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26-10D-4
Section 26-10D-4 Purposes. The purposes of this chapter are as follows: (1) To prohibit governmental
entities from discriminating or taking an adverse action against a child placing agency on
the basis that the agency declines to make a child placement that conflicts, or under circumstances
that conflict, with the sincerely held religious beliefs of the agency, provided the agency
is otherwise in compliance with Minimum Standards for Child Placing Agencies. (2) To protect
the exercise of religion of child placing agencies and to ensure that governmental entities
will not be able to force those agencies, either directly or indirectly, to discontinue all
or some of their child placing services because they decline to place a child for adoption
or in a foster home that conflicts, or under circumstances that conflict, with their sincerely
held religious beliefs, when otherwise the agency is in compliance with required Minimum Standards
for Child Placing Agencies. (3) To provide relief to...
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38-15-3
Section 38-15-3 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) CHILD. A person under the age of 18 years. (2) COMMUNITY TREATMENT
FACILITY FOR YOUTHS. A religious, faith-based, or church nonprofit, other nonprofit, or for
profit youth residential facility that provides mental health treatment services to children
in a group setting and that has the capacity to provide secure containment. (3) DEPARTMENT.
The State Department of Human Resources. (4) DIRECTOR. The Director of the State Department
of Human Resources. (5) LONG TERM YOUTH RESIDENTIAL FACILITY. A religious, faith-based, or
church nonprofit, other nonprofit, or for profit long term residential facility, group care
facility, or similar facility as determined by the director, providing 24-hour nonmedical
care of youth in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining
the activities of daily living or for the protection of the child and...
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16-39-2
Section 16-39-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words, terms, and
phrases shall have the following respective interpretations: (1) EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN. Persons
between the ages of six and 21 years who have been certified under regulations of the State
Board of Education by a specialist as being unsuited for enrollment in regular classes of
the public schools or who are unable to be educated or trained adequately in the regular programs
including, but not limited to: the mildly and moderately to severely retarded, and also the
profoundly retarded; the speech impaired; the hearing impaired, deaf, and partially hearing;
the blind and vision impaired; the crippled and those having other physical handicaps not
otherwise specifically mentioned herein; the emotionally conflicted; those with special learning
disabilities; the multiple handicapped; and the intellectually gifted. (2) HEREIN, HEREBY,
HEREUNDER, HEREOF. Refer to this chapter as an entirety and not solely...
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38-7-11
Section 38-7-11 Inspection of facilities. The department shall have the right and its authorized
representatives shall be afforded reasonable opportunity, to inspect any child-care facility
seeking a license or an approval or a six-month permit pursuant to this chapter, any child-care
facility seeking a renewal of a license or an approval or a six-month permit pursuant to this
chapter and any child-care facility which is operating under a license or an approval or a
six-month permit issued pursuant to this chapter. Such inspection shall include, but not be
limited to, premises, services, personnel, program, accounts and records, interviews with
agents and employees of the child-care facility being inspected and interviews with any child
or other person within the custody or control of said child-care facility. Such inspection
shall be made at any reasonable time, without prior notice, and as often as necessary to enforce
and administer the provisions of this chapter. It shall be the...
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31-3-1
Section 31-3-1 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall
have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context shall clearly indicate a different
meaning in the connection used: (1) AWARDING AUTHORITY. The State Board of Adjustment, created
and existing pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 9 of Title 41 of this Code. (2) CHILD or CHILDREN.
Such term includes posthumous children and all other children entitled by law to inherit as
children of the deceased, also stepchildren who were members of the family of the deceased
at the time of his death, and dependent upon him for support, also a grandchild of the deceased
Alabama national guardsman, whose father is dead or is an invalid, and who was supported by
and was a member of the family of such deceased grandparent at the time of his death. (3)
DEPENDENT CHILD. An unmarried child under the age of 18 years, or one over that age who is
physically or mentally incapacitated from earning. (4) ALABAMA...
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31-3-3
Section 31-3-3 Payment of compensation - Manner; apportionment among dependents. The compensation
payable to surviving dependents of Alabama national guardsmen who are killed under the circumstances
prescribed in Section 31-3-2 shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto, without administration,
or to a guardian or such other person as the awarding authority may direct, for the use of
the persons entitled thereto as follows: (1) If the deceased Alabama national guardsman leaves
a dependent widow and no other dependents or partial dependents the total amount of the compensation
provided for by this chapter shall be paid to such widow. (2) If the deceased Alabama national
guardsman leaves a dependent widow and a dependent child or dependent children and no other
dependents or partial dependents, then the total amount of the compensation provided for by
this chapter shall be paid to such widow for the benefit of herself and such child or children.
Or, in its discretion, the awarding...
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38-7-7
Section 38-7-7 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Department to establish
minimum standards for licensing; factors to be considered; children in need of special treatment;
department to offer consultation. (a) The department shall prescribe and publish minimum standards
for licensing and for approving all child-care facilities, as defined in this chapter. In
establishing such standards the department shall seek the advice and assistance of persons
representative of the various types of child-care facilities. The standards prescribed and
published under this chapter shall include regulations pertaining to: (1) The operation and
conduct of the child-care facility and the responsibility it assumes for child care; (2) The
character, suitability and qualifications of the applicant and other persons directly responsible
for the care and welfare of children served; (3) The general financial ability and competence
of the applicant to provide necessary care for children and to...
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5-18-9
Section 5-18-9 License - Revocation, suspension, etc.; investigation of complaints. (a) Revocation
of license. - The supervisor shall, upon 10 days' written notice to the licensee stating the
contemplated action and in general the grounds therefor and upon reasonable opportunity to
be heard, revoke any license issued under this chapter if he finds that: (1) The licensee
has failed to pay the annual license fee; (2) The licensee, either knowingly or without the
exercise of due care to prevent the same, has violated any provisions of this chapter or any
regulation or order lawfully made pursuant to and within the authority of this chapter; (3)
Any fact or condition exists which, if it had existed or had been known to exist at the time
of the original application for such license, clearly would have justified the supervisor
in refusing originally to issue such license; except, that the license shall not be revoked
because of convenience and advantage; or (4) The licensee is guilty of...
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12-15-201
Section 12-15-201 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms and phrases
shall have the following meanings: (1) AVERAGE COST OF DETENTION. The average cost of detention
of children as determined from experience in Alabama and as computed by the Department of
Youth Services. (2) CONSENT DECREE. An order, entered after the filing of a delinquency or
child in need of supervision petition and before the entry of an adjudication order, suspending
the proceedings and placing the child under supervision pursuant to terms and conditions agreed
to between the child and his or her parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian and approved
by the juvenile court. (3) NONOFFENDER. A child who is subject to the jurisdiction of the
juvenile court for reasons other than the legally prohibited conduct of the child. (4) STATUS
OFFENDER. A status offender is an individual who has been charged with or adjudicated for
conduct that would not, pursuant to the law of the jurisdiction in which...
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17-5-2
Section 17-5-2 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) CANDIDATE. An individual who has done any of the following: a.
Taken the action necessary under the laws of the state to qualify himself or herself for nomination
or for election to any state office or local office or in the case of an independent seeking
ballot access, on the date when he or she files a petition with the judge of probate in the
case of county offices, with the appropriate qualifying municipal official in the case of
municipal offices, or the Secretary of State in all other cases. b. Received contributions
or made expenditures in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or given his or her consent
for any other person or persons to receive contributions or make expenditures in excess of
one thousand dollars ($1,000), with a view to bringing about his or her nomination or election
to any state office or local office. (2) COMMISSION. The State Ethics...
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