11-61A-1
Section 11-61A-1 Declarations. The history of municipalities and the course of legislatures
throughout America, including the Legislature of Alabama, confirm that public welfare requires
that Class 2 municipalities be authorized to provide off-street parking facilities through
parking authorities. The Legislature makes each of the following declarations: (1) The free
circulation of traffic on the streets of Class 2 municipalities is necessary to the health,
safety, and general welfare of the public. (2) The greatly increased use of motor vehicles
has caused serious traffic congestion on the streets of the Class 2 municipalities. (3) The
parking of motor vehicles has contributed to the congestion. (4) The congestion prevents the
free flow of traffic through the municipalities, impedes effective firefighting and the disposition
of police forces, and threatens irreparable loss in the values of urban property, which can
no longer be readily reached by vehicular traffic. (5) Parking...
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22-11A-121
Section 22-11A-121 Use of data. (a) The department shall utilize the data and information received
for the benefit of the public. (b) Individual patient data submitted to the department by
health care facilities pursuant to this article shall at all times remain confidential and
privileged from discovery. This article does not expand or repeal any protection from discovery,
privilege, or confidentiality for patient specific information that exists by statute, regulation,
or decision by a court of final jurisdiction. (Act 2009-490, p. 900, §12.)...
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22-21-171
Section 22-21-171 Purpose and construction of article. It is the intention of the Legislature
by the passage of this article to authorize in each of the several counties of the state the
organization of a public corporation or corporations for the purpose of acquiring, owning
and operating public hospitals and other health-care and related facilities in the county
in which such corporation shall be organized. It is the legislative intent to confer on corporations
organized under this article all the powers requisite for the fulfillment of the purposes
of their organization, including the power to do whatever financing may be necessary to accomplish
such purposes. This article shall be liberally construed to give effect to its purpose. Corporations
organized under this article shall be public, nonprofit corporations, and no part of the net
earnings thereof shall inure to the benefit of any individual or private corporation. (Acts
1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §1.)...
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22-21-261
Section 22-21-261 Legislative findings; purpose of article. The Legislature of the State of
Alabama declares that it is the public policy of the State of Alabama that a certificate of
need program be administered in the state to assure that only those health care services and
facilities found to be in the public interest shall be offered or developed in the state.
It is the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this article to prevent the construction
of unnecessary and inappropriate health care facilities through a system of mandatory reviews
of new institutional health services, as the same are defined in this article. (Acts 1977,
1st Ex. Sess., No. 82, p. 1509, §1; Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-770, p. 249, §2.)...

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22-21B-2
Section 22-21B-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares: (1) It is the public
policy of the State of Alabama to respect and protect the fundamental right of conscience
of individuals who provide health care services. (2) Without comprehensive protection, health
care rights of conscience may be violated in various ways, such as harassment, demotion, salary
reduction, termination, loss of privileges, denial of aid or benefits, and refusal to license,
or refusal to certify. (3) It is the purpose of this chapter to protect religious or ethical
rights of all health care providers to decline to provide, perform, assist, or participate
in providing or performing certain health care services that violate their consciences, where
they have made their objections known in writing in advance. (4) It is the purpose of this
chapter to prohibit discrimination, disqualification, or coercion upon such health care providers
who decline to perform any health care service that violates...
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11-86A-2
Section 11-86A-2 Legislative findings of fact and declaration of intent; construction of chapter.
(a) The Legislature hereby makes the following findings of fact and declares its intent to
be as follows: The Legislature acknowledges the key role of public corporations in the state
in promoting public interest and participation in sports, athletics, and recreational activities
through acquiring, enlarging, improving, expanding, owning, operating, leasing, and disposing
of park and recreation related properties. It has come to the attention of the Legislature
that questions have been raised as to the status of certain local park and recreational authorities
and boards located in the state. It is the intent of the Legislature to promote the public
health and general welfare by exercising its police power to authorize the formation or retroactive
validation of independent public corporations created jointly by counties and municipalities,
one of which is to be a Class 4 municipality, as...
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34-21-120
Section 34-21-120 Findings; purpose. (a) The party states find and declare all of the following:
(1) The health and safety of the public are affected by the degree of compliance with and
the effectiveness of enforcement activities related to state nurse licensure laws. (2) Violations
of nurse licensure and other laws regulating the practice of nursing may result in injury
or harm to the public. (3) The expanded mobility of nurses and the use of advanced communication
technologies as part of a national health care delivery system requires greater coordination
and cooperation among states in the areas of nurse licensure and regulation. (4) New practice
modalities and technology make compliance with individual state nurse licensure laws difficult
and complex. (5) Uniformity of nurse licensure requirements throughout the states promotes
public safety and public health benefits. (b) The general purpose of this compact is to achieve
all of the following: (1) Facilitate the responsibility of...
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36-36-6
Section 36-36-6 Sources of funding; use of assets; distributions; modification and termination
of trusts; taxation; financial statement. (a) The sources of funding to the Alabama Retired
State Employees' Health Care Trust may be: (1) appropriations made by the Legislature; (2)
contributions by employees and retired employees; (3) employer contributions; (4) investment
income; (5) proceeds of any gifts, grants, or contributions; (6) transfers from the State
Employees' Insurance Fund; and (7) all other sources permitted by law. (b) The sources of
funding to the Alabama Retired Education Employees' Health Care Trust may be: (1) appropriations
made by the Legislature; (2) contributions by employees and retired employees; (3) employer
contributions; (4) investment income; (5) proceeds of any gifts, grants, or contributions;
(6) transfers from the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Fund; and (7) all other
sources permitted by law. (c) The agreements creating the trusts shall be...
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41-23-173
Section 41-23-173 Duties. The authority shall have the following duties: (1) Encourage the
education and training of aerospace professionals to pioneer the frontier of space and to
develop new methods and technologies for the exploration of space. (2) Promote new space exploration,
space tourism, and spaceport technologies across a wide spectrum of corporate, academic, public,
and private innovation infrastructures. (3) Sponsor aerospace conferences and business roundtables
to enable networking among key aerospace leaders and public officials. (4) Encourage the leveraging
of venture capital and seed public-private partnerships to promote entrepreneurship and expand
space enterprise. (5) Propose business initiatives, tax credits, small business incubator
programs, and other initiatives to stimulate economic development and innovation within the
aerospace and space systems communities. (6) Perform a study on the feasibility of securing
approval for the State of Alabama to have a...
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26-14-2
Section 26-14-2 Purpose of chapter. In order to protect children whose health and welfare may
be adversely affected through abuse and neglect, the Legislature hereby provides for the reporting
of such cases to the appropriate authorities. It is the intent of the Legislature that, as
a result of such efforts, and through the cooperation of state, county, local agencies and
divisions of government, protective services shall be made available in an effort to prevent
further abuses and neglect, to safeguard and enforce the general welfare of such children,
and to encourage cooperation among the states in dealing with the problems of child abuse.
(Acts 1975, No. 1124, p. 2213, §1.)...
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