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6-5-755
Section 6-5-755 Recovery; contribution. (a) In an action against a manufacturer and one or
more other defendants, including other manufacturers, for death or injury to person or damage
to property arising out of an accident, the right of the plaintiff to recover jointly and
severally against such defendants found liable is preserved. (b) Notwithstanding subsection
(a), in an action arising out of such accident, if the respective or comparative responsibility
of tortfeasors is an issue, then the jury shall return special verdicts, or in the absence
of a jury the court shall make special findings, allocating the percentage of responsibility
attributable to each defendant found to have proximately caused the accident. (c) Responsibility
for the accident may be allocated to a nonparty in an action under the procedure described
in subsection (b) if each of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) A defendant affirmatively
pleads the responsibility of a nonparty as a proximate cause of...
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34-24-521
Section 34-24-521 Definitions. In this compact, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) BYLAWS. Those bylaws established by the interstate commission pursuant to Section 34-24-530
for its governance, or for directing and controlling its actions and conduct. (b) COMMISSIONER.
The voting representative appointed by each member board pursuant to Section 34-24-530. (c)
CONVICTION. A finding by a court that an individual is guilty of a criminal offense through
adjudication, or entry of a plea of guilty or no contest to the charge by the offender. Evidence
of an entry of a conviction of a criminal offense by the court shall be considered final for
purposes of disciplinary action by a member board. (d) EXPEDITED LICENSE. A full and unrestricted
medical license granted by a member state to an eligible physician through the process set
forth in the compact. (e) INTERSTATE COMMISSION. The interstate commission created pursuant
to Section 34-24-530. (f) LICENSE. Authorization by a...
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11-51-14
Section 11-51-14 Entry of judgment by circuit court; sale of property for payment of taxes,
etc., generally. If no pleadings setting up a defense shall be filed by the owner of the property
within 30 days after publication has been perfected or within 30 days after service of the
notice by the sheriff, then without further proof a final judgment shall be entered by the
circuit judge adjudging such property liable for such taxes and directing the register or
clerk to sell such property for the payment of the taxes, charges, penalties, interest, and
costs that are charged thereon unless the amount due and the costs shall have been paid to
the register or clerk before the sale. Such sale shall be made as in other civil actions and
need not be confirmed by the court. The judge may consolidate actions against property assessed
to the same owner and may designate the property which shall be sold to pay to the taxes,
charges, interest, penalties and costs charged to all. If any defense is...
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31-13-15
Section 31-13-15 Employment of unauthorized aliens prohibited. (a) No business entity, employer,
or public employer shall knowingly employ, hire for employment, or continue to employ an unauthorized
alien to perform work within the State of Alabama. Knowingly employ, hire for employment,
or continue to employ an unauthorized alien means the actions described in 8 U.S.C. ยง 1324a.
(b) Effective April 1, 2012, every business entity or employer in this state shall enroll
in E-Verify and thereafter, according to the federal statutes and regulations governing E-Verify,
shall verify the employment eligibility of the employee through E-Verify. A business entity
or employer that uses E-Verify to verify the work authorization of an employee shall not be
deemed to have violated this section with respect to the employment of that employee. (c)
On a finding of a first violation by a court of competent jurisdiction that a business entity
or employer knowingly violated subsection (a), the court...
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45-11-172.02
Section 45-11-172.02 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2019 REGULAR
SESSION, EFFECTIVE MARCH 15, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) An animal
control officer or law enforcement officer of the county shall investigate any incidents involving
any dog reported to be dangerous or a nuisance in the unincorporated areas of the county.
(b) If a dog, which is unowned and has been reported to be dangerous, bites a person, the
dog may be quarantined and destroyed pursuant to Section 3-7A-9(b). For purposes of this subsection,
"bites" means the same as "has been exposed" as defined in Section 3-7A-1(5).
(c) If there is probable cause to believe that an owned dog is dangerous or a nuisance and
has caused serious physical injury or has caused damage to real or personal property, the
law enforcement officer or animal control officer shall impound the dog pending disposition
of a petition to declare a dog to be dangerous or a nuisance. The county may impound...
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9-17-8
Section 9-17-8 Oil and Gas Board - Powers as to witnesses; enforcement of subpoenas issued
by board. (a) The board or any member thereof is hereby empowered to issue subpoenas for witnesses,
to require their attendance and the giving of testimony before it and to require the production
of such books, papers and records in any proceeding before the board as may be material upon
questions lawfully before the board. Such subpoenas shall be served by the sheriff or any
other officer authorized by law to serve process in this state. No person shall be excused
from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers and records before the board
or a court or from obedience to the subpoena of the board or a court on the ground or for
the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend
to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; provided, that nothing contained
in this section shall be construed as requiring any person to produce...
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12-17-197
Section 12-17-197 District attorney's fund. (a) This section shall be effective in those judicial
circuits of Alabama now or hereafter created where there is no local, general or special law
providing for a district attorney's fund for the use of the district attorneys in the discharge
of their duties and for law enforcement. (b) All district attorneys' fees taxed as costs and
collected in all criminal cases in the circuit courts in the judicial circuits defined in
subsection (a) of this section shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which
said fees are taxed and collected, and said fund shall be kept as a separate fund in the county
treasury and shall be known as the district attorney's fund and shall be used and expended
by the district attorney of the judicial circuit of which said county is a part, as hereinafter
provided. (c) The district attorney of each judicial circuit, as defined in subsection (a)
of this section, is hereby authorized to requisition...
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15-18-200
Section 15-18-200 Motion by persons convicted of capital offense for forensic DNA testing and
analysis. (a) An individual convicted of a capital offense who is serving a term of imprisonment
or awaiting execution of a sentence of death, through written motion to the circuit court
that entered the judgment of sentence, may apply for the performance of forensic deoxyribonucleic
acid testing on specific evidence, if that evidence was secured in relation to the investigation
or prosecution that resulted in the conviction of the applicant, is still available for testing
as of the date of the motion, forensic DNA testing was not performed on the case at the time
of the initial trial, and the results of the forensic DNA testing, on its face, would demonstrate
the convicted individual's factual innocence of the offense convicted. The filing of a motion
as provided in this subsection shall not automatically stay an execution. (b) Upon receipt
of a motion for DNA testing, the circuit court shall...
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22-22A-5
Section 22-22A-5 Powers and functions of department; representation of department by Attorney
General in legal actions. In addition to any other powers and functions which may be conferred
upon it by law, the department is authorized beginning October 1, 1982 to: (1) Administer
appropriate portions of Sections 9-7-10 through 9-7-20, which relate to permitting, regulatory
and enforcement functions; administer and enforce the provisions and execute the functions
of Chapter 28 of this title; Chapter 22 of this title; Article 2 of Chapter 23 of this title;
Chapter 30 of this title; appropriate portions of Article 1 of Chapter 27 of this title; Sections
22-24-1 through 22-24-11; Sections 22-25-1 through 22-25-15; and Sections 22-36-1 through
22-36-10. (2) Acting through the Environmental Management Commission, promulgate rules, regulations,
and standards in order to carry out the provisions and intent of this chapter; provided, however,
that prior to the promulgation of any state primary or...
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36-21-45
Section 36-21-45 Functions and duties generally. The commission shall have the following functions
and duties together with all powers necessary or convenient for the performance thereof: (1)
To study, obtain data, statistics, and information, and to make reports concerning the recruitment,
selection, and training of law enforcement officers in the state and to make improvements
in methods of recruitment, selection, and training of law enforcement officers. (2) To review
from time to time the standards described in Section 36-21-46 for applicants for and appointees
as law enforcement officers. (3) To consider, hold public hearings on, adopt and promulgate
standards relating to the physical, mental, and moral fitness of any applicant for or appointee
as a law enforcement officer as do not lower the standards in Section 36-21-46 or as otherwise
permitted by Section 36-21-46. (4) To study, consider, and make reports from time to time
concerning the work and the curriculum and courses...
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