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34-21-81
Section 34-21-81 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS. The State Board of Medical Examiners
established pursuant to Section 34-24-53. (2) BOARD OF NURSING. The Board of Nursing
established under Section 34-21-2. (3) ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE. A registered nurse
that has gained additional knowledge and skills through successful completion of an organized
program of nursing education that prepares nurses for advanced practice roles and has been
certified by the Board of Nursing to engage in the practice of advanced practice nursing.
There shall be four categories of advanced practice nurses: Certified registered nurse practitioners
(CRNP), certified nurse midwives (CNM), certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA), and
clinical nurse specialists (CNS). Certified registered nurse practitioners and certified nurse
midwives are subject to collaborative practice agreements with an Alabama physician....
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34-22-1
Section 34-22-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) BOARD. The Alabama Board
of Optometry. (2) HUMAN EYE AND ITS ADJACENT STRUCTURES. The eye and all structures situated
within the orbit, including the conjunctiva, lids, lashes, and lachrymal system. (3) PHARMACEUTICAL
AGENTS. Any diagnostic and therapeutic drug or combination of drugs that has the property
of assisting in the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or mitigation of abnormal conditions
or symptoms of the human eye and its adjacent structures. (4) PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY. The practice
of optometry is a learned profession involving the examination, measurement by objective and
subjective means, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of any departure from the normal of
the human eyes, their adjacent structures, and visual system. The practice of optometry includes
but is not limited to: The adapting and fitting of all types of lenses or...
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34-24-290
Section 34-24-290 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words
and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) APPROVED PROGRAM. A program for the education
and training of assistants to physicians which has been formally approved in writing by the
board. (2) ASSISTANT TO PHYSICIAN. A person who is a graduate of an approved program, is licensed
by the board, and is registered by the board to perform medical services under the supervision
of a physician approved by the board to supervise the assistant. (3) BOARD. The Board of Medical
Examiners of the State of Alabama. (4) LEGEND DRUG. Any drug, medicine, chemical, or poison,
bearing on the label the words, "Caution, Federal Law prohibits dispensing without prescription"
or similar words indicating that the drug, medicine, chemical, or poison may be sold or dispensed
only upon the prescription of a licensed medical practitioner, except that the term legend
drug shall not include any drug, substance, or compound...
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20-2-250
Section 20-2-250 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ADMINISTER. The direct application of a controlled substance whether
by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient by any of
the following: a. A collaborating physician or, in his or her presence, his or her authorized
agent. b. A certified registered nurse practitioner or certified nurse midwife. c. The patient
at the direction and in the presence of the collaborating physician, certified registered
nurse practitioner, or certified nurse midwife. (2) BOARD. The Board of Medical Examiners
of the State of Alabama. (3) CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE or CNM. An advanced practice nurse who
is subject to a collaborative practice agreement with a collaborating physician pursuant to
Title 34, Chapter 21, Article 5, and who has advanced knowledge and skills relative to the
management of women's health care focusing on pregnancy, childbirth, the...
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15-18-82.1
Section 15-18-82.1 Methods of execution; election of method; constitutionality. (a)
A death sentence shall be executed by lethal injection, unless the person sentenced to death
affirmatively elects to be executed by electrocution or nitrogen hypoxia. The sentence shall
be executed pursuant to Section 15-18-82. (b) A person convicted and sentenced to death
for a capital crime at any time shall have one opportunity to elect that his or her death
sentence be executed by electrocution or nitrogen hypoxia. (1) The election for death by electrocution
is waived unless it is personally made by the person in writing and delivered to the warden
of the correctional facility within 30 days after the certificate of judgment pursuant to
a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court affirming the sentence of death or, if a certificate
of judgment is issued before July 1, 2002, the election must be made and delivered to the
warden within 30 days after July 1, 2002. If a warrant of execution is pending on...
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20-2-60
Section 20-2-60 Definitions. As used in this article the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ADMINISTER. The direct application of a controlled substance,
whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient
by any of the following: a. A supervising physician, or, in his or her presence, his or her
authorized agent. b. An assistant to physician. c. The patient at the direction and in the
presence of the supervising physician or assistant to physician. (2) ASSISTANT TO PHYSICIAN.
Any person who is a graduate of an approved program, is licensed by the board, and is registered
by the board to perform medical services under the supervision of a physician approved by
the board to supervise an assistant to physician. (3) BOARD. The Board of Medical Examiners
of the State of Alabama. (4) PHYSICIAN SUPERVISION. A formal relationship between a licensed
assistant to physician and a supervising physician under whom the assistant to physician...
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34-9-18
Section 34-9-18 Grounds for disciplinary action. (a) The board may invoke disciplinary
action as outlined in subsection (b) whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction
of the board, after a hearing as hereinafter provided, that any dentist or dental hygienist
has been guilty of the following: (1) Fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in obtaining any
license, license certificate, annual registration certificate, money, or other thing of value.
(2) Gross immorality. (3) Is a menace to the public health or to patients or others by reason
of a disease. (4) Is an habitual user of intoxicants or drugs rendering him or her unfit for
the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene. (5) Has been convicted for violation of federal
or state narcotics or barbiturate laws. (6) Is guilty of negligence or gross negligence. a.
For the purposes of this subdivision, negligence is defined as the failure to do what a reasonably
prudent dentist or dental hygienist would have done under the same or...
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34-23-70
Section 34-23-70 Management; display of permit and license; poisons; prescription requirements;
violations. (a) Every pharmacy when opened for business shall be under the personal supervision
of a duly licensed pharmacist who shall have personal supervision of not more than one pharmacy
at the same time. During temporary absences of the licensed pharmacist, not to exceed three
hours daily or more than one and one-half hours at any one time, nor more than one week for
temporary illness, the prescription department shall be closed, and no prescriptions are to
be filled. During the temporary absence of a pharmacist, a sign shall be placed on the prescription
counter in a prominent location easily seen by the public stating, "Prescription Department
Closed, No Pharmacist on Duty." (b) The permit issued to each pharmacist by the board
and the licensure certificates issued to the licensed pharmacist employed by each pharmacy
must be prominently and conspicuously displayed in the pharmacy....
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus
Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with
all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE
WHEREAS, with regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple
states, the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted
and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject
to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any
law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted
Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another
State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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20-2-74
Section 20-2-74 Prescription, administration, etc., of controlled substances by practitioners
of veterinary medicine for use of human beings or by practitioners of dentistry for persons
not under treatment in regular practice of profession. (a) It shall be unlawful for any practitioner
of dentistry to prescribe, administer, or dispense any controlled substance enumerated in
Schedules I through V for any person not under his treatment in his regular practice of his
profession or for any practitioner of veterinary medicine to prescribe, administer, or dispense
any controlled substance enumerated in Schedules I through V for the use of human beings;
provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall be construed not to prevent
any lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine from furnishing or prescribing in good faith
for the use of any habitual user of substances enumerated in Schedules I through V who is
under his professional care such substances as he may deem necessary for...
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