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22-56-5
Section 22-56-5 Department to establish official standards for certification. In order to ensure
that consumers of mental health services through state facilities, community mental health
centers, and other providers under contract to the department receive individual treatment
and that rights delineated in Section 22-56-4 and elsewhere in state and federal law are consistently
observed within mental health programs operated by the providers, the department shall establish
within 180 days of January 1, 1996, official standards for certification to be observed by
all state facilities, community mental health centers, and other providers under contract
to the department. These standards shall be developed with the active participation of mental
health providers, consumers and family members of consumers. The department shall establish
teams to monitor the compliance with these standards by state facilities, community mental
health centers, and providers under contract to the department,...
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22-50-11
Section 22-50-11 Department - Additional and cumulative powers. The Department of Mental Health
is given hereby the following additional and cumulative powers through its commissioner: (1)
It is authorized and directed to set up state plans for the purpose of controlling and treating
any and all forms of mental and emotional illness and any and all forms of mental retardation
and shall divide the state into regions, districts, areas or zones, which need not be geographic
areas, but shall be areas for the purpose of establishing priorities and programs and for
organizational and administrative purposes in accordance with these state plans. (2) It is
designated and authorized to supervise, coordinate, and establish standards for all operations
and activities of the state related to mental health and the providing of mental health services;
and it is authorized to receive and administer any funds available from any source for the
purpose of acquiring building sites for, constructing,...
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22-56-4
Section 22-56-4 Rights. (a) Consumers of mental health services have the same general rights
as other citizens of Alabama. These rights include but are not limited to the following: (1)
The right to exercise rights as a citizen of the United States and the State of Alabama. (2)
The right to be served through general services available to all citizens. (3) The right to
choose to live, work, be educated, and recreate with persons who do not have disabilities.
(4) The right to be presumed competent until a court of competent jurisdiction, abiding by
statutory and constitutional provisions, determines otherwise. (5) The right to vote and otherwise
participate in the political process. (6) The right to free exercise of religion. (7) The
right to own and possess real and personal property. Nothing in this section shall affect
existing laws pertaining to conveyance of real or personal property. (8) The right to make
contracts. (9) The right to obtain a driver's license on the same basis as...
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22-52-12.1
Section 22-52-12.1 Designated mental health facilities; standards of care. (a) The department
shall designate certain mental health facilities that shall have the authority to receive
respondents for evaluation, admission, detention, treatment and discharge pursuant to the
provisions of this chapter. (b) The department shall establish standards of care and services
to be rendered by each designated mental health facility and shall certify those facilities
designated to provide evaluation, admission, detention, treatment and discharge. (c) The probate
judges of the State of Alabama may commit respondents, who meet the criteria for involuntary
commitment, to a designated mental health facility. Provided, however, that such designated
mental health facility shall not be required to accept a committed respondent if they are
unable to provide proper services and treatment. (d) The designated mental health facilities
shall have the authority to contract with public or private mental health...
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30-7-6
Section 30-7-6 Perpetrator counseling programs. (a) The director, in consultation with the
Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Incorporated or other qualified entity, as provided
in subsection (b) of Section 30-7-2, the Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers, and the
Alabama Department of Mental Health, shall establish the content of batterers' intervention
programs in order to direct services to those persons who are adjudged to have committed an
act of domestic violence, as defined in Section 30-5-2, those against whom an injunction for
protection against domestic violence is entered, those referred by the court, and those who
volunteer to attend such programs. (b) The facilitators, supervisors, and trainees of the
program shall be certified to provide these programs through initial certification by the
Department of Economic and Community Affairs, and the programs and personnel shall be annually
recertified by the department to ensure that they meet specified standards....
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38-7-7
Section 38-7-7 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Department to establish
minimum standards for licensing; factors to be considered; children in need of special treatment;
department to offer consultation. (a) The department shall prescribe and publish minimum standards
for licensing and for approving all child-care facilities, as defined in this chapter. In
establishing such standards the department shall seek the advice and assistance of persons
representative of the various types of child-care facilities. The standards prescribed and
published under this chapter shall include regulations pertaining to: (1) The operation and
conduct of the child-care facility and the responsibility it assumes for child care; (2) The
character, suitability and qualifications of the applicant and other persons directly responsible
for the care and welfare of children served; (3) The general financial ability and competence
of the applicant to provide necessary care for children and to...
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22-51-3
Section 22-51-3 Incorporation of public corporations - Application - Contents. The said natural
persons, referred to in Section 22-51-2, shall file a written application with each governing
body from which they desire authority to incorporate. Such applications shall: (1) Describe
in general terms the area of the state which will be served by the proposed facilities, which
description will be sufficient if stated with reference to counties, municipalities, unincorporated
communities or any part or combination thereof; (2) State the location of the principal office
of the proposed corporation; (3) Submit such documents or evidence which the incorporators
may consider appropriate, which shall include documents from the Alabama Department of Mental
Health and the State Board of Health showing that the facilities and programs, which the incorporators
propose to establish will be in accordance with minimum standards and criteria established
by such boards; (4) State which aspects of the...
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22-4-8
Section 22-4-8 Statewide Health Coordinating Council - Functions. (a) The Statewide Health
Coordinating Council shall advise and serve as consultants to the State Board of Health regarding
policies and regulations necessary for carrying out this article. (b) In addition, the council
shall perform the following functions: (1) Review annually and coordinate the health systems
plans of each of the health systems agencies; (2) Prepare, review and revise as necessary,
with the assistance of the State Health Planning and Development Agency, and approve or disapprove,
the State Health Plan, which shall be made up of the health systems plans modified to achieve
their coordination and compliance with statewide health planning criteria and standards; (3)
Review the State Medical Facilities Plan, pursuant to Title XVI of the Public Health Service
Act, prepared by the State Health Planning and Development Agency, and approve the plan as
consistent with the State Health Plan and advise and consult...
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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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22-21-260
Section 22-21-260 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and terms, and
the plurals thereof, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, unless otherwise
required by their respective context: (1) ACQUISITION. Obtaining the legal equitable title
to a freehold or leasehold estate or otherwise obtaining the substantial benefit of such titles
or estates, whether by purchase, lease, loan or suffrage, gift, devise, legacy, settlement
of a trust or means whatever, and shall include any act of acquisition. The term "acquisition"
shall not mean or include any conveyance, or creation of any lien or security interest by
mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, or similar financing instrument, nor shall it
mean or include any transfer of title or rights as a result of the foreclosure, or conveyance
or transfer in lieu of the foreclosure, of any such mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement,
or similar financing instrument, nor shall it mean or include any...
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