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11-96A-1
Section 11-96A-1 Legislative declarations. It is hereby declared that a lack of sanitary, safe,
and affordable dwelling accommodations for persons of moderate and low income and shelters,
halfway houses and emergency housing for persons who would otherwise be homeless exists in
various municipalities and rural areas of the state. Consequently, persons of low and moderate
income are forced to reside in and use unsafe and unsanitary dwellings and certain other persons
are unable to afford any dwelling accommodations at all. These conditions which cause an increase
in and spread of disease and crime constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, and
welfare of the citizens of the state. It is a matter of public interest to provide safe and
sanitary housing for the low and moderate income citizens and shelter for homeless persons,
to alleviate such conditions and to encourage economic development, to increase employment
in housing construction and related businesses and to create and...
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24-1-61
Section 24-1-61 Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this article
shall have the following respective meaning, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context: (1) AUTHORITY or HOUSING AUTHORITY. A public body organized as a body corporate
and politic in accordance with the provisions of this article for the purposes, with the powers
and subject to the restrictions set forth in this article. (2) COUNTY. All of the county except
that portion which lies within the territorial boundaries of any city or incorporated town.
(3) COUNTY COMMISSION. The governing body of any county. (4) HOUSING COMMISSIONER. One of
the members of an authority appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article. (5)
GOVERNMENT. Such term shall include the state and federal governments and any subdivision,
agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them. (6) STATE. The State
of Alabama. (7) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Such term shall include the...
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24-1-22
Section 24-1-22 Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this article,
shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context: (1) AUTHORITY or HOUSING AUTHORITY. A public body organized as a body corporate
and politic in accordance with the provisions of this article for the purposes, with the powers
and subject to the restrictions set forth. (2) CITY. Any city or incorporated town in the
State of Alabama. (3) COUNCIL. The legislative body, council, board of commissioners or other
body charged with governing the city. (4) CITY CLERK and MAYOR. The clerk, and the mayor or
president of the board of commissioners, respectively, of the city or the officers thereof
charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk and mayor respectively. (5) COMMISSIONER.
One of the members of an authority appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(6) GOVERNMENT. Such term shall include the state and...
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24-1-131
Section 24-1-131 Definitions. The following terms whenever used or referred to in this article,
shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context: (1) HOUSING AUTHORITY. Any housing authority organized pursuant to this title.
(2) CITY. Any city or incorporated town in the State of Alabama. (3) HOUSING PROJECT. Any
undertaking to demolish, clear, remove, alter, or repair unsafe or unsanitary housing or to
provide dwelling or public school accommodations for persons who live in or use unsafe, unsanitary,
or congested dwelling or public school accommodations. Such term may also include such recreational
or social assemblies for educational, health, or welfare purposes and such necessary utilities
as are designed primarily for the benefit and use of the occupants of such dwelling accommodations.
(Acts 1935, No. 41, p. 85; Code 1940, T. 25, ยง2.)...
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11-99-2
Section 11-99-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) BLIGHTED OR ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED
AREA: a. An area in which the structures, buildings, or improvements, by reason of dilapidation,
deterioration, age, or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation,
or open spaces, high density of population and overcrowding, or the existence of conditions
which endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors,
are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency,
or crime, and are detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare, or b. Any
area which by reason of the presence of a substantial number of substandard, slum, deteriorated,
or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty
lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe
conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements,...
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22-3-5
Section 22-3-5 County health officers - Duties generally. It shall be the duty of the county
health officer: (1) To exercise, subject to the advice of the county board of health in accordance
with the health laws of the state, general supervision over the sanitary interests of the
county; and, should he discover any cause of disease or the existence of any condition detrimental
to the health of the people, he shall, so far as authorized by law, compel the removal or
abatement of the same; and, should no authority for removal or abatement exist, he shall report
the fact to the county board of health, adding such recommendations as to special action as
he may deem proper; (2) To make personal and thorough investigation of the first case or early
cases of any diseases suspected of being or known to be any one of those enumerated in Chapter
11 of this title that may come to his knowledge or be reported to him; and, should he decide
such case or cases to be one of those enumerated in said...
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25-5-57
Section 25-5-57 Compensation for disability. (a) Compensation schedule. Following is the schedule
of compensation: (1) TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY. For injury producing temporary total disability,
the compensation shall be 66 2/3 percent of the average weekly earnings received at the time
of injury, subject to a maximum and minimum weekly compensation as stated in Section 25-5-68,
but if at the time of injury the employee received average weekly earnings of less than the
minimum stated in Section 25-5-68, then he or she shall receive the full amount of the average
weekly earnings per week. This compensation shall be paid during the time of the disability,
but at the time as a temporary total disability shall become permanent, compensation for the
continued total disability shall be governed by (a)(4) of this section with respect to permanent
total disability. Payments are to be made at the intervals when the earnings were payable,
as nearly as may be, unless the parties otherwise agree....
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24-1-81
Section 24-1-81 Low income housing in rural areas. Without limiting the generality of other
provisions of this article, a county housing authority is empowered to borrow money, accept
grants, and exercise its other powers under this article to provide housing for persons of
low income in rural areas. The undertaking of the construction of any dwelling or dwellings
under this section shall constitute a "housing project" within the meaning of this
article. To these ends, the county housing authority is authorized to enter into such long-term
leases or purchase agreements or otherwise to rent or sell housing to persons of low income
in rural areas as such county authority deems necessary in order to assure the achievement
of the objectives of this article. Such leases or agreements may include such covenants as
the county authority deems appropriate regarding the dwelling or dwellings, and the tracts
contiguous thereto, which covenants, notwithstanding any rule of law to the contrary, may...
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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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45-44A-40.01
Section 45-44A-40.01 Findings of appropriate city official; notice. The term appropriate city
official as used in this part shall mean any city official or city employee designated by
the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city as the person to exercise the authority
and perform the duties delegated by this part to the appropriate city official. Whenever the
appropriate city official of the city shall find that any building, structure, part of building
or structure, party wall or foundation, accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor
vehicles or parts of inoperable motor vehicles, abandoned dwellings and mobile homes, and
litter around property and vacant lots, including, but not limited to, abandoned cars and
appliances, situated in the city is unsafe to the extent that it is a public nuisance, the
official shall give the person or persons, firm, association, or corporation last assessing
the property for state taxes notice by personally serving upon the person,...
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