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13A-6-20
Section 13A-6-20 Assault in the first degree. (a) A person commits the crime of assault
in the first degree if: (1) With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person,
he or she causes serious physical injury to any person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous
instrument; or (2) With intent to disfigure another person seriously and permanently, or to
destroy, amputate, or disable permanently a member or organ of the body of another person,
he or she causes such an injury to any person; or (3) Under circumstances manifesting extreme
indifference to the value of human life, he or she recklessly engages in conduct which creates
a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby causes serious physical injury to any
person; or (4) In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted commission
of arson in the first degree, burglary in the first or second degree, escape in the first
degree, kidnapping in the first degree, rape in the first degree, robbery in...
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13A-3-23
Section 13A-3-23 Use of force in defense of a person. (a) A person is justified in using
physical force upon another person in order to defend himself or herself or a third person
from what he or she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical
force by that other person, and he or she may use a degree of force which he or she reasonably
believes to be necessary for the purpose. A person may use deadly physical force, and is legally
presumed to be justified in using deadly physical force in self-defense or the defense of
another person pursuant to subdivision (5), if the person reasonably believes that another
person is: (1) Using or about to use unlawful deadly physical force. (2) Using or about to
use physical force against an occupant of a dwelling while committing or attempting to commit
a burglary of such dwelling. (3) Committing or about to commit a kidnapping in any degree,
assault in the first or second degree, burglary in any degree, robbery in any...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment
set forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient,
and analogous forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY.
The State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county
charge that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the
following forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney
of the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary
to law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the
unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales
of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised),
which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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12-15-301
Section 12-15-301 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following words and
phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONMENT. A voluntary and intentional relinquishment
of the custody of a child by a parent, or a withholding from the child, without good cause
or excuse, by the parent, of his or her presence, care, love, protection, maintenance, or
the opportunity for the display of filial affection, or the failure to claim the rights of
a parent, or failure to perform the duties of a parent. (2) AGE APPROPRIATE or DEVELOPMENTALLY
APPROPRIATE. Activities or items that are generally accepted as suitable for children of the
same chronological age or level of maturity or that are determined to be developmentally appropriate
for a child based on the development of cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral capacities
that are typical for an age or age group and, in the case of a specific child, activities
or items that are suitable for the child based on the...
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13A-6-21
Section 13A-6-21 Assault in the second degree. (a) A person commits the crime of assault
in the second degree if the person does any of the following: (1) With intent to cause serious
physical injury to another person, he or she causes serious physical injury to any person.
(2) With intent to cause physical injury to another person, he or she causes physical injury
to any person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument. (3) He or she recklessly
causes serious physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous
instrument. (4) With intent to prevent a peace officer, as defined in Section 36-21-60,
a detention or correctional officer at any municipal or county jail or state penitentiary,
emergency medical personnel, a utility worker, or a firefighter from performing a lawful duty,
he or she intends to cause physical injury and he or she causes physical injury to any person.
For the purpose of this subdivision, a person who is a peace officer who is...
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25-5-57
Section 25-5-57 Compensation for disability. (a) Compensation schedule. Following is
the schedule of compensation: (1) TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY. For injury producing temporary
total disability, the compensation shall be 66 2/3 percent of the average weekly earnings
received at the time of injury, subject to a maximum and minimum weekly compensation as stated
in Section 25-5-68, but if at the time of injury the employee received average weekly
earnings of less than the minimum stated in Section 25-5-68, then he or she shall receive
the full amount of the average weekly earnings per week. This compensation shall be paid during
the time of the disability, but at the time as a temporary total disability shall become permanent,
compensation for the continued total disability shall be governed by (a)(4) of this section
with respect to permanent total disability. Payments are to be made at the intervals when
the earnings were payable, as nearly as may be, unless the parties otherwise agree....
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38-9-2
Section 38-9-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) ABUSE. The infliction of physical pain, injury, or the willful
deprivation by a caregiver or other person of services necessary to maintain mental and physical
health. (2) ADULT IN NEED OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES. A person 18 years of age or older whose
behavior indicates that he or she is mentally incapable of adequately caring for himself or
herself and his or her interests without serious consequences to himself or herself or others,
or who, because of physical or mental impairment, is unable to protect himself or herself
from abuse, neglect, exploitation, sexual abuse, or emotional abuse by others, and who has
no guardian, relative, or other appropriate person able, willing, and available to assume
the kind and degree of protection and supervision required under the circumstances. (3) CAREGIVER.
An individual who has the responsibility for the care of a protected...
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12-15-319
Section 12-15-319 Grounds for termination of parental rights; factors considered; presumption
arising from abandonment. (a) If the juvenile court finds from clear and convincing evidence,
competent, material, and relevant in nature, that the parents of a child are unable or unwilling
to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child, or that the conduct or condition
of the parents renders them unable to properly care for the child and that the conduct or
condition is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, it may terminate the parental rights
of the parents. In a hearing on a petition for termination of parental rights, the court shall
consider the best interests of the child. In determining whether or not the parents are unable
or unwilling to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child and to terminate the
parental rights, the juvenile court shall consider the following factors including, but not
limited to, the following: (1) That the parents have abandoned...
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12-15-312
Section 12-15-312 Reasonable efforts in judicial determinations; situations in which
reasonable efforts are not required to be made. (a) When the juvenile court enters an order
removing a child from his or her home and places the child into foster care or custody of
the Department of Human Resources pursuant to this chapter, the order shall contain specific
findings, if warranted by the evidence, within the following time periods while making child
safety the paramount concern: (1) In the first order of the juvenile court that sanctions
the removal, whether continuation of the residence of the child in the home would be contrary
to the welfare of the child. This order may be the pick-up order that the juvenile court issues
on the filing of a dependency petition. (2) Within 60 days after the child is removed from
the home of the child, whether reasonable efforts have been made to prevent removal of the
child or whether reasonable efforts were not required to be made. (3) Within 12...
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17-3-30.1
Section 17-3-30.1 Disqualification of electors for felonies involving moral turpitude.
(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Felony Voter Disqualification
Act. (b)(1) The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Article VIII of the Constitution of
Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 177 of Article VIII of the Official Recompilation
of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, provides that Alabama citizens shall lose
the right to vote when convicted of a crime only if the conviction was for a felony involving
moral turpitude. b. Under general law, there is no comprehensive list of felonies that involve
moral turpitude which disqualify a person from exercising his or her right to vote. Neither
individuals with felony convictions nor election officials have a comprehensive, authoritative
source for determining if a felony conviction involves moral turpitude and is therefore a
disqualifying felony. (2) The purposes of this section are: a. To give full effect...

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