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26-23B-2
Section 26-23B-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes all of the following findings:
(1) Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child's entire body by
no later than 16 weeks after fertilization and nerves link these receptors to the brain's
thalamus and subcortical plate by no later than 20 weeks. (2) By eight weeks after fertilization,
the unborn child reacts to touch. After 20 weeks, the unborn child reacts to stimuli that
would be recognized as painful if applied to an adult human, for example by recoiling. (3)
For the purposes of surgery on unborn children, fetal anesthesia is routinely administered
and is associated with a decrease in stress hormones compared to their level when painful
stimuli is applied without such anesthesia. (4) In the unborn child, application of such painful
stimuli is associated with significant increases in stress hormones known as the stress response.
(5) Subjection to such painful stimuli is associated with long-term...
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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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33-12-5
Section 33-12-5 Powers, duties and functions. The powers, duties and functions of the agency
shall be as follows: (1) GENERALLY. The agency a. Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate
name. b. May sue and be sued in its corporate name. c. May adopt, use and alter a corporate
seal, which shall be judicially noticed. d. May enter into such contracts and cooperative
agreements with the federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments,
with private individuals, corporations, associations, trusts and other organizations as the
board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this chapter,
including the planned, orderly residential development of the area. e. May adopt, amend and
repeal bylaws. f. May appoint such managers, officers, employees, attorneys and agents as
the board deems necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define
their duties, require bonds of such of them as the board may...
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36-15-4.2
Section 36-15-4.2 Attorney General's Litigation Support Fund. (a) There is established in the
State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Attorney General's Litigation Support Fund.
(b) The fund shall consist of any and all monies designated by a court order as reasonable
attorney fees and related expenses or negotiated fees and related expenses for matters settled
out of court, and penalties paid in certain cases received by the Attorney General pursuant
to this section as a result of any fees, fines, restitution, forfeitures, penalties, costs,
interest, or judgments collected pursuant to any civil litigation, or any administrative proceedings,
or in settlement of any claim asserted by or against the people of Alabama, the State of Alabama,
or any of its departments, agencies, institutions, officers, employees, or political subdivisions
thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the fees, fines, restitution, forfeitures, penalties,
costs, interest, or judgements shall not be...
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37-11B-6
Section 37-11B-6 Railroad Revitalization Fund development of State Rail Plan. (a) There is
established in the State Treasury a revolving fund to be designated as the Railroad Revitalization
Fund. Monies, including interest earnings, in this fund shall be expended either separately
or in combination with any available federal funds for railroad research, railroad planning,
and railroad administration costs incurred by ADECA directly attributable to railroad revitalization
projects; assistance to railroads for the rehabilitation or improvement of rail lines; and
construction, improvement, or rehabilitation of railroad facilities. (b) ADECA with the assistance
of the commission, in conjunction with the railroads operating in the State of Alabama, shall
develop the State Rail Plan, which shall be a comprehensive plan that coordinates all aspects
of the improvements to rail infrastructure within the state and includes distinct freight
and passenger components, as described in subdivisions...
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37-6-42
Section 37-6-42 Enumerated powers. (a) Any such electric cooperative shall have power: (1)
To supply telephone service in rural areas to its members, to governmental agencies and political
subdivisions, to other persons, and to business entities not in excess of 40 percent of the
number of its members; provided that wireless communications services, including, without
limitation, services classified as of January 1, 1997, as "commercial mobile radio services"
by the Federal Communications Commission, may be provided to any person, firm, corporation,
governmental agency, or political subdivision within any area for which the electric cooperative
is authorized to provide such wireless service under federal law or regulations, without the
business entity being a member of the cooperative, regardless of whether the business entity
is in excess of 40 percent of the number of its members, and, without limiting the foregoing,
should a cooperative acquire any facilities in rural areas...
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41-8-21
Section 41-8-21 Enactment of compact; form. The Interstate Library Compact is hereby enacted
into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining therein in the form
substantially as follows: INTERSTATE LIBRARY COMPACT. Article I. Policy and Purpose. Because
the desire for the services provided by libraries transcends governmental boundaries and can
most effectively be satisfied by giving such services to communities and people regardless
of jurisdictional lines, it is the policy of the states party to this compact to cooperate
and share their responsibilities; to authorize cooperation and sharing with respect to those
types of library facilities and services which can be more economically or efficiently developed
and maintained on a cooperative basis and to authorize cooperation and sharing among localities,
states and others in providing joint or cooperative library services in areas where the distribution
of population or of existing and potential library...
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9-10B-5
Section 9-10B-5 Functions and duties of Office of Water Resources. The general functions and
duties of the Office of Water Resources shall be as follows: (1) To develop long-term strategic
plans for the use of the waters of the state by conducting and participating in water resource
studies and by administering the laws established by this chapter and regulations promulgated
hereunder; (2) Acting through the commission, to adopt and promulgate rules, regulations,
and standards for the purposes of this chapter, and to develop policy for the state regarding
the waters of the state; (3) To implement quantitative water resource programs and projects
for the coordination, conservation, development, management, use, and understanding of the
waters of the state; (4) To serve as a repository for data regarding the waters of the state;
(5) To, at its discretion, study, analyze, and evaluate in coordination with, or with the
assistance of, other agencies of the state, the federal government, any...
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9-11-2.1
Section 9-11-2.1 Closing of existing hunting lands; replacement acreage; annual reports. (a)
For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1)
DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (2) DEPARTMENT-MANAGED
LANDS. Privately owned lands that are leased or managed by the department. (3) DEPARTMENT-OWNED
LANDS. Lands owned by the department and lands owned by the state over which the department
holds management authority. (4) HUNTING. The lawful pursuit, trapping, shooting, capture,
collection, or killing of wildlife or the lawful attempt to pursue, trap, shoot, capture,
collect, or kill wildlife. (b) Department-owned lands and department-managed lands shall be
open to access and use for hunting except as limited by the department for reasons of demonstrable
public safety, fish or wildlife management, homeland security, or as otherwise limited by
law. (c) The department, in exercising its authority pursuant to...
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16-13-231
Section 16-13-231 Purposes and plan of apportionment. (a) In addition to all other appropriations
and apportionments of public school money now provided by law and made available for public
schools there shall be apportioned and paid to local boards of education from the Foundation
Program Fund, the amounts to be determined as hereinafter provided and in accordance with
regulations of the State Board of Education. This Foundation Program Fund shall be used principally:
(1) To aid in providing at least a 180 full instructional day minimum school term, or the
hourly equivalent thereof, except as otherwise provided in paragraph c. of subdivision (1)
of subsection (b); and, (2) To assist in the promotion of educational opportunity for all
children in the public schools. (b) The following requirements and procedures, supplemented
when necessary by regulations of the State Board of Education, shall govern the apportionment
of the fund: (1) REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FUND. In order for...
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