34-2A-11
shall become inactive, as described in subsection (e) of Section 34-2A-12 if the licensee no longer has responsibility for an assisted living facility. After 12 months in inactive status, the license shall expire and become void. (4) For the purpose of this subsection, the term "acute care hospital" shall be defined as a health institution planned, organized, and maintained for offering to the public generally facilities and beds for use in the diagnosis and/or treatment of illness, disease, injury, deformity, abnormality, or pregnancy, when the institution offers such care of service for not less than 24 consecutive hours in any week to two or more individuals not related by blood or marriage to the owner and/or chief executive officer/administrator and, in addition, the hospital may provide for the education of patients, medical and health personnel, as well as conduct research programs to promote progress and efficiency in clinical and administrative medicine. (Act 2001-1057, 4th...
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34-37-6
Section 34-37-6 Certification, registration, and examination. (a) It shall be unlawful for any personor other legal entity to contract, engage in, offer to engage, or convey the impression that he or she is certified in plumbing, gas fitting, or medical gas piping within the State of Alabama unless the person has first registered or received a certificate of competency, hereinafter referred to as "certificate," that is in force and effect at the time the plumbing, gas fitting, or medical gas piping is offered, performed, directed, or superintended, except as hereinafter provided. (b) The board shall register all legal entities engaging in, or offering to engage in, plumbing, gas fitting, or medical gas piping in the State of Alabama upon forms provided by the board, and upon the applicant first paying all prescribed fees. Disciplinary action for the registered legal entities may be the same as for certified individuals engaged in plumbing, gas fitting, or medical gas piping. (c) The...
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20-2-60
Section 20-2-60 Definitions. As used in this article the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ADMINISTER. The direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient by any of the following: a. A supervising physician, or, in his or her presence, his or her authorized agent. b. An assistant to physician. c. The patient at the direction and in the presence of the supervising physician or assistant to physician. (2) ASSISTANT TO PHYSICIAN. Any person who is a graduate of an approved program, is licensed by the board, and is registered by the board to perform medical services under the supervision of a physician approved by the board to supervise an assistant to physician. (3) BOARD. The Board of Medical Examiners of the State of Alabama. (4) PHYSICIAN SUPERVISION. A formal relationship between a licensed assistant to physician and a supervising physician under whom the assistant to physician...
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20-2-254
Section 20-2-254 Grounds for denial of application or request for renewal, etc. The Board of Medical Examiners may deny an application of a certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNP) or a certified nurse midwife (CNM) requesting a Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate (QACSC), deny a request for a renewal of a QACSC, or initiate action against the QACSC of a CRNP or a CNM possessing a QACSC based on the following grounds: (1) Fraud or deceit in applying for, procuring, or attempting to procure a QACSC in the State of Alabama. (2) Conviction of a crime under any state or federal law relating to any controlled substance. (3) Conviction of a crime or offense which affects the ability of the CRNP or CNM to practice with due regard for the health or safety of his or her patients. (4) Prescribing a drug or utilizing a QACSC in such a manner as to endanger the health of any person or patient of the CRNP, CNM, or collaborating physician. (5) Suspension or...
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34-24-521
PRACTICE ACT. Laws and regulations governing the practice of allopathic and osteopathic medicine within a member state. (h) MEMBER BOARD. A state agency in a member state that acts in the sovereign interests of the state by protecting the public through licensure, regulation, and education of physicians as directed by the state government. (i) MEMBER STATE. A state that has enacted the compact. (j) PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. The clinical prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of human disease, injury, or condition requiring a physician to obtain and maintain a license in compliance with the medical practice act of a member state. (k) PHYSICIAN. Any person who: (1) Is a graduate of a medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation, or a medical school listed in the International Medical Education Directory or its equivalent; (2) Passed each component of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) or...
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34-24-363
Section 34-24-363 Witnesses - How subpoenaed and sworn; failure to comply. (a) To any such hearing witnesses may be subpoenaed by the commission on its own motion, or on the demand of either side by subpoena signed by the chairman of the commission, or by the executive officer of the commission, and such subpoenas may be served by any sheriff of the State of Alabama, or by the executive officer of the commission or by any person designated by the executive officer; and, if served by anyone other than a sheriff, the return of service shall be sworn to by the person before some officer authorized to administer oaths. Witnesses may be sworn by the chairman or by the person discharging the duties of the chairman. Similar subpoenas may be issued directing the production of books, papers, or documents at the hearing. (b) In conducting its investigations, the State Board of Medical Examiners shall have the authority to subpoena witnesses and command the production at any of its meetings of...
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22-18-1
Section 22-18-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN. Any person 18 years of age or older who satisfies all of the following: a. Has successfully completed the advanced emergency medical technician course of instruction, or its equivalent, as approved by the State Board of Health. b. Has passed the state Advanced EMT examination, as well as having met the requirements for becoming a licensed emergency medical technician. c. Has been granted a license by the State Board of Health. (2) ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (ALS). The treatment of potentially life-threatening medical emergencies through the use of invasive medical techniques specified as advanced life support techniques by the Board of Health, which ordinarily would be performed or provided by licensed physicians, but which may be performed by emergency medical service personnel during emergencies...
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34-24-341
Section 34-24-341 Commission to commence actions where persons practicing without license; court jurisdiction; issuance of injunctions. The Medical Licensure Commission, in addition to the powers and duties expressed in this article with respect to the denial of a license, denial of a certificate of registration, and suspension or revocation of a license, is empowered to commence and maintain in its own name in any circuit court having jurisdiction of any person within this state, who is practicing without a license or to whom a license has been denied, or to whom a certificate of registration has been denied or whose license has been suspended or revoked by action of the commission, an action in the nature of quo warranto as provided for in Section 6-6-590 et seq., as the same is now or may hereafter be amended, to order such person to cease and desist from continuing to practice medicine or osteopathy within the State of Alabama, and jurisdiction is conferred upon the circuit courts...
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34-24-362
Section 34-24-362 Unlawful to practice when license suspended or revoked; reissue of license. Whenever a license to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of Alabama has been suspended or revoked, it shall be unlawful for the person whose license has been so suspended or revoked to practice his or her profession in this state, but the commission may issue in behalf of such person, either with or without reexamination, a new license whenever it deems such course safe and just. Prior to such decision to reissue a license, the commission shall request and consider but not be bound by the recommendation of the State Board of Medical Examiners. (Acts 1981, No. 81-218, p. 273, §21.)...
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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. § 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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