20-2-210
Section 20-2-210 Legislative findings. The Alabama Legislature hereby finds that the diversion,
abuse, and misuse of prescription medications classified as controlled substances under the
Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act constitutes a serious threat to the health and welfare
of the citizens of the State of Alabama. The Legislature further finds that establishment
of a controlled substances prescription database to monitor the prescribing and dispensing
of controlled substances will materially assist state regulators and practitioners authorized
to prescribe and dispense controlled substances in the prevention of diversion, abuse, and
misuse of controlled substances prescription medication through the provision of education
and information, early intervention, and prevention of diversion, and investigation and enforcement
of existing laws governing the use of controlled substances. (Act 2004-443, p. 781, §1.)...

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11-50A-2
Section 11-50A-2 Legislative intent. The municipalities are now empowered to own and operate
electric distribution systems to serve their citizens, inhabitants, and customers by providing
them electricity for all purposes. To assure that the municipalities may have alternative
sources of bulk electric power and energy, in addition to those presently available, to operate
their electric distribution systems in a dependable, efficient, and economical manner, it
is desirable that the municipalities acting through the authority be empowered to engage in
joint action for the generation, transmission, and distribution of bulk electric power and
energy for sale to the municipalities for resale and for the sale, purchase, exchange and
transmission of bulk electric power and energy with other electric suppliers. The Legislature
finds and declares that the provision of alternative sources of bulk electric power and energy
to the municipalities through joint action in the fields of generation,...
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28-8-1
Section 28-8-1 Legislative policy and intent. Pursuant to the authority of this state under
the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, the policy and intent of the
Legislature in the enactment of this chapter are to further regulate and control alcoholic
beverage transactions in Alabama under the control and supervision of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board; to promote and assure the public's interest in fair and efficient distribution
and quality control of alcoholic beverages in Alabama; to promote orderly marketing of alcoholic
beverages; to promote vigorous inter-brand competition; and to facilitate collection of state
and local revenue. (Acts 1984, No. 84-374, p. 876, §1.)...
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20-2-52
Section 20-2-52 Registration of persons manufacturing, distributing or dispensing controlled
substances - Standards; requirements as to practitioners conducting research; effect of federal
registration. (a) The certifying boards shall register only an applicant certified by their
respective boards to manufacture, dispense, or distribute controlled substances enumerated
in Schedules I, II, III, IV and V; provided, that the State Board of Pharmacy shall register
all manufacturers and wholesalers unless they determine that the issuance of that registration
would be inconsistent with the public interest. In determining the public interest, the above-mentioned
boards shall consider the following factors: (1) Maintenance of effective controls against
diversion of controlled substances into other than legitimate medical, scientific, or industrial
channels; (2) Compliance with applicable state and local law; (3) Any convictions of the applicant
under any federal and state laws relating to any...
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28-2A-3
Section 28-2A-3 Legislative intent. It is hereby declared the intention and the purpose of
this article to permit an election by the citizens of certain municipalities to determine
the wet or dry status of such municipalities with regard to the sale, distribution, and consumption
of alcoholic beverages within the corporate limits of such municipalities; and further that
such election shall be provided only in those municipalities which can provide safeguards
for the protection of the public welfare, health, peace, and morals of the people. In the
furtherance of the protection of the public welfare, health, peace, and morals, the Legislature
has determined that a population classification should be established to provide this method
of municipal option election only in those municipalities with a population of 1,000 or more
people within a county, it being the judgment of the Legislature that municipalities with
a lesser population would be unable to support and maintain such protection...
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37-14-38
Section 37-14-38 Validation procedure; authorization for validation of provisions of article.
In order to foster and encourage the underlying policies of this article and to assure that
sales and purchases of distribution facilities, and other transactions and actions authorized
or allowed by this article may be conducted in good faith with a knowledge of the validity
of the provisions hereof, and further, to assure that irrevocable commitments are not made
in the implementation of the provisions of this article without the assurance of their legality
and validity, the following judicial review process is hereby authorized and it is declared
to be the legislative intent that the provisions of this statute be judicially reviewed and
validated pursuant to the procedure set forth herein and that the circuit court enter a judgment
in accordance with the procedure set forth herein. (1) FILING OF COMPLAINT FOR DETERMINATION
AS TO LEGALITY OF PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE. - At any time subsequent to...
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16-13-234
Section 16-13-234 Allocation of funds. (a) In making apportionment of the Public School Fund
held by the state, to the local boards of education, the State Superintendent of Education
shall first set apart and distribute to the schools of each township the amount due from the
state thereto as interest on its sixteenth section fund, or other trust fund held by the state.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure that no local board of education receive
less state funds per pupil than it received in fiscal year 1994-95. For this reason the Foundation
Program for each local board of education shall be supplemented, if necessary, by a hold harmless
allowance. The base amount of each local board's hold harmless allowance calculation is the
1994-95 program cost as defined herein. The 1994-95 program cost of each local board of education
was determined by using the first forty scholastic days of average daily membership from 1993-94.
Beginning with the fiscal year 1995-96, the hold...
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2-8-1
Section 2-8-1 Legislative purpose and intent. It is hereby declared to be in the interest of
the public welfare that owners of cattle shall be authorized and encouraged to act jointly
and in cooperation with handlers, dealers and purchasers of cattle and with the Commissioner
of Agriculture and Industries and with the State Board of Agriculture and Industries in promoting
and stimulating, by research, education, advertising and other methods, the increased and
efficient production, distribution, use and sale of cattle and beef products, and it is the
intent and purpose of this article to authorize and provide a method and procedure for a promotional
program for the cattle industry and the financing thereof pursuant to powers conferred upon
the Legislature by Amendment 201 to the Alabama Constitution of 1901. (Acts 1961, Ex. Sess.,
No. 280, p. 2320, §1.)...
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2-8-190
Section 2-8-190 Legislative purpose and intent. It is hereby declared to be in the interest
of the public welfare that producers of cotton shall be authorized and encouraged to act jointly
and in cooperation with handlers, dealers, purchasers and ginners of cotton, with the Commissioner
of Agriculture and Industries and with the State Board of Agriculture and Industries in promoting
and stimulating by research, education, advertising and other methods, the increased and efficient
production, distribution, use and sale of cotton and cotton products; and it is the intent
and purpose of this article to authorize and provide a method and procedure for a promotional
program for the cotton industry and the financing thereof pursuant to powers of the Legislature
as authorized by Amendment No. 388 to the Constitution which expressly authorizes such activity.
(Acts 1981, No. 81-388, p. 586, §1.)...
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2-8-270
Section 2-8-270 Legislative purpose and intent. It is hereby declared to be in the interest
of the public welfare that producers of catfish shall be authorized and encouraged to act
jointly and in cooperation with handlers, dealers, processors and distributors of catfish
feed and with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and with the State Board of Agriculture
and Industries in promoting and stimulating, by research, education, advertising and other
methods, the increased and efficient production, distribution, use and sale of catfish and
catfish products, and it is the intent and purpose of this article to authorize and provide
a method and procedure for a promotional program for the catfish industry and the financing
thereof pursuant to powers conferred upon the Legislature by Amendment 327 to the Alabama
Constitution of 1901. (Acts 1987, No. 87-587, p. 961, §1.)...
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