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34-24-601
Section 34-24-601 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that the diversion, abuse, and
misuse of prescription medications classified as controlled substances under the Alabama Uniform
Controlled Substances Act constitute a serious threat to the health, safety, and welfare of
the citizens of the State of Alabama. The Legislature further finds that the registration
of all physicians providing pain management services, as defined in this article, will assist
the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners in preventing the diversion, abuse, and misuse of controlled
substances by regulating these registrants. The Legislature further finds that it is in the
best interests of the public safety to give the Board of Medical Examiners the authority it
needs to suspend the registration of these physicians providing pain management services when
the public health, safety, or welfare requires immediate action. (Act 2013-257, p. 673, §1.)...
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41-9-1024
Section 41-9-1024 Alabama Athletic Commission - Powers and duties. (a)(1) The commission shall
be the sole regulator of professional boxing in this state and shall have authority to protect
the physical safety and welfare of professional boxers and serve the public interest by closely
supervising all professional boxing in this state. (2) The commission shall be the sole regulator
of professional and amateur matches, contests, or exhibitions of mixed martial arts and shall
have the authority to protect the physical safety and welfare of professional competitors
in mixed martial arts and serve the public interest by closely supervising all competitors
in mixed martial arts. The commission shall regulate professional and amateur mixed martial
arts to the same extent as professional boxing unless any rule of the commission is not by
its nature applicable to mixed martial arts. (3) The commission shall be the sole regulator
of professional matches, contests, or exhibitions of wrestling and...
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12-13-21
Section 12-13-21 Appointment of guardian for developmentally disabled person. (a) The term
"developmentally disabled" person, means a person whose impairment of general intellectual
functioning or adaptive behavior meets the following criteria: (1) It has continued since
its origination or can be expected to continue indefinitely. (2) It constitutes a substantial
burden to the impaired person's ability to perform normally in society. (3) It is attributed
to one or more of the following: a. Mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or autism.
b. Any other condition of a person found to be closely related to mental retardation because
it produces a similar impairment or requires treatment and services similar to those required
for a person who is mentally retarded c. Dyslexia resulting from a condition described in
subparagraph a or b. (b) Guardianship for a developmentally disabled person shall be utilized
only as is necessary to promote and protect the well being of the person,...
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20-2-210
Section 20-2-210 Legislative findings. The Alabama Legislature hereby finds that the diversion,
abuse, and misuse of prescription medications classified as controlled substances under the
Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act constitutes a serious threat to the health and welfare
of the citizens of the State of Alabama. The Legislature further finds that establishment
of a controlled substances prescription database to monitor the prescribing and dispensing
of controlled substances will materially assist state regulators and practitioners authorized
to prescribe and dispense controlled substances in the prevention of diversion, abuse, and
misuse of controlled substances prescription medication through the provision of education
and information, early intervention, and prevention of diversion, and investigation and enforcement
of existing laws governing the use of controlled substances. (Act 2004-443, p. 781, §1.)...
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16-4-13
Section 16-4-13 Rules for protection of health. In cooperation with other authorized agencies,
the State Superintendent of Education shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for
approval and adoption by the State Board of Education rules and regulations for the protection
of the health, physical welfare and physical examination of the school children of the state.
(School Code 1927, §77; Code 1940, T. 52, §52.)...
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38-12-31
Section 38-12-31 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
There exists in this state a number of children who cannot reside with their parents, legal
guardians, or legal custodians because of such parents', legal guardians', or custodians'
incapacity or inability to perform the regular and expected functions of care and support
of the children and family care and who thereby come to the attention of juvenile court and
into the care and custody of the Department of Human Resources. (2) An increasing number of
relatives, including grandparents, find themselves wanting to provide care to related foster
children on a long-term basis to prevent the children from remaining in foster care with unrelated
caregivers yet these relatives are either unable or unwilling to seek termination of the legal
relationships between the parent and the child, particularly when it is the caregiver's own
child or sibling who is the parent. (3) It is in the public interest to...
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38-9D-2
Section 38-9D-2 Definitions. The following words are defined for the purposes of this chapter:
(1) COORDINATED SYSTEM OF CARE. The total effort in the state, inclusive of service coordination/case
management, that is directed at meeting the needs of individuals who are at risk of elder
abuse. (2) COUNCIL. The Alabama Interagency Council for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. (3)
ELDER ABUSE. The maltreatment of an older person, age 60 or above, by any person, including
the following: a. Emotional/Psychological Abuse. The intentional infliction of mental or emotional
anguish by threat, humiliation, intimidation, or other verbal or non-verbal abusive conduct.
Examples of psychological abuse include name calling, insulting, ignoring for extended periods
of time, frightening, intimidating, and isolating from friends and family. b. Material Exploitation.
The unauthorized use of funds or any resources of an elderly individual or the misuse of power
of attorney or representative payee status for...
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9-7-12
Section 9-7-12 Declaration of state policy. The Legislature finds and declares that it is state
policy: (1) To preserve, protect, develop and, where possible, to restore or enhance the resources
of the state's coastal area for this and succeeding generations; (2) To encourage and assist
counties and municipalities, wherever applicable, to exercise effectively their responsibilities
in the coastal area through the development and implementation of administration programs
to achieve wise use of the land and water resources of the coastal area, giving full consideration
to needs for economic development as well as to ecological, cultural, historic and aesthetic
values; (3) To assure that in development of the state's coastal area adequate consideration
is given to such uses of the coastal area as the establishment of harbor facilities for the
receiving of oil, gas and other commodities from ships and tankers, pipelines from such ports
and utility plant sites, utility generation,...
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12-23-2
Section 12-23-2 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature finds that the high incidence
of crimes which directly involve alcohol and drugs in this state is intolerable; that the
problems of alcohol and drug abuse among the citizens of Alabama are extensive and exist at
an unacceptable level; that alcohol and/or drug abuse or dependency have been identified as
contributing factors in the commission of many crimes; that a concentrated and coordinated
state and local effort is needed to address the needs of Alabamians regarding such problems;
that a specialized system for screening, evaluating, educating, and rehabilitating defendants
convicted of alcohol and drug related offenses is required to address such problems; and that
adequate funding should be provided for this purpose. It is therefore the intent of the Legislature:
To establish a specialized court referral officer program to promote the evaluation, education
and rehabilitation of persons whose use or dependency on...
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22-21-225
Section 22-21-225 Federal funds. In the event any federal funds are made available to the state
by the federal government, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, for use in carrying out
the purposes of this article, the State Board of Health is authorized to take such action
and promulgate and adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary in order to qualify
for and obtain such funds. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent
the Department of Human Resources from complying with the requirements of the federal Social
Security Act, as amended, in relation to the administration by said department of the program
of medical care, including hospitalization, for persons eligible for public assistance. Nothing
contained in this section shall be construed to prevent the State Department of Education
from carrying out the provisions of the approved state plans for Vocational Rehabilitation
Service and Crippled Children's Service in cooperation with the United...
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