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AL Code § 34-21-98 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 21 - Nurses.|Article 6 - Loan Repayment Program for Advanced Practice Nursing.|Section 34-21-98 - Provisions for Default or Other Failure to Honor a Contract With the Board.

Section 34-21-98Provisions for default or other failure to honor a contract with the board.  (a) In the event that the participant defaults on or otherwise fails to honor a loan-repayment contract with the board for any reason, the individual shall be liable for immediate repayment of the total principal loan amount plus interest at the rate of eight percent, or the prime lending rate, whichever is greater, accruing from the date of default or other failure to honor the contract. In addition, the participant shall pay an additional penalty as specified: (1) For default or other failure to honor a contract under which a year’s worth of loans have been received, a penalty equal to 20 percent of the total principal amount of the loan. (2) For default or other failure to honor a contract under which two years’ worth of loans have been received, a penalty equal to 30 percent of the total principal amount of the loan. (3) For default or other failure to honor a contract under which three or more years’ worth of loans have been received, a penalty equal to 40 percent of the total principal amount of the loan. (4) If default or other failure to honor a contract occurs after graduation with a graduate degree in advanced-practice nursing but prior to completion of the repayment obligation set forth in Section 34-21-96, a penalty equal to 100 percent of the total principal amount of all loans received by the participant from the program. (b) The failure of a participant to honor his or her contract with the board or to pay the amount he or she is liable for under this article shall constitute a ground for the revocation of his or her license to practice nursing. (c) The board may excuse repayment of a loan, in whole or in part, upon the death of a participant, or upon the participant becoming disabled to the extent that he or she is no longer able to engage in the practice of nursing, or upon some other extreme hardship not the fault of the participant. (Act 2016-353, §1.)
AL Code § 34-21-99 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 21 - Nurses.|Article 6 - Loan Repayment Program for Advanced Practice Nursing.|Section 34-21-99 - Other Requirements and Powers of the Board.

Section 34-21-99Other requirements and powers of the board.  (a) The board annually shall report on the condition and accomplishments of the program to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House, President Pro-Tem of the Senate and the Chairs of the House and Senate Health Committees. The report shall include for the reporting year the locations where participants agreed to serve or where they were serving to repay loans. (b) The board shall make reasonable rules and regulations to implement and administer the program. (c) The board shall use any monies it receives from or for the operation of the program, including repayments, interest, and penalties paid because of default or other failure to honor a contract, to fund loans. (Act 2016-353, §1.)
AL Code § 34-21-120 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 21 - Nurses.|Article 7 - Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact.|Section 34-21-120 - Findings; Purpose.

Section 34-21-120Findings; purpose. (a) The party states find and declare all of the following: (1) The health and safety of the public are affected by the degree of compliance with and the effectiveness of enforcement activities related to state nurse licensure laws. (2) Violations of nurse licensure and other laws regulating the practice of nursing may result in injury or harm to the public. (3) The expanded mobility of nurses and the use of advanced communication technologies as part of a national health care delivery system requires greater coordination and cooperation among states in the areas of nurse licensure and regulation. (4) New practice modalities and technology make compliance with individual state nurse licensure laws difficult and complex. (5) Uniformity of nurse licensure requirements throughout the states promotes public safety and public health benefits. (b) The general purpose of this compact is to achieve all of the following: (1) Facilitate the responsibility of each state to protect public health and safety. (2) Ensure and encourage the cooperation of party states in the areas of nurse licensure and regulation. (3) Facilitate the exchange of information between party states in the areas of nurse regulation, investigation, and adverse actions. (4) Promote compliance with the laws governing the practice of nursing in each jurisdiction. (5) Invest all party states with the authority to hold a nurse accountable for satisfying all state practice laws in the state in which the patient is located at the time care is rendered through the mutual recognition of party state licenses. (6) Decrease redundancies in the consideration and issuance of nurse licenses. (7) Provide opportunities for interstate practice by nurses who meet uniform licensing requirements. (Act 2019-102, §3.)
AL Code § 34-21-123 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 21 - Nurses.|Article 7 - Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact.|Section 34-21-123 - Applications for Licensure in a Party State.

Section 34-21-123Applications for licensure in a party state. (a) Upon application for a multistate license, the licensing board in the issuing party state shall ascertain, through the coordinated licensure information system, all of the following: (1) Whether the applicant has ever held, or is the holder of, a license issued by any other state. (2) Whether there are any encumbrances on any license or multistate licensure privilege held by the applicant. (3) Whether any adverse action has been taken against any license or multistate licensure privilege held by the applicant. (4) Whether the applicant is currently participating in an alternative program. (b) A nurse may hold a multistate license, issued by the home state, in only one party state at a time. (c) If a nurse changes his or her primary state of residence by moving between two party states, the nurse shall apply for licensure in the new home state, and the multistate license issued by the prior home state shall be deactivated in accordance with applicable rules adopted by the commission. (1) The nurse may apply for licensure in advance of a change in primary state of residence. (2) A multistate license may not be issued by the new home state until the nurse provides satisfactory evidence of a change in primary state of residence to the new home state and satisfies all applicable requirements to obtain a multistate license from the new home state. (d) If a nurse changes his or her primary state of residence by moving from a party state to a nonparty state, the multistate license issued by the prior home state shall convert to a single state license, valid only in the former home state. (Act 2019-102, §3.)
AL Code § 34-21-125 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 21 - Nurses.|Article 7 - Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact.|Section 34-21-125 - Coordinated Licensure Information System; Exchange of Information.

Section 34-21-125Coordinated licensure information system; exchange of information. (a) All party states shall participate in a coordinated licensure information system of all licensed registered nurses and licensed practical nurses. This system shall include information on the licensure and disciplinary history of each nurse, as submitted by party states, to assist in the coordination of nurse licensure and enforcement efforts. (b) The commission, in consultation with the administrator of the coordinated licensure information system, shall formulate necessary and proper procedures for the identification, collection, and exchange of information under this compact. (c) All licensing boards shall promptly report to the coordinated licensure information system any adverse action, any current significant investigative information, denials of applications with the reasons for the denials, and nurse current participation in alternative programs known to the licensing board, regardless of whether the participation is deemed nonpublic or confidential under state law. (d) Current significant investigative information and participation in nonpublic or confidential alternative programs shall be transmitted through the coordinated licensure information system only to party state licensing boards. (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all party state licensing boards contributing information to the coordinated licensure information system may designate information that may not be shared with nonparty states or disclosed to other entities or individuals without the express permission of the contributing state. (f) Any personally identifiable information obtained from the coordinated licensure information system by a party state licensing board may not be shared with nonparty states or disclosed to other entities or individuals except to the extent permitted by the laws of the party state contributing the information. (g) Any information contributed to the coordinated licensure information system that is subsequently required to be expunged by the laws of the party state contributing that information shall also be expunged from the coordinated licensure information system. (h) The compact administrator of each party state shall furnish a uniform data set to the compact administrator of all other party states, which shall include, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) Identifying information. (2) Licensure data. (3) Information related to alternative program participation. (4) Other information that may facilitate the administration of this compact, as determined by commission rules. (i) The compact administrator of a party state shall provide all investigative documents and information requested by another party state. (Act 2019-102, §3.)
AL Code § 34-21-129 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 21 - Nurses.|Article 7 - Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact.|Section 34-21-129 - Effective Date; Withdrawal or Termination; Amendments.

Section 34-21-129Effective date; withdrawal or termination; amendments. (a) This compact shall become effective and binding on the earlier of the date of legislative enactment of this compact into law by not less than 26 states or December 31, 2019. All party states that also participated in the prior Nurse Licensure Compact, which is superseded by this compact, shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the Nurse Licensure Compact on the first day of the sixth month after the effective date of this compact. (b) Each party state shall continue to recognize the multistate licensure privilege of a nurse to practice in that party state issued under the Nurse Licensure Compact until the party state has withdrawn from the Nurse Licensure Compact. (c) A party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a general law repealing this compact. Withdrawal by a party state may not take effect until six months after the effective date of the repeal. (d) The withdrawal or termination of a party state shall not affect the continuing requirement of the state licensing board of that state to report adverse actions and significant investigations occurring before the effective date of the withdrawal or termination. (e) Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to invalidate or prevent any nurse licensure agreement or other cooperative arrangement between a party state and a nonparty state that is made in accordance with any other provision of this compact. (f) This compact may be amended by the party states. No amendment to this compact shall become effective and binding upon the party states until it is enacted by all party states. (g) Representatives of nonparty states shall be invited to participate in the activities of the commission, on a nonvoting basis, before the adoption of this compact by all states. (Act 2019-102, §3.)
AL Code § 34-21-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 21 - Nurses.|Article 7 - Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact.|Section 34-21-130 - Construction; Severability.

Section 34-21-130Construction; severability. This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States, or if the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held to be contrary to the constitution of any party state, this compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining party states and in full force and effect as to the party state affected as to all severable matters. (Act 2019-102, §3.)
AL Code § 34-22-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 22 - Optometrists.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-22-2 - Objects and Purposes of Chapter.

Section 34-22-2Objects and purposes of chapter. The practice of optometry is hereby declared to affect the public health, safety, and welfare, and optometry is subject to regulation and control in the public interest. It is further declared to be a matter of public interest and concern that the practice of optometry, as defined in this chapter, be limited to qualified persons admitted to practice optometry in the State of Alabama pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out these objects and purposes. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §1.)
AL Code § 34-22-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 22 - Optometrists.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-22-3 - Intent of Chapter.

Section 34-22-3Intent of chapter. It is intended that this chapter shall furnish a complete and exclusive system, of and in itself, for obtaining the right to practice optometry in the State of Alabama and for the regulation of the practice of optometry therein; provided, that it is the intent of the Legislature that this chapter shall not have the effect of repealing any laws not dealing with the profession of optometry and specifically shall not have the effect of repealing Section 34-24-292. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §18.)
AL Code § 34-22-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 22 - Optometrists.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-22-4 - Limitation on Application of Chapter.

Section 34-22-4Limitation on application of chapter. (a) It is not the intent of this chapter to prevent any school teacher, welfare worker, state, county, municipality, or other public board, body, agency, institution, or official from determining in the course of their official duties the probable need of visual services; provided, that the aforenamed person or agency does not attempt to examine, diagnose, prescribe, or recommend any particular practitioner and complies with the provisions of Section 38-1-2. (b) A license to practice optometry shall not be required for the sale, preparation, or dispensing of eyeglasses or spectacles in a retail optical dispensary or from a store, shop, or other permanently established place of business with an optical department on prescription of a duly licensed physician skilled in diseases of the eyes or a duly licensed optometrist authorized to practice under the laws of this state. Contact lenses may be sold or dispensed in a retail optical dispensary or other permanently established place of business with an optical department only when authorized by an optometrist or ophthalmologist, the prescription therefor contains all necessary data, and the prescription has not expired. This section shall not be construed as authorizing any optician or other person selling eyeglasses or contact lenses on prescription as authorized above to use any instrumentation or determine any data by performing any type of examination or corneal evaluation necessary for the fitting of contact lenses or to use any drugs in relation thereto. (c) Nothing in this chapter shall apply in any way to any licensed physician, nor to any physician assistant or ophthalmic assistant program conducted under any accredited state university program, nor to any physician's assistant as defined in Section 34-24-292. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing an ophthalmologist from using assistants normally used in his or her practice under his or her direct personal supervision in the office in which the ophthalmologist normally actually practices his or her profession and nowhere else. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §17; Acts 1975, 4th Ex. Sess., No. 124, p. 2818, §1; Acts 1993, No. 93-153, p. 222, §3; Acts 1995, No. 95-218, p. 370, §1.)
AL Code § 34-22-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 22 - Optometrists.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-22-5 - Limited Teaching Licenses.

Section 34-22-5Limited teaching licenses. The board may, under rules and regulations to be promulgated by the board, issue limited licenses, in the case of teachers, to persons who hold an optometric degree where such persons are not licensed and registered to practice optometry in this state. The dean of any school of optometry within the State of Alabama which has been approved by the board shall be required to annually certify to the board the names and addresses of the members of the faculty of the school who are not licensed and registered to practice optometry in the state and shall be required to promptly notify the board of any change in personnel on the faculty. The board may issue limited licenses to applicants upon the certification of the dean of any school of optometry setting forth that the applicant is a bona fide member of the faculty of the school. The limited license shall be valid so long as the holder thereof remains a member of the faculty of the school and abides by the rules and regulations under which the same is issued. The holder of a limited license shall be subject to all provisions of this chapter regulating the practice of optometry in this state and shall be entitled to perform all services which a person licensed to practice optometry in this state would be entitled to perform, but only as a part of the program of the school and as an adjunct to his or her teaching functions in the school. A fee of one hundred dollars ($100) shall be paid by the applicant to the board for the issuance of a limited license. Limited license holders who are not members of a residency program at a school of optometry shall be subject to the same annual license renewal fees and other requirements as required of holders of regular licenses. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §12; Acts 1997, 97-158, p. 211, §3.)
AL Code § 34-22-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 22 - Optometrists.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-22-6 - Violations; Penalties; Assistance in Prosecutions; Costs and Attorney Fees; Venue.

Section 34-22-6Violations; penalties; assistance in prosecutions; costs and attorney fees; venue. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to perform any of the following: (1) Practice optometry in this state without having a valid, unrevoked, and unexpired license certificate and annual renewal registration certificate as an optometrist. (2) Use or attempt to use as his or her own a diploma of an optometric school or college or a license of another person, or a forged diploma or license, or any forged or false identification. (3) Sell or offer to sell a diploma conferring an optometric degree or a license granted pursuant to this chapter or prior optometric practice laws, or to procure each diploma or license with intent that it shall be used as evidence of the right to practice optometry by a person other than the one upon whom it was conferred or to whom the license was granted, or with fraudulent intent to alter the diploma or license or to use or attempt to use it when it is so altered. (4) Willfully make any false statements in an application for examination for a certificate to practice optometry or for annual renewal registration. (5) Use or attempt to use pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of the human eye and its adjacent structures without having approval of the board at the time the treatment is rendered. (b)(1) Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and, in addition, may be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not to exceed 12 months and shall be subject to having his or her license revoked or suspended as provided in this chapter. (2) The board and its members and officers shall assist prosecuting officers in the enforcement of this chapter, and it shall be the duty of the board, its members, and officers, to furnish the proper prosecuting officers with the evidence as they may ascertain necessary to assist them in the prosecution of any violation of this chapter. The board, may for these purposes, make such reasonable expenditures from the funds of the board as it may deem necessary to ascertain and furnish the evidence. (3) In addition to criminal penalties, any person violating this section may be fined up to one thousand dollars ($1000) by the board for each violation. The board may sue, if necessary, to collect the fine. (4) The board is entitled to costs and reasonable attorney fees in any civil action in which it prevails. (5) Venue for any action brought by the board pursuant to this chapter is the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §11; Acts 1995, No. 95-218, p. 370, §1.)
AL Code § 34-22-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 22 - Optometrists.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-22-7 - Injunctions.

Section 34-22-7Injunctions. The board may enjoin violations of any provision of this chapter by proceeding in accordance with the provisions of Section 6-6-502. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §15.)
AL Code § 34-22-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 22 - Optometrists.|Article 2 - Licenses.|Section 34-22-21 - Reciprocity; Pharmaceutical Agents.

Section 34-22-21Reciprocity; pharmaceutical agents. Any person who has successfully passed a standard examination in optometry in any state of the United States or all parts of the examination given by the National Board of Examiners in Optometry and is the holder of a certificate to that effect, issued by the board of that state, or by the national board, and who has a current license to practice optometry in any state in the United States, and has conducted an ethical professional practice of optometry for at least one year, may, at the discretion of the board, and upon the payment of the amount of the regular examination fee, take the standard examination, and upon passing the examination be registered as qualified to practice optometry in this state. Optometrists licensed under this chapter may apply to the board for approval to use pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of disease of the human eye and its adjacent structures. The board shall prescribe rules and regulations setting forth the manner in which the application shall be made and approval shall be given. Licensed pharmacists of this state shall fill those prescriptions as are ordered by licensed optometrists approved by the board to use pharmaceutical agents. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §7; Acts 1989, No. 89-233, p. 288, §3; Acts 1995, No. 95-218, p. 370, §1.)