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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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