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11-49A-1
Section 11-49A-1 Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature has found and determined
and does hereby declare that in Class 3 municipalities the following conditions exist: (1)
That the constant growth of private vehicular traffic in such counties in which such municipalities
are located is placing excessive burdens upon the road systems and parking facilities, especially
in commercial and industrial districts and in areas of high population density; (2) That the
continued economic growth of such municipalities and the general health and welfare of the
citizens of such counties require the availability of public facilities for mass transportation;
and (3) That it is necessary and desirable and in the best interests of the citizens of such
municipalities that provisions be made for the establishment in such counties of public corporations
to provide public transportation service. The legislature does hereby further declare its
intention, by the passage of this chapter, to promote...
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41-9-941
Section 41-9-941 Declaration of findings. The Legislature hereby finds as follows: (1) The
state and federal governments are facing unprecedented demands for government services in
a time of proration, national deficit spending, increasing national debt, a highly competitive
world economy, and the increasing disillusionment on the part of the public with the ability
of the governments to adequately meet the needs. (2) Citizens want their governments, state
and federal, to be more responsive to their needs, by operating at a more personal level with
greater efficiency, higher performance, and lower cost. (3) Total Quality, a structured management
approach first used in private industry, has proven to increase profitability and marketshare,
decrease costs, increase employee satisfaction, and decrease employee turnover. (4) Early
efforts to implement Total Quality within the federal government have produced favorable results;
in fact, it is believed that Total Quality offers one of the...
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34-9-2
Section 34-9-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby declares that the practice
of dentistry and the practice of dental hygiene affect the public health, safety, and welfare
and should be subject to regulation. It is further declared to be a matter of public interest
and concern that the dental profession merit and receive the confidence of the public and
that only qualified dentists be permitted to practice dentistry and only qualified dental
hygienists be permitted to practice dental hygiene in the State of Alabama. All provisions
of this chapter relating to the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene shall be liberally
construed to carry out these objects and purposes. (b) The Legislature also finds and declares
that, because of technological advances and changing practice patterns, the practice of dentistry
and the practice of dental hygiene is occurring with increasing frequency across state lines
and that the technological advances in the practice of dentistry and in...
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6-5-549.1
Section 6-5-549.1 Limits of liability insurance coverage in legal action against health care
providers; testimony of health care providers as specialists. (a) This section and Sections
6-5-548 and 6-5-549 shall be known and may be cited as "The Alabama Medical Liability
Act of 1996." (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds and declares that a crisis
continues to threaten the delivery and availability of medical services to the people of Alabama
and the health and safety of the citizens of this state are in jeopardy as a result of this
crisis. In accordance with the previous declarations of the Legislature of Alabama in Sections
6-5-480 to 6-5-488, inclusive, 27-26-1 to 27-26-4, inclusive, and 27-26-20 to 27-26-43, inclusive,
and Sections 6-5-540 to 6-5-552, inclusive, it is the declared intent of this Legislature
to ensure that quality medical services continue to be available at reasonable costs to the
citizens of the State of Alabama. The continuing and ever increasing...
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16-47-240
Section 16-47-240 Alabama Rural Hospital Resource Center. (a) The University of Alabama at
Birmingham shall establish the Alabama Rural Hospital Resource Center. (b) The purpose of
the resource center is to facilitate access to high quality care for rural Alabamians and
improve their health by increasing the viability and capabilities of eligible hospitals at
no or minimal cost to those hospitals. (c) For the purposes of this section, the following
terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ELIGIBLE HOSPITAL. A nonprofit or public rural
hospital. (2) RESOURCE CENTER. The Rural Hospital Resource Center of the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. (3) RURAL. Located in one of the following: a. An area designated as a shortage
area as defined in 42 C.F.R. ยง 491.5(c) and (d); or b. A rural area as defined by the Federal
Office of Rural Health Policy. (d) The resource center shall do all of the following: (1)
Hire necessary staff that is inclusive and reflects the racial, gender,...
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28-2A-3
Section 28-2A-3 Legislative intent. It is hereby declared the intention and the purpose of
this article to permit an election by the citizens of certain municipalities to determine
the wet or dry status of such municipalities with regard to the sale, distribution, and consumption
of alcoholic beverages within the corporate limits of such municipalities; and further that
such election shall be provided only in those municipalities which can provide safeguards
for the protection of the public welfare, health, peace, and morals of the people. In the
furtherance of the protection of the public welfare, health, peace, and morals, the Legislature
has determined that a population classification should be established to provide this method
of municipal option election only in those municipalities with a population of 1,000 or more
people within a county, it being the judgment of the Legislature that municipalities with
a lesser population would be unable to support and maintain such protection...
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9-13-271
Section 9-13-271 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
application of prescribed burning is a landowner property right and a land management tool
that benefits the safety of the public, the environment, the natural resources, and the economy
of Alabama. Therefore, the Legislature finds that: (1) Prescribed burning reduces naturally
occurring vegetative fuels within wildland areas. The reduction of the fuel load reduces the
risk and severity of major catastrophic wildfire, thereby reducing the threat of loss of life
and property, particularly in urbanizing areas. (2) Many of Alabama's natural communities
require periodic fire for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Prescribed burning is
essential to the perpetuation, restoration, and management of many plant and animal communities.
Significant loss of the state's biological diversity will occur if fire is excluded from fire-dependent
ecosystems. (3) Forest lands constitute significant...
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11-99-1
Section 11-99-1 Legislative findings and declarations. (a) Act 2013-51 shall be known and may
be cited as the Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zone Act. (b)(1) It is hereby found and declared
that there exist in municipalities and counties of the state blighted or economically distressed
areas which constitute a serious and growing problem, injurious to the public health, safety,
morals, and welfare of the residents of the state; that the existence of such areas contributes
substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease and crime, constitutes an economic
and social liability imposing onerous burdens which decrease the tax base and reduce tax revenues,
substantially impairs or arrests sound growth, retards the provision of housing accommodations,
aggravates traffic problems, and substantially hampers the elimination of traffic hazards
and the improvement of traffic facilities; and that the prevention and elimination of slums
and blighted areas and economically distressed areas...
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22-13A-2
Section 22-13A-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature finds all of the following: (1)
Osteoporosis, a bone-thinning disease, is a major public health problem that poses a threat
to the health and quality of life to as many as 25 million Americans. (2) The 1.5 million
fractures each year that result from osteoporosis cause pain, disability, immobility and social
isolation, affecting quality of life and threatening the ability of people to live independently.
(3) Because osteoporosis progresses silently and without sensation over many years, and many
cases remain undiagnosed, the first symptom of the disease is often a fracture, typically
of the hip, spine, or wrist. (4) One of two women and one of five men will suffer an osteoporotic
fracture in their lifetime. (5) A woman's risk of hip fracture is equal to her combined risk
of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer. (6) The annual direct and indirect costs of osteoporosis
to the health care system are estimated to be as high as...
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29-2-123
Section 29-2-123 Joint Legislative Advisory Committee - Duties. It shall be the duty of the
committee to review applications and recommend for approval any community services grants
made from any funds appropriated to the State Executive Commission on Community Services Grants
by the Legislature for the purpose of awarding community services grants. The committee shall
evaluate grant proposals based on the relevance of such proposals to the purposes for which
such grants shall be made; the extent to which such grant proposal advances the program objectives
of the grant-making agency; the ability of the grant recipient to fulfill the objectives of
the grant proposal; and the extent to which the grant proposal can benefit the greatest number
of citizens, without excluding any geographic regions of the state. All of the above information
may be ascertained by appropriate measures, which shall include interviews, audits, public
hearings, and recommendations by members of the Legislature....
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