16-33A-2
Section 16-33A-2 Legislative findings; purpose of chapter. The Legislature declares that there exists within the State of Alabama a number of accredited independent colleges and universities whose facilities could be used more effectively in the public interest by the grant of financial assistance to residents of the state who choose to attend such colleges and universities, in order to pay a portion of such residents' institutional related expenses at such colleges and universities, thereby reducing the cost to taxpayers of the state below the cost of providing similar instruction to such residents at institutions of higher learning within the state higher education system. The Legislature finds and declares that there is an apparent need to narrow the gap in student charges between public universities and colleges and independent institutions of higher education in Alabama in order to provide students with true economic and academic freedom of choice in selecting a college; and to...
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16-68-3
Section 16-68-3 (Effective July 1, 2020) Adoption of free expression policy. (a) On or before January 1, 2021, the board of trustees of each public institution of higher education shall adopt a policy on free expression that is consistent with this chapter. The policy, at a minimum, shall adhere to all of the following provisions: (1) That the primary function of the public institution of higher education is the discovery, improvement, transmission, and dissemination of knowledge by means of research, teaching, discussion, and debate, and that, to fulfill that function, the institution will strive to ensure the fullest degree possible of intellectual freedom and free expression. (2) That it is not the proper role of the institution to shield individuals from speech protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, including without limitation, ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or...
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17-4-38.1
Section 17-4-38.1 Collecting, sharing, and verifying information; costs; rulemaking authority. (a) State agencies shall provide to the Secretary of State, on a schedule to be determined by the Secretary of State, any information and data that the Secretary of State considers necessary in order to maintain the statewide voter registration database established pursuant to Section 17-4-33, except where prohibited by federal law or federal regulation. The Secretary of State shall ensure that any information or data provided to the Secretary of State that is confidential in the possession of the entity providing the data remains confidential while in the possession of the Secretary of State. (b) The Secretary of State may enter into agreements to share information or data with other states or group of states, as the Secretary of State considers necessary, in order to maintain the statewide voter registration database. Information or data that the Secretary of State may share pursuant to...
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34-14A-20
Section 34-14A-20 Alabama Construction Trade Academy Fund; Alabama Construction Trade Advisory Council; applications for funding; program guidelines. (a) The Alabama Construction Trade Academy Fund is established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be comprised of federal, state, and private funding through direct budgetary funding and grants for the expansion of construction trade education. To the extent practicable, monies in the fund shall be used to leverage other forms of funding from private sources. A percentage of matching funds, as established by the advisory council, must come from private, non-governmental sources. The board may not use more than 15 percent of the monies in the fund for administrative and operational costs incurred in the implementation and administration of this section. (b) The board, in cooperation with public and private sector partners, shall establish a program to provide funding mechanisms for tool grants, program incentives, supplies, mobile...
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45-49-110
Section 45-49-110 Absentee registration of persons residing in nursing homes and persons permanently disabled. (a)(1) Persons currently residing in nursing and convalescent homes and permanently disabled persons confined to home in Mobile County shall be entitled to register to vote by mail if they possess the qualifications of an elector and are not disqualified from voting under the Constitution and laws of Alabama, provided, that such persons shall be entitled to register by mail only if they were residents of Mobile County prior to entering the status which makes them eligible for such registration, and are certified to be so disabled or confined by a licensed medical doctor. (2) An application for absentee registration shall be filed with the Board of Registrars of Mobile County. The board shall furnish the applicant a written application in the same form as that provided other applicants and any additional application deemed necessary to determine eligibility to register, which...
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11-44E-52
Section 11-44E-52 Grant of franchise; lease, or right to use streets, etc.; transfer of waterworks, sewer, electric, or gas plant and system to board or public corporation. No resolution, bylaw, or ordinance granting to any person, firm, or corporation any franchise, lease, or right to use the streets, public highways, thoroughfares, or public property of the city organized under the provisions of this chapter, either in, under, upon, along, through, or over same shall take effect and be in force until 30 days after the final enactment of same by the commission, and publication of said resolution, or ordinance in full once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the city, which publication shall be made at the expense of the persons, firms, or corporations applying for the grant. Pending the passage of any such resolution or ordinance, or during the time intervening between its final passage and the expiration of the 30 days during which publication shall be...
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34-21-96
Section 34-21-96 Awarding of loans and terms of repayment. (a)(1) The board shall establish and award, according to the judgment of the board, loans to provide for the training of qualified applicants for admission or students in accredited nursing education programs approved by the board who are pursuing, or have completed within the five years immediately preceding the current loan term, a graduate degree to become a certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNP), a certified nurse midwife (CNM), or a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), but only for people who have signed contracts as provided in subsection (b). The board may permit eligible people to apply for a loan under the Alabama Loan-Repayment Program for Advanced-Practice Nursing in any scholastic year and for any previously completed scholastic year. (2) The board may award to an eligible person, for as many as three years for a person pursuing or holding an eligible master's degree and as many as four years for a...
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45-35A-54.09
Section 45-35A-54.09 Board of commissioners - Meetings. The board of commissioners provided for by this part shall hold regular public meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at some regular hour to be fixed by the board from time to time, and publicly announced by it; provided, however, that the board may by ordinance provide that it shall hold regular public meetings on Tuesday of each week, or on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, the time of such meetings to be fixed by the board from time to time and publicly announced by it; and the board may hold such adjourned, called, and other meetings as may be necessary or convenient. (Act 79-537, p. 959, ยง10.)...
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16-5-1
Section 16-5-1 Definitions. The following terms shall have the meanings respectively prescribed for them, except when the context otherwise requires: (1) PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Those public educational institutions in Alabama which have been authorized by the Legislature or by the constitution to provide formal education, including vocational, technical, collegiate, professional or any other form of education, above the secondary school level. (2) COMMISSION. The Alabama Commission on Higher Education created by this article. (3) INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM. A series of courses at any one location which culminates in a degree, certificate or other formal recognition of academic credit. (4) UNIT. A school, college, division or institute and includes the establishment of any new branch or campus. The term does not include reasonable extension or alterations of existing curricula or programs which have a direct relationship to existing programs previously approved by the...
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16-8-25
Section 16-8-25 Vacations and leaves of absence. The county board of education shall have the authority, under the rules and regulations promulgated from time to time by the State Board of Education, to provide for leaves of absence and vacations by the employees of the boards and for the payment from public funds to the employees of the boards for leaves of absence or vacations, or both. The boards may provide leaves of absence during the times the schools are not in session for the teachers and employees on full pay when the teacher or employee devotes the leave of absence to instructing in or attending schools for teacher training or in the manner approved by the State Board of Education as beneficial to the educational work of the county and may also provide for the payment of any full-time teachers for absences during the time schools are in session where the absence results from sickness or some other unavoidable cause which prevents the teacher from discharging his or her...
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