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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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