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25-5-15.1
Section 25-5-15.1 State safety program; legislative intent; creation. (a) It is the intent
of the Legislature to promote safety education, safety planning, and to provide any needed
technical assistance. (b) The Secretary of the Department of Labor shall coordinate with the
safe state program, the safety and health consulting service, to establish a safety program
for cooperating with industry to promote safety and provide technical assistance. Emphasis
shall be placed on unsafe acts in both small industry and high risk industry. (c) Qualified
safety management specialists shall be employed in the safe state program to assist employers
in developing or improving their safety programs. Safe state program personnel shall, upon
referral by the secretary of an employer's request, make inspections for safety monitoring
and report the resulting findings and recommendations to the employer and to the secretary.
(d) The safe state program shall establish and collect reasonable fees for...
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25-5-290
Section 25-5-290 Ombudsman program, creation; purpose; members; notification of service; benefit
review conferences. (a) The Department of Industrial Relations shall establish an Ombudsman
Program to assist injured or disabled employees, persons claiming death benefits, employers,
and other persons in protecting their rights and obtaining information available under the
Workers' Compensation Law. (b) Providing that the employer and the employee agree to participate
in the benefit review conference, the ombudsmen shall meet with or otherwise provide information
to injured or disabled employees, investigate complaints, and communicate with employers,
insurance carriers, and health care providers on behalf of injured or disabled employees.
(c) Ombudsmen shall be Merit System employees and demonstrate familiarity with the Workers'
Compensation Law. An ombudsman shall not be an advocate for any person who shall assist a
claimant, employer, or other person in any proceeding beyond the...
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38-12-34
Section 38-12-34 Subsidies - Authorized; eligibility. (a) Subject to rules adopted to implement
this article, the department may provide subsidies for an eligible child placed in kinship
guardianship by a court, or by a federally recognized Native American Indian tribe, if the
child would not be placed in a kinship guardianship without the assistance of the program.
(b) A child is an eligible child for a kinship guardianship subsidy if the department determines
the following: (1) The child has been removed from the custody of his or her parent or parents,
legal guardian, or legal custodian as a result of a judicial determination to the effect that
continuation in the custody of the parent or parents, legal guardian, or legal custodian would
be contrary to the welfare of the child. (2) The department is responsible for the placement
and care of the child. (3) Being returned home or being adopted are not appropriate permanent
options for the child. (4) Permanent placement with a kinship...
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9-16-125
Section 9-16-125 Reclamation program. (a) The Department of Labor, State Programs Division,
shall establish and maintain a state reclamation program for abandoned mines which complies
with Title IV of Public Law 95-87. The state reclamation program plan shall generally identify
the areas to be reclaimed, the purposes for which the reclamation is proposed, the relationship
of the lands to be reclaimed and the proposed reclamation to surrounding areas, the specific
criteria for ranking and identifying projects to be funded, and the legal authority and programmatic
capability to perform such work in conformance with the provisions of the federal act. (b)
The director shall annually submit to the secretary, an application for the support of the
state program and implementation of specific reclamation projects. Such requests shall include,
but shall not be limited to: (1) A general description of each proposed project; (2) A priority
evaluation of each proposed project; (3) A statement of...
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38-14-9
Section 38-14-9 Administration of accounts. (a) Subject to rules promulgated by the department,
a fiduciary organization has sole authority over, and responsibility for, the administration
of individual development accounts. The responsibility of the fiduciary organization extends
to all aspects of the account program, including marketing to all eligible individuals and
families, soliciting matching funds, counseling account owners, providing financial literacy
education, and conducting required verification and compliance activities. The fiduciary organization
may establish program provisions as the organization believes necessary to ensure account
owner compliance with this chapter. (b) A fiduciary organization may act in partnership with
other entities, including businesses, government agencies, corporations, nonprofit organizations,
community action programs, community development corporations, housing authorities and faith-based
entities, to assist in the fulfillment of its...
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11-96-5
Section 11-96-5 Community action program defined; components of program; administration. (a)
A community action program is a community-based and -operated program which: (1) Includes
or is designated to include a sufficient number of projects of components to provide, in sum,
a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on causes
of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly
acute problem; (2) Has been developed, and which organizes and combines its component projects
and activities, in a manner appropriate to carry out all the purposes of Sections 11-96-2
and 11-96-4; and (3) Conforms to any other supplementary criteria as may be prescribed by
federal or state laws or regulations. (b) The components of a community action program may
include programs designated to assist participants, including the elderly poor, to: (1) Secure
and retain meaningful employment; (2) Attain an adequate education; (3) Make...
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1-1-3
Section 1-1-3 "Blind person" defined; how blindness proved. (a) As used in this Code
or any statute of this state heretofore or hereafter enacted, unless the context requires
a different meaning, the term "blind person" means a natural person who has no vision
or whose vision with correcting glasses is so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary
activities for which eyesight is essential, or who has central visual acuity of 20/200 or
less in the better eye with correcting glasses, or whose central visual acuity is more than
20/200 in the better eye with correcting glasses but whose peripheral field has contracted
to such an extent that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance
no greater than 20 degrees. (b) The condition of blindness may be proved by a blind person
claiming any rights or benefits provided under any statute of this state by certificate of
a duly licensed ophthalmologist or optometrist. (c) Nothing herein contained shall prevent
the...
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22-30E-6
Section 22-30E-6 Criteria for property qualification for voluntary cleanup program. (a) In
order to be considered a qualifying property for participation in the voluntary cleanup program
established pursuant to this chapter, a property shall, unless granted a variance under subsection
(b), meet the following criteria: (1) The property must not be listed on the federal National
Priorities List pursuant to the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §9601, et seq. (2) The property must not be currently undergoing
response activities required by an order of either the department, or the regional administrator
of the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued pursuant to the provisions of the federal
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §9601, et
seq. (3) The property must not be a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility
as defined in Section 22-30E-3. (b) The department may...
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25-11-8
Section 25-11-8 Compliance with Federal Unemployment Tax Act. (a) Pursuant to Section 3304(a)(16),
Federal Unemployment Tax Act, in order for the state to be certified for tax credit, the custodian
of records is specifically authorized to do the following, notwithstanding any law to the
contrary: (1) Provide wage and unemployment compensation information to the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, in accordance with regulations promulgated by the secretary, as necessary
for the purposes of the National Directory of New Hires. (2) Provide wage information and
welfare assistance information, as provided through a state program funded under Part A of
Title IV, Social Security Act, or the Food Stamp Act of 1977, to the state or any of its political
subdivisions upon request and for the purpose of determining an individual's eligibility for
welfare assistance. The information to be provided shall be that which the Secretary of Health
and Human Services has determined in regulations as...
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2-6A-3
Section 2-6A-3 Duties of program coordinator. The commission shall employ a program coordinator
who shall be an employee of the commission but who may be on loan to the commission from any
other department of the state. The program coordinator shall be appointed by and serve at
the pleasure of the commission, and shall receive compensation set by the commission out of
funds appropriated by the Legislature to implement the program. The program coordinator shall
report to the chairman of the commission or his designee and shall coordinate the activities
and provide professional assistance with respect to all of the operations of the program.
The program coordinator shall be responsible to the commission for all funds provided by the
Legislature and through other sources for the various services to be made available to farmers
under this chapter, shall develop a system of reporting on a regular and timely basis to the
commission, shall develop training courses and seminars with the...
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