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8-25-6
Section 8-25-6 Damages and fees recoverable for violations of chapter; nonliability where merchant
discovers error, gives notice, and makes adjustments. (a) A consumer damaged by a violation
of this chapter by a merchant is entitled to recover from the merchant: (1) Actual damages;
(2) Twenty-five percent of an amount equal to the total amount of payments required to obtain
ownership of the merchandise involved, except that the amount recovered under this subdivision
may not be less than $100 nor more than $1,000; and (3) Reasonable attorney's fees not to
exceed 15 percent of the consumer's allowable recovery and court costs. (b) A merchant is
not liable under this section for a violation of this chapter caused by the merchant's error
if before the sixty-first day after the date the merchant discovers the error, and before
an action under this section is filed or written notice of the error is received by the merchant
from the consumer, the merchant gives the consumer written notice of...
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11-19-15
Section 11-19-15 Transferring, sale, etc., of lands in subdivision prior to approval of plat.
Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision within
the flood-prone areas transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell any land
by reference to, or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision before such plat
has been approved by the county planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of
the judge of probate shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be punished as provided by law, and the description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds
in the instrument of transfer or conveyance or other document used in the process of selling
or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from the penalties or remedies provided in
this chapter. The county commission may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action
for injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may recover...
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13A-6-157.1
Section 13A-6-157.1 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2018 REGULAR
SESSION, EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) In addition
to any other remedy under this article, if the Attorney General has reason to believe that
any person, corporation, or any other legal entity is engaging in, has engaged in, or is about
to engage in any act or practice declared to be unlawful by this article, the Attorney General
may bring an action in the name of the state in the appropriate state court against the person,
corporation, or entity to restrain by temporary restraining order, or temporary or permanent
injunction, the acts or practices. (b) In addition to any other remedy under this article,
the Attorney General may bring a civil action on behalf of the state in the appropriate state
court to recover actual damages for victims of acts or practices performed in violation of
this article. (c) Venue for any action brought under this section is...
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27-29-9
Section 27-29-9 Injunctions; prohibitions against voting securities; sequestration of voting
securities. (a) Injunctions. Whenever it appears to the commissioner that any insurer or any
director, officer, employee, or agent thereof has committed, or is about to commit, a violation
of this chapter or of any rule, regulation, or order issued by the commissioner under this
chapter, the commissioner may apply to the circuit court for the county in which the principal
office of the insurer is located or if such insurer has no such office in this state, then
to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County for an order enjoining such insurer or such director,
officer, employee, or agent thereof from violating, or continuing to violate, this chapter
or any such rule, regulation, or order and for such other equitable relief as the nature of
the case and the interests of the insurer's policyholders, creditors, and shareholders or
the public may require. (b) Voting of securities; when prohibited. No...
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31-2-89
Section 31-2-89 Actions against members of military court, etc., as to sentences, warrants,
etc.; actions against officers or enlisted men for acts performed in line of duty; defense
of actions against present or former members of National Guard at state expense. No action
or proceedings shall be prosecuted or maintained against a member of a military court or officer
or person acting under its authority or reviewing its proceedings on account of the approval
or imposition or execution of any sentence or any warrant, writ, execution, process, or mandate
of a military court, nor shall any officer or enlisted man be liable to civil action or criminal
prosecution for any act done while in the discharge of his military duty, which act was done
in the line of duty. If a civil action shall be commenced in any court by any person against
any present or former member of the National Guard of this state for any act done by such
present or former member while on any duty under this chapter, or...
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11-92A-12
Section 11-92A-12 Powers of authority. An authority shall have the following powers, which
it may exercise in any county within such authority's authorized operational area: (1) To
have succession by its corporate name until dissolved as provided in this chapter; (2) To
institute and defend legal proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper venue;
provided, however, that an authority may not be sued in any trial court other than the courts
of a county within the authorized operational area of the authority; provided, further, that
the officers, directors, agents, and employees of an authority may not be sued for their actions
in behalf of the authority except for actions that are known by such person to be unlawful
or are performed with reckless disregard for the lawfulness of such actions; (3) To have and
to use a corporate seal and to alter the seal at its pleasure; (4) To establish a fiscal year;
(5) To anticipate by the issuance of its bonds the receipt of any...
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2-17-19
Section 2-17-19 Condemnation proceedings generally; disposition of condemned animals or articles;
payment of costs, fees and expenses, etc. (a) Any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat
food product or poultry food product of any of the animals or birds subject to inspection
under this chapter or any such animal or bird that is dead, dying, disabled or diseased that
is being transported in intrastate commerce or is held for sale in this state after such transportation
and that is or has been prepared, sold, transported or otherwise distributed or offered or
received for distribution in violation of this chapter or is capable of use as human food
and is adulterated or misbranded or in any other way is in violation of this chapter shall
be liable to be proceeded against and seized and condemned at any time by writ of attachment
for condemnation in any proper court as provided in Section 2-17-30 within the jurisdiction
of which the article or animal is found. Such writ of attachment...
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26-21-4
Section 26-21-4 Procedure for waiver of consent requirement - Notice to parents or guardian
prohibited; participation in proceedings; right to counsel; assistance in preparing petition;
confidentiality; contents of petition; precedence of proceeding; rules of procedure; waiver
of consent; guardian ad litem for interests of unborn child; findings and conclusions; appeal;
no fees or costs; related criminal charges. (a) A minor who elects not to seek or does not
or cannot for any reason, obtain consent from either of her parents or legal guardian, may
petition, on her own behalf, the juvenile court, or the court of equal standing, in the county
in which the minor resides or in the county in which the abortion is to be performed for a
waiver of the consent requirement of this chapter. Notice by the court to the minor's parents,
parent, or legal guardian shall not be required or permitted. The requirements and procedures
under this chapter shall apply and are available only to minors who...
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28-3-242
Section 28-3-242 Procedure for confiscation and sale of goods, etc.; nature of proceedings
against goods, etc.; court proceedings for collection of tax due and assessed. (a) In all
cases of seizure of any goods, wares, merchandise or other property made as being subject
to forfeiture under provisions of this chapter which, in the opinion of the officer or person
making the seizure, are of the appraised value of $50.00 or more, the said officer or person
shall proceed as follows. He shall cause a list containing a particular description of the
goods, wares, merchandise or other property seized to be prepared in duplicate and appraisement
thereof, to be made by three sworn appraisers to be selected by him, who shall be respectable
and disinterested citizens of the State of Alabama, residing within the county wherein the
seizure was made. Said list and appraisement shall be properly attested by said officer or
persons, and said appraisers, for which service each of said appraisers shall...
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28-4-71
Section 28-4-71 Unlawful drinking places deemed common nuisances; abatement thereof. Any place
or room kept or maintained in violation of the provisions of this chapter defining unlawful
drinking places shall be deemed to be a common nuisance and may be abated by injunction issued
out of a circuit court upon a petition filed in the name of the state by the state Attorney
General or any district attorney whose duties require him to prosecute criminal actions on
behalf of the state in the county wherein the nuisance is maintained or by any citizen or
citizens of such county, such petition to be filed in the county in which the nuisance exists.
All rules of evidence and the practice and procedure that pertain to circuit courts generally
in this state may be invoked and applied in any injunction procedure hereunder. (Acts 1915,
No. 1, p. 1; Code 1923, §4663; Code 1940, T. 29, §138.)...
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