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32-6-155.1
Section 32-6-155.1 "Protect Our Environment" distinctive license tag. (a) It is the
intent of the Legislature that an environmental tag be issued by the state to be used as an
instrument to promote safe environmental practices, environmental awareness, environmental
education enhancement, and for the protection of Alabama's precious environment through education.
It is the desire of the Legislature to develop and provide comprehensive environmental education
programs in which students, teachers, citizens, businesses, and governmental entities can
participate in order to promote good environmental practices and thereby protect the environmental
diversity and natural resources of the state. (b) As used in this section, the following words
shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Board of Directors of Legacy, as it may
be constituted from time to time. (2) ENVIRONMENTAL TAG. The environmental tag shall mean,
but is not limited to, the Protect Our Environment distinctive license...
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38-9B-1
Section 38-9B-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(1) It is an essential function of state government to provide basic support for persons with
a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities,
whether the impairment is congenital or occurs by reason of accident, injury, age,
or disease. (2) The cost of providing basic support for persons with a mental or physical
impairment is difficult for many citizens to afford, and they are forced to rely upon the
government to provide that support. (3) The families and friends of persons with a mental
or physical impairment desire to supplement, but not replace, the basic support provided by
state government and other governmental programs. (4) Medical, social, and other supplemental
services are often provided by family members and friends of persons with a mental or physical
impairment, for the lifetime of the impaired persons. (5) It is necessary and desirable...
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40-17-167
Section 40-17-167 Decal requirement suspended. (a) The Legislature of Alabama makes the following
findings and statements: (1) The reduction of the dependence on foreign oil is necessary to
reserve and protect our national security. (2) Reliable and affordable energy is of great
importance to all sectors of Alabama's economy. (3) Long-term sustainability of energy supply
and efficient and effective distribution of energy is becoming increasingly important to Alabama's
population growth and economic expansion. (4) The future energy needs of the state also present
opportunities to diversify the state's energy supply and provide new opportunities for Alabama-based
clean energy technologies. (5) The use of existing technology and development of new technologies
including compressed and liquefied natural gas should be encouraged as a way of producing
energy with reduced emissions. (b) The Legislature recognizes that it is in the best interest
of its citizens to remove existing barriers to...
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26-23E-2
abortion patients at unreasonable risk. (2) At abortion or reproductive health centers, patients
are often treated in a manner inconsistent with a traditional physician/patient relationship.
(3) Abortion or reproductive health centers are not operated in the same manner as ambulatory
surgical treatment centers or physician offices. (4) Abortion involves not only a surgical
procedure with the usual risks attending surgery, but also involves the taking of human life.
(5) Abortion is a highly personal and very sensitive procedure which results in stress
and concern for the patient that is unique to the decision to have an abortion. (6) Abortion
is a very profitable procedure most often engaged in by stand-alone clinics without many of
the safeguards found in a traditional physician/patient relationship or other medical care
setting. (7) Because abortion and reproductive health centers do not currently provide the
level of personal contact found in many physician/patient relationships and...
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31-9A-2
Section 31-9A-2 Findings and declaration of necessity; purpose of chapter and public policy.
(a) As a result of the unprecedented and devastating attack of September 11, 2001, upon the
people and the vital infrastructure of the United States of America and the possibility that
such attacks may be perpetrated in the future by those persons identified as terrorists and
other enemies of this country, and in order to ensure that preparations of this state will
be adequate to deal with such events and to generally provide for the common defense and to
protect and preserve the life, health, welfare, and property of the people of Alabama, it
is found and is declared to be necessary to: (1) Create a State Department of Homeland Security.
(2) Confer upon the Governor the powers provided in this chapter. (3) Provide for the rendering
of aid to the political subdivisions of the state, and between other states, and the federal
government with respect to performing those functions related to...
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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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9-3-18
Section 9-3-18 Public governmental entities, political subdivisions, etc., authorized to make
donations to organizations deemed public in nature. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature
that this section provides assistance to organized volunteer fire departments and organized
search, air, and rescue squads including South Alabama Air Rescue, Incorporated, and other
nonprofit organizations which provide search, air, or rescue services to the public. The Legislature
deems these organizations public in nature, as they protect the health, safety, and welfare
of the public. (b) The state and any department, office, or agency of the state, and any county,
any municipality, any fire, water, sewer, garbage, or school district, or any other public
governmental entity or political subdivision may donate money, property, equipment, or other
thing of value to those organizations deemed public in nature as specified in subsection (a).
Unless the donating agency or entity specifies otherwise at the...
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22-22A-2
Section 22-22A-2 Legislative intent and purposes of chapter. The Legislature finds the resources
of the state must be managed in a manner compatible with the environment, and the health and
welfare of the citizens of the state. To respond to the needs of its environment and citizens,
the state must have a comprehensive and coordinated program of environmental management. It
is therefore the intent of the Legislature to improve the ability of the state to respond
in an efficient, comprehensive and coordinated manner to environmental problems, and thereby
assure for all citizens of the state a safe, healthful and productive environment. (1) To
this end an Alabama Department of Environmental Management is created by this chapter within
the Executive Branch of State Government in order to effect the grouping of state agencies
which have primary responsibility for administering environmental legislation into one department,
to promote economy and efficiency in the operation and management...
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29-2-270
Section 29-2-270 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following findings and statements:
(1) The reduction of the dependence on foreign oil is necessary to preserve and protect our
national security. (2) Reliable, plentiful, and affordable energy and the effective distribution
of energy are vital to the support and growth of all sectors of Alabama's economy. (3) The
future energy needs of the state also present unique opportunities to diversify the state's
energy supply and provide new opportunities for agriculturally based products and Alabama
based clean energy technologies. (4) Energy derived from agriculturally and forest based products
offers the potential to expand rural and economic development in Alabama. (5) Increasing the
efficiency of existing technology combined with the development of new technologies, including
coal gasification, coal liquification, advanced coal-based generation, and nuclear power,
should be encouraged as ways of producing more energy with...
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37-11A-1
by the Governor, or upon its otherwise becoming a law, and when the State of Mississippi ratifies
the compact. Article III. For purposes of this compact, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) Person means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, or any other
entity. (2) Railroad means a common carrier by railroad as defined in Section 1(3) of Part
I of the Interstate Commerce Act [codified as 49 U.S.C. ยง1(3)]. (3) Railroad properties and
facilities mean any real or personal property or interest in property which is owned,
leased, or otherwise controlled by a railroad or other person, including, without limitation,
the authority, and which are used or are useful in rail transportation service, including,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing: a. Track, roadbed, and related structures,
including rail, ties, ballast, other track materials, grading, tunnels, bridges, trestles,
culverts, elevated structures, stations, office buildings used for operating...
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