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38-7-4
Section 38-7-4 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Application; investigation;
application to operate foster family home may be made to licensed child-placing agency. Any
person, group of persons or corporation who or which receives children or arranges for care
or placement of one or more children unrelated to the operator shall apply for a license or
for approval to operate one of the types of child-care facilities defined in this chapter.
Application for such license or approval to operate a child-care facility shall be made to
the department in the manner and on forms prescribed by it. The department, upon receiving
such application, shall examine the premises of the child-care facility, including buildings,
equipment, furnishings and appliances thereof and shall investigate the persons responsible
for the care of children therein. If, upon such examination of the facility and investigation
of the persons responsible for care of children, the department is satisfied...
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22-11A-68
Section 22-11A-68 Immunity from liability for those involved in investigation. (a) Members
and staff of the State Board of Health, the State Committee of Public Health, the Board of
Medical Examiners, the Medical Licensure Commission, the Board of Nursing, the Board of Dental
Examiners, the Board of Podiatry, physicians, hospitals, other health care facilities, and
other entities and persons required to report or furnish information under this article and
any expert review panels, consultants to any expert review panel, and agents and employees
of the Alabama Department of Public Health shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability
for making reports or furnishing any information required by this article or for actions taken
or actions not taken in the line and scope of official or required duties during their investigations,
hearings, rulings, and decisions. (b) All information collected during the investigation of
an infected health care worker is privileged and shall be...
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22-15A-6
Section 22-15A-6 Designation of smoking areas; requirements; nonsmoking policies. (a) Pursuant
to this section, the person in charge of a public place may designate an area for the use
of smokers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a smoking area may not be designated and no person
may smoke in any of the following unless the area is enclosed and well ventilated: (1) Child
care facilities. (2) Hospitals, health care clinics, doctors' offices, physical therapy facilities,
and dentists' offices. (3) Elevators. (4) Buses, taxicabs, and other means of public conveyance.
(5) Government buildings, except private offices. (6) Restrooms. (7) Service lines. (8) Public
areas of aquariums, galleries, libraries, and museums. (9) Lobbies, hallways, and other common
areas in apartment buildings, senior citizen residences, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit
residential facilities. (10) Polling places. (11) Schools or other school facilities or enclosed
school sponsored events for grades K-12. (12)...
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22-21-261
Section 22-21-261 Legislative findings; purpose of article. The Legislature of the State of
Alabama declares that it is the public policy of the State of Alabama that a certificate of
need program be administered in the state to assure that only those health care services and
facilities found to be in the public interest shall be offered or developed in the state.
It is the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this article to prevent the construction
of unnecessary and inappropriate health care facilities through a system of mandatory reviews
of new institutional health services, as the same are defined in this article. (Acts 1977,
1st Ex. Sess., No. 82, p. 1509, §1; Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-770, p. 249, §2.)...
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12-23A-6
Section 12-23A-6 Assessments and recommendations; treatment services. (a) As part of the assessment,
each jurisdiction shall establish a system to ensure that drug offenders are placed into a
substance abuse treatment program approved by the Department of Mental Health. To accomplish
this, the entity conducting the assessment should make specific recommendations to the drug
court team regarding the level of treatment program and duration necessary so that the individualized
needs of a drug offender may be addressed. These assessments and resulting recommendations
shall be performed by a certified or licensed alcohol and drug professional in accordance
with the criteria certified by the Department of Mental Health, Substance Abuse Services Division.
Treatment recommendations accepted by the court, pursuant to this chapter, shall be deemed
to be reasonable and necessary. (b) An adequate continuum of care for drug offenders shall
be established in response to this chapter. (c) The drug...
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22-11D-6
Section 22-11D-6 Statewide registries. (a) The department shall establish a statewide trauma
registry and may establish other registries to collect and analyze data on the incidence,
severity, and causes of trauma, including traumatic brain injury and other health care illnesses,
such as stroke. The registries shall be used to improve the availability and delivery of pre-hospital
or out-of-hospital care and hospital trauma or other health care services. Specific data elements
of the registries shall be defined by rule of the department. Every health care facility that
is designated by the department as a trauma or health care center shall furnish data to the
registries. All other health care facilities shall furnish trauma or other health data as
required by rule of the department. (b) All data collected pursuant to this section shall
be held confidential pursuant to state and federal laws, rules, and policies. (Act 2007-299,
p. 541, §6; Act 2012-526, p. 1556, §1.)...
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22-13A-4
Section 22-13A-4 Establishment and promotion of program; duties of officer; strategies for
raising public awareness and educating consumers and professionals. (a) The State Department
of Health, hereinafter referred to as "the department," shall establish, promote,
and maintain an osteoporosis prevention and treatment education program in order to raise
public awareness, educate consumers, educate and train health professionals, teachers, and
human service providers, and for other purposes. (b) For purposes of administering this chapter,
the State Health Officer shall do all of the following: (1) Provide sufficient staff to implement
the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Program. (2) Provide appropriate training
for staff of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Program. (3) Identify the
appropriate entities to carry out the program. (4) Base the program on the most up-to-date
scientific information and findings. (5) Work to improve the capacity of...
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22-21-330
Section 22-21-330 Lease agreements with authorizing subdivision; terms; renewal options; special
pledge as security for payment of rental, etc.; use of vacant space. (a) Each authority and
any authorizing subdivision are hereby respectively authorized to enter into one or more lease
agreements with each other whereunder any health care facilities situated within (or within
10 miles of) such authorizing subdivision or any part thereof shall be leased by the authority
to such authorizing subdivision, but if and only if such authorizing subdivision is then permitted
by law to operate such health care facilities, to issue its bonds, warrants, notes or other
securities therefor and to pledge for the benefit of any such securities its full faith and
credit. No such lease agreement shall be for a term longer than the then current fiscal year
in which it is made. Any such lease agreement may, however, contain a grant to such authorizing
subdivision of successive options to renew such lease...
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22-21-41
Section 22-21-41 Duties of State Board of Health. When the State Board of Health receives submittals
of plans, drawings, and specifications for the construction, addition to, or alteration of
health care facilities for the purposes of review and approval, the State Board of Health
shall make reviews of submitted plans, drawings, and specifications and inspections or investigations
of the construction as it deems necessary. In addition, the State Board of Health shall make
a final inspection of the submitted project at the appropriate time. The State Board of Health
shall prescribe by rule the procedure for a licensee, applicant, or submitter to pay fees
required by this article and to submit plans, drawings, and specifications to the State Board
of Health for preliminary review or inspection and approval or recommendation with respect
to compliance with rules of the State Board of Health. In exchange for fees included in the
fee schedule provided herein, the State Board of Health shall...
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22-2A-2
Section 22-2A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) MULTI-STATE POOLING INITIATIVE. A group of two or more states working together
to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals purchased or paid for by those states. (2) PHARMACEUTICAL
or DRUG. Any medicinal substance, preparation, or device recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia
and National Formulary, or any revision thereof, and any substance and preparation intended
for external and internal use in the cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention
of disease in humans, and any substance and preparation other than food intended to affect
the structure or any function of the human body. (3) PHARMACEUTICAL PROGRAM. A program administered
by the Department of Mental Health, Department of Corrections, Department of Public Health,
Department of Youth Services, or the Department of Rehabilitation Services, pursuant to which
pharmaceuticals are purchased for use by clients....
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