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6-12-1
Section 6-12-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds as follows: (1) Cigarette
smoking presents serious public health concerns to the state and to the citizens of the state.
The Surgeon General has determined that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, and other
serious diseases, and that there are hundreds of thousands of tobacco-related deaths in the
United States each year. These diseases most often do not appear until many years after the
person in question begins smoking. (2) Cigarette smoking also presents serious financial concerns
for the state. Under certain health care programs, the state may have a legal obligation to
provide medical assistance to eligible persons for health conditions associated with cigarette
smoking, and those persons may have a legal entitlement to receive such medical assistance.
(3) Under these programs, the state pays millions of dollars each year to provide medical
assistance for these persons for health conditions associated...
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11-85-40
Section 11-85-40 Powers of Alabama Development Office and local, regional, and joint planning
commissions as to comprehensive advisory planning and research; comprehensive advisory planning
defined. (a) To facilitate the solution of urban and regional planning problems and to provide
for comprehensive advisory planning, including transportation planning, for the state and
its cities, counties, urban areas, and regions, the Alabama Development Office, the various
regional planning commissions presently authorized to be created, the various county planning
commissions presently authorized to be created, the various joint planning commissions presently
authorized to be created, municipalities, and the various municipal planning commissions presently
authorized to be created are each and all hereby empowered and authorized, within the respective
geographical areas as to which planning power has heretofore been delegated to such respective
office, commissions, or other agencies to perform...
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11-89B-1
Section 11-89B-1 Public corporation given power to sell and issue bonds, to pledge for payment
proceeds, revenues, etc., and to issue bonds or notes for temporary borrowing. In addition
to all other powers now or hereafter granted by law, each public corporation organized under
the laws of the State of Alabama which is authorized by law (i) to operate a water system
consisting of land, plants, systems, facilities, buildings and other property, or any combination
of any thereof, which are used or useful or capable of future use in providing, furnishing,
supplying or distributing water and (ii) to borrow money for use for one or more of its corporate
purposes shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary
to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To sell and issue bonds of such public corporation
in order to provide funds for any corporate function, use or purpose for which such public
corporation is otherwise authorized by law to borrow...
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13A-11-231
Section 13A-11-231 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms have
the following meanings: (1) HARASS. To engage in any conduct directed toward a service dog
or handler that is likely to impede or interfere with the performance of a service dog in
its duties or places the health and safety of the service dog or its handler in jeopardy.
Such conduct includes actions which distract, obstruct, or intimidate the service dog, such
as taunting, teasing, or striking. (2) INJURY. Physical or emotional injury to the service
dog. (3) NOTICE. An actual verbal or other communication warning that the behavior of the
person or the dog of the person is harassing toward the performance of a service dog in its
duty or endangering the health and safety of the service dog. (4) SERVICE DOG. A dog that
has been individually trained for the purpose of assisting or accommodating a physician-diagnosed
physical or mental disability or medical condition of a person as that term is used...
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13A-11-61.3
Section 13A-11-61.3 Regulation of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories. (a) The purpose
of this section is to establish within the Legislature complete control over regulation and
policy pertaining to firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories in order to ensure that
such regulation and policy is applied uniformly throughout this state to each person subject
to the state's jurisdiction and to ensure protection of the right to keep and bear arms recognized
by the Constitutions of the State of Alabama and the United States. This section is to be
liberally construed to accomplish its purpose. (b) For the purposes of this section, the following
words shall have the following meanings: (1) AMMUNITION. Fixed cartridge ammunition, shotgun
shells, the individual components of fixed cartridge ammunition and shotgun shells, projectiles
for muzzle-loading firearms, and any propellant used in firearms or ammunition. (2) EXPRESSLY
AUTHORIZED BY A STATUTE OF THIS STATE. The authority of...
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22-3A-2
Section 22-3A-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) AUTHORITY.
The public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) BONDS. The
bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter. (3) COUNTY BOARD(S) OF HEALTH. County board(s)
of health provided for in Chapter 3 of Subtitle 1 of Title 22. (4) DIRECTORS. The board of
directors of the authority. (5) GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Any bonds or other obligations which
as to principal and interest constitute direct obligations of, or are unconditionally guaranteed
by, the United States of America, including obligations of any federal agency to the extent
such obligations are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America and any certificates
or any other evidences of an ownership interest in such obligation of, or unconditionally
guaranteed by, the United States of America or in...
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24-1-27
Section 24-1-27 Powers and duties of authority. (a) An authority shall constitute a public
body and a body corporate and politic exercising public powers, and having all the powers
necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article,
including the following powers in addition to others granted in this article: (1) To investigate
into living, dwelling and housing conditions and into the means and methods of improving such
conditions. (2) To determine where unsafe or unsanitary dwelling, public school or housing
conditions exist. (3) To study and make recommendations concerning the plan of any city located
within its boundaries in relation to the problem of clearing, replanning, and reconstruction
of areas in which unsafe or unsanitary dwelling, public school, or housing conditions exist,
and the provision of dwelling accommodations for persons of low income, and to cooperate with
any city or regional planning agency. (4) To prepare, carry out,...
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45-17-80
Section 45-17-80 Public law library; librarian and advisory committee; personnel; law library
fund; fee. (a) The governing body of Colbert County, Alabama, by whatever name called, is
hereby authorized to establish and maintain a public law library in the county, and to accomplish
that purpose, may from time to time, expend such public funds of the county, as are not required
by law to be expended for any other purpose or purposes, to provide suitable housing quarters,
furniture, fixtures, and equipment therefor, to keep the same in a good state of maintenance
and repair, and, from time to time, to enlarge, expand, and improve such library, facilities,
and equipment and, from time to time, to provide such books, reports, and periodicals for
the library as are not provided therefor out of the special fund created by this section or
otherwise, and to pay the salaries of an assistant librarian and such other personnel as may
be necessary and proper to operate the same, to the extent that...
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45-39-81
Section 45-39-81 Public law library; Lauderdale County Law Library Fund. (a) The governing
body of Lauderdale County, Alabama, by whatever named called, is hereby authorized to establish
and maintain a public law library in the county, and to accomplish that purpose, may from
time to time, expend such public funds of the county, as are not required by law to be expended
for any other purpose or purposes, to provide suitable housing quarters, furniture, fixtures,
and equipment therefor, to keep the same in a good state of maintenance and repair, and, from
time to time, to enlarge, expand, and improve the library, facilities, and equipment, and
from time to time, to provide such books, reports, and periodicals for the library as are
not provided therefor out of the special fund created by this section or otherwise, and to
pay the salaries of an assistant librarian and such other personnel as may be necessary and
proper to operate the same, to the extent that such salaries are not paid...
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45-46-90.06
Section 45-46-90.06 Powers of the authority. (a) The authority shall have the following powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time which may be perpetuity,
subject to Section 45-46-90.18, specified in its certificate of incorporation. (2) To sue
and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions, excepting actions in tort, and to
defend suits against it. (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same
at pleasure. (4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and
business. (5) To acquire, receive, and take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise,
and to hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed. (6) To make, enter into,
and execute such contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and to take such other
actions as may be necessary or convenient to accomplish any...
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