25-5-1
Section 25-5-1 Definitions. Throughout this chapter, the following words and phrases as used therein shall be considered to have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context shall clearly indicate a different meaning in the connection used: (1) COMPENSATION. The money benefits to be paid on account of injury or death, as provided in Articles 3 and 4. The recovery which an employee may receive by action at law under Article 2 of this chapter is termed "recovery of civil damages," as provided for in Sections 25-5-31 and 25-5-34. "Compensation" does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, and crutches and apparatus furnished an employee on account of an injury. (2) CHILD or CHILDREN. The terms include posthumous children and all other children entitled by law to inherit as children of the deceased; stepchildren who were members of the family of the deceased, at the time of the accident, and were dependent upon him or...
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41-10-541
Section 41-10-541 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this division, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) APPROPRIATED FUNDS. Net TVA payments to the extent such payments are pledged and appropriated to the authority pursuant to Section 41-10-550. (2) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant to this division. (3) AUTHORITY GUARANTY. An agreement of the authority pursuant to which the payment of debt service referable to bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of a development agency is guaranteed by the authority. (4) AUTHORITY OBLIGATIONS. Bonds of the authority and authority guaranties. (5) AUTHORITY-GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS. Bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of a development agency that are issued solely for the purpose in financing a project and that are guaranteed, in whole or in part,...
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41-29-2
Section 41-29-2 Powers, duties, and functions of Department of Commerce. (a) The Department of Commerce shall be the principal staff agency of the executive branch to plan with the other departments of state government and with other governmental units for the comprehensive development of the state's human, economic and physical resources and their relevance for programs administered by the state and the governmental structure required to put such programs into effect. It shall provide information, assistance and staff support by all appropriate means. The Department of Commerce shall perform all the duties and exercise all the powers and authority relative to state regional and local planning and industrial development heretofore vested in the Alabama Development Office. All books, records, supplies, funds, equipment, and personnel of the Alabama Development Office are also hereby transferred to the Department of Commerce. (b) All of the powers and authority heretofore vested in 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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27-14-6
Section 27-14-6 Application for policy - Requirement; reliance by insurer; admissibility into evidence; alterations. (a) No life or disability insurance contract upon an individual, except a contract of group life insurance or of group or blanket disability insurance, shall be made or effectuated unless at the time of the making of the contract the individual insured, being of competent legal capacity to contract, applies therefor or has consented thereto, except in the following cases: (1) A spouse may effectuate such insurance upon the other spouse; (2) Any person having an insurable interest in the life of a minor or any person upon whom a minor is dependent for support and maintenance may effectuate insurance upon the life of, or pertaining to, such minor; and (3) Family policies may be issued insuring any two or more members of a family on an application signed by either parent, a stepparent or by a husband or wife; (b) An insurer shall be entitled to rely upon all statements,...
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27-15-52
Section 27-15-52 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORT. The plans, processes, or procedures necessary to confirm the death of the insured, contract owner or annuitant, or retained asset account holder against other available records and information and, as applicable, to locate the beneficiary or beneficiaries or other person entitled to payment pursuant to the terms of the policy or contract which have been developed by each insurer and submitted to and approved by the department. (2) CONTRACT. An annuity contract. The term contract shall not include an annuity used to fund an employment-based retirement plan or program where the insurer is not committed by terms of the annuity contract to pay death benefits to the beneficiaries of specific plan participants. (3) DEATH MASTER FILE. The United States Social Security Administration's Death Master File or any other database or service that is at least as comprehensive as...
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34-27-58
Section 34-27-58 Acts constituting violation of article - Failure to place 50 percent of cash, etc., received in escrow; failure to provide liability insurance, etc. (a) It shall be a violation of this article for a seller of vacation time-sharing lease plans to fail to: (1) Place in escrow 50 percent of the cash and receivables received from the purchasers of such plans, such receivables to be assessed at net principal value. a. The purpose of such escrow account is to protect the purchaser's right to a refund if at any time the accommodations and facilities are no longer available as provided in the contract; provided however, nothing contained in this section shall operate to deny the seller the option to repair, replace, or reconstruct, within a reasonable time, the accommodations or facilities, if destroyed or damaged. b. The purchaser shall be entitled to a refund from the escrow account upon the conditions described above in an amount which represents the buyer's pro rata share...
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27-19-51
Section 27-19-51 Purpose of article. The purpose of this article is to establish certain definitions, policy provisions, anticipated loss ratio standards, and disclosure requirements applicable to group and individual Medicare supplement disability policies and to authorize the implementation of these requirements through regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Insurance consistent with the uniform standards developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to meet the standards enacted in Public Law 96-265 (Laws 1980). (Acts 1981, No. 81-560, p. 940, §2.)...
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27-30-34
Section 27-30-34 Provision of domestic life and disability insurance pursuant to Chapter 3. Mutual aid associations organized and authorized under the provisions of this chapter are, in addition to those authorizations and responsibilities stated in Sections 27-17-16, 27-30-1, 27-30-31, 27-30-33, and 27-36-7, entitled to provide insurance policies and contracts as are authorized domestic life and disability insurers pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 27, subject to the limits on the size and types of risks to be insured as stated in Section 27-30-15 and Section 27-30-6.1. (Acts 1989, No. 89-686, p. 1351.)...
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27-44-2
Section 27-44-2 Purpose of chapter. (a) The purpose of this chapter is to protect, subject to certain limitations, the persons specified in Section 27-44-3(a) against failure in the performance of contractual obligations, under life and disability insurance policies and annuity contracts specified in Section 27-44-3(b), because of the impairment or insolvency of the member insurer that issued the policies or contracts. (b) To provide this protection, an association of insurers is created to pay benefits and to continue coverages as limited by this chapter, and members of the association are subject to assessment to provide funds to carry out the purpose of this chapter. (Acts 1982, No. 82-561, p. 922, §2; Act 2012-319, p. 724, §1.)...
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