2-6-71
Section 2-6-71 Declaration of purpose and legislative findings. The Legislature has found and determined and does hereby declare that in certain areas of this state, there are inadequate market facilities available to Alabama farmers for the efficient handling and sale of agricultural and agriculture related products. The Legislature has also found and determined, and does hereby declare that the coliseum is in dire need of repair and is in such poor condition as to limit its use by the public. It is the intent of the Legislature, by the passage of this article, to authorize the incorporation of a public corporation as an instrumentality of the state for the purpose of borrowing funds to finance the construction of an adequate market facility and the renovation of the coliseum and to vest said corporation with all powers, rights, privileges and titles that may be necessary to accomplish said purposes. This article shall be liberally construed in conformity with said intent. (Acts 1984,...
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2-8-270
Section 2-8-270 Legislative purpose and intent. It is hereby declared to be in the interest of the public welfare that producers of catfish shall be authorized and encouraged to act jointly and in cooperation with handlers, dealers, processors and distributors of catfish feed and with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and with the State Board of Agriculture and Industries in promoting and stimulating, by research, education, advertising and other methods, the increased and efficient production, distribution, use and sale of catfish and catfish products, and it is the intent and purpose of this article to authorize and provide a method and procedure for a promotional program for the catfish industry and the financing thereof pursuant to powers conferred upon the Legislature by Amendment 327 to the Alabama Constitution of 1901. (Acts 1987, No. 87-587, p. 961, ยง1.)...
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2-6-70
Section 2-6-70 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) AGRICULTURAL CENTER BOARD. The board of that name established pursuant to Article 2 of this chapter. (2) AGRICULTURAL FUND. The fund of that name created and administered pursuant to Article 1, Chapter 9, Title 2. (3) BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES. The Alabama Board of Agriculture and Industries created pursuant to Section 2-3-1. (4) BUILDING COMMISSION. The Building Commission created under Article 6, Chapter 9, Title 41, and any successor agency thereto. (5) COLISEUM. The existing Garrett Coliseum and the grounds and other buildings and structures associated therewith, all owned by the Agricultural Center Board and located in the City of Montgomery, Alabama. (6) CORPORATION. The public corporation authorized to be created by this article. (7) ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS. (i) Any time deposit with, or any certificate of deposit...
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45-17-90.40
Section 45-17-90.40 Definitions. For the purposes of this subpart, the following terms shall have the respective meaning ascribed by this section: (1) AUTHORIZED MUNICIPALITIES. The Cities of Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Muscle Shoals, Cherokee, Littleville, Leighton, and Florence. (2) COUNTY. Colbert County which is authorized to levy excise taxes pursuant to the provisions of this subpart. (3) GASOLINE. Gasoline, naphtha and other liquid motor fuels or any device or substitute therefor commonly used in internal combustion engines; provided, that such term shall not be held to apply to those products known commercially as "kerosene oil," "fuel oil," or "crude oil" when used for lighting, heating, or industrial purposes. (4) LOCAL PUBLIC CORPORATION. A public corporation incorporated in either Colbert County or Lauderdale County pursuant to Chapter 99B of Title 11, Article 9, commencing with Section 11-47-210, of Chapter 47 of Title 11, or any other public corporation organized under the laws...
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16-1-20.3
Section 16-1-20.3 Student-initiated voluntary prayer. (a) The legislative intent and purpose for this section is to protect the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to define for the citizens of Alabama the rights and privileges that are accorded them on public school and other public property and at school-related events, and to provide guidance to public school officials on the rights and requirements of law they must apply. Further, the intent and purpose of the Legislature is to properly accommodate the free exercise of religious rights of its student citizens in the public schools and at public school events as mandated by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the judicial interpretations thereof as given by the United States Supreme Court. (b) On public school, other public, or other property, non-sectarian, non-proselytizing student-initiated...
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2-11-75
Section 2-11-75 Compulsory inspection and labeling in certain areas. When the State Board of Agriculture and Industries determines that a better grade and quality of fresh fruits and vegetables will be produced in any area in the State of Alabama by requiring that such fresh fruits and vegetables be inspected in order that an official grade may be marked upon containers, labels or tags of containers in which fresh fruits and vegetables are packed, the State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have authority to require that fresh fruits and vegetables moved or transported from such area in containers shall be inspected prior to movement or shipment and the grade thereof properly marked or imprinted upon such containers. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to require inspection, grading and labeling of any of the agricultural products defined in this article as fresh fruits and vegetables prior to shipment from the area in the State of Alabama...
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22-32-1
Section 22-32-1 Enactment of Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHEAST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT Article I. Policy and Purpose There is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party states recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most...
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6-5-710
Section 6-5-710 Definitions. For purposes of this article the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) AWARDING AUTHORITY. a. The Alabama Department of Transportation, if the project is either for, or is funded in whole or in part by, the State of Alabama to construct, repair, resurface, refurbish, replace, remove, modify, alter, or otherwise improve any public or private infrastructure, including any public-private partnership project, for which construction monitoring services are contracted. b. A county, city, town, or municipality that appropriates public funds for the construction, repair, resurfacing, refurbishment, replacement, removal, modification, alteration, or other improvement of any public or private infrastructure, including any public-private partnership project, for which construction monitoring services are contracted. c. All other state, county, or municipal boards, bodies, commissions, agencies, departments, institutions, and instrumentalities, and...
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2-3A-2
Section 2-3A-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this article, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) AFFILIATE. With respect to any lender, any person, firm or corporation controlled by, or under common control with, such lender, and any person, firm or corporation controlling such lender. (2) AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS. Farming, ranching, the production of agricultural commodities (including, without limitation, the products of aquaculture and silvaculture) or the treating, processing, storing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution or exporting of agricultural commodities; provided, however, that such term shall not include any operation the principal purpose of which is the selling at retail of agricultural commodities or related products; provided, further, that costs of agricultural operations shall specifically include, but...
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36-30-1
Section 36-30-1 Definitions; dependents; persons eligible for compensation. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AWARDING AUTHORITY. The State Board of Adjustment, created and existing pursuant to Article 4, Chapter 9 of Title 41. (2) COMPENSATION. The money benefits paid on account of injury or death which occurred during the course of employment or activity as a peace officer or firefighter and is in the nature of workers' compensation. (3) DEPENDENT CHILD. An unmarried child under the age of 18 years, or one over the age of 18 who is physically or mentally incapacitated from earning. (4) DIRECT AND PROXIMATE RESULT OF A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE. Death resulting from a heart attack or stroke caused by engaging or participating in a situation while on duty involving nonroutine stressful or strenuous physical law enforcement, fire suppression, rescue, hazardous material response, emergency medical service, prison...
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