25-5-290
Section 25-5-290 Ombudsman program, creation; purpose; members; notification of service; benefit review conferences. (a) The Department of Industrial Relations shall establish an Ombudsman Program to assist injured or disabled employees, persons claiming death benefits, employers, and other persons in protecting their rights and obtaining information available under the Workers' Compensation Law. (b) Providing that the employer and the employee agree to participate in the benefit review conference, the ombudsmen shall meet with or otherwise provide information to injured or disabled employees, investigate complaints, and communicate with employers, insurance carriers, and health care providers on behalf of injured or disabled employees. (c) Ombudsmen shall be Merit System employees and demonstrate familiarity with the Workers' Compensation Law. An ombudsman shall not be an advocate for any person who shall assist a claimant, employer, or other person in any proceeding beyond the...
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36-21-45
Section 36-21-45 Functions and duties generally. The commission shall have the following functions and duties together with all powers necessary or convenient for the performance thereof: (1) To study, obtain data, statistics, and information, and to make reports concerning the recruitment, selection, and training of law enforcement officers in the state and to make improvements in methods of recruitment, selection, and training of law enforcement officers. (2) To review from time to time the standards described in Section 36-21-46 for applicants for and appointees as law enforcement officers. (3) To consider, hold public hearings on, adopt and promulgate standards relating to the physical, mental, and moral fitness of any applicant for or appointee as a law enforcement officer as do not lower the standards in Section 36-21-46 or as otherwise permitted by Section 36-21-46. (4) To study, consider, and make reports from time to time concerning the work and the curriculum and courses...
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38-15-4
Section 38-15-4 Registration of certain youth residential institutions or organizations; staff training plans; rights of children; licensing and inspection of food preparation areas; access by law enforcement agencies. (a) Commencing on January 1, 2018, the department shall register any religious, faith-based, or church nonprofit, other nonprofit, or for profit affiliated youth residential facility, youth social rehabilitation facility, community treatment facility for youths, youth transitional care facility, long term youth residential facility, private alternative boarding school, private alternative outdoor program, and any organization entrusted with the residential care of children in any organizational form or combination defined by this section, whenever children are housed at the facility or location of the program for a period of more than 24 hours. At a minimum, registered youth residential institution or organization under this section shall do all of the following: (1) Be...
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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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16-44A-32
Section 16-44A-32 Powers and duties of board. In furtherance of the purposes of the trust, the board of trustees shall have the following powers and duties: (1) Accept gifts, contributions, donations of funds or land, bequests, grants, appropriations, membership fees, or other forms of financial assistance for educational and other purposes in furtherance of this article, from any federal entity, from the state, its agencies and various political subdivisions, or any public or other entity, any and all of which are hereby authorized to grant any of the foregoing forms of assistance, or from any private person, foundation, corporation, or other agency, and to comply with any rules and regulations concerning grants by the federal government or other grantors, which are not in contravention of the Constitution and laws of this state or the United States. In fulfillment of its statewide civic educational mission, the trust may enter into cooperative agreements with local, state, regional,...
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25-5-335
Section 25-5-335 Types of tests; procedures for specimen collection and testing; laboratory; confirmation of tests. (a) An employer is required to conduct the following types of tests in order to qualify for the workers' compensation insurance premium discounts provided under this article: (1) An employer shall require job applicants to submit to a substance abuse test after extending an offer of employment. Limited testing of job applicants by an employer shall qualify under this article if the testing is conducted on the basis of reasonable classifications of job positions. (2) An employer shall require an employee to submit to reasonable suspicion testing. (3) An employer shall require an employee to submit to a substance abuse test if the test is conducted as part of a routinely scheduled employee fitness-for-duty medical examination that is part of the employer's established policy or that is scheduled routinely for all members of an employment classification or group. (4) If the...
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34-25-5
Section 34-25-5 Administration and enforcement of chapter; deposits and expenditures; per diem and travel expenses for board members; purchasing; board exempt from sales tax. (a) The board shall issue regulations and forms consistent with this chapter for the administration and enforcement of this chapter. (b) An order or a certified copy thereof, over board seal and purporting to be signed by the board members, shall be prima facie proof that the signatures are the genuine signatures of the board members and that the board members are fully qualified to act. (c) On April 11, 1989, all moneys and appropriations credited to the Board of Polygraph Examiners under the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 4, Title 41, shall be transferred by the State Treasurer to the charge and custody of the Board of Polygraph Examiners of the Alabama Department of Public Safety; and the board shall administer the fund as provided by law. The fund is hereby officially known as the Board of Polygraph...
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36-29-1
Section 36-29-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD. The State Employees' Insurance Board. (2) CLASS. An employee or retiree shall be included in one of the following classes: (i) active employee single, (ii) active employee family, (iii) non-Medicare retiree single, (iv) non-Medicare retiree family, (v) Medicare retiree single, (vi) Medicare retiree family, (vii) non-Medicare retiree with Medicare eligible dependent(s), or (viii) Medicare retiree with non-Medicare dependent(s). (3) EMPLOYEE. A person who works full time for the State of Alabama or for a county health department and who receives his or her full compensation on a monthly basis through means of a state warrant drawn upon the State Treasury or by check drawn by the Treasurer of the Alabama State Port Authority or by check drawn by the treasurer of the Alabama state agency for surplus property...
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45-49-171.41
Section 45-49-171.41 Mobile County Indigent Care Board authorized. At the determination of the county commission, there may be hereby established the Mobile County Indigent Care Board, hereinafter referred to as the board, whose composition and duties shall be as follows: (1) The county commission may appoint a Mobile County Indigent Care Board which shall consist of three members who are duly qualified electors of Mobile County, but no member of such board shall be employed by any hospital. Of the members of the board first appointed under this section, one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one shall be appointed for a term of three years, and one shall be appointed for a term of five years. Thereafter, their successors shall be appointed for terms of five years and may be appointed to succeed themselves as members of the board. The county commission shall appoint all members to the board. In the event the county commission does not appoint the board, the duties and...
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22-25B-1
Section 22-25B-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ADEM. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (2) ADPH. The Alabama Department of Public Health. (3) CERTIFICATE OF ECONOMIC VIABILITY. The certification by the commission of the financial viability of a wastewater management entity's financial viability pursuant to this chapter. (4) CLUSTER WASTEWATER SYSTEM. An integrated wastewater collection system or treatment system, or both, or multiple systems serving a single development or contiguous developments, which collectively have a design flow of 15,000 GPD or less, and is designed and permitted for discharge of the treated wastewater to a subsurface distribution system, but excluding systems that discharge directly to surface waters of the state. The system must be designed by and certified by a licensed professional engineer to comply with design and permit...
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