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AL Code § 21-1-86 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 1 - Deaf and Blind Persons Generally.|Article 4 - Sale, etc., of Personal Property or Timber Owned by Institute by Auction or Bid.|Section 21-1-86 - Sale Violating This Article Void; Penalties for Persons Responsible and Bondsmen; How Penalties Recovered.

Section 21-1-86Sale violating this article void; penalties for persons responsible and bondsmen; how penalties recovered. Any sale of tangible personal property or standing timber of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind made in violation of the terms of this article shall be null and void and the person or persons responsible for the transaction and his bondsman shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00 which may be recovered for the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind by the Attorney General by suit in the Circuit Court of Talladega County. (Acts 1991, No. 91-658, p. 1245, §7.)
AL Code § 21-1-87 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 1 - Deaf and Blind Persons Generally.|Article 4 - Sale, etc., of Personal Property or Timber Owned by Institute by Auction or Bid.|Section 21-1-87 - Violation Constitutes a Misdemeanor.

Section 21-1-87Violation constitutes a misdemeanor. Violation of any of the provisions of this article shall constitute a misdemeanor. (Acts 1991, No. 91-658, p. 1245, §8.)
AL Code § 21-4-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 1 - Accessibility Generally.|Section 21-4-1 - Legislative Intent.

Section 21-4-1Legislative intent. (a) This article is concerned with nonambulatory disabilities, semiambulatory disabilities, sight disabilities, hearing disabilities, disabilities of incoordination, and aging. (b) It is intended to make all buildings and facilities covered by this article accessible to, and functional for, the physically handicapped to, through, and within their doors, without loss of function, space, or facility where the general public is concerned. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §2.)
AL Code § 21-4-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 1 - Accessibility Generally.|Section 21-4-2 - Definitions.

Section 21-4-2Definitions. For the purposes of this article the following terms shall have the meanings as set forth in this section: (1) NONAMBULATORY DISABILITIES. Impairments that, regardless of cause or manifestation, for all practical purposes, confine individuals to wheelchairs. (2) SEMIAMBULATORY DISABILITIES. Impairments that cause individuals to walk with difficulty or insecurity. Individuals using braces or crutches, amputees, arthritics, those with neuromuscular disorders, and those with pulmonary and cardiac ills may be semiambulatory. (3) SIGHT DISABILITIES. Total blindness or impairments affecting sight to the extent that the individual functioning in public areas is insecure or exposed to danger. (4) HEARING DISABILITIES. Deafness or hearing handicaps that might make an individual insecure in public areas because he is unable to communicate or hear warning signals. (5) DISABILITIES OF INCOORDINATION. Faulty coordination or palsy from brain, spinal, or peripheral nerve injury. (6) AGING. Those manifestations of the aging processes that significantly reduce mobility, flexibility, coordination, and perceptiveness but are not accounted for in the aforementioned categories. (7) STANDARD. When this term appears in small letters it is descriptive and shall mean typical type. (8) FIXED TURNING RADIUS, WHEEL TO WHEEL. The tracking of the caster wheels and large wheels of a wheelchair when pivoting on a spot. (9) FIXED TURNING RADIUS, FRONT STRUCTURE TO REAR STRUCTURE. The turning radius of the wheelchair, left front foot platform to right rear wheel or right front foot platform to left rear wheel, when pivoting on a spot. (10) INVOLVED (INVOLVEMENT). A portion or portions of the human anatomy or physiology or both that have a loss or impairment of normal function as a result of genesis, trauma, disease, inflammation, or degeneration. (11) RAMPS, RAMPS WITH GRADIENTS. Ramps with gradients or ramps with slopes that deviate from what would otherwise be considered the normal level. An exterior ramp, as distinguished from a "walk" shall be considered an appendage to a building leading to a level above or below existing ground level. As such, a ramp shall meet certain requirements similar to those imposed upon stairs. (12) WALK, WALKS. A predetermined, prepared-surface exterior pathway leading to or from a building or a facility or from one exterior area to another, placed on the existing ground level and not deviating from the level of the existing ground immediately adjacent. (13) APPROPRIATE NUMBER. The number of a specific item that would be reasonably necessary, in accord with the purpose and function of a building or a facility, to accommodate individuals with specific disabilities in proportion to the anticipated number of individuals with disabilities who would use a particular building or facility. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §3.)
AL Code § 21-4-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 1 - Accessibility Generally.|Section 21-4-3 - Standards and Specifications for Public Buildings and Facilities - Promulgation.

Section 21-4-3Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Promulgation. The State Fire Marshal shall prescribe and publish standards and specifications for the buildings, premises, and facilities to which this article applies, which will make such buildings accessible to and functional for the physically disabled who are confined to wheelchairs and to those ambulating on braces or crutches, or both, or on canes, to the blind and to the deaf. Such standards and specifications may be based on the American National Standards Institute specifications, as heretofore or hereafter amended. Such standards and specifications shall apply to building features such as the width of halls and doorways, and the construction of stairs, the installation of ramps, the installation of other equipment and accessories to aid the handicapped, the location and installation of equipment and accessories for the buildings such as public telephones, fire alarms, toilet rooms, lights, heat and ventilation controls or switches, elevator signals, and similar items of frequent or essential use. They shall require both visual and audible warning devices to warn the deaf and blind as well as the public generally of possible hazards. They shall also apply to the grading of the lots on which any building to which this article applies are located and to walks and parking areas accessible to such buildings. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §1; Acts 1975, No. 1210, p. 2524, §1.)
AL Code § 21-4-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 1 - Accessibility Generally.|Section 21-4-4 - Standards and Specifications for Public Buildings and Facilities - Applicability.

Section 21-4-4Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Applicability. (a) The standards and specifications prescribed by the fire marshal, as authorized in this article, shall apply to all buildings and facilities used by the public which are constructed in whole or in part by the use of state, county, or municipal funds, or the funds of any political subdivision of the state. All such buildings and facilities constructed in this state after October 10, 1975, from any one of these funds or any combination thereof shall conform to each of the standards and specifications prescribed therein, and also any standards and specifications prescribed as supplementary thereto, as authorized in Section 21-4-6. (b) Such standards and specifications shall be adhered to in those buildings and facilities under construction on October 10, 1975, unless a written waiver thereof is issued pursuant to Section 21-4-5. If the authority responsible for the construction determines that the construction has reached a state where compliance is impractical, and applies to the fire marshal or the Director of the Division of Construction Management of the Department of Finance for a waiver, such officer or officers shall issue the requested waiver. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §1; Acts 1975, No. 1210, p. 2524, §1.)
AL Code § 21-4-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 1 - Accessibility Generally.|Section 21-4-5 - Standards and Specifications for Public Buildings and Facilities - Construction and Interpretation; Waivers.

Section 21-4-5Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Construction and interpretation; waivers. (a) The State Fire Marshal and the Division of Construction Management of the Department of Finance are each hereby authorized to construe and interpret the standards and specifications prescribed as authorized in this article. (b) Each of such officers is hereby authorized, with the concurrence of the other, to grant a waiver of a particular standard or specification upon proper application therefor, when in their joint opinion, following the specification or standard would be unreasonably costly and impractical, or that an alternative facility is already reasonably available. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §1; Acts 1975, No. 1210, p. 2524, §1.)
AL Code § 21-4-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 1 - Accessibility Generally.|Section 21-4-6 - Review of Architectural Plans and Specifications; Reviewing Authorities Authorized to Adopt Additional Rules and Regulations.

Section 21-4-6Review of architectural plans and specifications; reviewing authorities authorized to adopt additional rules and regulations. (a) The responsibility for reviewing architectural plans and specifications for buildings to which this article applies shall be as follows: (1) Where state school funds are utilized, the State Board of Education and the Division of Construction Management of the Department of Finance. (2) Where other state funds are utilized, the Division of Construction Management of the Department of Finance. (3) Where funds of counties, municipalities or other political subdivisions are utilized, the governing bodies thereof and the Division of Construction Management of the Department of Finance. (b) Each such reviewing authority is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce rules and regulations prescribing additional standards based on standards prescribed by the American National Standards Institute for making buildings and facilities accessible to and functional for the physically handicapped. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §10; Acts 1975, No. 1210, p. 2524, §1.)
AL Code § 21-4-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 1 - Accessibility Generally.|Section 21-4-7 - Enforcement of Article; Authority of Fire Marshal to Inspect Buildings; Orders to Conform With Standards and Specifications.

Section 21-4-7Enforcement of article; authority of Fire Marshal to inspect buildings; orders to conform with standards and specifications. The State Fire Marshal is charged with the duty of enforcing standards and specifications prescribed as authorized in Section 21-4-3. For such purpose, he shall have the same power and authority to inspect buildings, facilities, and premises to which this article applies that he has relative to buildings which might constitute fire hazards. If he finds that any building to which this article applies does not comply with the applicable standards and specifications duly prescribed and published pursuant to Section 21-4-3, he shall immediately order the same to be conformed to such standards and specifications. Such order may be appealed and enforced in the same manner prescribed for appealing and enforcing the Fire Marshal's orders relative to the elimination of fire hazards. (Acts 1965, No. 224, p. 315, §10; Acts 1975, No. 1210, p. 2524, §1.)
AL Code § 21-4-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 2 - Accessibility of Registration and Polling Places.|Section 21-4-20 - Legislative Intent.

Section 21-4-20Legislative intent. It is the intention of the Legislature in enacting this article to promote the fundamental right to vote by requiring registration and polling places for state elections to be readily accessible to handicapped and elderly individuals. (Acts 1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, §1.)
AL Code § 21-4-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 2 - Accessibility of Registration and Polling Places.|Section 21-4-21 - Definitions.

Section 21-4-21Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, the following terms shall have meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1) ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL. An individual 65 years of age or older; (2) ELECTION FOR STATE OFFICE. A general, special primary, or runoff election for an executive, legislative, or judicial state office that is contested on a statewide basis; (3) HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUAL. An individual qualified to vote, who, by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, is unable without accessible facilities or registration and voting aids to have access to registration and voting equal to that available to persons who are not so affected; (4) STATE. State of Alabama; (5) VOTING PRECINCT. The area inhabited by all individuals assigned to one polling place for a state election. (Acts 1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, §2.)
AL Code § 21-4-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 2 - Accessibility of Registration and Polling Places.|Section 21-4-22 - Promulgation of Guidelines.

Section 21-4-22Promulgation of guidelines. (a) The Attorney General of this state, in consultation with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, and in accordance with Section 553 of Title 5, United States Code, shall promulgate, within six months of April 8, 1985, guidelines to assure that registration and polling place facilities used for state elections are readily accessible to and usable by handicapped and elderly individuals. Such guidelines at a minimum shall require: (1) That all polling places shall be located a. In any building or other facility which is or can be made accessible, by temporary ramp or otherwise, to individuals in wheelchairs on election days for all hours during which said polling places are used for the purpose of a state election; and b. On the ground level of the building or other facility or at a location within such building or facility as is accessible by elevator; and (2) That all places of registration shall be located a. In any building or other facility which is or can be made accessible by temporary ramp or otherwise to individuals in wheelchairs for all hours during which said places of registration are used for the purpose of a state election; and b. On the ground level of the building or other facility or at a location within such building or facility as is accessible by elevator. (b) The requirements of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to registration places located in private residences or to temporary places of registration designated or used by deputy or assistant registrars on a one-time or occasional basis; provided, however, that comparable registration procedures and/or registration places which comply with the guidelines are available to handicapped and elderly individuals. (c) No provision of this article shall be deemed to constitute legal justification for decreasing, or failing to increase, the number of places provided for voter registration or the number of polling places. (Acts 1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, §3.)
AL Code § 21-4-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 2 - Accessibility of Registration and Polling Places.|Section 21-4-23 - Registration and Voting Aids.

Section 21-4-23Registration and voting aids. (a) The appropriate election officials in the several counties of this state shall make available registration and voting aids for handicapped and elderly individuals in state elections. These aids shall include, but are not limited to: (1) Instructions, printed in large type, conspicuously displayed at each voter registration site and polling place, sufficient to provide hearing impaired and seriously visually impaired individuals with adequate information as to how and where they may register and vote. (2) Paper ballots, available at each polling place, for the use of voters who would otherwise be prevented from voting because of their inability to operate a voting machine. (3) Absentee ballots, available to any handicapped or elderly individual who, because of handicap or age, is unable to go to the polling facility in a state election. The deadlines for requesting and submitting an absentee ballot under this subsection shall not be earlier than the latest deadlines prescribed by law for other persons voting by absentee ballot. (4) The opportunity for any handicapped or elderly individual who, because of handicap or age, requires assistance in casting a vote, to select a person of his or her choice to accompany such individual into the polling place to assist in the casting of the vote. (b) The appropriate election officials of each county shall issue public notice in each voting precinct of the requirement for and the availability of these registration and voting aids, which notice shall be notification for all handicapped and elderly individuals. This notice shall be issued as early as practicable, but in any case not later than 60 days before any state election or the registration deadline for such election. (Acts 1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, §4.)
AL Code § 21-4-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 21 - Handicapped Persons.|Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons.|Article 2 - Accessibility of Registration and Polling Places.|Section 21-4-24 - Actions for Injunctive Relief to Enforce Article.

Section 21-4-24Actions for injunctive relief to enforce article. (a) Whenever the Attorney General of this state has reason to believe that (1) A registration or polling place does not comply with the standards prescribed under subsection (a) of Section 21-4-23; or (2) A county has failed to provide registration and voting aids as required by Section 21-4-23, the Attorney General may institute, in the name of the state, an action in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County against the county, for injunctive relief, as may be necessary to implement this article. (b) Whenever an individual has reason to believe that (1) A registration or polling place does not comply with the standards prescribed under subsection (a) of Section 21-4-23; or (2) A county has failed to provide registration and voting aids as required by Section 21-4-23, and that individual is personally aggrieved or is acting on behalf of an individual personally aggrieved by failure of the county to comply with this article, that individual may institute an action in the local circuit court against the county, for injunctive relief, as may be necessary to implement this article. (Acts 1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, §5.)
AL Code § 22-1-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Section 22-1-1 - "State Health Department" Defined.

Section 22-1-1"State Health Department" defined. For the purposes of this title, the phrase "State Health Department" shall mean the State Board of Health or the State Committee of Public Health, when acting for the State Board of Health.
AL Code § 22-1-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Section 22-1-2 - Conflicts Between Municipal and General Health Laws.

Section 22-1-2Conflicts between municipal and general health laws. In the event that any of the provisions of Title 11 of this Code relating to municipal corporations shall be in conflict with any of the provisions of the general health and quarantine laws of the state, the provisions of such general health and quarantine laws shall prevail. (Code 1907, §732; Code 1923, §1155; Code 1940, T. 22, §94.)
AL Code § 22-1-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Section 22-1-3 - Control of Public Health Work Under County and State Boards of Health.

Section 22-1-3Control of public health work under county and state boards of health. No local board of health or other executive body for the exercise of public health functions other than the county board of health shall be established or exist in any county or municipality. No municipality shall have a municipal health officer or other like officer. No board, body or organization or any official or person, acting or claiming to be under any federal authority or acting without claim of federal or state authority shall engage in any public health work except under the supervision and control of the State Board of Health. (Code 1876, §1543; Code 1886, §1286; Code 1896, §2433; Code 1907, §701; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1050; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 22, §6.)
AL Code § 22-1-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Section 22-1-4 - Appointment of Subordinate Officers and Employees; Control of Expenditures.

Section 22-1-4Appointment of subordinate officers and employees; control of expenditures. In the administration of the public health and quarantine laws of the state, the appointment of all subordinate officers and employees shall be made by the health officer or officers in authority, subject, however, to the approval of the State Board of Health or of a county board of health, in accordance with their respective jurisdictions. All expenditures, except such as are provided for by specific appropriations, shall be under the control of the Governor, the judge of probate and county commission or of the municipal authorities, in the same manner as such expenditures are made under state, county or municipal authority. (Code 1876, §1542; Code 1886, §1285; Code 1896, §2432; Code 1907, §727; Code 1923, §1150; Code 1940, T. 22, §89.)