one year. Said annual fee paid to the board shall not exempt a person from additional state or county privilege taxes.
Ala. Code § 11-20-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 20 / Section 11-20-2
Section 11-20-2 Legislative Intent; Construction of Article Generally
Status: in_force

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature by the passage of this article to authorize counties to acquire, own and lease projects for the purpose of promoting industry and trade by inducing manufacturing, industrial and commercial enterprises to locate in this state or to expand, enlarge or modernize existing enterprises or both, promoting the use of the agricultural products and natural resources of this state and promoting a sound and proper balance in this state between agriculture, commerce and industry. It is the further intent of the Legislature by the passage of this article to authorize counties having populations of not less than 54,500 nor more than 56,000, according to the most recent federal decennial census, to acquire, own and lease projects for the purpose of inducing the federal government or its departments or agencies to locate or to enlarge existing facilities and operations of any kind within the county, thus contributing to the general prosperity of the area and providing greater opportunities for employment of inhabitants of the surrounding area. It is intended that each project be self-liquidating. It is not intended hereby to authorize any county itself to operate any manufacturing, industrial or commercial enterprise.

(b) This article shall be liberally construed in conformity with the said intent.
Ala. Code § 22-21-177 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-177
Section 22-21-177 Formation of Other Corporations
Status: in_force

The formation of one corporation under the provisions of this article shall not prevent the subsequent formation under this article of another corporation by the same county and the same municipality or municipalities or another municipality or municipalities in such county.
Ala. Code § 22-5D-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 5D / Section 22-5D-4
Section 22-5D-4 Coverage and Costs
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter does not expand the coverage required of an insurer.

(b) A health plan, third party administrator, or governmental agency is not required to provide coverage for the cost of an investigational drug, biological product, or device, or the cost of services related to the use of an investigational drug, biological product, or device under this chapter.

(c) This chapter does not require any governmental agency to pay costs associated with the use, care, or treatment of a patient with an investigational drug, biological product, or device.

(d) This chapter does not require a hospital or other health care facility to provide new or additional services, unless approved by the hospital or facility.
Ala. Code § 22-17A-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 17A / Section 22-17A-3
Section 22-17A-3 Tattoo Facility License
Status: in_force

(a) A person shall not tattoo, brand, or perform body piercing on another individual unless each of the following conditions is met:

(1) The tattooing, branding, or body piercing occurs at a tattoo facility licensed under this chapter.

(2) The individual receiving the tattoo, branding, or body piercing is 18 years of age or older.

(b) The owner or operator of a tattoo facility may apply to the department for a tattoo facility license under this chapter on a form provided by the department, and at the time of application shall pay to the department the appropriate fee under subsection (c). If the department determines that the application is complete and the tattoo facility proposed or operated by the applicant meets the requirements of this chapter and the rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter, the department shall issue a license to the applicant for the operation of that tattoo facility. The license shall be effective for a time period prescribed by rule of the department.

(c) Subject to Section 22-17A-7, the owner or operator of a tattoo facility shall pay one of the following fees at the time of application for a facility license:

(1) Initial annual license . . . . . . . . $250.

(2) One-year renewal of an annual license . . $200.

(3) Temporary license to operate a tattoo facility at a fixed location for not more than a two-week period . . . . . $50.
Ala. Code § 22-2-6 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 22-2-6
Section 22-2-6 State Committee of Public Health - Meetings; Rulemaking Authority
Status: in_force

(a) Meetings of the State Committee of Public Health shall be held monthly. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. Special meetings of the committee may be called by the chair upon 10 days prior written notice to the committee members.

(b) The State Committee of Public Health shall adopt rules as necessary to promote and maintain public health in this state.
Ala. Code § 22-3A-12 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 3A / Section 22-3A-12
Section 22-3A-12 Nature of Bonds
Status: in_force

The bonds shall not be general obligations of the authority but shall be limited obligations payable solely from one or more specified sources, including, but not limited to, the revenues and funds appropriated and pledged therefor or authorized to be pledged therefor in Section 22-3A-16 as security for the payment of the principal of and the interest and premium (if any) on the bonds issued by it under this chapter. All series of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter, including refunding bonds, shall be issued on a parity, without preference or priority between the bonds of any series, with respect to the security for the payment of the principal of and the interest on such bonds. All bonds issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be solely and exclusively obligations of the authority and shall not be an obligation or debt of the state. The bonds shall be construed to be negotiable instruments although payable solely from one or more specified sources as herein provided.
Ala. Code § 22-24-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 24 / Section 22-24-1
Section 22-24-1 Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(1) BOARD. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

(2) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

(3) DRILL. To drill or redrill, bore, auger, dig or otherwise construct a water well.

(4) DRILLER. Any person who manages or supervises the drilling of a water well.

(5) LOG. A record of the type of material or rock penetrated in the drilling of a water well.

(6) PERSON. Any individual, organization, group, association, partnership, corporation or any combination of them operating a business to drill water wells.

(7) SAMPLE. Cuttings or other fragments of rock or soil materials removed from the well.

(8) WELL. A hole drilled for the production of water.
Ala. Code § 22-21-369 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-369
Section 22-21-369 Contents of Proposed Contracts Between Corporation and Dentists
Status: in_force

Any proposed contracts between the corporation and dentists participating in the plan shall:

(1) List the responsibilities incurred by each party;

(2) Delineate the procedures for the remuneration of dentists for services provided thereby;

(3) Define and delineate the legal liabilities of the parties to one another, to subscribers, and to other affected persons; and

(4) Set forth the circumstances and procedures for terminating the contract.
Ala. Code § 11-32-18 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 32 / Section 11-32-18
Section 11-32-18 Annual Audit
Status: in_force

Within 30 days following the close of each fiscal year the authority shall cause an audit of its books and records to be made for the fiscal year by an independent certified public accountant. Within 90 days following the close of each fiscal year the authority shall furnish a copy of the audit to the governing bodies of the authorizing county, the principal municipality, and each participating municipality.
Ala. Code § 22-9A-15 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 9A / Section 22-9A-15
Section 22-9A-15 Delayed Registration of Death
Status: in_force

(a) When a death occurring in this state has not been registered within the time period prescribed by subsection (a) of Section 22-9A-14, a certificate of death may be registered on a regular certificate of death as follows:

(1) If the attending physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner at the time of death and the attending funeral director or person who acted as the funeral director are available to complete and sign the certificate of death, it may be completed without additional evidence and filed with the State Registrar. For those certificates filed one year or more after the date of death, the physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, coroner, or the funeral director shall state in accompanying affidavits that the information on the certificate is based on records kept in their files.

(2) In the absence of the attending physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, coroner, or the funeral director or person who acted as the funeral director, the certificate may be filed by the next of kin of the deceased and shall be accompanied by both of the following:

a. An affidavit of the person filing the certificate swearing to the accuracy of the information on the certificate.

b. Two documents which identify the decedent and his or her date and place of death.

(3) In all cases, the State Registrar may require additional documentary evidence to prove the facts of death.

(4) A summary statement of the evidence submitted in support of the delayed registration shall be endorsed on the certificate.

(b) Certificates of death registered one year or more after the date of death shall be marked “DELAYED REGISTRATION” and shall show on their face the date of the delayed registration.
Ala. Code § 11-12-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12 / Section 11-12-4
Section 11-12-4 Auditing, Registration, and Payment of Claims Generally; Requirements as to Bonds and Interest Coupons
Status: in_force

The county commission must audit all claims against the county, and every claim or such part thereof as is allowed must be registered in a book kept for that purpose and the chairman of the county commission must give the claimant a warrant on the treasury for the amount so allowed, but bonds and interest coupons evidencing interest on such bonds lawfully issued by the county shall not be required to be registered or to be proved nor shall warrants be required to issue therefor, but, in addition to all other privileges, shall be held to enjoy all the privileges of registered warrants from the date of their lawful issue and shall be held to be allowed claims from the date of their lawful issue.
Ala. Code § 22-38-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 38 / Section 22-38-4
Section 22-38-4 Administration of Federal Funds by Committee; Transfer of Federal Funds Received by Other State Agencies to Committee; Application to Legislature for Matching Funds; Coordination of Use of Funds
Status: in_force

All federal funds available to state agencies for financial assistance through cost-share grants to landusers for agricultural nonpoint source pollution control shall be administered by the committee. State agencies other than the committee which receive federal cost-share funds designated for use by agricultural operations to control associated nonpoint source pollution shall effect the necessary agreements to transfer these funds to the committee. The committee shall make application to the Legislature for appropriation of state funds required to match such federal funds and for appropriation of other necessary state funds and shall coordinate the use of water quality financial assistance or cost-share funds to landusers with other state appropriated soil and water conservation funds and such federal funds made available for cost share programs.
Ala. Code § 22-19-103 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 22-19-103
Section 22-19-103 Employees to Comply with Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; No Liability
Status: in_force

Any employee of the Alabama Eye Bank who is trained in donor eye tissue procurement under this article shall comply with the provisions of the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Such eye bank technician acting in accordance with the terms of this article shall not have any liability either civil or criminal for such eye tissue procurement.
Ala. Code § 11-14-20 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 11-14-20
Section 11-14-20 Special Meeting of County Commission to Make Special Appropriations for Jail - Appropriation of Funds and Issuance of Warrant to Sheriff
Status: in_force

Upon assembling, it is the duty of the county commission to make an appropriation of such an amount as is necessary for the purposes expressed in subdivision (1) of Section 11-12-15 and, for the payment thereof, to order the issuance of a warrant payable to the sheriff, which must be paid by the county treasurer on the presentment thereof, in preference and priority of all other claims.
Ala. Code § 22-21-372 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-372
Section 22-21-372 Filing and Approval of Subscription Rates; Criteria; Submission of Relevant Information
Status: in_force

(a) No contract providing dental service corporation benefits may be executed in this state unless the subscription rates outlined in said contract have been filed with and approved by the commissioner.

(b) Subscription rates must be established and justified in accordance with generally accepted insurance principles, including but not limited to the experience or judgment of the corporation making the rate filing or actuarial computations.

(c) The commissioner may disapprove subscription rates that are excessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory. Rates are not unfairly discriminatory because they are averaged broadly among persons covered under group, blanket or franchise contracts.

(d) The commissioner may require the submission of whatever relevant information is deemed necessary in determining whether to approve or disapprove a filing made under this section or Section 22-21-371.
Ala. Code § 22-9A-16 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 9A / Section 22-9A-16
Section 22-9A-16 Authorization for Final Disposition
Status: in_force

(a) The funeral director or person acting as the funeral director who first assumes custody of a dead body shall, prior to final disposition of the body, or prior to removal of the dead body from the state, obtain authorization for final disposition of the body or removal of the body from the state. The completion of the medical certification of cause of death on the death certificate by the physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner shall constitute authorization. If the body is to be cremated or buried at sea, additional authorization shall be obtained from the county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner.

(b) With the consent of the physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner who is to certify the cause of death, a dead body may be moved from the place of death for the purpose of being prepared for final disposition. Prior to removing a dead body from the place of death, the funeral director shall do either of the following:

(1) Obtain assurance from the attending physician that death is from natural causes and that the physician will assume responsibility for certifying to the cause of death and receive permission to remove the body from the place of death.

(2) Notify the county medical examiner or coroner and obtain authorization to remove the body.

(c) Prior to final disposition of a dead fetus, the funeral director, the person in charge of the institution, or other person assuming responsibility for final disposition of the fetus shall obtain from the parents authorization for final disposition. In the event the parents are incompetent, unable, or unwilling to sign the documents authorizing final disposition, the institution where the fetal death occurred, or if the fetal death occurred outside an institution, any licensed hospital in reasonable proximity, shall establish a mechanism to determine the final disposition.

(d) A written authorization for final disposition issued under the law of another state or the District of Columbia which accompanies a dead body or fetus brought into this state shall be authority for final disposition of the body or fetus in this state.

(e) When a dead body is released or disposed of by an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall keep a record showing the name of the deceased, date of death, name and address of the person to whom the body was released, date of removal from the institution, or if finally disposed of by the institution, the date, place, and manner of disposition.

(f) A funeral director, embalmer, or other person who removes from the place of death or transports or finally disposes of a dead body or fetus, in addition to filing any certificate or other report required by this chapter or rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter, shall keep a record which shall identify the name of the deceased, the date and place of death, and the date, place, and manner of disposition.

(g) Authorization for disinterment and reinterment shall be required prior to disinterment of a dead body or fetus as prescribed by rules of the board.
Ala. Code § 1-1-15 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-1-15
Section 1-1-15 References to Sections, Titles, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) Unless otherwise indicated in the context, references in this Code to titles, subtitles, chapters, articles, divisions, subdivisions or sections shall mean titles, subtitles, chapters, articles, divisions, subdivisions or sections of this Code.

(b) Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this Code or any other law, the reference applies to all amendments thereto.
Ala. Code § 22-11A-13 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11A / Section 22-11A-13
Section 22-11A-13 Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Status: in_force

Sexually transmitted diseases which are designated by the State Board of Health are recognized and declared to be contagious, infectious and communicable diseases and dangerous to public health. The State Board of Health is authorized and directed to promulgate rules for the testing, reporting, investigation and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Ala. Code § 22-25C-1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 25C / Section 22-25C-1
Section 22-25C-1 Operation of Facilities; Bond; Closure Cost Estimates
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law, and except as provided in Section 22-25C-2, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), prior to the issuance of a permit or prior to a modification of an existing permit, shall require certain centralized waste treatment facilities, as defined by federal effluent guidelines set forth at 40 CFR Part 437, when applying for or modifying a permit for the operation of a facility that processes or treats industrial wastes, industrial wastewater, or used material to post a performance bond or other financial assurance in an amount sufficient to close the facility if the owner or operator ceases proper operation of the facility, abandons the facility, or fails to properly maintain the facility to ensure compliance with state environmental regulations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this requirement shall not apply to waste treatment facilities which treat waste only from sources owned or operated by the owner of the waste treatment facilities or which treat waste pursuant to a contract at a waste treatment facility which also treats waste from sources owned or operated by the owner.

(b) The bond or other financial assurance shall be declared forfeited if required by ADEM when the owner or operator abandons the facility, ceases operation of the facility, or fails to properly maintain the facility to ensure compliance with state environmental regulations and shall be used for the purpose of closing the facility in compliance with state environmental rules and to pay the costs of any remediation required.

(c)(1) The owner or operator shall have a minimum of two detailed written estimates, in current dollars, of the cost of hiring a third party to close a facility prior to issuance of a permit or modification of a permit. The owner or operator shall submit the closure cost estimates with the permit application and submit a copy of the estimates with the permit application.

(2) The owner or operator shall re-evaluate the closure cost estimate and the amount of financial assurance required if changes to the closure plan or facility conditions significantly increase the maximum cost of closure at any time during the active life of the facility. The owner or operator shall submit any updated cost estimates and documentation of the increase in financial assurances prior to initiating changes at the facility which would insignificantly increase the maximum cost of closure at any time during the active life of the facility.

(d) Failure of the obligor of the bond or financial assurance to provide service satisfactory to the department shall constitute a cause of action for recovery in a civil action at the instance of the department.
Ala. Code § 11-14-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 11-14-3
Section 11-14-3 Conveyance of Waterworks Plants and Distribution Systems to Municipal Corporations
Status: in_force

Any county in the state of Alabama now owning a waterworks plant and distribution system or portion thereof is hereby authorized to transfer or convey such plant and system or portion thereof, without the necessity of authorization at an election of the qualified voters of such county, to any municipal corporation situated in such county. Any such transfer or conveyance may be made with or without pecuniary consideration and on such terms and conditions as the county commission of the county owning such plant and system or portion thereof may determine, but only after such county commission shall have adopted a resolution authorizing such transfer or conveyance. It shall not be necessary to obtain any permission or approval from the Alabama Public Service Commission or other similar regulatory body for such transfer or conveyance.
Ala. Code § 22-27-20 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 27 / Section 22-27-20
Section 22-27-20 Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(1) COUNTY. Each county in the state.

(2) MUNICIPALITY. A municipal corporation in the state.

(3) STATE. The State of Alabama.

(4) SOLID WASTES DISPOSAL ACT. Article 1 of this chapter.

(5) SOLID WASTES COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES. All real and personal property, including land, structures, trucks and other motor vehicles, incinerators, sanitary landfills, compost plants and other property of any kind used or useful for collection and disposal, or either, of solid wastes, as that term is defined in the Solid Wastes Disposal Act.

Wherever any term defined in Section 22-27-2 of the Solid Wastes Disposal Act is used in this article, the said term shall be deemed to have the same meaning as that ascribed to it in Section 22-27-2 of the Solid Wastes Disposal Act.
Ala. Code § 11-32-32 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 32 / Section 11-32-32
Section 11-32-32 Payments Made According to Schedule
Status: in_force

(a) The payments required hereby for the authorizing county, principal municipality, and each participating municipality shall be made on a monthly basis or upon other payment schedule of the authorizing county, the principal municipality, or such participating municipality shall agree to with the authority.

(b) If payments are made for the principal municipality and the authorizing county on a monthly basis, each payment shall be one-twelfth of the annual amount which would have been due based upon ad valorem tax collections for the preceding fiscal year with any deficit in the amount thus paid on such basis computed after ad valorem tax collections for the fiscal year in question are known, to be made up by the principal municipality and the authorizing county during the month of January next following the end of each fiscal year.

(c) If payments are made for participating municipalities on a monthly basis, each payment shall be one-twelfth of the annual amount due determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-32-29.
Ala. Code § 22-4-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 22-4-2
Section 22-4-2 Definitions
Status: in_force

When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1) STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. The statutory agency of the State of Alabama operative in the field of general health matters and performing the duties and exercising the powers as set forth in the statutory provisions relating thereto.

(2) STATEWIDE HEALTH COORDINATING COUNCIL. The advisory council established pursuant to this article which shall advise the State Board of Health on matters relating to health planning and resource development.

(3) HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCY. An entity which is organized and operated under the provisions of Title XV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 3001 et seq.) and is responsible for the health planning and development in a health service area designated by the Governor.

(4) HEALTH SERVICE AREA. A geographical area designated by the Governor as being appropriate for effective planning and development of health services.

(5) STATE HEALTH PLAN. A comprehensive plan, prepared by the State Board of Health and approved or disapproved by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council and which shall include the health systems plans developed by the health systems agencies, for the development of health programs and resources to assure that quality health services will be available and accessible in a manner which assures continuity of care, at reasonable cost, for all residents of the state.

(6) MEDICAL FACILITIES PLAN. A plan, prepared by the State Board of Health with the advice and consultation of the Statewide Health Coordinating Council, which shall consider the medical facilities plans of the health systems agencies, and which shall establish an integrated and interrelated system of health care facilities which shall have as its objective the provision of readily accessible health care in all parts of the state.

(7) HEALTH CARE FACILITY. Such term shall include public health centers; rehabilitation centers; skilled nursing facilities; intermediate care facilities; general and specialized hospitals, including tuberculosis, psychiatric, long-term care and other types of hospitals, and related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient departments and clinics and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals; organized ambulatory health care facilities, such as family planning clinics, facilities for surgical treatment of patients not requiring hospitalization and facilities located in or apart from a hospital for the diagnosis or treatment of disease, excluding the offices of private physicians; hemodialysis units; hospice services; and home health agencies operated in connection with a hospital. The term shall also include community mental health centers and related facilities, facilities for the developmentally disabled and facilities for the rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug abusers; provided, that these facilities may be included in one or more separate facility plans.

(8) INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES. The health services provided through health care institutions. Such term includes the facilities through which such services are provided.
Ala. Code § 22-15A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 15A / Section 22-15A-5
Section 22-15A-5 Written Smoking Policies by Employers; Designation of Nonsmoking Areas
Status: in_force

(a) By December 1, 2003, each employer having an enclosed place of employment may adopt, implement, make known, and maintain a written smoking policy which shall contain at a minimum all of the following requirements:

(1) Any employee in a place of employment shall have the right to designate his or her work area as a nonsmoking area and to post the same with an appropriate sign or signs, to be provided by the employer.

(2) Smoking shall be prohibited in all common work areas in a place of employment, unless a majority of the workers who work in that area agree that a smoking area will be designated.

(b) The smoking policy shall be communicated to all employees within three weeks of its adoption. All employers shall supply a written copy of the smoking policy upon request to any existing or prospective employee.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, every employer shall have the right to designate any place of employment, or any portion thereof, as a nonsmoking area.
Ala. Code § 11-14-10 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 11-14-10
Section 11-14-10 Duty to Erect Courthouses, Jails, Hospitals, and Other County Buildings
Status: in_force

The county commission shall erect courthouses, jails, and hospitals and other necessary county buildings, and such county commission shall have authority to levy a special tax for that purpose. Each county within the state shall be required to maintain a jail within their county.

In counties in which a circuit court has been or is hereafter authorized to be held in more than one place, the county commission may build courthouses in each place of holding court, and, in all counties wherein a circuit court is authorized to be held or may hereafter be authorized to be held in more than one place for six months or more during any year, the county commission shall erect a courthouse at each of such places where such court is held, such courthouses to be adequate and commodious for the business of such court and county at such place. In said counties wherein a circuit court is authorized to be held or may hereafter be authorized to be held in more than one place for six months or more during any year, the county commission may erect and/or maintain a jail upon any property owned by the county located within the county. The Legislature, by local act passed subsequent to February 9, 1982, may provide for the location of such jail. This section shall not affect in anywise any local law heretofore enacted that is not in conflict herewith.
Ala. Code § 22-30F-11 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30F / Section 22-30F-11
Section 22-30F-11 Legislative Intent
Status: in_force

This chapter is intended to aid the state through the furtherance of its purposes by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of the state with full and adequate powers to fulfill its functions. No proceeding, notice, or approval shall be required for the incorporation of the authority, the purchase or making of any loan, or the exercise of any other power by the authority.
Ala. Code § 22-14-12 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 22-14-12
Section 22-14-12 Orders Enjoining or Directing Compliance
Status: in_force

Whenever, in the judgment of the agency, any person has engaged in, or is about to engage in, any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, a violation of any provision of this article, or any rule, regulation or order issued thereunder, and at the request of the agency, the Attorney General, or the district attorney under his direction, may make application to the circuit court for an order enjoining such acts or practices or for an order directing compliance, and upon a showing by the agency that such person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any such acts or practices, a permanent or preliminary injunction, temporary restraining order or other order may be granted.
Ala. Code § 22-12-23 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12 / Section 22-12-23
Section 22-12-23 Free Rides on Public Transports for Quarantine Officers
Status: in_force

(a) Written authority to act as quarantine officer for this state, or for any county, incorporated city or town therein, conducting a quarantine approved by the executive officer of the State Board of Health, shall entitle the holder thereof to board any railroad train, passenger or freight, bus or watercraft in this state and ride thereon, free of cost, to such place or places as the discharge of his duties may demand.

(b) Any conductor of a railroad train, passenger or freight, or captain or other officer of a watercraft in this state who refuses to allow a quarantine officer to ride on train or watercraft, free of charge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense.
Ala. Code § 22-30-6 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30 / Section 22-30-6
Section 22-30-6 State Department to Regulate and Supervise Storage, Disposal, Etc., Sites
Status: in_force

The operation of any and all sites for the storage, treatment or disposal of hazardous wastes shall be under the direct regulation and supervision of the department and shall be in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated and enforced by the department to protect human health or the environment.
Ala. Code § 22-12-14 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12 / Section 22-12-14
Section 22-12-14 Quarantine of Infected Portions of County - Establishment
Status: in_force

When a contagious or infectious disease of quarantinable nature exists in a part of a county, the remainder of the county, and any incorporated city or town therein, may establish quarantine against the infected portion or portions of the county in accordance with the following provisions:

(1) If a majority of the committee of public health, acting for the board of health of the county, reside in the uninfected portion of the county, such majority shall have the power of the full committee, as defined in the Sections 22-12-12 and 22-12-13; or

(2) If, however, a majority of the said committee reside in the infected portion of the county, then said committee can no longer act, and in that event, the uninfected portion of the county may establish quarantine as follows:

a. The judge of probate, the presiding officer or any two members of the county commission if they, or either, reside in the uninfected portion of the county, may issue, in the order named and upon the recommendation of the county health officer in case he resides in the uninfected portion of the county or, in default of such residence or on account of his absence from the county, then, without such recommendation, a proclamation of quarantine against the infected portions of the county, subject to approval or modification by the State Board of Health; and

b. Likewise, the Mayor or Chief Executive Officer of any incorporated city or town in the uninfected portion of the county may issue, on the recommendation of the health officer of his city or town or, in the absence of such officer, then, without such recommendation, a proclamation of quarantine against the infected portion of the county, subject to approval or modification by the State Board of Health.
Ala. Code § 11-4-24 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 11-4-24
Section 11-4-24 Compensation
Status: in_force

The county treasurer shall receive such compensation as may be allowed by the county commission, in no case exceeding two and one-half percent on the money received, and two and one-half percent of the money paid out by him. His compensation in no case shall exceed the aggregate sum of $1,000.00 in any one year.
Ala. Code § 22-4A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4A / Section 22-4A-7
Section 22-4A-7 No Authority Over Other Programs
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter is intended or shall be construed as granting the board any governing or administrative authority over any programs administered by any university medical school in this state or any other program established pursuant to state law.
Ala. Code § 22-21-172 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-172
Section 22-21-172 Incorporation - Authority
Status: in_force

Any county and any one or more municipalities located, in whole or in part, in such county are hereby together empowered and authorized to cause to be organized and incorporated one or more public corporations for hospital purposes with all the power and authority provided in Section 22-21-179. Such power and authority shall be exercised by the governing body of the county and by the governing body or bodies of the municipality or municipalities proposing to exercise such power and authority. The determination of such governing body to exercise the power and authority granted in this section shall be evidenced by a resolution which:

(1) Shall declare the desirability of organizing and incorporating a public corporation for hospital purposes under this article;

(2) Shall approve the form of the certificate of incorporation proposed to be used in organizing the corporation;

(3) Shall find and determine that it is wise, expedient, necessary or advisable that the corporation be formed; and

(4) Shall authorize its chief executive officer to proceed with the organization and incorporation of such public corporation.

Whenever the governing bodies of the county and of the municipality or municipalities which are to be members of such public corporation shall have adopted such resolutions, the chief executive officer of each of them shall sign the certificate of incorporation and cause the same to be filed as provided in Section 22-21-173.
Ala. Code § 22-30B-11 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30B / Section 22-30B-11
Section 22-30B-11 Record of Hazardous Waste or Hazardous Substances Received for Disposal; Maintenance of Records; Penalties
Status: in_force

Any operator of a commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste or hazardous substances shall maintain written records of all such waste or substances received for disposal at the site and all waste or substances disposed of at the site. Said records shall contain the names and addresses of all persons, firms or corporations transporting and delivering such waste or substances to said facility, and the names and locations of all persons, firms or corporations from whence said waste or substance was produced or generated, the quantity of waste or substance received by such commercial hazardous waste or hazardous substance facility, and the date of delivery and such additional information as the Commissioner of Revenue or Director of the Department of Environmental Management reasonably may require for the proper administration and enforcement of the provisions of this act. This record must be a true, accurate and correct statement of the transaction as provided for under the provisions for this act, and any personnel or persons who knowingly make a false or fraudulent statement of a material fact with intent to defraud shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided by law. The records required, under the provisions of this act, shall be maintained by the operators of said commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste or hazardous substances and shall be available during regular business hours to any duly authorized agent or employee of the State of Alabama Department of Revenue or the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, and such records shall be retained by said operators for a period of not less than three years. Any required records for such commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste or hazardous substances shall be retained by said operators for a period of not less than three years. Any operator of such commercial site for the disposal of hazardous waste or hazardous substances which shall fail to maintain such records, or in any manner shall cause the falsification of same as to any material matter with an intent to defraud, shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided by law.
Ala. Code § 22-37-6 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 37 / Section 22-37-6
Section 22-37-6 Use or Sale of Materials That Are Not Lead-Free for Drinking Water System or Plumbing; Civil Penalty
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person constructing, installing, or repairing a drinking water system or plumbing to provide drinking water to use any pipe, solder or flux which is not lead-free in the construction, installation or repair of such system or plumbing. It shall be unlawful to sell, exchange or in any manner convey solder, flux, or piping which is not lead-free to any person for the repair or installation of any piping used to provide drinking water. The department is authorized to issue an order assessing a civil penalty to any person who violates any provision of this chapter and take other action prescribed in Section 22-22A-5.
Ala. Code § 11-14-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 11-14-4
Section 11-14-4 Erection and Maintenance of County Buildings Generally
Status: in_force

The county buildings are to be erected and kept in order and repair at the expense of the county under the direction of the county commission, which is authorized to make all necessary contracts for that purpose.
Ala. Code § 22-8-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 8 / Section 22-8-4
Section 22-8-4 Consent by Minors to Legally Authorized Medical, Dental, or Mental Health Services
Status: in_force

(a) Each of the following individuals may give effective consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, or mental health services for himself or herself, and the consent of no other individual shall be necessary:

(1) An individual who is 16 years of age or older.

(2) A minor who has graduated from high school.

(3) A minor who meets any of the criteria as set forth in Section 22-8-5.

(4) A minor who is pregnant.

(5) A minor who is emancipated.

(6) A minor who is: (i) not dependent on a parent or legal guardian for support; and (ii) living apart from his or her parents or other individual in loco parentis.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an individual who is 18 years of age or older may give effective consent to participate in any clinical trial, and the consent of no other individual shall be necessary.

(c) For the purposes of this section, a minor who is the parent of a child as provided in Section 22-8-5 or is pregnant may consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, or mental health services for his or her own child, and the consent of no other individual shall be necessary.
Ala. Code § 22-40A-23 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 40A / Section 22-40A-23
Section 22-40A-23 Implementation of Chapter
Status: in_force

The department shall implement this chapter to the extent funds are provided by the STF.
Ala. Code § 11-25-3 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 25 / Section 11-25-3
Section 11-25-3 County to Furnish Space and Utilities for Libraries; Supplement Budget
Status: in_force

In return for the county law libraries serving the legal materials needs of the county and court officials and of the citizens of the county, the county governing body may furnish adequate space and utilities for law libraries established under the provisions of this chapter and may supplement the book and materials budget if it considers such to be needed.
Ala. Code § 22-11C-11 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11C / Section 22-11C-11
Section 22-11C-11 Report of Findings and Recommendations
Status: in_force

The State Health Officer, with input from the advisory panel, shall prepare a report that describes findings from the Head and Spinal Cord Injury Registry and make new recommendations for the prevention of head and spinal cord injuries and provision of rehabilitative services for persons with head and spinal cord injuries and transmit the report to the Legislature and make the report available to the public. These findings shall be presented to an annual meeting of experts in the field of head and spinal cord injury.
Ala. Code § 22-21-156 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-156
Section 22-21-156 Lease of Hospitals, Buildings or Facilities to Public or Nonprofit Corporations
Status: in_force

Any public corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated and existing under the provisions of this chapter is hereby authorized and empowered to lease any hospital, building or facility constructed and equipped under the provisions of this chapter to any public corporation or any nonprofit corporation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow the abrogation of the terms of any contract or to jeopardize any security for the fulfillment of any obligation assumed under the provisions of this chapter.
Ala. Code § 22-19-160 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 19 / Section 22-19-160
Section 22-19-160 Short Title
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
Ala. Code § 22-18-8 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 18 / Section 22-18-8
Section 22-18-8 Reimbursement by New Employer for Training Expenses
Status: in_force

In those instances in which EMSP of any municipality, county, fire district, or the state are employed by the State of Alabama, any county, fire district, or another municipality, within 24 months after completing the training requirements mandated by this chapter, or by rules adopted by the board, the total expense of the training, including, but not limited to, salary paid during training, transportation costs paid to the trainee for travel to and from the training facility, room, board, tuition, and any other related training expenses, shall be reimbursed to the municipality, county, fire district, or the state which paid for the training. The municipality, county, fire district, or the state which paid for the training shall submit an itemized sworn statement to the new employer of the EMSP, shall demand payment thereof, and may enforce collection of the obligation through civil remedies and procedures. The EMSP shall have the same meaning as in Section 22-18-1.
Ala. Code § 11-30-4 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 30 / Section 11-30-4
Section 11-30-4 Filing of Bylaws and Schedule of Benefits and Charges with State Insurance Commissioner; Exemption from Regulation and from Premium Tax
Status: in_force

Each liability self-insurance fund established under the provisions of this chapter shall file with the State Insurance Commissioner a copy of its bylaws and schedule of benefits and charges. Such group, however, shall be exempt from regulation by the Department of Insurance of the State of Alabama and all premiums or charges collected shall be exempt from insurance premium tax.
Ala. Code § 22-12-9 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 12 / Section 22-12-9
Section 22-12-9 Duty of Vessel Master Ordered to Perform Quarantine
Status: in_force

The master of any vessel, ordered to perform quarantine, must deliver, to the officer appointed to see it performed, his bill of health and manifest, logbook and journal; if he fails to do, or to repair, in proper time after notice, to the quarantine ground or departs thence without authority, he must, on conviction, be fined not less than $200.00.
Ala. Code § 22-5A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 5A / Section 22-5A-7
Section 22-5A-7 Limited Immunity of Person or Agency Making Report, Etc
Status: in_force

Any person or agency who in good faith participates in the making of a report or provides information or evidence in direct accordance with the procedures for resolving complaints under the provisions of this chapter shall, in so doing, be immune from any liability, civil or criminal, that might otherwise be incurred or imposed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this immunity shall not apply if an ombudsman communicates any information concerning a complaint to any party not involved in such complaint.
Ala. Code § 22-11A-71 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 11A / Section 22-11A-71
Section 22-11A-71 Entitlement to Costs
Status: in_force

Individuals serving on review panels, or otherwise providing consultation or assistance to the State Health Officer in the enforcement of this article shall be entitled to mileage and per diem as provided by law.
Ala. Code § 22-21-265.1 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-265.1
Section 22-21-265.1 Certificates of Need - No Legislative Intent to Ratify Illegal Actions or False Information of Applicants, Agents, Etc
Status: in_force

It is not legislative intent to forgive, ratify or confirm any illegal actions or presentation of information known to be false on the part of applicants for certificates of need or the agents or employees of either the applicants or SHPDA.
Ala. Code § 22-21-222 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-222
Section 22-21-222 Disposition of Unexpended Funds - Counties
Status: in_force

Any unexpended funds allocated to any county under the provisions of this article shall not revert to the State Board of Health at the end of any fiscal year, but shall remain to the credit of the county to which they were allocated by the board. Such unexpended funds shall be used by the county solely for the purpose of providing hospitalization for indigents during the succeeding fiscal year, as provided in this article, and shall not be used for the purpose of matching any state funds which may be allocated to such county, under the provisions of this article, during such succeeding fiscal year.
Ala. Code § 11-4-25 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 11-4-25
Section 11-4-25 Transfer of Balance of Fine and Forfeiture Fund to General Fund, Etc
Status: in_force

The county treasurer of any county in this state may transfer any balance on hand at the end of the fiscal year of the fine and forfeiture fund in excess of the registered claims and lawful claims or charges against said fund to the general fund or to any special fund to which by resolution of the county commission, expressed in writing and spread upon the minutes of the county commission, he may be directed.
Ala. Code § 22-40A-9 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 40A / Section 22-40A-9
Section 22-40A-9 Manifests; Out-of-State Tires Transported into Alabama
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall develop and promulgate a manifest through rulemaking.

(b) All scrap tire receivers, transporters, processors, and landfills are required to use a written manifest as prescribed in this section and as provided by regulations of the department. The manifest shall identify the quantity of tires transported, stored, or processed, and other information as the department may require. The manifest shall be required to accompany the transportation, storage, and processing of scrap tires until the tires are processed or disposed.

(c) Records shall be retained for a minimum of three years, or as otherwise required by the department.

(d) The department may establish regulations for transport of out-of-state tires into Alabama.
Ala. Code § 22-21-434 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 21 / Section 22-21-434
Section 22-21-434 Relation to Visitation Guidelines, Etc., of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Status: reserved

REPEALED PER ACT 2023-24 EFFECTIVE APRIL 18, 2023.

Nothing in this article shall expand, alter, or amend visitation guidelines or regulations implemented or enforced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Ala. Code § 22-10A-2 — Alabama Code / Title 1 / Chapter 10A / Section 22-10A-2
Section 22-10A-2 Diagnostic Facilities, Genetic Counseling and Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disorders at University of Alabama in Birmingham and University of South Alabama
Status: in_force

(a) The University of Alabama in Birmingham, through its laboratory of medical genetics, and the University of South Alabama shall expand their respective medical genetics programs to provide diagnostic facilities, genetic counseling and prenatal testing for genetic disorders.

(b) Each shall:

(1) Develop an education program designed to educate physicians and the public concerning genetic disorders and the availability of this program.

(2) Assure that genetic counseling is available to those Alabama families who need it. This will include those families who have a member with a birth defect, mental retardation, or other handicapping disorder due to genetic factors as well as families identified by screening to be at increased risk for having a child with one of these problems.

(3) Formulate a graduated fee schedule, based on the ability of the patient to pay, to offset the costs of the program.

(c) Each shall expand its current program to assist private physicians and clinics of the Department of Public Health, the Children’s Rehabilitation Service and the Department of Mental Health in referring affected members and their families to the program.

(d) Each shall extend prenatal testing to those families meeting criteria for eligibility, including but not limited to the following:

(1) Pregnant women 35 years of age or older.

(2) Pregnant women having had a previous Down’s Syndrome child or a child with any other chromosomal disorder.

(3) Pregnancies where one parent is a translocation carrier.

(4) Women who are carriers of an X-linked disorder.

(5) Pregnancies where both parents are carriers of an Autosomal Recessive Disorder that can be detected prenatally.

(6) Pregnancies where the parents have a previous child who has a neural tube defect.