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27-12A-40
Section 27-12A-40 Creation of Insurance Fraud Unit. (a) There is hereby established
within the department the Insurance Fraud Unit. The commissioner shall appoint the necessary
full-time supervisory and investigative personnel of the unit who shall be qualified by training
and experience to perform the duties of their positions. The commissioner shall furnish offices,
equipment, operating expenses, and necessary personnel to maintain and operate the unit. (b)
The unit shall perform all of the following duties: (1) Initiate independent inquiries and
conduct independent investigations when the unit has cause to believe that any insurance fraud
may be, is being, or has been, committed. (2) Review reports or complaints of alleged insurance
fraud from federal, state, and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies, persons engaged
in the business of insurance, and the public to determine whether the reports or complaints
require further investigation and, if so, to conduct these...
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27-12A-23
Section 27-12A-23 Confidentiality. (a) Documents and evidence provided pursuant to Section
27-12A-21 or obtained by the department in an investigation of suspected or actual insurance
fraud shall be privileged and confidential, shall not be a public record, and shall not be
subject to discovery or subpoena in a civil or criminal action. (b) Notwithstanding subsection
(a), the department may release documents and evidence obtained by the unit in an investigation
of suspected or actual insurance fraud pursuant to any of the following: (1) Administrative
or judicial bodies hearing proceedings to enforce laws administered by the department. (2)
Federal, state, or local law enforcement or regulatory agencies, including, but not limited
to, the Attorney General and the Chief Examiner of Public Accounts; the NICB; or the NAIC.
(3) At the discretion of the commissioner, a person in the transaction of the business of
insurance that is aggrieved by the insurance fraud. (c) Release of documents...
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22-18-50
Section 22-18-50 Enactment and text of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure
Interstate Compact. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact
is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein
in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public
through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient care related activities
all states license emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, such as emergency medical technicians
(EMTs), advanced EMTs and paramedics. This Compact is intended to facilitate the day to day
movement of EMS personnel across state boundaries in the performance of their EMS duties as
assigned by an appropriate authority and authorize state EMS offices to afford immediate legal
recognition to EMS personnel licensed in a member state. This Compact recognizes that states
have a vested interest in protecting the public's health and safety...
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9-2-65
Section 9-2-65 Powers and duties of game and fish wardens; powers and duties of director
with respect to game and fish wardens. (a) Game and fish wardens shall have power: (1) To
enforce all laws of this state relating to birds, animals and fish; (2) To execute all warrants
and search warrants for the violation of the game, fish and fur laws of the state; (3) To
serve subpoenas issued for examination, investigation and trial of all offenses against the
law relating to game, fur bearers, birds and fish; (4) To carry firearms as provided by law
for enforcement officers when in the discharge of their official duties; (5) To confiscate
all game, birds, animals or fish or parts thereof which have been caught, taken, killed or
held at a time in any manner or for any purpose or had in possession or under control or have
been shipped, carried or transported contrary to the laws of this state, and game, fur bearers,
birds, fish or parts thereof so confiscated shall be held as evidence in the...
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6-5-338
Section 6-5-338 Immunity of peace officers and tactical medics from tort liability for
conduct in the line of duty; certain employers of off-duty officers to maintain liability
coverage. (a) Every peace officer and tactical medic, except constables, who is employed or
appointed pursuant to the Constitution or statutes of this state, whether appointed or employed
as a peace officer or tactical medic by the state or a county or municipality thereof, or
by an agency or institution, corporate or otherwise, created pursuant to the Constitution
or laws of this state and authorized by the Constitution or laws to appoint or employ police
officers or other peace officers or tactical medics, and whose duties prescribed by law, or
by the lawful terms of their employment or appointment, include the enforcement of, or the
investigation and reporting of violations of, the criminal laws of this state, and who is
empowered by the laws of this state to execute warrants, to arrest and to take into...
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27-17A-22
Section 27-17A-22 Violations and penalties. (a)(1) A person who knowingly receives payments
for a preneed contract without having a valid certificate of authority: a. Commits a Class
B felony, punishable as provided by law, as to each contract on which the payments collected
equal or exceed, in the aggregate, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). b. Commits
a Class C felony, punishable as provided by law, as to each contract on which the payments
collected are between, in the aggregate, five hundred dollars ($500) and two thousand five
hundred dollars ($2,500). c. Commits a Class A misdemeanor, punishable as provided by law,
as to each contract on which the payments collected do not exceed, in the aggregate, five
hundred dollars ($500). (2) In addition to the criminal penalty imposed under subdivision
(1), upon conviction of an offense under subdivision (1), a person may not thereafter obtain
a certificate of authority or register as a preneed sales agent. (b)(1) A person who...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama
hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product
Regulation Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of
joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest
of consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term
care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under
the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review
of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related
thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states;
4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying
the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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34-36-6
Section 34-36-6 Powers and duties of board. (a) By rule, the board shall make provisions
to do all of the following: (1) Prepare or approve all examinations of applicants for licenses
for electrical contractors and journeyman electricians. (2) Determine the qualifications of
electrical contractors to engage in the business of electrical contracting. (3) Determine
the qualifications of journeyman electricians to engage in electrical work. (4) Provide for
the investigation of written complaints filed with the board concerning alleged violations
of this chapter and any rules adopted by the board. (b) The board may suspend, revoke, or
refuse to issue or renew a license and impose a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed five
thousand dollars ($5,000), after notice and opportunity for a hearing pursuant to the Alabama
Administrative Procedure Act, upon proof of any of the following actions by a licensee or
applicant: (1) Violating any provision of this chapter. (2) Attempting to procure a...
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40-2-11
Section 40-2-11 Powers and duties generally. It shall be the duty of the Department
of Revenue, and it shall have the power and authority, in addition to the authority now in
it vested by law: (1) To have and exercise general and complete supervision and control of
the valuation, equalization, and assessment of property, privilege, or franchise and of the
collection of all property, privilege, license, excise, intangible, franchise, or other taxes
for the state and counties, and of the enforcement of the tax laws of the state, and of the
several county tax assessors and county tax collectors, probate judges, and each and every
state and county official, board, or commission charged with any duty in the enforcement of
tax laws, to the end that all taxable property in the state shall be assessed and taxes shall
be imposed and collected thereon in compliance with the law and that all assessments on property,
privileges, intangibles, and franchises in the state shall be made in exact...
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34-21-126
Section 34-21-126 Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. (a)
The party states hereby create and establish a joint public entity known as the Interstate
Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. (1) The commission is an instrumentality
of the party states. (2) Venue is proper, and judicial proceedings by or against the commission
shall be brought solely and exclusively, in a court of competent jurisdiction where the principal
office of the commission is located. The commission may waive venue and jurisdictional defenses
to the extent the commission adopts or consents to participate in alternative dispute resolution
proceedings. (3) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to be a waiver of sovereign immunity.
(b) Membership, voting, and meetings. (1) Each party state shall have and be limited to one
administrator. The head of the state licensing board for each party state, or his or her designee,
shall be the administrator of this compact for that...
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