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2023 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 21-9-9
Duties 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.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 21 - Handicapped Persons. › Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services. › Section 21-9-10 - Commissioner.

Section 21-9-10
Commissioner.
(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.)
2023 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 21-9-12
Continuation 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.)
2023 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 21-9-13
Administrative 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.)
2023 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 21-9-14
Office 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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 22-1-2
Conflicts 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.)
2023 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 22-1-3
Control 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.)
2023 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 22-1-4
Appointment 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.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-5 - Salaries of Public Health Dentists.

Section 22-1-5
Salaries of public health dentists.
The State Health Officer shall, under the direction of the State Board of Health and with the approval of the State Personnel Board, fix the salaries of dentists holding graduate degrees or certificates in public health, or who are diplomates of a specialty board established by the American Dental Association, in any amount which does not exceed an amount that is $1,000.00 less than the salary of the State Health Officer.
(Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 253, p. 368.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-6 - Public Dispensaries Treating Communicable Diseases.

Section 22-1-6
Public dispensaries treating communicable diseases.
No public dispensary where communicable diseases are treated or diagnosed shall be conducted or maintained otherwise than in accordance with the regulations provided by the State Board of Health.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1113; Code 1940, T. 22, §57.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-7 - Procedure When County Health Officer, etc., Resisted.

Section 22-1-7
Procedure when county health officer, etc., resisted.
If, in the attempt to perform any duty enjoined by any public health law of the State of Alabama or rule or regulation of the State Board of Health, the health or quarantine officer of a county, or his duly authorized representative, shall be forcibly resisted or threatened with forceful resistance, such health officer shall, after conference with the county board of health, if found necessary, make affidavit before any judge of a circuit court, district court, municipal court or the judge of probate of the municipality or county where such resistance occurs or is threatened, whereupon the officer before whom said affidavit has been made shall forthwith issue his warrant directed to the sheriff or to any bonded constable of said county, commanding said sheriff or constable to remove or abate, under the direction of said health officer, said insanitary condition, or source of infection or offensive or indecent material or thing or to remove said afflicted person; and it shall be the duty of said sheriff or constable, to whom said warrant shall be delivered, to promptly execute the same. In executing every such warrant, the said sheriff or constable shall have the right to enter by force into any such lot, piece of ground, house or vessel or upon such pond, lake or stream.
(Code 1907, §721; Code 1923, §1141; Acts 1927, No. 640, p. 774; Acts 1935, No. 443, p. 918; Code 1940, T. 22, §80.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-8 - Penalty for Violation of Health or Quarantine Law.

Section 22-1-8
Penalty for violation of health or quarantine law.
Any person who violates any of the health or quarantine laws, except those for which a special penalty is prescribed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Code 1907, §7058; Code 1923, §4360; Code 1940, T. 22, §104.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-9 - Certain County and Local Laws Unaffected by Title.

Section 22-1-9
Certain county and local laws unaffected by title.
Nothing in this title shall be so construed as to amend or repeal any state quarantine law or any local public health or quarantine law applying to a county. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to repeal any local law regulating nuisances to the public health.
(Code 1907, §729; Code 1923, §1152; Code 1940, T. 22, §91.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-12 - Cardiac Arrest Survival.

Section 22-1-12
Cardiac arrest survival.
(a) The Department of Public Health shall establish a comprehensive cardiac arrest survival plan for the training, credentialing, and certification of primary cardiac care providers in the use of semiautomatic external defibrillators based on national guidelines for life-saving interventions of persons suffering sudden, non-traumatic cardiac arrest promulgated by the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
(b) All funds from the appropriation in Act 99-372 of the 1999 Regular Session shall be used to assist in the purchase or acquisition of semiautomatic external defibrillators and training for emergency medical care providers. To be eligible for assistance, emergency medical care providers shall meet standards established by the department.
(Act 99-372, p. 600, §§1, 3; Act 2018-152, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-13 - Breastfeeding Children in Public or Private Locations.

Section 22-1-13
Breastfeeding children in public or private locations.
A mother may breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be present.
(Act 2006-526, p. 1222, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-14 - Licensure Freedom Act.

Section 22-1-14
Licensure Freedom Act.
(a) State licensure requirements for physicians, chiropractors, optometrists, and dentists in this state shall be granted based on demonstrated skill and academic competence. Licensure approval for physicians, chiropractors, optometrists, and dentists in this state may not be conditioned upon or related to participation in any public or private health insurance plan, public health care system, public service initiative, or emergency room coverage.
(b) The licensure of dentists, osteopaths, chiropractors, optometrists, and physicians shall be conducted exclusively pursuant to Chapter 9 of Title 34; Division 1, commencing with Section 34-24-50, of Article 3 of Chapter 24 of Title 34; Article 4, commencing with Section 34-24-120, of Chapter 24 of Title 34; Chapter 22 of Title 34; and Division 1, commencing with Section 34-24-310, of Article 8 of Title 34, respectively.
(c) Physician or optometric licensure shall not be conditioned upon or related to compliance with the "meaningful use" of electronic health records as set forth in C.F.R. Part 170.
(Act 2014-273, p. 877, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-15 - Certification Card for Persons Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Section 22-1-15
Certification card for persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
(a) Upon the request of a person medically diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or the guardian or caregiver of the person, the Alabama Department of Public Health shall issue a certification card denoting that the person has been medically diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The certification card and the person's driver's license may be presented to law enforcement as necessary.
(b) The Alabama Department of Public Health shall establish by rule the proof required to be produced by a person medically diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder who requests a certification card under subsection (a).
(c) The department may collect a reasonable fee for the issuance of the certification card as determined by the department.
(Act 2014-344, p. 1284, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-17 - Sale of Over-the-Counter Spectacles.

Section 22-1-17
Sale of over-the-counter spectacles.
(a) For the purposes of this section, over-the-counter spectacles means nonprescription, ready-to-wear magnifying spectacles or glasses that contain spherical convex lenses, uniform in each meridian, which are encased in eyeglass frames and intended to ameliorate the symptoms of presbyopia. The lenses in over-the-counter spectacles may not have a minus power (-) and may not exceed plus three and one-half diopters (+3.50).
(b) The sale of over-the-counter spectacles which do not conform to the definition in subsection (a) is unlawful.
(c) A violation of this section may be enforced by the Board of Optometry, a district attorney, or the Attorney General.
(Act 2017-319, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-1-18 - Autism Spectrum Disorder Coverage and Reimbursement Under Children’s Health Insurance Plan.

Section 22-1-18
Autism Spectrum Disorder coverage and reimbursement under Children’s Health Insurance Plan.
In the administration of and provision of benefits for the Children's Health Insurance Plan (ALL Kids), the Alabama Department of Public Health, on and after December 31, 2018, shall provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the same manner and same levels as health benefit plans.
(Act 2017-337, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-1 - State Board of Health - How Constituted.

Section 22-2-1
State Board of Health - How constituted.
The Medical Association of the State of Alabama, as constituted under the laws now in force or which hereafter may be in force, is the State Board of Health.
(Code 1907, §698; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1046; Code 1940, T. 22, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-2 - State Board of Health - Authority and Jurisdiction.

Section 22-2-2
State Board of Health - Authority and jurisdiction.
The State Board of Health shall have authority and jurisdiction:
(1) To exercise general control over the enforcement of the laws relating to public health.
(2) To investigate the causes, modes or propagation and means of prevention of diseases.
(3) To investigate the influence of localities and employment on the health of the people.
(4) To inspect all schools, hospitals, asylums, jails, theatres, opera houses, courthouses, churches, public halls, prisons, stockades where convicts are kept, markets, dairies, milk depots, slaughter pens or houses, railroad depots, railroad cars, street railroad cars, lines of railroads and street railroads (including the territory contiguous to said lines), industrial and manufacturing establishments, offices, stores, banks, club houses, hotels, rooming houses, residences and other places of like character, and whenever insanitary conditions in any of these places, institutions or establishments or conditions prejudicial to health, or likely to become so, are found, proper steps shall be taken by the proper authorities to have such conditions corrected or abated.
(5) To examine the source of supply, tanks, reservoirs, pumping stations and avenues of conveyance of drinking water, and whenever these waters are found polluted or conditions are discovered likely to bring about their pollution, proper steps shall be taken by proper authorities to improve or correct conditions.
(6) To adopt and promulgate rules and regulations providing proper methods and details for administering the health and quarantine laws of the state, which rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of law and shall be executed and enforced by the same courts, bodies, officials, agents and employees as in the case of health laws, and a quorum, as provided for by the constitution of the medical association of the State of Alabama, shall be competent to act.
(7) To exercise supervision and control over county boards of health and over county health officers and county quarantine officers in the enforcement of the public health laws of the state in their respective counties, and whenever any such county board of health, county health officer or county quarantine officer shall fail or refuse to discharge its or his duties, said duties may be discharged by the State Board of Health until proper arrangements are made to insure their discharge by said county board of health or said county health officer or said county quarantine officer, as the case may be.
(8) To act as an advisory board to the state in all medical matters and matters of sanitation and public health.
(Code 1907, §702; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1051; Acts 1927, No. 640, p. 774; Code 1940, T. 22, §7; Acts 1965, No. 796, p. 1496, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-3 - State Board of Health - Annual Report to Governor.

Section 22-2-3
State Board of Health - Annual report to Governor.
The State Board of Health shall submit to the Governor an annual report of its transactions, in which report recommendations as to needed health legislation may be embodied.
(Code 1907, §705; Code 1923, §1054; Code 1940, T. 22, §11.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-4 - State Committee of Public Health - How Constituted.

Section 22-2-4
State Committee of Public Health - How constituted.
There is hereby created a State Committee of Public Health which shall be composed of 12 members of the board of censors of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and the chairman of the four councils which are created in Section 22-2-9. The medical doctor members of the committee shall be selected by the State Board of Health, one from each of the United States congressional districts and the remainder from the state at large. A majority of the State Committee of Public Health shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman to serve one term of four years. Upon incapacitation or resignation of the chairman, the vice-chairman shall succeed to the chairmanship of the committee. Each member of the State Committee of Public Health shall have one vote, except the chairman who shall vote only in case of a tie. The State Health Officer shall be ex officio secretary to the committee, though not a member thereof, and he shall have no vote.
The members of the committee shall receive per diem at a rate of $100.00 per day or any portion thereof that such committee members shall be in attendance at an official meeting or function of the committee. In addition, each committee member shall receive reimbursement for subsistence and travel in accordance with state law for each day actively engaged in the duties of their office.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1047; Code 1940, T. 22, §2; Acts 1973, No. 762, p. 1141, §1; Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-931, p. 230, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-5 - State Committee of Public Health - Prerogatives, Powers and Duties.

Section 22-2-5
State Committee of Public Health - Prerogatives, powers and duties.
Whenever the words "State Board of Health" are used in this title, or in any chapter or subsection thereof, said words shall mean the "State Committee of Public Health," as created in Section 22-2-4, except when the State Board of Health is in actual session assembled. The State Committee of Public Health, as constituted by this chapter, shall have and possess all the prerogatives and powers and duties heretofore prescribed by law for the State Board of Health and shall act for said board. The State Board of Health may by a three-fifths vote alter or amend any action of the State Committee of Public Health, but only when said board is in session assembled.
(Acts 1973, No. 762, p. 1141, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-6 - When State Committee to Act for State Board; Meetings of State Committee.

Section 22-2-6
When state committee to act for state board; meetings of state committee.
When the State Board of Health is not in session, the State Committee of Public Health shall act for said board and have and discharge all the prerogatives and duties of said board, including the adoption and promulgation of rules and regulations. Meetings of the State Committee of Public Health shall be held monthly. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. Special meetings of the committee may be called by the chairman upon 10 days prior written notice to the members thereof.
(Code 1896, §2424; Code 1907, §699; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1048; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 22, §3; Acts 1965, No. 796, p. 1496, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-7 - Annual Report to Legislature by State Committee; Requests by Same for Information.

Section 22-2-7
Annual report to Legislature by state committee; requests by same for information.
The State Committee of Public Health and the State Board of Health shall be accountable to the Legislature of Alabama and shall make an annual report to the Legislature. The Legislature, or any committee thereof, may, from time to time, request certain information from the State Board of Health and the State Committee of Public Health, and both groups are hereby directed to lend their full cooperation in response to these requests.
(Acts 1973, No. 762, p. 1141, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-8 - State Health Officer.

Section 22-2-8
State Health Officer.
The State Committee of Public Health shall elect an executive officer who shall be a physician licensed in the State of Alabama to be known as the State Health Officer and shall fix his term of office and salary. The qualifications of this individual shall be determined by the State Committee of Public Health. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the State Health Officer shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in the amount of $5,000.00, for the faithful performance of his duties. The State Health Officer so elected shall, under the direction of the State Committee of Public Health and with the approval of the State Personnel Board, fix the salaries of the medical employees of the State Committee of Public Health. When the State Committee of Public Health is not in session, the State Health Officer, as executive officer of the Department of Public Health, shall act for said committee and shall have and discharge all the prerogatives and duties of said committee. He shall report his actions to the committee at its next meeting after such action is taken, and such action of the State Health Officer shall then be subject to confirmation or modification by the committee. The State Health Officer shall exercise general supervision over county boards of health and county health officers and promptly report to said county boards of health any delinquencies of official duty on the part of said county health officers which may come to his knowledge, keep himself informed in regard to all diseases which may be in danger of invading the state and, as far as authorized by law, take prompt measures to prevent such invasions and keep the Governor and the Legislature informed as to the health conditions prevailing in the state, especially as to outbreaks of any of the diseases enumerated in Chapter 11 of this title, and submit to the Governor and Legislature such recommendations as he deems proper to control such outbreaks.
(Acts 1943, No. 122, p. 123; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 2190; Acts 1973, No. 762, p. 1141, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-10 - Council on Dental Health, Council on Animal and Environmental Health, Council on Prevention of Disease and Medical Care and Council on Health Costs, Administration and Organization - Chairmen; Vacancies; Meetings; Quorum; Compensation.

Section 22-2-10
Council on Dental Health, Council on Animal and Environmental Health, Council on Prevention of Disease and Medical Care and Council on Health Costs, Administration and Organization - Chairmen; vacancies; meetings; quorum; compensation.
Each such council shall select from among its members, by majority vote, a chairman; and the chairman of each such council, by virtue of his selection as chairman, shall be a member of the State Committee of Public Health with full voting privileges, rights and responsibilities of membership. As each term expires on each council, the designated association or person responsible for the original appointment shall fill the vacancy for a five-year term. Appointees who serve less than five-year terms shall be eligible for reappointment for only one five-year term. A council member who ceases to be a member of the appointing authority or who no longer is a resident of the State of Alabama shall automatically cease to be a member of the council and his unexpired term shall be filled by the original appointing authority. No person shall be eligible for appointment to the State Committee of Public Health or to a council created in Section 22-2-9 who, at the time of his appointment, is 65 years of age. A schedule of meetings for each council shall be established by each council on a quarterly basis, or more frequently, as may be deemed necessary. A majority of the members of each council shall constitute a quorum. The chairman of each council shall serve for a term of two years and may be reelected as chairman for not more than one successive term or for a total of four years as chairman. Members of the four councils as outlined in this section shall serve without compensation, but members may be reimbursed for expenses incurred in connection with attendance at council meetings or authorized business of the council pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 36.
(Acts 1973, No. 762, p. 1141, §3; Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-931, p. 230, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-11 - Compensation of State Health Department Personnel.

Section 22-2-11
Compensation of State Health Department personnel.
Subject to the provisions of the merit system, where applicable, the compensation of all employees, agents or subordinate personnel of the State Health Department shall be determined by the State Health Officer with the approval of the State Board of Health.
(Acts 1935, No. 334, p. 771; Code 1940, T. 22, §10.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-12 - How Salaries, Costs, and Expenses to Be Paid.

Section 22-2-12
How salaries, costs, and expenses to be paid.
Except as otherwise provided by law, salaries of all employees and the costs of all supplies and other expenses necessary to make operative the provisions of this Code and other statutes administered or enforced by the State Health Department shall be paid by the State Health Department out of the general appropriation made by the Legislature for public health work.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1089; Code 1940, T. 22, §44.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-13 - Recovery of Expenses by Health Officer, Sheriff, or Bond Constable.

Section 22-2-13
Recovery of expenses by health officer, sheriff, or bond constable.
When an expense has been incurred by any health officer, sheriff or bonded constable in the execution of the duties required by the provisions of this Code or other statute relating to public health, said health officer, sheriff or bonded constable, as the case may be, shall have the right of action against the person responsible for the said expense for the recovery of the same; but no more than is fair and reasonable shall be recovered, as the court or jury shall determine.
(Code 1907, §728; Code 1923, §1151; Code 1940, T. 22, §90.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2 - State Health Authorities. › Section 22-2-14 - Penalty for Violation of State Board of Health Rules or Regulations.

Section 22-2-14
Penalty for violation of State Board of Health rules or regulations.
Any person who knowingly violates or fails or refuses to obey or comply with any rule or regulation adopted and promulgated by the State Board of Health of this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 and, if the violation or failure or refusal to obey or comply with such rule or regulation is a continuing one, each day's violation, or failure or refusal shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punished accordingly.
(Code 1907, §7073; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §4375; Code 1940, T. 22, §103.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2A - Joint Drug Purchase Program for Certain State Agenicies. › Section 22-2A-1 - Legislative Findings.

Section 22-2A-1
Legislative findings.
The Legislature of Alabama finds that the high cost of pharmaceuticals is a matter of much concern to this state, especially as the cost and utilization of drug therapy continues to rise. Insofar as this rise represents a trend towards drug therapy in lieu of more invasive and expensive procedures, it represents a positive change. At the same time, increasing drug costs can effectively prevent large numbers of patients from accessing vital medication. The solution to this problem should be market-based. This legislation attempts such a solution by (1) consolidating the state's buying power in the pharmaceutical market, and (2) authorizing the State Health Officer to negotiate rebates and discounts from pharmaceutical manufacturers. The result should be better prices for agencies and departments of the State of Alabama and better access to life-saving drugs for clients, by law, they are mandated to serve.
(Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2A - Joint Drug Purchase Program for Certain State Agenicies. › Section 22-2A-2 - Definitions.

Section 22-2A-2
Definitions.
As used in this chapter the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) MULTI-STATE POOLING INITIATIVE. A group of two or more states working together to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals purchased or paid for by those states.
(2) PHARMACEUTICAL or DRUG. Any medicinal substance, preparation, or device recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or any revision thereof, and any substance and preparation intended for external and internal use in the cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans, and any substance and preparation other than food intended to affect the structure or any function of the human body.
(3) PHARMACEUTICAL PROGRAM. A program administered by the Department of Mental Health, Department of Corrections, Department of Public Health, Department of Youth Services, or the Department of Rehabilitation Services, pursuant to which pharmaceuticals are purchased for use by clients.
(4) STATE AGENCY. The Department of Mental Health, Department of Corrections, Department of Public Health, Department of Youth Services, and the Department of Rehabilitation Services.
(5) SUPPLIER. A wholesaler or manufacturer of pharmaceuticals.
(Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2A - Joint Drug Purchase Program for Certain State Agenicies. › Section 22-2A-3 - Program and Procedures; Exceptions; Competitive Bidding.

Section 22-2A-3
Program and procedures; exceptions; competitive bidding.
(a) The State Health Officer may develop, maintain, and implement a program and procedures to do the following: (1) Aggregate or negotiate the purchase of pharmaceuticals for pharmaceutical programs for state agencies, as defined herein, or joining a multi-state pooling initiative, or both, and (2) maximize savings, rebates, and discounts from suppliers on pharmaceutical purchases under any pharmaceutical program enumerated in this chapter. The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules and regulations for the purpose of implementing this chapter with the approval of the chief executive officers of the departments and agencies administering a pharmaceutical program.
(b) Subdivision (1) of subsection (a) shall not apply to state insurance plans that provide reimbursement for the purchase of pharmaceuticals to public employees.
(c) All purchase contracts for pharmaceuticals for pharmaceutical programs for state agencies shall be subject to the applicable state competitive bid requirements and procedures.
(Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2A - Joint Drug Purchase Program for Certain State Agenicies. › Section 22-2A-4 - Applicability of Chapter.

Section 22-2A-4
Applicability of chapter.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, pharmaceutical programs as defined herein shall obtain drugs through the program established pursuant to this chapter, unless a particular pharmaceutical program can purchase its pharmaceuticals at a special rate, which is lower than the savings and rebates that could be realized under this chapter, through an agreement or federal or state government public health program or a contract currently in place for the purchasing of pharmaceuticals by a pharmaceutical program in this state. In the event a contract is currently in place for the purchasing of pharmaceuticals by a pharmaceutical program in this state, the contract shall not be abrogated and shall remain in place until the occurrence of the earlier of the expiration date or the earliest termination date, as applicable.
(Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2A - Joint Drug Purchase Program for Certain State Agenicies. › Section 22-2A-5 - Access to Medications by Certain Clients.

Section 22-2A-5
Access to medications by certain clients.
Negotiations pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of Section 22-2A-3 shall not restrict access to medications required by clients served by the Department of Mental Health.
(Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2A - Joint Drug Purchase Program for Certain State Agenicies. › Section 22-2A-6 - Medicaid Agency Exempt.

Section 22-2A-6
Medicaid Agency exempt.
The Medicaid Agency shall be exempt from this chapter.
(Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 2A - Joint Drug Purchase Program for Certain State Agenicies. › Section 22-2A-7 - Disposition of Funds.

Section 22-2A-7
Disposition of funds.
All rebates and savings specifically realized shall be deposited in the General Fund of the state.
(Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 3 - Local Health Authorities. › Section 22-3-1 - County Boards of Health - How Constituted.

Section 22-3-1
County boards of health - How constituted.
The boards of censors of county medical societies in affiliation with the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and organized in accordance with the provisions of its constitution, as it now or may hereafter exist, are constituted county boards of health of their respective counties, including all incorporated municipalities therein, but shall be under the general supervision and control of the State Board of Health. Whenever the name "county committee of public health" or other name or expression referring to the county committee of public health, as such, occurs in the Code of Alabama or any other statute law of the State of Alabama, or in the constitution of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama or in the constitution of the medical society of a county in the State of Alabama, said name or expression shall include and mean the county board of health provided for in this section. The presiding officer of each county commission shall be a member of the county board of health in his county.
(Code 1907, §700; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1049; Code 1940, T. 22, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 3 - Local Health Authorities. › Section 22-3-3 - County Boards of Health - Authority to Receive, Hold, etc., Money, Real Estate, Etc.

Section 22-3-3
County boards of health - Authority to receive, hold, etc., money, real estate, etc.
In addition to all other authority now granted them by law, county boards of health are hereby authorized to solicit, receive and hold gifts, devises and bequests of money, real estate and other things of value to be used in the support, development and carrying on of their work.
(Acts 1949, No. 306, p. 440.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 3 - Local Health Authorities. › Section 22-3-4 - County Health Officers - Powers.

Section 22-3-4
County health officers - Powers.
The county health officer, elected as provided in Section 22-3-2, shall devote all of his time to official work and shall, under no circumstances, engage in private practice. He shall, under the direction of the State Health Officer and the county board of health, have sole direction of all sanitary and public health work within the county, including incorporated municipalities, and shall employ for his assistants, subject to the provisions of the appropriate merit system, such number of physicians, nurses, clerks, inspectors and other employees as are found necessary to accomplish the work. The county health officer may remove from office any assistant or employee, subject to the rules of the appropriate merit system.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1055; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 22, §12.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 3 - Local Health Authorities. › Section 22-3-6 - County Health Officers - Salary.

Section 22-3-6
County health officers - Salary.
The salary of the county health officer shall be fixed by the appropriate merit system, and shall be payable from funds available to the county for this purpose; provided, that in those counties in which a budget has been provided and agreed upon by the state, county or other contributing agencies, it may be paid out of said budget, by or under the direction of the State Board of Health, as other claims are paid out of said budget.
(Code 1907, §707; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1059; Acts 1927, No. 640, p. 774; Code 1940, T. 22, §15.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 3 - Local Health Authorities. › Section 22-3-7 - County Health Officers - Bond.

Section 22-3-7
County health officers - Bond.
The health officer of a county shall enter into bond, with sufficient sureties, payable to the State Health Officer and the judge of probate of the county, in the amount of $10,000.00, with condition for the faithful performance of all such duties as are or may be required of him by law.
(Code 1907, §708; Code 1923, §1061; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 22, §17.)