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22-28A-2
Section 22-28A-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama hereby finds as follows:
(1) The United States is a signatory to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Global
Climate Change (FCCC). (2) The Kyoto Protocol to expand the scope of the FCCC was negotiated
in December 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, requiring the United States to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases such as carbon dioxide and methane by seven percent from 1990 emission levels during
the period 2008 to 2012, with similar reduction obligations for other major industrial nations.
(3) Developing nations, including China, India, Mexico, Indonesia, and Brazil are exempt from
greenhouse gas emission limitation requirements in the FCCC. (4) Developing nations refused
in the Kyoto negotiations to accept any new commitments for greenhouse gas emission limitations
through the Kyoto Protocol or other agreements. (5) With respect to new commitments under
the FCCC, President Clinton pledged on October 22, 1997, that the...
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22-28A-3
Section 22-28A-3 Regulations, commitments relating to reduction of greenhouse gases. (a) Effective
immediately, the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall refrain
from proposing or promulgating any new regulations intended in whole or in part to reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol, from the residential,
commercial, industrial, electric utility, or transportation sectors unless such reductions
are required under existing statutes. (b) In the absence of a resolution or other act of the
Legislature of the State of Alabama approving same, the Director of the Alabama Department
of Environmental Management shall not submit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or
to any other agency of the federal government any legally enforceable commitments related
to the reduction of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol unless
such reductions are required under existing statutes. (Act...
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29-1-24
Section 29-1-24 Ozone transport oversight. (a) This section may be referred to as the Ozone
Transport Oversight Act of 1997. (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds all of
the following: (1) The Federal Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., contains
a comprehensive regulatory scheme for the control of emissions from mobile and stationary
sources. (2) Ozone and other air pollutants have declined substantially during the past 25
years throughout the United States due to implementation of the Clean Air Act, and additional
air quality improvements will result as the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments are implemented.
(3) The Northeast Ozone Transport Commission ("OTC"), in an effort to remedy the
serious ozone nonattainment conditions prevailing in urbanized areas of the Northeast, has
proposed emission control requirements for stationary and mobile sources more stringent than
those applicable to states outside of the Northeast Ozone Transport Region ("OTR"),
including a...
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22-27-2
Section 22-27-2 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AGENCY. Any controlling agency,
public or private, elected, appointed, or volunteer utilizing methods approved by the health
department or the department for the purpose of controlling and supervising the collection
or management of solid wastes or recyclable materials. (2) ALTERNATIVE COVER. Material other
than earth used to cover a landfill or sanitary landfill. An alternative cover shall be approved
by the Department of Environmental Management in compliance with federal law and United States
Environmental Protection Agency rules or guidance to achieve a level of performance equal
to or greater than earthen cover material. (3) ASHES. The solid residue from burning of wood,
coal, coke, or other combustible material used for heating, from incineration of solid wastes,
or for the production of electricity at electric generating...
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40-9B-3
Section 40-9B-3 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
mean: (1) ABATE, ABATEMENT. A reduction or elimination of a taxpayer's liability for tax or
payments required to be made in lieu thereof. An abatement of transaction taxes imposed under
Chapter 23 of this title, or payments required to be made in lieu thereof, shall relieve the
seller from the obligation to collect and pay over the transaction tax as if the sale were
to a person exempt, to the extent of the abatement, from the transaction tax. (2) ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY RESOURCES. The definition given in Section 40-18-1. (3) CONSTRUCTION RELATED TRANSACTION
TAXES. The transaction taxes imposed by Chapter 23 of this title, or payments required to
be made in lieu thereof, on tangible personal property and taxable services incorporated into
an industrial development property, the cost of which may be added to capital account with
respect to the property, determined without regard to any rule which...
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41-17A-1
Section 41-17A-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of Alabama makes the following findings
and statements: (1) Energy use associated with the operation of state motor vehicle fleets
exacerbates local air quality problems and results in greenhouse gas emissions that contribute
to global climate change. (2) Agencies and departments of state government have a significant
role to play in improving local air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by improving
the energy efficiency of their fleets and reducing emissions from fleet operations. (3) Improving
the energy efficiency of state fleets will result in a significant monetary savings in the
long term. (b) The Legislature expresses its intent as follows: (1) To express its power as
a participant in the marketplace to ensure that purchases and expenditures of public monies
are made in a manner consistent with the policies of improving local air quality, reducing
Alabama's water pollution of hazardous waste oil, reducing the...
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31-11-2
Section 31-11-2 National Guard Mutual Assistance Counter-Drug Activities Compact. The National
Guard Mutual Assistance Counter-Drug Activities Compact is enacted into law and entered with
all other jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows:
NATIONAL GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES COMPACT ARTICLE I As used in this
compact, the following words shall have the following meanings: 1. DEMAND REDUCTION. Providing
available National Guard personnel, equipment, support, and coordination to federal, state,
local and civil organizations, institutions, and agencies for the purposes of the prevention
of drug abuse and the reduction in the demand for illegal drugs. 2. DRUG INTERDICTION AND
COUNTER-DRUG COMPACT ACTIVITIES. The use of National Guard personnel, while not in federal
service, in any law enforcement support compact activities that are intended to reduce the
supply or use of illegal drugs in the United States. These compact activities...
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22-2A-2
Section 22-2A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) MULTI-STATE POOLING INITIATIVE. A group of two or more states working together
to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals purchased or paid for by those states. (2) PHARMACEUTICAL
or DRUG. Any medicinal substance, preparation, or device recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia
and National Formulary, or any revision thereof, and any substance and preparation intended
for external and internal use in the cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention
of disease in humans, and any substance and preparation other than food intended to affect
the structure or any function of the human body. (3) PHARMACEUTICAL PROGRAM. A program administered
by the Department of Mental Health, Department of Corrections, Department of Public Health,
Department of Youth Services, or the Department of Rehabilitation Services, pursuant to which
pharmaceuticals are purchased for use by clients....
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5-11A-5
Section 5-11A-5 Deposit of security for operation of trust business - Amount required and form;
charges against deposit. Any corporation organized and operating as a trust company or as
a bank authorized by law to do a trust business may deposit with the State Treasurer or elsewhere
United States bonds, bonds, notes or debentures of any federal agency such as a federal land
bank, banks for cooperatives, Farm Home Administration, Federal National Mortgage Association,
etc., Alabama bonds, bonds of any city or county in the State of Alabama or mortgages which
are first liens on real estate, worth in each case double the face of the mortgage, situated
in this state, to an amount not less than $25,000.00, and may increase said deposit from time
to time or reduce the same to an amount not less than $25,000.00, or may withdraw the deposit
entirely, provided such trust companies or banks have made final settlement and accounted
for all assets in their possession and under their control by...
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27-29A-2
Section 27-29A-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply: (1) INSURANCE GROUP. Those insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding
company system as defined in Chapter 29. (2) INSURER. As set forth in Section 27-1-2, except
that it shall not include agencies, authorities, or instrumentalities of the United States,
its possessions and territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia,
or a state or political subdivision of a state. (3) NAIC. The National Association of Insurance
Commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries. (4) OWN RISK AND SOLVENCY ASSESSMENT or
ORSA. A confidential internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity
of an insurer or insurance group, conducted by that insurer or insurance group of the material
and relevant risks associated with the insurer or insurance group's current business plan,
and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks. (5)...
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