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AL Code § 22-54-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 54 - Alabama Security Medical Facility.|Section 22-54-2 - Sources From Which Patients May Be Admitted to Facility.

Section 22-54-2Sources from which patients may be admitted to facility. (a) Patients admitted to the facility may originate from the following sources: (1) Residents of any institution under the jurisdiction of the Alabama Department of Mental Health; (2) Commitments by the courts as mentally incompetent to stand trial under applicable state law; (3) Referrals by the courts for psychosocial diagnosis and recommendation as part of the pretrial or presentence procedure or determination of mental competency to stand trial; (4) Mentally ill prisoners from county and municipal jails for diagnosis, evaluation or treatment; and (5) Mentally ill convicts under the custody of the Department of Corrections of Alabama for diagnosis, evaluation or treatment. (b) Patients from other sources may be admitted provided such admission is not inconsistent with the law and is within the capacity of the facilities and staff to accommodate same. (Acts 1975, No. 1220, p. 2545, §2.)
AL Code § 22-54-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 54 - Alabama Security Medical Facility.|Section 22-54-3 - Applications for Admission; When Applications for Admission Not to Be Accepted.

Section 22-54-3Applications for admission; when applications for admission not to be accepted. (a) All admissions to the facility shall be by written application only. Application shall be made by the head of the state institution, agency, governmental body or court requesting same to the superintendent of the facility. (b) An application shall not be accepted by the superintendent if by so doing the admission will result in an overcrowded condition or if adequate staff or facilities are not available. (Acts 1975, No. 1220, p. 2545, §3.)
AL Code § 22-54-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 54 - Alabama Security Medical Facility.|Section 22-54-4 - Return of Patients to Sources From Which Received; Institutions, Courts, etc., Referring Patients to Facility to Retain Constructive Jurisdiction Over Patients; Discharge of Patients; Applicability of Support, Commitment and Release Statutes to Patients at Facility.

Section 22-54-4Return of patients to sources from which received; institutions, courts, etc., referring patients to facility to retain constructive jurisdiction over patients; discharge of patients; applicability of support, commitment and release statutes to patients at facility. (a) When a patient transferred to the facility from any other state institution or admitted by request or order of any agency, governmental body or court no longer requires special treatment in the security setting, the patient may be returned to the source from which received. (b) The state institution, agency, governmental body or court that referred the patient for hospitalization shall retain constructive jurisdiction over the patient. (c) Patients without legal encumbrances may be discharged directly from the facility upon concurrence of the superintendent of the facility and the head of the referring institution, agency, governmental body or court. (d) The support, commitment and release statutes applicable to a patient at the state institution from which transferred shall remain applicable while the person is a patient at the facility. (Acts 1975, No. 1220, p. 2545, §5.)
AL Code § 22-54-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 54 - Alabama Security Medical Facility.|Section 22-54-5 - Final Decision as to Admission or Discharge of Patients to Rest With Superintendent of Facility.

Section 22-54-5Final decision as to admission or discharge of patients to rest with superintendent of facility. The final decision regarding admission and discharge of patients shall rest with the superintendent of the facility. (Acts 1975, No. 1220, p. 2545, §4.)
AL Code § 22-55-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 55 - Interstate Compact on Mental Health.|Section 22-55-2 - Designation of Compact Administrator; Powers and Duties Thereof Generally.

Section 22-55-2Designation of compact administrator; powers and duties thereof generally. Pursuant to said compact, the state mental health officer shall be the compact administrator and, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms of this compact. The compact administrator shall cooperate with all departments, agencies and officers of and in the government of this state and its subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact or of any supplementary agreement or agreements entered into by this state thereunder. (Acts 1975, No. 1227, p. 2569, §2.)
AL Code § 22-55-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 55 - Interstate Compact on Mental Health.|Section 22-55-3 - Power of Compact Administrator to Enter Into Supplementary Agreements With Officials of Other States.

Section 22-55-3Power of compact administrator to enter into supplementary agreements with officials of other states. The compact administrator is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to Articles VII and XI of the compact. In the event that such supplementary agreements shall require or contemplate the use of any institution or facility of this state or require or contemplate the provision of any service by this state, no such agreement shall have force or effect until approved by the head of the department or agency under whose jurisdiction said institution or facility is operated or whose department or agency will be charged with the rendering of such services. (Acts 1975, No. 1227, p. 2569, §3.)
AL Code § 22-55-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 55 - Interstate Compact on Mental Health.|Section 22-55-4 - Payment of Financial Obligations of State Under Compact or Supplementary Agreements Entered Into Thereunder.

Section 22-55-4Payment of financial obligations of state under compact or supplementary agreements entered into thereunder. The compact administrator, subject to the approval of the director of finance, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon this state by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder. (Acts 1975, No. 1227, p. 2569, §4.)
AL Code § 22-56-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-1 - Short Title.

Section 22-56-1Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act." (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §1.)
AL Code § 22-56-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-2 - Definitions.

Section 22-56-2Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CONSUMER. A person who receives or uses mental health services. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Mental Health. (3) FAMILY MEMBER. A person within the immediate family or a legal guardian of a mental health consumer. (4) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. Services designed to treat or deal with persons with mental illness. (5) MENTAL ILLNESS. A psychiatric disorder of thought or mood, or both, which significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life. "Mental illness" as used herein specifically excludes the primary diagnoses of epilepsy, intellectual disability, substance abuse including alcoholism, or a developmental disability, or any combination thereof. (6) PROGRAM. A program for providing mental health services. (7) PROVIDER. Any agency, corporation, or individual who provides inpatient, residential or outpatient mental health services to a consumer or consumers, provided that this chapter shall only apply to physicians licensed to practice medicine to the extent that medical services to individuals covered by the chapter must be provided in accordance with established standards of medical care. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §2.)
AL Code § 22-56-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-3 - Legislative Declarations.

Section 22-56-3Legislative declarations. The Legislature declares that mental health services shall be individualized, empowering, culturally relevant and diverse, flexible, and include natural supports. Mental health services shall also be provided in a way which is normalizing as well as respectful of the rights, responsibilities, and feelings of each consumer. Mental health services shall also focus on enabling individuals to maintain responsibility to the greatest extent possible for setting their own goals, directing their own lives, and acting responsibly as members of their community. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §3.)
AL Code § 22-56-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-5 - Department to Establish Official Standards for Certification.

Section 22-56-5Department to establish official standards for certification. In order to ensure that consumers of mental health services through state facilities, community mental health centers, and other providers under contract to the department receive individual treatment and that rights delineated in Section 22-56-4 and elsewhere in state and federal law are consistently observed within mental health programs operated by the providers, the department shall establish within 180 days of January 1, 1996, official standards for certification to be observed by all state facilities, community mental health centers, and other providers under contract to the department. These standards shall be developed with the active participation of mental health providers, consumers and family members of consumers. The department shall establish teams to monitor the compliance with these standards by state facilities, community mental health centers, and providers under contract to the department, and consumers and family members shall be significantly represented on the teams. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §5.)
AL Code § 22-56-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-6 - Abuse, Exploitation, Neglect - Penalties; Reporting to Agencies.

Section 22-56-6Abuse, exploitation, neglect - Penalties; reporting to agencies. Any provider who abuses, exploits, or neglects a consumer in his or her care shall be subject to the civil and criminal remedies and penalties prescribed in Alabama law. All instances of abuse, exploitation, or neglect, as defined by Alabama law, shall be reported to appropriate licensing or investigative agencies, in a manner consistent with Alabama law. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §6.)
AL Code § 22-56-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-7 - Abuse, Exploitation, Neglect - Providers to Implement Written Policies and Procedures.

Section 22-56-7Abuse, exploitation, neglect - Providers to implement written policies and procedures. All providers of mental health services in Alabama shall develop and implement written policies and procedures that prohibit abuse, exploitation, or neglect of consumers in programs operated by the providers. At a minimum, these policies and procedures shall accomplish the following: (1) Affirm and safeguard the rights of a consumer stated pursuant to this chapter. (2) Ensure that prompt action is taken to prevent the potential of further abuse while an investigation is in process. (3) Provide for an immediate and thorough investigation of all allegations of abuse, exploitation, or neglect by trained, experienced personnel delegated with all necessary authority. The status of all investigations shall be reported to the administrator(s) of the program or his or her designated representative on a continuous basis. (4) Establish reasonable and appropriate corrective action, including education, training, and punishment for any program-affiliated individual who has been found responsible for abuse, exploitation, or neglect of consumers. All criminal violations shall be reported to the Office of the Attorney General, State of Alabama, or the local district attorney for consideration of further legal action. (5) Prohibit the employment of individuals in any job involving care or services for consumers that are known to the provider to have a conviction of child, elder, patient, or resident abuse, exploitation, or neglect in any job involving care or services for consumers. The provider shall make a good faith effort to check the background of all persons hired in these jobs. (6) Provide training and informational materials on consumers' rights and on the prevention of abuse, exploitation, and neglect for administrators, mental health professionals, direct-care staff, and volunteers. Each new staff member shall demonstrate working knowledge of this information, and training shall be given on an ongoing basis for all the previously mentioned workers. When possible, ongoing training shall be provided by consumers and family members. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §7.)
AL Code § 22-56-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-8 - Effect of Chapter on Established Standards of Medical Care; Applicability of Written Policies and Procedures.

Section 22-56-8Effect of chapter on established standards of medical care; applicability of written policies and procedures. This chapter shall not be interpreted or construed to alter, expand, or diminish established standards of medical care applicable to physicians licensed to practice medicine. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, the requirement to develop and implement written policies and procedures as outlined in Section 22-56-7 shall not apply to the private offices of physicians licensed to practice medicine. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §8.)
AL Code § 22-56-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-9 - Construction With Other Law.

Section 22-56-9Construction with other law. This chapter shall not override any provisions of the Adult Protective Services Act, pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 38-9-1) of Title 38, or the Child Abuse Reporting Act, Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 26-14-1) of Title 26, and shall be read in para materia with those provisions. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §9.)
AL Code § 22-56-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 2 - Mental Health.|Chapter 56 - Mental Health Consumers' Rights Act.|Section 22-56-10 - No Reduction or Expansion of Rights Beyond Rights Guaranteed Other Persons.

Section 22-56-10No reduction or expansion of rights beyond rights guaranteed other persons. Provided that nothing in this chapter shall reduce or expand the rights of mental health consumers in Alabama beyond the rights guaranteed to any other person under the statutes or Constitution of the United States and Alabama statutes or Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (Acts 1995, No. 95-744, p. 1690, §11.)
AL Code § 23-1-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 1 - Alabama Highways.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 23-1-1 - Contracts and Regulations Relative to Federal Assistance.

Section 23-1-1Contracts and regulations relative to federal assistance. The State Department of Transportation, by and through the director, is hereby authorized to enter into all necessary contracts and agreements with the United States government or any agency or officer thereof in accordance with any act of Congress relating to the construction, maintenance, and beautification of highways, bridges, tunnels or ferries, or other matters relating thereto, to establish, promulgate, and enforce all reasonable rules and regulations which may be necessary for the effective implementation and cooperation with the provisions of such acts and to do all other things necessary to secure to the state and its counties and municipalities the full benefits provided by such acts. (Acts 1977, No. 20, p. 28.)
AL Code § 23-1-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 1 - Alabama Highways.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 23-1-2 - Bid Guaranty.

Section 23-1-2Bid guaranty. Any other provisions of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, bidders for contract projects which contracts are with the State of Alabama, in behalf of the Department of Transportation, to be paid, in whole or in part, from funds allocated to the Department of Transportation from any source whatsoever, or where contracts are with any of the several counties of the state for a highway, road, street, or bridge project, to be paid for, in whole or in part, from funds allocated to the county from any source whatsoever, shall be required to file with the bid, as a bid guaranty, a certified check or bid bond payable to the awarding authority as follows: (1) A certified check payable to the awarding authority for an amount not less than five percent of the contractor's bid, but in no event more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000); or (2) A bid bond payable to the awarding authority in an amount not less than five percent of the bid, but in no event more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). (Acts 1967, No. 306, p. 849; Act 2016-260, §1.)
AL Code § 23-1-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 1 - Alabama Highways.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 23-1-3 - Closing of Public Roads to Traffic; Acquisition of Materials.

Section 23-1-3Closing of public roads to traffic; acquisition of materials. The state, acting through the State Department of Transportation and its duly authorized employees, and the various counties of the state, acting through the county commissions and their duly authorized employees, in the doing of public roads work shall have and exercise the right, power, and authority, when deemed necessary or advisable to do so, to close public roads to traffic and, when possible so to do, to make detour roads and to contract for such land as may be necessary for such detour roads; also to acquire, by purchase, or by condemnation, land necessary for drainage ditches and borrow pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand pits and gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other material of every character that may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways and bridges, and to tap and draw materials from the same to such extent as may be desired, and the State Department of Transportation shall also have the right to acquire by purchase or condemnation rights-of-way necessary for ingress and egress to such material pits as above named. (Code 1923, §1332; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §26.)
AL Code § 23-1-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 1 - Alabama Highways.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 23-1-4 - Permit Required to Dig Up, etc., Roads for Utilities, Railroads, etc.; Restoration of Road Required Upon Completion of Work; Bond, etc., to Guarantee Restoration.

Section 23-1-4Permit required to dig up, etc., roads for utilities, railroads, etc.; restoration of road required upon completion of work; bond, etc., to guarantee restoration. No state-controlled road shall be dug up or used for laying pipelines, pole lines, sewers, railways, or for other similar purposes without the written permit of the State Department of Transportation, and such work shall be done only in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the department, and the cost of replacing the road in as good condition as it was before such work was done shall be paid by the person, firm, or corporation to whom or in whose behalf such permit was given. Such person, firm, or corporation so desiring such work shall furnish the state with a cash deposit or certified check upon a solvent bank or surety bond in guaranty company qualified to do business in Alabama, in the amount required by the State Department of Transportation, conditioned that the sum is to be forfeited to the state in the event that said road is not placed in as good condition as it was prior to said work being done, within 15 days from the time said work is completed. (Code 1923, §1334; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §28.)
AL Code § 23-1-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 1 - Alabama Highways.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 23-1-6 - Signs, Markers, and Advertising - on Rights-of-Way.

Section 23-1-6Signs, markers, and advertising - On rights-of-way. Signs, markers, and advertising on the rights-of-way of state controlled highways are prohibited except those official signs or markers placed thereon by the State Department of Transportation or under its authority. (Code 1923, §1344; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §36.)
AL Code § 23-1-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 1 - Alabama Highways.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 23-1-7 - Signs, Markers, and Advertising - Tourist Attractions.

Section 23-1-7Signs, markers, and advertising - Tourist attractions. (a) Upon the request of the Director of the Bureau of Tourism and Travel, the Director of the State Department of Transportation may cause to be constructed and erected along state highways appropriate directional markers designating major tourist attractions of Alabama. (b) The Director of the Bureau of Tourism and Travel shall determine the attractions to be so designated and shall upon the recommendation of the Director of the State Department of Transportation determine the number of markers needed and the location of such markers. (c) Expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this section shall be paid from that portion of the proceeds of the privilege license tax levied on lodgings by Chapter 26 of Title 40, earmarked for state travel advertising and travel promotion by the Bureau of Tourism and Travel for tourist advertising and shall be paid upon warrants drawn by the state Comptroller, upon the approval of the Director of the Bureau of Tourism and Travel, not to exceed $10,000.00 per fiscal biennium. (d) This section shall not be construed as repealing the provisions of Chapter 7 of Title 41 which prohibit the purchase of advertising in newspapers, magazines, programs, or other periodicals published in the state with funds appropriated for tourist advertising. (Acts 1967, No. 217, p. 583.)