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15-23-60
Section 15-23-60 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) ACCUSED. A person who has been arrested for committing a criminal offense and
who is held for an initial appearance or other proceeding before trial. (2) APPELLATE PROCEEDING.
An oral argument held in open court before the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, the Supreme
Court of Alabama, a federal court of appeals, or the United States Supreme Court. (3) ARREST.
The actual custodial restraint of a person or his or her submission to custody. (4) COMMUNITY
STATUS. Extension of the limits of the places of confinement of a prisoner through work release,
supervised intensive restitution (SIR), and initial consideration of pre-discretionary leave,
passes, and furloughs. (5) COURT. All state courts including juvenile courts. (6) CRIME VICTIM
ADVOCATE. A person who is employed or authorized by a public entity or a private entity that
receives public funding primarily to provide...
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38-7-7
Section 38-7-7 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Department to establish
minimum standards for licensing; factors to be considered; children in need of special treatment;
department to offer consultation. (a) The department shall prescribe and publish minimum standards
for licensing and for approving all child-care facilities, as defined in this chapter. In
establishing such standards the department shall seek the advice and assistance of persons
representative of the various types of child-care facilities. The standards prescribed and
published under this chapter shall include regulations pertaining to: (1) The operation and
conduct of the child-care facility and the responsibility it assumes for child care; (2) The
character, suitability and qualifications of the applicant and other persons directly responsible
for the care and welfare of children served; (3) The general financial ability and competence
of the applicant to provide necessary care for children and to...
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6-5-543
Section 6-5-543 Damages against health care provider to be itemized; future damages over $150,000
to be paid by periodic payments over period of years; judgment to specify payment terms; requirement
to post security or provide evidence of insurance; future damages not to be reduced to present
value; attorney's fees; termination of periodic payments; contempt of court upon continuing
pattern of failure to make payments; modification of judgment; legislative intent. (a) In
any action for injury or damages whether in contract or in tort against a health care provider
based on a breach of the standard of care the damages assessed by the trier of fact shall
be itemized as follows: (1) Past damages, (2) Future damages, (3) Punitive damages. The trier
of fact shall not reduce any future damages to present value. If the trial court determines
that any one or more of the above categories is not recoverable in the action, that category
or categories shall be omitted from the itemization. (b)...
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12-15-319
Section 12-15-319 Grounds for termination of parental rights; factors considered; presumption
arising from abandonment. (a) If the juvenile court finds from clear and convincing evidence,
competent, material, and relevant in nature, that the parents of a child are unable or unwilling
to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child, or that the conduct or condition
of the parents renders them unable to properly care for the child and that the conduct or
condition is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, it may terminate the parental rights
of the parents. In a hearing on a petition for termination of parental rights, the court shall
consider the best interests of the child. In determining whether or not the parents are unable
or unwilling to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child and to terminate the
parental rights, the juvenile court shall consider the following factors including, but not
limited to, the following: (1) That the parents have abandoned...
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22-10A-2
Section 22-10A-2 Diagnostic facilities, genetic counseling and prenatal testing for genetic
disorders at University of Alabama in Birmingham and University of South Alabama. (a) The
University of Alabama in Birmingham, through its laboratory of medical genetics, and the University
of South Alabama shall expand their respective medical genetics programs to provide diagnostic
facilities, genetic counseling and prenatal testing for genetic disorders. (b) Each shall:
(1) Develop an education program designed to educate physicians and the public concerning
genetic disorders and the availability of this program. (2) Assure that genetic counseling
is available to those Alabama families who need it. This will include those families who have
a member with a birth defect, mental retardation, or other handicapping disorder due to genetic
factors as well as families identified by screening to be at increased risk for having a child
with one of these problems. (3) Formulate a graduated fee...
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26-16-6
Section 26-16-6 Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board - Duties and functions of board and
department. (a) The state board shall do all of the following: (1) Meet not less than twice
annually at the times prescribed in Section 26-16-5(a). (2) Transmit to the Governor a list
of individuals recommended to fill the position of director. (b) The department, with the
approval of the state board, shall do all of the following: (1) Annually develop a state plan
for the distribution of funds from the trust fund. The plan shall assure that an equal opportunity
exists for establishment of prevention programs and receipt of trust fund money among all
geographic areas in this state. The plan shall be transmitted to the Speaker of the House,
the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, to the Governor, and to the Government Finance and
Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, or its successor, and the Committee
on Finance and Taxation General Fund of the Senate, or its successor. (2)...
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27-44-8
Section 27-44-8 Powers and duties of association. (a) If a member insurer is an impaired insurer,
the association may, in its discretion and subject to any conditions imposed by the association
that do not impair the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer, and that are approved
by the commissioner: (1) Guarantee or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, or reinsured,
any or all of the covered policies of the impaired insurers. (2) Provide such moneys, pledges,
notes, guarantees, or other means as are proper to effectuate subdivision (1), and assure
payment of the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer pending action under subdivision
(1). (b) If a member insurer is an insolvent insurer, the association shall, in its discretion
and subject to the approval of the commissioner, do either of the following: (1)a. Guarantee,
assume, or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, or reinsured, the covered policies
of the insolvent insurer. b. Assure payment of the...
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30-3-135
Section 30-3-135 Visitation by parent who committed violence. (a) A court may award visitation
by a parent who committed domestic or family violence only if the court finds that adequate
provision for the safety of the child and the parent who is a victim of domestic or family
violence can be made. (b) In a visitation order, a court may take any of the following actions:
(1) Order an exchange of the child to occur in a protected setting. (2) Order visitation supervised
in a manner to be determined by the court. (3) Order the perpetrator of domestic or family
violence to attend and complete to the satisfaction of the court, a program of intervention
for perpetrators or other designated counseling as a condition of visitation. (4) Order the
perpetrator of domestic or family violence to abstain from possession or consumption of alcohol
or controlled substances during the visitation and for 24 hours preceding the visitation.
(5) Order the perpetrator of domestic or family violence to pay a...
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38-13-4
Section 38-13-4 Mandatory criminal history check notice; suitability determinations; checks
on subsequent activity. (a) Every employer, child care facility, adult care facility, the
Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency required to obtain a criminal history
background information check pursuant to this chapter shall obtain, prior to or upon the date
of employment, or issuance of a license or approval or renewal thereof, and maintain in the
agency or personnel file, a request with written consent for the criminal history background
information check and a statement signed by the applicant, volunteer, or employee indicating
whether he or she has ever been convicted of a crime, and if so, fully disclosing all convictions.
The statement shall include a notice and questionnaire the same as or similar to the following:
(1) MANDATORY CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK NOTICE: Alabama law requires that a criminal history
background information check be conducted on all persons who hold a...
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38-4-1
Section 38-4-1 Persons to whom public assistance payable. (a) Generally. - Public assistance
shall be payable under this chapter to or on behalf of any person who is a needy blind person
within the requirements of this chapter, or is a needy person over the age of 65 years within
the requirements of this chapter, or is a dependent child within the requirements of this
chapter, or who is permanently and totally disabled within the requirements of this chapter.
No public assistance shall be payable under this chapter to or on behalf of any person who
is an inmate of a public institution; except, that such assistance may be payable to or on
behalf of persons who are patients in public institutions where such payments are matchable
under provisions of the Federal Social Security Act; provided, that the state department shall
not grant assistance to inmates of any institution, whether public or private, unless that
institution conforms to requirements under the provisions of the Federal...
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