22-55-2
Section 22-55-2 Designation of compact administrator; powers and duties thereof generally. Pursuant to said compact, the state mental health officer shall be the compact administrator and, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms of this compact. The compact administrator shall cooperate with all departments, agencies and officers of and in the government of this state and its subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact or of any supplementary agreement or agreements entered into by this state thereunder. (Acts 1975, No. 1227, p. 2569, §2.)...
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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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22-11A-38
Section 22-11A-38 Notification of third parties of disease; rules; who may be notified; liability; confidentiality; disclosure of information for certain criminal proceedings; penalty. (a) The State Committee of Public Health is hereby authorized to establish the rules by which exceptions may be made to the confidentiality provisions of this article and establish rules for notification of third parties of such disease when exposure is indicated or a threat to the health and welfare of others. All notifications authorized by this section shall be within the rules established pursuant to this subsection. (b) Physicians and hospital administrators or their designee may notify pre-hospital transport agencies and emergency medical personnel of a patient's contagious condition. In case of a death in which there was a known contagious disease, the physician or hospital administrator or their designee may notify the funeral home director. (c) The attending physician or the State Health Officer...
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22-13-35
Section 22-13-35 Liability under article. (a) No person shall have any claim or cause of action against the State of Alabama, or its political subdivisions, or any individual arising out of any acts or omissions which occurred under the provisions of this article, if the state, political subdivisions, or individual is in compliance with this article. (b) No person shall have any claim or cause of action against any person, or the employer or employee of any person, who participates in good faith in the reporting or receiving, or both, of cancer registry data or data for cancer or benign brain-related tumor morbidity or mortality studies in accordance with this article. (c) No license of a health care facility or health care provider may be denied, suspended, or revoked for the good faith disclosure of confidential or privileged information in the reporting of cancer registry data or data for cancer or benign brain-related tumor morbidity or mortality studies in accordance with this...
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22-13-31
Section 22-13-31 Registry established; reporting of confirmed cases. (a) There is hereby established within the Department of Public Health the Alabama Statewide Cancer Registry for the purpose of providing accurate and up-to-date information about cancer or benign brain-related tumors in Alabama and facilitating the evaluation and improvement of cancer or benign brain-related tumor prevention, screening, diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation, and community care activities for the citizens of Alabama. The State Committee of Public Health shall adopt rules necessary to effect the purposes of this article, including the data to be reported, and the effective date after which reporting shall be required. For the purposes of this article, cancer means all malignant neoplasms, regardless of the tissue of origin, including malignant lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and leukemia, but excluding basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and carcinoma in situ of the cervix. (b) All cases of...
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22-13-32
Section 22-13-32 Monthly reports; further information to be provided upon request. (a) Each case of confirmed cancer or benign brain-related tumor shall be reported within 180 days of admission or diagnosis in the manner prescribed by rule. Reports are to be submitted on a monthly basis. (b) Any further demographic, diagnostic, treatment, or follow-up information shall be provided upon request by the State Health Officer concerning any person now or formerly receiving services, or diagnosed as having or having had a malignant neoplasm or benign brain-related tumor. The State Health Officer or his or her authorized representative shall be permitted access to all records, including death certificates, which would identify confirmed cases of cancer or benign brain-related tumor or would establish characteristics of the cancer or benign brain-related tumor, treatment of the cancer or benign brain-related tumor, or medical status of any identified cancer or benign brain-related tumor...
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27-21A-24
Section 27-21A-24 Filings and reports as public documents. All applications, filings, and reports required under this chapter, except those which are trade secrets or privileged or confidential commercial or financial information, other than any annual financial statement that may be required under Section 27-21A-8, shall be treated as public documents. All testimony, documents, and other evidence required to be submitted to the commissioner or State Health Officer in connection with enforcement of this chapter shall be absolutely confidential and shall not be admissible in evidence in any other proceeding. The commissioner or the State Health Officer may withhold from public inspection any examination or investigation report for so long as they deem necessary to protect the person examined from unwarranted injury or to be in the public interest. (Acts 1986, No. 86-471, p. 854, §24.)...
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31-5-6
Section 31-5-6 State Service Commissioner - Qualifications; appointment; term of office and removal; head of department; representation of state before federal agencies; reciprocal agreements with other states; appointment of district and county service commissioners and other personnel. (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs to appoint a State Service Commissioner who shall serve for a term of four years subject to removal by the state board for cause. He shall be appointed on the basis of education, ability, and experience in handling veterans' affairs, and without regard to political affiliations. Such commissioner shall be a resident of the State of Alabama and shall be a veteran who served on active duty for a period of 60 days or more in the military or naval forces of the United States in any war in which the United States shall have been engaged, and shall have been honorably discharged therefrom, and all subsequent appointees to such office shall be...
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22-14-4
Section 22-14-4 State Radiation Control Agency; director and powers and duties thereof. (a) The State Board of Health is hereby designated as the State Radiation Control Agency, hereinafter referred to as the agency. (b) The State Health Officer shall be director of the agency, hereinafter referred to as the director, who shall perform the functions vested in the agency pursuant to the provisions of this article. (c) In accordance with the laws of the state, the agency may employ, compensate and prescribe the powers and duties of such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. (d) The agency shall, for the protection of the public health and safety: (1) Develop and conduct programs for evaluation of hazards associated with use of sources of ionizing radiation; (2) Develop programs with due regard for compatibility with federal programs for regulation of by-product, source and special nuclear materials; (3) Formulate, adopt, promulgate and repeal codes,...
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22-20A-3
Section 22-20A-3 Suppliers and food service establishments to provide required information. (a) Any person who supplies farm-raised fish or wild fish to a food service establishment shall provide information of the country of origin of the product to the food service establishment as required by federal law. The State Health Officer, upon verified complaint and in compliance with all applicable state and federal law, shall investigate any and all reports of noncompliance with this subsection. Upon receipt of the verified complaint, a copy of the complaint shall be given to the food service establishment. (b) If farm-raised fish or wild fish is supplied to a food service establishment and the fish or fish product is not required to be labeled with the country of origin pursuant to the requirements of federal law, the supplier of the fish or fish product or the food service establishment shall not be required to provide any additional information to comply with this article. (c) A food...
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