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22-18-42
Section 22-18-42 Regulation of certain types of care and personnel; purchase of drugs
and fluids. This chapter shall govern and it shall authorize the Board of Health to regulate
only emergency medical care provided outside of hospitals, EMSP who provide care outside of
hospitals, provider services ground ambulances, air ambulances, ALS nontransport services,
the training of EMSP who provide care outside of hospitals, and orders given for emergency
medical care to be provided outside of hospitals. Notwithstanding any provision of law to
the contrary, authorized drugs and fluids for emergency medical care and services may be purchased
from any reliable source, including wholesalers, distributors, and hospitals. To the extent
medical care and nursing care provided within hospitals is governed by other provisions of
law, those provisions of law shall not be construed to have been repealed, amended, abridged,
or otherwise altered by this chapter. (Acts 1995, No. 95-276, p. 488, ยง5; Act...
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31-9B-3
Section 31-9B-3 Providing of information; requirements for emergency and disaster planning
provisions; immunity. (a) All appropriate agencies and community-based service providers,
including, but not limited to, home health care providers, hospices, community mental health
centers, and related facilities, but not including health care facilities which provide inpatient
care to include general and specialized hospitals including ancillary services, skilled nursing
facilities, intermediate care facilities, or any assisted living facility, shall provide information
on the number of individuals with medical needs and shall assist the State Health Department
in the establishment of programs to increase the awareness of medical needs shelters, and
in educating clients and sponsors or caregivers about the procedures that may be necessary
for their safety during disasters. (b) State agencies that regulate or contract with providers
of services, or both, for persons with disabilities or...
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36-32-3
Section 36-32-3 Officers; powers and duties; compensation; expenditures and revenues;
education and training; facilities. (a) The commission shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman
from among its members at the first regular quarterly meeting of the calendar year. (b) The
commission may do all of the following: (1) Organize the Alabama Fire College by appointing
an executive director, assistant directors, and such officers as the interest of the Alabama
Fire College may require. (2) Remove the executive director or any assistant or other officer.
(3) Fix, increase, or reduce the compensation of the executive director or any assistant or
other officer. (4) Institute, regulate, alter, or modify the government of the Alabama Fire
College as the commission may deem advisable. (5) Prescribe courses of instruction related
to the mission of the Alabama Fire College. (6) Establish the cost of any prescribed course
of study related to the mission of the Alabama Fire College. (7) Confer...
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31-9-40
Section 31-9-40 Compact adopted and enacted. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact
is enacted into law and entered with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the
form substantially as follows: THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT Article I - Purpose
and Authorities. This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member
states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purpose of this
agreement, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions. The purpose
of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this
compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the
affected state or states, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made
disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders,...
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22-50-11
Section 22-50-11 Department - Additional and cumulative powers. The Department of Mental
Health is given hereby the following additional and cumulative powers through its commissioner:
(1) It is authorized and directed to set up state plans for the purpose of controlling and
treating any and all forms of mental and emotional illness and any and all forms of mental
retardation and shall divide the state into regions, districts, areas or zones, which need
not be geographic areas, but shall be areas for the purpose of establishing priorities and
programs and for organizational and administrative purposes in accordance with these state
plans. (2) It is designated and authorized to supervise, coordinate, and establish standards
for all operations and activities of the state related to mental health and the providing
of mental health services; and it is authorized to receive and administer any funds available
from any source for the purpose of acquiring building sites for, constructing,...
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22-32-1
Section 22-32-1 Enactment of Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management
Compact. The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact is hereby
enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally
joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHEAST
INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT Article I. Policy and Purpose There
is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact.
The party states recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the
availability of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level
radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of
defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities.
They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most...
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22-18-1
Section 22-18-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) ADVANCED EMERGENCY
MEDICAL TECHNICIAN. Any person 18 years of age or older who satisfies all of the following:
a. Has successfully completed the advanced emergency medical technician course of instruction,
or its equivalent, as approved by the State Board of Health. b. Has passed the state Advanced
EMT examination, as well as having met the requirements for becoming a licensed emergency
medical technician. c. Has been granted a license by the State Board of Health. (2) ADVANCED
LIFE SUPPORT (ALS). The treatment of potentially life-threatening medical emergencies through
the use of invasive medical techniques specified as advanced life support techniques by the
Board of Health, which ordinarily would be performed or provided by licensed physicians, but
which may be performed by emergency medical service personnel during emergencies...
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22-18-50
Section 22-18-50 Enactment and text of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure
Interstate Compact. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact
is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein
in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public
through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient care related activities
all states license emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, such as emergency medical technicians
(EMTs), advanced EMTs and paramedics. This Compact is intended to facilitate the day to day
movement of EMS personnel across state boundaries in the performance of their EMS duties as
assigned by an appropriate authority and authorize state EMS offices to afford immediate legal
recognition to EMS personnel licensed in a member state. This Compact recognizes that states
have a vested interest in protecting the public's health and safety...
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22-11D-8
Section 22-11D-8 Rules and regulations. (a) In accordance with the Alabama Administrative
Procedure Act, the board, with the advice and after approval of the council, shall promulgate
rules to implement and administer this chapter. Rules promulgated by the board may include,
but are not limited to, the following: (1) Criteria to ensure that severely injured or ill
people are promptly transported and treated at designated trauma centers appropriate to the
severity of the injury. Minimum criteria shall address emergency medical service trauma triage
and transportation guidelines as approved under the board's emergency medical services rules,
designation of health care facilities as trauma centers, interhospital transfers, and a trauma
system governance structure. (2) Standards for verification of trauma and health care center
status which assign level designations based on resources available within the facility. Standards
shall be based upon national guidelines, including, but not...
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22-21-7
Section 22-21-7 Itemized statement of services rendered to be furnished patient upon
request; provisions of statement; itemization of services and expenses; action by Attorney
General; payment of claims by insurance companies. (a) For the purposes of this section,
the term "hospital" shall mean any hospital in which human patients are given medical
care. It shall include all emergency rooms or outpatient facilities connected thereto. (b)
Within 10 days following discharge or release from confinement in a hospital or nursing home,
or within 10 days after the earliest date at which the expense from the confinement or service
may be determined, which in the case of long-term confinement may be the monthly charge, the
hospital or nursing home providing the service shall submit to the patient, or to his survivor
or legal guardian as may be appropriate, upon written request, an itemized statement detailing
in language comprehensible to an ordinary layman the specific nature of charges or...
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