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AL Code § 22-12-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12 - Quarantine Laws and Regulations.|Section 22-12-24 - Passing of Quarantine Lines by State Quarantine Officers and Guards.

Section 22-12-24Passing of quarantine lines by state quarantine officers and guards. All state quarantine officers and guards, upon presentation of such credentials and compliance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health, shall be permitted to pass all quarantine lines established by county, city or town authority. (Code 1907, §743; Code 1923, §1209; Code 1940, T. 22, §153.)
AL Code § 22-12-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12 - Quarantine Laws and Regulations.|Section 22-12-26 - Arrests Without Warrants.

Section 22-12-26Arrests without warrants. Any legal quarantine officer or guard may, without warrant, arrest a person who attempts to violate a quarantine regulation and carry such person either to a designated place of detention or before an officer having jurisdiction of such offense. (Code 1907, §7070; Code 1923, §4372; Code 1940, T. 22, §170.)
AL Code § 22-12-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12 - Quarantine Laws and Regulations.|Section 22-12-29 - Affidavits by Persons Desiring to Enter or Remain in Certain Places.

Section 22-12-29Affidavits by persons desiring to enter or remain in certain places. (a) Any person who makes affidavit before a quarantine officer or guard, engaged in enforcing quarantine for the protection of a place which said person wishes to enter, and who furnishes such other evidence as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health that he has not, since the appearance of a quarantinable disease then existing, been in any place against which quarantine has been legally proclaimed shall be permitted to enter, or remain in, the place to which he desires to go. Any person who has been in a place then under quarantine, by the authority of the state or by that of a county, city or town with the approval of the State Board of Health, and who has since complied with the requirements as to detention and disinfection, one or both, prescribed or approved by the State Board of Health and who shall make affidavit thereto and furnish such other evidence thereof as said board may prescribe or demand shall be permitted to enter or remain in any place in this state. (b) Any quarantine officer or guard or other person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense. (Code 1907, §§747, 7065; Code 1923, §§1213, 4367; Code 1940, T. 22, §§158, 159.)
AL Code § 22-12A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12A - Perinatal Health Care.|Section 22-12A-1 - Short Title.

Section 22-12A-1Short title. This chapter may be cited as the Alabama Perinatal Health Act. (Acts 1980, No. 80-761, p. 1586, §1.)
AL Code § 22-12A-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12A - Perinatal Health Care.|Section 22-12A-2 - Legislative Intent; "Perinatal" Defined.

Section 22-12A-2Legislative intent; "perinatal" defined. (a) It is the legislative intent to effect a program in this state of: (1) Perinatal care in order to reduce infant mortality and handicapping conditions; (2) Administering such policy by supporting quality perinatal care at the most appropriate level in the closest proximity to the patients' residences and based on the levels of care concept of regionalization; and (3) Encouraging the closest cooperation between various state and local agencies and private health care services in providing high quality, low cost prevention oriented perinatal care, including optional educational programs. (b) For the purposes of this chapter, the word "perinatal" shall include that period from conception to one year post delivery. (Acts 1980, No. 80-761, p. 1586, §2; Acts 1981, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 81-1140, p. 417, §1.)
AL Code § 22-12A-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12A - Perinatal Health Care.|Section 22-12A-3 - Plan to Reduce Infant Mortality and Handicapping Conditions; Procedure, Contents, Etc.

Section 22-12A-3Plan to reduce infant mortality and handicapping conditions; procedure, contents, etc. The Bureau of Maternal and Child Health under the direction of the State Board of Health shall, in coordination with the State Health Planning and Development Agency, the State Health Coordinating Council, the Alabama Council on Maternal and Infant Health and the regional and State Perinatal Advisory Committees, annually prepare a plan, consistent with the legislative intent of Section 22-12A-2, to reduce infant mortality and handicapping conditions to be presented to legislative health and finance committees prior to each regular session of the Legislature. Such a plan shall include: primary care, hospital and prenatal; secondary and tertiary levels of care both in hospital and on an out-patient basis; transportation of patients for medical services and care and follow-up and evaluation of infants through the first year of life; and optional educational programs, including pupils in schools at appropriate ages, for good perinatal care covered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. All recommendations for expenditure of funds shall be in accord with provisions of this plan. (Acts 1980, No. 80-761, p. 1586, §3; Acts 1981, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 81-1140, p. 417, §1.)
AL Code § 22-12A-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12A - Perinatal Health Care.|Section 22-12A-4 - Bureau of Maternal and Child Health to Develop Priorities, Guidelines, Etc.

Section 22-12A-4Bureau of Maternal and Child Health to develop priorities, guidelines, etc. The Bureau of Maternal and Child Health under the direction of the State Board of Health, and the State Perinatal Advisory Committee representing the regional perinatal advisory committees, shall develop priorities, guidelines and administrative procedures for the expenditures of funds therefor. Such priorities, guidelines and procedures shall be subject to the approval of the State Board of Health. (Acts 1980, No. 80-761, p. 1586, §4.)
AL Code § 22-12A-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12A - Perinatal Health Care.|Section 22-12A-5 - Bureau to Present Report to Legislative Committee; Public Health Funds Not to Be Used.

Section 22-12A-5Bureau to present report to legislative committee; public health funds not to be used. The Bureau of Maternal and Child Health under the direction of the State Board of Health shall annually present a progress report dealing with infant mortality and handicapping conditions to the Legislative Health and Finance Committees prior to each regular session of the Legislature. No funds of the State Department of Public Health shall be used for the cost of any reports or any function of any of the committees named in Section 22-12A-3. (Acts 1980, No. 80-761, p. 1586, §5.)
AL Code § 22-12A-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12A - Perinatal Health Care.|Section 22-12A-6 - Use of Funds Generally.

Section 22-12A-6Use of funds generally. Available funds will be expended in each geographic area based on provisions within the plan developed in accordance with Section 22-12A-3. Funds when available will be used to support medical care and transportation for women and infants at high risk for infant mortality or major handicapping conditions who are unable to pay for appropriate care. Funds will only be used to provide prenatal care, transportation, hospital care for high risk mothers and infants, outpatient care in the first year of life and educational services to improve such care, including optional educational programs, for pupils in schools at appropriate ages but subject to review and approval by the local school boards involved on an annual basis. (Acts 1980, No. 80-761, p. 1586, §6; Acts 1981, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 81-1140, p. 417, §1.)
AL Code § 22-12B-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12B - Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund.|Section 22-12B-1 - Established; Purpose.

Section 22-12B-1Established; purpose. There is hereby established the Alabama Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of providing for expansion of medical services available to needy pregnant women and children under the Medicaid Program through implementation of Section 9401 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-509) and for other expansions of the Medicaid Program which are or become feasible. (Acts 1987, No. 87-707, p. 1245, §1.)
AL Code § 22-12B-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12B - Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund.|Section 22-12B-2 - Board Established; Composition; Meetings; Powers.

Section 22-12B-2Board established; composition; meetings; powers. There is hereby established the Alabama Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Board to administer said fund. The board shall consist of the Governor, who shall serve as ex officio chairman, the commissioner of the Alabama Medicaid Agency, the Finance Director and the State Health Officer. The board shall meet as necessary to carry out its duties, upon three days' notice to all board members. The board shall have the power to transfer moneys from the trust fund to the Alabama Medicaid Agency to carry out the purposes, intent and provisions of this chapter. The Medicaid Agency may accept unconditional and unrestricted transfers of such moneys. The existence or availability of this trust fund shall not reduce appropriations from the State General Fund. (Acts 1987, No. 87-707, p. 1245, §2.)
AL Code § 22-12B-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12B - Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund.|Section 22-12B-3 - Sources of Funding.

Section 22-12B-3Sources of funding. The source of funding for moneys to be received by the Alabama Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund shall include, without limitation, grants, appropriations, contributions, and donations. For the purposes of this chapter, political subdivisions may appropriate moneys directly to the trust fund. Any such grants, appropriations, contributions, and donations are hereby appropriated and allocated to the Alabama Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund Board, at the time of the receipt of the grant, contribution or donation, or at the effective date of the legislation making the appropriation. (Acts 1987, No. 87-707, p. 1245, §3.)
AL Code § 22-12B-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12B - Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund.|Section 22-12B-4 - Unobligated Fund Balance Shall Automatically Carry Forward Into Succeeding Fiscal Year.

Section 22-12B-4Unobligated fund balance shall automatically carry forward into succeeding fiscal year. Any unobligated balance in the Alabama Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund shall not revert to the General Fund at the end of any state fiscal year but shall be automatically carried forward into each succeeding state fiscal year in said trust fund. The moneys in such fund shall be disbursed under the authority of the Alabama Mothers and Babies Indigent Care Trust Fund Board and shall be used exclusively on behalf of persons eligible under the Alabama Medicaid Program. (Acts 1987, No. 87-707, p. 1245, §4.)
AL Code § 22-12C-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-1 - Definitions.

Section 22-12C-1Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) LOCAL AGENCY. A private, nonprofit health agency that provides program services in a designated area by written agreement with the State Board of Health. (2) PARTICIPANT. A certified pregnant, postpartum, or breastfeeding woman, infant, or a child who is receiving supplemental food or a food instrument under the WIC Program. (3) PERSON. Any individual, partnership, limited partnership, corporation, association, firm, trust, estate, or any other legal entity. (4) STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. The State Department of Public Health. (5) VENDORS. The individual, partnership, limited partnership, or corporation authorized by the State Board of Health. (6) WIC PROGRAM. The United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §1.)
AL Code § 22-12C-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-2 - Adoption of Rules; Application of Alabama Administrative Procedure Act.

Section 22-12C-2Adoption of rules; application of Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (a) The State Board of Health may promulgate and adopt rules it deems necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this chapter and under relevant federal laws and regulations pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act (§41-22-1, et seq.). The rules shall have the force and effect of law and shall include, but not be limited to, an administrative appeal process for vendors subject to sanctions under this chapter and the rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter. (b) The Alabama Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of the board under this chapter, except that in case of conflict between the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act and this chapter, this chapter shall control. The Alabama Administrative Procedure Act shall not apply to the adoption of any rule required by federal law in which the board is precluded from exercising any discretion. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §2.)
AL Code § 22-12C-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-3 - Procedures for Investigations, Sanctions, Penalties and Contract Terminations.

Section 22-12C-3Procedures for investigations, sanctions, penalties and contract terminations. The State Board of Health may establish procedures for investigations, sanctions, penalties, and contract terminations for private nonprofit local agencies, WIC Program food vendors, suppliers, distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers, or participants in accordance with relevant federal regulations. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §3.)
AL Code § 22-12C-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-4 - Collection of Erroneously Paid Moneys; Collection Costs Recoverable.

Section 22-12C-4Collection of erroneously paid moneys; collection costs recoverable. (a) The State Board of Health may recover moneys erroneously paid to private nonprofit local agencies, WIC Program food vendors, suppliers, distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers, or participants. (b) The board may file an action in any district or circuit court to collect the sum upon refusal to pay by any entity or individual stated in subsection (a). The board is also authorized to collect the costs of court plus reasonable attorneys' fees in the collection of these costs. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §4.)
AL Code § 22-12C-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-5 - Probation or Civil Monetary Penalties for Food Vendors; Mitigation or Settlement of Adverse Action.

Section 22-12C-5Probation or civil monetary penalties for food vendors; mitigation or settlement of adverse action. (a) The State Board of Health may establish procedures to administer probation or civil monetary penalties, or both, to WIC Program food vendors. If probation is imposed, the vendor shall be informed that any violation of the WIC Program during the probationary period shall result in the implementation of the original proposed sanction. A civil monetary penalty shall be determined by the vendor's average monthly redemption of WIC Program food instruments for the 12-month period ending with the month immediately preceding that month during which the vendor was charged with the violation. The average monthly redemption figure will be multiplied by 5 percent. The product of this calculation shall be multiplied by the number of months for which the vendor would have been disqualified under the sanctions for which the vendor was charged. Consideration shall also be given as to the ability of the vendor to pay. The total civil monetary penalty shall not exceed $10,000 for any vendor. (b) The board, through its authorized representative including the WIC Program Director, the administrative hearing officer, or other persons as designated by the State Health Officer may mitigate or settle any adverse action under this chapter that it considers advantageous to the WIC Program prior to, at, or subsequent to an administrative hearing under the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §5; Acts 1996, No. 96-481, p. 609, §2.)
AL Code § 22-12C-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-6 - Designated Account for Monetary Penalties or Overcharges Collected; Expenditure of Sums.

Section 22-12C-6Designated account for monetary penalties or overcharges collected; expenditure of sums. (a) A civil monetary penalty or overcharge collected by the State Board of Health shall be deposited in a dedicated account designated by the board to be used in the administration of the WIC Program. (b) A civil penalty or overcharge collected under this chapter shall not revert to the State General Fund, but shall remain in the account designated under subsection (a) and is continuously appropriated to the State Board of Health; however the expenditure of said sums so appropriated shall be budgeted and allotted pursuant to the Budget Management Act and Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §6.)
AL Code § 22-12C-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-7 - Fraud or Abuse as a Misdemeanor; Fraud Defined.

Section 22-12C-7Fraud or abuse as a misdemeanor; fraud defined. (a) Any person who obtains WIC Program benefits for himself or herself or for another by fraud or abuse or anyone who otherwise defrauds or abuses the WIC Program shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed by law. Fraud or abuse is defined as: (1) Fraudulently reporting of income to receive benefits. (2) Receiving benefits for services from two or more clinics at the same time. (3) Selling, trading, or giving away supplies, medications, food, or food instruments issued by the program. (4) Accepting cash from vendors. (5) Using food instruments as payment of any debt. (6) Unauthorized altering of food instruments. (7) Redeeming food instruments reported lost, stolen, or destroyed. (8) Purchasing non-food items with food instruments. (9) Returning WIC Program foods for credit or cash. (10) Providing cash or credit in place of authorized foods. (11) Substitution of non-food items for listed foods. (12) Providing less foods than is specified on a food instrument and requesting full payment for the specified amount. (13) Charging WIC Program participants more for foods than other customers are charged. (14) Receiving, accepting, buying, taking by way of trade or barter, or otherwise unlawfully possessing WIC Program food instruments or WIC Program foods. (b) A second or subsequent conviction of fraud or abuse of the WIC Program shall be a Class B felony, and, upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed by law. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §7.)
AL Code § 22-12C-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-8 - Appeal of Adverse Action; Conflict With Federal Law.

Section 22-12C-8Appeal of adverse action; conflict with federal law. A decision of the State Board of Health imposing any adverse action may be appealed pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. If there is a conflict between the provisions relating to penalties and the conduct of administrative hearings under this chapter and federal law, the federal law shall prevail. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §8.)
AL Code § 22-12C-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12C - Administration of Women, Infants, and Children Program.|Section 22-12C-9 - Cumulation of Penalties.

Section 22-12C-9Cumulation of penalties. The administrative, civil, and criminal remedies and penalties in this chapter are cumulative, and the use by the State Board of Health of one remedy shall not preclude the use by the board of any other remedy based upon the same incident or occurrence. (Acts 1993, No. 93-642, p. 1100, §9.)
AL Code § 22-12D-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12D - Office of Women's Health.|Section 22-12D-2 - Financial Contributions.

Section 22-12D-2Financial contributions. The Alabama Department of Public Health may seek and accept financial contributions from corporations, limited liability corporations, partnerships, individuals, and other private entities for use by the Office of Women's Health.  (Act 2002-141, p. 384, §2.)
AL Code § 22-12D-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 12D - Office of Women's Health.|Section 22-12D-3 - Appointment of Personnel.

Section 22-12D-3Appointment of personnel. The State Health Officer shall appoint personnel to staff the Office of Women's Health including an individual who shall serve as the director of the office, in accordance with departmental and State Personnel Department rules and regulations. (Act 2002-141, p. 384, §3.)