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22-21-29
Section 22-21-29 Inspections. (a) Every hospital licensed under this article shall be
open to inspection to the extent authorized in this section by employees and agents
of the State Board of Health, under rules as shall be promulgated by the board with the advice
and consent of the advisory board. Employees and agents of the board shall also inspect unlicensed
and suspected unlicensed facilities. Nothing in this section shall authorize the board
to inspect quarters therein occupied by members of any religious group or nurses engaged in
work in any hospital or places of refuge for members of religious orders for whom care is
provided, but any inspection shall be limited and confined to the parts and portions of the
hospital as are used for the care and treatment of the patients and the general facilities
for their care and treatment. No hospital shall, by reason of this section, be relieved
from any other types of inspections authorized by law. (b) All inspections undertaken by the...
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22-21-33
Section 22-21-33 Penalties for operation of or referring persons to unlicensed hospital.
(a)(1) Any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or
other business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined
in this article or any rules promulgated hereunder, without having been granted a license
by the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor upon conviction, except
that any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or
other business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined
in this article or any rules promulgated hereunder without having been granted a license by
the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor upon conviction of a second
or any subsequent offense. (2) The State Board of Health, upon determination that a facility
or business is operating as a hospital, within the meaning of this article or...
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22-11A-118
Section 22-11A-118 Health Care Data Advisory Council. (a) There is established the Health
Care Data Advisory Council to assist in developing regulations and standards necessary to
implement the provisions of this article, to review and serve as consultants to the board
on matters related to any reports or publications prior to a report or publication release
and to serve as consultants to the board on matters relating to the protection, collection,
and dissemination of health care facility acquired infection data. (b) The council shall consist
of 18 members and be constituted in the following manner: (1) Six hospital members to be appointed
by the Alabama Hospital Association, two of which shall be infection control professionals.
(2) Three members to be appointed by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. (3)
Two members to be appointed by the Business Council of Alabama, at least one of whom represents
a small business, all of whom are purchasers of health care, and none of...
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34-23-1
Section 34-23-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and
phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Pharmacy Association.
(2) BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT. Has the same meaning as the term as defined in 42 U.S.C. ยง262. (3)
BOARD or STATE BOARD. The Alabama State Board of Pharmacy. (4) CHEMICAL. Any substance of
a medicinal nature, whether simple or compound, obtained through the process of the science
and art of chemistry, whether of organic or inorganic origin. (5) DISPENSE. To sell, distribute,
administer, leave with, give away, dispose of, deliver, or supply a drug or medicine to the
ultimate user or his or her agent. (6) DRUGS. All medicinal substances, preparations, and
devices recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or any revision
thereof, and all substances and preparations intended for external and internal use in the
cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animal...
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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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38-9-2
Section 38-9-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) ABUSE. The infliction of physical pain, injury, or the willful
deprivation by a caregiver or other person of services necessary to maintain mental and physical
health. (2) ADULT IN NEED OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES. A person 18 years of age or older whose
behavior indicates that he or she is mentally incapable of adequately caring for himself or
herself and his or her interests without serious consequences to himself or herself or others,
or who, because of physical or mental impairment, is unable to protect himself or herself
from abuse, neglect, exploitation, sexual abuse, or emotional abuse by others, and who has
no guardian, relative, or other appropriate person able, willing, and available to assume
the kind and degree of protection and supervision required under the circumstances. (3) CAREGIVER.
An individual who has the responsibility for the care of a protected...
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34-29-61
Section 34-29-61 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms
shall have the following meanings ascribed by this section: (1) ACCREDITED SCHOOL OF
VETERINARY MEDICINE. Any veterinary college or division of a university or college that offers
the degree of doctor of veterinary medicine or its equivalent and is accredited by the American
Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). (2) ANIMAL. Any animal or mammal other than man, including
birds, fish, reptiles, wild or domestic, living or dead. (3) APPLICANT. A person who files
an application to be licensed to practice veterinary medicine or licensed as a veterinary
technician. (4) BOARD. Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. (5) CONSULTING
VETERINARIAN. A veterinarian licensed in another state who gives advice or demonstrates techniques
to a licensed Alabama veterinarian or group of licensed Alabama veterinarians. A consulting
veterinarian shall not utilize this privilege to circumvent the law. (6) DIRECT...
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20-3-3
Section 20-3-3 Transfer of legend drugs to charitable clinic. (a)(1) Legend drugs, except
controlled substances, dispensed to a patient in a hospital, nursing facility, assisted living
facility, or specialty care assisted living facility may be donated and transferred pursuant
to this section to a charitable clinic to be used by charitable patients free of charge
when all of the following conditions are met: a. The drugs are no longer needed by the original
patient. b. The drugs have been maintained in accordance with United States Pharmacopoeia
and National Formulary storage requirements. c. The drugs were dispensed by unit dose or an
individually sealed dose. d. The drugs have not expired. (2) Legend drugs, except controlled
substances, dispensed to a patient cared for by a hospice care program may be donated and
transferred pursuant to this section to a charitable clinic to be used by charitable
patients free of charge when all of the following conditions are met: a. The drugs are...
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25-5-77
Section 25-5-77 Expenses of medical and surgical treatment, vocational rehabilitation,
medicine, etc.; medical examinations; review by ombudsman of medical services. (a) In addition
to the compensation provided in this article and Article 4 of this chapter, the employer,
where applicable, shall pay the actual cost of the repair, refitting, or replacement of artificial
members damaged as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of employment,
and the employer, except as otherwise provided in this amendatory act, shall pay an amount
not to exceed the prevailing rate or maximum schedule of fees as established herein of reasonably
necessary medical and surgical treatment and attention, physical rehabilitation, medicine,
medical and surgical supplies, crutches, artificial members, and other apparatus as the result
of an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment, as may be obtained by the
injured employee or, in case of death, obtained during the period...
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25-4-10
Section 25-4-10 Employment. (a) Subject to other provisions of this chapter, "employment"
means: (1) Any service performed prior to January 1, 1978, which was employment as defined
in this section prior to such date and, subject to the other provisions of this section,
services performed for remuneration after December 31, 1977, including service in interstate
commerce, by: a. Any officer of a corporation; or b. Any individual who, under the usual common
law rules applicable in determining the employer-employee relationship, has the status of
an employee; or c. Any individual other than an individual who is an employee under paragraphs
a. or b. of this subdivision (1) who performs services for remuneration for any person: 1.
As an agent-driver or commission-driver engaged in distributing meat products, bakery products,
beverages (other than milk) or laundry or dry cleaning services for a principal; 2. As a traveling
or city salesman engaged upon a full-time basis in the solicitation on...
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