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12-15-506
Section 12-15-506 County teams established; appointments; meetings; duties. (a) A county team
is created in each county of the state The county team shall consist of a representative appointed
by the head of the following departments, agencies, or organizations: The local education
agency or agencies, the county department of human resources, the Department of Mental Health,
the Department of Youth Services, and a juvenile probation officer appointed by the presiding
juvenile court judge. (b) Appointments to the county team shall be for a term of three years
beginning October 1, 1993, and each three years thereafter and until their successors are
appointed, except that the initial appointments of the representatives of the county department
of human resources and the Department of Mental Health shall be for three years; the initial
appointments of the representatives of the local education agency or agencies and the Department
of Youth Services shall be for two years; and the initial...
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22-11A-32
Section 22-11A-32 Commitment petition - Findings; rehearing; confinement when no treatment
available. (a) If, at the final hearing, upon a petition seeking to commit a person to the
custody of the Alabama Department of Public Health or such other facility as the court may
order, the probate judge, on the basis of clear and convincing evidence, shall find: (1) That
the person sought to be committed has been exposed or is afflicted with one of the diseases
designated in this article; (2) That the person has refused testing or voluntary treatment;
(3) That, as a consequence of the disease, the person is dangerous to himself and the health
of the community; (4) That the person conducts himself so as to expose others to the disease;
(5) That treatment is available for the person's illness if confined or that confinement is
necessary to prevent further spread of the disease; and (6) That commitment is the least restrictive
alternative necessary and available for the treatment of the person's...
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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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22-52-34
Section 22-52-34 Proceedings for reevaluation and civil commitment or transfer of certain persons
in custody of Department of Mental Health. (a) Where any person is in the custody of the Department
of Mental Health pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of this chapter, the commissioner
shall direct the superintendent of Bryce or Searcy Hospital or any other facility so designated
by the commissioner to reevaluate the mental condition of such person for a determination
as to whether or not he or she meets the minimum standards for civil commitment as defined
in Section 22-52-37. Where the sentence for which said person was committed has expired and
where said person meets the minimum standards for involuntary civil commitment, the commissioner
or his designee is hereby authorized to petition the judges of probate of Tuscaloosa or Mobile
Counties or any judge of probate where such facility exists for an order of civil commitment
to the Department of Mental Health. All of the subsequent...
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26-10-4.1
Section 26-10-4.1 Fee for investigation services involving adoption; disposition of moneys
received. (a) The State Department of Human Resources shall charge and collect a fee in the
amount of $300.00 for investigation services they perform in cases involving adoption, provided,
however, that in those adoption proceedings in which an investigation is specifically not
required by statute because the petitioner is a stepfather, stepmother, or closely related
relative, no fee shall be charged for investigation services. This fee shall not apply to
investigation services for cases in which a child was placed for adoption by the State Department
of Human Resources, in cases in which a child was placed for adoption as a result of or pursuant
to a court order in which parental rights in the child were terminated or in cases in which
the investigative services were performed by a licensed child-placing agency. The Department
of Human Resources may waive this fee in the case of an indigent and...
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26-10A-18
Section 26-10A-18 Custody pending final decree. Once a petitioner has received the adoptee
into his or her home for the purposes of adoption and a petition for adoption has been filed,
an interlocutory decree shall be entered delegating to the petitioner (1) custody, except
custody shall be retained by the Department of Human Resources or the licensed child placing
agency which held custody at the time of the placement until the entry of the final decree
and (2) the responsibility for the care, maintenance, and support of the adoptee, including
any necessary medical or surgical treatment, pending further order of the court. This interlocutory
decree shall not stop the running of time periods prescribed in Section 26-10A-9. (Acts 1990,
No. 90-554, p. 912, §18; Act 2002-417, p. 1061, §1.)...
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26-10A-5
Section 26-10A-5 Who may adopt. (a) Any adult person or husband and wife jointly who are adults
may petition the court to adopt a minor. (1) No rule or regulation of the Department of Human
Resources shall prevent an adoption by a person solely because the person is employed outside
the home, provided however, the Department of Human Resources may exercise sound discretion
in requiring the person to remain in the home with a minor for a reasonable period of time
when a particular minor requires the presence of that person to ensure his or her adjustment.
Provided, however, the reasonable period of time shall not exceed 60 consecutive calendar
days. (2) No rule or regulation of the Department of Human Resources or any agency shall prevent
an adoption by a single person solely because such person is single or shall prevent an adoption
solely because such person is of a certain age. (3) Provided however, in cases, where one
who purports to be the biological father marries the biological...
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31-8-22
Section 31-8-22 Payment of pensions - Delivery of warrants to payees; disposition of undelivered
warrants. The State Department of Human Resources shall deliver to the respective county department
of human resources all such warrants for pensioners on the pension roll of that county. The
county department of human resources shall deliver such warrants to the payees in their respective
counties either in person or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. The
county department of human resources shall, at the expiration of 30 days, return to the State
Department of Human Resources all undelivered pension warrants, stating on the warrants the
date of the return, the reason for such nondelivery and, if the payee is dead, the date of
death, and such returned warrant shall be endorsed by the State Department of Human Resources
"cancelled" on the face thereof, and no other warrants shall be issued in the place
of such cancelled warrants, unless it be shown by satisfactory...
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31-8-28
Section 31-8-28 Annual publication of county pension list. During the month of January of each
year, the county department of human resources shall publish in a newspaper of the county
an alphabetical list with full names and post-office addresses of all the pensioners on the
pension roll of its county. Such list shall be published one time and shall be paid for from
the county treasury at no more than the legal or contract rate for printing. The county department
of human resources shall furnish the Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources
a copy of such publication, and the latter shall keep the same as permanent file of the State
Department of Human Resources. (Acts 1919, No. 409, p. 535; Code 1923, §2966; Code 1940,
T. 60, §39.)...
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38-10-7.1
Section 38-10-7.1 Scope of representation of district attorney or appointed attorney in support
enforcement action. Any district attorney or attorney approved or appointed by the Attorney
General initiating legal proceedings at the request of the Department of Human Resources to
establish or enforce child support, spousal support, medical support, and/or any other support
services pursuant to the provisions of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act and the laws
of this state shall represent the State of Alabama, Department of Human Resources, exclusively
in said proceedings. No attorney-client relationship shall exist between the IV-D attorney
and any applicant or recipient of the agency's support enforcement services, without regard
to the style of the case in which legal proceedings are initiated. Said attorney representing
the state in an IV-D case is only authorized to appear and prosecute and/or defend issues
of support and cannot in an IV-D case address or provide representation...
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