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22-21B-4
Section 22-21B-4 Participation in a health care service that violates the conscience of health
care provider; written objection; liability. (a) A health care provider has the right not
to participate, and no health care provider shall be required to participate, in a health
care service that violates his or her conscience when the health care provider has objected
in writing prior to being asked to provide such health care services. (b) When objecting in
writing in accordance with this chapter, no health care provider shall be civilly, criminally,
or administratively liable for declining to participate in a health care service that violates
his or her conscience except when failure to do so would immediately endanger the life of
a patient. (c) It shall be unlawful for any person, health care provider, health care institution,
public or private institution, public official, or any board which certifies competency in
medical or health care specialties to discriminate against any health...
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27-49-3
Section 27-49-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN. Any individual or group plan, policy, or contract for health
care services issued, delivered, issued for delivery, renewed in this state by a health care
insurer, health maintenance organization, accident and sickness insurer, fraternal benefit
society, nonprofit hospital service corporation, nonprofit medical service corporation, health
care service plan, or any other person, firm, corporation, joint venture, or other similar
business entity that pays for, purchases, or furnishes health care services to patients, insureds,
or beneficiaries in this state. The term includes, but is not limited to, entities created
pursuant to Article 6 of Chapter 4 of Title 10. For the purposes of this chapter, a health
benefit plan located or domiciled outside of the State of Alabama is deemed to be subject
to the provisions of this chapter if it receives, processes,...
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13A-6-21
Section 13A-6-21 Assault in the second degree. (a) A person commits the crime of assault in
the second degree if the person does any of the following: (1) With intent to cause serious
physical injury to another person, he or she causes serious physical injury
to any person. (2) With intent to cause physical injury to another person, he or she
causes physical injury to any person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument.
(3) He or she recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person by means
of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument. (4) With intent to prevent a peace officer,
as defined in Section 36-21-60, a detention or correctional officer at any municipal or county
jail or state penitentiary, emergency medical personnel, a utility worker, or a firefighter
from performing a lawful duty, he or she intends to cause physical injury and he or
she causes physical injury to any person. For the purpose of this subdivision, a person
who is a peace officer who is...
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22-11A-60
by a rule adopted pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (7) INVASIVE PROCEDURES.
(a) Those medical or surgical procedures characterized by the digital palpation of a needle
tip in a body cavity or by the simultaneous presence of the health care worker's fingers and
a needle or other sharp instrument or object in a poorly visualized or highly confined anatomic
site. (b) Invasive dental procedures shall include those that provide the opportunity for
an intraoral percutaneous injury to the dental health care worker and could result
in the blood of the health care worker coming in contact with the blood or mucous membrane
of the patient as adopted by the Board of Dental Examiners in rules developed pursuant to
Section 22-11A-70. (c) These procedures shall not include physical examinations; blood pressure
checks; eye examinations; phlebotomy; administering intramuscular, intradermal, or subcutaneous
injections; needle biopsies; needle aspirations; lumbar punctures;...
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26-23E-3
Section 26-23E-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. Such use or prescription is not an abortion if done with
the intent to save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, remove a dead unborn
child, or to deliver the unborn child prematurely in order to preserve the health of both
the mother (pregnant woman) and her unborn child. The term abortion as used in this chapter,
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. For the purposes of this chapter,...
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22-19-161
assistant by the State Board of Medical Examiners to remove or process a part. (35) "Technician"
means an individual determined to be qualified to remove or process parts by an appropriate
organization that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law. The term
includes an enucleator. (36) "Tissue" means a portion of the human body other than
an organ or an eye. The term does not include blood unless the blood is donated for the purpose
of research or education. (37) "Tissue bank" means a person that is licensed, accredited,
or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing,
storage, or distribution of tissue. (38) "Transplant hospital" means a hospital
that furnishes organ transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services required
for the care of transplant patients. (39) "Will" means a disposition of real and
personal property to take effect after the death of a testator. (Act 2008-453, p. 867,
ยง1.)...
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34-21-1
with a multistate license that allows the practice of nursing as a registered nurse or licensed
practical nurse in any state participating in the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact. (9) PRACTICE
OF PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICAL NURSING. Nursing is a profession the practice of which is defined
as: a. Practice of Professional Nursing. The performance, for compensation, of any act in
the care and counselling of persons or in the promotion and maintenance of health and prevention
of illness and injury based upon the nursing process which includes systematic data
gathering, assessment, appropriate nursing judgment and evaluation of human responses to actual
or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, and health
counselling; and provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being, and
executing medical regimens including administering medications and treatments prescribed by
a licensed or otherwise legally authorized physician or...
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34-9-10
Section 34-9-10 Application; licensure by credentials; special purpose license. (a) Every person
who desires to practice dentistry within the State of Alabama shall file an application prescribed
by the board. Notwithstanding the method of obtaining licensure or any particular requirement
set forth herein, every person as a prerequisite to licensure shall be at least 19 years of
age, of good moral character, 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 a graduate of a dental school or college accredited by the
American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation and approved by the board and
shall satisfy any other requirement set forth in any rule adopted by the board. (b) Licensure
by examination shall be applicable to the following categories: (1) Those individuals who
have never been licensed or taken an examination and whose...
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40-20-1
Section 40-20-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The state Department of
Revenue. (2) ANNUAL. The calendar year or the taxpayer's fiscal year, when permission is obtained
from the department to use a fiscal year as a tax period in lieu of a calendar year. (3) VALUE.
The sale price or market value at the mouth of the well. If the oil or gas is exchanged for
something other than cash, if there is no sale at the time of severance or if the relation
between the buyer and the seller is such that the consideration paid, if any, is not indicative
of the true value or market price, then the department shall determine the value of the oil
or gas subject to the tax hereinafter provided for, considering the sale price for cash of
oil or gas of like quality. (4) OIL. Crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless
of gravity which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary...
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34-23-11
Section 34-23-11 Physicians, dentists, registered nurses, etc., exempt from chapter. (a) Nothing
contained in this chapter shall prevent any licensed practitioner of the healing arts from
personally compounding, dispensing, administering, or supplying to his or her patient drugs
and medicines for their use. This chapter shall not apply to the manufacture or sale at wholesale
or retail of patent or proprietary medicines as purchased from a manufacturer or wholesaler,
or to the manufacture or sale at wholesale or retail of packaged, bottled, or nonbulk chemicals,
medicines, medical and dental supplies, cosmetics, and dietary foods when identified by and
sold under a trademark, trade name, or other trade symbol, privately owned or registered in
the United States Patent Office, sold or offered to be sold to the general public, if the
article meets the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act other than prescription
legend drugs. (b) A registered nurse in the employment of...
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