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6-5-549.1
Section 6-5-549.1 Limits of liability insurance coverage in legal action against health care
providers; testimony of health care providers as specialists. (a) This section and Sections
6-5-548 and 6-5-549 shall be known and may be cited as "The Alabama Medical Liability
Act of 1996." (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds and declares that a crisis
continues to threaten the delivery and availability of medical services to the people of Alabama
and the health and safety of the citizens of this state are in jeopardy as a result of this
crisis. In accordance with the previous declarations of the Legislature of Alabama in Sections
6-5-480 to 6-5-488, inclusive, 27-26-1 to 27-26-4, inclusive, and 27-26-20 to 27-26-43, inclusive,
and Sections 6-5-540 to 6-5-552, inclusive, it is the declared intent of this Legislature
to ensure that quality medical services continue to be available at reasonable costs to the
citizens of the State of Alabama. The continuing and ever increasing...
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11-54-88
Section 11-54-88 Additional powers as to pollution control facilities. (a)(1) In addition to
all other powers at any time conferred on them by law, each industrial development board shall
have the following powers: a. To acquire, whether by construction, purchase, exchange, gift,
lease, or otherwise and to enlarge, improve, replace, equip, and maintain one or more pollution
control facilities, including all real and personal properties deemed necessary or desirable
in connection therewith, including the sale and issuance of bonds for any of the said purposes;
b. To lease to others and otherwise dispose of all or any portion of any pollution control
facility; and c. To exercise with respect to any pollution control facility and each part
thereof any and all powers that are conferred on industrial development boards by other provisions
of this division. Each pollution control facility so acquired by any industrial development
board may be a part of another project or may constitute a...
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22-21-131
Section 22-21-131 Purpose and construction of article. It is the intention of the Legislature
by the passage of this article to empower each incorporated city and town in the state to
authorize the incorporation of one or more public corporations as political subdivisions of
the state for the purpose of providing public hospital facilities, to invest each corporation
organized under this article with all powers that may be necessary to enable it to accomplish
such purposes, including the power to lease or operate its properties and to issue interest-bearing
revenue bonds, and to grant to the municipality power to rent such public hospital facilities
on a year-to-year basis and to pledge tax revenues to secure the rent payable therefor. This
article shall be liberally construed in conformity with the said intent. (Acts 1961, No. 109,
p. 134, §1; Acts 1978, No. 409, p. 394, §2.)...
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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal; household
exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or municipal
governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public collection
and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department. The county
commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal services by
contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house service
or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within reasonable
(generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household and the wastes
managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission or municipal governing
body providing services to the public under this article shall have the power and authority
by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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22-30D-2
Section 22-30D-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of the State of Alabama makes the
following findings and declarations: (1) The soils, water, and air of this state constitute
unique and delicately balanced resources. (2) The protection of these resources is vital to
the economy of this state. (3) The preservation of waters of this state is a matter of the
highest urgency and priority as these waters provide a primary source of potable water in
this state and that such use can only be served effectively by maintaining the quality of
waters in as close to a comparable previous condition as possible, taking into account multiple
use accommodations necessary to provide the broadest possible promotion of public and private
interests. (b) The Legislature makes the following additional findings: (1) Where contamination
of soils, waters, or air has occurred, remedial measures have often been delayed for long
periods while investigations of the extent of such contamination and...
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24-1A-2
Section 24-1A-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication otherwise,
have the following respective meanings: (1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation and instrumentality
of the state organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS.
Bonds or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States of America or the state;
interest bearing bank and savings and loan association deposits; obligations of any agency
of the United States of America; any obligations in which a state chartered savings and loan
association may invest its funds; any agreement to repurchase any of the foregoing; or any
combination thereof. (3) BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors of the authority. (4)
BONDS. Bonds or other securities representing an obligation to pay money. (5) ELIGIBLE HOUSING
UNIT. Real and personal properties located in the state...
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40-1-50
Section 40-1-50 Reporting requirements of state agencies administering economic tax incentives.
(a) For the purpose of this section, the term economic tax incentive shall mean any tax credits,
deductions, exemptions, abatements, preferential rates, or rebates given as an economic incentive.
For the purpose of this section, the term economic incentive shall mean an inducement provided
by the government, where the government promises to forgo tax revenues to which it is otherwise
entitled or to provide some other benefit to an individual or an entity and in exchange the
individual or entity promises to take specific action that contributes to economic development.
In order for the Legislature to get accurate and complete information regarding the costs
and benefits of economic tax incentives, each state agency that administers an economic tax
incentive shall annually report the information required herein to the Legislature. (b) The
head of each state agency that administers any economic...
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41-23-121
Section 41-23-121 Powers of office. The office shall have the following powers to: (1) Ensure
that assets and needs of water transportation and intermodal infrastructure are properly considered
and reflected in the state's comprehensive transportation and strategic planning policies.
(2) Assist and coordinate with public and private entities in the development of the state's
rivers, ports, harbors, and intermodal facilities. (3) Coordinate with the Coalition of Alabama
Waterway Associations and other interests to formulate recommendations on annual budget requirements
for federal waterway projects, infrastructure development, and related needs. (4) Coordinate
with each of Alabama's individual waterway associations to promote the continued development,
maintenance, and multiple use benefits of federally maintained navigation channels within
the state and to market the benefits of improved water transportation. (5) Coordinate with
local and state development agencies to ensure a better...
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9-7-13
Section 9-7-13 Activities deemed permissible uses within coastal area; determination of additional
permissible uses. (a) The Legislature of Alabama finds that the following activities shall
constitute permissible uses within the coastal area: (1) The accomplishment of emergency decrees
of any duly appointed health officer of a county or municipality or of the state acting to
protect the public health and safety; (2) The conservation, repletion and research activities
of the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, the Marine Resources Division of the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium; (3)
The exercise of riparian rights by the owner of the riparian rights; provided, that the construction
and maintenance of piers, boathouses and similar structures shall be on pilings that permit
a reasonably unobstructed ebb and flow of the tide; (4) The normal maintenance and repair
of bulkheads, piers, roads and highways existing on the...
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11-50-340
Section 11-50-340 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and terms shall
have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another meaning or intent: (1)
CITY. Any incorporated city in the State of Alabama. (2) COUNCIL. The city council, city commission,
or other board or body in which the general legislative powers of a city shall be vested.
(3) BOARD. A board of water and sewer commissioners created under the provisions of Section
11-50-341 or, if any such board shall be abolished, the board, body, or commission succeeding
to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers given by this article to such board
shall be given by law. (4) WATER SYSTEM. Such term shall include all plants, systems, facilities,
or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with
the supply or distribution of water, and any integral part thereof, including but not limited
to water supply systems, water distribution systems,...
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