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25-5-290
Section 25-5-290 Ombudsman program, creation; purpose; members; notification of service; benefit
review conferences. (a) The Department of Industrial Relations shall establish an Ombudsman
Program to assist injured or disabled employees, persons claiming death benefits, employers,
and other persons in protecting their rights and obtaining information available under the
Workers' Compensation Law. (b) Providing that the employer and the employee agree to participate
in the benefit review conference, the ombudsmen shall meet with or otherwise provide information
to injured or disabled employees, investigate complaints, and communicate with employers,
insurance carriers, and health care providers on behalf of injured or disabled employees.
(c) Ombudsmen shall be Merit System employees and demonstrate familiarity with the Workers'
Compensation Law. An ombudsman shall not be an advocate for any person who shall assist a
claimant, employer, or other person in any proceeding beyond the...
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25-5-335
Section 25-5-335 Types of tests; procedures for specimen collection and testing; laboratory;
confirmation of tests. (a) An employer is required to conduct the following types of tests
in order to qualify for the workers' compensation insurance premium discounts provided under
this article: (1) An employer shall require job applicants to submit to a substance abuse
test after extending an offer of employment. Limited testing of job applicants by an employer
shall qualify under this article if the testing is conducted on the basis of reasonable classifications
of job positions. (2) An employer shall require an employee to submit to reasonable suspicion
testing. (3) An employer shall require an employee to submit to a substance abuse test if
the test is conducted as part of a routinely scheduled employee fitness-for-duty medical examination
that is part of the employer's established policy or that is scheduled routinely for all members
of an employment classification or group. (4) If the...
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27-22A-3
Section 27-22A-3 Requirements for sale of portable electronics insurance. (a) At every location
where portable electronics insurance is offered to customers, brochures or other written materials
must be made available to a prospective customer which: (1) Disclose that portable electronics
insurance may provide a duplication of coverage already provided by a customer's homeowner's
insurance policy, renter's insurance policy, or other source of coverage. (2) State that the
enrollment by the customer in a portable electronics insurance program is not required in
order to purchase or lease portable electronics or services. (3) Summarize the material terms
of the insurance coverage, including all of the following: a. The identity of the insurer.
b. The identity of the supervising entity. c. The amount of any applicable deductible and
how it is to be paid. d. Benefits of the coverage. e. Key terms and conditions of coverage
such as whether portable electronics may be repaired or replaced...
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41-14A-2
Section 41-14A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) AVERAGE MONTHLY BALANCE OF PUBLIC DEPOSITS. The sum of the
average daily balances of public deposits, meaning the net average daily balances of public
deposits determined without any deduction for deposit insurance, for the reported month and
the 11 months preceding that month, divided by 12. (2) BOARD OF DIRECTORS or BOARD. The Board
of Directors of the SAFE Program established under Section 41-14A-6. The board of directors
shall consist of eight members. (3) COLLATERAL-PLEDGING LEVEL or COLLATERAL-PLEDGING REQUIREMENT.
The percentage or percentages of collateral, in relation to one or more levels of public deposits
held, required to be pledged by a qualified public depository as determined in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter or rules or orders of the board adopted pursuant to this
chapter. (4) COVERED PUBLIC ENTITY. The state and its political...
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16-25A-44
Section 16-25A-44 Participation of employees; purchase of benefits. In order to carry out the
provisions of the flexible employee benefit plan or any long-term care plan, or both, the
head of each department, agency, board of education, or other employer with employees as defined
by Section 16-25A-1 shall provide, at no local administrative cost to the employee, the flexible
employee benefit plan as provided for in this article to every employee and is authorized
on behalf of the state to deduct or reduce from salary or wages amounts voluntarily designated
by the employees pursuant to salary reduction agreements or benefit deduction agreements for
purchasing benefits offered under the plan and such reduction from salary and wages shall
be remitted to the board for administration of the program. Employers with employees as defined
by Section 16-25A-11 must offer such benefits as required by and under such conditions as
established by the board. (Act 2004-650, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 31, ยง5.)...
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2-28-10.1
Section 2-28-10.1 Financial responsibility. (a) The commissioner with the approval of the State
Board of Agriculture and Industries may promulgate rules and regulations which require any
applicant for a permit to perform professional work or services to provide evidence of his
ability to properly indemnify persons damaged in any manner by the use or application of pesticides.
The amount and form of indemnification required shall be determined by rules and regulations
promulgated by the commissioner with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries.
(b) The commissioner with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, may
promulgate rules and regulations requiring an applicant for a permit to perform professional
work or services to furnish and file with the commissioner a surety bond payable to the State
of Alabama. The surety bond shall be conditioned that the principal therein named shall honestly
and in a skillful and workmanlike manner conduct...
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22-28-23
Section 22-28-23 Local air pollution control programs. (a) Except as provided in this section,
it is the intention of this chapter to occupy by preemption the field of air pollution control
within all areas of the State of Alabama. However, nothing in this section shall be construed
to limit or abrogate any private remedies now available to any person for the alleviation,
abatement, control, correction, or prevention of air pollution or restitution for damage resulting
therefrom. (b) Subject to the provisions of this section, each municipal governing body which
had municipal ordinances in effect on, or before, July 1, 1969, which pertain to air pollution
control and which provide for the creation and establishment of an air pollution control board
and each county board of health shall have the authority to establish, and thereafter administer,
within their jurisdictions, a local air pollution control program which: (1) Provides, subject
to subsection (d) of this section, by ordinance,...
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27-44-8
Section 27-44-8 Powers and duties of association. (a) If a member insurer is an impaired insurer,
the association may, in its discretion and subject to any conditions imposed by the association
that do not impair the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer, and that are approved
by the commissioner: (1) Guarantee or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, or reinsured,
any or all of the covered policies of the impaired insurers. (2) Provide such moneys, pledges,
notes, guarantees, or other means as are proper to effectuate subdivision (1), and assure
payment of the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer pending action under subdivision
(1). (b) If a member insurer is an insolvent insurer, the association shall, in its discretion
and subject to the approval of the commissioner, do either of the following: (1)a. Guarantee,
assume, or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, or reinsured, the covered policies
of the insolvent insurer. b. Assure payment of the...
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45-37A-51.246
Section 45-37A-51.246 Board of health department retirees' supplemental benefit. (a) Effective
July 1, 2006, in addition to the benefits described herein for normal retirement, ordinary
disability, and extraordinary disability, every participant retired from the health department
who has retired under the pension system herein, immediately following having been in the
board of health service, or who did not otherwise become eligible for a benefit calculated
at 2.5 percent per year after July 1, 2006, any such retiree of the board of health shall
receive an increase in the amount of seventy-five dollars ($75) per month; and any survivor
of such retiree or participant shall receive an increased monthly benefit based upon the applicable
percentage rate of benefit to which the survivor was otherwise entitled determined as of the
date of death of such retiree or participant. (b) No benefit shall be granted under this section
until an actuarial determination has been made that there are...
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16-22-17
Section 16-22-17 Payroll deductions for participation in statewide programs. (a) When used
in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively: (1)
EMPLOYEE. Any person employed full-time as provided by law by those employers enumerated in
this section and adult bus drivers. (2) EMPLOYER. All public city and county boards of education;
the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama Youth Services
Department District Board in its capacity as the Board of Education for the Youth Services
Department District; the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; the Board
of Trustees of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science; the State Board of Education
as applied to the payroll office of two-year postsecondary education institutions; and the
Board of Trustees of Alabama A and M University. (3) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION or ORGANIZATION.
The employees' local professional organization representing the...
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