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22-22A-2
Section 22-22A-2 Legislative intent and purposes of chapter. The Legislature finds the resources
of the state must be managed in a manner compatible with the environment, and the health and
welfare of the citizens of the state. To respond to the needs of its environment and citizens,
the state must have a comprehensive and coordinated program of environmental management. It
is therefore the intent of the Legislature to improve the ability of the state to respond
in an efficient, comprehensive and coordinated manner to environmental problems, and thereby
assure for all citizens of the state a safe, healthful and productive environment. (1) To
this end an Alabama Department of Environmental Management is created by this chapter within
the Executive Branch of State Government in order to effect the grouping of state agencies
which have primary responsibility for administering environmental legislation into one department,
to promote economy and efficiency in the operation and management...
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22-26-1
Section 22-26-1 Insanitary sewage facilities menacing public health. It shall be unlawful and
shall constitute a misdemeanor to build, maintain or use an insanitary sewage collection,
treatment and disposal facility or one that is or is likely to become a menace to the public
health anywhere within the state, including plumbing facilities, privies, septic tank systems,
other private collection and disposal systems, sewer lines, public or private, municipal,
community, subdivision or other treatment plant and disposal units, but excluding plumbing
within structures located within the police jurisdiction of municipal corporations and regulated
by the municipal corporation. (Acts 1969, No. 1127, p. 2089, §1.)...
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22-30-9
Section 22-30-9 General responsibilities of State Department. The responsibilities of the department
include the following: (1) The department may adopt procedures for granting variances and
is empowered to grant such variances. (2) The department, acting through the commission, may
promulgate, and may revise when appropriate, rules and regulations and may enter into agreements
to ensure that information obtained by the department regarding facilities and sites for the
treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste is available to the public in substantially
the same manner, and to the same degree, as would be the case under the Federal Hazardous
Waste Management Program administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
under authority of the RCRA and shall establish procedures to ensure that trade secrets used
by any person regarding methods of hazardous wastes handling and disposal are utilized by
the department, or any authorized representative of the department,...
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27-21A-3
Section 27-21A-3 Issuance of certificate of authority. (a)(1) Upon receipt of an application
for issuance of a certificate of authority, the commissioner shall forthwith transmit copies
of such application and accompanying documents to the State Health Officer. (2) The State
Health Officer shall determine whether the applicant for a certificate of authority, with
respect to health care services to be furnished: a. Has demonstrated the willingness and potential
ability to assure that such health care services will be provided in a manner to assure both
availability and accessibility of adequate personnel and facilities and in a manner enhancing
availability, accessibility, and continuity of service; b. Has arrangements, established in
accordance with the regulations promulgated by the State Health Officer, for an on-going quality
assurance program concerning health care processes and outcomes; and c. Has a procedure, established
in accordance with regulations of the State Health...
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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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33-1-1
Section 33-1-1 State may engage in promoting, constructing, operating, etc., harbors and ports;
expenditure of funds to entertain customers, etc., authorized; audit and accounting of certain
expenditures. The State of Alabama may engage in, through the agency of the Alabama State
Port Authority provided and designated by law, works of internal improvement, and of promoting,
developing, constructing, maintaining and operating all harbors, seaports or riverports within
the state or its jurisdiction, including the acquisition or construction, maintaining and
operating at seaports and riverports of harbor watercraft and terminal railroads, as well
as all other kinds of terminal facilities. Such work or improvement and facilities shall be
under the management and control of the state through the governing agency provided and designated
by law. The Alabama State Port Authority in further promoting harbors, seaports and riverports
within the state, through its director, and such employees as...
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33-6A-5
Section 33-6A-5 Pump-out stations at marinas. An owner, operator, employee, or agent of a marina
which does not provide a pump-out station or other approved means of properly disposing of
sewage from recreational vessels, shall not, except in the case of safety emergency, permit
a recreational vessel with a Type III marine sanitation device to moor, anchor, dock, or be
stored at the marina. The department may, in cooperation with the Alabama Department of Economic
and Community Affairs, Department of Public Health, and the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management, establish by regulation in accordance with the Alabama Administrative Procedure
Act, a program for financial assistance to marina facilities for the establishment of pump-out
stations or other approved means of disposing of sewage from such vessels. (Act 2002-59, p.
145, §5.)...
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9-9-5
Section 9-9-5 Establishment of district - Jurisdiction generally; purposes. (a) The court of
probate of any county of the State of Alabama shall have jurisdiction, power and authority
to establish water management districts, as provided in this article for the following purposes:
(1) To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened,
widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse; (2) To construct for the purposes of
flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization or disposal of water works
of improvement, including levees, embankments, floodwater retarding structures, water storage
structures, outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods,
providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet, swamp or overflowed lands and other
related works of improvement that will carry out the purposes of this article; and (3) To
provide maintenance for such installations. (b) It is hereby declared...
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22-11A-68
Section 22-11A-68 Immunity from liability for those involved in investigation. (a) Members
and staff of the State Board of Health, the State Committee of Public Health, the Board of
Medical Examiners, the Medical Licensure Commission, the Board of Nursing, the Board of Dental
Examiners, the Board of Podiatry, physicians, hospitals, other health care facilities, and
other entities and persons required to report or furnish information under this article and
any expert review panels, consultants to any expert review panel, and agents and employees
of the Alabama Department of Public Health shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability
for making reports or furnishing any information required by this article or for actions taken
or actions not taken in the line and scope of official or required duties during their investigations,
hearings, rulings, and decisions. (b) All information collected during the investigation of
an infected health care worker is privileged and shall be...
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22-21-264
Section 22-21-264 Criteria for state agency review. The SHPDA, pursuant to the provisions of
Section 22-21-274, shall prescribe by rules and regulations the criteria and clarifying definitions
for reviews covered by this article. These criteria shall include at least the following:
(1) Consistency with the appropriate State Health Facility and services plans effective at
the time the application was received by the State Agency, which shall include the latest
approved revisions of the following plans: a. The most recent Alabama State Health Plan which
shall include updated inventories and separate bed need methodologies for inpatient rehabilitation
beds, inpatient psychiatric beds and inpatient/residential alcohol and drug abuse beds. b.
Alabama State Health Plan for services to the mentally ill. c. Alabama State Plan for rehabilitation
facilities. d. Alabama developmental disabilities plan. e. Alabama State alcoholism plan.
f. Such other State Plans as may from time to time be...
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