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15-12-1
Section 15-12-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) APPOINTED COUNSEL. Any attorney licensed to practice law in the State
of Alabama who is appointed by the court to represent an indigent defendant. (2) CONTRACT
COUNSEL. Any attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Alabama, or a firm, association,
corporation, or partnership of lawyers so licensed, executing a contract for the provision
of indigent defense services. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Office of Indigent Defense
Services. (4) INDIGENT DEFENDANT. Any person involved in a criminal or juvenile proceeding
in the trial or appellate courts of the state for which proceeding representation by counsel
is constitutionally required or is authorized or required by statute or court rule, including
parents of children during the termination of parental rights hearings, who under oath or
affirmation states that he or she is unable to pay for his or her...
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15-20A-32
Section 15-20A-32 Juvenile sex offender - Requirements upon entering state. (a) A juvenile
sex offender or youthful offender sex offender, or equivalent thereto, who is not currently
a resident of this state, shall immediately appear in person and register all required registration
information upon establishing a residence, accepting employment or a volunteer position, or
beginning school attendance in this state with local law enforcement in each county where
the juvenile sex offender or youthful offender sex offender resides or intends to reside,
accepts employment or a volunteer position, or begins school attendance. (b) Within 30 days
of initial registration, the juvenile sex offender or youthful offender sex offender shall
provide each registering agency with a certified copy of his or her sex offense adjudication;
however, a juvenile sex offender or youthful offender sex offender shall be exempt under this
subsection if the court of adjudication seals the records and refuses to...
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16-28-13
Section 16-28-13 Burden of proof on person in loco parentis. No parent, guardian or other person
having control or charge of any child shall be convicted for failure to have said child enrolled
in school or for failure to send a child to school or for failure to require such child to
regularly attend such school or tutor, or for failure to compel such child to properly conduct
himself as a pupil, if such parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of such
child can establish to the reasonable satisfaction of the court the following: (1) That the
principal teacher in charge of said school which he attends or should attend or the tutor
who instructs or should instruct said child gave permission for the child to be absent; or
(2) That such parent, guardian or other person is unable to provide necessary books and clothes
in order that the child may attend school in compliance with law, and that such parent, guardian
or other person had prior to the opening of the school, or...
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30-3-161
Section 30-3-161 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings, unless the context requires a different definition: (1) CHANGE
OF PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE. A change of the residence of a child whose custody has been determined
by a prior court order, whether or not accompanied by a change of the residence of a person
entitled to custody of the child, with the intent that such change shall be permanent in nature
and not amounting to a temporary absence of the child from his or her principal residence.
(2) CHILD. A minor child as defined by subdivision (2) of Section 30-3B-102. As used in this
article, the term may include the singular and the plural. (3) CHILD CUSTODY DETERMINATION.
A judgment, decree, or other order of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody,
or visitation with respect to a child. The term includes a permanent, temporary, initial,
and modification order. The term does not include an order relating...
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38-12-31
Section 38-12-31 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
There exists in this state a number of children who cannot reside with their parents, legal
guardians, or legal custodians because of such parents', legal guardians', or custodians'
incapacity or inability to perform the regular and expected functions of care and support
of the children and family care and who thereby come to the attention of juvenile court and
into the care and custody of the Department of Human Resources. (2) An increasing number of
relatives, including grandparents, find themselves wanting to provide care to related foster
children on a long-term basis to prevent the children from remaining in foster care with unrelated
caregivers yet these relatives are either unable or unwilling to seek termination of the legal
relationships between the parent and the child, particularly when it is the caregiver's own
child or sibling who is the parent. (3) It is in the public interest to...
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38-7-2
Section 38-7-2 Definitions. Terms used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular number include the
plural number, and words in the plural number include the singular number, and the word "shall"
is always mandatory and not merely directory: (1) CHILD. Any person under 19 years of age,
a person under the continuing jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 12-15-117,
or a person under 21 years of age in foster care as defined by the Department of Human Resources.
(2) CHILD-CARE INSTITUTION or INSTITUTION FOR CHILD CARE. A child-care facility where more
than 10 children are received and maintained for the purpose of providing them with care or
training or both, or transitional living program services, but does not include: a. Any institution
for child care which is under the ownership or control,...
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12-15-106
ratified by the original signature of a judge with authority over juvenile matters. (h) Matters
Before the Referee Needing Immediate Action. If a matter before a referee requires immediate
action, the referee shall state in his or her written findings and recommendations why the
recommendations should be effective immediately. These matters for immediate action may include,
but are not limited to, matters of contempt, the physical safety of the child, or the safety
of others, or when the personal liberty of the child may be infringed. In such event,
the written recommendations of the referee shall be effective and binding, upon the consent
of the parties, for a period not exceeding 72 hours. In the event the parties do not consent
to immediate action, the recommendations shall be reviewed immediately by any judge with authority
over juvenile matters, who may order an appropriate temporary order based on the findings
and recommendations, which order will be effective for a period not...
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12-15-318
Section 12-15-318 Service of process. (a) Except as otherwise provided by the Alabama Rules
of Juvenile Procedure and this section, service of process of termination of parental rights
actions shall be made in accordance with the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure. (b) If service
of process has not been completed within 45 days of the filing of the termination of parental
rights petition, the petitioner shall request service by publication. (c) Service of process
by publication may not be ordered by the juvenile court unless at least one of the following
conditions is met: (1) The child who is the subject of the proceedings was abandoned in the
state, or (2) The state or private department or agency having custody of the child has established,
by evidence presented to the juvenile court, that the absent parent or parents are avoiding
service of process or their whereabouts are unknown and cannot be ascertained with reasonable
diligence. (d) Service shall be made by publication in a...
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12-20-50
Section 12-20-50 Establishment or restoration of lost, etc., records of state, county, or municipality.
The circuit courts of this state shall have jurisdiction of an action by the state, a county
or municipality or any citizen who will give security for the costs of the proceeding to establish
or restore any lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated records of the state, county or municipality,
or of any department, agency or instrumentality thereof. Such courts shall have jurisdiction
and power to prescribe all necessary rules, regulations and proceedings proper or necessary
to establish or restore lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated records and, when so established
or restored, to declare them to be the proper and legal records as the original which was
so lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated. The proceedings shall be ex parte, and any citizen
of the state who will give security for the costs of the appeal may appeal from the order,
judgment or decision of the circuit court...
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15-20A-48
Section 15-20A-48 Relation to other laws. (a) For the purposes of Sections 13A-5-2, 13A-5-6,
14-9-41, 15-18-8, 15-22-27.3, or any other section of the Code of Alabama 1975, a criminal
sex offense involving a child shall mean a conviction for any sex offense in which the victim
was a child under the age of 12 or any offense involving child pornography. (b) For the purpose
of Section 12-15-107(a)(7), a juvenile probation officer shall notify the state and either
the parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian of a juvenile sex offender, or the child's
attorney for the juvenile sex offender, of the pending release of the sex offender and provide
them with a copy of the risk assessment pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 15-20A-26. (c)
For the purpose of Section 12-15-116(a)(5), a juvenile court shall have exclusive original
jurisdiction to try any individual who is 18 years of age or older and violates any of the
juvenile criminal sex offender provisions of subdivision (1) of subsection...
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