36-30-21
Section 36-30-21 Authorized. (a) If a law enforcement officer who qualifies for benefits under the provisions of this article suffers disability as a result of a law enforcement officer's occupational disease, his or her disability shall be compensable the same as any service-connected disability under any law which provides benefits for the law enforcement officer or, if a state law enforcement officer, under the state Employees' Retirement System, the same as if injured in the line of duty. If a law enforcement officer who qualifies for benefits under the provisions of this article dies as a result of a law enforcement officer's occupational disease, his or her death shall be compensable to the same extent as the death of a law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; provided, that this article shall not apply to any municipality which has elected to be covered by the workers' compensation laws of this state. (b) In order to qualify for benefits under the provisions of this...
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36-30-23
Section 36-30-23 Eligibility for benefits - Where physical examination not required at time of entry into service. (a) If a physical examination was not required at the time of entry into service, a policeman or state trooper who has had at least three years' continuous service as a policeman or state trooper next preceding September 8, 1967, shall be deemed eligible for benefits under the provisions of this article. (b) If a physical examination was not required at the time of entry into service, a law enforcement officer who became covered by this article pursuant to Act 2012-549 who has had at least three years' continuous service as a law enforcement officer next preceding August 1, 2012, shall be eligible for benefits under the provisions of this article provided the eligibility requirements as provided in subdivision (4) of Section 36-30-20 are met. (c) The provisions of this article shall not affect or modify the Workers' Compensation Law except that no county or municipal law...
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25-5-68
for permanent partial and temporary total disability in connection with a disability scheduled in subdivisions (1) and (3) of subsection (a) of Section 25-5-57 or except as provided in subsection (f), shall the total amount of compensation payable for an accident or an occupational disease exceed the product of 500 times the maximum weekly benefit applicable on the date of the accident. (e) The minimum and maximum benefits that are in effect on the date of the accident which results in injury or death shall be applicable for the full period during which compensation is payable. (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the compensation benefits payable to a surviving dependent child of a law enforcement officer or firefighter who dies on or after January 1, 2018, as a result of injuries received while engaged in the performance of his or her duties shall not discontinue at least until the dependent child reaches the age of 18 years. (Acts 1919, No. 245, p. 206;...
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36-30-22
Section 36-30-22 Eligibility for benefits - Generally. The provisions of this article shall apply to a law enforcement officer who, upon entering the service of the city or county as a law enforcement officer, has successfully passed a physical examination which failed to reveal any evidence of a law enforcement officer's occupational disease and who has completed at least three years' service as a law enforcement officer, provided a physical examination was required at the time of entry into service, and shall apply to a state law enforcement officer who, upon entering the service of the state as a law enforcement officer, successfully passed a physical examination which failed to reveal any evidence of a law enforcement officer's occupational disease and who has completed no less than three years' service as a state law enforcement officer. (Acts 1971, No. 1213, p. 2115, §2; Act 2012-549, p. 1620, §1.)...
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36-30-20
Section 36-30-20 Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BENEFIT. Any monetary allowance payable to a law enforcement officer by a city or county or by the state or from a pension system established for the law enforcement officers of a city or county or the state on account of his or her disability or to his or her dependents on account of his or her death, irrespective of whether the same is payable under a pension law of the state or under some other law of the state. (2) DISABILITY. Disability to perform duties as a law enforcement officer. (3) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. A full-time law enforcement officer with the power of arrest who is employed with any state agency, department, board, commission, or institution or a full-time law enforcement officer employed by any municipality or county within this state. (4) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER'S OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE. Any...
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25-5-115
Section 25-5-115 False written representation to employer as to previous compensation for occupational disease. If an employee, at the time of or in the course of entering into the employment of the employer by whom the compensation would otherwise be paid, wilfully and falsely represented himself in writing to such employer as not having previously been compensated in damages, or under this article, because of occupational disease, as defined in this article, such employee, his personal representative, parents, surviving spouse, dependents, and next of kin shall be barred from compensation or other benefits provided by this article or from recovery at common law by statute, contract, or otherwise on account of occupational disease as defined in this article, resulting from exposure to the hazards of such disease subsequent to such representation and while in the employ of such employer. (Acts 1971, No. 668, p. 1379.)...
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36-30-2
failure or refusal to use safety appliances provided by his or her employer or his or her willful refusal or neglect to perform a statutory duty or any other willful violation of a law or his or her willful breach of a reasonable rule or regulation governing the performance of his or her duties or his or her employment of which rule or regulation he or she had knowledge. Any peace officer, firefighter, volunteer firefighter, or rescue squad member whose death results proximately from an injury received while performing his or her duties shall, for the purposes of this article, be deemed to have been killed while in the performance of such duties. If the State Health Officer determines from all available evidence that a volunteer firefighter, who is a member of an organized volunteer fire department registered with the Alabama Forestry Commission, has become totally disabled as a result of any injury received while engaged in the performance of his or her fire-fighting duties and...
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27-61-1
functions. 5. CORPORATE RECORDS OF THE COMMISSION The Commission shall maintain its corporate books and records in accordance with the Bylaws. 6. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, DEFENSE, AND INDEMNIFICATION a. The Members, officers, executive director, employees, and representatives of the Commission, the Executive Committee, and any other Committee of the Commission shall be immune from suit and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for any claim for damage to or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability caused by or arising out of any actual or alleged act, error, or omission that occurred, or that the person against whom the claim is made had a reasonable basis for believing occurred within the scope of Commission employment, duties, or responsibilities; provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to protect any such person from suit and/or liability for any damage, loss, injury, or liability caused by the intentional or willful or wanton...
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22-22A-4
Section 22-22A-4 Department of Environmental Management created; principal office; director; deputy director; divisions and division chiefs; transfer of functions; designation as State Environmental Control Agency, etc.; contract with Health Department for routine bacteriological analyses. (a) There is hereby created and established the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and all functions transferred to the department by this chapter. The department shall maintain its principal office in the City of Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. (b) The department shall be under the supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated as the director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The director shall be an individual knowledgeable and experienced in environmental matters. The director shall employ such officers, agents and employees as he deems...
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36-21-102
Section 36-21-102 Tuition benefits; eligibility. When a full-time law enforcement officer or full-time firefighter employed by the state, by any county, or by any municipality, a volunteer firefighter, or a rescue squad member is or was killed or becomes totally disabled in the line of duty, free tuition for undergraduate study at any state college, state community college, state junior college, state technical college, in the State of Alabama, and other costs officially prescribed for the classes in the course of study, shall be paid for the following: (1) Any dependent child, natural or adopted, under 21 years of age at the time of death or total disability of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member. (2) A spouse who has not remarried, provided initial enrollment is within five years of the death or total disability of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, volunteer firefighter, or rescue squad member. (Acts 1987, No. 87-609, p. 1058, §3; Act 99-448, p....
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