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12-15-320
Section 12-15-320 Dispositions. (a) Termination of parental rights cases shall be given priority
over other cases. The trial on the petition for termination of parental rights shall be completed
within 90 days after service of process has been perfected. The trial court judge shall enter
a final order within 30 days of the completion of the trial. (b) If the juvenile court determines
that the parents of a child are unwilling or unable to act as parents and terminates their
parental rights, it may do the following: (1) Transfer or continue the permanent legal custody
of the child to the Department of Human Resources or to any public or private licensed child-placing
agency able and willing to assume the care and maintenance of the child. An order of the juvenile
court which terminates parental rights and awards permanent legal custody to the Department
of Human Resources or to a licensed child-placing agency shall mean that the Department of
Human Resources or the licensed child-placing...
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22-6-9
Section 22-6-9 Medicaid identification card; issuance and use; confidentiality of recipient.
(a) The Department of Human Resources shall issue to all eligible recipients a special color
picture medicaid identification card, which shall be separate from and entirely distinct from
the valid color picture driver license or non-driver identification card. The Medicaid identification
card shall be issued only on presentation of proper identification and evidence of medicaid
eligibility. The identification card shall be used as identification to providers of medical
service, and the identification card shall contain a suitable medium which when used with
a suitable data processing system, to be developed by the Department of Human Resources with
the technical assistance and advice of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, can
provide real-time verification of Medicaid eligibility by the provider. (b) The Department
of Human Resources shall make provision for adequate protection of...
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38-1-3
Section 38-1-3 Legal representative for handling public assistance payments of incompetents.
If any otherwise qualified applicant for or recipient of public assistance appears to be incapable,
physically or mentally, or both, of managing his public assistance payments, and has no legal
guardian, he, his spouse, father, mother, child, brother or sister, with the consent of the
Department of Human Resources, or the Department of Human Resources may petition the probate
judge for the appointment of a legal representative to handle his public assistance payments
only. The petition shall be accompanied by a certificate in writing of a physician which certificate
shall state that the physician upon examination believes the applicant or recipient to be
physically or mentally, or both, incapable of managing his public assistance payments. The
probate judge shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of appointing a competent person as
legal representative after notice of at least 10 days in...
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38-1-6
Section 38-1-6 State and local governments authorized to participate in programs to provide
assistance to the aged. (a) The state government and all county and municipal governments
in this state are hereby authorized to voluntarily participate in any program which is related
to any form of assistance for the aged, including, but not limited to, such programs as senior
citizens volunteers, foster grandparents, senior aids, various programs of the Federal Department
of Health, Education and Welfare and any other program supported by the federal government,
private foundations or other political or private organizations which establish assistance
programs for the aged. Participation in said old-age assistance programs may be in the form
of moneys, services rendered or any other form of voluntary participation available. (b) Nothing
contained in this section shall be construed to usurp the authority or affect the funding
of the Department of Human Resources under the public welfare laws...
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38-14-1
Section 38-14-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Human Resources. (2) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL or FAMILY
MEMBER. A person whose household income is equal to or less than 80 percent of the median
household income for the state or less than 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines,
whichever is greater. (3) EMERGENCY. Payments for necessary medical expenses of the account
owner or family member, expenses to avoid the eviction of the account owner from the account
owner's primary residence, and for necessary living expenses following a loss of income (4)
FIDUCIARY ORGANIZATION. Any nonprofit, fund-raising organization that is exempt from taxation
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended; any certified community
development financial institution; any credit union chartered under federal or state law;
or any Indian tribe as defined in Section 4(12) of the Native American...
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41-13-40
Section 41-13-40 Photographing or microphotographing of records, books, files, etc.; admissibility
in evidence, etc., of photographs, microfilms, etc. The head of any office, court, commission,
board, institution, department or agency of the state or of any political subdivision thereof
may cause any record, document, plat, court file, book, map, paper, or writing made, acquired
or received as required by law to be photographed or microphotographed on plate or film. Such
photographs, microfilms or prints made therefrom, when duly authenticated by the custodian
thereof, shall have the same force and effect at law as the original record or of a record
made by any other legally authorized means and may be offered in like manner and shall be
received in evidence in any court where such original record or record made by other legally
authorized means could have been so introduced and received; provided, that the provisions
of this article shall not apply to the State Department of Human...
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26-10A-2
Section 26-10A-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases shall have the following meaning
whenever used in this chapter except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) ABANDONMENT. A voluntary and intentional relinquishment of the custody of a minor by parent,
or a withholding from the minor, without good cause or excuse, by the parent, of his or her
presence, care, love, protection, maintenance, or the opportunity for the display of filial
affection, or the failure to claim the rights of a parent, or the failure to perform the duties
of a parent. (2) ADOPTEE. The person being adopted. (3) ADULT. A person who is 19 years of
age or older or who by statute is otherwise deemed an adult. (4) CONSENT. Voluntarily agreeing
to adoption. (5) FATHER. A male person who is the biological father of the minor or is treated
by law as the father. (6) LICENSED CHILD PLACING AGENCY. Any adoption agency that is licensed
under the provisions of the Alabama Child Care Act of 1971...
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38-12B-6
Section 38-12B-6 Eligibility; disbursement of funds. (a) To be eligible to participate in the
program, a scholarship applicant shall satisfy all of the following: (1) Be in the legal custody
of the foster care program of the department at the time of graduation from high school or
earning a General Educational Development (GED) high school equivalency certification; or
in the permanent legal custody of the foster care program of the department when his or her
adoption is finalized, at 14 years of age or older, and has graduated from high school or
earned a GED certification. (2) Have net personal assets worth less than thirty thousand dollars
($30,000), subject to adjustment by the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources
to account for inflation. (3) Is younger than 26 years of age at the start of the semester,
training program, or certification program for which tuition or fees are requested from the
program. (4) Is accepted for enrollment in a degree-granting, training, or...
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40-18-140
Section 40-18-140 Contribution designations. (a)(1) Each Alabama resident individual income
taxpayer desiring to contribute to any of the programs listed in subsection (b) may designate
an amount of his or her refund, rounded off in whole dollars, in an appropriate box on the
state income tax return form, to be credited to the program. (2) All future check-offs, duly
enacted by the Legislature subsequent to April 17, 2006, shall be accorded an appropriate
box on the state income tax return forms, subject to the terms and conditions prescribed herein,
without the requirement that they be added by amendment to this section. (b) Contributions
received for the following authorized charitable and nonpolitical income tax check-off recipients,
less costs of administration to the Department of Revenue not to exceed five percent, shall
be distributed and appropriated as provided herein: (1) Contributions to the Alabama Aging
Program shall be deposited with the State Treasurer into the Alabama...
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26-14-3
Section 26-14-3 Mandatory reporting. (a) All hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, doctors, physicians,
surgeons, medical examiners, coroners, dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, chiropractors,
podiatrists, physical therapists, nurses, public and private K-12 employees, school teachers
and officials, peace officers, law enforcement officials, pharmacists, social workers, day
care workers or employees, mental health professionals, employees of public and private institutions
of postsecondary and higher education, members of the clergy as defined in Rule 505 of the
Alabama Rules of Evidence, or any other person called upon to render aid or medical assistance
to any child, when the child is known or suspected to be a victim of child abuse or neglect,
shall be required to report orally, either by telephone or direct communication immediately,
and shall be followed by a written report, to a duly constituted authority. (b)(1) When an
initial report is made to a law enforcement official, the...
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