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AL Code § 21-9-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-3 - Transfer of Powers, Funds, Personnel.

Section 21-9-3Transfer of powers, funds, personnel. (a) All powers, duties, and functions of, and all related records, property, equipment of, and all contractual rights, obligations of, and unexpended balances of appropriations and other funds or allocations of the Division of Rehabilitation Services and the division's component programs of the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education shall be transferred to the Board of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Rehabilitation Services on or before January 1, 1995. (b) All funds appropriated to the State Department of Education for fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, for the Division of Rehabilitation Services and the division's component programs, shall be transferred to the Department of Rehabilitation Services for its use during that fiscal year under the same terms and conditions as specified for those funds in any appropriation bill, or as otherwise specified by law. (c) All personnel positions of the Division of Rehabilitation Services and the division's component programs and personnel in the Division of Computer Services and the Division of Administrative and Financial Services Accounting Section whose responsibilities and assignments are in full-time support of the Division of Rehabilitation Services, shall be transferred to the Department of Rehabilitation Services on January 1, 1995, at a level commensurate with the level of each respective position on December 31, 1994. (d) The State Board of Education and the State Department of Education shall assist the Board of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Rehabilitation Services with the highest degree of cooperation to carry out the intent and purpose of this chapter and to achieve an orderly transition. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §3.)
AL Code § 21-9-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-4 - Creation, Membership.

Section 21-9-4Creation, membership. There is created the Board of Rehabilitation Services consisting of seven members, one from each United States Congressional District, appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate as follows: (1) Three members shall be individuals with a disability, selected from consumer disability organizations. (2) One member shall be a parent of a child with a disability. (3) Three members shall be selected from organizations of business and industry within the state. The appointed members shall reflect the diversity of the population of the State of Alabama. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §4.)
AL Code § 21-9-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-5 - Terms of Office.

Section 21-9-5Terms of office. Of the members first appointed to the Board of Rehabilitation Services: one shall be appointed for a term of seven years; one for a term of six years; one for a term of five years; one for a term of four years; one for a term of three years; one for a term of two years; and one for a term of one year. Thereafter, terms of office shall be seven years, commencing on the first day of October and ending on the thirtieth day of September. No member shall serve more than two full seven-year terms of office. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term. A member shall serve until his or her successor takes office or 60 days after the expiration of the term of office, whichever occurs first. No member shall be an employee or elected official of the State of Alabama or a political subdivision thereof. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §5.)
AL Code § 21-9-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-6 - Oath, Bond.

Section 21-9-6Oath, bond. Before entering upon the duties of office, each member of the board shall take and subscribe to an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and this state and to perform the duties of office honestly, faithfully, and impartially. Each member shall give a bond of five thousand dollars ($5,000), with a sufficient surety approved by the State Treasurer. After approval, the bond shall be filed with the Secretary of State. If the bond is executed by a surety company, the premiums shall be paid from funds appropriated and available to the department. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §6.)
AL Code § 21-9-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-7 - Reimbursement of Expenses.

Section 21-9-7Reimbursement of expenses. Each member of the board shall receive travel and per diem compensation for expenses incurred in the conduct of official duties while attending meetings and transacting the business of the board, in accordance with applicable state travel and per diem paid to state employees. The compensation of members shall be paid from funds available to the department in the same manner as other expenses are paid. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §7.)
AL Code § 21-9-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-8 - Chair.

Section 21-9-8Chair. The board shall elect a chair from its membership at the first meeting of initial board members on January 15, 1995, and every two years thereafter. A majority of the membership of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. The board shall meet at least quarterly and, at the call of the chair or any four members, shall hold other special meetings. All meetings shall be called by the chair, except the first meeting of initial board members, which shall be called by the Governor. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §8.)
AL Code § 21-9-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-9 - Duties of Board.

Section 21-9-9Duties of board. The board shall perform all of the following duties: (1) Make rules and regulations for the provision of rehabilitation services. (2) Direct and supervise the expenditure of legislative appropriations for rehabilitation services. (3) Prescribe qualifications for the commissioner, directors, professionals, and administrative and clerical employees. (4) Disseminate information concerning and promoting interest in disability and rehabilitation issues among the citizens of Alabama. (5) Take appropriate action to guarantee rights of and services to people with disabilities. (6) Delegate to any employee of the department any necessary powers and duties. (7) Serve as the governing authority of programs administered by the department, including but not limited to: The administration of the state's plan under the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended"; the Social Security Act, Title V, which relates to children with special health care needs; and the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Stand Act (P.L. 74-732), as amended by P.L. 83-565 and P.L. 93-515, 20 U.S.C., Ch. 6A, Sec. 107. (8) Accept and hold, invest, reinvest, dispose of, divest, or otherwise use gifts, donations, devises or bequests of money, or real or personal property made for the purpose of furthering rehabilitation services. (9) Hold, lease, or rent real or personal property and make any repair and improvement on all property under its control that is in the best interest of the department; and, subject to the approval of the Governor, construct, acquire, sell, or convey title to real estate. (10) Except where otherwise clearly indicated, delegate to the commissioner authority to act and make decisions concerning the management and operation of the department. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §9.)
AL Code § 21-9-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-10 - Commissioner.

Section 21-9-10Commissioner. (a) The Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services of the State Department of Education shall serve as the initial commissioner of the Department of Rehabilitation Services commencing on January 1, 1995, and shall be provided a contract of employment for a period not to exceed one year. (b) The board may thereafter appoint a commissioner to serve at its pleasure who shall be the chief executive officer of the department, on a contract basis not exceeding a four-year period. (c) The board may establish the salary and expense allowance to be paid to the commissioner. The salary and expense allowance shall be paid in installments from the annual appropriation made to the board or the department. (d) The commissioner shall serve as secretary to the board and shall have the responsibility for the operation, management, control, supervision, maintenance, regulation, and improvement of the department in conformity with policies adopted by the board. (e) The salary, compensation, procedures, and personnel policies governing employees of the department shall be subject to the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the State Personnel Department and merit system as created under Sections 36-26-100 to 36-26-108, inclusive. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §10.)
AL Code § 21-9-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-12 - Continuation of Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services; Dissolution.

Section 21-9-12Continuation of Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilition Services; dissolution. The Board of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Rehabilitation Services shall automatically continue in existence, but both may be dissolved and all operations restored to the State Board of Education and to the State Department of Education, respectively, by passage of a joint resolution of the Legislature during any session within five years following January 1, 1995. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §12.)
AL Code § 21-9-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-13 - Administrative Action.

Section 21-9-13Administrative action. The State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Education shall take all administrative action, including the transfer of funds, appropriate and necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this act. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-824, p. 147, §13.)
AL Code § 21-9-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services.|Section 21-9-14 - Office to Provide Information Regarding Americans With Disabilities Act; Toll-Free Telephone Number; Performance of Duties; Immunity.

Section 21-9-14Office to provide information regarding Americans with Disabilities Act; toll-free telephone number; performance of duties; immunity. (a) There shall be established at the Department of Rehabilitation Services a toll-free telephone number in an office staffed by an assistant or deputy attorney general to provide information on the rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Attorney General shall appoint either an assistant attorney general or deputy attorney general to staff the office, who shall have experience and knowledge in disability law and related issues. The duties of the office shall include, but not be limited to the following: Public information; referral; public education; training; data collection; and analysis. All records of the office shall be confidential.  (b) All public relations material of the office shall identify the office as an office of an assistant or deputy attorney general. The office may develop forms, records, documents, and other materials as it may deem necessary to perform its duties. The assistant or deputy attorney general shall make an annual report to the Legislature, the Attorney General, and to the Alabama Disability Commission.  (c) The assistant or deputy attorney general and the office staff are prohibited from practicing law and shall have the same immunities against civil damages in the performance of their duties as for other employees or assistants of the Attorney General. (Act 98-255, p. 422, §§1-3.)
AL Code § 23-3-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-1 - Definitions.

Section 23-3-1Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) INTERSTATE HIGHWAY. Any highway now included or which shall hereafter be included as a part of the national system of interstate highways, selected by joint action of the State Department of Transportation and the United States Bureau of Public Roads. (2) CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITY. A highway or street included in the national system of interstate highways especially designed for through traffic and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right of easement or access from abutting properties. Such highways or streets may be parkways from which trucks, buses, or other commercial vehicles shall be excluded or they may be freeways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §2.)
AL Code § 23-3-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-2 - Declaration of Policy.

Section 23-3-2Declaration of policy. It is the declared policy of this state to facilitate the flow of traffic and promote public safety by controlling access to highways included in the national system of interstate highways as selected by joint action of the State Department of Transportation and the United States Bureau of Public Roads. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §1.)
AL Code § 23-3-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-3 - Authority to Plan, etc., Facilities; Regulation, etc., Thereof.

Section 23-3-3Authority to plan, etc., facilities; regulation, etc., thereof. The Director of Transportation, acting alone or in cooperation with counties, cities, towns or any federal, state or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, is authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide controlled access facilities for public use wherever such authority or authorities are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future, will justify such special facilities; provided, that in the case of designation or vacation, such designations or vacations must be approved by the Director of Transportation. Said authorities may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of such controlled access facilities by the various classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with Section 23-3-1. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §3.)
AL Code § 23-3-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-4 - Design Authority; Commercial Establishments.

Section 23-3-4Design authority; commercial establishments. (a) The Director of Transportation is authorized to so design any controlled access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. In this connection, such highway authority is authorized to divide and separate any controlled access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbing, central dividing sections or other physical separations or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from or across controlled access facilities to or from abutting lands, except such designated points at which access may be permitted or service roads provided, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified from time to time. (b) Except to the extent authorized by law for toll roads, no automotive service station or other commercial establishment for serving motor vehicle users shall be constructed or located within the right-of-way of or on publicly owned or publicly leased land acquired or used for, or in connection with, the controlled access facility; provided, that this shall not limit the powers granted to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by Sections 9-2-9, 9-2-10, 9-2-100, 9-2-101, 9-2-103 through 9-2-108, 9-14-1 through 9-14-6 and 9-14-20 through 9-14-29, when those powers are exercised in accordance with the purposes of such provisions. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §4; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 305, p. 2365; Acts 1967, No. 599, p. 1384, §1.)
AL Code § 23-3-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-5 - Acquisition of Property and Property Rights.

Section 23-3-5Acquisition of property and property rights. (a) For the purpose of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, acting alone or through the counties, cities, and towns, may acquire private or public property and property rights for controlled access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation in the same manner as such authorities are now, or hereafter may be, authorized by law to acquire such property or property rights in connection with highways and streets within their respective jurisdiction. In connection with the acquisition of property or property rights for any controlled access facility, or portion thereof or service road in connection therewith, the state, county, city, or town highway authority is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to acquire an entire lot, block or tract of land, even though such entire lot, block or tract of land is not immediately needed for the right-of-way proper; provided, that the authority is not granted to acquire property not immediately needed for the right-of-way proper unless the owner of such property shall consent thereto. (b) In any event, in any case now or hereafter pending, when property is condemned for limited access highways and an appeal is taken by the state from a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction and if the award of damages is affirmed on appeal by the Court of Civil Appeals or the Supreme Court of Alabama, then, in such event, the property owner shall be entitled to interest at six percent per annum on the amount of damages awarded from the date of the entry of the judgment awarding such damages. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §5; Acts 1967, No. 599, p. 1384, §2.)
AL Code § 23-3-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-6 - Elimination of Intersections at Grade.

Section 23-3-6Elimination of intersections at grade. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled access facilities with existing state or county roads, and city or town streets by grade separation of service road or by closing off such roads and streets at the right-of-way boundary line of such controlled access facility. After the establishment of any controlled access facility, no highway or street which is not a part of said facility shall intersect the same at grade. No city or town street, county or state highway or other public way shall be opened into or connected with any such controlled access facility without the consent and previous approval of the Director of Transportation; provided, that the Director of Transportation may, whenever he determines that traffic is not thereby impaired, authorize the continued intersection at grade of lightly traveled entrances and minor public roads as ways of access to controlled access facilities in sparsely populated areas. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §6.)
AL Code § 23-3-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-7 - Local Service Roads and Streets.

Section 23-3-7Local service roads and streets. In connection with the development of any controlled access facility, the Director of Transportation is authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road or street if, in his opinion, such local service roads and streets are necessary or desirable. Such local service roads or streets shall be of appropriate design and shall be separated from the controlled access facility proper by means of all devices designated as necessary or desirable by the proper authority. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §8.)
AL Code § 23-3-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 23 - Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries.|Chapter 3 - Controlled Access Facilities.|Section 23-3-8 - Agreements With Federal or Local Governments.

Section 23-3-8Agreements with federal or local governments. The Director of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreements with counties, cities and towns or the federal government respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of controlled access facilities or other public ways in their respective jurisdictions to facilitate the purposes of this chapter. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §7.)