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22-6-153
Section 22-6-153 Contract to provide medical care to Medicaid beneficiaries; enrollment; grievance
procedures; duties of Medicaid Agency. (a) Subject to approval of the federal Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Medicaid Agency shall enter into a contract in each Medicaid
region for at least one fully certified regional care organization to provide, pursuant to
a risk contract under which the Medicaid Agency makes a capitated payment, medical care to
Medicaid beneficiaries. However, the Medicaid Agency may enter into a contract pursuant to
this section only if, in the judgment of the Medicaid Agency, care of Medicaid beneficiaries
would be better, more efficient, and less costly than under the then existing care delivery
system. The Medicaid Agency may contract with more than one regional care organization in
a Medicaid region. Pursuant to the contract, the Medicaid Agency shall set capitation payments
for the regional care organization. (b) The Medicaid Agency shall...
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26-23B-2
Section 26-23B-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes all of the following findings:
(1) Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child's entire body by
no later than 16 weeks after fertilization and nerves link these receptors to the brain's
thalamus and subcortical plate by no later than 20 weeks. (2) By eight weeks after fertilization,
the unborn child reacts to touch. After 20 weeks, the unborn child reacts to stimuli that
would be recognized as painful if applied to an adult human, for example by recoiling. (3)
For the purposes of surgery on unborn children, fetal anesthesia is routinely administered
and is associated with a decrease in stress hormones compared to their level when painful
stimuli is applied without such anesthesia. (4) In the unborn child, application of such painful
stimuli is associated with significant increases in stress hormones known as the stress response.
(5) Subjection to such painful stimuli is associated with long-term...
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38-7-10
Section 38-7-10 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Investigation of operation
without license; report to attorney general for prosecution. Whenever the department is advised
or has reason to believe that any person, group of persons or corporation is operating a child-care
facility without a license or an approval or a six-month permit, it may make an investigation
to ascertain the fact. If it finds that the child-care facility is being operated or has operated
without a license or an approval or a six-month permit, it shall report the results of its
investigation to the Attorney General and to the appropriate district attorney for prosecution;
provided, however, that the department may delay in making said report to the Attorney General
for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 60 days, in order to give the person, group
of persons or corporation operating the child-care facility reasonable opportunity to apply
for a license or an approval or a six-month permit,...
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6-5-662
Section 6-5-662 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) ESTABLISHED FREE MEDICAL CLINIC. An organized community-based program
providing medical care, without charge to individuals unable to pay for it, and which is limited
to care that does not require the services of a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical center,
and care that does not include the use of general anesthesia or require an overnight stay
in a health care facility. (2) MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. A person licensed by the Alabama Medical
Licensure Commission established under Section 34-24-310, or licensed to practice the treatment
of human ailments in any other state or territory of the United States; or a person licensed
by the Alabama Board of Nursing established under Section 34-21-2; or a person licensed by
the Board of Chiropractic Examiners established under Section 34-24-140; or a person licensed
by the Alabama Board of Optometry established under Section...
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21-6-4
Section 21-6-4 Attendant care. Attendant care may be provided when (1) the requirements of
Section 21-6-3 are met and (2) an attendant trained by competent medical and vocational rehabilitation
personnel is available to provide the care needed by the homebound person. Nothing in this
chapter shall be construed to prohibit a member of the handicapped person's family from serving
as an attendant under this chapter. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 109, p. 336, §4.)...
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13A-8-123
Section 13A-8-123 Civil liability for violations of Section 13A-8-121. (a) Any person who violates
the provisions of subdivision (5) of Section 13A-8-121 shall, in addition to the criminal
penalties provided in this article, be civilly liable to the aggrieved cable television company
for an amount not to exceed the greater of the following amounts: (1) One thousand dollars;
or (2) Double the amount of actual damages, if any, sustained by the cable television company.
(b) Any person who violates the provisions of any subsection of Section 13A-8-121 for a second
or subsequent time shall, in addition to the criminal penalties provided by this article,
be civilly liable to the aggrieved cable television company for an amount not to exceed the
greater of the following amounts: (1) Two thousand dollars; or (2) Double the amount of actual
damages, if any, sustained by the cable television company. (Acts 1986, No. 86-228, p. 335,
§4.)...
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13A-9-82
Section 13A-9-82 Person or organization who knowingly violates article is guilty of crime.
Any person or organization who knowingly violates this article shall be guilty of unlawful
charitable solicitation. Unlawful charitable solicitation is a Class C misdemeanor and shall
be punished as provided by law. It is an absolute defense to any criminal prosecution under
this section if the charitable organization has given one hundred percent of the receipts
generated by the container to the designated charitable organization for whom the person,
nonprofit corporation, charitable organization, or an affiliate or branch of either, or solicitor,
represented the funds being solicited. (Acts 1995, No. 95-605, p. 1276, §3.)...
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15-18-66
Section 15-18-66 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and terms shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed by this section: (1) CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. Any offense
with respect to which the defendant is convicted or any other criminal conduct admitted by
the defendant. (2) PECUNIARY DAMAGES. All special damages which a person shall recover against
the defendant in a civil action arising out of the facts or events constituting the defendant's
criminal activities; the term shall include, but not be limited to the money or other equivalent
of property taken, broken, destroyed, or otherwise used or harmed and losses such as travel,
medical, dental or burial expenses and wages including but not limited to wages lost as a
result of court appearances. (3) RESTITUTION. Full, partial or nominal payment of pecuniary
damages to the victim or to its equivalent in services performed or work or labor done for
the benefit of the victim as determined by the court of record. (4)...
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15-23-60
Section 15-23-60 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) ACCUSED. A person who has been arrested for committing a criminal offense and
who is held for an initial appearance or other proceeding before trial. (2) APPELLATE PROCEEDING.
An oral argument held in open court before the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, the Supreme
Court of Alabama, a federal court of appeals, or the United States Supreme Court. (3) ARREST.
The actual custodial restraint of a person or his or her submission to custody. (4) COMMUNITY
STATUS. Extension of the limits of the places of confinement of a prisoner through work release,
supervised intensive restitution (SIR), and initial consideration of pre-discretionary leave,
passes, and furloughs. (5) COURT. All state courts including juvenile courts. (6) CRIME VICTIM
ADVOCATE. A person who is employed or authorized by a public entity or a private entity that
receives public funding primarily to provide...
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22-21-31
Section 22-21-31 Practice of medicine, etc., not authorized; child placing. Nothing in this
article shall be construed as authorizing any person to engage in any manner in the practice
of medicine or any other profession nor to authorize any person to engage in the business
of child placing. Any child born in any such institution whose mother is unable to care for
such child or any child who, for any reason, will be left destitute of parental support shall
be reported to the Department of Human Resources or to any agency authorized or licensed by
the Department of Human Resources to engage in child placing for such service as the child
and the mother may require. In the rendering of service, representatives of the Department
of Human Resources and agencies authorized or licensed by the Department of Human Resources
shall have free access to visit the child and the mother concerned. (Acts 1949, No. 530, p.
835, §2; Acts 1962, Ex. Sess., No. 122, p. 157, §2; Act 2001-1058, 4th Sp....
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