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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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23-1-80.1
Section 23-1-80.1 County commissions - Use of county roads in conducting timber operations.
(a) A county commission, by ordinance or resolution, may require all persons or firms that
own timber in any unincorporated area of the county which plan to utilize county roads for
delivery of pulpwood, logs, poles, posts, or wood chips to any wood yard or processing plant
to provide notice of their intent to utilize the county roads to the county commission. For
purposes of this section, the term timber owner means any person or firm that has entered
into a contract with a landowner for the purposes of severing that timber and delivering pulpwood,
logs, poles, posts, or wood chips to any wood yard or processing plant. In the case where
the landowner harvests his or her own timber and delivers pulpwood, logs, poles, posts, or
wood chips to any wood yard or processing plant, the landowner is the timber owner. The term
timber owner is intended to mean the person or firm who has legal title to the...
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13A-7-29
Section 13A-7-29 Criminal littering. (a) A person commits the crime of criminal littering if
he or she engages in any of the following acts: (1) Knowingly deposits in any manner litter
on any public or private property or in any public or private waters without permission to
do so. For purposes of this subdivision, any series of items found in the garbage, trash,
or other discarded material including, but not limited to, bank statements, utility bills,
bank card bills, and other financial documents, clearly bearing the name of a person shall
constitute a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name appears on the material knowingly
deposited the litter. Advertising, marketing, and campaign materials and literature shall
not be sufficient to constitute a rebuttable presumption of criminal littering under this
subsection. (2) Negligently deposits, in any manner, glass or other dangerously pointed or
edged objects on or adjacent to water to which the public has lawful access for...
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19-3B-1304
Section 19-3B-1304 Trusts for employees or self-employed persons. (a) A trust of real or personal
property or real and personal property combined: (1) which is created by an employer as part
of a stock bonus plan, pension plan, disability or death benefit plan, or profit-sharing plan,
for the exclusive benefit of some or all his or her employees, to which contributions are
made by such employer or employees, or both, for the purpose of distribution to such employees
the earnings of the principal, or both earnings and principal of the fund so held in trust;
or (2) which is created by a self-employed person or group of self-employed persons and: a.
which is part of a retirement, disability, or death benefit plan for such self-employed person
or persons; and b. contributions to which are deductible, in whole or in part, from gross
income for federal income tax purposes under the internal revenue laws of the United States;
or (3) which is created for the collective investment of the funds...
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27-14-29
Section 27-14-29 Rights of beneficiaries, etc., under life insurance policies against creditors,
etc. (a) If a policy of insurance, whether heretofore or hereafter issued, is effected by
any person on his own life or on another life in favor of a person other than himself or,
except in cases of transfer with intent to defraud creditors, if a policy of life insurance
is assigned or in any way made payable to any such person, the lawful beneficiary, or assignee
thereof, other than the insured or the person so effecting such insurance or his executors
or administrators, shall be entitled to its proceeds and avails against the creditors, personal
representatives, trustees in bankruptcy, and receivers in state and federal courts of the
person insured and of the person effecting the insurance, whether or not the right to change
the beneficiary is reserved or permitted and whether or not the policy is made payable to
the person whose life is insured, if the beneficiary or assignee shall...
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27-31D-1
Section 27-31D-1 Premium discount or insurance rate reduction - Construction and certification.
(a) Commencing on May 14, 2009, insurance companies shall provide a premium discount or insurance
rate reduction in an amount and manner as established in subsection (j) and pursuant to Section
27-31D-3. In addition, insurance companies may also offer additional adjustments in deductible,
other credit rate differentials, or a combination thereof, collectively referred to as adjustments.
These adjustments shall be available under the terms specified in this section to any owner
who builds or locates a new insurable property, in the State of Alabama, to resist loss due
to hurricane or other catastrophic windstorm events. (b) To obtain the adjustment provided
in this section, an insurable property located in this state shall be certified as constructed
in accordance with either of the following: (1) The 2006 International Residential Code, as
amended, including all hurricane mitigation...
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40-12-265
Section 40-12-265 Mutilation or alteration of tags; replacement tags; use of improper tags.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to mutilate or alter, for the purpose of deception,
any motor vehicle tag, plate, or validation stamp or to use upon any motor vehicle any tags,
plates, or validation stamps in imitation of or substitution for authorized issued tags, plates,
or validation stamps. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, police officers, state troopers,
license inspectors, deputy license inspectors, and field agents of the Department of Revenue
to arrest any person violating the provisions of this section, and upon conviction of any
such person a fine of not less than $25 nor exceeding $100 shall be imposed for each offense.
The license inspector shall receive a fee of $1.50 for making such arrest, which arrest fee
shall be collected as a part of the costs in any such action before a court of competent jurisdiction.
(b) In case the tag, plate, or validation stamp becomes so...
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45-44-246.01
Section 45-44-246.01 Additional tax. (a)(1) The Macon County Commission may impose on every
person, firm, or corporation that sells, stores, delivers, uses, or otherwise consumes tobacco
or tobacco products in Macon County, a county privilege, license, or excise tax in the following
amounts: a. Five cents ($.05) for each package of cigarettes made of tobacco or any substitute
therefor. b. Five cents ($.05) for each package of cigars made of tobacco or any substitute
therefor, including the cigarette-sized or near cigarette-sized cigars, but excluding single
wrapped cigars. c. Five cents ($.05) for each sack, can, package, or other container of smoking
tobacco, including granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other kinds and forms
of tobacco which are prepared in such manner suitable for smoking in a pipe or cigarette.
d. Five cents ($.05), for each sack, plug, package, or other container of chewing tobacco,
which tobacco is prepared in such manner suitable for chewing only...
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14-14-4
Section 14-14-4 Establishment of furlough program. (a) The department shall establish a medical
furlough program. The commissioner shall adopt the rules and regulations for implementation
of the medical furlough program. For each person considered for medical furlough, the commissioner
shall determine whether the person is a geriatric inmate, permanently incapacitated inmate,
or terminally ill inmate. (b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, an inmate who
has not served his or her minimum sentence shall be considered eligible for consideration
for furlough under this chapter. (c) This chapter shall not apply to inmates convicted of
capital murder or a sexual offense. (d) Medical furlough consideration shall be in addition
to any other release for which an inmate may be eligible. (e) The commissioner shall determine
the conditions of release of any inmate pursuant to this chapter, including the appropriate
level of supervision of the inmate, and shall develop a discharge plan...
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16-27A-7
Section 16-27A-7 Contesting a notice of violation; adjudication. (a) No person shall be responsible
for payment of a civil fine for a notice of violation issued under this chapter if the operator
of the vehicle that is the subject of the notice of violation is adjudicated to have not committed
a violation or there is otherwise a lawful determination that no civil penalty may be imposed.
Any person receiving a notice of violation pursuant to this chapter, in accordance with the
procedure set out in this chapter and on the notice of violation, may contest the notice of
violation by obtaining a hearing in the court. (b) District and municipal courts of this state
are vested with the power and jurisdiction to adjudicate a notice of violation issued pursuant
to this chapter as a civil offense whenever the offense is alleged to have occurred within
the geographic jurisdiction of the court. (c) The following procedures shall apply to proceedings
to contest a notice of violation issued...
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