41-9-22
Section 41-9-22 Officers and employees; meetings; offices, books, etc.; powers and duties generally. (a) The commission may receive donations and contributions to carry on its work. It may establish and maintain permanent offices and rooms. It may elect an executive officer, employ other officers and employees and fix their compensation. It shall hold an annual meeting and as many special meetings as may be necessary to conduct its business. Its books shall be subject to examination by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. It shall have power to adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, as may be necessary for the execution of the powers and duties herein conferred. (b) The commission shall encourage the study of the fine and useful arts and art teaching, shall make investigations and surveys, shall adopt standards and shall do and perform such other things as will promote an interest in art in all of its relations. When called...
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9-6-8
Section 9-6-8 Powers and duties generally. The authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To maintain civil actions and have civil actions maintained against it in its corporate name, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and to defend civil actions against it; (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To amend its certificate of incorporation by filing in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate signed by all of the directors of the authority setting forth the details of the amendment, such certificate to be acknowledged in the same manner as the certificate of incorporation; (5) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (6) To...
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11-54-120
Section 11-54-120 Definitions. Wherever used in this division, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context, the following terms, whether used in the singular or plural, shall be given the following respective interpretations: (1) INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD. Any public corporation now in existence or hereafter organized pursuant to the provisions of the Industrial Development Board Act. (2) INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT. a. Act No. 648 enacted at the 1949 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama, as amended (Division 1 of this article), and b. This chapter. (3) ANCILLARY FACILITY. Any land and any building or other improvement thereon and all real and personal properties deemed necessary in connection therewith, including without limitation office facilities and any other necessary or appropriate facilities, whether or not now in existence, which shall be suitable for use by any of following or by any combination of two or more thereof: a. Any industrial...
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22-22-9
Section 22-22-9 Powers and duties; enforcement of orders; permits; civil penalties for violations. (a) It shall be the duty of the commission to control pollution in the waters of the state, and it shall specifically have the following powers: (1) To study and investigate all problems concerned with the improvement and conservation of the waters of the state; (2) To conduct, independently and in cooperation with others, studies, investigation and research and to prepare, or in cooperation with others prepare, a program or programs, any or all of which shall pertain to the purity and conservation of the waters of the state or to the treatment and disposal of pollutants or other wastes, which studies, investigations, research and program or programs shall be intended to result in the reduction of pollution of the waters of the state according to the conditions and particular circumstances existing in the various communities throughout the state; and (3) To propose remedial measures...
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29-5A-61
Section 29-5A-61 Purposes and duties. The general purposes of the Law Revision Division shall be to promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of Alabama to secure the better administration of justice and to carry on scholarly legal research and scientific legal work. To that end it shall be the duty of the division to do all of the following: (1) Consider needed improvements in both substantive and adjective law and to make recommendations concerning the same to the chairs and members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. (2) Examine and study the law of Alabama and Alabama jurisprudence and statutes with a view of discovering defects and inequities and of recommending needed reforms. (3) Receive and consider suggestions from members of the Legislature and the public generally as to defects and anachronisms in the law. (4) Recommend such changes in the law as it deems necessary to modify or eliminate antiquated and inequitable...
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45-9-170
Section 45-9-170 Regulation of junkyards; public nuisances; enforcement. (a) The regulation of the accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor vehicles, and other litter within the unincorporated areas of Chambers County, and licensing the operation of junkyards within the unincorporated areas of Chambers County is hereby declared to be in the public interest and necessary to promote the public safety, health, welfare, convenience, and enjoyment of public travel; to protect the public investment in public highways; to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands and the environment; and to promote the conservation of natural mineral resources by encouraging recycling. The Legislature finds and declares that within the unincorporated areas of Chambers County the accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor vehicles, other litter, and the operation of junkyards, any of which do not conform to the requirements of this section, are a public nuisance. (b)(1) It is unlawful...
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16-6F-7
Section 16-6F-7 Applicant proposals; conversion to public charter school; terms of charters; contracts. (a) Request for proposals. (1) To solicit, encourage, and guide the development of quality public charter school applications, every local school board, in its role as public charter school authorizer, shall issue and broadly publicize a request for proposals for public charter school applications by July 17, 2015, and by November 1 in each subsequent year. The content and dissemination of the request for proposals shall be consistent with the purposes and requirements of this act. (2) Public charter school applicants may submit a proposal for a particular public charter school to no more than one local school board at a time. (3) The department shall annually establish and disseminate a statewide timeline for charter approval or denial decisions, which shall apply to all authorizers in the state. (4) Each local school board's request for proposals shall present the board's strategic...
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28-11-2
Section 28-11-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCT. The term alternative nicotine product includes any product that consists of or contains nicotine that can be ingested into the body by chewing, smoking, absorbing, dissolving, inhaling, snorting, sniffing, or by any other means. The term does not include a tobacco product, electronic nicotine delivery system, or any product that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product or for other medical purposes and that is being marketed and sold solely for that purpose. (2) BOARD. The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. (3) CHILD-RESISTANT PACKAGING. Liquid nicotine container packaging meeting the requirements of 15 U.S.C. ยง1472a. (4) DISTRIBUTION. To sell, barter, exchange, or give tobacco or tobacco products for promotional purposes or...
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31-9C-3
Section 31-9C-3 Statewide wireless communication system; powers and duties of commission. (a) The commission may purchase, lease, acquire, or otherwise implement a statewide wireless communication system to serve first responder users in state and local governments and those private entities that enter into a partnership with the commission. The commission shall have the sole authority over, and bear full responsibility for, the design, engineering, and construction of the system and shall ensure the proper operation and maintenance of all equipment thereto, unless otherwise owned and maintained by other state or local entities. This system should enable interoperability between various wireless communication technologies. (b) The commission shall establish policies, procedures, and standards and incorporate them into a comprehensive management plan to be used for use and operation of the system. (c) In order to carry out the duties set forth in this section, the commission may: (1)...
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36-25-14
Section 36-25-14 Filing of statement of economic interests. (a) A statement of economic interests shall be completed and filed in accordance with this chapter with the commission no later than April 30 of each year covering the period of the preceding calendar year by each of the following: (1) All elected public officials at the state, county, or municipal level of government or their instrumentalities. (2) Any person appointed as a public official and any person employed as a public employee at the state, county, or municipal level of government or their instrumentalities who occupies a position whose base pay is seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) or more annually, as adjusted by the commission by January 31 of each year to reflect changes in the U.S. Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index, or a successor index. (3) All candidates, provided the statement is filed on the date the candidate files his or her qualifying papers or, in the case of an independent candidate, on the...
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