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31-9-4
Section 31-9-4 State Emergency Management Agency; Director of Emergency Management. (a) There
is hereby created within the executive branch of the state government a department of emergency
management, hereinafter called the "Emergency Management Agency," with a Director
of Emergency Management, hereinafter called the "director," who shall be the head
thereof. The director shall be appointed by the Governor. The director shall devote his or
her entire time to the duties of the office. The director shall not hold another office under
the government of the United States or any other state, or of this state, or any political
subdivision thereof, during his or her incumbency in such office, and shall not hold any position
of trust or profit, or engage in any occupation or business the conduct of which shall interfere
or be inconsistent with the duties of Director of Emergency Management under the provisions
of this article. The director shall hold office during the pleasure of the...
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31-9-86
Section 31-9-86 Program purposes; rules and procedures. (a) In addition to the program purposes
set out in Section 31-9-81, the Alabama Disaster Recovery Program shall also be available
for the following purposes: (1) To provide assistance under circumstances determined appropriate
by the committee as set out in subsection (b) for individual Alabama residents who suffer
loss as a result of an event that could enable a county or municipality to seek reimbursement
from the Alabama Disaster Recovery Fund pursuant to Section 31-9-83 or for private nonprofit
facilities otherwise eligible for assistance under the Stafford Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.,
as amended. (2) For mitigation projects or programs developed by the Alabama Emergency Management
Agency or a local government according to rules and procedures allowing for such activities
adopted pursuant to subsection (b). (3) For reimbursement of day-to-day administrative costs
incurred by the Alabama Emergency Management Agency or a local...
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31-9C-2
Section 31-9C-2 Alabama First Responder Wireless Commission. (a) There is created the Alabama
First Responder Wireless Commission, which shall be responsible for promoting the efficient
use of public resources to ensure that law enforcement, fire and rescue services, and essential
public health and emergency support personnel have effective communication services available
in emergency situations, and to ensure the rapid restoration of such communication services
in the event of disruption caused by natural disaster, terrorist attack, or other public emergency.
(b) The commission shall consist of the following members: (1) The Governor or his or her
designee. (2) The Director of the Alabama Department of Transportation or his or her designee.
(3) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency or his or her designee. (4)
The Director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs or his or her designee.
(5) The Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency...
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31-9-87
Section 31-9-87 Alabama Statewide Emergency Notification System Fund. (a) Funds shall be appropriated
by the Legislature to the Alabama Statewide Emergency Notification System Fund within the
recovery fund for the purposes of establishing, implementing, maintaining, and operating the
system, and, thereafter, shall be appropriated annually by the Legislature for continuous
maintenance and operation of the system. Funding for the system may also be derived from gifts,
federal grants, other appropriations from the Legislature, fees and contributions from users,
or any other sources permitted by law. Any disbursement from the Alabama Statewide Emergency
Notification System Fund shall be authorized in advance by the committee. (b) Within three
months after the Legislature appropriates funds for the system, the committee and the State
Emergency Management Agency shall jointly develop requirements and specifications for the
system. The State Emergency Management Agency shall provide...
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31-9-24
Section 31-9-24 Regular and emergency appropriations; state grants to political subdivisions.
(a) The funds appropriated by the Legislature in the general appropriation act for the support
and maintenance of this article shall be expended solely for the purposes designated in the
appropriation act and shall be limited to the amounts provided therein and shall be disbursed,
in the same manner as all other state funds are disbursed, by warrant of the Comptroller authorized
by the Director of the Emergency Management Agency and approved by the Governor, subject to
the terms, conditions, provisions, and limitations of Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41.
In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in
the State Treasury the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expenses
incident to the operation and enforcement of the provisions of this article during an emergency
as described in Section 31-9-8 hereof and the expenditure...
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6-5-332
Section 6-5-332 Persons rendering emergency care etc., at scene of accident, etc. (a) When
any doctor of medicine or dentistry, nurse, member of any organized rescue squad, member of
any police or fire department, member of any organized volunteer fire department, Alabama-licensed
emergency medical technician, intern, or resident practicing in an Alabama hospital with training
programs approved by the American Medical Association, Alabama state trooper, medical aidman
functioning as a part of the military assistance to safety and traffic program, chiropractor,
or public education employee gratuitously and in good faith, renders first aid or emergency
care at the scene of an accident, casualty, or disaster to a person injured therein, he or
she shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of his or her acts or omissions
in rendering first aid or emergency care, nor shall he or she be liable for any civil damages
as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for...
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31-9-81
Section 31-9-81 Program created; Statewide Emergency Notification System; Alabama Disaster
Recovery Fund. (a) There is created the Alabama Disaster Recovery Program for the purposes
of providing financial assistance to eligible counties and municipalities for meeting local
needs before, during, and immediately following a disaster that affects a county or municipality
and of establishing, implementing, operating, and maintaining the Statewide Emergency Notification
System to facilitate statewide communication of emergency responses, decisions, and warnings
of developing emergency situations for the benefit of residents and state and local emergency
management agencies. (b) The recovery program shall be funded by the Alabama Disaster Recovery
Fund. The Legislature may make appropriations to the recovery fund from State General Fund
revenues, available federal monies, revenues made available by future legislative acts, or
from any other source available except insurance policy...
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31-9-2
Section 31-9-2 Findings and declarations of necessity; purpose of article and public policy.
(a) Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters or emergencies
of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage, or other
hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquake, or other natural causes, and in order to
insure that preparations of this state will be adequate to deal with such disasters or emergencies,
and generally to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health, and
safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the state, it is hereby found
and declared to be necessary: (1) To create a State Emergency Management Agency, and to authorize
the creation of local organizations for emergency management in the political subdivisions
of the state. (2) To confer upon the Governor and upon the governing bodies of the political
subdivisions of the state the emergency powers provided...
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31-9-3
Section 31-9-3 Definitions. As used in this article, these terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. The preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions,
other than functions for which military forces or other federal agencies are primarily responsible,
to prevent, minimize, and repair injury and damage resulting from disasters caused by enemy
attack, sabotage, or other hostile action, or by fire, flood, earthquake, or other natural
cause. These functions include, without limitation, fire-fighting services; police services;
medical and health services; rescue, engineering, air raid warning services; communications;
radiological, chemical, and other special weapons of defense; evacuation of persons from stricken
areas; emergency welfare services (civilian war aid); emergency transportation; plant protection;
temporary restoration of public utility services; and other functions related to civilian
protection, together with all other activities...
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22-28A-3
Section 22-28A-3 Regulations, commitments relating to reduction of greenhouse gases. (a) Effective
immediately, the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall refrain
from proposing or promulgating any new regulations intended in whole or in part to reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol, from the residential,
commercial, industrial, electric utility, or transportation sectors unless such reductions
are required under existing statutes. (b) In the absence of a resolution or other act of the
Legislature of the State of Alabama approving same, the Director of the Alabama Department
of Environmental Management shall not submit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or
to any other agency of the federal government any legally enforceable commitments related
to the reduction of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol unless
such reductions are required under existing statutes. (Act...
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