2-5A-1
Section 2-5A-1 Establishment; powers and duties. (a) The Farmers' Market Authority is established in the Department of Agriculture and Industries. The authority shall have the powers and duties to establish agricultural markets to prevent waste and to provide marketing facilities where farm products, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, truck crops, and other agricultural commodities, and fish products, including, but not limited to, farm-raised fish, shellfish, and wild fish, may be processed, graded, packaged, displayed, or exhibited in order to encourage the buying and selling of the commodities, and to encourage the public interest, thus promoting good will between the rural and urban sectors of the State of Alabama. The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may procure by purchase, lease, rent, gift, or otherwise, necessary market sites in this state on which to conduct farmers' markets. (b)...
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22-5B-2
Section 22-5B-2 Legislative findings. (a) The legislative findings, purpose, and intent of this chapter are to develop the infrastructure for a statewide network of lifespan respite programs in Alabama and for Alabama Respite to be the statewide entity to address issues relating to respite care in our state. (b) The Alabama Legislature makes the following findings: (1) Respite is short term temporary relief that can make a world of difference for family caregivers of both children and adults with disabilities and other health care needs. (2) Respite is one of the home and community-based services most requested by family caregivers, yet remains in short supply. (3) As of 2012, over 818,000 adults in Alabama are caregivers for a family member. (4) Respite helps preserve families by reducing stress, supporting stability, preventing situations that can lead to abuse and neglect, and reducing the incidence of divorce and out-of-home placement. (5) Respite is a simple, cost-effective...
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37-10A-5
Section 37-10A-5 Determination of needs; financial assistance. The department shall establish a program under this chapter whereby the department will determine if a shortline railroad has a need for the rehabilitation of any railroad bed, bridge, track, building, other railroad facility, or other infrastructure improvement of any description on any shortline railroad in Alabama. The department will determine which shortline railroads have needs, the amount of the needs, and the priority of the needs when compared to the needs of other shortline railroads in the state. Upon determination by the department of a need as provided herein, the department is authorized to provide financial assistance to the grantee in the form of grants and or no-cost loans. The department may contract with the grantee, any local government for the grantee, or shortline railroad to participate in the grant as may be appropriate under the circumstances, based upon the need and the ability of the grantee, the...
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37-11-1
Section 37-11-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, is hereby authorized to execute a compact in substantially the following form with the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, and the legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact, which compact is as follows: Southern High-Speed Rail Commission. Article I. The purpose of this compact is to study the feasibility of rapid rail transit service between the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama and to establish a joint interstate commission to assist in this effort. Article II. This compact shall become effective immediately as to the states ratifying it whenever the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have ratified it and Congress has given consent thereto. Any state not mentioned in this article which is contiguous with any member state may become a party to this compact, subject to approval by the legislature of each of the member states. Article...
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37-3-4
Section 37-3-4 Exemptions. (a) This chapter shall not be construed to apply to: (1)a. School buses or other motor vehicles which are owned by county boards of education or under contract with county boards of education, regardless of whether or not the school buses and other motor vehicles are being used exclusively for the transportation of school children and school teachers to and from school and provided the school buses and other motor vehicles do not take on passengers for fare on a certificated route. b. Motor vehicles for hire while operating wholly within the limits of a city or incorporated town or within the police jurisdiction thereof, or between two or more incorporated towns or cities whose city limits join or are contiguous or whose police jurisdictions join or are contiguous. c. Motor vehicles while used in the transportation of property when the owner of the vehicle is legally and regularly engaged in the business of selling such property and is the owner and has the...
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40-12-242
Section 40-12-242 License taxes and registration fees - Private passenger automobiles and motorcycles; electric vehicles; Electric Transportation Infrastructure Grant Program. (a) The following annual license taxes and registration fees are hereby imposed and shall be charged on each private passenger automobile operated on the public highways of this state and on each motorcycle operated on the public highways: (1) For each private passenger automobile $13.00 (2) For each motorcycle $7.00 No private passenger automobile and no motorcycle shall be used on any public highway in the state unless the proper license tag therefor has been procured and is securely attached to the rear end thereof, the tag to be attached right side up with the number thereof in an upright position and plainly visible. (b)(1) In addition to the annual license taxes and registration fees imposed in subsection (a) and in this article, there is hereby imposed and shall be charged: a. An annual license tax and...
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41-29-332
Section 41-29-332 Alabama Office of Apprenticeship - Created; purposes; management; application for recognition. (a) The Alabama Office of Apprenticeship is established as a part of the Workforce Development Division of the Department of Commerce, in accordance with 29 U.S.C. §50, 29 C.F.R., Subtitle A, Parts 29 and 30, and Article 20 of Chapter 18 of Title 40, the Apprenticeship Tax Credit Act of 2016. The Alabama Office of Apprenticeship is established for all of the following purposes: (1) To exercise nonexclusive authority to determine whether an apprenticeship program conforms to the regulations published in 29 C.F.R., Subtitle A, Parts 29 and 30. (2) To set forth labor standards necessary to safeguard the welfare of apprentices. (3) To establish policies and procedures for the registration and deregistration of preapprenticeships, youth registered apprenticeships, and registered apprenticeships. (4) To serve as the registration agency for preapprenticeships, youth registered...
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45-29-90.05
Section 45-29-90.05 Powers, duties, and functions of authority. (a) The general powers, duties, and functions of the authority shall be as follows: (1) Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate name. (2) May sue and be sued in its corporate name. (3) May adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed. (4) May enter into such contracts and cooperative agreements with federal, state, and local governments, with agencies of such governments, and with private individuals, corporations, associations, and other organizations whether organized under the laws of Alabama or of another state, as the board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this article. (5) May adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws. (6) May appoint managers, officers, employees, attorneys, and agents as the board deems necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define their duties, and require bonds of such of them as the board may...
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9-13-61
Section 9-13-61 Charges in affidavits, informations or indictments under article; proof of title, etc. In any affidavit, information or indictment under this article, the person or persons accused may be charged with commencing or conspiring to commence at some particular time to commit any of the acts hereby made punishable and of continuing to commit the same at divers times and on divers days between that day and some other day to be therein stated. It shall not be necessary, in order to convict, to prove title of the lands on which the alleged violation of Section 9-13-60 occurred, but it shall be sufficient to prove title, legal, equitable or colorable, in the State of Alabama or any corporation or any person or persons other than the accused; and it shall not be necessary to allege in the affidavit, information or indictment or prove on the trial the kind of timber or forest products which are the subject of the action. (Acts 1939, No. 626, p. 993, §2; Code 1940, T. 8,...
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11-62-14
Section 11-62-14 Limitations as to operation of facilities - Use of facility for promotion of sectarian purposes, advancement, or inhibition of religious activities, etc. The purpose of this chapter is to encourage private not-for-profit organizations, whether or not having any religious affiliation, to satisfy secular needs concerning the housing, care, and treatment of persons requiring special care, which needs, if not so satisfied by such private not-for-profit organizations, would have to be satisfied in some degree by governmental agencies at public expense. No facility acquired, improved, financed, or in any way provided or assisted by any authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be used by a user to promote any sectarian purpose or to advance or inhibit any religious activity, nor shall any such facility be operated by any user in a manner so pervaded by religious activities that the secular objectives of this chapter cannot be separated from the sectarian...
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