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2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics. › Section 22-9A-19 - Amendment of Vital Records.

Section 22-9A-19
Amendment of vital records.
(a) A certificate registered under this chapter may be amended only in accordance with this chapter and rules adopted by the board to protect the integrity and accuracy of vital records.
(b) A certificate that is amended under this section shall be marked "AMENDED" except as otherwise provided in this section. The date of amendment and a summary description of the evidence submitted in support of the amendment shall be made a part of the record. Additions or minor corrections may be made to certificates within one year after the date of the event without the certificate being marked "AMENDED." The board shall prescribe by rules the conditions under which additions or minor corrections may be made.
(c) Amendment of names on a birth certificate.
(1) Until the fifth birthday of the registrant, given names for a child whose birth was recorded without given names may be added to the certificate upon affidavit of both parents, or the mother in the case of a child born out of wedlock, or the father in the case of the death or incapacity of the mother, or the mother in the case of the death or incapacity of the father, or the guardian or agency having legal custody of the registrant. The certificate shall not be marked "AMENDED."
(2) Until the first birthday of the child, given names may be amended upon affidavit of both parents, or the mother in the case of a child born out of wedlock, or the father in the case of the death or incapacity of the mother, or the mother in the case of the death or incapacity of the father, or the guardian or agency having legal custody of the registrant. The certificate shall be marked "AMENDED." After one year from the date of birth, the provisions of subdivision (c)(3) of this section shall be followed.
(3) Upon receipt of a certified copy of an order from a court with competent jurisdiction changing the name of a person born in this state, the State Registrar shall amend the certificate of birth to show the new name.
(d) Upon receipt of a certified copy of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction indicating that the sex of an individual born in this state has been changed by surgical procedure and that the name of the individual has been changed, the certificate of birth of the individual shall be amended as prescribed by rules to reflect the changes.
(e) If an applicant does not submit the minimum documentation required in the rules for amending a vital record, or if the State Registrar has reasonable cause to question the validity or adequacy of the sworn statements or the documentary evidence of the applicant, the State Registrar shall not amend the vital record, unless the deficiencies are corrected.
(f) Once an amendment of an item is made on a vital record, that item shall not be amended again except upon receipt of an order from a court of competent jurisdiction.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-607, p. 1255, §19.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics. › Section 22-9A-20 - Reproduction of Vital Records.

Section 22-9A-20
Reproduction of vital records.
The State Registrar, to preserve vital records, may prepare typewritten, photographic, microfilm, digital, electronic, or other reproductions of certificates or reports in the Office of Vital Statistics. The reproductions, when certified by the State Registrar, shall be accepted for all legal purposes as the original records. The documents from which permanent reproductions have been made and verified may be disposed of as provided by the State Records Commission.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-607, p. 1255, §20.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics. › Section 22-9A-24 - Persons Required to Keep Records and to Furnish Information.

Section 22-9A-24
Persons required to keep records and to furnish information.
(a)(1) Every person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to the institution. This record shall include information as required for the certificates of birth and death and the reports of fetal death required by this chapter. The record shall be made at the time of admission from information provided by the person being admitted or confined, but when it cannot be obtained, the information shall be obtained from relatives or other persons acquainted with the facts. The name and address of the person providing the information shall be part of the record.
(2) When a dead body or dead fetus is released or disposed of by an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall keep a record as provided for in subsection (e) of Section 22-9A-16.
(3) Not later than the fifth day of the month following the month of occurrence, the person in charge of each institution shall send to the Office of Vital Statistics a list showing all births, deaths, and fetal deaths occurring in that institution during the preceding month. The lists shall be on forms or in a format prescribed by the State Registrar.
(b)(1) A funeral director who removes from the place of death, transports, or makes final disposition of a dead body or fetus shall keep a record as provided for in subsection (f) of Section 22-9A-16.
(2) Not later than the fifth day of the month following the month of occurrence, each funeral director shall send to the Office of Vital Statistics a list showing all dead bodies embalmed or otherwise prepared for final disposition or dead bodies finally disposed of by the funeral director during the preceding month. The list shall be on forms or in a format provided by the State Registrar.
(c) Not later than the fifth day of the month following the month of occurrence, each county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner who investigates a death or takes charge of a dead body or is responsible for certifying the cause of death shall send to the Office of Vital Statistics a list showing all of these deaths. The list shall contain the name of the deceased and the date and place of death and shall be on forms or in a format prescribed by the State Registrar.
(d) Records maintained under this section shall be made available for inspection by the State Registrar or his or her representative upon demand.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-607, p. 1255, §24.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics. › Section 22-9A-25 - Enforcement.

Section 22-9A-25
Enforcement.
Each local and deputy registrar is charged with the strict and thorough enforcement of the provisions of this chapter in his or her registration district, under the supervision and direction of the State Registrar. He or she shall make an immediate report to the State Registrar of any violation of this section coming to his or her knowledge by observation, upon complaint of any person, or otherwise. The State Registrar shall thoroughly and efficiently execute the provisions of this chapter and rules of the board in every part of the state and shall possess supervisory power over local registrars and deputy registrars, to ensure the compliance with all requirements of this chapter. The State Registrar, either personally or by an accredited representative, may investigate cases of irregularity or violation of this chapter and rules of the board, and all registrars shall aid him or her, upon request, in the investigations. If the State Registrar deems it necessary, he or she shall report cases of violation of any provision of this chapter to the proper district attorney and grand jury with a statement of the facts and circumstances. The district attorney, upon receipt of the report, shall initiate and promptly pursue the necessary court proceedings against the person or corporation responsible for the violation. The Attorney General, upon request of the State Registrar, shall assist in the enforcement of this chapter and the rules of the board.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-607, p. 1255, §25.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics. › Section 22-9A-26 - Penalty for Violation of Chapter or Rules of the State Board of Health.

Section 22-9A-26
Penalty for violation of chapter or rules of the State Board of Health.
(a) Any person who does any of the following shall be guilty of a Class C felony:
(1) Willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or rules of the board, or in an application for an amendment to a certificate, record, or report, or in an application for a certified copy of a vital record, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that the information be used in the preparation of any report, record, or certificate, or amendment of the report, record, or certificate.
(2) With intent to deceive and without lawful authority, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends, or mutilates any certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or rules of the board, or a certified copy of the certificate, record, or report.
(3) Willfully and knowingly obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes, or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or certified copy thereof, required by this chapter or rules of the board that is any of the following:
a. Made, counterfeited, altered, amended, or mutilated.
b. False in whole or in part.
c. Relates to the birth of another person, whether living or deceased.
(4) As an employee of the Office of Vital Statistics or any district designated under Section 22-9A-4, willfully and knowingly furnishes or processes a certificate of birth, or certified copy of a certificate of birth, with the knowledge or intention that it be used for the purposes of deception.
(5) Without lawful authority possesses any certificate, record, or report, required by this chapter or rules of the board, or copy or certified copy or the certificate, record, or report knowing same to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained.
(b) Any person who does any of the following shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 per violation:
(1) Willfully and knowingly fails or refuses to provide information required by this chapter or rules of the board adopted pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Willfully and knowingly finally disposes of a dead body without authorization as specified in Section 22-9A-16.
(3) Willfully and knowingly neglects or violates any of the provisions of this chapter or rules of the board, or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon him or her by this chapter or rules of the board.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-607, p. 1255, §26.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics. › Section 22-9A-27 - Continuation of Rules and Forms.

Section 22-9A-27
Continuation of rules and forms.
All rules, forms, and procedures promulgated by the board prior to May 21, 1992 shall continue in force and effect until the forms, rules, or procedures are repealed, amended, replaced, or rescinded by action of the board through the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act, Sections 41-22-1 to 41-22-27, inclusive.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-607, p. 1255, §27.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics. › Section 22-9A-28 - Applicability.

Section 22-9A-28
Applicability.
The provisions of this chapter also apply to all certificates of birth, death, marriage, divorce, or annulment, and reports of fetal death and induced termination of pregnancy previously received by the Office of Vital Statistics and in the custody of the State Registrar or any other custodian of vital records.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-607, p. 1255, §28.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10 - Nuisances Menacing Public Health. › Section 22-10-1 - Enumeration of Conditions, etc., Constituting Public Nuisances Menacing Public Health.

Section 22-10-1
Enumeration of conditions, etc., constituting public nuisances menacing public health.
The following things, conditions and acts, among others, are hereby declared to be public nuisances per se, menacing public health and unlawful:
(1) Animals (including fish, birds, fowls and insects), other than human beings, infected with or acting as, or likely to act as, conveyors of disease or infection whereby they are likely to become menaces to public health;
(2) Insanitary buildings, yards, premises, places, privies, ponds, marshes, swamps and dumps which are, or are likely to become, menaces to public health;
(3) Insanitary clothing, bedding, furniture, vehicles, containers, receptacles, appliances and equipment which are, or are likely to become, nuisances to public health;
(4) Unwholesome, or decayed or infected meats, fish, fruits or other food or foodstuffs, medicines, drugs, beverages or drinking waters which are, or are likely to become, menaces to public health;
(5) Such other acts, things or conditions as may, from time to time, be by the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health declared to be public nuisances per se, menacing public health;
(6) The ownership, possession, management, control, maintenance, permitting or use of any of the things or conditions described or referred to in this section or in any rule or regulation adopted under subdivision (5) of this section;
(7) The conducting of a business, trade, industry or occupation or the doing of a thing, not inherently insanitary or a menace to public health, in such a manner as to make it a menace, or likely to become a menace, to public health; and
(8) The conducting of a business, trade or industry or occupation or the doing of a thing lawful, but inherently insanitary or a menace to public health, without complying with safeguards for the protection of health as may, from time to time, be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health.
(Code 1907, §718; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1136; Code 1940, T. 22, §75.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10 - Nuisances Menacing Public Health. › Section 22-10-2 - How and by Whom Nuisances to Be Abated.

Section 22-10-2
How and by whom nuisances to be abated.
Any such nuisance shall be abated by the county board of health and the county health officer in any of the ways provided in this chapter that may be appropriate or in any other lawful manner including abatement by a complaint. And an effort to abate by one method shall not preclude resort to any other method or methods. In litigation undertaken by such board for the abatement of a nuisance, said litigation may be conducted in the name of said board.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1137; Code 1940, T. 22, §76.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10 - Nuisances Menacing Public Health. › Section 22-10-3 - Summary Destruction of Property Without Compensation.

Section 22-10-3
Summary destruction of property without compensation.
When such nuisance consists of one or more of the diseased animals mentioned in this chapter, or of insanitary clothing or bedding, furniture, vehicles, containers, receptacles or appliances, or of unwholesome or decayed or infected meats, fish, fruits or other foods or foodstuffs, medicines, drugs or beverages or consists of personal property of small value and which nuisance, in the opinion of the county board of health, should be abated by destroying rather than curing, cleansing or disinfecting the animal or animals or thing or material involved; or consists of equipment which by reason of its nature cannot be used without being such a nuisance; or consists of a privy of an insanitary or improper type, the county board of health shall, if after a careful investigation of the facts it considers such a course necessary for the protection of the public health, adjudicate such animal or animals, or things or material involved or such privy, as the case may be, to be such nuisance and order its summary destruction without compensation to the owner thereof; and thereupon, the county health officer shall proceed with such destruction in such manner as reasonably to avoid danger of infection.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1138; Code 1940, T. 22, §77.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10A - Genetics Service. › Section 22-10A-1 - Declaration of Policy.

Section 22-10A-1
Declaration of policy.
It is declared to be the policy of this state to identify families who have members with genetic disorders that cause birth defects and mental retardation. A part of this policy shall be to encourage prevention of birth defects and mental retardation through education, genetic counseling and amniocentesis when applicable.
(Acts 1978, No. 824, p. 1226, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10A - Genetics Service. › Section 22-10A-2 - Diagnostic Facilities, Genetic Counseling and Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disorders at University of Alabama in Birmingham and University of South Alabama.

Section 22-10A-2
Diagnostic facilities, genetic counseling and prenatal testing for genetic disorders at University of Alabama in Birmingham and University of South Alabama.
(a) The University of Alabama in Birmingham, through its laboratory of medical genetics, and the University of South Alabama shall expand their respective medical genetics programs to provide diagnostic facilities, genetic counseling and prenatal testing for genetic disorders.
(b) Each shall:
(1) Develop an education program designed to educate physicians and the public concerning genetic disorders and the availability of this program.
(2) Assure that genetic counseling is available to those Alabama families who need it. This will include those families who have a member with a birth defect, mental retardation, or other handicapping disorder due to genetic factors as well as families identified by screening to be at increased risk for having a child with one of these problems.
(3) Formulate a graduated fee schedule, based on the ability of the patient to pay, to offset the costs of the program.
(c) Each shall expand its current program to assist private physicians and clinics of the Department of Public Health, the Children's Rehabilitation Service and the Department of Mental Health in referring affected members and their families to the program.
(d) Each shall extend prenatal testing to those families meeting criteria for eligibility, including but not limited to the following:
(1) Pregnant women 35 years of age or older.
(2) Pregnant women having had a previous Down's Syndrome child or a child with any other chromosomal disorder.
(3) Pregnancies where one parent is a translocation carrier.
(4) Women who are carriers of an X-linked disorder.
(5) Pregnancies where both parents are carriers of an Autosomal Recessive Disorder that can be detected prenatally.
(6) Pregnancies where the parents have a previous child who has a neural tube defect.
(Acts 1978, No. 824, p. 1226, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10A - Genetics Service. › Section 22-10A-3 - Participation by Individuals Voluntary.

Section 22-10A-3
Participation by individuals voluntary.
The participation by any individual in this program shall be voluntary and shall not be a prerequisite to eligibility for or receipt of any other service or assistance from, or to participation in, any other program.
(Acts 1978, No. 824, p. 1226, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10B - Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission. › Section 22-10B-1 - Establishment.

Section 22-10B-1
Establishment.
There is created and established the Alabama Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-727, p. 1219, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10B - Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission. › Section 22-10B-2 - Composition; Reimbursement for Expenditures.

Section 22-10B-2
Composition; reimbursement for expenditures.
(a) The commission shall consist of the following members:
(1) Two members shall be appointed by the Governor.
(2) One member shall be appointed by the University of South Alabama Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center.
(3) One member shall be appointed by the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
(4) One member shall be appointed by the Children's Hospital of Birmingham.
(5) Each of the seven chapters of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America-Alabama Chapter, Incorporated, shall appoint one member.
(b) Appointees to the commission shall be citizens of this state and shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate, and upon confirmation, serve for a term of four years. The membership of the commission shall be inclusive and reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state. The commission shall annually report to the Legislature by the second legislative day of each regular session the extent to which the commission has complied with the diversity provisions of this subsection. In the event of the death or resignation of any member of the commission, a successor shall be appointed by the original appointing authority and the successor appointed to the vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term. The members shall elect from their membership a chair and a vice chair at an organizational meeting held no later than 30 days after appointments to the commission are confirmed.
(c) Members of the commission shall receive no salaries but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenditures incurred in the performance of their official duties pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 36. Expenses of the commission are to be paid from funds available to the commission.
(d) A member who has failed to attend three consecutive properly noticed meetings may be removed at the request of the commission.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-727, p. 1219, §2; Act 2010-277, p. 500, §3; Act 2015-317, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10B - Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission. › Section 22-10B-3 - Duties.

Section 22-10B-3
Duties.
(a) The Alabama Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission shall be designated as the agency to insure the delivery of sickle cell services pursuant to Section 22-10B-5 to affected persons in all counties in Alabama and assist in establishing geographical service delivery boundaries. The commission shall promulgate guidelines for creating uniformity in the delivery of services and the management of statewide programs.
(b) The commission shall also promulgate rules pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act for handling complaints regarding service and management of statewide programs and addressing any other discrepancies brought to the attention of the commission. The commission shall not have the authority to promulgate rules regarding medical care. Any rule promulgated shall not be construed to establish a standard of care for physicians licensed to practice medicine.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-727, p. 1219, §3; Act 2000-697, p. 1420, §1; Act 2015-317, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10B - Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission. › Section 22-10B-4 - Approval and Funding to Provide Services; Budget.

Section 22-10B-4
Approval and funding to provide services; budget.
All persons, firms, corporations, unincorporated associations, state agencies, units of local government, or any public or private entity requesting public funding to provide quality sickle cell services shall receive approval biannually from the commission. The commission shall allocate the funds from any appropriation by the state for sickle cell treatment and education, and shall be responsible for submitting a consolidated budget and any other financial information required of state agencies, pursuant to the Budget Management Act.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-727, p. 1219, §4; Act 2000-697, p. 1420, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10B - Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission. › Section 22-10B-5 - Sickle Cell Services.

Section 22-10B-5
Sickle cell services.
The sickle cell services shall include all of the following:
(1) Public and professional health education which shall be provided by persons specially trained for the task.
(2) Screening of all newborns within a designated area for sickle cell disease by accurate laboratory techniques.
(3) Genetic counseling and decision-making counseling which shall be offered to all parents of infants who are affected with Sickle Cell Disease and to those parents and patients at risk of having other children affected with this disease.
(4) Medical referral and follow-up which shall consist of a prompt definitive diagnosis of patients found to have medically significant hemoglobin and the medical management of painful episodes, infections, and other complications which shall be provided by physicians and other medical professionals.
(5) Psychosocial support services which shall be provided to help patients affected with Sickle Cell Disease to live a happy and successful life.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-727, p. 1219, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10B - Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission. › Section 22-10B-6 - Status as Enumerated Agency Under Section 41-20-3(a)(6).

Section 22-10B-6
Status as enumerated agency under Section 41-20-3(a)(6).
This commission shall be an enumerated agency pursuant to Section 41-20-3(a)(6).
(Acts 1996, No. 96-727, p. 1219, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10B - Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission. › Section 22-10B-7 - Exemption of Alabama Department of Public Health.

Section 22-10B-7
Exemption of Alabama Department of Public Health.
The Alabama Department of Public Health shall be exempt from any and all provisions of this chapter.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-727, p. 1219, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10C - Alabama Commission on Tick Borne Illness. › Section 22-10C-1 - (Effective Until September 30, 2021, Unless Extended by the legislature.) Commission Created.

Section 22-10C-1
(Effective until September 30, 2021, unless extended by the Legislature.) Commission created.
The Alabama Commission on Tick Borne Illness is created in order to coordinate research on the prevention of tick borne illness in the state.
(Act 2016-356, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10C - Alabama Commission on Tick Borne Illness. › Section 22-10C-2 - (Effective Until September 30, 2021, Unless Extended by the legislature.) Composition.

Section 22-10C-2
(Effective until September 30, 2021, unless extended by the Legislature.) Composition.
The commission shall be composed of the following members who shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority:
(1) One member with knowledge of the study and prevention of tick borne illness appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(2) One member with knowledge of the study and prevention of tick borne illness appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
(3) One member with knowledge of the study and prevention of tick borne illness appointed by the Governor.
(4) One member with knowledge of the study and prevention of tick borne illness appointed by the State Health Officer.
(5) One member appointed by the Chair of the House Education, Finance, and Appropriations Committee.
(6) One member appointed by Chair of the Finance and Taxation-Education Committee.
(Act 2016-356, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10C - Alabama Commission on Tick Borne Illness. › Section 22-10C-3 - (Effective Until September 30, 2021, Unless Extended by the legislature.) Purpose; Meetings; Reports; Compensation.

Section 22-10C-3
(Effective until September 30, 2021, unless extended by the Legislature.) Purpose; meetings; reports; compensation.
(a) The goal of the commission is to coordinate research and distribute funding for research on the study of tick borne illness in Alabama and to make suggestions for the treatment of and reduction and eradication of tick borne illness in the state. Research may include methods of prevention, treatment, surveillance, diagnosis, risk prediction, outreach, and intervention of tick borne illness. The commission may not issue any recommendation that would create or define standards for the practice of medicine.
(b) Upon adjournment of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session, the commission shall schedule an initial meeting to organize and discuss a plan of action and create criteria and an application process for awarding research funds appropriated to the commission for such purposes, and the commission shall meet as necessary thereafter to achieve its goals.
(c) The commission shall report its findings and any proposed legislation to the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate annually by the third day of the regular session of the Legislature.
(d) Upon request of the chair of the commission, the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives shall provide necessary clerical assistance for the work of the commission.
(e) Each legislative member of the commission shall be entitled to his or her regular legislative compensation, per diem, and travel expenses for each day he or she attends a meeting of the commission in accordance with Amendment 871 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. These payments shall be paid out of any funds appropriated to the use of the Legislature.
(Act 2016-356, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10C - Alabama Commission on Tick Borne Illness. › Section 22-10C-4 - (Effective Until September 30, 2021, Unless Extended by the legislature.) Distribution of Funds.

Section 22-10C-4
(Effective until September 30, 2021, unless extended by the Legislature.) Distribution of funds.
(a) The commission shall allocate funds for research on tick borne illness in the state based on appropriations received by the commission from the Education Trust Fund.
(b) The commission shall award appropriated funds annually through a grant application process. Only research universities and research facilities may apply for grant moneys.
(c) In order to receive the funds before the first day of the fiscal year, the college or university requesting or receiving money shall provide information regarding the method, scope, and significance of its research as a prerequisite to receiving the funds. The commission may withdraw future funding from any university not performing adequate research in the opinion of the commission.
(Act 2016-356, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 10C - Alabama Commission on Tick Borne Illness. › Section 22-10C-5 - (Effective Until September 30, 2021, Unless Extended by the legislature.) Dissolution of Commission.

Section 22-10C-5
Dissolution of commission.
THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2022-361 IN THE 2022 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2022. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.
The commission shall dissolve on September 30, 2025, unless continued by act of the Legislature.
(Act 2016-356, §5; Act 2022-361, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-1 - State Board of Health to Designate Notifiable Diseases and Health Conditions.

Section 22-11A-1
State Board of Health to designate notifiable diseases and health conditions.
The State Board of Health shall designate the diseases and health conditions which are notifiable. The diseases and health conditions so designated by the Board of Health are declared to be diseases and health conditions of epidemic potential, a threat to the health and welfare of the public, or otherwise of public health importance. The occurrence of cases of notifiable diseases and health conditions shall be reported as provided by the rules adopted by the State Board of Health.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-2 - Persons Responsible to Report Diseases; Contents of Report; Confidential Information; Person Making Report Immune From Liability.

Section 22-11A-2
Persons responsible to report diseases; contents of report; confidential information; person making report immune from liability.
Each physician, dentist, nurse, medical examiner, hospital administrator, nursing home administrator, laboratory director, school principal, and day care center director shall be responsible to report cases or suspected cases of notifiable diseases and health conditions. The report shall contain such information, and be delivered in such a manner, as may be provided for from time to time by the rules of the State Board of Health. All medical and statistical information and reports required by this article shall be confidential and shall not be subject to the inspection, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any court, except proceedings brought under this article to compel the examination, testing, commitment or quarantine of any person or upon the written consent of the patient, or if the patient is a minor, his parent or legal guardian. Any physician or other person making any report required by this article or participating in any judicial proceeding resulting therefrom shall, in so doing, be immune from any civil or criminal liability, that might otherwise be incurred or imposed. No provision of this section shall be interpreted to prevent the publication of statistical reports or other summaries provided that said reports or summaries do not identify individual persons.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-3 - Action of Health Officer Upon Being Notified of Diseases; Quarantine.

Section 22-11A-3
Action of health officer upon being notified of diseases; quarantine.
Whenever the State Health Officer or his representative, or the county health officer or his representative, is notified of any person or persons afflicted with any of the notifiable diseases or health conditions designated by the State Board of Health, he shall, at his discretion, isolate or quarantine such person or persons as further provided in this article. Such quarantine shall be established and maintained in accordance with the rules adopted by the State Board of Health for the control of the disease with which the person or persons are afflicted.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-4 - Certain Records to Be Provided to State Health Officer or Bureau of Clinical Laboratories.

Section 22-11A-4
Certain records to be provided to State Health Officer or Bureau of Clinical Laboratories.
(a) For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) CLINICAL MATERIALS. Either of the following:
a. A clinical isolate that contains or that may contain an infectious agent of public health importance.
b. Material that contains or that may contain an infectious agent of public health importance, if an isolate is not available, in the following order of preference:
1. A patient specimen.
2. Nucleic acid.
3. Other laboratory material.
(2) PROVIDER OF MEDICAL SERVICES. A physician, hospital, laboratory, or other medical facility or medical professional that renders medical care relating to treatment of possible or confirmed cases of public health importance.
(b) A provider of medical services that is currently rendering or that has rendered treatment, care, diagnostic services, or laboratory services to any person suspected of having a notifiable disease or health condition shall provide all records relating to its performance of treatment, care, diagnostic services, or laboratory services for that person to the State Health Officer or his or her designee upon request.
(c) Any laboratory at which testing of clinical materials results in a suspected or positive finding of public health importance shall forward those clinical materials to the Bureau of Clinical Laboratories of the Department of Public Health.
(d) The Department of Public Health shall adopt rules necessary for the implementation and enforcement of this section.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §4; Act 2019-302, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-5 - When State Board of Health to Take Charge of Investigation.

Section 22-11A-5
When State Board of Health to take charge of investigation.
The State Board of Health may take charge of the investigation of an epidemic or of the supression thereof, or both, whenever, in the opinion of the State Health Officer, the public welfare requires such a course of action and, in that event, shall have and exercise all the power and authority that the county board of health and county health officer would have in the premises.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-6 - Penalty for Failure to Make Report.

Section 22-11A-6
Penalty for failure to make report.
Any physician or other person designated in Section 22-11A-2 who has knowledge of a case of a notifiable disease or health condition, who refuses or willfully fails to make to the health officer, in whose jurisdiction the case is located, a full and prompt report thereof, specifying the character of the notifiable disease or health condition and the name and locality of the patient, together with such other details as may be required by the State Board of Health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, may be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-7 - Persons Having Notifiable Disease to Obey Directions of Health Officials.

Section 22-11A-7
Persons having notifiable disease to obey directions of health officials.
Any person reported as having any of the notifiable diseases or health conditions designated by the State Board of Health shall conform to or obey the instructions or directions given or communicated to him by the county board of health, county health officer or his designee, or State Board of Health, State Health Officer, or his designee, to prevent the spread of the disease.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-8 - Health Officer to Investigate Complaints of Diseases; Afflicted Persons to Be Moved to Suitable Place; Expenses of Removal.

Section 22-11A-8
Health officer to investigate complaints of diseases; afflicted persons to be moved to suitable place; expenses of removal.
Whenever complaint is made in writing to the health officer of a county that a person, not at his own home, is afflicted with any of the notifiable diseases or health conditions designated by the State Board of Health, such health officer shall, thoroughly and promptly, investigate said complaint. If, upon investigation, said health officer is of the opinion that said complaint is well founded, he may cause such person to be removed to such place as may have been provided for such cases in the county, city or town in which such person is found or, if there is no such place provided for such cases, then, to such place as said health officer may deem suitable, subject to the approval of the authorities of the county, city or town, as the case may be. The removal of said person shall be at the expense of said person, or, in case the person is a minor, then, at the expense of his parent or guardian or, if the person be indigent, then, at the expense of the town, city, or county, as the case may be.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §8.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-9 - Tuberculosis Cases to Be Reported; Contents of Report; Reports Confidential.

Section 22-11A-9
Tuberculosis cases to be reported; contents of report; reports confidential.
Any physician who diagnoses or treats a case of active tuberculosis, the administrator of any hospital, dispensary, correctional facility or other institution in which there is a case of active tuberculosis, the person in charge of any laboratory performing a positive test for active or suspected active tuberculosis, and pharmacist dispensing anti-tuberculosis medication shall report this information to the State Health Officer, the county health officer, or their designee, in the manner provided in Section 22-11A-1. These reports shall include, at a minimum, the name of the patient and the name and address of the physician. The reports required by this section shall be confidential and shall not be subject to public inspection, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any court except proceedings brought under this article to compel the examination, treatment, commitment or quarantine of any person or upon the written consent of the patient, or if the patient is a minor, his parent or legal guardian.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §9.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-11A-10 - State Board of Health to Investigate Reported Cases of Tuberculosis; Voluntary Treatment; Probate Court May Order Compulsory Treatment and Quarantine; Cost of Treatment; Exercise of Religious Freedom.

Section 22-11A-10
State Board of Health to investigate reported cases of tuberculosis; voluntary treatment; probate court may order compulsory treatment and quarantine; cost of treatment; exercise of religious freedom.
Whenever the State Board of Health or its authorized representative shall discover, as a result of its own investigation or as a result of any report required by this article, that any person may be afflicted with tuberculosis, the State Board of Health, through its authorized representative, shall investigate or further investigate the circumstances and, if after investigation, the representative of the State Board of Health is of the opinion that an active case of tuberculosis is found, he shall encourage the person infected to take voluntary treatment to meet the minimum requirements prescribed by the State Board of Health. If such afflicted person refuses voluntary treatment, than the state board of health, through its authorized representative, may petition the probate court to order commitment of the afflicted person for compulsory treatment and quarantine as further provided in this article. The compulsory treatment and quarantine shall be at a facility designated by the State Board of Health as a Tuberculosis Recalcitrant Treatment Center. The afflicted person shall be committed until, in the opinion of the attending physician, the afflicted person's tuberculosis is cured or said person is no longer a threat to public health. The court issuing a commitment order under this article shall retain jurisdiction of the afflicted person and may recommit said person if having been discharged, said person fails to complete the prescribed course of outpatient treatment. The cost of compulsory treatment care and maintenance of persons committed to a contract tuberculosis hospital under the provisions of this article shall be provided for by the state from any funds appropriated for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients in a manner determined by the State Board of Health. Any funds appropriated to pay the state allocation provided for in Section 22-11A-12 may be spent for such purpose on requisitions signed by the State Health Officer. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize or empower the medical treatment of any person who desires treatment by prayer or spiritual means, in the exercise of religious freedom; provided, however, that such person shall be quarantined or isolated, or both, and while so quarantined or so isolated, or both, shall comply with all applicable sanitary rules, laws, and regulations.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §10.)