27-26-2
Section 27-26-2 Purpose of chapter. It is hereby declared by the Legislature of the
State of Alabama that the availability of medical liability insurance at reasonable rates
for the medical profession, medical institutions, and other health care providers is essential
to provide adequate health services to the people of Alabama, and without such insurance,
medical services by the medical profession may be curtailed, and that while the need for such
insurance is increasing, availability is limited and likely to become increasingly so, unless
remedial legislation is enacted. The Legislature further finds and declares that by reason
of complicated and highly technical medical concepts, and the existence of sophisticated medical
techniques, decisions with respect to optional procedures of diagnosis and treatment have
become increasingly complex and are necessarily made on the basis of professional judgment,
on which opinions may and often will reasonably vary. It is the purpose of this...
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28-8-1
Section 28-8-1 Legislative policy and intent. Pursuant to the authority of this state
under the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, the policy and intent
of the Legislature in the enactment of this chapter are to further regulate and control alcoholic
beverage transactions in Alabama under the control and supervision of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board; to promote and assure the public's interest in fair and efficient distribution
and quality control of alcoholic beverages in Alabama; to promote orderly marketing of alcoholic
beverages; to promote vigorous inter-brand competition; and to facilitate collection of state
and local revenue. (Acts 1984, No. 84-374, p. 876, §1.)...
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34-14A-1
Section 34-14A-1 Legislative intent. In the interest of the public health, safety, welfare,
and consumer protection and to regulate the home building and private residence construction
industry, the purpose of this chapter, and the intent of the Legislature in passing it, is
to provide for the licensure of those persons who engage in home building, private residence
construction, and home improvement industries, including remodeling, and to provide home building
standards and to support education within the construction trades in the State of Alabama.
The Legislature recognizes that the home building and home improvement construction industries
are significant industries. Home builders may pose significant harm to the public when unqualified,
incompetent, or dishonest home builders and remodelers provide inadequate, unsafe, or inferior
building services. The Legislature finds it necessary to regulate the residential home building
and home improvement industries. (Acts 1992, No. 92-608,...
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40-6A-1
Section 40-6A-1 Legislative intent. The Legislature recognizes the necessity of an equitable,
fair, and efficiently administered ad valorem tax program to the revenue producing functions
of government, both state and local, and it further recognizes that since the implementation
of statewide reappraisal of property and the equalization of ad valorem taxes in this state,
the complexity and burden on the officials charged with assessing and collecting such taxes
has greatly increased. Likewise, great disparity has developed among the various counties
of this state in both the adequacy of compensation of such officials and the distribution
of the cost of administering the ad valorem tax program among the various agencies and funds
receiving such taxes. Therefore, in order to secure the services of competent officials in
all counties of this state to administer the ad valorem tax program and to fairly distribute
the burden of funding the costs of such program, it is the intent of this...
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9-13-271
Section 9-13-271 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares
that the application of prescribed burning is a landowner property right and a land management
tool that benefits the safety of the public, the environment, the natural resources, and the
economy of Alabama. Therefore, the Legislature finds that: (1) Prescribed burning reduces
naturally occurring vegetative fuels within wildland areas. The reduction of the fuel load
reduces the risk and severity of major catastrophic wildfire, thereby reducing the threat
of loss of life and property, particularly in urbanizing areas. (2) Many of Alabama's natural
communities require periodic fire for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Prescribed
burning is essential to the perpetuation, restoration, and management of many plant and animal
communities. Significant loss of the state's biological diversity will occur if fire is excluded
from fire-dependent ecosystems. (3) Forest lands constitute significant...
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16-41-3
Section 16-41-3 Purpose; legislative intent. The purpose of this chapter is to insure
the development of a comprehensive drug abuse education program for all children and youth
in grades one through 12. It is the legislative intent that this program shall teach the adverse
and dangerous effects on the human mind and body of drugs and that such instruction shall
be intensive and that it shall be given immediate emphasis, beginning with the 1971-72 school
year. It is further the intent of the Legislature that the voluntary services of persons from
the professions of clergy, education, medicine, law enforcement, social services and such
other professionally and occupationally qualified individuals as can make a contribution to
this program be utilized in its implementation so that the highest possible degree of expertise
may be brought to bear. (Acts 1971, No. 1934, p. 3122, §3.)...
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22-25B-1
Section 22-25B-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ADEM. The
Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (2) ADPH. The Alabama Department of Public
Health. (3) CERTIFICATE OF ECONOMIC VIABILITY. The certification by the commission of the
financial viability of a wastewater management entity's financial viability pursuant to this
chapter. (4) CLUSTER WASTEWATER SYSTEM. An integrated wastewater collection system or treatment
system, or both, or multiple systems serving a single development or contiguous developments,
which collectively have a design flow of 15,000 GPD or less, and is designed and permitted
for discharge of the treated wastewater to a subsurface distribution system, but excluding
systems that discharge directly to surface waters of the state. The system must be designed
by and certified by a licensed professional engineer to comply with design and permit...
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22-30-10
Section 22-30-10 Development and revision of criteria for determining hazardous wastes.
(a) The department, acting through the commission, shall promulgate and revise criteria for
identifying hazardous waste. (b) When developing these criteria, the department shall determine
whether the concentrations being disposed of present immediate or persistent toxic hazards
to human health or the environment, or the resistance of such wastes to natural degradation
or detoxification and/or whether such wastes are bioconcentrative, ignitable, reactive, toxic,
irritating, corrosive or infectious in addition to any hazardous characteristics. (c) The
department shall compile, and revise from time to time thereafter, a listing of solid wastes
which have been determined to be hazardous by using these criteria. Unless specifically excluded,
all solid wastes identified as hazardous by application of the criteria are hazardous wastes
and must be managed in accordance with this chapter and the regulations...
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34-22-3
Section 34-22-3 Intent of chapter. It is intended that this chapter shall furnish a
complete and exclusive system, of and in itself, for obtaining the right to practice optometry
in the State of Alabama and for the regulation of the practice of optometry therein; provided,
that it is the intent of the Legislature that this chapter shall not have the effect of repealing
any laws not dealing with the profession of optometry and specifically shall not have the
effect of repealing Section 34-24-292. (Acts 1975, No. 1148, p. 2257, §18.)...
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41-19-3
Section 41-19-3 Purpose of chapter; Governor to develop and present four-year strategic
plan. (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to establish a comprehensive system for budgeting
and financial management which furthers the capacity of the Governor and the Legislature to
plan and finance the services which they determine the state will provide for citizens. The
system shall include procedures for all of the following: (1) The orderly establishment, continuing
review, and periodic revision of the program and financial goals and policies of the state.
(2) The development, coordination, and review of long-range program and financial plans that
will implement established state goals and policies. (3) The preparation, coordination, analysis,
and enactment of a budget, organized to focus on state services and their costs, that authorizes
the implementation of policies and plans in the succeeding budget period. (4) The evaluation
of alternatives to existing policies, plans, and procedures...
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