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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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22-21-29
Section 22-21-29 Inspections. (a) Every hospital licensed under this article shall be open
to inspection to the extent authorized in this section by employees and agents of the State
Board of Health, under rules as shall be promulgated by the board with the advice and consent
of the advisory board. Employees and agents of the board shall also inspect unlicensed and
suspected unlicensed facilities. Nothing in this section shall authorize the board to inspect
quarters therein occupied by members of any religious group or nurses engaged in work in any
hospital or places of refuge for members of religious orders for whom care is provided, but
any inspection shall be limited and confined to the parts and portions of the hospital as
are used for the care and treatment of the patients and the general facilities for their care
and treatment. No hospital shall, by reason of this section, be relieved from any other types
of inspections authorized by law. (b) All inspections undertaken by the...
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22-21-7
Section 22-21-7 Itemized statement of services rendered to be furnished patient upon request;
provisions of statement; itemization of services and expenses; action by Attorney General;
payment of claims by insurance companies. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term "hospital"
shall mean any hospital in which human patients are given medical care. It shall include all
emergency rooms or outpatient facilities connected thereto. (b) Within 10 days following discharge
or release from confinement in a hospital or nursing home, or within 10 days after the earliest
date at which the expense from the confinement or service may be determined, which in the
case of long-term confinement may be the monthly charge, the hospital or nursing home providing
the service shall submit to the patient, or to his survivor or legal guardian as may be appropriate,
upon written request, an itemized statement detailing in language comprehensible to an ordinary
layman the specific nature of charges or...
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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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22-30B-1.1
Section 22-30B-1.1 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that: (1) The state is increasingly
becoming the nation's final burial ground for the disposal of hazardous wastes and materials;
(2) The volumes of hazardous wastes and substances disposed in the state have increased dramatically
for the past several years; (3) The existence of hazardous waste disposal activities in the
state poses unique and continuing problems for the state; (4) As the site for the ultimate
burial of hazardous wastes and substances, the state incurs a permanent risk to the health
of its people and the maintenance of its natural resources that is avoided by other states
which ship their wastes to Alabama for disposal; (5) The state also incurs other substantial
costs related to hazardous waste management including the costs of regulation of transportation,
spill cleanup and disposal of ever-increasing volumes of hazardous wastes and substances;
(6) Because all waste and substances disposed at commercial...
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24-1-22
Section 24-1-22 Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this article,
shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context: (1) AUTHORITY or HOUSING AUTHORITY. A public body organized as a body corporate
and politic in accordance with the provisions of this article for the purposes, with the powers
and subject to the restrictions set forth. (2) CITY. Any city or incorporated town in the
State of Alabama. (3) COUNCIL. The legislative body, council, board of commissioners or other
body charged with governing the city. (4) CITY CLERK and MAYOR. The clerk, and the mayor or
president of the board of commissioners, respectively, of the city or the officers thereof
charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk and mayor respectively. (5) COMMISSIONER.
One of the members of an authority appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(6) GOVERNMENT. Such term shall include the state and...
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32-10-13
Section 32-10-13 Accident response service. (a) As used in this section, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) ACCIDENT RESPONSE SERVICE FEE. A fee imposed for the
response or investigation by a law enforcement officer or agency of a motor vehicle accident.
(2) ENTITY. A governmental entity or agency or department of a governmental entity. (3) LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. The Alabama Department of Public Safety, the police department of each
incorporated city or municipality, the department of each sheriff of the state, including
all deputy sheriffs, the enforcement division of the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, the Public Service Commission, and each public agency in the state charged with
the enforcement of any laws and the officers and employees of which have the power as such
to make arrests. The term does not include rescue squads or volunteer fire departments. (4)
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. An officer of a law enforcement agency. (b)...
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34-24-603
Section 34-24-603 Definitions. Unless otherwise indicated from the context, the terms set out
below, as used in this article shall have the following meanings: (1) APPLICANT. A person
who has submitted or that is in the process of submitting a registration under this article.
(2) BOARD. The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners. (3) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A drug, substance,
or immediate precursor identified, defined, or listed in Sections 20-2-20 to 20-2-32, inclusive.
(4) HOSPITAL. A health care institution licensed by the Alabama Department of Public Health
and has the same definition as provided in Chapter 420-5-7 of the Alabama Administrative Code.
The term shall include any outpatient facility or clinic that is separated from the hospital
that is owned, operated, or controlled by the hospital. (5) PAIN MANAGEMENT SERVICES. Those
medical services that involve the prescription of controlled substances in order to treat
chronic nonmalignant pain by a physician who treats pain. (6)...
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34-9-63
Section 34-9-63 Permit to use parenteral sedation. The issuance of a permit for general anesthesia
shall include the privilege of administering parenteral sedation in accordance with this section.
The issuance of a permit for parenteral sedation shall include the privilege of administering
intravenous sedation. All current intravenous sedation permit holders are entitled to a parenteral
sedation permit subject to the renewal and regulatory provisions afforded to the Board of
Dental Examiners by this chapter. The term parenteral sedation shall not include the use or
regulation of nitrous oxide. (1) No dentist shall use parenteral sedation on an outpatient
basis for dental patients unless the dentist possesses a permit of authorization issued by
the board. The dentist applying for or holding the permit shall be subject to on-site inspections
as provided in paragraph b. of subdivision (2) of Section 34-9-60. a. In order to receive
the permit, the dentist shall: 1. Apply on a prescribed...
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37-4-140
Section 37-4-140 Purchase of electricity. (a) For purposes of this section only, the following
terms shall have the following meanings: (1) AVOIDED COSTS. Costs that a utility or a commission
non-jurisdictional electric supplier which purchases electrical energy from a distributed
generation facility would have been required to incur but for the distributed generation facility's
provision of electrical energy during the same period of time. To the extent such costs are
actually avoided, the term may include incremental fuel costs, incremental energy losses,
incremental emission allowance costs, and incremental fuel-related operation and maintenance
expenses. The term does not include, among other things, costs associated with capacity, the
transmission and distribution system, administrative and general costs, customer accounting
costs, and general plant in service costs. (2) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission.
(3) COMMISSION NON-JURISDICTIONAL ELECTRIC SUPPLIER. a. A...
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