12-15-402
Section 12-15-402 Authority and procedure. (a) The state, any county, any municipality, or
any governmental department or agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of Human
Resources or the Department of Youth Services, or any person, including a parent, legal guardian,
or legal custodian, may file a petition in the juvenile court to have any minor or child,
as defined in this chapter, committed to the custody of the department on the basis that the
minor or child is an individual with a mental illness or intellectual disability and, as a
consequence of that mental illness or intellectual disability, poses a real and present threat
of substantial harm to self or to others. (b) The petition shall be verified and filed in
the county in which the minor or child is located or resides, petitioning the juvenile court
to commit the minor or child to the custody of the department. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384,
§5-137; Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-928; §12-15-90; amended and...
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26-16-52
Section 26-16-52 Ad hoc child abuse protection team advisory committee created; composition,
duties, etc.; annual report. Upon October 1, 1985, an ad hoc child abuse protection team advisory
committee shall be created and shall consist of the following members: The Governor of the
State of Alabama or his or her designated representative; the Director of the Department of
Human Resources; the Executive Director of the Child Abuse Trust Fund; the President of the
State Parents Teachers Association; two judges in the State of Alabama that preside over courts
exercising juvenile jurisdiction to be selected by the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme
Court; one representative from the Association of County Department of Human Resources County
Directors to be selected by the Governor; the Executive Director of the Office of Prosecution
Services; the Chairman of the Victims Compensation Commission; and two other members selected
by the President of the Child Abuse Trust Fund. The committee...
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26-17-502
Section 26-17-502 Order for testing. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article and Article
6, the court shall order the child and other designated individuals to submit to genetic testing
if the request for testing is made by a party to the proceeding, the Alabama Department of
Human Resources, or the representative of the child. (b) The Alabama Department of Human Resources
may order genetic testing only in accordance with Section 30-3-197(a)(1). (c) If a request
for genetic testing of a child is made before birth, the court or the Alabama Department of
Human Resources may not order in-utero testing. (d) If two or more men are subject to court-ordered
genetic testing, the testing may be ordered concurrently or sequentially. (Act 2008-376, p.
666, §2.)...
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26-17-507
Section 26-17-507 Additional genetic testing. The court or the Alabama Department of Human
Resources pursuant to Section 30-3-197 shall order additional genetic testing upon the request
of a party who contests the result of the original testing. If the previous genetic testing
identified a man as the father of the child under Section 26-17-505, the court or the Alabama
Department of Human Resources pursuant to Section 30-3-197 may not order additional testing
unless the party provides advance payment for the testing. (Act 2008-376, p. 666, §2.)...

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38-1-3
Section 38-1-3 Legal representative for handling public assistance payments of incompetents.
If any otherwise qualified applicant for or recipient of public assistance appears to be incapable,
physically or mentally, or both, of managing his public assistance payments, and has no legal
guardian, he, his spouse, father, mother, child, brother or sister, with the consent of the
Department of Human Resources, or the Department of Human Resources may petition the probate
judge for the appointment of a legal representative to handle his public assistance payments
only. The petition shall be accompanied by a certificate in writing of a physician which certificate
shall state that the physician upon examination believes the applicant or recipient to be
physically or mentally, or both, incapable of managing his public assistance payments. The
probate judge shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of appointing a competent person as
legal representative after notice of at least 10 days in...
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38-12-1
Section 38-12-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. State Department of Human Resources. (2) FOSTER PARENT. Any person
with whom a child in the care, custody, or guardianship of the department, is placed for temporary
or long-term care, but shall not include any person with whom a child is placed for the purpose
of adoption. (Act 99-437, p. 864, §1.)...
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38-4-14
Section 38-4-14 Limitations on use of public assistance benefits. (a) For the purposes of this
section, the term public assistance benefits means money or property provided directly or
indirectly to eligible persons through programs of the federal government, the state, or any
political subdivision thereof, and administered by the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
(b)(1) A recipient of public assistance benefits may not use any portion of the benefits for
the purchase of any alcoholic beverage, tobacco product, or lottery ticket. Any person who
violates this subsection shall reimburse the Department of Human Resources for the purchase
and shall be subject to the following sanctions: a. Upon the first violation, the person shall
be disqualified from receiving public assistance benefits by means of direct cash payment
or an electronic benefits transfer access card for one month. b. Upon the second violation,
the person shall be disqualified from receiving public assistance benefits...
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12-15-7
Section 12-15-7 Appointment, terms of office, etc., of probation officers; designation of chief
probation officer, etc.; duties of probation officers generally; powers of probation officers
and representatives of Department of Human Resources as to taking into custody and placing
in shelter or detention care of children generally; procedure upon taking into custody of
child by probation officer or representative of Department of Human Resources generally. THIS
SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTION 12-15-107 BY ACT 2008-277, EFFECTIVE JANUARY
1, 2009. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §5-105; Acts 1984, No. 84-245, p. 387; Act 98-392,
p. 782, §2.)...
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26-14-3
Section 26-14-3 Mandatory reporting. (a) All hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, doctors, physicians,
surgeons, medical examiners, coroners, dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, chiropractors,
podiatrists, physical therapists, nurses, public and private K-12 employees, school teachers
and officials, peace officers, law enforcement officials, pharmacists, social workers, day
care workers or employees, mental health professionals, employees of public and private institutions
of postsecondary and higher education, members of the clergy as defined in Rule 505 of the
Alabama Rules of Evidence, or any other person called upon to render aid or medical assistance
to any child, when the child is known or suspected to be a victim of child abuse or neglect,
shall be required to report orally, either by telephone or direct communication immediately,
and shall be followed by a written report, to a duly constituted authority. (b)(1) When an
initial report is made to a law enforcement official, the...
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31-8-22
Section 31-8-22 Payment of pensions - Delivery of warrants to payees; disposition of undelivered
warrants. The State Department of Human Resources shall deliver to the respective county department
of human resources all such warrants for pensioners on the pension roll of that county. The
county department of human resources shall deliver such warrants to the payees in their respective
counties either in person or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. The
county department of human resources shall, at the expiration of 30 days, return to the State
Department of Human Resources all undelivered pension warrants, stating on the warrants the
date of the return, the reason for such nondelivery and, if the payee is dead, the date of
death, and such returned warrant shall be endorsed by the State Department of Human Resources
"cancelled" on the face thereof, and no other warrants shall be issued in the place
of such cancelled warrants, unless it be shown by satisfactory...
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