12-15-7
Section 12-15-7 Appointment, terms of office, etc., of probation officers; designation
of chief probation officer, etc.; duties of probation officers generally; powers of probation
officers and representatives of Department of Human Resources as to taking into custody and
placing in shelter or detention care of children generally; procedure upon taking into custody
of child by probation officer or representative of Department of Human Resources generally.
THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTION 12-15-107 BY ACT 2008-277,
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2009. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §5-105; Acts 1984, No. 84-245,
p. 387; Act 98-392, p. 782, §2.)...
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38-10-30
Section 38-10-30 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) CHILD. A minor or disabled child. (2) CUSTODY. A legal status
created by court order. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Human Resources of the State of
Alabama, including the state and county departments of human resources. (4) FOSTER CARE. Services
for children outside of their own homes provided on a 24-hour basis in a licensed or approved
facility. (Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-686, p. 81, §1.)...
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38-12-1
Section 38-12-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. State Department of Human Resources. (2) FOSTER PARENT.
Any person with whom a child in the care, custody, or guardianship of the department, is placed
for temporary or long-term care, but shall not include any person with whom a child is placed
for the purpose of adoption. (Act 99-437, p. 864, §1.)...
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38-2-8
Section 38-2-8 County departments of human resources. (a) There is hereby created in
each county a county department of human resources which shall consist of the county director
of human resources and such other officers and employees as the county board and state department
shall deem necessary for the efficient performance of the welfare services of the county.
The county director, subject to the approval of the county board and the provisions of the
merit system, shall appoint such staff as may be necessary to administer the welfare activities
within the county. Upon request of the local board, the State Personnel Department shall establish
a county register of eligibles who are residents of the county in which the vacancy exists.
If no appointment is made from the local register or there is no local register then appointment
shall be made from the statewide register. Any person employed in county departments shall
be covered under the provisions of the State Merit System. (b) It...
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12-15-402
Section 12-15-402 Authority and procedure. (a) The state, any county, any municipality,
or any governmental department or agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of
Human Resources or the Department of Youth Services, or any person, including a parent, legal
guardian, or legal custodian, may file a petition in the juvenile court to have any minor
or child, as defined in this chapter, committed to the custody of the department on the basis
that the minor or child is an individual with a mental illness or intellectual disability
and, as a consequence of that mental illness or intellectual disability, poses a real and
present threat of substantial harm to self or to others. (b) The petition shall be verified
and filed in the county in which the minor or child is located or resides, petitioning the
juvenile court to commit the minor or child to the custody of the department. (Acts 1975,
No. 1205, p. 2384, §5-137; Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-928; §12-15-90; amended and...

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12-15-409
Section 12-15-409 Role of attorney as advocate; designation of facilities. (a) An attorney
representing the state, any county, or municipality or the Department of Youth Services or
the Department of Human Resources or an attorney representing the person or persons filing
a petition to have a minor or child committed may serve as the advocate in support of the
petition to commit in all matters regarding the petition. (b) At the final hearing upon a
petition seeking to commit a minor or child to the custody of the department on the basis
that the minor or child is mentally ill, the juvenile court may grant the petition if clear
and convincing evidence proves all of the following: (1) That the minor or child sought to
be committed is mentally ill. (2) That, as a consequence of the mental illness, the minor
or child poses a real and present threat of substantial harm to himself, herself, or to others.
(3) That the threat of substantial harm has been evidenced by a recent overt act. (4)...
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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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26-25-2
Section 26-25-2 Notification to Department of Human Resources. (a) No later than the
close of the first business day after the date on which an emergency medical services provider
takes possession of a child pursuant to Section 26-25-1, the provider shall notify
the Department of Human Resources that the provider has taken possession of the child. (b)
The department shall assume the care, control, and custody of the child immediately on receipt
of notice pursuant to subsection (a). The department shall be responsible for all medical
and other costs associated with the child and shall reimburse the hospital for any costs incurred
prior to the child being placed in the care of the department. (Act 2000-760, p. 1740, §2.)...

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21-1-13
Section 21-1-13 Prosecutions for failure of minors to attend school. Prosecution under
Sections 21-1-10 through 21-1-12 and Section 16-28-12 may be begun by the county superintendent
of education, the attendance officer, the director of the Department of Human Resources, or
the president of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, and it shall be the duty of the
district attorney or county solicitor in whose circuit or county such offending parent, guardian,
or other person having control of such derelict child may reside to prosecute the case. (Acts
1931, No. 61, p. 125; Code 1940, T. 52, §532.)...
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38-2-12
Section 38-2-12 Authority of commissioner to destroy certain records, etc. (a) The Commissioner
of the State Department of Human Resources shall have the authority to destroy or cause to
be destroyed, in his discretion: (1) RECORDS OF CERTAIN AGENCIES. - All records of the Alabama
Relief Administration, the Alabama Transient Bureau and Surplus Commodity Distribution presently
in the custody and under the control of the State Department of Human Resources. (2) OBSOLETE
COUNTY CASE RECORD MATERIAL. - Obsolete case record material in the custody of county departments,
subject to the following conditions: a. Case record material concerning old age pensions,
aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, aid to dependent children and
temporary aid shall be preserved for a period of at least five years from and after the date
of the last contact with the county department by the subject of such material. b. All fiscal
audits for the period in which the cases covered by such...
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