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27-3A-5
Section 27-3A-5 Standards for utilization review agents. (a) Except as provided in subsection
(b), all utilization review agents shall meet the following minimum standards: (1) Notification
of a determination by the utilization review agent shall be mailed or otherwise communicated
to the provider of record or the enrollee or other appropriate individual within two business
days of the receipt of the request for determination and the receipt of all information necessary
to complete the review. (2) Any determination by a utilization review agent as to the necessity
or appropriateness of an admission, service, or procedure shall be reviewed by a physician
or determined in accordance with standards or guidelines approved by a physician. (3) Any
notification of determination not to certify an admission, service, or procedure shall include
the principal reason for the determination and the procedures to initiate an appeal of the
determination. (4) Utilization review agents shall maintain...
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36-29-1
Section 36-29-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1)
BOARD. The State Employees' Insurance Board. (2) CLASS. An employee or retiree shall be included
in one of the following classes: (i) active employee single, (ii) active employee family,
(iii) non-Medicare retiree single, (iv) non-Medicare retiree family, (v) Medicare retiree
single, (vi) Medicare retiree family, (vii) non-Medicare retiree with Medicare eligible dependent(s),
or (viii) Medicare retiree with non-Medicare dependent(s). (3) EMPLOYEE. A person who works
full time for the State of Alabama or for a county health department and who receives his
or her full compensation on a monthly basis through means of a state warrant drawn upon the
State Treasury or by check drawn by the Treasurer of the Alabama State Port Authority or by
check drawn by the treasurer of the Alabama state agency for surplus property...
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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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27-44-5
Section 27-44-5 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1)
ACCOUNT. Either of the three accounts created under Section 27-44-6. (2) ASSOCIATION.
The Alabama Life and Disability Insurance Guaranty Association created under Section
27-44-6. (3) AUTHORIZED ASSESSMENT or the term AUTHORIZED when used in the context of assessments.
A resolution by the board of directors has been passed whereby an assessment will be called
immediately or in the future from member insurers for a specified amount. An assessment is
authorized when the resolution is passed. (4) BENEFIT PLAN. A specific employee, union, or
association of natural persons benefit plan. (5) CALLED ASSESSMENT or the term CALLED when
used in the context of assessments. A notice that has been issued by the association to member
insurers requiring that an authorized assessment be paid within the time frame set forth within...
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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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22-21-311
Section 22-21-311 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this article,
and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication
herein otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) APPLICANT.
A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of a county, municipality,
or educational institution, or two or more thereof, in accordance with the provisions of Section
22-21-313. (2) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized, and any public hospital corporation
reincorporated, pursuant to the provisions hereof. (3) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. The resolution
adopted by the governing body of an authorizing subdivision, in accordance with the provisions
of Section 22-21-313 or Section 22-21-341, that authorizes the incorporation
of an authority or the reincorporation of a public hospital corporation. (4) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION.
Each county, municipality, and educational institution with...
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25-5-1
Section 25-5-1 Definitions. Throughout this chapter, the following words and phrases
as used therein shall be considered to have the following meanings, respectively, unless the
context shall clearly indicate a different meaning in the connection used: (1) COMPENSATION.
The money benefits to be paid on account of injury or death, as provided in Articles 3 and
4. The recovery which an employee may receive by action at law under Article 2 of this chapter
is termed "recovery of civil damages," as provided for in Sections 25-5-31 and 25-5-34.
"Compensation" does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine,
medical and surgical supplies, and crutches and apparatus furnished an employee on account
of an injury. (2) CHILD or CHILDREN. The terms include posthumous children and all other children
entitled by law to inherit as children of the deceased; stepchildren who were members of the
family of the deceased, at the time of the accident, and were dependent upon him or...
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12-15-102
Section 12-15-102 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases
have the following meanings: (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age or older. (2) AFTERCARE.
Conditions and supervision as the juvenile court orders after release from the Department
of Youth Services. (3) CHILD. An individual under the age of 18 years, or under 21 years of
age and before the juvenile court for a delinquency matter arising before that individual's
18th birthday, or under 19 years of age and before the juvenile court for a child in need
of supervision matter or commitment to the State Department of Mental Health or under 19 years
of age and before the juvenile court for a proceeding initiated under Section 12-15-115(b)(2).
Where a delinquency petition alleges that an individual, prior to the individual's 18th birthday,
has committed an offense for which there is no statute of limitation pursuant to Section
15-3-5, the term child also shall include the individual subject to the...
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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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45-49A-63
Section 45-49A-63 Definitions. As used in this part, the following words and terms shall
have meanings as follows: (1) ANNUITY STARTING DATE. The first day for which a benefit is
payable as an annuity or any other form under Section 45-49A-63.80. (2) BENEFICIARY.
The person or persons named by a member by written designation filed with the board to receive
payments under this plan after the member's death. The member may not change his or her beneficiary
after his or her annuity starting date. If no beneficiary designation is in effect at the
member's death, or if no person so designated survives the member, the member's surviving
spouse, if any, shall be deemed to be the beneficiary, otherwise the beneficiary shall be
the member's estate. (3) BOARD. The Police and Fire Pension Board as constituted under Section
45-49A-63.120, or its delegate. (4) BREAK IN SERVICE. A period of absence which would constitute
a break in the member's service under the Mobile County Personnel Board rules;...
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