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AL Code § 36-36-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-8 - Liability of Trustees.

Section 36-36-8Liability of trustees. (a) A trustee shall not be: (1) personally liable for any liability, loss, or expense suffered by the trust, unless such liability, loss, or expense arises out of or results from the willful misconduct or intentional wrongdoing of such trustee; (2) responsible for the adequacy of the trust to meet and discharge any obligation under the relevant health care post-employment benefit plan; or (3) required to take action to enforce the payment of any contribution or appropriation to the trust. (b) The trustees may be indemnified by the trusts and from funds of the trusts against costs, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses, including their attorneys fees, as more fully provided in the respective trust agreements, unless such cost, liability, loss, damage, or expense arises out of or results from the willful misconduct or intentional wrongdoing of such trustee. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §8.)
AL Code § 36-36-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-9 - Applicability of Chapter.

Section 36-36-9Applicability of chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to define or otherwise grant any right or privilege to health care benefits or other post-employment benefits to any person other than those health care benefits or other post-employment benefits, rights, and privileges previously or already granted to employees and retired employees and their dependents by the state's health care benefit plan or its post-employment benefit plan, if any. Such rights and privileges, if any, shall be governed by the terms of the state's post-employment benefit plan, if any. This chapter is not intended to assure or deny any existing or future employee, retired employee, any of their dependents, or any other person of any right of employment or entitlement to any health care benefit or other post-employment benefit or limit or otherwise restrict the ability of the state to modify or eliminate any existing or future health care benefit or other post-employment benefit. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §9.)
AL Code § 36-36-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-10 - Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee.

Section 36-36-10Permanent legislative oversight committee.  REPEALED IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2018-152 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §10.)
AL Code § 36-36-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-11 - Racial and Ethnic Diversity.

Section 36-36-11Racial and ethnic diversity.  All personnel employed and vendors hired by contract with funds available to the trusts and trustees under the provisions of subdivision (4) of subsection (b) of Section 36-36-5 shall reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the state. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §11.)
AL Code § 37-2A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-1 - Short Title.

Section 37-2A-1Short title. This chapter shall be known as the Communications Reform Act of 2005. (Act 2005-110, p. 163, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2A-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-3 - Purpose.

Section 37-2A-3Purpose. The Legislature finds that advancements in communications technology and innovation have significantly changed the way people communicate. In particular, wireless and Internet technologies delivered by multiple competitors are providing consumers and businesses with advanced communications services, enhancing the quality of life and economic productivity. The Legislature has determined that additional consumer and economic benefits can be achieved through the adoption of new policies promoting market-based competitive forces for today's advanced wireline communications services market, while maintaining commission oversight of basic local wireline telephone service and of issues associated with wholesale transactions that incumbent local exchange carriers have with other telecommunications carriers for the transmission and routing of telephone exchange service and exchange access. (Act 2005-110, p. 163, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2A-5.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-5.1 - Waiver of Federal Exemptions, Suspensions, and Modification.

Section 37-2A-5.1Waiver of federal exemptions, suspensions, and modification. Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, those provisions of Act 2009-461 which revise or create Sections 37-2A-8(b)(2)a., 37-2A-8(b)(2)b., 37-2A-8(b)(2)c., 37-2A-8(b)(3)a., 37-2A-8(b)(3)b., 37-2A-8(b)(3)c., and 37-2A-8(b)(3)d. shall not be applicable to any incumbent local exchange carrier until and unless such carrier has waived in writing with the commission any exemption, suspension, or modification otherwise available under 47 U.S.C. §251(f). (Act 2009-461, p. 810, §2.)
AL Code § 37-2A-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-6 - Customer Notification.

Section 37-2A-6Customer notification. (a) Carriers that become regulated under subsection (a) of Section 37-2A-5 shall send notice to any existing retail customers who will be affected by the change in regulation under subsection (g) of Section 37-2A-4 at least 45 days prior to February 1, 2007. (b) Carriers that become regulated under subsection (c) of Section 37-2A-5 shall send notice to any existing retail customers who will be affected by the change in regulation under subsection (g) of Section 37-2A-4 at least 45 days prior to the carrier's filing pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 37-2A-4. (c) Carriers that become regulated under subsection (a) or (c) of Section 37-2A-5 shall send notice to any existing retail customer who will be affected by the change in regulation under subsections (b)(2)b. and (b)(3)d. of Section 37-2A-8 at least 45 days prior to the effective date of the change in regulation. (d) The notice provided for in subsection (a), subsection (b), and subsection (c) shall meet all of the following: (1) Be posted on the carrier's web site and sent to the customer's billing address via a bill message or a bill insert. An incumbent local exchange carrier may also publish notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of the billing address, or an adjoining county if no newspaper of general circulation is published in the county. (2) Summarize the terms and conditions under which the carrier will provide service on and after the effective date of the change in regulation. (3) Notify the customer that he or she may obtain a copy of the terms and conditions from the carrier's web site or by contacting the carrier's business office by telephone. (e) A customer who does not cancel service before the effective date of the new form of regulation shall be deemed to have accepted the new terms and conditions in their entirety until he or she cancels the service. No person who fails to receive actual notice, and no person who wishes to reject the new terms and conditions, or any part thereof, but fails to cancel service in a timely fashion shall have, directly or indirectly in any forum, a complaint or cause of action arising out of such failure or wish to reject. (Act 2005-110, p. 163, §1; Act 2009-461, p. 810, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2A-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-7 - Universal Service Programs; Fees; Access to Data Files for Required Administrative Functions.

Section 37-2A-7Universal service programs; fees; access to data files for required administrative functions. (a)(1) The commission shall implement, supervise, and control state and federal universal service programs in compliance with federal and state law. (2) A subscriber who receives Lifeline service shall be required to pay all applicable fees, including the Alabama E-911 surcharge, the Alabama telephone relay system surcharge, and all applicable federal, state, and local taxes. (b) Beginning June 10, 2019, each state agency that administers public assistance programs, consumer participation which qualifies a consumer for federal Tribal Link-Up, federal Lifeline benefits, or both, shall fully cooperate with the Federal Communications Commission and the Universal Service Administrative Company, or its designees, in allowing access to the agency's data files, with no cost to the agency, as solely necessary to allow the Universal Service Administrative Company, National Eligibility Verifier, and the national Lifeline eligibility database to perform Lifeline and Tribal Link-Up eligibility, enrollment, and other necessary related administrative functions, as required by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to Alabama consumers. (Act 2005-110, p. 163, §1; Act 2009-461, p. 810, §1; Act 2019-483, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2A-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-9 - Standards for New Entrants.

Section 37-2A-9Standards for new entrants. (a) The commission shall retain its jurisdiction to prescribe reasonable entry standards for persons not previously granted certification to provide telecommunications service in Alabama. (b) Every application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity by a new entrant to provide telecommunications service in this state shall be accompanied by an application fee in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100). (Act 2005-110, p. 163, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2A-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-10 - (Effective Until October 1, 2019) Supervision and Inspection Fees.

Section 37-2A-10(Effective until October 1, 2019) Supervision and inspection fees. REPEALED I BY ACT 2015-70 EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2019. Telecommunications carriers subject to this chapter shall pay to the commission supervision and inspection fees under the following schedule: (1) Except as provided in subdivision (4), a telecommunications carrier that becomes regulated under subsection (a) of Section 37-2A-5 shall annually pay supervision and inspection fees which shall not be diminished as a result of this chapter and shall be no less than that equal to the annual fees imposed by Section 37-2-41 and paid by that carrier for the calendar year preceding August 1, 2005. (2) Except as provided in subdivision (4), a telecommunications carrier that becomes regulated under subsection (c) of Section 37-2A-5 shall annually pay supervision and inspection fees which shall not be diminished as a result of this chapter and shall be no less than that equal to the annual fees imposed by Section 37-2-41 and paid by that carrier for the calendar year preceding its election to be regulated under subsection (c) of Section 37-2A-5. (3) A telecommunications carrier that has not been granted certification to provide telecommunications services in Alabama prior to August 1, 2005, and that obtains certification under the commission's jurisdiction under Section 37-2A-9 shall pay annually supervision and inspection fees as specified in Section 37-2-41.  (4) Should a telecommunications carrier subject to the payment of supervision and inspection fees under subdivisions (1) and (2), sell or otherwise divest more than 25 percent of its intrastate business upon which its supervision and inspection fees were paid, as applicable, for the calendar year preceding August 1, 2005, under subdivision (1) or for the calendar year preceding the date of its election under subdivision (2), it shall annually pay supervision and inspection fees in succeeding calendar years as specified in Section 37-2-41 based on its intrastate business not sold or otherwise divested. Nothing in this subdivision shall relieve any telecommunications carrier acquiring such sold or otherwise divested business from the provisions of this chapter, including the payment of supervision and inspection fees as specified in Section 37-2-41. (Act 2005-110, p. 163, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2A-10.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-10.1 - Application of Fees.

Section 37-2A-10.1Application of fees. For fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, supervision and inspection fees for telecommunications carriers subject to Section 37-2A-10(1), (2), or (4) shall be reduced in three equal installments representing, in total, the difference in fees paid by a carrier in fiscal year 2015 and the amount of fees calculated pursuant to Section 37-2-41 for fiscal year 2015. The reductions shall be applied with cumulative effect for payments made after July 1, 2019, and for payments made prior to July 1, 2019 which included the cumulative effect of the reductions. For fiscal year 2020 and subsequent years, fees for telecommunications carriers subject to this chapter shall be paid pursuant to the formula contained in Section 37-2-41. (Act 2015-70, p. 258, §2(a); Act 2019-462, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2A-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2A - Communications Reform Act of 2005.|Section 37-2A-11 - Interpretation.

Section 37-2A-11Interpretation. (a) This chapter is intended to supersede the remainder of this title as to any matter provided for in this chapter. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall do any of the following: (1) Alter the jurisdiction, rights, powers, authority, or duties of the commission except as specifically provided for in this chapter. (2) Be interpreted to expand the commission's jurisdiction, right, power, authority, or duty as it is provided for in any other chapter of this title. (3) Alter any provider's obligations under state E-911 laws. (4) Alter, amend, or modify taxes imposed by Title 40, or any other title of this code, unless specifically provided for in this chapter. (5) Alter, amend, or modify, other than as provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of Section 37-2A-4, the commission's authority with regard to wholesale transactions between incumbent local exchange carriers and other telecommunications carriers for the transmission and routing of telephone exchange service and exchange access. (6) Alter or modify the current treatment of tariffed emergency reporting services regulated by the commission on or before February 1, 2005, and offered by local exchange carriers to public safety answering points and emergency communications districts. (7) Confer upon the commission the power and jurisdiction to regulate and supervise any utility or telecommunications carrier owned and operated by any municipal corporation in the state or any municipal instrumentality, as defined in subdivision (15) of Section 11-50B-2. (8) Limit the ability of the Attorney General of this state to investigate claims of, and seek appropriate remedies for, alleged anticompetitive pricing or illegal tying of telecommunications services or other potential violations of antitrust law relating to the provision of telecommunications services by any carrier that becomes subject to this chapter. (Act 2005-110, p. 163, §1; Act 2009-461, p. 810, §1.)
AL Code § 37-3-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Section 37-3-1 - Short Title.

Section 37-3-1Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama Motor Carrier Act." (Acts 1939, No. 669, p. 1064, §33; Code 1958, T. 48, §301(1a).)
AL Code § 37-3-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Section 37-3-3 - Applicability of Chapter to Interstate Commerce.

Section 37-3-3Applicability of chapter to interstate commerce. This chapter and every part thereof shall apply to and be construed to apply to interstate commerce, except insofar as the same may be in conflict with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the Acts of Congress now in force or hereafter enacted. (Acts 1939, No. 669, p. 1064, §4; Code 1958, T. 48, §301(4).)
AL Code § 37-3-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Section 37-3-5 - Operations to Be in Accordance With Chapter; Carriers Subject to Regulation of Commission.

Section 37-3-5Operations to be in accordance with chapter; carriers subject to regulation of commission. No motor carrier, as defined in this chapter, not exempt in this chapter, shall operate any motor vehicle for the transportation of passengers or property for compensation on any highway in the state except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; and every such carrier is hereby declared subject to control, supervision and regulation by the commission. (Acts 1939, No. 669, p. 1064, §3; Code 1958, T. 48, §301(3).)
AL Code § 37-3-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Section 37-3-6 - Proprietary or Property Rights in Use of Highways Not Conferred by Chapter.

Section 37-3-6Proprietary or property rights in use of highways not conferred by chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall confer any proprietary or property rights in the use of the public highways. (Acts 1939, No. 669, p. 1064, §3; Code 1958, T. 48, §301(3).)
AL Code § 37-3-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Section 37-3-8 - Commission Members Not to Have Pecuniary Interest, etc., in Carriers or Brokers.

Section 37-3-8Commission members not to have pecuniary interest, etc., in carriers or brokers. No member of the commission, nor any employee of the commission appointed or employed in the administration of this chapter, shall in any manner have pecuniary interest in, own any securities of, or hold any position with any motor carrier or broker subject to this chapter. (Acts 1939, No. 669, p. 1064, §6; Code 1958, T. 48, §301(6).)
AL Code § 37-3-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Section 37-3-9 - Disposition of Matters Requiring Hearing.

Section 37-3-9Disposition of matters requiring hearing. Except as otherwise provided, any matter arising in the administration of this chapter requiring a hearing shall be heard and decided by the commission or shall, by written order of the commission, be referred to a member or examiner of the commission for hearing and the recommendation of an appropriate order thereon. With respect to such matter, the member or examiner shall have all the rights, duties, powers and jurisdiction conferred by this chapter upon the commission; except, that the order recommended by such member or examiner shall be subject to the following provisions of this paragraph. Any order recommended by the member or examiner with respect to such matter shall be in writing and be accompanied by the reasons therefor and shall be filed with the commission. Copies of such recommended order shall be served upon the parties in interest, who have appeared in the proceeding, who may file exceptions thereto, but if no exceptions are filed within 20 days after service upon such parties, or within such further period as the commission may authorize, such recommended order shall become the order of the commission and become effective, unless within such period the order is stayed or postponed by the commission. Where exceptions are filed as provided in this section, it shall be the duty of the commission to consider the same, and, if sufficient reason appears therefor, the commission shall grant such review or make such order or hold or authorize such further hearing or proceedings in the premises as may be necessary or proper to carry out the purpose of this chapter, or the commission may, on its own motion, review any such matter and take action thereon as if exceptions thereto had been filed. The commission, after review upon the same record or as supplemented by a further hearing shall decide the matter and make appropriate order thereon. Where practicable and as the commission may by rule or notice direct, hearings by the commission, any member or examiner upon any matter shall be held at such places within the State of Alabama as are convenient to the parties. (Acts 1939, No. 669, p. 1064, §7; Code 1958, T. 48, §301(7).)
AL Code § 37-3-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Section 37-3-10 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - When Required; Application; Determination by Commission.

Section 37-3-10Certificate of public convenience and necessity - When required; application; determination by commission. (a) No common carrier by motor vehicle subject to the provisions of this chapter shall engage in intrastate commerce on any highway in this state unless there is in force with respect to such carrier a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the commission pursuant to the provisions of this chapter authorizing such operation. The application for such certificate shall be decided in accordance with the procedure provided in Section 37-3-11, and such certificate shall be issued or denied accordingly. No common carrier of passengers holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued to it by the commission shall be required to apply for a certificate under this chapter, but such certificate held and effective shall be effective as if issued under this chapter, but this shall not be construed or held to relieve the holder of such certificate from complying with all other provisions of this chapter and any and all laws now or hereafter in effect. (b) Application for certificates shall be made in writing to the commission, be verified under oath and shall be in such form and contain such information and be accompanied by proof of service of notice thereof upon such interested parties as the commission shall, by regulation, require; provided, that the commission shall give notice of the filing of any such application upon the State Department of Transportation and, in the case of an application for a certificate to transport passengers, upon each common carrier of passengers then operating or proposing to operate by application pending before the commission in the territory proposed to be served; and, in the case of an application for a certificate to transport freight, upon each common carrier of freight then operating or proposing to operate by application pending before the commission in the territory proposed to be served. (Acts 1939, No. 669, p. 1064, §8; Code 1958, T. 48, §301(8).)