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22-7A-1
Section 22-7A-1 Physician agreements; dentist agreements. (a) For the purposes of this chapter,
the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DENTIST. A person licensed to practice
dentistry in this state. (2) DENTIST AGREEMENT or AGREEMENT. A contract between a dentist
and a patient or his or her legal representative in which the dentist or the dentist's medical
practice agrees to provide dental services to the patient for an agreed upon fee and period
of time. (3) DENTIST PRACTICE. A dentist or a dental practice of a dentist that charges a
periodic fee for dental services and which does not bill a third party any additional fee
for services for patients covered under a dental agreement. The per visit charge of the practice
shall be less than the monthly equivalent of the periodic fee. (4) PHYSICIAN. A person licensed
to practice medicine in this state. (5) PHYSICIAN AGREEMENT or AGREEMENT. A contract between
a physician and a patient or his or her legal representative in...
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25-5-1
Section 25-5-1 Definitions. Throughout this chapter, the following words and phrases as used
therein shall be considered to have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context
shall clearly indicate a different meaning in the connection used: (1) COMPENSATION. The money
benefits to be paid on account of injury or death, as provided in Articles 3 and 4. The recovery
which an employee may receive by action at law under Article 2 of this chapter is termed "recovery
of civil damages," as provided for in Sections 25-5-31 and 25-5-34. "Compensation"
does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine, medical and surgical
supplies, and crutches and apparatus furnished an employee on account of an injury. (2) CHILD
or CHILDREN. The terms include posthumous children and all other children entitled by law
to inherit as children of the deceased; stepchildren who were members of the family of the
deceased, at the time of the accident, and were dependent upon him or...
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25-5-8
Section 25-5-8 Employers' options to secure payment of compensation. (a) Option to insure risks.
An employer subject to this chapter may secure the payment of compensation under this chapter
by insuring and keeping insured his or her liability in some insurance corporation, association,
organization, insurance association, corporation, or association formed of employers and workers
or formed by a group of employers to insure the risks under this chapter, operating by mutual
assessment or other plans or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the insurance association,
organization, or corporation shall have first had its contract and plan of business approved
in writing by the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance of Alabama and have been authorized
by the Department of Insurance to transact the business of workers' compensation insurance
in this state and under the plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary,
the obligations of employers under law for...
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34-26-46
intimidation, or abuse, sexual or otherwise, of a client or patient. (8) Engaging in sexual
intercourse or other sexual contact with a client or patient. (9) Use of repeated untruthful
or deceptive or improbable statements concerning the licensee's qualifications or the effects
or results of proposed treatment, including functioning outside of one's professional competence
or area of specialization established by education, training, and experience as recognized
by the board. (10) Gross malpractice or repeated malpractice or gross negligence
in practice as a psychologist or psychological technician. (11) Aiding or abetting practice
as a psychologist or psychological technician by any person not licensed by the board. (12)
Conviction of fraud in filing Medicare or Medicaid claims or in filing claims to any third
party payor (a copy of the record of conviction, certified to by the clerk of the court entering
the conviction, shall be conclusive evidence). (13) Exercising undue...
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15-22-24
Section 15-22-24 Board of Pardons and Paroles - Duties retirement of parole officers; representation
of applicant by state official; supervision and treatment; training requirements. (a) The
Board of Pardons and Paroles, hereinafter referred to as "the board," shall be charged
with the duty of determining, through use of a validated risk and needs assessment as defined
in Section 12-25-32, what prisoners serving sentences in the jails and prisons of the State
of Alabama may be released on parole and when and under what conditions. Such board shall
also be charged with the duty of supervising all prisoners released on parole from the jails
or prisons of the state and of lending its assistance to the courts in the supervision of
all prisoners placed on probation by courts exercising criminal jurisdiction and making such
investigations as may be necessary in connection therewith, of implementing the use of validated
risk and needs assessments as defined in Section 12-25-32 by probation...
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45-37-123.01
Section 45-37-123.01 Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) ACT. The act adding this part, to be called the General Retirement
System for Employees of Jefferson County Act. (2) ACTIVE MEMBER. An individual who currently
is employed by the county or other entities set forth in subdivision (20) and is making employee
contributions to the system. (3) ACTUARIAL EQUIVALENT. Effective July 30, 1984, or such other
dates as set forth in Exhibit A, which is maintained in the office of the pension board, a
form of benefit differing in time, period, or manner of payment from a specific benefit provided
under the plan but having the same value when computed using the mortality tables, the interest
rate, and any other assumptions last adopted by the pension board, which assumptions shall
clearly preclude any discretion in the determination of the amount of a member's benefit.
(4) ACTUARIAL GAIN. As defined in Section...
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11-91A-7
Section 11-91A-7 Jurisdiction of board; funding; powers of board. The board shall have full,
complete, and exclusive jurisdiction over the program and shall allocate funds from its treasury
for the fulfillment and accomplishment of its duties and responsibilities in a manner as may
be necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The board shall have
the general powers and authority granted under the laws of this state for health insurers,
and in addition thereto, the specific authority to do all of the following: (a) Subject to
compliance with Section 11-91A-8 where applicable, execute a contract or contracts to provide
for the administration of the program in accordance with this chapter. The contract or contracts
may be executed with one or more agencies or corporations licensed to transact or administer
group health care business in this state with similar plans of the state for the joint performance
of common administrative functions. (b) Establish, and...
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22-30D-7
Section 22-30D-7 Expenditure of funds. (a) Prior to the approval of an expenditure of any funds
under this chapter with respect to payment for costs incurred for investigation, assessment,
and, if necessary, remediation at a particular site, every owner or operator covered by this
chapter, person owning any abandoned drycleaning facility eligible for coverage by this chapter,
or impacted third party filing a request with the board for payment, shall accept responsibility
for the first ten thousand dollars ($10,000), as a deductible amount, of the actual costs
to be incurred with that particular site. Each wholesale distributor covered by this chapter
shall accept responsibility for the first fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), as a deductible
amount, of the actual cost to be incurred with a wholesale distribution facility. An adjacent
landowner shall not be required to accept responsibility for any costs incurred at a site.
(b) Payments from the fund may be obtained from the board by...
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22-30D-4
Section 22-30D-4 Election of coverage; administration of chapter; rules and regulations. (a)(1)
All owners and operators and all wholesale distributors shall elect by May 24, 2001, to be
covered or not to be covered by this chapter and shall do so by notifying the department in
writing that such owner or operator or wholesale distributor elects to be covered or not to
be covered by this chapter. Following May 24, 2001, any owner or operator or wholesale distributor
who may have initially elected not to be covered by this chapter or who may have inadvertently
failed to notify the department may notify the department that such owner or operator or wholesale
distributor has reconsidered and desires to be covered by the fund, but any such owner or
operator or wholesale distributor shall, with its notice of request for coverage, be required
to pay to the Department of Revenue the registration fees which would otherwise have been
due to the fund had such owner or operator or wholesale...
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34-24-162.1
Section 34-24-162.1 Application; licensure by credentials. (a) Every person who desires to
practice chiropractic within the State of Alabama shall file an application prescribed by
the board. Notwithstanding the method of obtaining licensure or any particular requirement
set forth herein, every person as a prerequisite to licensure must be at least 21 years of
age, of good moral character, a citizen of the United States or, if not a citizen of the United
States a person who is legally present in the United States with appropriate documentation
from the federal government, a graduate of a chiropractic school or college accredited and
recognized by the board and must satisfy any other requirement set forth in any rule adopted
by the board. (b) Any individual who possesses a current license in any state, who has passed
a state licensure examination approved by the board and who has, since graduation from chiropractic
school, participated in a clinical residency or practiced chiropractic...
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