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22-11A-4
Section 22-11A-4 Certain records to be provided to State Health Officer or Bureau of Clinical
Laboratories. (a) For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) CLINICAL MATERIALS. Either of the following: a. A clinical isolate that contains or that
may contain an infectious agent of public health importance. b. Material that contains or
that may contain an infectious agent of public health importance, if an isolate is not available,
in the following order of preference: 1. A patient specimen. 2. Nucleic acid. 3. Other laboratory
material. (2) PROVIDER OF MEDICAL SERVICES. A physician, hospital, laboratory, or other medical
facility or medical professional that renders medical care relating to treatment of possible
or confirmed cases of public health importance. (b) A provider of medical services that is
currently rendering or that has rendered treatment, care, diagnostic services, or laboratory
services to any person suspected of having a notifiable...
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22-11C-4
Section 22-11C-4 Alabama Statewide Head and Spinal Cord Injury Registry. The State Health Officer
may establish, contingent on the availability of funding, within the Department of Public
Health the Alabama Statewide Head and Spinal Cord Injury Registry for the purpose of providing
accurate and up-to-date information about head and spinal cord injuries in Alabama and facilitating
the evaluation and improvement of head and spinal cord injuries prevention, diagnosis, therapy,
rehabilitation, and referral to coordinated, rehabilitation programs administered by other
state agencies. The purpose of these referrals shall be to ensure that these programs shall
provide eligible persons the opportunity to obtain the necessary rehabilitative services enabling
them to be referred to a vocational rehabilitation program or to return to an appropriate
level of functioning in their community. The State Committee of Public Health shall adopt
rules necessary to effect the purposes of this chapter,...
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22-21-312
Section 22-21-312 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares:
(1) That publicly-owned (as distinguished from investor-owned and community-nonprofit) hospitals
and other health care facilities furnish a substantial part of the indigent and reduced-rate
care and other health care services furnished to residents of the state by hospitals and other
health care facilities generally; (2) That as a result of current significant fiscal and budgetary
limitations or restrictions, the state and the various counties, municipalities, and educational
institutions therein are no longer able to provide, from taxes and other general fund moneys,
all the revenues and funds necessary to operate such publicly-owned hospitals and other health
care facilities adequately and efficiently; and (3) That to enable such publicly-owned hospitals
and other health care facilities to continue to operate adequately and efficiently, it is
necessary that the entities and agencies...
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22-21-375
Section 22-21-375 Issuance of license; revocation; procedures for review and mediation of complaints.
(a) The Department of Insurance shall issue a license to each applicant upon payment of the
prescribed fees and upon being satisfied that: (1) The applicant has been organized in a bona
fide manner for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a dental service plan.
(2) Each contract executed, or proposed to be executed, by the applicant and a dentist obligates,
or will when executed obligate, such dentist to render the service or accept payment for the
service to which each subscriber may be entitled under the terms of the contract issued to
the subscriber. (3) Each contract issued, or proposed to be issued, to subscribers is in a
form approved by the department and that the rates charged, or proposed to be charged, for
each form of such contract and benefits to be provided pursuant thereto are fair and reasonable
and are actuarially sound. (4) No contributions to the...
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22-4-5
Section 22-4-5 Adoption, revision, etc., of rules, regulations, standards, etc., by State Board
of Health; appeals therefrom; State Board of Health not to discriminate among branches of
healing arts in administration of funds. (a) The State Board of Health, with the advice and
consultation of the Statewide Health Coordinating Council, is hereby authorized and empowered
to adopt, revise, abolish, promulgate and publish rules, regulations, standards and procedures
for: (1) The preparation of the preliminary State Health Plan and the State Medical Facilities
Plan; (2) The administration of the State Health Plan and of the State Medical Facilities
Plan after approval by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council; (3) The construction and
operation of health care facilities established under the State Medical Facilities Plan; and
(4) Such other matters as may be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this article.
(b) The State Board of Health is also authorized and empowered to...
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22-52-17
Section 22-52-17 Public facilities other than Department of Mental Health not required to perform
mental evaluations; exceptions. Notwithstanding any other language in this article, the following
limitations shall apply. No public facility other than the Department of Mental Health may
be required (as distinguished from authorized) by the probate court to perform any mental
evaluation of a person sought to be committed for use in any final commitment hearing except:
(1) In an emergency case wherein no other source or agency which is funded or mandated by
federal law, state law or both to provide such services is objectively capable of performing
such evaluation within the time limit imposed by law; or (2) In an emergency case wherein
no other source or agency operates to perform such evaluation in such emergency case, a public
hospital may be required to accept a person sought to be committed for the provision of hospital
care, if such person is admitted to the public hospital or other...
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33-6-10
Section 33-6-10 Enforcement of chapter, rules, etc.; prosecutions under chapter; violations
and penalties. (a) This chapter and rules and orders adopted under this chapter shall be enforced
by the State Board of Health and the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
according to rules adopted by the board and department. (b) Any person may complain under
oath to a magistrate, district attorney, or grand jury concerning a violation of this chapter
or of a rule adopted under this chapter and if a warrant is issued by the magistrate or district
attorney, or indictment returned by a grand jury, the charge shall be tried in court to which
the warrant is returnable, and the warrant may be made returnable to a district court or to
the circuit court and the courts shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction of the offense,
or if an indictment is returned, the circuit court shall have jurisdiction of the offense.
Convicted persons may appeal as now provided by law. Whether...
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38-9A-6
Section 38-9A-6 Plans and budgets. (a) The local, regional, and state plans for individual
and family supports developed by each community and regional council and the State Support
Council shall be developed in conjunction with the regional planning process of the Division
of Mental Retardation of the Department of Mental Health. These plans and accompanying proposed
budgets shall be considered by the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health as a line
item in the department's budget request that is annually submitted to the Governor's office.
(b) The minimum level of funding in any year in the line item shall be six hundred fifty thousand
dollars ($650,000) as a continuation of current funding from the Department of Mental Health,
except that this amount may be reduced in a fiscal year in an amount equal to or less than
any reduction applied to all other community-based programs and services of the Division of
Mental Retardation in that same fiscal year. Provided, however, this...
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15-16-68
Section 15-16-68 Court-imposed conditions for release. The conditions that the court may impose
upon release, if necessary and appropriate, include, the following: (1) That the defendant
take medication as prescribed by doctors in the department or in a regional or community mental
health facility, or by some other doctor whose care the defendant is in; (2) That the defendant
submit to treatment and accept care from a duly authorized outpatient facility such as a regional
or community mental health facility; (3) That the defendant submit to mental or medical evaluation
or testing as prescribed by the department, by a regional or community mental health facility,
or by other appropriate person or facility; (4) That the defendant submit to periodic or random
drug testing designed to ensure that he is taking any prescribed drugs and avoiding any prescribed
drugs including alcohol; (5) That the defendant avoid specified activities, persons, or places
that may be detrimental to his...
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22-11A-60
Section 22-11A-60 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) HEALTH CARE FACILITY. A hospital, nursing home, ambulatory surgical
center, outpatient surgical facility, ambulance service, rescue squad, paid fire department,
volunteer fire department, or any other clinic, office, or facility in which medical, dental,
nursing, or podiatric services are offered. (2) HEALTH CARE WORKER. Physicians, dentists,
nurses, respiratory therapists, phlebotomists, surgical technicians, physician assistants,
podiatrist, dialysis technicians, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, ambulance drivers,
dental hygienists, dental assistants, students in the healing arts, or any other individual
who provides or assists in the provision of medical, dental, or nursing services. (3) HEPATITIS
B VIRUS (HBV) INFECTION. The presence of the HBV as determined by the presence of hepatitis
B(e) antigen for six months or longer or by other means as determined by...
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