38-12-1
Section 38-12-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. State Department of Human Resources. (2) FOSTER PARENT. Any person with whom a child in the care, custody, or guardianship of the department, is placed for temporary or long-term care, but shall not include any person with whom a child is placed for the purpose of adoption. (Act 99-437, p. 864, §1.)...
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38-12-2
Section 38-12-2 Program established. (a) There is established a Kinship Foster Care Program in the State Department of Human Resources. (b) When a child has been removed from his or her home and is in the care, custody, or guardianship of the department, the department shall attempt to place the child with a relative for kinship foster care. If the relative is approved by the department to provide foster care services, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the department regarding foster care services, and a placement with the relative is made, the relative may receive payment for the full foster care rate only as provided by federal law for the care of the child and any other benefits that might be available to foster parents, whether in money or in services. Foster care payments shall cease upon the effective date of the kinship subsidiary payments or as provided by the department. (c) The department shall establish standards for becoming a kinship foster parent as...
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12-15-134
Section 12-15-134 Maintenance and inspection of law enforcement records. (a) Law enforcement agencies shall take special precautions to ensure that law enforcement records and files concerning a child will be maintained in a manner and pursuant to those safeguards that will protect against disclosure to any unauthorized person, department, agency, or entity. Unless a charge of delinquency is transferred for criminal prosecution pursuant to Section 12-15-203 or the juvenile court otherwise orders in the interests of the child or of national security, the law enforcement records and files with respect to the child shall not be open to public inspection nor their contents disclosed to the public. (b) Law enforcement records and files described in subsection (a) shall be open to inspection and copying by the following: (1) A juvenile court having a child currently before it in any proceeding. (2) Personnel of the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Youth Services, public and...
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12-15-215
Section 12-15-215 Disposition of delinquent children or children in need of supervision generally. (a) If the juvenile court finds on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, based upon competent, material, and relevant evidence, that a child committed the acts by reason of which the child is alleged to be delinquent or in need of supervision, it may proceed immediately to hear evidence as to whether the child is in need of care or rehabilitation and to file its findings thereon. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a finding that the child has committed an act which constitutes a felony is sufficient to sustain a finding that the child is in need of care or rehabilitation. If the juvenile court finds that the child is not in need of care or rehabilitation, it shall dismiss the proceedings and discharge the child from any detention or other temporary care theretofore ordered. If the juvenile court finds that the child is in need of care or rehabilitation, it may make any of the...
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12-15-409
Section 12-15-409 Role of attorney as advocate; designation of facilities. (a) An attorney representing the state, any county, or municipality or the Department of Youth Services or the Department of Human Resources or an attorney representing the person or persons filing a petition to have a minor or child committed may serve as the advocate in support of the petition to commit in all matters regarding the petition. (b) At the final hearing upon a petition seeking to commit a minor or child to the custody of the department on the basis that the minor or child is mentally ill, the juvenile court may grant the petition if clear and convincing evidence proves all of the following: (1) That the minor or child sought to be committed is mentally ill. (2) That, as a consequence of the mental illness, the minor or child poses a real and present threat of substantial harm to himself, herself, or to others. (3) That the threat of substantial harm has been evidenced by a recent overt act. (4)...
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2-17A-3
Section 2-17A-3 Contracts for inspection services by Department of Agriculture and Industries; fees for inspection services. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is authorized and empowered to enter into agreements of contract with any person, firm, corporation or association on terms mutually agreeable with the parties thereto whereby the Department of Agriculture and Industries shall provide qualified personnel to perform rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products inspection in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be adopted under authority of this chapter. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, under authority of contracts for inspection work as authorized in this section, is empowered to charge and collect fees for inspection services to be performed, which fees shall be in the nature of a contribution to defray the cost of such services. All amounts collected as inspection fees shall be...
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22-21-29
Section 22-21-29 Inspections. (a) Every hospital licensed under this article shall be open to inspection to the extent authorized in this section by employees and agents of the State Board of Health, under rules as shall be promulgated by the board with the advice and consent of the advisory board. Employees and agents of the board shall also inspect unlicensed and suspected unlicensed facilities. Nothing in this section shall authorize the board to inspect quarters therein occupied by members of any religious group or nurses engaged in work in any hospital or places of refuge for members of religious orders for whom care is provided, but any inspection shall be limited and confined to the parts and portions of the hospital as are used for the care and treatment of the patients and the general facilities for their care and treatment. No hospital shall, by reason of this section, be relieved from any other types of inspections authorized by law. (b) All inspections undertaken by the...
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26-10-22
Section 26-10-22 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates otherwise: (1) ADOPTION SUBSIDY. A money payment, services, deferred payment, or any combination thereof that is provided to a child with special needs or circumstances after submission of an application to the department. (2) AGENCY. The department or a child welfare agency which is authorized in its license issued by the department to place children for adoption. (3) APPLICATION. The submission to the department of a complete application as defined by the department with documentation of the child's special needs. (4) CHILD. An individual under 19 years of age, or an individual 19 or 20 years of age and eligible for Title IV-E Federal Funding, who is: a. in the care or custody, or both, of the department, or a public or voluntary licensed child-placing agency, b. legally free for adoption and c. in special need or circumstances because he or she is...
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26-10D-3
Section 26-10D-3 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ADVERSE ACTION. With respect to a child placing agency, any action that materially alters the license under a state program, including any of the following: a. Taking an enforcement action against the entity. b. Refusing to issue a license. c. Refusing to renew a license. d. Revoking a license. e. Suspending a license (2) CHILD PLACING AGENCY. A private child-care facility which receives no federal or state funds and which receives, places, or arranges for the placement of any child or children in adoptive or foster family homes apart from the custody of the child's or children's parents, in accordance with the Alabama Child Care Act of 1971, Chapter 7, Title 38. (3) CHILD PLACEMENT SERVICE. The placement of any child or children for adoption in an adoptive home or in a foster home, apart from the custody of the child's or children's parents. (Act 2017-213, §3.)...
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27-21B-10
Section 27-21B-10 Enforcement of health care coverage for certain employers. (a) In any case in which a noncustodial parent is required by a court or administrative order to provide health care coverage for such child and the employer of the noncustodial parent is known to the Department of Human Resources, the department shall use the federally required medical support notice to provide notice to the employer of the requirement for employer-based health care coverage for the child through the parent of the child who has been ordered to provide health care coverage for the child unless a court or administrative order stipulates that alternative health care coverage to employer-based coverage is to be provided for a child subject to a Title IV-D child support order. In the case of an employer entered in the directory of new hires pursuant to Section 25-11-5, the department shall send the federal medical support notice to any employer of a noncustodial parent subject to the order within...
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