2-15-153
Section 2-15-153 Quarantining of lots, towns, cities, etc., where livestock infected with contagious, infectious or communicable diseases, etc.; issuance and service upon owners, etc., of livestock and agents, etc., of railroads, trucks, etc., of notice of establishment of quarantine. The State Veterinarian or an assistant veterinarian or state livestock inspector shall quarantine a stall, lot, yard, pasture, field, town, city, township, county or any part of the State of Alabama when he shall determine the fact that livestock in such place or places are infected with a contagious, infectious or communicable disease or when said livestock are infested or infected with the carrier or carriers of a contagious, infectious or communicable disease or when exposed to any such disease. The State Veterinarian or an assistant veterinarian or livestock inspector shall issue written or printed notice of the establishment of said quarantining to the owners or keepers of said livestock and to any...
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22-1-4
Section 22-1-4 Appointment of subordinate officers and employees; control of expenditures. In the administration of the public health and quarantine laws of the state, the appointment of all subordinate officers and employees shall be made by the health officer or officers in authority, subject, however, to the approval of the State Board of Health or of a county board of health, in accordance with their respective jurisdictions. All expenditures, except such as are provided for by specific appropriations, shall be under the control of the Governor, the judge of probate and county commission or of the municipal authorities, in the same manner as such expenditures are made under state, county or municipal authority. (Code 1876, §1542; Code 1886, §1285; Code 1896, §2432; Code 1907, §727; Code 1923, §1150; Code 1940, T. 22, §89.)...
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22-11A-14
Section 22-11A-14 Cases of sexually transmitted diseases to be reported; contents of report; reports confidential; penalty for violation; measures for protection of others. (a) Any physician who diagnoses or treats a case of sexually transmitted disease as designated by the State Board of Health, or any administrator of any hospital, dispensary, correctional facility or other institution in which a case of sexually transmitted disease occurs shall report it to the state or county health officer or his designee in a time and manner prescribed by the State Board of Health. (b) The report shall be upon a form prescribed by the State Board of Health and, at a minimum, shall state the patient's full name, date of birth, race, sex, marital status, address, telephone number, place of employment, stage of disease, medication and amount given, and the date of onset. (c) Any person who is charged with the responsibility of operating a laboratory which performs tests for sexually transmitted...
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22-12D-4
Section 22-12D-4 Steering Committee on Women's Health. (a) There shall be a steering committee called the Steering Committee on Women's Health that shall serve in an advisory capacity to the State Health Officer and the Director of the Office of Women's Health. The membership of the committee shall include all of the following: (1) Three physicians appointed by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. (2) Three nurses appointed by the Alabama State Nurses Association. (3) Three pharmacists appointed by the Alabama Pharmaceutical Association. (4) Three employers appointed by the Business Council of Alabama. (5) Three consumers, one appointed by the Governor, one appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, and one by the Speaker of the House. (6) Three members appointed by the Alabama Hospital Association. (7) Three registered dietitians appointed by the Alabama Dietetic Association. The members of the steering committee shall serve two-year terms of office with the exception of the...
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3-7A-1
Health Officer and the State Veterinarian, of rabies vaccine approved by the State Health Officer and the State Veterinarian. The administration of rabies vaccine to species other than those for which reliable immunization data is available shall be a violation of this chapter. (8) IMPOUNDING OFFICER. An agent of a county or municipality vested with impounding authority for animals covered under this chapter. (9) OWNER. Any person having a right of property in a dog, cat, ferret, or other animal, or who keeps or harbors the animal, or who has it in his or her care, or acts as its custodian, or who permits the animal to remain on or about any premises occupied by him or her. (10) PERSON. Individuals, firms, partnerships, and associations. (11) QUARANTINE FOR RABIES OBSERVATION. Confinement under the direct care, custody, control, and supervision of a licensed veterinarian for a period of 10 days subsequent to the date of the exposure, or as otherwise directed by the appropriate...
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22-10-3
consists of one or more of the diseased animals mentioned in this chapter, or of insanitary clothing or bedding, furniture, vehicles, containers, receptacles or appliances, or of unwholesome or decayed or infected meats, fish, fruits or other foods or foodstuffs, medicines, drugs or beverages or consists of personal property of small value and which nuisance, in the opinion of the county board of health, should be abated by destroying rather than curing, cleansing or disinfecting the animal or animals or thing or material involved; or consists of equipment which by reason of its nature cannot be used without being such a nuisance; or consists of a privy of an insanitary or improper type, the county board of health shall, if after a careful investigation of the facts it considers such a course necessary for the protection of the public health, adjudicate such animal or animals, or things or material involved or such privy, as the case may be, to be such nuisance and order its...
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22-11A-24
Section 22-11A-24 Commitment to Department of Public Health for compulsory treatment when person exposed or afflicted and refuses treatment. When any person exposed to a disease or where reasonable evidence indicates exposure to a disease or infection designated under this article refuses testing or when any person afflicted with a disease designated under this article refuses treatment and/or conducts himself so as to expose others to infection, the state or county health officer or the designee may petition the probate judge of the county in which such person is located to commit him to the custody of the Alabama Department of Public Health for compulsory testing, treatment and quarantine. (Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §24.)...
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22-11A-9
Section 22-11A-9 Tuberculosis cases to be reported; contents of report; reports confidential. Any physician who diagnoses or treats a case of active tuberculosis, the administrator of any hospital, dispensary, correctional facility or other institution in which there is a case of active tuberculosis, the person in charge of any laboratory performing a positive test for active or suspected active tuberculosis, and pharmacist dispensing anti-tuberculosis medication shall report this information to the State Health Officer, the county health officer, or their designee, in the manner provided in Section 22-11A-1. These reports shall include, at a minimum, the name of the patient and the name and address of the physician. The reports required by this section shall be confidential and shall not be subject to public inspection, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any court except proceedings brought under this article to compel the examination, treatment, commitment or quarantine of any...
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45-15-170
Section 45-15-170 Industrial Waste Committee. (a) There is hereby created the Cleburne County Industrial Waste Committee to consist of: One member, appointed jointly by the county's four municipal governing bodies, for a term of four years; one member appointed by each member of the county commission from within the commissioner's district. Such appointments by the commissioners shall be on staggered terms with the member from district 1 appointed for one year, the member from district 2 appointed for two years, the member from district 3 appointed for three years and the member from district 4 appointed for four years. Thereafter their successors in office shall serve four-year terms and until their successors are appointed. The State Forestry Commission member from Cleburne County shall serve as an ex officio member and the county health officer shall serve ex officio and shall be the secretary of the committee. The members shall select a chairman and vice chairman from among its...
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45-23-170
Section 45-23-170 Board of Health fees. (a) The Board of Health of Dale County may fix a schedule of fees which shall cover the actual cost or a portion thereof involved in the performance of services rendered pursuant to the duties, functions, and programs required by law or regulation of the county or State Board of Health. (b) The Dale County Board of Health is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this section. Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the furnishing of services without charge to indigent residents. (c) All fees collected pursuant to this section are hereby appropriated to the Dale County Health Department for the continued operation of these services and programs. (d) The health officer or administrator may establish, with approval of the board of health, special accounts such as, but not limited to, a building fund, a special purchase, and a savings account. (Act 86-378, p. 565, §§1-4.)...
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