40-9-34
Section 40-9-34 Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology. (a) The following is hereby found and declared by the Legislature of Alabama: (1) The lack of content in natural and bio-science education offered to students in kindergarten through high school is a nationwide problem. (2) Such lack in curricular offerings to students will be detrimental in the long-term to the economy of the state and the welfare of the citizens during the scientific revolution now engulfing the world. (3) The biotechnology institute can provide to education leaders of the distance learning program of the state cutting edge biotechnology curriculum recommendations and content for Alabama high schools, by providing information about cutting edge biotechnology curriculum and content to students in kindergarten through high school pursuant to the distance learning program of the state, the state course of study, and state textbooks. (4) By educating Alabama high school students in the field of biotechnology, such...
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16-3-35
Section 16-3-35 Contracts with Tuskegee Institute and Meharry Medical College for education of Alabama students. (a) The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to contract with the Tuskegee Institute for educational services for Alabama students including the following: (1) Veterinary medicine; (2) Engineering; (3) Vocational agriculture; (4) Vocational home economics; (5) Chemistry; (6) Nursing education; and (7) Such other educational services which in the opinion of the board of education are in great enough demand to justify a contract. (b) The state board is authorized to allocate to Tuskegee Institute any appropriation or any part of any appropriation to the State Board of Education for Tuskegee Institute. (c) The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to contract with Meharry Medical College or the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education for medical and dental education of Alabama students in said college out of any appropriation that may be made available...
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21-1-24
Section 21-1-24 Textbooks and instructional materials other than prescribed by State Board of Education. The Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, upon the recommendation of the president, may select and adopt for use in the tax-supported public elementary and high school programs at the institute, textbooks and instructional materials, other than prescribed by the State Board of Education, which are suitable for the needs of deaf and blind students. Whenever textbooks and instructional materials are substituted for the state-approved or state-adopted books and materials, such books or materials shall be used by the teachers in the institute public school programs in teaching any course or courses for which a substitution has been made. Provided, however, such Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind shall provide free textbooks to all grades which would be provided under the terms of subsection (c) of Section 16-36-65. (Acts 1983, 4th Ex....
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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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22-56-4
Section 22-56-4 Rights. (a) Consumers of mental health services have the same general rights as other citizens of Alabama. These rights include but are not limited to the following: (1) The right to exercise rights as a citizen of the United States and the State of Alabama. (2) The right to be served through general services available to all citizens. (3) The right to choose to live, work, be educated, and recreate with persons who do not have disabilities. (4) The right to be presumed competent until a court of competent jurisdiction, abiding by statutory and constitutional provisions, determines otherwise. (5) The right to vote and otherwise participate in the political process. (6) The right to free exercise of religion. (7) The right to own and possess real and personal property. Nothing in this section shall affect existing laws pertaining to conveyance of real or personal property. (8) The right to make contracts. (9) The right to obtain a driver's license on the same basis as...
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45-42-243
Section 45-42-243 Levy of taxes paralleling state taxes. (a) In Limestone County there is hereby levied, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, and shall be collected as herein provided, special county privilege or license taxes and excise taxes paralleling, with like provisions in the county, such state taxes as are levied by the State of Alabama by Act 100, 1959 Second Special Session (Acts 1959, p. 298), and Article 11 of Chapter 20 of Title 51 of the Code of Alabama of 1940, as the article had been last amended on September 1, 1959, and as it existed on that date, in an amount equal to 33 and one-third percent of the state levy, as follows: (1) A privilege or license tax against the person on account of the business activities and in the amount to be determined by the application of rates against the gross sales, or gross receipts, as the case may be, as follows: a. Upon every person, firm, or corporation (not including the State of Alabama or the Alabama...
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40-23-24
Section 40-23-24 Itinerant vendors to file bond. For the purpose of securing the payment of any tax, penalties or interest due or which may become due under the provisions of this division, every itinerant vendor engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail in this state is required to file a bond with the Department of Revenue, conditioned upon the payment of any tax, penalty or interest due or to become due under this division and upon faithful observance of the provisions of the division. Such bond shall be effective for a period of one year from date of issuance and shall be fixed by the department in an amount equal to the tax estimated due or to become due under the provisions of this division, but not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, and shall have a surety or sureties satisfactory to the department. It shall be filed with the department within 10 days after notice in writing has been issued by the commissioner or any person designated by him in...
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40-18-15.5
Section 40-18-15.5 Deductions for certain retrofitting or upgrades to homes - Residence in Alabama. (a) Any individual taxpayer, whose legal residence is located in Alabama, shall be allowed a deduction from taxable income, regardless of whether the taxpayer itemizes his or her income tax deductions, in calculating the income tax imposed pursuant to Section 40-18-5, for certain retrofit costs as described in this section. The deduction shall be allowed for the costs incurred to retrofit a structure qualifying as the legal residence of the taxpayer to make the structure more resistant to loss due to hurricane, tornado, other catastrophic windstorm event, or rising floodwaters. (b) In order to qualify for the state income tax deduction allowed pursuant to this section, costs may include ordinary repair, replacement, and upgrades to existing residential property and new construction so long as the repair, replacement, and upgrades are designed to resist loss associated with any windstorm...
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9-9-40
Section 9-9-40 Bonds - Remedies and proceedings upon default. (a) If any installment of principal and interest evidenced by any bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall not be paid at the time and in the manner when the same shall become due and payable, the same shall bear interest at the rate of eight percent per annum until paid, and if such default shall continue for a period of 60 days, the holder or holders of such bond or bonds upon which default has been made may have a right of action against said water management district wherein the court may issue a writ of mandamus against the officers of said district, including the tax collector, directing the levying of a sufficient tax as provided in this article and the collection of same in such sum as may be necessary to meet any unpaid installments of principal and interest and costs of suit and such other remedies are hereby vested in the holder or holders of such bond or bonds in default as may be authorized by...
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16-13-234
Section 16-13-234 Allocation of funds. (a) In making apportionment of the Public School Fund held by the state, to the local boards of education, the State Superintendent of Education shall first set apart and distribute to the schools of each township the amount due from the state thereto as interest on its sixteenth section fund, or other trust fund held by the state. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure that no local board of education receive less state funds per pupil than it received in fiscal year 1994-95. For this reason the Foundation Program for each local board of education shall be supplemented, if necessary, by a hold harmless allowance. The base amount of each local board's hold harmless allowance calculation is the 1994-95 program cost as defined herein. The 1994-95 program cost of each local board of education was determined by using the first forty scholastic days of average daily membership from 1993-94. Beginning with the fiscal year 1995-96, the hold...
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