34-28A-2
Section 34-28A-2 Declaration of policy and legislative intent. It is declared that the practice of speech-language pathology and audiology is a privilege which is granted to qualified persons by legislative authority in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare, and, in enacting this law, it is the intent of the Legislature to require educational training and licensure of any person who engages in the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology, or both, to encourage better educational training programs, to prohibit the unauthorized and unqualified practice of speech-language pathology or audiology, or both, and the unprofessional conduct of persons licensed to practice speech-language pathology and audiology and to provide for enforcement of this chapter and penalties for its violation. To help insure the availability of the highest possible quality speech-language pathology or audiology services, or both, to the communicatively handicapped people of the state, it is...
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38-9C-4
Section 38-9C-4 Rights. The rights of persons with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injury include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (1) The right to exercise the rights of citizens of the United States and the State of Alabama. (2) The right to access a full array of services appropriate for them as individuals. (3) The right to inclusion in the community. (4) The right to live, work, be educated, and recreate with people who do not have disabilities. (5) The right to be presumed competent until a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise. (6) The right to social interaction with members of either sex. (7) The right to vote and otherwise participate in the political process according to applicable laws of the United States and the State of Alabama. (8) The right to free exercise of religion. (9) The right to confidential handling of personal, financial, and medical records. (10) The right to own and possess real and personal property. (11) The...
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38-9F-8
Section 38-9F-8 Ex parte relief. (a) If it appears from a petition for an elder abuse protection order or a petition to modify an elder abuse protection order that elder abuse has occurred or a modification is warranted, the court may do either of the following: (1) Without notice or hearing, immediately issue an ex parte elder abuse protection order or modify an ex parte elder abuse protection order as it deems necessary. (2) After providing notice as required by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, issue an elder abuse protection order or modify an elder abuse protection order after a hearing whether or not the defendant appears. (b) Based upon a risk of imminent potential harm to the plaintiff, a court may grant one or more of the following ex parte forms of relief without prior notice to the defendant or a hearing: (1) Enjoin the defendant from threatening to commit or committing acts of elder abuse against the plaintiff and any other individual designated by the court. (2)...
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16-22-17
Section 16-22-17 Payroll deductions for participation in statewide programs. (a) When used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively: (1) EMPLOYEE. Any person employed full-time as provided by law by those employers enumerated in this section and adult bus drivers. (2) EMPLOYER. All public city and county boards of education; the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama Youth Services Department District Board in its capacity as the Board of Education for the Youth Services Department District; the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; the Board of Trustees of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science; the State Board of Education as applied to the payroll office of two-year postsecondary education institutions; and the Board of Trustees of Alabama A and M University. (3) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION or ORGANIZATION. The employees' local professional organization representing the...
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22-50-11
Section 22-50-11 Department - Additional and cumulative powers. The Department of Mental Health is given hereby the following additional and cumulative powers through its commissioner: (1) It is authorized and directed to set up state plans for the purpose of controlling and treating any and all forms of mental and emotional illness and any and all forms of mental retardation and shall divide the state into regions, districts, areas or zones, which need not be geographic areas, but shall be areas for the purpose of establishing priorities and programs and for organizational and administrative purposes in accordance with these state plans. (2) It is designated and authorized to supervise, coordinate, and establish standards for all operations and activities of the state related to mental health and the providing of mental health services; and it is authorized to receive and administer any funds available from any source for the purpose of acquiring building sites for, constructing,...
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22-55-1
Section 22-55-1 Enactment of compact; terms. The Interstate Compact on Mental Health is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all other states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH The contracting states solemnly agree that: Article I The party states find that the proper and expeditious treatment of the mentally ill and mentally deficient can be facilitated by cooperative action to the benefit of the patients, their families and society as a whole. Further, the party states find the necessity of and desirability for furnishing such care and treatment bear no primary relation to the residence or citizenship of the patient but that, on the contrary, the controlling factors of community safety and humanitarianism require that facilities and services be made available for all who are in need of them. Consequently, it is the purpose of this compact and of the party states to provide the necessary legal basis...
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27-44-5
Section 27-44-5 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ACCOUNT. Either of the three accounts created under Section 27-44-6. (2) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Life and Disability Insurance Guaranty Association created under Section 27-44-6. (3) AUTHORIZED ASSESSMENT or the term AUTHORIZED when used in the context of assessments. A resolution by the board of directors has been passed whereby an assessment will be called immediately or in the future from member insurers for a specified amount. An assessment is authorized when the resolution is passed. (4) BENEFIT PLAN. A specific employee, union, or association of natural persons benefit plan. (5) CALLED ASSESSMENT or the term CALLED when used in the context of assessments. A notice that has been issued by the association to member insurers requiring that an authorized assessment be paid within the time frame set forth within...
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34-22-82
Section 34-22-82 Telemedicine - Protocols; privacy practices. (a) A provider who uses telemedicine in his or her practice shall adopt protocols to prevent fraud and abuse through the use of telemedicine. (b)(1) Privacy practices. a. A provider that communicates with patients by electronic communications other than telephone or facsimile shall provide patients with written notification of the provider's privacy practices before evaluation or treatment. b. The notice of privacy practices shall include language that is consistent with federal standards under 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164 relating to privacy of individually identifiable health information. c. A provider shall make a good faith effort to obtain the patient's written acknowledgment of the notice. (2) Limitations of telemedicine. A provider who uses telemedicine services, before providing services, shall give each patient notice regarding telemedicine services, including the risks and benefits of being treated via telemedicine,...
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36-21-14
Section 36-21-14 Communications by emergency responders with peer support members. (a) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CERTIFIED PEER SUPPORT MEMBER. A law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, emergency dispatcher, emergency medical technician of an emergency service agency or entity, or a person who is assigned to be a chaplain by an emergency service agency, who has received training in critical incident stress management and who is certified as a peer support member by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to provide emotional and moral support to an emergency responder who needs emotional or moral support as a result of job-related stress or an incident in which the emergency responder was involved while acting in his or her official capacity. (2) EMERGENCY RESPONDER. A law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, emergency dispatcher, or emergency medical technician of an emergency service agency or entity. (3)...
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9-9-7
Section 9-9-7 Establishment of district - Filing of petition for organization of district; appointment, etc., of engineer; report of engineer. (a) Whenever a petition praying for the organization of a water management district and signed by a majority of the landowners owning more than one third of the land in acreage in a proposed district or by at least one third of the persons owning more than one half of the land in the proposed district shall be filed with the court of probate of such county in which such lands are located or, if such lands are composed of tracts or parcels situated in two or more counties, then in the office of the court of probate of the county in which there is situated more of said lands than in any other county, said petition setting forth the specific body or district of land in the county or county and adjoining counties described in such a way as to convey an intelligent idea as to location of such land and stating that the public benefit or utility or the...
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