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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