16-7-5
Section 16-7-5 Duties. The commission is organized for the purpose of making the benefits of educational television available to and promoting its use by inhabitants of Alabama, and to this end it is hereby empowered and directed to survey, study and appraise the need for an overall plan for the use of television facilities available for noncommercial educational use in the state. The commission is specifically charged with the duty of controlling and supervising the use of channels reserved by the Federal Communications Commission to Alabama for noncommercial, educational use. It may designate the location of stations to utilize such channels and make rules and regulations governing the operation of such stations and the programs televised over such channels. The commission may own and operate television stations to utilize these channels, or it may contract with individuals, corporations, educational institutions or other governmental agencies for the operation of such stations. The...
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37-6-42
Section 37-6-42 Enumerated powers. (a) Any such electric cooperative shall have power: (1) To supply telephone service in rural areas to its members, to governmental agencies and political subdivisions, to other persons, and to business entities not in excess of 40 percent of the number of its members; provided that wireless communications services, including, without limitation, services classified as of January 1, 1997, as "commercial mobile radio services" by the Federal Communications Commission, may be provided to any person, firm, corporation, governmental agency, or political subdivision within any area for which the electric cooperative is authorized to provide such wireless service under federal law or regulations, without the business entity being a member of the cooperative, regardless of whether the business entity is in excess of 40 percent of the number of its members, and, without limiting the foregoing, should a cooperative acquire any facilities in rural areas...
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24-5-13.1
Section 24-5-13.1 Commission authorized to enter into contracts with agencies dealing with federal Department of Housing and Urban Development; purpose. The commission shall be authorized to enter into contracts with any private or public agency which is under contract with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide services in the enforcement of the Uniform Standards Code. (Acts 1980, No. 80-599, p. 1014, §10.)...
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34-11-14
Section 34-11-14 Persons and acts exempt from chapter. This chapter shall not be construed to prevent or to affect any of the following: (1) The practice of any other legally recognized profession or trade. (2) The work of an engineer intern or land surveyor intern, employee, or a subordinate of any person holding a certificate of licensure under this chapter, or any employee of a person practicing lawfully under paragraph b of subdivision (1) of Section 34-11-4, provided the work does not include final engineering or land surveying designs or decisions and is done under the responsible charge of and verified by an individual holding a certificate of licensure under this chapter. (3) The practice of officers and employees of the government of the United States while engaged within this state in the practice of engineering or land surveying for the government. This exception does not extend to any engineer or land surveyor engaged in the practice of professional engineering or land...
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37-4-115
Section 37-4-115 Violations; injunctions against persons operating without license or certificate. (a) Any person or the officer, agent or employee of any organization who willfully violates any provision of this article or of any rule, regulation or order adopted thereunder, or who willfully procures, aids or abets any violation of such a provision, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Any person who offers radio service on a for-hire basis to the public in this state under such circumstances as would require a license by the federal communications commission as a miscellaneous common carrier in the domestic public land mobile radio service, without a certificate of public convenience and necessity, or after such certificate is cancelled, may be enjoined by the courts of this state from operating within this state, at the suit of the commission, or at the suit of a radio utility which competes with it, or of any person. (Acts 1971, No. 1595, p. 2733, §16.)...
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41-22-2
Section 41-22-2 Legislative intent and purpose; effect on substantive rights; applicability; rulemaking authority. (a) This chapter is intended to provide a minimum procedural code for the operation of all state agencies when they take action affecting the rights and duties of the public. Nothing in this chapter is meant to discourage agencies from adopting procedures conferring additional rights upon the public; and, save for express provisions of this act to the contrary, nothing in this chapter is meant to abrogate in whole or in part any statute prescribing procedural duties for an agency which are in addition to those provided herein. (b)(1) The purposes of the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act are to accomplish all of the following: a. Provide legislative oversight of powers and duties delegated to administrative agencies. b. Increase public accountability of administrative agencies. c. Simplify government by assuring a uniform minimum procedure to which all agencies will be...
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11-98-1
Section 11-98-1 Definitions. (a) As used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) AUTOMATIC NUMBER IDENTIFICATION. An enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of the 10-digit telephone number used to place a 911 call. The term includes pseudo-automatic number identification, which means an enhanced 911 service capability that enables identification of the subscriber. (2) CMRS. Commercial mobile radio service under Sections 3(27) and 332(d) of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. §151 et seq., and Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103-66, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 312. The term includes the term wireless and service provider by any wireless real time two-way voice communication device, including radio-telephone communications used in cellular telephone service, personal communication service, or the functional or competitive equivalent of a...
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37-2A-5
Section 37-2A-5 Process for election. (a) An incumbent local exchange carrier, local exchange carrier, or inter-exchange carrier shall be deemed to have elected to be regulated under this chapter unless the carrier files written notice with the commission declining regulation under this chapter not later than August 31, 2005; provided, however, that, any other provision of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, so long as (i) application of any of the requirements of 47 U.S.C. 251 (b) or (c) shall have been suspended or modified with respect to an incumbent local exchange carrier pursuant to the provisions of 47 U.S.C. 251 (f) (2), or (ii) an incumbent local exchange carrier shall be exempt from the obligations of 47 U.S.C. 251 (c) pursuant to the provisions of 47 U.S.C. 251 (f) (1) (A), such incumbent local exchange carrier shall not be eligible to elect and shall not be deemed to have elected to be regulated under this chapter unless the incumbent local exchange carrier files...
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37-1-16
Section 37-1-16 Assignment of Assistant Attorney General to represent consumers and state in proceedings before commission; powers and duties of Attorney General in connection with public utility services generally; commission to furnish copies of applications, pleadings, etc., filed with it to Attorney General. (a) In addition to such staff assistants and investigators as are provided for in Sections 37-1-12.1 and 37-1-12.2, the Attorney General shall assign an Assistant Attorney General and such staff attorneys as may be necessary to the handling of matters and proceedings before the commission, who shall be under the direction of the Attorney General. Such Assistant Attorney General shall be assigned the duty and responsibility, when the Attorney General deems it to be advisable in the public interest, of intervening in proceedings before the commission on behalf of the using and consuming public, including utility users generally and agencies of the state, such appearances...
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45-10-260.05
Section 45-10-260.05 Certification, safety, and setback requirements. (a) The safety of the design of all conversion system towers shall be certified by a licensed engineer with prior experience with wind energy conversion systems. The standard for certification shall be good engineering practices, including the requirement that the systems comply with all building and electrical codes in this state. (b) A wind energy conversion system shall be equipped with manual and automatic overspeed controls to limit rotation of blades to a speed below the designed limits of the conversion system. A licensed engineer shall certify that the rotor and overspeed control design and fabrication conforms with good engineering practices. Any changes or alterations from the certified design shall not be permitted unless accompanied by a licensed engineer's statement of certification. (c) All electrical compartments, storage facilities, wire conduit and interconnections with utility companies shall...
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