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34-22-23
Section 34-22-23 Grounds for revocation or suspension. Any of the following shall constitute
grounds for revocation of license or suspension of license for a definite period of time,
for a private or public reprimand, for probation, for the levying and collection of an administrative
fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation, for the institution of any
legal proceedings necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter: (1) Fraud, deceit,
dishonesty, or misrepresentation, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in the practice of optometry
or in obtaining any license, license certificate, annual registration certificate, or other
thing of value. (2) Incompetency. (3) Conviction of a felony or a misdemeanor which involves
moral turpitude. (4) Gross immorality. (5) Habitual drunkenness or addiction to the use of
morphine, cocaine, or other drugs having similar effect. (6) Insanity, as adjudged by a court
of competent jurisdiction. (7) Directly or indirectly employing,...
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34-22-4
Section 34-22-4 Limitation on application of chapter. (a) It is not the intent of this
chapter to prevent any school teacher, welfare worker, state, county, municipality, or other
public board, body, agency, institution, or official from determining in the course of their
official duties the probable need of visual services; provided, that the aforenamed person
or agency does not attempt to examine, diagnose, prescribe, or recommend any particular practitioner
and complies with the provisions of Section 38-1-2. (b) A license to practice optometry
shall not be required for the sale, preparation, or dispensing of eyeglasses or spectacles
in a retail optical dispensary or from a store, shop, or other permanently established place
of business with an optical department on prescription of a duly licensed physician skilled
in diseases of the eyes or a duly licensed optometrist authorized to practice under the laws
of this state. Contact lenses may be sold or dispensed in a retail optical...
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34-14-2
Section 34-14-2 Licenses or permits - Required; display; duplicates; corporations, partnerships,
etc. (a) No person shall engage in the sale of or practice of fitting hearing instruments
or display a sign or in any other way advertise or represent himself or herself as a person
who practices the fitting and sale of hearing instruments unless the person holds a license
or permit issued by the board as provided in this chapter. The license or permit shall be
conspicuously posted in his or her office or place of business. Duplicate licenses or permits
may be issued by the board to valid license holders operating more than one office, upon additional
payment determined by the board for each additional office. A license under this chapter shall
confer upon the holder the right to select, fit, and sell hearing instruments. (b) Nothing
in this chapter shall prohibit a corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other like
organization maintaining an established business address from...
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32-6-42
Section 32-6-42 Responsibilities. The board shall have the following responsibilities:
(1) advise the director on medical criteria relating to the safe operation of motor vehicles;
(2) recommend to the director procedures and guidelines for licensing individuals with physical
or mental impairment; (3) initiate the development of medically acceptable report forms; (4)
direct research of medically impaired individuals; (5) recommend a training course for driver
examiners in the medical aspects of licensure; (6) spearhead efforts to orient the general
physician population as well as the public in the medical aspects of driver licensure; (7)
assist in the development of regional driver license medical advisory boards to be constituted
similarly to the board established by this division; and (8) evaluate individual problem cases
that require more than one opinion or that cannot be screened out in light of guidelines established
by the board. The board may formulate such advice from records...
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34-24-400
Section 34-24-400 Identification, treatment, etc., of impaired physicians; Alabama Physician
Wellness Committee; funding. It shall be the duty and obligation of the State Board of Medical
Examiners to promote the early identification, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation
of physicians and osteopaths licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama who may
be impaired by reason of illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol,
chemicals, or other substances or as a result of any physical or mental condition. For the
purposes of this article the term "impaired" shall mean the inability of a physician
or osteopath to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of
illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol, chemicals, or other substances
or as a result of any physical or mental condition. In order to carry out this obligation
the State Board of Medical Examiners is hereby empowered to contract with any...
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34-43-12
Section 34-43-12 Application forms; issuance of license; display of license. (a) Applications
for licensure or renewal shall be on forms provided by the board and shall be accompanied
by the proper fee. The application shall be legible, either printed in black ink or typed.
Applications sent by facsimile shall not be accepted. A two-by-two photograph, taken no more
than six months earlier, showing a frontal view of the head and shoulders of the applicant,
shall be submitted with the application. All documents shall be submitted in English. (b)
Each applicant for licensure shall be subject to a criminal history check. Refusal to consent
to a criminal history check constitutes grounds for the board to deny the applicant's application
for licensure. (c) The board shall issue a license to each person who qualifies to be a massage
therapist and to each qualified massage therapy establishment. To be qualified for a license
as a massage therapist the applicant shall successfully pass the...
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34-9-7
Section 34-9-7 Exemption of certain practices and operations. (a) Nothing in this chapter
shall apply to the following practices, acts, and operations: (1) The practice of his or her
profession by a physician or surgeon holding a certificate of qualification as a medical doctor
and licensed as such under the laws of this state, provided he or she shall not practice dentistry
as a specialty. (2) The practice of dentistry in the discharge of their official duties by
graduate dentists or dental surgeons in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or other
armed services, public health service including, but not limited to, a federally qualified
health center authorized and operating under Section 330 of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. ยง 254B), provided, however, that such federally qualified health centers shall
register pursuant to Section 34-9-7.2 (provided further however, dentists, dental hygienists,
and other personnel employed by any public health service which performs...
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22-52-91
Section 22-52-91 Duty of law enforcement officer, community mental health officer to
take into custody alleged mentally ill persons; detention; admission; hearing. (a) When a
law enforcement officer is confronted by circumstances and has reasonable cause for believing
that a person within the county is mentally ill and also believes that the person is likely
to be of immediate danger to self or others, the law enforcement officer shall contact a community
mental health officer. The community mental health officer shall join the law enforcement
officer at the scene and location of the person to assess conditions and determine if the
person needs the attention, specialized care, and services of a designated mental health facility.
If the community mental health officer determines from the conditions, symptoms, and behavior
that the person appears to be mentally ill and poses an immediate danger to self or others,
the law enforcement officer shall take the person into custody and,...
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26-23H-3
Section 26-23H-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ABORTION. The use or prescription of any instrument, medicine,
drug, or any other substance or device with the intent to terminate the pregnancy of a woman
known to be pregnant with knowledge that the termination by those means will with reasonable
likelihood cause the death of the unborn child. The term does not include these activities
if done with the intent to save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, remove
a dead unborn child, to deliver the unborn child prematurely to avoid a serious health risk
to the unborn child's mother, or to preserve the health of her unborn child. The term does
not include a procedure or act to terminate the pregnancy of a woman with an ectopic pregnancy,
nor does it include the procedure or act to terminate the pregnancy of a woman when the unborn
child has a lethal anomaly. (2) ECTOPIC PREGNANCY. Any pregnancy resulting from...
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34-25A-5
Section 34-25A-5 Application for licensure or registration. (a) Except as provided in
subsection (h) or (i), no person shall administer prosthetic, orthotic, or pedorthic care
in this state unless licensed or registered to do so in accordance with this chapter. The
board shall issue approved forms for application prior to January 1, 2003. (b) In order to
obtain a license as a prosthetist, orthotist, or prosthetist/orthotist in this state, an applicant
shall be a citizen of the United States or, if not a citizen of the United States, a person
who is legally present in the United States with appropriate documentation from the federal
government, and shall do the following: (1) File a written application on forms to be developed
and approved by the board. The applicant shall meet at least one of the following requirements
after a one-year grandfather period: a. The applicant shall possess a baccalaureate degree
in orthotics and prosthetics from a college or university accredited by a...
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