16-5-31
Section 16-5-31 Duties. The steering committee shall perform each of the following duties: (1) Seek methods to improve participation in two-year and four-year postsecondary education. (2) Seek methods to improve high school retention. (3) Encourage the State Board of Education and local boards of education to adopt courses of study that prepare students for two-year and four-year technical, vocational, and academic programs. (4) Organize and supervise local groups to perform each of the following functions: a. Encourage participation in two-year and four-year postsecondary education. b. Improve high school retention. c. Encourage the adoption by the local board of education of two-year and four-year postsecondary education preparatory courses of study. d. Provide tutorial, counseling, and other educational assistance to local junior and senior high school students. (5) Advise the Alabama Commission on Higher Education regarding the operation of the Postsecondary Education Communication...
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16-60-39
Section 16-60-39 Action of State Board of Education upon petition; management and control of trade school and junior college. Upon receipt of a petition from the Board of Trustees of Northwest Alabama Junior College to become an institution authorized under the Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority Act, Sections 16-60-80 through 16-60-96, the State Board of Education shall consider the need for a trade school and junior college in northwest Alabama. If in its opinion this need can be filled by designating the said Northwest Alabama Junior College as one of the institutions authorized under the Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority Act, the State Board of Education may agree to designate Northwest Alabama Junior College as a location where funds may be expended for buildings and equipment under said act; and such board of education shall thereupon assume the same authority and responsibility relative to Northwest Alabama Junior College as is vested in it by...
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16-60-81
Section 16-60-81 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) AUTHORITY. The Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority organized under the provisions of this article. (2) BONDS. The bonds issued under the provisions of this article. (3) BUILDING COMMISSION. The Alabama Building Commission. (4) JUNIOR COLLEGE. An educational institution offering instruction in the arts and sciences on the level of difficulty of the first two years above high school level. (5) ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT. The total original equipment, machinery and facilities acquired and installed or stored in a trade school or junior college for purposes of instruction, operation and maintenance. (6) STATE. The State of Alabama. (7) TRADE SCHOOL. An educational institution offering instruction primarily in useful trades, occupations or vocational skills. Pronouns used in this article shall be deemed to include all...
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16-65-8
Section 16-65-8 Dedicated source of revenue as security for the repayment of equipment loans. In order to provide for the funding of an equipment loan by the authority to an educational institution, such educational institution shall establish a dedicated source of revenue to secure the repayment of moneys received from the authority. Such educational institution is hereby authorized and empowered, any existing statute to the contrary notwithstanding, to do and perform any one or more of the following: (1) To obligate itself to pay to the authority at periodic intervals a sum sufficient to provide for the payment of debt service with respect to the bonds of the authority issued to fund the equipment loan made to such educational institution and to pay over such debt service to the authority for the account of such educational institution. (2) To levy, collect, and pay over to the authority and to obligate itself to continue to levy, collect, and pay over to the authority the proceeds...
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34-23-1
Section 34-23-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Pharmacy Association. (2) BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT. Has the same meaning as the term as defined in 42 U.S.C. ยง262. (3) BOARD or STATE BOARD. The Alabama State Board of Pharmacy. (4) CHEMICAL. Any substance of a medicinal nature, whether simple or compound, obtained through the process of the science and art of chemistry, whether of organic or inorganic origin. (5) DISPENSE. To sell, distribute, administer, leave with, give away, dispose of, deliver, or supply a drug or medicine to the ultimate user or his or her agent. (6) DRUGS. All medicinal substances, preparations, and devices recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or any revision thereof, and all substances and preparations intended for external and internal use in the cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animal...
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37-4-1
Section 37-4-1 Definitions. Unless otherwise specified, when used in this article, these terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission. (2) COMMISSIONER. A member of the commission. (3) MUNICIPALITY. Any municipal corporation organized under the laws of this state. (4) PERSON. Such term shall mean and include individuals, associations of individuals, firms, partnerships, companies, corporations, municipalities, governmental agencies, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, in the singular number as well as in the plural. (5) NONUTILITY. Any federal agency, instrumentality, or corporation, owned by the United States, and any corporation or joint stock company in which the United States or any of its departments, establishments, or agencies, owns more than 50 percent of the voting shares of stock of such corporation or joint stock company. (6) SECURITIES. Such term shall mean and include stock, stock...
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41-10-81
Section 41-10-81 Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) CORPORATION. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the corporation. (3) STATE. The State of Alabama. (4) COUNTY. That county in the state which authorized the organization of the corporation. (5) MUNICIPALITY. The incorporated cities or towns located in the county which authorized the organization of the corporation. (6) PUBLIC CORPORATION. Any public corporation now or hereafter organized or created in the state pursuant to the authorization or determination by the municipality or by the municipality and any one or more other cities and towns in the state or by the county or by the county and any one or more counties in the state. (7) STATE AGENCY. Any public corporation now or hereafter organized or created in the state pursuant to the...
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41-16A-3
Section 41-16A-3 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the respective meanings provided by this section: (a) ALTERNATIVE FINANCING CONTRACT. A lease, lease-purchase, lease with option to purchase, installment-sale agreement or arrangement, or other similar agreement or arrangement. (b) GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. The state; any political subdivision of the state; any agency, board, commission, or department of the state; any county; any municipal corporation; any county board of education; any city board of education; any instrumentality of any of the foregoing; the State Board of Education, acting for the respective educational institutions under its supervision; each public corporation that conducts one or more state educational institutions under its supervision; and any public corporation arising under or organized pursuant to any statute of the state. (c) GRANTOR PARTY. The lessor under a lease or lease-purchase contract, grantor under an...
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41-4-280
Section 41-4-280 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Finance. (2) AGENCY. Any agency, department, board, commission, office, agency or institution of the state, except those agencies and institutions excluded by Section 41-4-291. (3) ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT. Any transmission medium, switch, instrument, inside wiring system or other facility which is used, in whole or in part, to provide any transmission. (4) EQUIPMENT SUPPORT CONTRACT. A contract which covers a specific class or classes of telecommunications equipment and all features associated with that class, through which state agencies may purchase or lease the item specified by issuing a purchase order under the terms of the contract without the necessity of further competitive bidding. (5) PROCUREMENT. The buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, lease/purchasing or otherwise obtaining telecommunications...
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11-54-50
Section 11-54-50 Definitions. Wherever used in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context, the following terms shall be given the following respective meanings: (1) GOVERNING BODY. The board or body in which the legislative powers of the municipality are vested. (2) MORTGAGE. A mortgage or a mortgage and indenture of trust. (3) MUNICIPALITY. Any incorporated city or town in the State of Alabama. (4) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. a. Any regional, national, or international association or organization, one or more of the purposes or objects of which shall consist of one or more of the following: 1. The promotion of patriotism or good citizenship; 2. The development of civic pride or consciousness; 3. The improvement of trade, business, professional, or economic conditions; or 4. The promotion of health, safety, conservation, community beautification, or community welfare. b. The membership of such regional, national, or international association or organization...
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