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6-5-540
of Alabama and the health and safety of the citizens of this state are in jeopardy. In accordance
with the previous declaration of Legislature contained in Act 513 of the Regular Session of
the 1975 Alabama Legislature it is the declared intent of this Legislature to insure that
quality medical services continue to be available at reasonable costs to the citizens of the
State of Alabama. This Legislature finds and declares that the increasing threat of legal
actions for alleged medical injury causes and contributes to an increase in health
care costs and places a heavy burden upon those who can least afford such increases, and that
the threat of such actions contributes to expensive medical procedures to be performed by
physicians and other health care providers which otherwise would not be considered necessary,
and that the spiraling costs and decreasing availability of essential medical services caused
by the threat of such litigation constitutes a danger to the health and...
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37-16-6
Section 37-16-6 Costs charged for construction, installation, maintenance, etc., of broadband
system. An electric provider may charge a broadband affiliate or an unaffiliated person, including
a broadband operator or broadband service provider, for the costs of the construction, installation,
replacement, operation, use, and maintenance of the broadband system or of those parts of
its electric delivery system that are used or may be reserved for use by the broadband affiliate
or unaffiliated broadband operator or broadband service provider for the provision of broadband
services. No electric provider shall be required to construct, install, replace, operate,
or maintain a broadband system or to provide broadband services. An electric provider, broadband
affiliate, or unaffiliated broadband operator or broadband services provider may charge for
broadband services or any other uses of the broadband system, whether wholesale or retail,
at rates determined by the provider thereof. (Act...
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22-19-142
Section 22-19-142 Request for consent to an anatomical gift; request not required where anatomical
gift would not be suitable for use. (a) When death occurs in a hospital to a patient who has
not made an anatomical gift to take effect upon death, the hospital administrator, or designated
representative, shall request the person described in Section 22-19-42(b), in the order of
priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and
in the absence of actual notice of contrary indication by the decedent or one in a prior class,
to consent to the gift of organs of the decedent's body as an anatomical gift. (b) Where such
request is made, pursuant to this section, the request and its disposition shall be noted
in the patient's medical record. (c) Where, based upon medical criteria, such request would
not yield an anatomical gift which would be suitable for use, there is an authorized exception
to the request required by this section. (d) Where, based upon...
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15-20A-20
Section 15-20A-20 Adult sex offender - Electronic monitoring. (a) The Alabama State Law Enforcement
Agency shall implement a system of active and passive electronic monitoring that identifies
the location of a monitored person and that can produce upon request reports or records of
the person's presence near or within a crime scene or prohibited area, the person's departure
from specified geographic limitations, or curfew violations by the offender. The Director
of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency may promulgate any rules as are necessary to implement
and administer this system of active electronic monitoring including establishing policies
and procedures to notify the person's probation and parole officer or other court-appointed
supervising authority when a violation of his or her electronic monitoring restrictions has
occurred. (b) The Board of Pardons and Paroles or a court may require, as a condition of release
on parole, probation, community corrections, court referral...
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15-22-43
Section 15-22-43 Special medical parole docket; implementation; factors considered; annual
report. (a)(1) The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall establish a special medical parole docket
and adopt the rules for implementation pursuant to Section 15-22-24(e). For each person considered
for medical parole, the board shall determine whether the person is a geriatric inmate, permanently
incapacitated inmate, or terminally ill inmate for purposes of placing the person on a special
medical parole docket to be considered for parole by the board. An open public hearing shall
be held, pursuant to Section 15-22-23, to consider the medical parole of the inmate. Notices
of the hearing shall be sent pursuant to Sections 15-22-23 and 15-22-36. The notice shall
clearly state the inmate is being considered for a medical parole. (2) The Department of Corrections
shall immediately provide, upon request from the board, a list of geriatric, permanently incapacitated,
and terminally ill inmates who are...
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22-8B-3
employee, researcher, medical or nursing school faculty member, student, or employee, counselor,
social worker, or any professional, paraprofessional, or any other person who furnishes or
assists in the furnishing of health care services. (5) LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT. Any medical
treatment, procedure, or intervention that, in the judgment of the attending physician, when
applied to the patient, would serve only to prolong the dying process where the patient has
a terminal illness or injury, or would serve only to maintain the patient in a condition
of permanent unconsciousness. These procedures include, but are not limited to, assisted ventilation,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation, renal dialysis, surgical procedures, blood transfusions, and
the administration of drugs and antibiotics. Life-sustaining treatment does not include the
administration of medication or the performance of any medical treatment where, in the opinion
of the attending physician, the medication or treatment...
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8-32-10
Section 8-32-10 Enforcement provisions. (a) The commissioner may conduct investigations or
examinations of providers, administrators, insurers, or other persons to enforce this chapter
and protect service contract holders in this state. Upon request of the commissioner, the
provider shall make all accounts, books, and records concerning service contracts sold in
this state by the provider available to the commissioner which are necessary to enable the
commissioner to reasonably determine compliance or noncompliance with this chapter. (b) Providers,
administrators, or insurers being examined shall pay to the commissioner the travel expense
to and from such examination, a living expense allowance at reasonable rates customary for
the examination in the state where the examination takes place and as established or adopted
by regulation of the commissioner, and the compensation of the examiners making the examination,
upon presentation by the commissioner of a detailed account of the...
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11-51-208
Section 11-51-208 Collection of taxes by Department of Revenue - Reports; costs; enabling act;
rules and regulations; assessment, rates of interest. (a) Municipalities may, upon request
of the municipal governing body, engage the Department of Revenue to collect and administer
their municipal sales, use, rental, and lodgings tax. Subject to subsections (c) and (d),
the Department of Revenue shall collect and administer the municipal sales, use, rental, and
lodgings tax on behalf of the requesting municipality. The department shall prepare and distribute
reports, forms, and other information as may be necessary to provide for the collection and
administration of any municipal tax it collects and administers and, on request, shall make
all reports available for inspection by the governing body of the municipality. In collecting
and administering a municipal sales, use, rental, or lodgings tax, the department shall have
all the authority and duties as it has in connection with the...
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12-15-133
Section 12-15-133 Filing and inspection of records. (a) The following records, reports, and
information acquired or generated in juvenile courts concerning children shall be confidential
and shall not be released to any person, department, agency, or entity, except as provided
elsewhere in this section: (1) Juvenile legal files (including formal documents as petitions,
notices, motions, legal memoranda, orders, and decrees). (2) Social records, including but
not limited to: a. Records of juvenile probation officers. b. Records of the Department of
Human Resources. c. Records of the Department of Youth Services. d. Medical records. e. Psychiatric
or psychological records. f. Reports of preliminary inquiries and predisposition studies.
g. Supervision records. h. Birth certificates. i. Individualized service plans. j. Education
records, including, but not limited to, individualized education plans. k. Detention records.
l. Demographic information that identifies a child or the family of a...
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27-21B-9
Section 27-21B-9 Garnishment of wages. (a) The Alabama Medicaid Agency may garnish the wages,
salary, or other employment income of any person who is required by a court or administrative
order to provide coverage of the costs of health services to a child who is eligible for medical
assistance and has received payment from a third party for the cost of services for the child
but has not used the payments to reimburse the other parent or guardian of the child, the
provider of services, or the Alabama Medicaid Agency for its payments made. Current or past
due child support shall have priority over claims for the costs of the services. (b) In addition
to the powers granted in subsection (a), the Alabama Medicaid Agency may notify the State
Department of Revenue of any amounts due under this section. Upon proper and timely notice,
the department shall withhold any amount from any state tax refund due to the above-described
person. (Acts 1994, No. 94-710, p. 1377, ยง9.)...
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