34-24-520
Section 34-24-520 Purpose. In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition
of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member states of the Interstate Medical
Licensure Compact have allied in common purpose to develop a comprehensive process that complements
the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards, provides a streamlined
process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple states, thereby enhancing the
portability of a medical license and promoting the safety of patients. The compact creates
another pathway for licensure and does not otherwise change a state's existing medical practice
act. The compact also adopts the prevailing standard for licensure and affirms that the practice
of medicine occurs where the patient is located at the time of the physician-patient encounter,
and therefore, requires the physician to be under the jurisdiction of the state medical board
where the patient is located. State medical boards...
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34-43-2
Section 34-43-2 Legislative findings and intent. Massage therapy is declared by the Legislature
to be a professional therapeutic health service. The Legislature finds that in the practice
of massage therapy, there is a necessity to preserve and protect individual life and health,
to promote the public interest and welfare by establishing licensure requirements and assuring
public safety. It is the intent of this chapter to establish a regulatory agency and procedures
that will ensure that the public is protected from the unprofessional, improper, unauthorized,
and unqualified practice of massage therapy. All persons engaged in the practice of massage
therapy in this state shall meet the requirements set forth in this chapter. (Acts 1996, No.
96-661, p. 1060, §2; Act 2000-704, p. 1430, §1.)...
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34-5-14
Section 34-5-14 Other provisions not repealed. This chapter shall not repeal any provisions
of the public health laws, the state sanitary code, or any local acts, or general acts of
local application, or municipal ordinances, where the provisions thereof have standards, qualifications,
and requirements for the practice of barbering, the operation of barbershops or barber colleges
equal to or higher than those provided herein, and such laws, codes, acts, or ordinances shall
remain in their entirety in full force and effect. (Acts 1971, No. 403, p. 689, §15.)...

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22-11A-68
Section 22-11A-68 Immunity from liability for those involved in investigation. (a) Members
and staff of the State Board of Health, the State Committee of Public Health, the Board of
Medical Examiners, the Medical Licensure Commission, the Board of Nursing, the Board of Dental
Examiners, the Board of Podiatry, physicians, hospitals, other health care facilities, and
other entities and persons required to report or furnish information under this article and
any expert review panels, consultants to any expert review panel, and agents and employees
of the Alabama Department of Public Health shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability
for making reports or furnishing any information required by this article or for actions taken
or actions not taken in the line and scope of official or required duties during their investigations,
hearings, rulings, and decisions. (b) All information collected during the investigation of
an infected health care worker is privileged and shall be...
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22-20-7
Section 22-20-7 Inspection of dairy farms, milk-cooling stations, etc. The State Board of Health
shall inspect dairy farms, milk-cooling stations, milk-processing plants and creameries for
grading the milk and cream output of such establishments. The said inspections shall be made
in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, and the grading
of the milk and milk products shall be carried out in compliance with the specifications of
the United States Public Health Service standard milk ordinance. (Acts 1927, No. 262, p. 261;
Code 1940, T. 22, §98.)...
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34-2-31
Section 34-2-31 Declaration of policy; chapter liberally construed; compliance with chapter
required. Architects and the practice of architecture are hereby declared to affect the public
health, safety, and welfare and to be subject to regulation and control in the public interest.
It is further declared to be a matter of public interest and concern that the architectural
profession merit and receive the confidence of the public and that only qualified architects
be permitted to practice architecture in the State of Alabama. All provisions of this chapter
relating to the practice of architecture shall be liberally construed to carry out these objects
and purposes. In order to safeguard life, health and property, and to promote the public welfare,
no person shall practice architecture in this state, or use the title "architect"
or any title, sign, card, or device to indicate that such person is practicing architecture
or is an architect unless such person shall thereafter comply with...
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34-28A-2
Section 34-28A-2 Declaration of policy and legislative intent. It is declared that the practice
of speech-language pathology and audiology is a privilege which is granted to qualified persons
by legislative authority in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare, and, in enacting
this law, it is the intent of the Legislature to require educational training and licensure
of any person who engages in the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology, or both,
to encourage better educational training programs, to prohibit the unauthorized and unqualified
practice of speech-language pathology or audiology, or both, and the unprofessional conduct
of persons licensed to practice speech-language pathology and audiology and to provide for
enforcement of this chapter and penalties for its violation. To help insure the availability
of the highest possible quality speech-language pathology or audiology services, or both,
to the communicatively handicapped people of the state, it is...
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45-37A-350
Section 45-37A-350 Civil action by municipality regarding condition of real property. In the
City of Mountain Brook in Jefferson County, whenever by reason of the dilapidated, deteriorated,
unsafe, or unhealthful condition of real property or any improvements situated thereupon,
the municipality files a civil action in any court of the state to compel the owner or occupant
of real property to bring the property or improvements into compliance with any statute, ordinance,
or regulation establishing, governing, or regulating public health, sanitation, safety, welfare,
or minimum standards of human habitability, or to abate or eliminate a public nuisance created
by the conditions, the city, if it prevails in the civil action, may recover as a part of
its costs in the action its actual and reasonable attorney's fees and litigation expenses
incurred in connection therewith upon a showing by the city that the city afforded the defendant
a reasonable opportunity to voluntarily correct or cure...
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22-1-14
Section 22-1-14 Licensure Freedom Act. (a) State licensure requirements for physicians, chiropractors,
optometrists, and dentists in this state shall be granted based on demonstrated skill and
academic competence. Licensure approval for physicians, chiropractors, optometrists, and dentists
in this state may not be conditioned upon or related to participation in any public or private
health insurance plan, public health care system, public service initiative, or emergency
room coverage. (b) The licensure of dentists, osteopaths, chiropractors, optometrists, and
physicians shall be conducted exclusively pursuant to Chapter 9 of Title 34; Division 1, commencing
with Section 34-24-50, of Article 3 of Chapter 24 of Title 34; Article 4, commencing with
Section 34-24-120, of Chapter 24 of Title 34; Chapter 22 of Title 34; and Division 1, commencing
with Section 34-24-310, of Article 8 of Title 34, respectively. (c) Physician or optometric
licensure shall not be conditioned upon or related to...
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22-1-9
Section 22-1-9 Certain county and local laws unaffected by title. Nothing in this title shall
be so construed as to amend or repeal any state quarantine law or any local public health
or quarantine law applying to a county. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed
to repeal any local law regulating nuisances to the public health. (Code 1907, §729; Code
1923, §1152; Code 1940, T. 22, §91.)...
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