Ala. Code § 16-44C-10 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 44C / Section 16-44C-10
Section 16-44C-10 Oversight, Dispute Resolution, and Enforcement
Status: in_force

(a) Oversight.

(1) The executive and judicial branches of state government in each member state shall enforce this compact and take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate the compact’s purposes and intent. This compact shall have standing as statutory law.

(2) Venue is proper and judicial proceedings by or against the commission shall be brought solely and exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction where the principal office of the commission is located. The commission may waive venue and jurisdictional defenses to the extent it adopts or consents to participate in alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Nothing herein shall affect or limit the selection or propriety of venue in any action against a licensee for professional malpractice, misconduct, or any similar matter.

(3) All courts and all administrative agencies shall take judicial notice of this compact, the rules of the commission, and any information provided to a member state pursuant thereto in any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding in a member state pertaining to the subject matter of this compact, or which may affect the powers, responsibilities, or actions of the commission.

(4) The commission may receive service of process in any proceeding regarding the enforcement or interpretation of this compact and shall have standing to intervene in any proceeding for all purposes. Failure to provide the commission service of process shall render a judgment or order void as to the commission, this compact, or adopted rules.

(b) Default, technical assistance, and termination. If the commission determines that a member state has defaulted in the performance of its obligations or responsibilities under this compact or the adopted rules, the commission shall do all of the following:

(1) Provide written notice to the defaulting state and other member states of the nature of the default, the proposed means of curing the default, or any other action to be taken by the commission.

(2) Provide remedial training and specific technical assistance regarding the default.

(c) If a state in default fails to cure the default, the defaulting state may be terminated from the compact upon an affirmative vote of a majority of the commissioners of the member states, and all rights, privileges, and benefits conferred on that state by this compact may be terminated on the effective date of termination. A cure of the default does not relieve the offending state of obligations or liabilities incurred during the period of default.

(d) Termination of membership in the compact shall be imposed only after all other means of securing compliance have been exhausted. Notice of intent to suspend or terminate shall be given by the commission to the governor, the majority and minority leaders of the defaulting state’s legislature, the state licensing authority and each of the member states.

(e) A state that has been terminated is responsible for all assessments, obligations, and liabilities incurred through the effective date of termination, including obligations that extend beyond the effective date of termination.

(f) The commission shall not bear any costs related to a state that is found to be in default or that has been terminated from this compact, unless agreed upon in writing between the commission and the defaulting state.

(g) The defaulting state may appeal the action of the commission by petitioning the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or the federal district where the commission has its principal office. The prevailing party shall be awarded all costs of the litigation, including reasonable attorney’s fees.

(h) Dispute resolution.

(1) Upon request by a member state, the commission shall attempt to resolve disputes related to this compact that arise among member states and between member and non-member states.

(2) The commission shall adopt a rule providing for both binding and nonbinding alternative dispute resolution for disputes as appropriate.

(i) Enforcement.

(1) The commission, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, shall enforce the provisions and rules of this compact.

(2) By majority vote, the commission may initiate legal action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or the federal district where the commission has its principal office against a member state in default to enforce compliance with this compact and its adopted rules and bylaws. The relief sought may include both injunctive relief and damages. In the event judicial enforcement is necessary, the prevailing party shall be awarded all costs of litigation, including reasonable attorney’s fees. The remedies herein shall not be the exclusive remedies of the commission. The commission may pursue any other remedies available under federal or state law.
Ala. Code § 16-60-214 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-214
Section 16-60-214 Board of Trustees - Meetings; Compensation and Expenses
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 16-25-11.16 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25 / Section 16-25-11.16
Section 16-25-11.16 Purchase of Credit for Prior Service to Southeastern Educational Laboratory Program
Status: in_force

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed two years for prior service as a full-time employee of the Southeastern Educational Laboratory Program for the period of time between September 1, 1967, and March 31, 1969. The certification of prior service claimed under this section shall conform to applicable administrative rules and procedures of the Teachers’ Retirement System. Members shall receive credit for the prior service when they remit to the system the contributions required by subsection (b). No member shall receive credit for any service that the member is already credited with in the system or any other public retirement plan, with the exception of the federal Social Security program.

(b) Any member who is eligible to purchase service credit pursuant to subsection (a) shall pay to the Secretary-Treasurer of the system, within one year from October 1, 2002, for the claimed service, the full actuarially determined cost for each year of claimed service as determined by the system’s actuary.
Ala. Code § 16-25C-5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25C / Section 16-25C-5
Section 16-25C-5 Investments
Status: in_force

To the extent not in conflict with the Internal Revenue Code, all investments shall be subject to any limitations established and adopted by the board.
Ala. Code § 16-47-150 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47 / Section 16-47-150
Section 16-47-150 Scholarships to Division of Nursing - Established; Distribution
Status: in_force

There shall be awarded each year 30 scholarships to the Division of Nursing, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, for nursing education. These scholarships shall be awarded to applicants from the state-at-large. They shall be distributed insofar as practicable throughout the state.
Ala. Code § 16-18A-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 18A / Section 16-18A-3
Section 16-18A-3 Creation of Authority; Members, Organization, Etc
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the Private Colleges and Universities Facilities Authority and by that name, style and title, said body may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and complain and defend in all courts of law and equity. Said authority, however, shall not be a state institution nor a department or agency of the state, but shall be an instrumentality of purely public charity performing an essential governmental function, being a distinct corporate entity. The authority shall consist of nine members appointed equally by the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House. Such members shall be appointed in 1979 as follows: Three appointed for a term expiring January 1, 1981; three appointed for a term expiring January 1, 1983; and three appointed for a term expiring January 1, 1985. Thereafter, each member shall be appointed for an eight-year term. The respective appointing authority shall fill the unexpired term of any member so appointed who shall cease to serve. All members appointed shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified and any member may be reappointed. Immediately after each such appointment, such member of the authority shall enter upon his duties. The authority shall elect one of its members as chairman and another as vice chairman and shall appoint a secretary who need not be a member of the authority. The members of the authority shall not be entitled to compensation for their services, but may be reimbursed by the authority for their actual expenses properly incurred in the performance of their duties. The authority may make rules and regulations for its own government. The authority shall have perpetual existence. At all meetings of the authority the presence in person of a majority of the members in office shall be necessary for the transaction of business, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the members then in office shall be necessary for any action of the authority.
Ala. Code § 16-10-8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 10 / Section 16-10-8
Section 16-10-8 School Building Controlled by Trustees
Status: in_force

The board of school trustees shall have the care of the building and grounds, the school apparatus and other school property, and shall keep the county board of education advised about matters affecting the educational interest of said school. It shall attend to all incidental repairs and pay for same out of the incidental funds collected in accordance with this chapter; provided, that when repairs are to be paid for out of other than incidental funds, the amount to be expended shall be approved by the county superintendent of education and authorized by the county board of education before the repairs are made.
Ala. Code § 16-7A-1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 7A / Section 16-7A-1
Section 16-7A-1 Creation; Membership, Salary, Etc
Status: in_force

There is hereby created the Alabama Educational Television Foundation Authority which shall be a public non-profit corporation consisting of 13 members who shall be appointed by the Alabama Educational Television Commission. Such authority members shall include: one member from each congressional district, the public network’s general manager as an ex officio member, and the remaining five selected from the state-at-large from persons with expertise in broadcasting or investments. The ex officio member shall be non-voting. The members shall receive no salary for their services.
Ala. Code § 16-11-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 11 / Section 16-11-7
Section 16-11-7 Bonds of City Superintendent and Treasurer
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2006-196, p. 275, §5, effective June 1, 2006.
Ala. Code § 16-33C-24 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 33C / Section 16-33C-24
Section 16-33C-24 Able Program Generally
Status: in_force

(a) The ABLE Program includes the ABLE Trust Fund, and may be marketed under a different name than ABLE. The ABLE Trust Fund is hereby created and comprised of separate ABLE Savings Accounts established pursuant to this chapter. The ABLE Trust Fund receives contributions to ABLE Savings Accounts. One or more persons may make contributions to an ABLE Savings Account.

(b) Available sources of funds, public or private, including any administrative fees received from ABLE contracting parties, shall be deposited in the State Treasury Operations Fund. All ABLE Program expenses, including operating, administrative and marketing, shall be paid from the State Treasury Operations Fund. For reporting purposes, ABLE Program expenses will be segregated by unit or such other accounting method as provided in the State’s STAARS system, or similar system.

(c) Property and income of the ABLE Program and ABLE Trust Fund shall be exempt from all taxation by the state and by all of its political subdivisions.

(d) The Examiners of Public Accounts shall annually audit the ABLE Program.
Ala. Code § 16-13-190 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-190
Section 16-13-190 Validation of Elections
Status: in_force

Each election heretofore held in any school district or in any municipality or in any county at large, in this state on the question of the levy of a special tax for any school or educational purpose, or for school or educational purposes generally, under the Constitution of Alabama or any amendment thereto, or upon the question of the consolidation of two or more school districts and the levy of such a tax in the consolidated school district resulting from such consolidation, at which election a majority of the ballots cast were in favor of the levy of the tax, or in favor of the proposed consolidation and the levy of the tax in the consolidated district, as the case may be, and which election was irregular because of failure prior to the holding of the election to give notice thereof in a newspaper or by posting in the manner or for the time required by the statute under which the election was held, or because the period of time for which the tax was voted at the election exceeded the maximum period of time for which the tax was then permitted by the appropriate statute, or because of any other irregularity in any proceedings pertaining to the election, shall be and each such election is hereby ratified, and each such election shall be given effect in all respects as if all provisions of law relating to such election had been duly and legally complied with. The tax voted on at each such election shall be levied and collected for the remaining period of the time specified for the levy thereof in the election proceedings, and each such consolidation of school districts and levy of the tax provided for in such consolidation proceedings shall be effective in accordance with the authorization purported to have been given at such election.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any election which prior to the enactment of this section shall have been heretofore held or declared irregular by the governing body of the county in which the election was held or shall have been held invalid by the Supreme Court of Alabama or by final judgment of the circuit court in the county in which the election was held and from which judgment an appeal was not taken to the Supreme Court of Alabama within the time provided by law for the taking of such appeal, or to any election the validity of which is in issue in any pending action commenced prior to January 1, 2006.
Ala. Code § 16-1-20.1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-20.1
Section 16-1-20.1 Period of Silence for Meditation
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 98-381, p. 715, § 2, effective April 27, 1998.
Ala. Code § 16-52-11 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 52 / Section 16-52-11
Section 16-52-11 Grant or Gift Not to Fail for Informality; Default, Etc., of Trustees, Officers or Agents Not to Work Forfeiture
Status: in_force

No grant or gift, by will or otherwise, shall fail on account of any misnomer or informality when the intent of the grantor or donor can be arrived at, nor shall any default, malfeasance, misfeasance or nonuser, on the part of the trustees or other officers or agents of such corporation, work a forfeiture of any of its rights, privileges, powers or franchises.
Ala. Code § 16-5-8.2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 5 / Section 16-5-8.2
Section 16-5-8.2 Equal Access for All Citizens
Status: in_force

Nothing in subsection (e) of Section 16-5-8 shall be interpreted or used in any way to discourage or impede the efforts or abilities of the historically black institutions or their officials to carry out the mandates and objectives of federal court decrees and to provide equal access for all citizens of Alabama to full benefits of higher education.
Ala. Code § 16-5-8.3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 5 / Section 16-5-8.3
Section 16-5-8.3 Legislative Intent
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the Legislature that all two-year and four-year institutions of higher education in the state comply with the intent of subsection (e) of Section 16-5-8 and the guidelines developed pursuant to it (unless otherwise exempted by subsection (e) of Section 16-5-8). In the event of noncompliance by any institution governed by a board of trustees established by the constitution with the statewide articulation agreement as provided in subsection (e) of Section 16-5-8, no other two-year or four-year institution shall be required to comply with the statewide articulation agreement. These two-year and four-year institutions shall continue to comply with all other provisions of Section 16-5-8. The Alabama Commission on Higher Education shall notify the Legislative Council, the governing body of each four-year institution, and the State Board of Education within 30 days of any failure to comply with subsection (e) of Section 16-5-8 or guidelines.
Ala. Code § 16-28C-5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 28C / Section 16-28C-5
Section 16-28C-5 Adoption of Policies
Status: in_force

Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, the State Board of Education shall adopt a model policy that reflects the requirements of this chapter. Each local board of education may adopt and implement the model policy, or may adopt and implement another policy, provided that each local board of education shall adopt policies that meet the minimum requirements of this chapter.
Ala. Code § 16-60-335 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-335
Section 16-60-335 Board of Trustees - Role in Administration and Governance; Composition; Terms; Operation
Status: in_force

(a) The board of trustees and its chair shall offer advice to the president and Chancellor with respect to the administration and governance of the institute.

(b) The board shall be composed of no more than 21 citizens of good standing who are alumni of the institute, are or have been members of the United States armed services, or persons of strong character who have the means, judgment, or influence to facilitate the growth and prestige of the institute. Pursuant to a previous lawsuit settlement, the board shall forever retain three residents of Perry County plus one additional from Perry County or any one of the adjoining counties of Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Hale, or Marengo. The members of the previous board of the Marion Military Institute shall remain members of this board of trustees and shall continue to serve until the expiration of their terms. It shall be the goal of the board to attain 25 percent minority membership.

(c) As terms of members of the board of trustees expire, the board shall recommend to the Chancellor, for appointment by the Alabama State Board of Education, qualified persons for appointment or reappointment to the board. The term for board members shall be three years. Members who have served four full consecutive terms shall not be reappointed to the board until one year has elapsed from the date of their last service.

(d) A majority of actively serving board members, as determined by the chair, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Official actions of the board require a majority of members present and voting.
Ala. Code § 16-1-52.1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-52.1
Section 16-1-52.1 Participation in Certain Interscholastic Athletic Contests by a Dependent Child of a Full-Time Active Duty Military Parent
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this section, the term “athletic association” means any athletic organization operating in this state that has authority over its member institutions’ athletic programs, that receives public funds in any form, and whose member institutions make use of public facilities.

(b)(1) No public K-12 school may deny a dependent child of a full-time active duty military parent immediate eligibility to participate in an interscholastic athletic contest on the basis of the child enrolling in a new school due to the child and his or her parent making a bona fide move pursuant to permanent change of station orders received by the parent, regardless of the date upon which the child enrolls in the new school within the school attendance zone of the bona fide move.

(2) A public K-12 school and an athletic association may require a parent to provide his or her permanent change of station orders to substantiate a bona fide move that necessitates a child’s enrollment in a new school.
Ala. Code § 16-33C-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 33C / Section 16-33C-2
Section 16-33C-2 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known as the “Wallace-Folsom Savings Investment Plan Act.”
Ala. Code § 16-13-366 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-366
Section 16-13-366 Raise Act Review Committee
Status: in_force

(a) By January 1, 2028, the Legislature shall establish the RAISE Act Review Committee to review the overall progress of the RAISE Act and make recommendations for continuous improvement. (b) The committee shall be led by the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee and the Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee. (c) The membership of the committee shall include the following: (1) The Governor, or his or her designee. (2) The State Superintendent of Education, or his or her designee. (3) The Director of Finance, or his or her designee. (4) The Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee. (5) The Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee. (6) The Chair of the Senate Education Policy Committee. (7) The Chair of the House Education Policy Committee. (8) One member of the Senate, appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. (9) One member of the Senate, appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate. (10) One member of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (11) One member of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. (d) The RAISE Act Review Committee shall meet at least one time per year before November 1 and shall regularly review the RAISE base funding factor and weighted allocations, review the academic data from each student group targeted through weighted allocations at the state and LEA levels to determine the effectiveness of the RAISE program, and identify any needed revisions for continuous improvement to the RAISE Act. (e) The RAISE Act Review Committee shall prepare an annual report on the RAISE Act and shall provide the report, on or before November 1 of each year, to the Governor, the State Board of Education, the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee, the House Ways and Means Education Committee, the Senate Education Policy Committee, the House Education Policy Committee, and the public. The report must include a review of academic achievement and growth data from each student group targeted through weighted allocations at the state and LEA levels and recommendations on needed revisions to the RAISE Act. ACES may provide research and analysis to support the work of the committee.

(b) The committee shall be led by the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee and the Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee.

(c) The membership of the committee shall include the following:

(1) The Governor, or his or her designee.

(2) The State Superintendent of Education, or his or her designee.

(3) The Director of Finance, or his or her designee.

(4) The Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee.

(5) The Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee.

(6) The Chair of the Senate Education Policy Committee.

(7) The Chair of the House Education Policy Committee.

(8) One member of the Senate, appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.

(9) One member of the Senate, appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate.

(10) One member of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(11) One member of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.

(d) The RAISE Act Review Committee shall meet at least one time per year before November 1 and shall regularly review the RAISE base funding factor and weighted allocations, review the academic data from each student group targeted through weighted allocations at the state and LEA levels to determine the effectiveness of the RAISE program, and identify any needed revisions for continuous improvement to the RAISE Act.

(e) The RAISE Act Review Committee shall prepare an annual report on the RAISE Act and shall provide the report, on or before November 1 of each year, to the Governor, the State Board of Education, the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee, the House Ways and Means Education Committee, the Senate Education Policy Committee, the House Education Policy Committee, and the public. The report must include a review of academic achievement and growth data from each student group targeted through weighted allocations at the state and LEA levels and recommendations on needed revisions to the RAISE Act. ACES may provide research and analysis to support the work of the committee.
Ala. Code § 16-40A-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 40A / Section 16-40A-4
Section 16-40A-4 Illegal Conduct Not to Be Encouraged or Proposed to Public School Children
Status: in_force

Conduct that is illegal under state or federal law, including but not limited to, illegal use or distribution of controlled substances, under-age alcohol use or distribution, sexual intercourse imposed by means of force, or sexual actions which are otherwise illegal, shall not be encouraged or proposed to public school children in such a manner as to indicate that they have a legitimate right to decide or choose illegal conduct.
Ala. Code § 16-64-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 64 / Section 16-64-4
Section 16-64-4 Tuition Rates for Nonresident; Resident Tuition Rates for Students Residing in Counties Within 50 Miles of Campus; Tuition Rates for Distance Programs
Status: in_force

(a) Each Alabama public institution of higher education shall charge each undergraduate student who is registered as a nonresident a minimum tuition of two times the resident tuition rate charged by that institution. This rate shall be effective for students who register at an institution beginning August 1, 1997. A nonresident graduate student at an institution shall be charged a rate of tuition that is at least at the level of tuition charged to a nonresident undergraduate.

(b) The governing boards of each four-year public institution of higher education and Athens State University shall retain the power to extend resident tuition rates to students who reside in any county within 50 miles of a campus of the institution; provided, however, that campus must be in existence and operating as of January 1, 1996. For public two-year institutions, not including Athens State University, the State Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the Chancellor of the Department of Postsecondary Education, shall retain the power to extend resident tuition rates to students who reside in any county within 50 miles of a campus of the institution; provided, however, that campus must be in existence and operating as of January 1, 1996.

(c) Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing boards of each four-year public institution of higher education and Athens State University shall retain the power to set tuition rates for programs that are delivered in a distance format to students who are not present within the boundaries of the state at the time the distance program is delivered. For public two-year institutions of higher education, except Athens State University, the State Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the Chancellor of the Department of Postsecondary Education, shall retain the power to set tuition rates for programs that are delivered in a distance format for students who are not present within the boundaries of the state at the time the distance program is delivered.
Ala. Code § 16-18A-8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 18A / Section 16-18A-8
Section 16-18A-8 Use of Proceeds from Sale
Status: in_force

All moneys derived from the sale of any bonds issued by the authority shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes for which the same are authorized and any costs and expenses incidental thereto. Such costs and expenses may include, but shall not be limited to:

(1) The fiscal, engineering, legal and other expenses incurred in connection with the issuance and sale of the bonds;

(2) In the case of bonds issued to pay costs of the authority, interest on such bonds (or, if a part only of bonds of any series is issued for construction purposes, interest on that portion of the bonds of that series that is issued to pay construction costs) prior to and during such construction; and

(3) In the case of bonds issued for the purpose of refunding principal and interest or either with respect to bonds issued or obligations assumed by the authority, any premium that it may be necessary to pay in order to redeem or retire the bonds or other obligations to be refunded.
Ala. Code § 16-11-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 11 / Section 16-11-2
Section 16-11-2 Applicability; Composition of Boards
Status: in_force

(a) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to city boards of education unless otherwise provided by local law pursuant to Amendment 659 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or any other provision of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.

(b) The general administration and supervision of the public schools and educational interest of each city shall be vested in a city board of education, to be composed of five members who shall be residents of the city, and who shall not be members of the city council or commission. In any Class 4 municipality which has adopted a mayor-council form of government pursuant to Chapter 43B (commencing with Section 11-43B-1) of Title 11, the city board of education may be composed of seven members.

(c) No person shall be eligible for election or appointment as a member of a city board of education unless he or she satisfies all of the following qualifications:

(1) Is a person of good moral character.

(2) Has obtained a high school diploma or its equivalent.

(3) Is not employed by that city board of education.

(4) Is not serving on the governing board of a private elementary or secondary educational institution.

(5) Is not on the National Sex Offender Registry or the state sex offender registry.

(6) Has not been convicted of a felony.

(d) In those cities where the members of the city board of education are elected or appointed to represent a district, whenever a member of a city board of education moves his or her domicile from the district he or she represents, he or she shall cease to be a member of the city board of education, and a vacancy shall occur. The member shall provide notice of the move to the secretary of the city board of education before the beginning of business at the first meeting of the city board of education following the move.

(e) Any city or town which has had the general administration and supervision of the public schools and educational interests of the city or town vested in a city board of education for a period of 20 years or more prior to August 15, 1951, may, except as may be provided by law, continue to have general administration and supervision of the public schools and educational interest under a local board of education regardless of any past or future federal census.
Ala. Code § 16-13-211 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-211
Section 16-13-211 Borrowing Money in Anticipation of Warrants Authorized; Issuance of Notes
Status: in_force

Any board of education may borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of warrants for use for any of the purposes described in Section 16-13-70(a) or Section 16-13-90 and, in evidence of such borrowing, issue from time to time notes maturing not later than 18 months from the date of issuance and bearing such rate or rates of interest as the board of education issuing such notes may provide in the proceedings wherein the notes are authorized to be issued.
Ala. Code § 16-60-195 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-195
Section 16-60-195 Advisory Councils
Status: in_force

The advisory councils for the state vocational trade schools shall each consist of not less than four nor more than nine members appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education. The Governor shall designate one member as chairman. The members of the councils shall serve for terms of one year and shall be eligible for reappointment. The membership of each advisory council shall reflect, as nearly as possible, an equal representation of employer and employee groups or organizations. The councils shall serve in an advisory capacity to the directors of the state vocational trade schools and to the State Board of Education in promoting the interests of the individual schools and the development of the regional trade school program.
Ala. Code § 16-3-8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 3 / Section 16-3-8
Section 16-3-8 Compensation of Members
Status: in_force

The members of the State Board of Education shall receive a per diem compensation of $10.00 for each day of actual service and for a total of not more than 25 days in any fiscal year and their actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings and transacting the business of the board.
Ala. Code § 16-1-21 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-21
Section 16-1-21 Payments by Boards of Education for Fund-Saving Suggestions; Section Permissive Only
Status: in_force

(a) All local boards of education, throughout the state, now existing or hereinafter established, are hereby authorized to pay employees for suggestions which result in a saving of funds for that particular board of education. Such expenditures are to be made from the general operating funds of the particular board of education awarding the payment.

(b) The expenditures authorized herein shall not be paid to members of the board of education nor to administrative personnel whose normal job duties include providing suggestions for saving of board funds.

(c) This section is permissive only and any authority to give moneys to employees for suggestions remains with the local county or city boards of education. The amount of payment shall be determined by the individual boards, and shall be calculated in such manner as the individual boards see fit.
Ala. Code § 16-47-11 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47 / Section 16-47-11
Section 16-47-11 Police Officers - Extended Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

(a) Any police officer appointed pursuant to Sections 16-47-10 or 16-22-1 is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state; provided, that the primary duty of such a peace officer shall be the enforcement of the law on property owned, leased, or licensed by the institution of higher education employing the peace officer. Such a peace officer may also enforce the law in all of the following circumstances:

(1) When in pursuit of any individual who is suspected of the commission of a crime while on property owned, leased, or licensed by the institution of higher education employing the officer.

(2) To make arrests for crimes committed, or for which there is probable cause to believe have been committed, within his or her presence or within the boundaries of any property owned , leased , or licensed by the institution of higher education employing the officer .

(3) Pursuant to an agreement with another law enforcement agency.

(b) The provisions of this section granting authority to peace officers at institutions of higher education in this state are not intended to limit or abridge any powers otherwise granted to the officers by law, and the provisions of this section are cumulative.

(c) Nothing in this section shall grant authority to any individual appointed under Section 16-47-10 to enter a classroom for the purpose of enforcing traffic or parking citations.
Ala. Code § 16-18B-11 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 18B / Section 16-18B-11
Section 16-18B-11 Alabama Forensic Sciences Bond Fund
Status: in_force

The proceeds derived from the sale of each series of the bonds issued pursuant to this article other than refunding bonds shall be paid into the State Treasury upon receipt thereof, and the State Treasurer shall keep such proceeds, as well as all income received from the investment and reinvestment of such proceeds (including income derived from the investment and reinvestment of previously derived income), in a special fund in the State Treasury, designated “The Alabama Forensic Sciences Bond Fund,” pending the expenditure of such proceeds and income for the purposes hereinafter authorized and as required by said amendment. All proceeds so deposited in the State Treasury shall be continuously invested by the State Treasurer in permitted investments, and as and when income from the investment of such proceeds is received, such income shall be kept continuously invested in the same manner as such proceeds. The State Treasurer, acting on projections of expenditures provided by the Director of Finance, shall keep all such proceeds, together with the income derived from the investment and reinvestment thereof, invested in investments which shall mature or otherwise be subject to liquidation on such terms as will provide cash when required for the purposes for which bonds may be issued pursuant to this article.
Ala. Code § 16-11-25 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 11 / Section 16-11-25
Section 16-11-25 Allocation of Revenue from Licenses and Taxes
Status: in_force

Where by any provisions of law any certain or definite percentage of the revenue of any city or town from licenses or taxes, either or both, is required to be used for the maintenance of its public schools, then such provisions shall be unaffected by this title and shall be and remain in full force and effect.
Ala. Code § 16-46D-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 46D / Section 16-46D-2
Section 16-46D-2 Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings:

(1) ACCS. The Alabama Community College System.

(2) DEPARTMENT. The State Department of Education.

(3) ELIGIBLE INSTITUTION or INSTITUTION. Each of the following:

a. Any two-year public institution of higher education in the state, including postsecondary technical colleges, trade schools, community colleges, and junior colleges.

b. Any four-year public institution of higher education, provided that institution chooses to participate in the program.

(4) ELIGIBLE STUDENT. A student entering 11th or 12th grade who spent the prior school year in attendance at a public high school in this state and meets the eligibility criteria adopted pursuant to this chapter.

(5) FUND. The Move on When Ready Fund created by Section 16-46D-7.

(6) PROGRAM. The arrangement authorized by this chapter whereby an eligible student takes all of his or her courses, as approved by Section 16-46D-6, at an eligible institution and receives secondary credit from his or her high school with the goal of completing graduation and high school diploma requirements.

(7) SECONDARY CREDIT. High school credit for courses taken at an eligible institution under the program.

(8) STATE BOARD. The State Board of Education.
Ala. Code § 16-60-215 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-215
Section 16-60-215 Board of Trustees - Powers and Duties
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 16-25C-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25C / Section 16-25C-4
Section 16-25C-4 Operation of Board
Status: in_force

(a) At its first meeting, the board shall elect one of its members as chair.

(b) The board may adopt regulations necessary to implement this chapter. Regulations adopted are exempt from the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act.

(c) The board may contract with one or more entities for the daily operation and investment of funds under this chapter.

(d) The board may adopt one or more defined contribution plans as described in Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code if the board determines that doing so will offer substantial tax benefits to any segment of the participants covered under this chapter.
Ala. Code § 16-60-111.2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-111.2
Section 16-60-111.2 Chancellor - Responsible for Operation, Etc., of Community Colleges and Technical Colleges
Status: in_force

The authority and responsibility for the operation, management, control, supervision, maintenance, regulation, improvement, and enlargement of community colleges and technical colleges shall be vested in the Chancellor, subject to the approval of the board.
Ala. Code § 16-13-193 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-193
Section 16-13-193 School Tax District - Map - Not Required of City School Tax District
Status: in_force

Any city having a city board of education shall constitute an independent school tax district for the purpose of levying the tax authorized under this article, but it shall not be necessary for the city board of education when making application or request for a special election under the provisions of this article to submit the map or the description of boundaries.
Ala. Code § 16-25A-5.2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25A / Section 16-25A-5.2
Section 16-25A-5.2 Supplemental Policy to Provide Secondary Coverage for Retirees
Status: in_force

The board may offer retirees a supplemental policy that provides secondary coverage to other employer group coverage and certain requirements shall be maintained regarding retiree health coverage and cost sharing.

(1) For employees who retire after September 30, 2005, and who become employed by an employer that provides employees at least 50 percent of the cost of single health insurance coverage and that qualify to receive other employer group health insurance coverage through that employer shall be required to use the employer’s health benefit plan for primary coverage and the Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Plan may provide supplemental secondary coverage.

(2) For retirees who have spouses with other employer group health insurance coverage available to them through their employer or previous employer, the board may provide such retirees with a supplemental coverage policy to the other employer group health insurance coverage in lieu of full basic medical plan coverage through the plan.

(3) An employer that provides its employees and their spouses with other employer group health insurance coverage may not exclude a retiree, as defined under Section 16-25A-1(13), or his or her spouse from coverage by application of a provision which does not also apply on the same terms and conditions to other retirees or their spouses. No provision of this section requires an employer to amend its plan to provide additional benefits.
Ala. Code § 16-33C-22 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 33C / Section 16-33C-22
Section 16-33C-22 Dissolution of Pact Program
Status: in_force

Once all benefits or obligations owed to the PACT contract holders have been paid, the PACT Program shall be dissolved and the provisions of this chapter shall be void.
Ala. Code § 16-13-236 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-236
Section 16-13-236 Funds for Vocational/Technical Education
Status: in_force

Funds provided by the state to local boards of education for vocational/technical education shall be spent only for its intended purposes.
Ala. Code § 16-17A-22 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 17A / Section 16-17A-22
Section 16-17A-22 Disposition of Excess Revenues
Status: in_force

No part of the net earnings of an authority remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit of any person other than a university, a governmental entity, a political corporation, or any nonprofit corporation that is an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Ala. Code § 16-3-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 3 / Section 16-3-4
Section 16-3-4 Removal of Members
Status: in_force

The Governor may remove any appointive member of the board for immorality, misconduct in office, incompetency or willful neglect of duty, giving to him a copy of the charges against him and, upon not less than 10 days’ notice, an opportunity of being heard publicly in person or by counsel in his own defense. If any member shall be removed, the Governor shall file in the office of the Secretary of State a complete statement of all charges against such member of his findings thereon, together with a complete record of the proceedings.
Ala. Code § 16-40-13 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 40 / Section 16-40-13
Section 16-40-13 Students Required to Complete a Social Media Safety Course Prior to Entering the Eighth Grade
Status: in_force

(a) No later than July 1, 2025, the State Department of Education shall develop and approve an asynchronous, digitally delivered course that addresses the risks of using social media and how to use social media safely.

(b) At a minimum, the course shall include the following topics:

(1) The benefits of safely using age-appropriate social media platforms, including career and resume building for future academic or employment opportunities; sharing information with family and friends; and safely connecting with other users with similar interests.

(2) The risks of social media use, including its negative effects on mental health including addiction; the distribution of misinformation on social media; how social media manipulates behavior; and the permanency of sharing materials online.

(3) Safe practices for using social media including how to report suspicious behavior; how to identify cyberbullying, phishing and scam communications, predatory behavior, and human trafficking; and maintaining personal security and preventing oversharing of personal information.

(c) The State Department of Education shall make the course available online and each local board of education shall reasonably notify parents of its availability. Each local board of education shall deliver the course to all students prior to entering the eighth grade and shall make the course available to students in grades eight through 12 who transfer to the school district or who otherwise have not completed the course. (d) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to implement this section.

(d) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to implement this section.
Ala. Code § 16-23-9 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 23 / Section 16-23-9
Section 16-23-9 Institutes - Excuses for Nonattendance
Status: in_force

The county superintendent of education or the city superintendent of education shall have the power to excuse and accept excuses from educators for failure to attend institutes held under the provisions of this chapter. Such actions shall be governed by the same policies which govern leave on any other regularly scheduled workday. Persons so excused shall be deemed to have met all requirements of institute attendance and shall be entitled to pay.
Ala. Code § 16-52-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 52 / Section 16-52-3
Section 16-52-3 Board of Trustees - Creation; Composition; Expenses; Emeritus Status
Status: in_force

(a) There is created a Board of Trustees for Jacksonville State University, the state educational institution formerly known as Jacksonville State College at Jacksonville, Alabama.

(b) The board of trustees shall consist of two members from the congressional district in which the institution is located, one member from each of the other congressional districts in the state, two at-large members from this state, two at-large members who reside either within or outside of this state, and the Governor, who shall be ex officio president of the board.

(c) The trustees shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall be appointed to hold office for a term of six years and until their successors shall be appointed and qualified. No trustee shall be appointed to serve more than a total of three full terms.

(d) No trustee shall receive any pay or emolument other than his or her actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his or her duties as such.

(e) A trustee who has attained the age of 75 years during a term of office may continue to serve until the expiration of that term. A trustee who has departed the board and who has attained the age of 70 years or older may be designated by the board as a Trustee Emeritus and may receive such honorary privileges as conferred by the board.

(f) No employee of Jacksonville State University shall be eligible to serve on its board of trustees.
Ala. Code § 16-26B-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 26B / Section 16-26B-7
Section 16-26B-7 School Year; Summer Programs; Short Courses; Extension Courses; Admission; Extracurricular Activities
Status: in_force

(a) The school may, at the discretion of the school board, operate on the same school year basis as all other public schools in Alabama. Full-time students shall be enrolled for the entire school year and may enroll in summer programs.

(b) Summer programs may be offered for full-time students and for students who qualify to attend the school during summer periods.

(c) The school may offer short courses, workshops, seminars, weekend instructional programs, and other innovative programs for students not enrolled as full-time students in the school.

(d) The school, at the discretion of the school board, may provide extension courses on the campuses of other educational institutions within the state.

(e) The school shall admit students who meet the qualifications and conditions set by the executive director and approved by the school board.

(f) Whenever possible, the school shall offer extracurricular activities of the type found in public secondary schools in the state.
Ala. Code § 16-60-300 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-300
Section 16-60-300 Incorporation Authorized
Status: in_force

The President of Jefferson State Community College, the Presiding Chair of the State House of Representatives Legislative Delegation of Jefferson County, and the Chair of the State Senate Legislative Delegation of Jefferson County may become a corporation with the power and authority hereinafter provided by proceeding according to this article. This corporation shall be known as the Community Outreach Partnership Center at Jefferson State Community College.
Ala. Code § 16-60-221 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-221
Section 16-60-221 Course of Study
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 16-60-113 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-113
Section 16-60-113 Authority to Borrow in Anticipation of Current Revenues If Funds Not Sufficient to Pay Teachers’ Salaries
Status: in_force

Any community or technical college , during any fiscal year upon the approval of the Chancellor, may borrow money in anticipation of the current revenues for that fiscal year and pledge the current revenues for that fiscal year for payment of such loan or loans if funds on hand are not sufficient to pay the salaries of teachers for any given month. Any amount borrowed may not exceed one month’s allotment and may not exceed the amount of the state appropriation minus the amount disbursed from the annual allotment to the college.
Ala. Code § 16-24-31 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 24 / Section 16-24-31
Section 16-24-31 Appointment, Terms and Qualifications of Members; Vacancies; Teacher’s Tenure Not Affected by Membership
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2004-566, p. 1330, §3, effective July 1, 2004.
Ala. Code § 16-17A-23 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 17A / Section 16-17A-23
Section 16-17A-23 Dissolution of Authority
Status: in_force

(a) At any time when an authority does not have any indebtedness or other contractual or legal obligations outstanding, an authority may be dissolved by filing articles of dissolution with the Secretary of State, but only with the approval of both the board of the authority and the sponsoring university in the manner provided in this section.

(b) In order to dissolve an authority, the following steps shall be completed:

(1) The board shall first adopt a resolution proposing dissolution of the authority.

(2) After the adoption by the board of a resolution approving articles of dissolution, the authority shall file with the sponsoring university a written request to the sponsoring university for adoption of a resolution approving dissolution of the authority.

(3) As promptly as may be practicable after the receipt of the application from the authority, the sponsoring university shall review the application, and its governing body shall adopt a resolution either approving or denying dissolution of the authority.

(c) Within 30 days following the approval of dissolution of an authority by the sponsoring university, the president or vice president of the authority shall sign and file for record in the office of Secretary of State the original articles of dissolution and a certified copy of each resolution approving the articles of dissolution.

(d) Upon the filing for record of the articles of dissolution and the documents required by subsection (c), the articles of dissolution shall become effective. The Secretary of State shall thereupon record the articles of dissolution in an appropriate book in his or her office.

(e) A sponsoring university may not dissolve an authority without the consent of the board.

(f) Upon dissolution of the authority, title to all assets of the authority shall vest in the sponsoring university
Ala. Code § 16-44A-11 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 44A / Section 16-44A-11
Section 16-44A-11 Creation of Advisory Committees; Purpose and Composition
Status: in_force

Advisory committees shall be created to make recommendations regarding strategies to meet the purposes of the compact. Committees shall include compact members, potential users of services, school teachers, educators, K-12 and postsecondary/higher education representatives, community and youth leadership organizations, student organizations, the State Department of Education, state and local governments, economic and community development entities, business, historical and patriotic organizations, and others.
Ala. Code § 16-24B-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 24B / Section 16-24B-4
Section 16-24B-4 Principals - Duties
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to the authority of the chief executive officer and the employing board, a principal and contract principal shall supervise the daily operation and management of personnel, finances, facilities, and other matters of the school or campus for which the principal and contract principal is responsible. A principal and contract principal shall assume the administrative responsibility and instructional leadership, as directed by the chief executive officer, consistent with the policies of the employing board, for the planning, management, operation, and evaluation of the education program of each school or campus under the responsibility of the principal and contract principal.

(b) A principal and contract principal shall observe all rules, policies, and procedures relative to the operation of the public schools as established by applicable law, rule, and standard of both the State Board of Education and the employing board.

(c) A principal and contract principal shall perform all other duties assigned by the chief executive officer, consistent with the policies of the employing board and the law.

(d) A principal and contract principal shall make written advisory recommendations to the chief executive officer regarding the appointment, assignment, promotion, transfer, and cancellation of the contracts of all personnel assigned to any school or campus under his or her responsibility. If the recommendation of a principal and contract principal regarding an appointment, assignment, or promotion is rejected, the principal and contract principal shall submit a second recommendation regarding that appointment, assignment, or promotion, subject to this chapter and board policy. These advisory recommendations shall not be binding upon the chief executive officer, and the chief executive officer shall have final authority for all personnel assignments within the applicable school system.
Ala. Code § 16-28A-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 28A / Section 16-28A-2
Section 16-28A-2 Exemption of Teachers and Other Employees from Application of Title 26
Status: in_force

The provisions of Title 26 shall not apply to public school teachers in relation to corporal punishment of students when the punishment is consistent with established written policies of the employing board of education. Neither shall the provisions of Title 26 apply to public school teachers or other employees while maintaining order and discipline in the classroom and on public school property, including school buses, consistent with written policies of the employing board of education.
Ala. Code § 16-49-53 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 49 / Section 16-49-53
Section 16-49-53 Appointment of Curator; Authority and Duties
Status: in_force

The president of the university shall appoint a curator of the repository who shall be a recognized authority on Afro-American history and culture. The curator shall be empowered to seek out and secure source materials on or about Afro-Americans, to catalog and preserve such materials in keeping with the best available methods of preservation, and shall disseminate or make available to the public said materials in keeping with the designated functions of the repository.
Ala. Code § 16-44A-10 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 44A / Section 16-44A-10
Section 16-44A-10 Membership and Fiscal Year; Dues
Status: in_force

The membership and fiscal year shall begin on October 1 annually and end on the following September 30. Dues shall be set as provided in Section 16-44A-14.
Ala. Code § 16-44A-35 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 44A / Section 16-44A-35
Section 16-44A-35 Legislative Findings; Designation and Dedication as Veterans Living Legacy
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature of Alabama finds and declares all of the following:

(1) That pursuant to Section 16-44A-31, a statewide extended classroom for education in critical academic areas of citizenship, civics, American history, and government is now operational as “the American Village” under the auspices of the Citizenship Trust, a public education corporation.

(2) The nationally pioneering educational program serves students statewide and also school groups from other states. The United States Congress has provided support of the American Village as a national model and as an innovative civic education initiative that provides students with a better understanding of the United States Constitution and the historical and civic foundation of American self-government.

(3) Recent studies indicate that many students have only a superficial knowledge and lack deeper understanding of the foundations and principles of American self-government, that American history, civics, government, and related courses are critical academic areas for the preservation of individual liberty and for our constitutional system of self-government, and that increased academic attention needs to be directed to a better understanding of these vital foundations.

(4) It is our desire for this state to provide leadership to the nation during the observance of the 225th anniversary of American independence, and that properly educating and inspiring new generations of young people in these critical academic areas shall constitute a Veterans Living Legacy that honors veterans and other patriots in all generations in the cause of liberty and self-government that they have served.

(b) In commemoration of the 225th anniversary of American independence, the American Village is officially designated and dedicated as a Veterans Living Legacy in honor of veterans and patriots in all generations who have served the American cause of liberty and self-government. The American Village shall be expressly committed to the perpetuation of that legacy through civic education of young people.
Ala. Code § 16-38A-1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 38A / Section 16-38A-1
Section 16-38A-1 Creation of Fund
Status: in_force

There is created in the State Treasury the Alabama Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund.
Ala. Code § 16-17A-12 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 17A / Section 16-17A-12
Section 16-17A-12 Obligations of Authority
Status: in_force

(a) All agreements and covenants undertaken, and all indebtedness issued, by an authority shall be solely and exclusively an obligation of the authority and, except as otherwise provided in a written agreement in accordance with Section 16-17A-17, shall not create an obligation or debt of the state, any university, or any other governmental entity or public corporation within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision.

(b) Neither the directors nor any officer of an authority executing indebtedness issued pursuant to this chapter shall be personally liable for such indebtedness by reason of the execution or issuance thereof.

(c) The state and the sponsoring university do hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any indebtedness issued under this chapter that neither the state nor the sponsoring university will limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to fulfill the terms of any indebtedness or related security documents made with the holders thereof or in any way impair the rights and remedies of the holders until such indebtedness, together with the interest thereon, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders, are fully met and discharged. An authority is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of this state or sponsoring university in any agreement with the holders of its indebtedness.
Ala. Code § 16-46-8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 46 / Section 16-46-8
Section 16-46-8 Enforcement Proceedings
Status: in_force

The Department of Postsecondary Education may institute such action of law or in equity as may be necessary to enforce this chapter. In addition to any other remedy under this chapter, the Department of Postsecondary Education may apply for relief by injunction, mandamus, or any other appropriate remedy in equity without being compelled to allege or prove that an adequate remedy at law does not otherwise exist. The Department of Postsecondary Education is not required to give or post bond in any action to which it is party, whether upon appeal or otherwise. All legal actions shall be brought against the Department of Postsecondary Education in the name of the Department of Postsecondary Education. The Department of Postsecondary Education may institute an action by its own attorney, but shall have the right, if it deems advisable, to call upon any assistant district attorney or district attorney to represent it in the circuit courts of this state or the Attorney General to represent it on appeal in the appellate courts of this state.
Ala. Code § 16-6H-17 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 6H / Section 16-6H-17
Section 16-6H-17 Evaluation by External Consultant; Request for Proposals Process; Review Panels; Comprehensive Evaluation Plan; Annual Report
Status: in_force

(a) Beginning January 15, 2023, the Executive Committee of the Alabama STEM Council shall employ an external consultant to evaluate this chapter, the work of mathematics coaches, and the implementation and outcomes. The external consultant shall be selected through an open request for proposals process adopted by the executive committee. Each proposal shall be reviewed by a panel of key stakeholders, chosen by the executive committee, and shall be assessed using a defined set of priority indicators. The executive committee shall appoint a panel of 11 stakeholders to review each proposal. The membership of each panel shall include all of the following:

(1) The Director of the Alabama STEM Council.

(2) An elementary public school based mathematics coach.

(3) Two public elementary mathematics educators.

(4) Two parents of students who are enrolled in and attending a public K-5 school.

(5) The Director of AMSTI, or his or her designee.

(6) One AMSTI elementary mathematics specialist.

(7) One elementary public school principal.

(8) One instructor employed by a public two-year or four-year institution of higher education, with experience teaching elementary mathematics methods.

(9) Two additional members appointed by the Executive Director of the Alabama STEM Council.

(b) The appointing authorities shall coordinate their appointments to assure the panel membership is inclusive and reflects the racial, gender, geographic, urban, rural, and economic diversity of the state.

(c) The external consultant shall design and adopt a comprehensive evaluation plan to help with both the success and sustainability of the K-5 mathematics coach endorsement program. The plan shall include, but not be limited to, defining measures, developing instruments, using instruments to collect data, analyzing data, the quarterly and annual reporting of findings, and the development and implementation of a measurement sustainability plan. The findings of the external consultant shall be used to recommend any adjustments that need to be made for the continuous improvement of both the quality of implementation and assurance of desired outcomes. The evaluation shall also include a cost benefit return on investment study.

(d) The external consultant shall compile and submit an annual report on or before January 30, and quarterly reports no later than the last day of the month following each quarter, to all of the following: The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Board of Education, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee, Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee, Chair of the House Education Policy Committee, Chair of the Senate Education Policy Committee, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Minority Leader of the Senate, Director of the Office of Mathematics Improvement, and the Executive Committee of the Alabama STEM Council. Copies of all annual and quarterly reports shall be conspicuously published on the website of both the Alabama STEM Council and the department.

(e) Continued funding dedicated to K-5 mathematics coaches shall be contingent on measurable performance growth, as determined by the evaluations of the external consultant.

(f) The State Superintendent of Education and the Director of the Office of Mathematics Improvement shall comply with all requests for data and information from the external consultant and shall make every effort to assist with any recommended improvements.
Ala. Code § 16-1-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-4
Section 16-1-4 Photographing or Microphotographing Records - Destruction of Records Photographed, Etc.; Retention of Photographs
Status: in_force

The State Superintendent of Education and each of the several city and county superintendents of education may destroy or cause to be disposed of any record, document, books, papers or other writing which have been photographed or microphotographed. Such photographs or microphotographs shall be retained and kept in lieu of such records, documents, books or papers required to be kept or maintained. However, no record or other written matter authorized under the provisions of Section 16-1-3 to be photographed or microphotographed may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of until the copy has been processed and checked with the original for accuracy, and no city or county superintendent of education shall destroy or dispose of any record or other written matter without first obtaining the approval of the State Superintendent of Education. The State Superintendent of Education may, however, classify such records and other written matter and authorize the destruction of certain classes of records or other written matter upon their being photographed or microphotographed, and may prescribe the period for which records of certain classes must be retained after having been photographed or microphotographed before such records are destroyed.
Ala. Code § 16-6D-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 6D / Section 16-6D-7
Section 16-6D-7 Equal Opportunity for Applicants
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education and the State Department of Education shall ensure equal opportunity for all school systems that apply for programmatic flexibility or budgetary flexibility, or both, as delineated in this chapter, and in no way shall one local school system be favored over another local school system based upon its size, location, student population, or any other possible discriminatory measure.
Ala. Code § 16-27-6 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 27 / Section 16-27-6
Section 16-27-6 Seat Belts
Status: in_force

(a) No school bus shall be operated on a public street, highway or elsewhere unless it shall be equipped with a seat belt for the driver.

(b) The driver of a school bus while transporting pupils on a public street or highway or elsewhere shall wear a properly fastened seat belt when the bus is in motion. Failure of a bus driver to comply with this requirement shall be prima facie evidence of nonfeasance of duty, and any driver who fails to comply with this requirement shall be subject to dismissal.

(c) Every contract between a board of education and a school bus contract operator shall contain a clause requiring the driver of a school bus to wear a properly fastened seat belt when the bus is being used for the transporting of pupils on a public street or highway or elsewhere. Failure of any driver to comply with this requirement shall constitute a breach of contract on the part of the contract operator.
Ala. Code § 16-6I-1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 6I / Section 16-6I-1
Section 16-6I-1 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act.
Ala. Code § 16-35-5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 35 / Section 16-35-5
Section 16-35-5 Studies Required to Be Taught in Elementary School
Status: in_force

In every elementary school in the state there shall be taught reading, spelling and writing, arithmetic, oral and written English, geography, history of the United States and Alabama, elementary science, health education, physical education and such other studies as may be prescribed by the State Board of Education.
Ala. Code § 16-25C-9 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25C / Section 16-25C-9
Section 16-25C-9 Relation to Other Retirement Provisions
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall limit or otherwise lessen the State of Alabama’s, current or future, obligation to fund the Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System, or the Judicial Retirement Fund. The provisions of this chapter, in whole or in part, may not be used to allow a person otherwise covered under the Retirement Systems of Alabama to opt out or otherwise cease participation in the Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System, or the Judicial Retirement Fund. The State of Alabama or any political subdivision thereof may not substitute or cause to be substituted this Employee Savings Plan or any other defined contribution plan for the state retirement defined benefit plan that currently exists in the Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System, or the Judicial Retirement Fund.
Ala. Code § 16-18A-13 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 18A / Section 16-18A-13
Section 16-18A-13 Title to Projects
Status: in_force

The authority may hold title to any project financed by it but shall not be required to do so.
Ala. Code § 16-25A-16 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25A / Section 16-25A-16
Section 16-25A-16 Coordination with State Employees’ Health Insurance Board
Status: in_force

Once the Legislature has fully funded the Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Program, the Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Board and the State Employees’ Health Insurance Board shall coordinate and equalize benefits so that both groups shall be insured and funded equally.
Ala. Code § 16-28-6 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 28 / Section 16-28-6
Section 16-28-6 Children Exempt from Attending Public School
Status: in_force

(a) The following children, when issued certificates of exemption by the county superintendent of education, where they reside in territory under the control and supervision of the county board of education, or the city superintendent of schools, where they reside in territory under the control and supervision of a city board of education, shall not be required to attend school, or to be instructed by a private tutor:

(1) Children whose physical or mental condition is such as to prevent or render inadvisable attendance at school or application to study. Before issuing such certificate of exemption, the superintendent shall require a certificate from the county health officer in counties which have a health unit, and from a regularly licensed, practicing physician in counties which do not have a health unit, that such a child is physically or mentally incapacitated for school work.

(2) Children who have completed the course of study of the public schools of the state through high school as now constituted.

(3) Where because of the distance children reside from school and the lack of public transportation such children would be compelled to walk over two miles to attend a public school.

(4) Where the children are legally and regularly employed under the provisions of the law relating to child labor and hold permits to work granted under the terms of the child labor law.

(5) Otherwise qualified children who withdraw from school pursuant to Section 16-28-3.1.

(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to deny any right to any child granted under the provisions of Sections 16-39-1 through 16-39-12.
Ala. Code § 16-68-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 68 / Section 16-68-7
Section 16-68-7 Violations
Status: in_force

The following persons may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin any violation of this chapter or a policy adopted pursuant to this chapter:

(1) The Attorney General.

(2) A person whose expressive rights are violated by a violation of this chapter or the policy adopted pursuant to this chapter.
Ala. Code § 16-60-28 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-28
Section 16-60-28 Control of College; President
Status: in_force

The junior college established pursuant to this article shall be under the direct control of the board of trustees hereby established and shall be under the immediate supervision and direction of a president, appointed by the board of trustees for a term to be fixed by the board. The president shall not be removed during the term for which he was appointed except for just cause, which shall be explicitly set forth in writing in the minutes of the board. The president shall possess such qualifications as are prescribed by the board of trustees and approved by the State Board of Education.
Ala. Code § 16-60-213 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-213
Section 16-60-213 Board of Trustees - Established; Composition; Appointment; Terms of Office
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 16-55-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 55 / Section 16-55-7
Section 16-55-7 Scholarships to School of Nursing - Distribution
Status: in_force

There shall be awarded each year 30 scholarships to the School of Nursing of the University of South Alabama for nursing education. These scholarships shall be awarded to applicants from the state-at-large. They shall be distributed, insofar as practicable, throughout the state.
Ala. Code § 16-13-160 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-160
Section 16-13-160 Petition for Election; Calling of Election
Status: in_force

Upon a petition signed by 200 or more qualified electors of the county, who are also freeholders, to the county commission in any county within the State of Alabama, the said commission shall order an election to determine whether or not a special tax of one mill shall be levied for the support of the public schools within said county as hereinafter provided.
Ala. Code § 16-25-10.8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25 / Section 16-25-10.8
Section 16-25-10.8 Officers and Employees of Developing Alabama Youth Foundation; Contributions; Creditable Service
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body of the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and full-time employees, from whatever source and in whatever manner paid, become eligible to participate in the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama, subject to all rules, regulations, and conditions thereof.

(b) The governing body of the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation, having made an election through a resolution as provided in subsection (a), its employees and executive officers may participate in and be entitled to all benefits of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama; provided, that where contributions are made from salaries paid by the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation, the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation shall pay the employer cost, calculated as a percentage of the salaries of those employees, to be contributed as employer contributions in accordance with Section 16-25-21. Such amount shall be paid monthly and at the same time as the members’ contributions are made to the Teachers’ Retirement System.

(c) The governing body of the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation may provide in its resolution to the Teachers’ Retirement System’s Board of Control that all service rendered by an eligible employee or executive officer to said foundation, previous to the effective date of said foundation’s election to come under the Teachers’ Retirement System, shall be creditable service to such employee or executive officer; provided, that any such provision shall apply only to those employees and officers who were in the active service of the foundation on the effective date of said foundation’s election to be covered under the Teachers’ Retirement System; and provided further, that the said resolution also states that the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation shall assume and pay, as required, all costs necessary to fund the crediting of such previous service, such costs to be determined by the actuary employed by the Teachers’ Retirement System Board of Control. All benefits that accrue and are payable to any beneficiary hereunder shall be limited to, and shall not exceed, the amount paid in by the beneficiary and the employer plus his portion of the interest earned and the enhancement of his moneys by investing them, less cost of administration, at no cost to the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 16-33C-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 33C / Section 16-33C-3
Section 16-33C-3 Definitions
Status: in_force

The following terms as used in this chapter shall have the meanings ascribed to them, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) ABLE PROGRAM. The Achieving a Better Life Experience Program established pursuant to this chapter and defined in Section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or other applicable federal law, to assist individuals and families to save private funds to support individuals with disabilities to maintain health, independence, and quality of life.

(2) ABLE SAVINGS ACCOUNT. An individual ABLE trust fund account established by a contributor pursuant to this chapter to apply distributions from the account toward qualified disability expenses for an eligible designated beneficiary, both terms as defined in Section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or other applicable federal law.

(3) ABLE TRUST FUND. The fiduciary trust fund established pursuant to this chapter comprised of separate and segregated ABLE savings accounts as established by savings agreements.

(4) ACES ADMINISTRATIVE FUND. The ACES Administrative Fund created in Section 16-33C-10.

(5) ACES PROGRAM. The Alabama Comprehensive Education Savings Program, a qualified tuition program established pursuant to this chapter and as defined in Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or other applicable federal law, to assist individuals and families to save funds for the purpose of meeting the qualified higher education expenses of the designated beneficiary, as those terms are defined and used in Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or other applicable federal law.

(6) ACES SAVINGS ACCOUNT. An individual ACES account held in the ACES Trust Fund established by a contributor pursuant to this chapter in order to apply distributions from the account toward qualified higher education expenses for an eligible designated beneficiary, as those terms are defined in Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or other applicable federal law.

(7) ACES TRUST FUND. The fiduciary trust fund created in Section 16-33C-10.

(8) CONTRIBUTOR. Any person who contributes money to an ACES Program savings account or an ABLE Program savings account established pursuant to this chapter on behalf of a designated beneficiary and who is listed as the owner of the savings account.

(9) DESIGNATED BENEFICIARY. The eligible individual named as the beneficiary of an ABLE savings account, ACES savings account, or PACT contract established pursuant to this chapter.

(10) LEGISLATURE. The Legislature of Alabama.

(11) PACT ADMINISTRATIVE FUND. The PACT Administrative Fund created in subsection (c) of Section 16-33C-6.

(12) PACT BOARD. The board of directors and trustees of the PACT Trust Fund.

(13) PACT CONTRACT. A contract entered into by the board and a participant in the PACT Program.

(14) PACT PROGRAM. The Alabama Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program created in subsection (a) of Section 16-33C-6.

(15) PACT TRUST FUND. The fiduciary trust fund created in subsection (b) of Section 16-33C-6.

(16) PLAN. The Wallace-Folsom Savings Investment Plan established pursuant to this chapter that consists of the PACT Program, the ACES Program, and the ABLE Program.

(17) PURCHASER. A person who is obligated to make contract payments in accordance with a PACT contract entered into pursuant to this chapter.

(18) SAVINGS AGREEMENT. An agreement entered into between the Savings Board and a contributor establishing an ACES or ABLE savings account.

(19) SAVINGS BOARD. The Board of Directors of the ABLE Program and ACES Program, and trustees of the ABLE Trust Fund and ACES Trust Fund.

(20) STATE TREASURER. The State Treasurer of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 16-60-194 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-194
Section 16-60-194 Management and Control; Powers and Duties of State Board of Education; Schools to Be Suitable for Veteran Training Programs; Leaves of Absence for Teachers
Status: in_force

(a) The authority to manage and control the trade schools is vested in the State Board of Education.

(b) The State Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education, shall: Make rules and regulations for the government of the trade schools; prescribe the courses of study to be offered and the conditions for granting certificates and diplomas; appoint the president of each trade school and, upon the president’s recommendations, appoint the members of the faculty and fix the tenure and salary of each; direct and supervise the use of legislative appropriations for the use of the trade schools; accept gifts, donations, devises and bequests of money and real and personal property for the purposes of this chapter; disseminate information concerning and promote interest in the trade schools among the pupils of the public schools; and provide a means whereby students may earn, if necessary, all or a portion of their tuition, board and lodging.

(c) The trade schools shall be managed and conducted in such a manner so as to be accredited as suitable institutions for veteran vocational and rehabilitation training programs sponsored by the United States.

(d) Members of the faculty of any such trade school may be paid for absences during the time such schools are in session, in the discretion of the State Board of Education, where such absence results from sickness or some other unavoidable cause which prevents the teacher from discharging his or her duties. Such leaves of absence shall be granted subject to rules and regulations duly promulgated and adopted by said board; provided, that payment for such absences caused by sickness shall be in accord with the provisions of law governing sick leave for teachers and other employees of city and county boards of education in the State of Alabama as provided in Section 16-12-21 and pay for such absences resulting from unavoidable causes other than sickness shall not be allowed for a total of more than one week during any one year.
Ala. Code § 16-54-13.2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 54 / Section 16-54-13.2
Section 16-54-13.2 Enforcement of Fire Protection and Prevention Laws, Etc., by Fire Marshal
Status: in_force

(a) The State Fire Marshal shall have exclusive authority to enforce laws, regulations, and ordinances of the state as specified in Section 36-19-2, at the University of Montevallo. These responsibilities shall be performed by the State Fire Marshal or by deputies regularly employed pursuant to the state Merit System acting with the designation and under the direct supervision of the State Fire Marshal. The State Fire Marshal may appoint the Chief of Police and the Director of the Physical Plant of the University of Montevallo as deputies or assistants for the purpose of this section.

(b) This section may not be construed to change the responsibility of the regularly established municipal fire authority to provide fire suppression services on the same basis to all institutions, businesses, and residences within the incorporated limits of the applicable municipality.
Ala. Code § 16-48-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 48 / Section 16-48-2
Section 16-48-2 Corporate Powers
Status: in_force

Such corporation shall have all the rights, privileges and franchises necessary to a promotion of the end of its creation and shall be charged with all corresponding duties, liabilities and responsibilities. Such corporation may hold and may lease, sell or in any other manner not inconsistent with the object or terms of the grant or grants under which it holds, dispose of any property, real or personal, or any estate or interest therein, remaining of the original or any subsequent grant by Congress, or by this state, or by any person, or accruing to the corporation from any source, as to it may seem best for the purposes of its institution; and any and all sales of property, real or personal, heretofore made pursuant to and by authority of action of the board of trustees of said institute and written instruments of conveyance of title thereto purporting to have been made pursuant to such action are hereby ratified and confirmed as acts of the institute, and similar sales and instruments of conveyance made during the time when the name of the institute was the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama are likewise ratified and confirmed as acts of said Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 16-44A-14 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 44A / Section 16-44A-14
Section 16-44A-14 Powers of Board of Directors
Status: in_force

In furtherance of the purposes of the compact, the board of directors may do the following:

(1) Accept donations of funds or land, bequests, grants, appropriations, loans, membership fees, or other forms of financial assistance for educational and other purposes in furtherance of this article, from any federal entity, from the state, its agencies and subdivisions, or any local public entity which are hereby authorized to grant any of the foregoing forms of assistance, or from any private person, or other agency, and to comply with rules and regulations concerning grants by the federal government or other grantors, which are not in contravention of the constitution and laws of this state or the United States.

(2) Enjoy and exercise any powers and duties, not inconsistent with this chapter, which are authorized to non-profit organizations under Title 10.

(3) Engage the services, by employment or otherwise, of a full-time or part-time executive director, who shall be the chief administrative officer, and fix the term and make provisions for compensation and any allowances and benefits as the board may provide. The executive director shall perform the duties of secretary as enumerated in Section 16-44A-9 and shall execute all documents of the compact. The director shall employ or contract for any necessary personnel or other assistance and terminate, when necessary, any personnel or other assistance and shall supervise, designate the duties and titles, and fix the terms for assistance, within the overall budget adopted by the board.

(4) Review and approve personnel policies recommended by the director. No employee shall be deemed an employee within the meaning of the Alabama Merit System or teacher tenure laws, but shall be entitled to public employee health insurance and state teacher retirement benefits on the same basis afforded public school employees. The board may provide for and authorize payment for other benefits. Employees of the compact shall be reimbursed for travel in the same manner provided by law for state employees, provided the travel is approved in advance by the executive director.

(5) Delegate to the executive director any and all powers and duties necessary to aid in the efficient administration of the policies of the board.

(6) File an annual report, including a financial report, with the Governor, Legislature of Alabama, and compact members.
Ala. Code § 16-25B-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25B / Section 16-25B-7
Section 16-25B-7 Inclusion for Federal Income Taxes
Status: in_force

As provided by the United States Internal Revenue Code, any sum deferred under the trust shall not be included for the purposes of computation of any federal income taxes withheld on behalf of any employee.
Ala. Code § 16-1-11.5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-11.5
Section 16-1-11.5 Teacher Certification
Status: in_force

Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the State Department of Education’s requirements for teacher certification and recertification shall be the same for any person who teaches in a public school or a nonpublic school, whether accredited or not, and without regard to whether the otherwise qualified person is or was employed by a nonpublic K-12 private, church, parochial, or religious school that is not subject to state regulation.
Ala. Code § 16-16-6 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-16-6
Section 16-16-6 Members, Officers and Directors; Quorum for Transacting Business; Effect of Death, Resignation or Expiration of Term; Salary; Record of Proceedings; Copies of Proceedings as Evidence
Status: in_force

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 State Superintendent of Education shall be the vice-president thereof and the Director of Finance shall be the secretary thereof. The State Treasurer shall be treasurer thereof, shall act as custodian of its funds and shall pay the principal of and interest on the bonds of the authority out of the funds hereinafter provided for. The members of the authority shall constitute all the members of the board of directors of the authority, and any two 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 his term of office or for any other reason, then his successor in office shall take his place as a member, officer or director, as the case may be, 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 he may render or for any duty he may perform in connection with the authority. All proceedings had and done by the board of directors shall be reduced to writing by the secretary of the authority, shall be signed by at least two members 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 § 16-60-58 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-58
Section 16-60-58 Control of College; President
Status: in_force

The junior college established pursuant to this article shall be under the direct control of the board of trustees hereby established and shall be under the immediate supervision and direction of a president, appointed by the board of trustees for a term to be fixed by the board. The president shall not be removed during the term for which he was appointed except for just cause, which shall be explicitly set forth in writing in the minutes of the board. The president shall possess such qualifications as are prescribed by the board of trustees and approved by the State Board of Education.
Ala. Code § 16-22A-10 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 22A / Section 16-22A-10
Section 16-22A-10 Confidentiality of Information
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Any criminal history background information reports received by the State Department of Education from the Department of Public Safety shall be confidential, conspicuously marked as confidential, and not further disclosed or made available for public inspection.

(2) Any criminal history background information report received by a local employing board from the State Department of Education shall be confidential, conspicuously marked as confidential, and not further disclosed or made available for public inspection.

(b) All criminal history background information reports are specifically excluded from any requirement of public disclosure as a public record as the Legislature finds these documents to be sensitive personnel records.

(c) Transmittal of any criminal history background information at any time shall be accomplished in a nontransparent package, sealed, and marked confidential with instructions to be opened only by the person named on the package and authorized to receive the information pursuant to this chapter.

(d) Without additional public disclosure, the following actions shall not be construed to violate this section:

(1) Showing the report of criminal history background information to the applicant for certification, applicant for employment, current employee, or current employee under review to give him or her the opportunity to challenge the report.

(2) Releasing the report to a court of competent jurisdiction in the event of litigation brought by the applicant for certification, applicant for employment, current employee, or current employee under review.

(3) Use of the information in preparation, investigation, and presentation during administrative proceedings involving revocation of certification or suitability determination brought by the State Superintendent of Education, termination by the employer, or restriction on unsupervised access to a child in an educational setting.

(e) Any person having access to criminal history background information check reports and releasing same as provided herein, shall be required to maintain a register consistent with the National Child Protection Act of 1993, Public Law 103-209, 42 U.S.C. 5119, et seq.

(f) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the distribution of employment or certification status through the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification Educator Identification Clearinghouse.
Ala. Code § 16-55-20 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 55 / Section 16-55-20
Section 16-55-20 Declaration of Legislative Findings
Status: reserved

REPEALED IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2018-152 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.
Ala. Code § 16-18A-1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 18A / Section 16-18A-1
Section 16-18A-1 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the “Private Colleges and Universities Facilities Authority Act.”
Ala. Code § 16-6H-11 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 6H / Section 16-6H-11
Section 16-6H-11 Duties of Department
Status: in_force

The department, through the Office of School Improvement, shall do all of the following:

(1) Add educators experienced in the implementation of teaching elementary mathematics through problem solving to the Office of School Improvement.

(2) Add highly qualified staff with experience in elementary school turnaround and improvement, as needed by region, to the Office of School Improvement.

(3) Participate in professional learning relating to reliable forms of evidence of teachers implementing evidence-based mathematics teaching practices.

(4) Ensure that all Office of School Improvement staff are trained and prepared to train local education agency leaders, school leaders, and educators in implementing a high quality multi-tiered system of support, including response to intervention.
Ala. Code § 16-25B-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25B / Section 16-25B-3
Section 16-25B-3 Institutions Authorized to Make Contributions on Behalf of Participants
Status: in_force

It is the expressly declared intent of the Legislature that any institution which employs a participant in the trust is authorized to make contributions or payments to the trust on behalf of participants.
Ala. Code § 16-48-8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 48 / Section 16-48-8
Section 16-48-8 Quorum of Trustees
Status: in_force

Six members of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day until a quorum is present.
Ala. Code § 16-26C-1.2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 26C / Section 16-26C-1.2
Section 16-26C-1.2 Definitions
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2014-372, §2, effective April 9, 2014.
Ala. Code § 16-46A-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 46A / Section 16-46A-2
Section 16-46A-2 Enrollment; Participation and Attendance; Online Course Requirements
Status: in_force

(a) A full-time student enrolled in a virtual program shall be enrolled and counted in the average daily membership of the local school, participate in state testing and accountability requirements through the local school system, and, upon satisfying the graduation requirements of the local board of education, receive a diploma from the local school system.

(b) Any provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, a student enrolled in a virtual school program offered by his or her local school system shall be treated as if he or she is attending his or her local school in the attendance zone in which they reside for purposes of participating in extracurricular activities and shall be subject to the same requirements, including Alabama High School Athletic Association rules, imposed on a traditional public school student enrolled in the traditional public school.

In addition, if local board of education policy permits inter-system transfer for all students, a student enrolled under this policy shall be treated as if he or she is attending his or her school of record for the purposes of participating in extracurricular activities and shall be subject to the same requirements, including Alabama High School Athletic Association rules, imposed on a traditional public school student enrolled in the traditional public school.

(c) A board of education shall be exempt from any provision of general law, local law, or administrative rule that applies to the traditional delivery of instruction including, but not limited to, requirements relating to the physical presence of a student, student monitoring and security, staffing requirements, transportation obligations, facility requirements, space and location requirements, time requirements, and physical education requirements to the extent any of the foregoing conflict with the delivery of the virtual program.

(d) A local board of education is not subject to online course restrictions imposed by the State Department of Education.

(e) Any online course delivery that is not supported by the State Department of Education shall be accredited by an institution recognized pursuant to administrative rule adopted by the department.

(f) Coursework offered through a virtual program shall contain the required content as identified in the applicable Alabama course of study.
Ala. Code § 16-25-10.2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25 / Section 16-25-10.2
Section 16-25-10.2 Executive Officers and Employees of Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whatever source and in whatever manner paid, become eligible to participate in the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama, subject to all rules, regulations and conditions thereof.

(b) The governing body of the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision having made an election through a resolution as provided in subsection (a) of this section, its employees and executive officers may participate in and be entitled to all benefits of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama; provided, that where contributions are made from salaries paid by the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision, the Council for School Administration and Supervision shall pay the employer costs, calculated as a percentage of the salaries of those employees, to be contributed as employer in accordance with Section 16-25-21. Such amounts shall be paid monthly and at the same time as the members’ contributions are made to the Teachers’ Retirement System.

(c) The governing body of the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision may provide in its resolution to the Teachers’ Retirement System’s Board of Control that all service rendered, by an eligible employee or executive officer, to said council, previous to the effective date of said council’s election to come under the Teachers’ Retirement System, shall be creditable service to such employee or executive officer; provided, that any such provision shall apply only to those employees and officers who were in the active service of the council on the effective date of said council’s election to be covered under the Teachers’ Retirement System; and provided further, that the said resolution also states that the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision shall assume and pay, as required, all costs necessary to fund the crediting of such previous service, such costs to be determined by the actuary employed by the Teachers’ Retirement System’s Board of Control.

All benefits that accrue and are payable to any beneficiary hereunder shall be limited to and shall not exceed the amount paid in by the beneficiary and the employer plus his portion of the interest earned and the enhancement of his moneys by investing them, less the cost of administration, at no cost to the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 16-47-135 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47 / Section 16-47-135
Section 16-47-135 Scholarships - How Distributed
Status: in_force

There shall be awarded each year 125 scholarships to the University of Alabama School of Nursing for nursing education. These scholarships shall be awarded to applicants from the state-at-large. They shall be distributed, insofar as practicable, throughout the state, and may be distributed to students in any year of study in said school of nursing.
Ala. Code § 16-38-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 38 / Section 16-38-3
Section 16-38-3 Restoration of Crippled Children
Status: in_force

For the purpose of enabling the State Board of Education of Alabama to comply with the provisions of the national Social Security Act and to continue to extend and improve as far as practicable the services now maintained by the State Board of Education for locating crippled children and for providing medical, surgical, corrective and other services, care and treatment and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization and after-care for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling, any and all funds appropriated for physical restoration of crippled children for the above purposes may be used for the purposes set forth in this section.

Funds made available through that section or those sections of the federal Social Security Act which relates to crippled children, together with any and all available state and federal appropriations, shall be administered by the State Board of Education, through the Division of Rehabilitation and Crippled Children Service, and shall be used in the further development of the state’s program of physical restoration of crippled children. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to accept donations, gifts and bequests and to expend same on approval of the State Superintendent of Education or executive officer of the board for purposes approved under regulations of the State Board of Education.

All funds made available for carrying out the provisions of this section shall be paid by the Treasurer on warrants drawn therefor by the Comptroller, on requisition of the State Superintendent of Education.
Ala. Code § 16-12-19 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 12 / Section 16-12-19
Section 16-12-19 Employment of Professional, Clerical, Etc., Assistants
Status: in_force

The city board of education shall, upon the recommendation of the city superintendent of schools, employ such professional, clerical, accounting and statistical assistants as, in the judgment of the board, are necessary.
Ala. Code § 16-64-5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 64 / Section 16-64-5
Section 16-64-5 Adoption by Institution of More Rigorous Nonresident Tuition Rates
Status: in_force

A four-year public institution of higher education and Athens State University, at the discretion of its governing board, and a two-year public institution of higher education, except Athens State University, at the discretion of the Chancellor of the Department of Postsecondary Education, may elect to adopt policies regarding nonresident tuition which are more rigorous than those specified in this chapter.
Ala. Code § 16-22A-18 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 22A / Section 16-22A-18
Section 16-22A-18 Repealer
Status: reserved

This chapter is supplementary to and shall be construed in pari materia with other laws. To the extent that this chapter specifically conflicts with other laws pertaining to criminal history background information checks, this chapter shall take precedence. Nothing contained within this chapter shall be construed to diminish, reduce, or conflict with the authority of the State Superintendent of Education to interpret and apply federal and state education law for the State of Alabama. Those portions of Sections 26-20-1 through 26-20-6 relating to criminal background checks of public, private, parochial, and home school employees are repealed.
Ala. Code § 16-22-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 22 / Section 16-22-7
Section 16-22-7 Presumption as to Payments and Deductions; Eligibility for Foundation Program Not Affected
Status: in_force

Payments and deductions made by the board of education under the authority of Sections 16-22-5 and 16-22-6 are presumed to be for services rendered and for the benefit of the public school; and the payments and deductions do not affect the eligibility of any school system to participate in the Foundation Program as established in Sections 16-13-50 through 16-13-59.
Ala. Code § 16-12-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 12 / Section 16-12-3
Section 16-12-3 Duties Generally
Status: in_force

(a) The city superintendent of schools shall be the chief executive officer of the city board of education and shall see that the laws relating to the schools and the rules and regulations of the city board of education are carried into effect.

(b) The city superintendent of schools shall explain the true intent and meaning of the school laws, and of the rules and regulations of the city board of education and of the State Board of Education, subject to the provisions of this title.

(c) The superintendent shall decide, without expense to the parties concerned, all controversies and disputes involving the rules and regulations of the city board of education and the proper administration of the public schools.

(d) The superintendent shall have authority to administer oaths and to examine under oath witnesses in any matter pertaining to the public schools of the city and to cause the examinations to be reduced to writing.

(e) The city board of education shall appoint as its executive officer a superintendent of schools, who may also be secretary of the board of education.

(f) The superintendent of schools shall conduct all correspondence of the board, keep and preserve all of its records, receive all reports required by the board and see that such reports are in proper form, complete and accurate. He shall attend all meetings of the board and of its committee and shall have the right to advise on any motion under consideration, but shall have no vote. In case the secretary is absent, the board shall appoint some member of the board or a teacher in the schools under the jurisdiction of said board to act for the time being.
Ala. Code § 16-30-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 30 / Section 16-30-4
Section 16-30-4 Evidence of Immunization and Testing Required Upon Initial Entrance into School; Exceptions
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The boards of education and the governing authority of each private school shall require each pupil who is otherwise entitled to admittance to kindergarten or first grade, whichever is applicable, or any other entrance into an Alabama public or private school, to present a certification of immunization or testing, commonly known as a Blue Card, for the prevention of those communicable diseases designated by the State Health Officer, except as provided in Section 16-30-3. Provided, however, that any student presently enrolled in a school in this state, not having been immunized upon initial entrance to school, is required to present a certification of immunization as described in this section upon commencement of the next school year.

(2) Dependents of active duty military personnel may satisfy this requirement by the presentation of copies of military medical records reflecting age-appropriate immunizations and testing.

(b) Section 16-30-1 and this section shall apply only to kindergarten through 12th grade and not to the institutions of higher learning.
Ala. Code § 16-8-9 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 8 / Section 16-8-9
Section 16-8-9 Exercise of Supervision of Schools
Status: in_force

The county board of education shall exercise through its executive officer, the county superintendent of education and his professional assistants control and supervision of the public school system of the county. The board shall consult and advise through its executive officer and his professional assistants with school trustees, principals, teachers and interested citizens and shall seek in every way to promote the interest of the schools under its jurisdiction.
Ala. Code § 16-1-36 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-36
Section 16-1-36 Tutoring Programs for Students Accessed Below Average Sat Scores
Status: in_force

(a) Beginning in the 2000-2001 school year, any public school student in this state who is required by statute or regulation of the State Department of Education to be tested or assessed by Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) or any other assessment used by the school system who scores or is assessed at a range of one grade below any subject or subjects, or falls below the average of the school system assessment shall be provided tutoring programs for reading skills and other subjects by the department. The tutoring program shall be provided within the school system of the student. Tutoring programs shall continue two additional times for any student while attending the school for any subject or subjects until the student scores or is assessed in the average range or above for each subject being tutored, however, the school system may continue the tutoring sessions, and the program shall remain for all other students provided funding is available or appropriated by the state.

(b) Prior to providing a tutoring program, a school system shall develop and submit to the State Department of Education for its approval a local plan for the implementation of tutoring service.

(c) The school system may utilize the services of the Boys and Girls Clubs.

(d) The State Superintendent of Education shall promulgate necessary regulations to implement this section.
Ala. Code § 16-13-90 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-90
Section 16-13-90 Purposes for Which Warrants Issued
Status: in_force

In any county in which a special county tax shall have been voted under the constitution for such purpose or for school purposes generally, and in any school district in which a special district tax shall have been voted under the constitution for such purpose or for school purposes generally, the county board of education or the city board of education, as the case may be, with the approval of the State Superintendent of Education may issue and sell capital outlay warrants for the purposes of erecting, purchasing, altering, enlarging, improving, repairing and equipping school buildings and school playgrounds, and buildings for housing and repairing school buses, including sites for any such buildings and playgrounds; and for the purpose of purchasing school buses; and for the purpose of acquiring a school building already erected by another government body, which building is being transferred to the use and jurisdiction of the board issuing the warrants; or for any one or more of such purposes; issue and sell or exchange refunding warrants for the purpose of refunding any valid warrants heretofore or hereafter issued and constituting a preferred claim against the said tax, or, in the case of refunding warrants payable from the tax of a special school district which consists of a consolidation of two or more smaller special school districts, constituting a preferred claim against the tax of any of such smaller districts; provided, that the refunding warrants shall not be issued in an aggregate principal amount exceeding the sum of (i) the outstanding principal of such warrants being refunded, (ii) the interest accrued and unpaid thereon plus the interest to mature thereon until the date on which they are to be redeemed or paid, and (iii) the amount of any redemption premium required to be paid. Proceedings authorizing the issuance of refunding warrants under the provisions of this article shall identify the warrants being refunded, but no purchaser or holder of any such refunding warrant shall thereby be put upon inquiry or charged with notice of the nonexistence or invalidity of such refunded warrants, and the validity of such refunding warrants shall not be affected thereby. Warrants shall never be issued hereunder to an amount of principal and interest maturing in any fiscal year which, when added to the amount of principal and interest of all warrants then outstanding and constituting preferred claims against the said tax and maturing in said fiscal year, would exceed 80 percent of the annual proceeds of said tax, computed upon the basis of the last assessed valuation on which taxes were due and payable, of the county or of the district, as the case may be, as certified by the county tax assessor.
Ala. Code § 16-16-12 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-16-12
Section 16-16-12 Payment of Principal and Interest on Bonds
Status: in_force

Out of the revenues appropriated and pledged in Section 16-16-1, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of this chapter, as such principal and interest shall respectively mature, and the State Treasurer is further authorized and directed to set up and maintain appropriate records pertaining thereto.
Ala. Code § 16-39-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 39 / Section 16-39-3
Section 16-39-3 Education Required for Exceptional Children; Source of Funds
Status: in_force

Each school board shall provide not less than 12 consecutive years of appropriate instruction and special services for exceptional children, beginning with those six years of age, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such public school instruction and special services shall be made available at public expense for each school year to exceptional children as provided herein. The funds for such instruction and special services shall be derived from state, county, municipal, district, federal or other sources or combinations of sources. Each school board shall set aside from its revenues from all such sources such amounts as are needed to carry out the provisions of this chapter, if such funds are available without impairment of regular classes and services provided for nonexceptional children. If sufficient funds are not available to a school board to provide fully for all the provisions of this chapter as well as the educational needs of nonexceptional children, such board must prorate all funds on a per capita basis between exceptional and nonexceptional children. No matriculation or tuition fees or other fees or charges shall be required or asked of exceptional children or their parents or guardians, except such fees or charges as may be charged uniformly of all public school pupils.
Ala. Code § 16-51-1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 51 / Section 16-51-1
Section 16-51-1 Governor and Trustees Constituted Body Corporate
Status: in_force

The Governor, by virtue of the office, and the trustees appointed from the several congressional districts of the state, pursuant to Section 16-51-3, and their successors in office, are constituted a body corporate under the name of the University of North Alabama.
Ala. Code § 16-66-8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 66 / Section 16-66-8
Section 16-66-8 Duties of Council
Status: in_force

This section was amended and renumbered by Act 2015-450, effective June 11, 2015. It is now Section 41-29-297.
Ala. Code § 16-24C-9 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 24C / Section 16-24C-9
Section 16-24C-9 Administrative Leave; Other Employment Actions
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall restrict the authority of the chief executive officer or the president of a two-year institution under the authority and control of the Department of Postsecondary Education to place an employee on paid administrative leave or to make reasonable and customary employment decisions not expressly provided for in this chapter pending the disposition of proceedings authorized by this chapter or otherwise in the exercise of sound administrative discretion.
Ala. Code § 16-36-60.1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 36 / Section 16-36-60.1
Section 16-36-60.1 Definitions
Status: in_force

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

(1) INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. Educational resources that provide curriculum and instructional experiences for public school students. The term includes any instructional and related or supportive material, including materials using advanced learning technology, in any area that is designed to strengthen the academic foundation.

(2) QUALIFIED DEPOSITORY FOR TEXTBOOKS or QUALIFIED DEPOSITORY. A facility in the state responsible for receiving orders for, storing of, and distribution of textbooks pursuant to Section 16-36-71.

(3) TEXTBOOK. Includes digital textbooks, as defined in Section 16-16B-2. Digital textbooks shall be recommended, adopted, and purchased in the same manner as provided for textbooks under this article.
Ala. Code § 16-60-306 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-306
Section 16-60-306 Power of the Center
Status: in_force

The center shall have all of the following powers:

(1) To have succession by its corporate name in perpetuity.

(2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties thereto.

(3) To adopt and use a corporate seal and to alter the seal at pleasure.

(4) To adopt and amend bylaws.

(5) To execute contracts and other necessary documents.

(6) To acquire by gift, grant, purchase, or otherwise, and to hold title to real or personal property, or both, together with all rights incidental thereto.

(7) To solicit and accept devises, bequests, grants, and donations.

(8) To promulgate rules and regulations.

(9) To have all other powers necessary or desirable to accomplish its corporate purpose.
Ala. Code § 16-25-20 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25 / Section 16-25-20
Section 16-25-20 Management of Funds
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The Board of Control shall be the trustees of the several funds of the Teachers’ Retirement System created by this chapter as provided in Section 16-25-21, and shall have full power to invest and reinvest the funds, through its Secretary-Treasurer, in the classes of bonds, mortgages, common and preferred stocks, shares of investment companies or mutual funds, or other investments as the Board of Control may approve, with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with the matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims; and, subject to like terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions, the Board of Control, through its Secretary-Treasurer, shall have full power to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of any investments in which the funds created herein shall have been invested, as well as the proceeds of the investments and any moneys belonging to the funds.

(2) The Secretary-Treasurer shall have the authority and it shall be his or her duty to carry out the investment policies fixed by the Board of Control, and pursuant thereto he or she shall examine all offers of investments made to the funds, shall initiate inquiries as to available investments therefor, shall review periodically the investment quality and desirability of retention of investments held, and shall make purchases and sales of investments as he or she shall deem to the best interests of the funds and as the investment committee hereinafter provided for, and as the consultant to the Secretary-Treasurer, if any, appointed by the Board of Control hereunder, to the extent of the purpose for which it is appointed, shall approve. The Teachers’ Retirement System shall have full authority to employ its own legal counsel and to conduct and control any litigation in which it is involved through such counsel.

(3) The Board of Control shall elect an investment committee which shall consist of three members of the board, one of whom shall be the Director of Finance. The investment committee shall act as agent for the board and shall consider all investment recommendations made by the Secretary-Treasurer and shall either approve or disapprove the same in accordance with policies set by the board. The investment committee may act through the affirmative vote of any two of its members. Approvals may be secured informally in advance but shall in any event be confirmed by written authorization to be attached to the invoice of the transaction.

(4) The Board of Control may appoint and employ as consultant to the Secretary-Treasurer, in the purchase, sale, and review of investments of the funds, to the extent the board may designate, a bank having its principal office in the State of Alabama, having capital, surplus, and undivided profits of not less than three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000), and having an organized investment department. The bank so appointed shall not sell securities to the retirement system, other than United States government securities, or repurchase agreements for which no commission shall be charged.

(5) The Secretary-Treasurer shall report to the Board of Control all purchases and sales of investments made by him or her pursuant hereto at least once semiannually.

(b) The Board of Control shall allow annually regular interest on the mean amount for the preceding year in each of the funds, with the exception of the Expense Fund. The amounts so allowed shall be due and payable to the funds and shall be credited annually thereto by the Board of Control from interest and other earnings on the moneys of the retirement system. Any additional amount required to meet the interest on the funds of the retirement system shall be paid from the Pension Accumulation Fund, and any excess of earnings over the amount required shall be paid to the Pension Accumulation Fund. Regular interest shall mean the percent rate or rates to be compounded annually as shall be set by the Board of Control, the rate or rates to be limited to a minimum of three percent and a maximum of four and three-fourths percent.

(c) Moneys accruing to the Annuity Savings Fund, the Annuity Reserve Fund, the Pension Accumulation Fund, and the Pension Reserve Funds shall be certified by the Secretary-Treasurer for deposit in the State Treasury to the credit of the Teachers’ Retirement System. All moneys provided in accordance with this chapter for administrative expense shall be certified for deposit in the State Treasury to the credit of the Teachers’ Retirement System Expense Fund. All payments from the funds shall be made by the State Treasurer on warrants drawn by the state Comptroller upon vouchers signed by two persons designated by the Board of Control. A duly attested copy of a resolution of the Board of Control designating the persons and bearing on its face specimen signatures of the persons shall be filed with the state Comptroller as his or her authority for drawing warrants upon the vouchers.

(d) Except as otherwise herein provided, no member of the Board of Control and no employee of the board shall have any direct interest in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board, nor as such receive any pay or emolument for his or her services. No member or employee of the Board of Control shall, directly or indirectly, for himself or herself or as an agent, in any manner use the same, except to make the current and necessary payments as are authorized by the board; nor shall any member or employee of the Board of Control become an endorser or surety or in any manner an obligor for moneys loaned or borrowed from the board.
Ala. Code § 16-36-39 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 36 / Section 16-36-39
Section 16-36-39 Article Not to Be Construed as Appropriation of Funds; Administration of Article Subject to Appropriations
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
Ala. Code § 16-34-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 34 / Section 16-34-4
Section 16-34-4 Legislative Appropriation for Illiteracy and Adult Education Programs and Classes
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to expend the State Illiteracy Fund appropriated for the removal of illiteracy and for otherwise maintaining adult education programs and classes; provided, that the State Board of Education is authorized to provide from said fund the necessary professional and clerical assistants to carry on said program.
Ala. Code § 16-11-3.2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 11 / Section 16-11-3.2
Section 16-11-3.2 Election and Operation of Boards in Class 4 Municipalities
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Legislature may, by local act, provide for the election of the board of education in any Class 4 municipality by the qualified electors of the municipality and may further provide for the operation of the board. The change to an elected board of education shall require the approval of a majority of the qualified electors of the municipality who vote at a referendum election prior to the change becoming effective.
Ala. Code § 16-9-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 9 / Section 16-9-3
Section 16-9-3 Bond of Superintendent
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2006-196, p. 275, §5, effective June 1, 2006.
Ala. Code § 16-45-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 45 / Section 16-45-3
Section 16-45-3 Consortium Constituted Body Corporate
Status: in_force

The Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium is hereby constituted as a body corporate, and such consortium shall have all the rights, powers and franchises necessary to or promotive of the end of its creation and shall be charged with all the corresponding duties and responsibilities, including the powers and responsibilities devolving upon a nonprofit corporation organized under Title 10.
Ala. Code § 16-44A-59 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 44A / Section 16-44A-59
Section 16-44A-59 Joint Legislative Oversight Committee
Status: in_force

(a) After September 1, 2008, the Joint Legislative Committee on the New National Veterans Cemetery created for this quadrennium by Act 2007-507 shall be constituted as a permanent oversight committee, to be called the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Alabama’s Veterans Living Legacy. At the start of each quadrennium thereafter, by joint resolution, the permanent oversight committee shall be organized.

(b) The trust shall annually report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, the Legislature, and the Governor on its cooperative efforts with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs associated with the new National Veterans Cemetery, and the public purposes, initiatives, and accomplishments of the Veterans Living Legacy pursuant to this division.
Ala. Code § 16-13A-8 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13A / Section 16-13A-8
Section 16-13A-8 Authority to Expend Funds
Status: in_force

Each local board of education shall adopt procedures relating to the expenditure of funds which do not require express board approval prior to the expenditure. A local superintendent of education, subject to these policies and board-approved budget limitations, may expend funds without prior approval of the board. All such expenditures shall be included in the monthly report to the board of expenditures required pursuant to this chapter.
Ala. Code § 16-56-9 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 56 / Section 16-56-9
Section 16-56-9 Board of Trustees - Payment of Expenses
Status: in_force

The certificate of the chancellor as secretary of the board shall entitle the several trustees to the payment of their actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as trustees. A trustee may not receive any pay or emoluments other than for actual expenses incurred in the discharge of duties of the board.
Ala. Code § 16-25-18 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25 / Section 16-25-18
Section 16-25-18 Redetermination of Allowances of Certain Retired Members
Status: in_force

(a) Any member who retired prior to October 1, 1975 and who has served in the armed services, as described in Section 16-25-3, shall be entitled to claim such full-time military service and to have all retirement allowances due on or after October 1, 1975 redetermined as if the provisions of said section, as amended, were in effect at the time such member retired; provided, that such retired member pays into the Teachers’ Retirement System, in a lump sum prior to October 1, 1976, an amount equal to four percent of the average compensation which was paid to a teacher during each claimed year of full-time military service, plus and together therewith, eight percent interest compounded from the last date of such claimed military service; provided further, that such retired member shall not receive membership service credit for more than four years of military service and shall receive no credit for military service if such member is receiving military service retirement benefits, other than disability allowances or benefits, from any branch of the armed forces or by reason of any such service in any branch of the armed forces or if such member received anything other than an honorable discharge for and including the claimed military service.

(b) Anything in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, no retirement allowance payment shall be redetermined for any pay period prior to such retired member’s full and complete compliance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. Any increase provided in the retirement allowance payment under this section for a member who retired under the provisions of any optional benefit elected pursuant to subsection (g) of Section 16-25-14, as amended, or under any other law or part of law pertaining to the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama shall accrue only to the retired member, and no person designated to receive any payments after the death of such retired member under the provisions of any such optional benefit shall receive any increase in such payments under this section.
Ala. Code § 16-30A-3.1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 30A / Section 16-30A-3.1
Section 16-30A-3.1 Attendance and Activities of Students with Certain Medical Conditions
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this section, the term “adrenal insufficiency” means a hormonal disorder that occurs when the adrenal glands do not produce enough hormones.
Ala. Code § 16-46A-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 46A / Section 16-46A-3
Section 16-46A-3 Duties of State Department of Education
Status: in_force

The State Department of Education shall provide a repository of quality content and curriculum for local boards of education providing virtual education. The department shall continue to provide its virtual platform Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide (ACCESS), which shall be available to local school systems at no local cost, and shall include, at a minimum, required courses necessary for students in grades nine to 12, inclusive, to graduate.
Ala. Code § 16-53-3 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 53 / Section 16-53-3
Section 16-53-3 Board of Trustees - Created; Membership, Eligibility, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) The board of trustees of the state educational institution at Livingston, Alabama, now known as The University of West Alabama, but formerly known as Livingston University, shall consist of two members from the congressional district in which the primary campus office of the institution is located, one member from each of the other congressional districts in the state, five members from the state-at-large, the State Superintendent of Education, and the Governor, who shall be ex officio president of the board. Beginning in 2006, the terms of the trustees shall be six years, with the exceptions noted below, and no trustee may serve more than two terms except that trustees serving in 2006 are eligible for appointment to one additional term regardless of the previous number of terms served. All terms will expire on December 27 of the final year of the term. Should a trustee or trustees whose term expired on December 27, 2003, but who continued to serve, be reappointed to another consecutive term or should a new trustee or trustees be appointed in place of this trustee or these trustees, time elapsed between December 27, 2003, and the date of reappointment will be considered part of the six-year term of appointment, and the trustee’s or trustees’ term will end December 27, 2009. In order to effect a more balance rotational cycle, one of the at-large 2011 appointees will be appointed to a term of four years instead of six years, resulting in 2015 in three three-member classes and one four-member class. Successors to the trustees hereinabove provided for shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, each for a term as herein provided and until his or her successor has been appointed and has qualified.

(b) No trustee shall receive any pay or emolument other than his or her actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his or her duties as such.

(c) No employee of The University of West Alabama, or any person related by blood or marriage to the chief executive officer of the school, shall be eligible to serve on its board of trustees.

(d) No member of the board shall, individually, as a partner, as a stockholder, board member, or officer of a corporate body, conduct any business transaction, directly or indirectly, with The University of West Alabama. Any such person who does so shall be immediately removed from the board of trustees and replaced by appointment by the Governor for the unexpired portion of his or her term. The chief executive officer of the university shall not as an individual or as an incorporator, officer, or director of any profit-making company, corporation, association, partnership, or other organization engage in any business in any manner which will conflict with his or her duties as such chief executive officer or with the best interest of the university or the students enrolled therein. Nothing herein shall be construed to forbid such chief executive officer from serving as a trustee of another educational institution or as an officer of a church or other eleemosynary institution or as an officer, director, or trustee of any organization when no profit will accrue to him or her or his or her immediate family from any business done by such organization for or with the university or the students enrolled therein. Should the chief executive officer of the university engage in any business in contravention of this provision, such action shall be sufficient cause for his or her immediate removal by the board of trustees.

(e) Should the number of congressional districts be reduced by reason of reapportionment or otherwise, resulting in the term of the member representing the district eliminated being terminated, the number of state-at-large members shall be increased in proportion to the number of such members whose terms are terminated.
Ala. Code § 16-47-194 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47 / Section 16-47-194
Section 16-47-194 Acquisition of Personal Property for Museum; Place of Display
Status: in_force

The University of Alabama may acquire from the Alabama Museum of Natural History, Incorporated or elsewhere, by gift, purchase or otherwise, any personal property which may be deemed necessary or advisable in the proper operation or management of the University of Alabama Museum provided for in this article. Upon such acquisition such property shall become the property of the said University of Alabama to be used, sold, traded or otherwise disposed of as may be deemed proper or advisable; such property may be displayed by the University of Alabama any place deemed by it to be advisable.
Ala. Code § 16-55-21 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 55 / Section 16-55-21
Section 16-55-21 Creation
Status: reserved

REPEALED IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2018-152 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.
Ala. Code § 16-6B-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 6B / Section 16-6B-2
Section 16-6B-2 Core Curriculum
Status: in_force

Every Alabama student shall be given instruction in grades kindergarten through twelve to prepare him or her to enter the world of work and/or to complete course work at the postsecondary level. In addition to a comprehensive core curriculum of academics, each local board of education shall offer a program of vocational/technical education.

(a) The following words and phrases used in this section shall, in the absence of a clear implication otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations:

(1) REQUIRED COURSES. Courses which are required to be taken by every student enrolled in public schools in the State of Alabama.

(2) ELECTIVE COURSES. Courses which are neither mandatory nor required to be taken by any student enrolled in public schools in the State of Alabama.

(b) The Legislature finds that students must become more literate in the basic skills needed to earn a living or to continue their education. The Legislature further finds that the English language is a common bond that holds our society together. It is necessary that the State Board of Education adopt curriculum policies to ensure that Alabama students have a command of the spoken and written English language. The Legislature further finds that in Alabama schools, students earning a standard high school diploma are only required to earn two credits of mathematics after they enter the ninth grade prior to graduation. The Legislature further finds that special attention must be given to the Alabama courses of study. The State Board of Education shall establish a rigorous and meaningful core curriculum including, but not limited to, all of the following courses for grades nine through twelve in public schools to be phased in beginning with students entering ninth grade in the 1996-97 scholastic year:

(1) Four years (equivalent of four credit units) of English.

(2) Four years (equivalent of four credit units) of mathematics, including but not limited to material designed to ensure that no high school student fails to learn basic mathematical skills and computer literacy.

(3) Four years (equivalent of four credit units) of science.

(4) Four years (equivalent of four credit units) of social studies with an emphasis on history, music history, fine arts history, geography, economics, and political science. History courses shall include material on the history of the United States and the Constitution of the United States. The Legislature further requires that the curriculum content of American history shall include the teaching of important historical documents including the Constitution of the United States, The Declaration of Independence, The Emancipation Proclamation, The Federalist Papers, and other such documents important to the history and heritage of the United States.

(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that credit for required basic core academic courses may be earned in conjunction with vocational courses and/or programs. It is the intent of the Legislature that local boards of education offer and schedule students into vocational programs.

(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that, in addition to the required courses, elective courses including, but not limited to, foreign languages, fine arts, physical education, wellness education, and vocational and technical preparation be available to all students as determined by the local board of education. For purposes of this section, American Sign Language is a foreign language; a public school may offer such a course; and a student who successfully completes the course is entitled to receive credit for the course toward satisfaction of a foreign language requirement, pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education. Beginning with the 2005-2006 school year, the preceding sentence shall apply to hearing-impaired students; and beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, and each school year thereafter, the preceding sentence shall apply to all students. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to diminish the current requirements of the State Board of Education with respect to health and physical education instruction in grades K-12 or to reduce the effect of Section 16-40-1 regarding health and physical education.

(e) The State Board of Education shall adopt necessary policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and standards to require that:

(1) The required courses set forth in this section shall be taken by every student enrolled in grades nine through twelve of public schools to be phased in beginning with students entering the ninth grade in the 1996-97 scholastic year. The State Superintendent of Education after a hearing in which he or she determines there exists just cause may grant a one-time delay of one year for a school system from implementation of any one of the required courses.

(2) The required courses set forth in this section shall be successfully passed by a student enrolled in grades nine through twelve of public schools prior to such student’s graduation or receipt of a diploma, phased in beginning with students entering the ninth grade in the 1996-97 scholastic year. Students identified as eligible for special education services as provided by federal and state law shall be required to meet the provisions set forth in the individual education plan prescribed to meet their individual needs as required by law. The State Board of Education shall continue to set graduation requirements; however, such graduation requirements shall not provide less in the way of requirements in the areas of English, math, science, and social studies as provided in this chapter.

(3) In addition to the required courses, a number of elective courses shall be successfully passed by a student enrolled in grades nine through twelve of public schools prior to such student’s graduation or receipt of a diploma, phased in beginning with students entering the ninth grade in the 1996-97 scholastic year. The State Board of Education shall determine the number and classification of units of credit required for high school graduation.

(f) The State Board of Education, on the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education, shall prescribe the minimum contents of courses of study for all public elementary and high schools in the state. In every elementary school there shall be taught at least reading including phonics, spelling, handwriting, arithmetic, oral and written English, geography, history of the United States and Alabama, elementary science, hygiene and sanitation, physical education, the arts, including musical and visual arts, environmental protection, and such other studies as may be prescribed by the local board of education. Instruction in handwriting shall include cursive writing so that students are able to create readable documents through legible cursive handwriting by the end of the third grade. Moreover, the State Board of Education shall require the following courses for grades one through eight in all public schools to be phased in beginning with students entering grades one through eight in the 1995-96 scholastic year: English, social studies, mathematics, and science shall be taught each year in grades one through eight. English shall include, but not be limited to, material designed to develop language arts, such as reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Social studies shall emphasize geography and history of the United States and Alabama.

(g) The State Board of Education shall adopt necessary policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and/or standards to require college and university departments of education to review their existing educational programs for all prospective teachers in order to ensure that they are properly prepared to teach the courses required by law.

(h) The State Board of Education and all local boards shall develop and implement within ninety (90) days of July 7, 1995, a comprehensive character education program for all grades to consist of not less than ten minutes instruction per day focusing upon the students’ development of the following character traits: Courage, patriotism, citizenship, honesty, fairness, respect for others, kindness, cooperation, self-respect, self-control, courtesy, compassion, tolerance, diligence, generosity, punctuality, cleanliness, cheerfulness, school pride, respect for the environment, patience, creativity, sportsmanship, loyalty, and perseverance. Each plan of instruction shall include the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag.

(i) The State Board of Education shall adopt necessary policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and/or standards to ensure quality vocational/technical education programs.

(j) Each local board of education shall certify on an annual basis to the State Board of Education that the applicable schools in the school district are meeting the cursive writing requirements under subsection (f). The State Board of Education may adopt rules to implement this subsection.
Ala. Code § 16-25-153 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25 / Section 16-25-153
Section 16-25-153 Incentives for Participation in Plan
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this article or any other laws to the contrary, no employer whose employees are covered under the Teachers’ Retirement System shall offer any incentives of value including, but not limited to, monetary payments, prepayment of health insurance, or extraordinary payments for accrued leave, contingent on the member applying for or electing to participate in DROP. This provision shall not apply to regular payments for leave or contributions toward health insurance, but shall serve to prevent any extraordinary benefits or incentives offered during a limited time period solely for the purpose of enticing employees to elect to participate in DROP.
Ala. Code § 16-44A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 44A / Section 16-44A-7
Section 16-44A-7 Representation of the Board of Directors Members; Meetings of Board
Status: in_force

(a) Board members shall be chosen to represent each of the following segments or areas:

(1) Executive and Legislative Branches of state government, in the fields of education, finance, taxation, and ways and means, local government, or economic development.

(2) K-12 education, in some of the following fields: teaching, administration or supervision, curriculum, or governance.

(3) Higher education.

(4) Community leadership education.

(5) Youth leadership and citizenship education.

(6) Economic development.

(7) Local government.

(8) Community, civic, philanthropic, and other non-profit organizations.

(9) Historical, patriotic, veterans, and cultural organizations.

(10) The law, which may include the Judicial Branch.

(11) Business.

(12) Professional, labor, and trade.

(13) Any other areas of interest which are deemed to complement and augment the work of the compact.

(b) The board shall meet annually immediately following the annual compact membership meeting. It shall adopt bylaws providing for its quorum, organization, and other regular or special meetings.
Ala. Code § 16-9-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 9 / Section 16-9-7
Section 16-9-7 Instructions on Ballot
Status: in_force

When county superintendents are elected by a direct vote of the people, or nominated at a primary election, and the proposition of selection by the county board is also submitted at such election, there must be printed instructions on the ballot of such election substantially as follows: “Vote either for selection by county board of education or for one candidate.”
Ala. Code § 16-47-53 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47 / Section 16-47-53
Section 16-47-53 Report to Legislature
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make to the Legislature of Alabama at each regular session thereof a full report of its transactions under this chapter and of the condition of the dental school, embracing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements on account of said dental school by those charged with the administration of the finances thereof.
Ala. Code § 16-6G-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 6G / Section 16-6G-2
Section 16-6G-2 Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) ALPHABETIC PRINCIPLE. The ability to accurately apply knowledge of the relationship between letters and sounds during the acts of encoding and decoding.

(2) COMPREHENSION. The ability to read and process text and understand its meaning.

(3) DECODING. The act of applying knowledge of the alphabetic principle to correctly pronounce written words.

(4) DYSLEXIA. A specific learning challenge or disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate or fluent, or both, word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities, which typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction.

(5) ENCODING. The act and process of using knowledge of the relationships between sounds and letters to spell and write words.

(6) FLUENCY. The ability to read with accuracy, appropriate rate, and proper expression.

(7) PHONEMIC AWARENESS. The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds. Phonemic awareness is an auditory activity.

(8) PHONICS. The relationships between the letters of written language and the individual sounds of spoken language including syllable types, morphology of Greek and Latin roots, and multisyllabic words.

(9) PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS. The general understanding of the sound structure of words and sentences.

(10) TASK FORCE. The Literacy Task Force created under Section 16-6G-3.

(11) VOCABULARY. The body of written or oral language known to an individual.
Ala. Code § 16-41-1 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 41 / Section 16-41-1
Section 16-41-1 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Drug Abuse Education Act of 1971.”
Ala. Code § 16-51-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 51 / Section 16-51-2
Section 16-51-2 Rights, Privileges, Responsibilities, Etc., of Corporation
Status: in_force

Such corporation shall have all the rights, privileges and franchises necessary to the promotion of the end of its creation, and shall be charged with all corresponding duties, liabilities and responsibilities. Such corporation may hold and may lease, sell or in any other manner not inconsistent with the object or terms of the grant or grants under which it holds dispose of any property, real or personal, or any estate or interest therein, remaining of any grant by any governmental unit or by any person, or accruing to the corporation from any source, as it may deem best for the purposes of the university.
Ala. Code § 16-54-17 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 54 / Section 16-54-17
Section 16-54-17 Disposition of Proceeds and Income from Sale or Lease of Nonfederally Granted Lands
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise restricted, the proceeds of all nonfederally granted lands sold or leased by the University of Montevallo, or income therefrom, shall be paid to the University of Montevallo and budgeted and expended by the board of trustees for the benefit of the university. The university, out of the money appropriated by the state Legislature for its maintenance, shall pay all the expenses of caring for, protecting, and selling the lands.
Ala. Code § 16-17-13 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 17 / Section 16-17-13
Section 16-17-13 Proceeds from Sale of Bonds
Status: in_force

All moneys derived from the sale of any bonds issued by the authority shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes for which the same are authorized and any costs and expenses incidental thereto. Such costs and expenses may include but shall not be limited to:

(1) The engineering, legal, architectural, fiscal and other expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the bonds;

(2) In the case of bonds issued to pay costs of construction, interest on such bonds (or, if a part only of any series of bonds is issued for construction purposes, interest on that portion of the bonds of that series that is issued to pay construction costs) prior to and during such construction and for not exceeding one year after completion of such construction; and

(3) In the case of bonds issued for the purpose of refunding principal and interest, or either, with respect to bonds issued or obligations assumed by the authority, any premium that it may be necessary to pay in order to redeem or retire the bonds or other obligations to be refunded.
Ala. Code § 16-13-337 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-337
Section 16-13-337 Contract Periods
Status: in_force

(a) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year and each year thereafter, each participating teacher shall be employed on a 189-day contract with the local board.

(b) After completion of a preliminary contract period, the local board, upon the recommendation of the local superintendent, shall do one of the following, and provide written notice to the participating teacher no later than June 30:

1. Offer the participating teacher another preliminary one-year contract, subject to the limitations in Section 16-13-334(b), or an advanced contract.

2. Nonrenew the teacher’s preliminary contract and employment entirely, without a stated reason.

3. Nonrenew the teacher’s preliminary contract without a stated reason, and reemploy the teacher in any position outside of the program.

(c) If no action is taken by June 30 of the year the preliminary contract expires, the teacher’s contract shall be deemed renewed for one year subject to the limitations in Section 16-13-334(b). If the teacher has reached the maximum number of three or six year preliminary contract years pursuant to Section 16-13-334(b) and fails to qualify for an advanced contract as provided in Section 16-13-334(c), he or she shall be deemed nonrenewed, subject to Section 16-13-338.

(d) After completion of an advanced contract period, the local board, upon the recommendation of the local superintendent, shall do one of the following, and provide written notice to the participating teacher no later than June 30:

(1) Offer the participating teacher another advanced contract of up to three years subject to Section 16-13-334(c).

(2) Nonrenew the teacher’s advanced contract and employment entirely for any stated reason.

(3) Nonrenew the teacher’s advanced contract for any stated reason, and reemploy the teacher in any position outside the program.

(e) If no action is taken by June 30 of the year the contract expires, the teacher’s contract shall be deemed renewed for three years subject to the provisions of Section 16-13-334(c).

(f) The decision to nonrenew the contract may be based on any reason except personal or political reasons. A teacher with an advanced contract may challenge the nonrenewal by filing a petition with the department within 10 days of receipt of the written notice of nonrenewal. The only issue to be determined by the department shall be whether the nonrenewal was for personal or political reasons. The teacher shall bear the burden of establishing that the nonrenewal was based on a personal or political reason.

(g) Any notice required under this article shall be provided to the participating teacher either by personal service, certified mail, or private mail carrier return receipt requested.
Ala. Code § 16-9-19 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 9 / Section 16-9-19
Section 16-9-19 Conditions of Admittance to High Schools
Status: in_force

The county superintendent of education, subject to the provisions of this title, shall prepare and submit for approval and adoption by the county board of education rules and regulations governing the conditions under which children may be admitted to junior and senior high schools of the county.
Ala. Code § 16-51-6 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 51 / Section 16-51-6
Section 16-51-6 Board of Trustees - Powers as to Organization and Administration
Status: in_force

The board of trustees has the power to organize the university by appointing a president, whose salary shall be fixed by the board, and by employing a corps of instructors, who shall be nominated to the board in writing by the president and who shall be styled the faculty of the university and such other instructors and officers as the interests of the university may require; and to remove any instructors or other officers, and to fix their salaries or compensation and increase or reduce the same at their discretion; to delegate by resolution or bylaw to a committee of the board of trustees or to the president of the university the authority to establish and implement personnel rules, policies, and practices for hiring, promoting, demoting, and terminating instructors, officers, and employees or to take any other action authorized by this section; to regulate, alter, or modify the government of the university, as they may deem advisable; to prescribe courses of instruction, rates of tuition, and fees; to confer such academic and honorary degrees as are usually conferred by institutions of similar character; and to do whatever else they may deem best for promoting the interest of the university. In addition to other powers granted to the board of trustees, the board expressly may enter into and implement agreements with the governing board or boards of any other institution or institutions of higher education in Alabama for the purpose of merging those institutions into one successor institution without seeking or obtaining legislative or administrative approval. The merger provisions of this section shall not apply to Alabama A & M University or Alabama State University.
Ala. Code § 16-13-336 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-336
Section 16-13-336 Teams Fund
Status: in_force

(a) The TEAMS Fund is created in the State Treasury for the purpose of providing funding for differential pay and salary supplements to participating teachers as provided by this article. The Legislature shall appropriate to this fund amounts sufficient to sustain the operation of the program. All funds received by the TEAMS Fund shall remain in the TEAMS Fund and shall not revert or be expended for any purpose other than those set out in this article.

(b) Each local board is allocated one position for mathematics and one position for science funded through the TEAMS program for every 105 students in combined grades 6-12.

(c) It is not the intent of this article to make appropriations, but the appropriations required by this article shall be from the Education Trust Fund, or any other funding source, for the designated fiscal year.

(d) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, and each school year thereafter, each participating teacher shall be paid in accordance with the TEAMS salary schedule established by the Legislature in the Education Trust Fund Appropriation Act and adopted by the State Board of Education.

(e)(1) The department shall allocate funding to local boards for the following:

a. The appropriate incremental TEAMS salary increases net of the State Minimum Salary Schedule under Sections 16-6B-8 and 16-13-231, upon verification of eligibility of a participating teacher.

b. The hard-to-staff supplement provided in Section 16-13-335.

(2) The department shall distribute monies from the TEAMS Fund to local boards monthly to fund the allocations provided in this section.

(f) The provisions and requirements of this section shall be in addition to those of Section 16-13-231.1, relating to the State Minimum Salary Schedule. Each participating teacher shall be properly placed on the TEAMS program salary schedule according to degree earned and years of public education service, either in-state or out-of-state, which shall not be less than the amounts appropriated for the State Minimum Salary Schedule. The participating teacher shall be paid according to degree earned and length of public education experience. The local board shall transmit to the department the appropriate documentation for each participating teacher in a timely fashion; thereafter, each participating teacher shall be paid under this article as soon as certified by the department.

(g) All salaries and salary increases shall be paid in full to each individual employed before the end of the applicable fiscal year as defined in Section 16-1-1.

(h) Nothing in this article shall prohibit a local board from paying additional supplements to participating teachers in accordance with local board policies.
Ala. Code § 16-23A-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 23A / Section 16-23A-2
Section 16-23A-2 Designation of State Superintendent of Education as Official Authorized to Enter into Contracts Pursuant to Agreement
Status: in_force

The designated state official for Alabama shall be the State Superintendent of Education, who shall enter into contracts pursuant to Article III of said agreement only with the approval of the specific text thereof by the Alabama State Board of Education.
Ala. Code § 16-60-66 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-66
Section 16-60-66 Diplomas and Certificates
Status: in_force

The faculty, with the approval of the board of trustees, may grant and confer diplomas or certificates upon such students as may be entitled thereto under the rules adopted by the board of trustees governing the subject.
Ala. Code § 16-47-93 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47 / Section 16-47-93
Section 16-47-93 Annual Report to Legislature
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make to the Legislature of Alabama at each regular session thereof a full report of its transactions under this chapter and of the condition of the medical school, embracing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements on account of said medical school by those charged with the administration of the finances thereof.
Ala. Code § 16-25-22 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25 / Section 16-25-22
Section 16-25-22 Purchase, Sale, Etc., of Interests or Estates in Real Property; Establishment of Facilities and Procedures for Purchase of and Payment for Equipment, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) The Retirement Systems of Alabama, which consist of the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama, the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama, and the Judicial Retirement Fund of Alabama shall have within their corporate powers the right to purchase, sell and hold title, in their own name, to any interest or estate in real property. Such property shall be exempt from all state and local ad valorem taxes and shall not be subject to regulations or laws regarding the sale or lease of state property.

(b) The Retirement Systems of Alabama shall have within their corporate powers the right to establish, as is consistent with the intent and purpose of the competitive bid laws of the State of Alabama, such facilities and procedures for the making of purchases and for the payment of all equipment and expenses reasonably necessary to the operation of the Retirement Systems of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 16-13A-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13A / Section 16-13A-2
Section 16-13A-2 Financial Oversight by State Superintendent of Education; Appointment and Duties of Chief Education Financial Officer; Internal Audits of Schools and School Systems
Status: in_force

(a) The State Superintendent of Education shall oversee the financial integrity of the various local boards of education and shall appoint a Chief Education Financial Officer who shall be an employee of the State Department of Education. The Chief Education Financial Officer shall be a certified public accountant or have equivalent experience as determined by the State Superintendent of Education, shall have experience in educational or governmental finance, shall complete the instructional program provided in Section 16-13A-3 within the later of six months of its introduction or six months of appointment, and shall have passed the mandated competency test provided in Section 16-13A-3 within the later of six months of its adoption or six months of appointment. The Chief Education Financial Officer shall oversee the collection and analysis of the reports required by Section 16-13A-6, shall make reports of the financial integrity of the various local boards of education, shall assist school systems whose financial position is deteriorating, and shall make other reports as deemed necessary or as required by law.

(b) The State Superintendent of Education may employ a sufficient number of persons to analyze internal audits of the various local boards of education and schools within the limits of available funding. Internal auditors shall possess a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance and experience in educational or governmental finance.

(c) Contracts and employments entered into with funds available to the State Department of Education pursuant to this chapter shall reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state. A report shall be made annually to the Legislature detailing the extent to which this subsection has been implemented.
Ala. Code § 16-27A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 27A / Section 16-27A-5
Section 16-27A-5 Payment of Fines
Status: in_force

The owner of a vehicle that has been issued a notice of violation shall be responsible for payment of the civil fine unless the owner successfully transfers responsibility, there is an adjudication that no violation occurred, or there is an otherwise lawful determination that no civil penalty shall be imposed. All owners of a vehicle who are mailed or receive a notice of violation shall be jointly and severally liable for payment of the civil fine. The county or municipality may collect the civil fine in the same manner as any other debt owed to the county or municipality.
Ala. Code § 16-1-11 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-11
Section 16-1-11 Private Schools to Register and Report;
Status: in_force

All private schools or institutions of any kind having a school in connection therewith, except church schools as defined in Section 16-28-1, shall register annually on or before October 10 with the Department of Education and shall report on uniform blanks furnished by the Department of Education, giving such statistics as relate to the number of pupils, the number of instructors, enrollment, attendance, course of study, length of term, cost of tuition, funds, value of property, and the general condition of the school. This section may not be interpreted or construed to authorize the Department of Education, the State Board of Education, or the State Superintendent of Education to license or regulate any private, nonpublic, or church school offering instruction in grades K-12, or any combination thereof.
Ala. Code § 16-27-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 27 / Section 16-27-7
Section 16-27-7 Vehicle Liability Insurance for Employees Required to Transport Pupils
Status: in_force

(a) The State Board of Education, each governing board of Alabama’s public senior universities and each city and county board of education shall provide vehicle liability insurance for bus drivers or any other employee who is required to transport pupils. Said vehicle liability insurance shall cover personal liabilities for bus drivers or any other employee who is required to transport pupils. Said liability insurance shall be applicable to moving vehicular accidents only.

(b) School boards and other agencies covered by this section shall be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of this section by either purchasing a liability insurance policy naming drivers as insureds, or if the employing board elects not to purchase a policy, by reimbursing individual employees for amounts necessary to add “drive other car broad form liability” riders to their individual vehicle liability insurance policies, to the limits specified by the employing board or agency.

(c) The provisions of this section shall also apply to the Alabama Department of Youth Services and the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind.
Ala. Code § 16-25D-4 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25D / Section 16-25D-4
Section 16-25D-4 Education Retirees’ Trust Fund
Status: in_force

(a) There is created the Education Retirees’ Trust Fund evidenced by a written trust instrument, the terms and conditions of which shall be determined by the board of control creating the trust fund.

(b) The trust shall be managed and controlled by its trustees. The trustees shall serve without compensation for their service as trustees, but may be reimbursed from the trust for all reasonable and necessary expenses that they incur in connection with their service as trustees.
Ala. Code § 16-40-40 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 40 / Section 16-40-40
Section 16-40-40 State Seal of Biliteracy - Development and Award
Status: in_force

(a) The State Department of Education shall develop and award a State Seal of Biliteracy to those high school students who have demonstrated an indicated level of proficiency in English and at least one other world language, including American Sign Language. School district participation in the program is voluntary.

(b) The purposes of the State Seal of Biliteracy are as follows:

(1) To encourage students to study languages.

(2) To certify attainment of biliteracy.

(3) To provide employers with a method of identifying people proficient in language and biliteracy skills.

(4) To provide institutions of higher education with a method to recognize and give academic credit to applicants seeking admission.

(5) To prepare students with 21st Century skills.

(6) To recognize and promote world language instruction in public schools.

(7) To strengthen intergroup relationships, affirm the value of diversity, and honor the multiple cultures and languages of a community.
Ala. Code § 16-60-5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-5
Section 16-60-5 J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College
Status: in_force

The school established at Huntsville, Alabama, known as and called J. F. Drake State Technical College is and shall remain a body corporate under the corporate name of J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College, and by that name may have and exercise all powers previously enjoyed by J. F. Drake State Technical College and shall succeed to all the rights, privileges, obligations, liabilities, emoluments, benefits, interests, and titles at any time vested in the institution in its respective names. None of the powers, authority, obligations, liabilities, or functions of the institution shall be abated or impaired by this section. Only the name of the institution shall be changed by this section. Whenever the institution is referred to in the constitution, laws, rules, or regulations of this state, or any instrumentality of this state, by any one of the respective names by which it has been known, the same shall be considered to refer to J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College.
Ala. Code § 16-47A-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47A / Section 16-47A-2
Section 16-47A-2 Jurisdiction, Supervision, and Control of University
Status: in_force

Commencing on October 1, 2012, the Athens State University Board of Trustees, as created in Section 16-47A-4, shall have exclusive jurisdiction, supervision, and control of Athens State University and the State Board of Education shall be divested of all jurisdiction, power, and authority with regard to the supervision, management, and control of the university, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. In addition to the powers, duties, and authority vested in the board by this section, the board shall have and exercise all power, authority, and duties conferred on, vested in, or required of the State Board of Education or the Department of Postsecondary Education before October 1, 2012, under the laws of this state with regard to the supervision, management, and control of the university. On or before October 1, 2012, the State Board of Education shall transfer to the board all supplies, funds, books, documents, records, and other property or effects of the university. After October 1, 2012, the university may continue to offer all current units or programs of instruction for academic credit without new or additional approval from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, so long as those units or programs of instruction for academic credit were offered by the university before October 1, 2012. The university shall continue to be under the jurisdiction of, and shall be subject to, the rules, regulations, and procedures of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
Ala. Code § 16-1-43 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 16-1-43
Section 16-1-43 Waiver of Undergraduate Tuition and Fees for Purple Heart Recipients
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of this section, a public institution of higher education includes public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education and postsecondary technical colleges, community colleges, and junior colleges located in the state.

(b) A public institution of higher education may waive undergraduate tuition and fees for each veteran who is the recipient of the Purple Heart and who satisfies all of the following:

(1) Is enrolled as a full-time, part-time, or summer school student in an undergraduate program that culminates in a degree or certificate.

(2) Is currently, and was at the time of the military action that resulted in the awarding of the Purple Heart, a resident of this state.

(3) Submits to the public institution of higher education the DD-214 form issued at the time of separation from service as documentation that he or she has received the Purple Heart.

(c) The waiver provided to the recipient of a Purple Heart may be applicable for up to 125 percent of the number of required credit hours of the degree or certificate program for which the veteran is enrolled. Nothing in this section shall be construed to lower, or make an exception to, the admission and retention standards or requirements of a public institution of higher education affected by this section. Any veteran, in order to obtain and retain the educational benefits of this section, shall satisfy all scholastic and other requirements for entrance into and continuing enrollment in the applicable public institution of higher education.

(d) The benefits provided by this section shall be in addition to all other benefits provided by law and shall only be available to an eligible veteran after he or she has utilized all other educational benefits, excluding any benefit that is partially funded by the veteran, such as those benefits provided in the federal Montgomery GI Bill, also known as Chapter 30.
Ala. Code § 16-47-94 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 47 / Section 16-47-94
Section 16-47-94 Power and Authority of Board of Trustees of University of Alabama
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama is hereby given full power and authority to maintain and operate the school of medicine created by this chapter wherever located, and to set, establish and maintain standards of scholarship and teaching which shall be in accordance with standards approved by the council on medical education and hospitals of the American Medical Association and of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and to perform all acts and functions necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this chapter as it relates to the proper and orderly maintenance and operation of said medical school; provided, that the board of trustees shall be under no duty to operate or to continue the operation and maintenance of said medical school unless and until adequate appropriations are received from the State of Alabama for that purpose.
Ala. Code § 16-23-7 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 23 / Section 16-23-7
Section 16-23-7 Institutes - Conduct; Duration; Character of Instruction
Status: in_force

As a means of stimulating the improvement of teachers in service in the public schools of the state, institutes shall be held annually, one or more in each county or for a group of counties, at such times and at such places as the State Superintendent of Education, after advising with the county superintendent of education, shall direct. The duration of institutes shall not exceed four days in any one year for any county or group of counties. The character of instruction shall be such as to promote the best interest of the schools.
Ala. Code § 16-60-111.14 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-111.14
Section 16-60-111.14 Official Seal
Status: in_force

The board may adopt an official seal for the authorization of its acts.
Ala. Code § 16-23-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 23 / Section 16-23-2
Section 16-23-2 Issuance, Extension and Renewal of Certificates
Status: in_force

All matters relating to the issuance, extension and renewal of certificates based upon credentials, including transcripts of applicants’ records submitted by institutions of higher learning in Alabama approved for the training of teachers, or by institutions operated under the control of the State Board of Education for the training of teachers, or by institutions located in other states whose standards of training teachers are the same or equivalent to those approved by the State Board of Education shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Education to submit for the approval of the State Board of Education from time to time rules and regulations governing the issuance, renewal and extension of certificates and to have printed a bulletin or bulletins which shall contain full information relating to the issuance, renewal and extension of certificates on credentials, including transcripts of applicants’ records.
Ala. Code § 16-8-16 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 8 / Section 16-8-16
Section 16-8-16 Consolidation of Schools - in Two Counties - Apportionment of Funds
Status: in_force

The county boards of education of the counties which have formed a consolidated school composed of territory lying within different counties shall apportion funds to the consolidated school or schools in the same manner as to any other school in the county. The funds apportioned to such consolidated school shall be paid over to the custodian of school funds of the county in which the school building is located or is to be located.
Ala. Code § 16-60-39 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 60 / Section 16-60-39
Section 16-60-39 Action of State Board of Education Upon Petition; Management and Control of Trade School and Junior College
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of a petition from the Board of Trustees of Northwest Alabama Junior College to become an institution authorized under the Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority Act, Sections 16-60-80 through 16-60-96, the State Board of Education shall consider the need for a trade school and junior college in northwest Alabama. If in its opinion this need can be filled by designating the said Northwest Alabama Junior College as one of the institutions authorized under the Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority Act, the State Board of Education may agree to designate Northwest Alabama Junior College as a location where funds may be expended for buildings and equipment under said act; and such board of education shall thereupon assume the same authority and responsibility relative to Northwest Alabama Junior College as is vested in it by Sections 16-60-110 through 16-60-112 relative to other educational institutions authorized by the provisions of the Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority Act except as hereinafter provided. After the management and control of Northwest Alabama Junior College is assumed by the State Board of Education, whenever practicable such board shall consult and advise with the Board of Trustees of Northwest Alabama Junior College relative to the management, control, operation and supervision of Northwest Alabama Junior College; and the State Board of Education may delegate such duties and responsibilities relative to the college to such board of trustees as, in its opinion, will serve the best interest of the college and as are not inconsistent with the Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority Act and will not adversely affect bonds issued under such act.
Ala. Code § 16-24-36 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 24 / Section 16-24-36
Section 16-24-36 Appeals Generally
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2004-566, p. 1330, §3, effective July 1, 2004.
Ala. Code § 16-65-12 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 65 / Section 16-65-12
Section 16-65-12 Venue and Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

The authority’s legal situs or residence for the purpose of this chapter shall be Montgomery County. Any action to protect or enforce any rights under the provisions of this chapter shall be brought in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, and the court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all such actions.
Ala. Code § 16-27A-2 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 27A / Section 16-27A-2
Section 16-27A-2 Definitions
Status: in_force

The following definitions and provisions shall apply to this chapter:

(1) AUTOMATED DEVICE. Any camera or recording device that uses a vehicle sensor and camera synchronized to record by photograph or video the rear of a motor vehicle approaching or overtaking a school bus that is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children in violation of Section 32-5A-154.

(2) BOARD. A board of education or the governing body of a school system.

(3) CONTRACTOR. A company that provides services to a board or governing body including, but not limited to, automated devices, citation processing, and collection of the civil fines. None of the activities of the contractor shall be construed as an agent providing or participating in private investigative services or acting as a statutory authority under open records laws.

(4) COURT. A district court, if a school bus violation occurs in an unincorporated area or a municipal court if a violation occurs in an incorporated municipality.

(5) GOVERNING BODY. A county commission, city council, or city commission.

(6) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. A law enforcement agency of a local governing body, a county sheriff, the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, or a school system that is authorized to issue a citation for a violation of the state vehicle law or of local traffic laws or regulations.

(7) OWNER. The meaning ascribed to owner in Section 32-1-1.1, except that the term shall not include a motor vehicle rental or leasing company when a motor vehicle registered by the company is being operated by another person under a rental or lease agreement with the company, in which event owner shall mean the person to whom the vehicle is rented or leased; nor shall the term include motor vehicles displaying a dealer license plate, in which event owner shall mean the person to whom the vehicle is assigned for use; nor shall the term include the owner of a vehicle that has been reported stolen to a law enforcement agency prior to the time of the violation, in which event owner shall mean the person who is found guilty of stealing the motor vehicle.

(8) SCHOOL BUS VIOLATION or VIOLATION. Any violation of Section 32-5A-154.

(9) TRAINED TECHNICIAN. A sworn law enforcement officer or person who has received instruction and training in the proper use of the automated photographic enforcement system to be used by the school board or contractor.
Ala. Code § 16-19-5 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 19 / Section 16-19-5
Section 16-19-5 County General Obligation Warrants to Constitute Preferred Claim; Issuance Deemed Audit and Allowance of Claim
Status: in_force

Any general obligation warrants and the interest coupons applicable thereto issued by a county under the provisions of this chapter shall constitute preferred claims against the issuing county, having the same priority, under Section 11-12-15, as interest on bonds. The issuance hereunder of any warrants and interest coupons by a county, pursuant to the authorization by the county commission, shall be deemed to constitute an audit and allowance by such county commission of claims, in the total amount of such warrants and coupons, against such county and against any tax proceeds pledged therefor pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and no other audit or allowance of such claims and no proof of registration thereof shall be required.
Ala. Code § 16-49-30 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 49 / Section 16-49-30
Section 16-49-30 Reports to Legislature
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make or cause to be made to the Legislature, at each session thereof, a full report of its transactions and of the condition of the university, embracing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements of the university by those charged with the administration of its finances.
Ala. Code § 16-13-233 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 13 / Section 16-13-233
Section 16-13-233 Allowance for Transportation
Status: in_force

(a) The allowance for transportation for those local boards of education providing same shall be determined as follows for any local board of education: The number of pupils transported on transportation routes approved under regulations of the State Board of Education shall be multiplied by an amount per pupil which is to be fixed by the State Board of Education and applied to local boards of education within groups having similar density of population; provided, that studies shall be made from time to time to determine whether the cost allowed per pupil or the cost unit should be changed in any or all local boards of education. In determining the amount to be allotted for transportation, said allotment shall include an allowance for transportation in accordance with the provisions of Section 16-39-11; however, no allowance shall be made for transporting pupils who live less than two miles from the school they are attending unless such pupils can be shown to be disabled and require transportation. Upon a petition to the State Superintendent of Education by the local board of education, the two mile limit may be waived by the State Superintendent of Education to protect the safety of the children. The total amount allotted any local board of education for transportation shall not exceed a figure determined by the State Board of Education in terms of the ratio between pupils transported to school and the total number of pupils attending school in the jurisdiction of such local board of education or some similar ratio established by the State Board of Education. Any local board of education which qualifies for a transportation allowance must provide buses which meet minimum standards established by the State Board of Education and must take such other steps to protect the safety of the children as are required under regulations of the State Board of Education.

(b) The allowance for transportation provided in (a) above shall include funding for depreciation based on a depreciation schedule established by the State Board of Education. The depreciation funding included in the transportation allowance shall be set aside in a restricted fund by the local boards of education for fleet renewal only and shall not be used for operating costs. These transportation cost allowance depreciation funds shall not revert to the Education Trust Fund but shall be carried forward from fiscal year to fiscal year to renew the transportation fleet of the local boards of education.
Ala. Code § 16-25A-6 — Alabama Code / Title 16 / Chapter 25A / Section 16-25A-6
Section 16-25A-6 Exclusions
Status: in_force

Such health insurance shall not include the following:

(1) Expenses incurred by or on account of an individual prior to the effective date of the plan as to him;

(2) Hearing aids and examinations for the prescription or fitting thereof;

(3) Cosmetic surgery or treatment, except to the extent necessary for correction of damage caused by accidental injury while covered by the plan or as a direct result of disease covered by the plan;

(4) Services received in a hospital owned or operated by the United States government for which no charge is made;

(5) Services received for injury or sickness due to war or any act of war, whether declared or undeclared, which war or act of war shall have occurred after the effective date of this plan;

(6) Expenses for which the individual is not required to make payment;

(7) Expenses to the extent of benefits provided under any employer group plan other than this plan in which the state participates in the cost thereof;

(8) Such other expenses as may be excluded by regulations of the board; and

(9) Coordination of benefit of basic hospital/medical coverage provided herein and any supplemental hospital indemnity, cancer or dental coverage provided herein under the provisions of this article or as may privately be purchased by any employee.