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AL Code § 34-14B-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-3 - Application for Licensure.

Section 34-14B-3Application for licensure. (a) An applicant for licensure as a home inspector shall submit an application, under oath, upon a form to be prescribed by the Building Commission which shall include, as a minimum, the following information pertaining to the applicant: (1) Social Security number for natural persons or employer identification number for other entities. (2) The name and address under which the applicant conducts business, if an individual proprietorship; the name and address of each partner or venturer, if the applicant is a partnership or joint venture; or the name and address of the corporate officers and statutory agent for service, if the applicant is a corporation. (3) A certificate issued by an insurance company licensed to do business in the State of Alabama that the applicant has procured public liability and property damage insurance covering the applicant's home inspection operations in the sum of not less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for injury or damage to property; and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for injury or damage, including death, to any one person; and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for injury or damage, including death, to more than one person; or at any greater limits of liability prescribed by the Building Commission; and, in addition, evidence of insurance against the errors and omissions of the home inspector in an amount and form to be prescribed by the Building Commission. (4) Evidence of one of the following professional qualifications: a. Membership in and adherence to the ethical standards of the American Society of Home Inspectors, Inc. (ASHI) or an equivalent professional body as determined by the Building Commission. b. Approval or certification by one of the following agencies to inspect residential construction: 1. The United States Veterans Administration. 2. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. 3. The Southern Building Code Congress International. 4. The Council of American Building Officials. c. A high school diploma or its equivalent, work experience for at least one year as a home inspector, and completion of at least 100 home inspections for compensation. d. Licensure on or after January 1, 1998, in Alabama as a general contractor, registered professional architect, registered professional engineer, or residential home builder. Renewals of licensure previously supported by evidence of an acceptable license shall not require the applicant to repeat proof of such licensing. (5) Any and all other information prescribed and required by the Building Commission. (b) The information contained in an application shall be a matter of public record and open to public inspection. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883, §3; Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14B-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-4 - Certificate of Licensure.

Section 34-14B-4Certificate of licensure. (a) The certificate of licensure shall be initially issued only to properly qualified home inspectors for a period commencing on the date of issue and expiring on December 31. Certificates of licensure shall be renewed for a term of one year beginning on January 1 of the year in which renewed and expiring on December 31 of that year. Certificates of licensure shall be renewed on or before 60 days prior to the expiration date. The Building Commission shall issue certificates of licensure to applicants upon applicants' compliance with the licensure requirements of this chapter, and records of certificates and any renewals thereof shall be filed in the office of the Building Commission and be available to the public. (b) The Building Commission may adopt administrative rules and procedures for the purpose of revoking or suspending a certificate of licensure upon a finding by the Building Commission that the licensed home inspector has either provided false information in an application or has violated the Standards of Practice or Code of Ethics promulgated by the Building Commission. The Building Commission may also impose fines for violations of this chapter. Administrative hearings held for the purpose of revoking a certificate of licensure may proceed where initiated by an aggrieved party to a transaction involving a licensed home inspector or by the Attorney General or at the initiation of the Building Commission. All proceedings for the revocation or suspension of the license of a home inspector shall otherwise proceed in accordance with the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883, §4; Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14B-4.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-4.1 - Examination.

Section 34-14B-4.1Examination. (a) Effective November 1, 2002, a certificate of licensure or renewal of licensure shall not be issued by the Building Commission to any applicant for licensure as a home inspector who has not demonstrated through a written examination process that he or she possesses an appropriate understanding of the Standards of Practice and the Code of Ethics promulgated by the Building Commission pursuant to this chapter as well as an adequate knowledge of performing home inspections. (b) The Building Commission may enter into contacts and prescribe specifications for the conduct of testing required by this chapter. The Building Commission may also promulgate rules and procedures pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act for the purpose of implementing this chapter. (Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §2.)
AL Code § 34-14B-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-5 - Registration or Renewal Fees.

Section 34-14B-5Registration or renewal fees. The applicant shall pay to the Building Commission a registration or renewal fee of three hundred dollars ($300) per calendar year; provided, however, that the registration or renewal fee may be adjusted by the Building Commission as may be necessary to cover the costs and expenses of performing the duties of the Building Commission as required by this chapter, it being intended that the registration and renewal fees shall not produce a profit to the State of Alabama. Prior to any adjustment to the registration or renewal fee, the Building Commission shall certify to the Legislative Council of the Legislature that the adjustment is necessary in order to comply with the provisions of this chapter. All moneys received by the Building Commission pursuant to this chapter shall be used to administer this chapter. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883, §5; Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14B-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-6 - Alabama Home Inspectors Registration Fund.

Section 34-14B-6Alabama Home Inspectors Registration Fund. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the Alabama Home Inspectors Registration Fund. All funds, fees, charges, costs, and collections accruing to or collected by the Building Commission under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of this fund and no funds shall be expended for any purpose whatsoever unless the same shall have been allotted and budgeted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts and for the purposes provided by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill or this chapter. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883, §6; Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14B-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-7 - Compliance Required; Registration of Other Names; Advertisements, Contracts, and Correspondence.

Section 34-14B-7Compliance required; registration of other names; advertisements, contracts, and correspondence. No person shall advertise as a home inspector unless the person has complied with the provisions of this chapter. No person who is registered under one name as provided in this chapter shall engage in business as a home inspector under any other name unless the other name is also registered. All advertisements, contracts, correspondence, and other documents prepared by a home inspector shall indicate the home inspector's registration number, name, and address as registered pursuant to this chapter. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883, §8.)
AL Code § 34-14B-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-8 - Notification of Lapsed Insurance Coverage.

Section 34-14B-8Notification of lapsed insurance coverage. In the event that the insurance coverage required pursuant to this chapter shall cease to be effective, the home inspector shall notify the Building Commission, and the registration of the affected home inspector shall be suspended until the insurance is reinstated or replaced. The insurance company ceasing to provide coverage for the home inspector shall be requested to notify the Building Commission of the policy cancellation when the original certificate of insurance is issued. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883 §9; Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14B-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-9 - Failure to Be Licensed; Presentation or Filing of False Information.

Section 34-14B-9Failure to be licensed; presentation or filing of false information. (a) Any person who undertakes or attempts to undertake the business of home inspection without first having been licensed as required by this chapter, or who knowingly presents or files false information with the Building Commission for the purpose of licensure as a home inspector or knowingly violates the Alabama Home Inspectors Code of Ethics or Alabama Home Inspectors Standards of Practice as promulgated by the Building Commission shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (b) A person who has failed to be licensed pursuant to this chapter shall not bring an action to enforce the provisions of any contract to provide home inspections which he or she entered into in violation of this chapter. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883, §10; Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14B-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14B - Home Inspectors.|Section 34-14B-10 - Applicability to Inspectors of Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems.

Section 34-14B-10Applicability to inspectors of Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems. Where the Alabama Home Inspectors Registration Act contains a provision relating specifically to home inspectors, such provision shall be made applicable to inspectors of Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems (EIFS) except as to the following: (1) Applicants for licensure as an EIFS inspector shall complete a separate application prescribed by the Building Commission demonstrating evidence of the same requirements of Section 34-14B-3, except as to the provisions of subdivisions (3) and (4) of subsection (a) of that section, and shall demonstrate evidence of licensure as an EIFS inspector by the Exterior Design Institute or an equivalent professional body as determined by the Building Commission in lieu of the successful completion of an examination required of home inspectors pursuant to Section 34-14B-4.1. (2) A separate certificate of licensure for EIFS inspectors shall be issued by the Building Commission upon the applicant's having met the requirements of this section. (3) An EIFS inspector shall only be required to comply with the Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics specifically made applicable to EIFS inspectors in the rules promulgated by the Building Commission. (Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §3.)
AL Code § 34-14C-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14C - Home Medical Equipment.|Section 34-14C-1 - Definitions.

Section 34-14C-1Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Board of Home Medical Equipment as established by this chapter. (2) HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT. Medical devices usable in a residential setting, as defined in regulations established by the board. (3) HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICES. The advertisement, sale, rental, delivery, installation, maintenance, replacement of, or instruction in the use of medical equipment and related supplies used by a sick or disabled individual to allow that individual to obtain care or treatment and be maintained in a residential setting. (4) HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICES PROVIDER. A corporation, other business entity, or person engaged in the business of providing home medical equipment services, either directly or through a contractual arrangement, to an unrelated sick or disabled individual in the residence of that individual. (Act 2000-739, p. 1619, §1; Act 2014-172, p. 489, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14C-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14C - Home Medical Equipment.|Section 34-14C-3 - Duties of Board; Requirements of Providers.

Section 34-14C-3Duties of board; requirements of providers. (a) The board shall adopt regulations that specify the medical equipment to be included in this chapter, set standards for the licensure of entities which provide home medical equipment services, and govern the safety and quality of home medical equipment service providers. (b) All home medical equipment services providers shall: (1) Comply with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations governing the safety of home medical equipment services provider facilities and delivery vehicles, the safety and quality of home medical equipment, and the safety, quality, and effectiveness of home medical equipment service procedures. (2) Comply with any additional standards and testing requirements, as duly promulgated by the board and required for licensure. (Act 2000-739, p. 1619, §3; Act 2014-172, p. 489, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14C-4.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14C - Home Medical Equipment.|Section 34-14C-4.1 - Inspection Fees.

Section 34-14C-4.1Inspection fees. The Board of Home Medical Equipment may establish by rule, and charge and collect, reasonable inspection fees pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (Act 2002-95, p. 308, §3; Act 2014-172, p. 489, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14C-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14C - Home Medical Equipment.|Section 34-14C-5 - Exemptions.

Section 34-14C-5Exemptions. The licensure requirements of this chapter do not apply to the following entities or practitioners: (1) Home health agencies certified by the State of Alabama to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (2) Hospital based home medical equipment services, whether or not the services are provided through a separate corporation or other business entity. (3) Health care practitioners legally eligible to order or prescribe home medical equipment, or who use home medical equipment to treat patients in locations other than the patient's residence, including, but not limited to, physicians, nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, optometrists, chiropractors, and podiatrists, except for those practitioners, other than a licensed physician practicing medicine, who provide home medical equipment services in a patient's residence. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting or restricting a licensed physician who is practicing medicine, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed as requiring a physician practicing medicine, to be licensed as a home medical equipment services provider. (4) Manufacturers and wholesale distributors, when not selling directly to a patient. (5) Retail community pharmacies, including providers of home infusion therapy services. (6) Hospice programs, except programs which provide home medical equipment services, including delivery to a patient's residence. (7) Skilled nursing facilities, except facilities which provide home medical equipment services, including delivery to a patient's residence. (8) Governmental agencies, including fire districts which provide emergency medical services, and contractors to governmental agencies whose business deals only with the contracted agency. (9) Mail order companies, as defined by rule of the board. (10) Out-of-state providers of home medical equipment and services provided in accordance with state or federal law or regulation to Alabama Medicaid recipients. (11) A provider of home medical equipment or services that manufactures and distributes its own company-branded power operated or durable insulin infusion pumps or continuous glucose monitors and related supplies. (Act 2000-739, p. 1619, §5; Act 2014-172, p. 489, §1; Act 2015-372, §1; Act 2015-445, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14C-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14C - Home Medical Equipment.|Section 34-14C-7 - Home Medical Equipment Fund.

Section 34-14C-7Home Medical Equipment Fund. There is hereby established a separate special revenue trust fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Home Medical Equipment Fund. All receipts collected by the board under the provisions of this chapter are to be deposited into this fund and shall be used only to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The receipts shall be disbursed only by warrant of the state Comptroller upon the State Treasury, upon itemized vouchers approved by the executive director. No funds shall be withdrawn or expended except as budgeted and allotted according to Sections 41-4-80 to 41-4-96, inclusive, and 41-19-1 to 41-19-12, inclusive, and only in amounts as stipulated in the general appropriations bill or other appropriations bills. (Act 2000-739, p. 1619, §7; Act 2004-441, p. 777, §1; Act 2014-172, p. 489, §1.)
AL Code § 34-14C-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 14C - Home Medical Equipment.|Section 34-14C-8 - Sunset Provision.

Section 34-14C-8Sunset provision. The board shall be subject to the Alabama Sunset Law as an enumerated agency as provided in Section 41-20-3, and shall have a termination date of October 1, 2002, and every four years thereafter, unless continued pursuant to the Alabama Sunset Law. (Act 2000-739, p. 1619, §8; Act 2014-172, p. 489, §1.)
AL Code § 34-15-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 15 - Hotels, Inns, and Other Transient Lodging Places.|Section 34-15-1 - Definitions.

Section 34-15-1Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) HOTEL. Such term includes any establishment where sleeping or sleeping and eating accommodations are advertised or held out to be available to transients, whether such establishment be known as a hotel, apartment hotel, inn, tavern, club, resort, tourist home, tourist court, motel, court, motor court, motor lodge, or by other like term and regardless of the number of rooms, suites, or cabins available, but this term shall not be construed to include apartments, clubs, trailer courts, boardinghouses, rooming houses, or portions thereof where single night accommodations are not advertised or held out to be available. (2) SAFE DEPOSITORY. Such term includes a safe, vault, safety deposit box, or other depository for the safekeeping of valuables. (3) VALUABLES or VALUABLE ARTICLES. Such term includes money, jewelry, watches, plate or other things made of gold, silver, or platinum, rare or precious stones, rings, ornaments, and bonds, securities, bank notes or other valuable papers, transportation tickets, or other valuable articles of such description as may be contained in small compass owned or possessed by a guest. (Code 1867, §1242; Code 1876, §1549; Code 1886, §1327; Code 1896, §2541; Code 1907, §§4540, 7094; Acts 1919, No. 597, p. 845; Code 1923, §§4464, 8316; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 24, §§1, 12; Acts 1959, No. 412, p. 1046, §1.)
AL Code § 34-15-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 15 - Hotels, Inns, and Other Transient Lodging Places.|Section 34-15-2 - Operation of Chapter.

Section 34-15-2Operation of chapter. This chapter shall operate as, or as a part of or in conjunction with, any rules and regulations affecting hotels provided and promulgated by the State Board of Health for maintaining and protecting the public health. (Acts 1919, No. 597, p. 845; Code 1923, §4478; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 24, §10; Acts 1959, No. 412, p. 1046, §1.)
AL Code § 34-15-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 15 - Hotels, Inns, and Other Transient Lodging Places.|Section 34-15-3 - Rules and Regulations.

Section 34-15-3Rules and regulations. The State Committee of Public Health shall make and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying this chapter into effect. (Acts 1919, No. 597, p. 845; Code 1923, §4477; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 24, §9; Acts 1959, No. 412, p. 1046, §1.)
AL Code § 34-15-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 15 - Hotels, Inns, and Other Transient Lodging Places.|Section 34-15-4 - Duty of Hotel Owners, Operators, etc., to Maintain Conditions, Smoke Detectors, Etc.

Section 34-15-4Duty of hotel owners, operators, etc., to maintain conditions, smoke detectors, etc. (a) Every owner, manager, or operator of a hotel shall maintain the physical and sanitary condition of the structure, its equipment, water supply, and human waste disposal and shall conduct the operations thereof in such manner as to render services and accommodations to travelers in compliance with rules and regulations governing hotels and hotel operation adopted by the State Board of Health. (b) Every owner, manager, or operator of a hotel shall install and maintain in operating condition a battery or electrically operated smoke detector device in each hotel guest sleeping room. The detectors shall have received an approval from a nationally recognized testing organization. (c) Hotel owners or operators shall be required to test each smoke detector device at least once each quarter of each calendar year to determine if each detector is in working order. (d) Any person who is convicted, in a court of proper jurisdiction, of tampering with or removing a smoke detector from a hotel room shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor as defined by Title 13A. (e) Hotel owners or operators who are found to be in non-compliance with this section shall be guilty upon conviction of a Class C misdemeanor as defined by Title 13A. (Code 1907, §7094; Acts 1919, No. 597, p. 845; Code 1923, §4465; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 24, §2; Acts 1959, No. 412, p. 1046, §1; Acts 1981, No. 81-290, p. 372, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 34-15-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 15 - Hotels, Inns, and Other Transient Lodging Places.|Section 34-15-5 - State Hotel Inspector and Assistants - Generally.

Section 34-15-5State Hotel Inspector and assistants - Generally. The State Health Officer is ex officio State Hotel Inspector, and the inspectors of the State Board of Health, or that may hereafter be of the State Board of Health, are ex officio assistant hotel inspectors, and such assistants shall be, in the inspection of hotels as provided for in this chapter, under the exclusive direction and supervision of the State Hotel Inspector. (Acts 1919, No. 597, p. 845; Code 1923, §4470; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 24, §6; Acts 1959, No. 412, p. 1046, §1.)