41-23-121
Section 41-23-121 Powers of office. The office shall have the following powers to: (1) Ensure that assets and needs of water transportation and intermodal infrastructure are properly considered and reflected in the state's comprehensive transportation and strategic planning policies. (2) Assist and coordinate with public and private entities in the development of the state's rivers, ports, harbors, and intermodal facilities. (3) Coordinate with the Coalition of Alabama Waterway Associations and other interests to formulate recommendations on annual budget requirements for federal waterway projects, infrastructure development, and related needs. (4) Coordinate with each of Alabama's individual waterway associations to promote the continued development, maintenance, and multiple use benefits of federally maintained navigation channels within the state and to market the benefits of improved water transportation. (5) Coordinate with local and state development agencies to ensure a better...
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11-85-56
Section 11-85-56 Powers and duties generally. A regional planning and development commission established pursuant to this article may perform the following: (1) Carry on continuous, comprehensive planning for the region, assessing needs, resources, and development opportunities and formulating goals, objectives, policies, and standards to guide physical, economic, and human resource development. (2) Prepare a regional plan consistent with state comprehensive planning and reflecting plans and programs of the participating governmental units which shall set forth policies for the development of the region in accordance with present and future needs and resources including policies for patterns of urbanization, for the use of land and resources for commerce, industry, recreation, transportation, forestry, and agriculture, for the development of human resources and for administrative measures in support thereof. (3) Prepare an annual regional development program to implement the policies...
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31-9A-9
Section 31-9A-9 Additional powers of director that may be exercised under the direction and control of the Governor during a declaration of emergency as authorized in Section 31-9-8. (a) When the Governor declares a state of emergency as authorized in Section 31-9-8, if the emergency is related to homeland security, the director shall have and may exercise the following additional powers, under the direction and control of the Governor: (1) Enforce all laws, rules, and regulations relating to homeland security and direct state resource allocations when required; provided, this chapter shall not vest authority to enforce the criminal laws of this state in the Director of Homeland Security, or the deputies or personnel of the department. (2) Sell, lend, lease, give, transfer, or deliver materials or perform services for homeland security purposes on such terms and conditions as the Governor shall prescribe and without regard to the limitations of any existing law, and account to the...
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29-2-105
Section 29-2-105 Coordination council - Composition; meetings; duties. (a) The committee shall convene a council composed of the chair of the committee or his or her designee and the commissioner or the commissioner's designee of each department of state government that administers services to children, youth, and their families, including, but not limited to, the Department of Education, the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Public Health, the Medicaid Agency, the Department of Youth Services, the Department of Rehabilitation Services, one member from the Alabama Association of County Directors of Human Resources appointed by that organization, one member from the Alabama Residential Child Care Association appointed by that organization, two members from the Alabama Foster Parent Association appointed by that organization, one member from the Juvenile Court Judges Association appointed by that organization, one guardian ad litem...
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36-26-8
Section 36-26-8 Director of personnel - Executive head of department; powers and duties generally; agreements with political subdivisions of state; cooperation with other governmental agencies. (a) The director, as executive head of the department, shall direct and supervise all its administrative and technical activities. (b) It shall be the duty of the director to: (1) Attend all meetings of the board, act as its secretary, and record its official actions. (2) Appoint, with the approval of the board, such employees of the department and such experts and special assistants as necessary to carry out effectively this article. (3) Prepare and recommend rules and regulations for the administration of this article. (4) Recommend and, on its adoption, establish, administer, and execute a classification plan for the state service. (5) Submit to the Governor, after its approval by the board, a pay plan for all positions in the state service. (6) Conduct tests, formulate employment registers,...
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16-5-32
Section 16-5-32 Postsecondary Education Communication Center created; center to operate statewide computer network, develop interactive communication system, establish annual ninth graders data base, operate toll-free numbers, and research factors affecting educational choices. (a) The commission shall enter into a contract with a state educational institution to establish a Postsecondary Education Communication Center to operate a statewide computer network and to perform the functions prescribed in this section. The commission shall supervise the operation of the center. The functions and services of the Postsecondary Education Communication Center shall not duplicate the functions and services provided by the Computer Articulation Program operated by Troy State University. (b) The center shall assist and support the steering committee and local groups in fulfilling their duties. (c) The center shall develop and provide an interactive communication system that accomplishes each of...
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2-13-111
Section 2-13-111 Legislative declaration and findings. (a) It is hereby declared and the Legislature hereby finds that: (1) Dairy products are basic foods that are a valuable part of the human diet; (2) The production of dairy products plays a significant role in the state's economy, the milk from which dairy products are manufactured is produced by milk producers and dairy products are consumed by thousands of people throughout the state and the United States; (3) Dairy products must be readily available and marketed efficiently to ensure that the people of the state receive adequate nourishment; (4) The maintenance and expansion of existing markets for dairy products are vital to the welfare of milk producers and those concerned with marketing, using and producing dairy products, as well as to the general economy of the state; (5) Dairy products move in intrastate, interstate and foreign commerce; (6) The Ninety-eighth Congress of the United States enacted the Dairy Production...
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37-15-10.1
Section 37-15-10.1 Underground Damage Prevention Authority. (a) The Underground Damage Prevention Authority is created for the purpose of enforcing this chapter and for reviewing penalty provisions and the adequacy of the enforcement process. It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority and its enforcement activities not be funded by appropriations from the state budget. (b) The authority shall utilize the services of the Alabama Public Service Commission to provide administrative support for the authority, subject to the concurrence by the authority board. The Public Service Commission shall charge the expenses associated with the administrative duties of the authority back to the authority, subject to the concurrence of the authority board. The administrative support provided by the Alabama Public Service Commission to the authority is in an administrative capacity only and nothing in this chapter shall expand the jurisdiction of the Alabama Public Service Commission in any...
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22-6-163
Section 22-6-163 Legislative findings; rules; collaboration; approval of agreements and contracts; state action immunity; confidentiality of records; additional duties. (a) The Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers, private health carriers, third party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service delivery systems and reimbursement methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated and coordinated health care delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration pursuant to this article is to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition, such that any anti-competitive effect may be attributed to the state's policy to displace competition in the delivery of a coordinated system of health care for the public benefit. In furtherance of...
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22-6-233
Section 22-6-233 Legislative findings; certification of collaborators; powers of Medicaid Agency; state action immunity. (a) The Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers, private health carriers, third party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service delivery systems and reimbursement methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated and coordinated health care delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration pursuant to this article is to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition, such that any anti-competitive effect may be attributed to the state's policy to displace competition in the delivery of a coordinated system of health care for the public benefit. In furtherance of this goal, the Legislature declares its intent...
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