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6-5-711
Section 6-5-711 Exemption from civil liability for certain professional firms and employees
providing construction monitoring services. The provisions of Section 34-11-9(a)(3) notwithstanding,
neither a professional firm nor any of its employees that provide construction monitoring
services on behalf of an awarding authority relating to the construction, repair, resurfacing,
refurbishment, replacement, removal, modification, alteration, or other improvement of any
public or private infrastructure shall be civilly liable in tort or otherwise for property
damage, personal injury, or death resulting from construction monitoring services that substantially
comply with the professional firm's construction monitoring services requirements for the
awarding authority related to the plans and specifications in determining compliance of the
contractor's work with the plans and specifications. (Act 2013-401, p. 1538, §2.)...
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6-5-712
Section 6-5-712 Construction and application of article. (a) This article is not applicable
to the extent that a professional firm or its employees are engaged by an awarding authority
solely to design and/or prepare the engineering plans and specifications for a public or private
infrastructure. (b) This article is not applicable to the extent that a professional firm
or its employees performing construction monitoring services are also engaged by an awarding
authority to prepare the engineering plans for that project, or are otherwise providing additional
services on that project, and to the extent that a deficiency in such plans or additional
services proximately causes property damage, personal injury, or death to a third party with
whom the professional firm is not in privity of contract. (c) This article does not replace
or supersede existing burdens of proof or defenses in professional liability actions concerning
construction monitoring services. (Act 2013-401, p. 1538, §3.)...
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6-5-680
Section 6-5-680 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ASBESTOS CLAIM. Any claim, wherever or whenever made, for damages,
losses, indemnification, contribution, or other relief arising out of, based on, or in any
way related to asbestos, including: a. The health effects of exposure to asbestos, including
any claim for: 1. Personal injury or death. 2. Mental or emotional injury. 3. Risk of disease
or other injury. 4. The costs of medical monitoring or surveillance, to the extent these claims
are recognized under state law. b. Any claim made by or on behalf of a person exposed to asbestos,
or a representative, spouse, parent, child, or other relative of the person. c. Any claim
for damage or loss caused by the installation, presence, or removal of asbestos. (2) CORPORATION.
A corporation for profit, including a domestic corporation organized under the laws of this
state, or a foreign corporation organized under laws other...
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6-5-754
Section 6-5-754 Choice of forum. (a) If a claim under the common or statutory law of another
state, the United States, or a foreign country or under international treaty for death or
injury to person or damage to property arises against a manufacturer out of an accident that
occurred outside this state, such claim may be brought in the courts of this state in any
county in which jurisdiction of the defendant can be legally obtained in the same manner in
which jurisdiction could have been obtained if the claim had arisen in this state. (b) The
courts of this state shall apply the doctrine of forum non conveniens in determining whether
to accept or decline to take jurisdiction of an action asserting a claim arising out of an
accident occurring outside this state. (c) In applying the doctrine of forum non conveniens,
the court shall take into account each of the following considerations: (1) The state in which
the claimant resides, giving deference to the claimant's choice of forum only...
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2-9-22
Section 2-9-22 Insurance for employees of Department of Agriculture and Industries at shipping
points, etc. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, subject to approval by the Governor,
is hereby authorized and empowered and may enter into a contract by bond or policy with an
insurance company authorized to do business in this state whereby employees of the Department
of Agriculture and Industries who are engaged in work involving inspection, grading, classifying,
weighing or otherwise handling agricultural commodities at shipping points, terminal markets,
receiving centers or elsewhere will be insured against personal injury or death caused by
accidental means while discharging their duties as such employees. The amount of insurance
protection to be paid to any employee as authorized under this section on account of death,
injury or disability shall not exceed the amount or amounts as provided by the workmen's compensation
laws of the State of Alabama if such employees were...
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15-13-3
Section 15-13-3 Persons charged with capital offense. (a) A defendant cannot be admitted to
bail when he is charged with an offense which may be punished by death if the court is of
the opinion, on the evidence adduced, that he is guilty of the offense in the degree punishable
capitally, nor when he is charged with a personal injury to another which is likely to produce
death and which was committed under circumstances such as would, if death arises from such
injury, constitute an offense which may be punished by death. (b) In cases punishable capitally,
the defendant is entitled to bail as a matter of right when the state, after the finding of
the indictment, has continued the case twice, without his consent, for the testimony of absent
witnesses. In such case, if the indictment is dismissed, the defendant, on application for
bail, is entitled to the benefit of any continuance had upon such indictment by the state
for absent witnesses; and, if another indictment is not found at the...
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6-5-501
Section 6-5-501 Definitions. The following definitions are applicable in this division: (1)
ORIGINAL SELLER. Any person, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or other legal or
business entity, which in the course of business or as an incident to business, sells or otherwise
distributes a manufactured product (a) prior to or (b) at the time the manufactured product
is first put to use by any person or business entity who did not acquire the manufactured
product for either resale or other distribution in its unused condition or for incorporation
as a component part in a manufactured product which is to be sold or otherwise distributed
in its unused condition. (2) PRODUCT LIABILITY ACTION. Any action brought by a natural person
for personal injury, death, or property damage caused by the manufacture, construction, design,
formula, preparation, assembly, installation, testing, warnings, instructions, marketing,
packaging, or labeling of a manufactured product when such action is...
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25-5-35
Section 25-5-35 Recovery where accident occurs outside state; effect of compensation under
law of another state, etc., upon compensation under this article and Article 3 of chapter,
etc.; recovery under this article and Article 3 of chapter for accident occurring within state
where employment principally localized outside state. (a) As used in this section: (1) The
term "United States" includes only the states of the United States and the District
of Columbia; and (2) The term "state" includes any state of the United States or
the District of Columbia. (b) For the purposes of this section, a person's employment is principally
localized in this or another state when his employer has a place of business in this or such
other state and he regularly works at or from such place of business, or if he is domiciled
and spends a substantial part of his working time in the service of his employer in this or
such other state. (c) An employee whose duties require him to travel regularly in the...
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32-2-120
Section 32-2-120 Creation of system; activation of alert; powers and duties; boundaries of
alert area; termination of alert; liability. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following
terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ALERT SYSTEM. The Blue Alert system. (2) DEPARTMENT.
The Department of Public Safety. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Department of Public Safety.
(4) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. A law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the search for
a suspect in a case involving the death or serious injury of a peace officer or an agency
employing a peace officer who is missing in the line of duty. (5) PEACE OFFICER. A person
who is certified to exercise the power of arrest under the laws of this state. (b) There is
established a statewide alert system known as Blue Alert which shall be developed and implemented
by the director, who is the statewide coordinator of the alert system. (c) The alert system
may be activated under either of the following circumstances: (1)...
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43-8-175
Section 43-8-175 Probate of foreign will. When the testator was not, at the time of his or
her death, an inhabitant of this state, but was an inhabitant of some other state or territory
of the United States of America, or of some other territory, district or country subject to
the jurisdiction of the United States of America, and his or her will has been duly proved
in any other state of the United States of America, or in any territory, district or country
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America, it may be admitted to probate
in the proper court of this state in the manner following: If the will has been admitted to
probate out of the state of Alabama, but within another state of the United States of America,
or within any territory, district or country subject to the jurisdiction of the United States
of America, such will, or copy of the same, and the probate thereof must be certified and
authenticated as provided in 28 U.S.C.A., §1738. Upon the presentation to...
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