16-40A-1
Section 16-40A-1 Legislative findings; purpose of chapter. (a) The Legislature finds that: (1) Pregnancy and childbirth among unmarried adolescents, particularly young adolescents, often results in severe adverse health, social, and economic consequences, including: a higher percentage of pregnancy and childbirth complications; a higher incidence of low birth weight babies; a higher frequency of developmental disabilities; higher infant mortality and morbidity; a decreased likelihood of completing school; a greater likelihood that an adolescent marriage will end in divorce; and higher risks of unemployment and welfare dependency. (2) Drug and alcohol abuse diminish the strength and vitality of the young people of our nation and state; an increasing number of substances, both legal and illegal, are being abused by increasing numbers of school children, even at the grade school level; abuse of any substance causes human behavior that influences many forces, including school, family,...
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31-11-2
Section 31-11-2 National Guard Mutual Assistance Counter-Drug Activities Compact. The National Guard Mutual Assistance Counter-Drug Activities Compact is enacted into law and entered with all other jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: NATIONAL GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES COMPACT ARTICLE I As used in this compact, the following words shall have the following meanings: 1. DEMAND REDUCTION. Providing available National Guard personnel, equipment, support, and coordination to federal, state, local and civil organizations, institutions, and agencies for the purposes of the prevention of drug abuse and the reduction in the demand for illegal drugs. 2. DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG COMPACT ACTIVITIES. The use of National Guard personnel, while not in federal service, in any law enforcement support compact activities that are intended to reduce the supply or use of illegal drugs in the United States. These compact activities...
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40-18-411
Section 40-18-411 (Per Section 40-18-416, this section is repealed following the close of fiscal year 2020) Applications. (a) (1) A local economic development organization which owns a site may apply to the Department of Commerce for funding to solve an inadequacy involving the site. The application by the local economic development organization shall include at least one of the following: a. If there is a pending expression of interest about the site from an industry or business, a list of the site preparation or public infrastructure work needed to make the site acceptable to the industry or business. b. If the site has been offered to one or more industries or businesses but the offer did not result in the industry or business locating on the site, a list of the site preparation or public infrastructure work which, if it had been completed, would have made the site acceptable to the industries or businesses. c. If the site is an industrial or research park which needs connections to...
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41-9-981
Section 41-9-981 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) During the period from 1933-1945, six million Jews and millions of other Europeans were murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of a carefully orchestrated program of cultural, social, political, and ethnic genocide known as the Holocaust. (2) All people should remember the horrible atrocities committed at that time and other times in human history as the result of bigotry, discrimination, and the abuse of power and should continually rededicate themselves to the principles of human rights and equal protection under the laws of this democratic society. (3) It is desirable to educate Alabama citizens about the events leading up to the Holocaust and about organizations, institutions, and facilities that were created and used purposefully for the systematic destruction of human beings. (4) It is the policy of the State of Alabama that Holocaust education is the proper concern of all peoples....
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22-27-45
Section 22-27-45 State Solid Waste Management Plan. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, with the advice and consultation of the Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee, is directed to prepare a State Solid Waste Management Plan. In developing the state plan, the department will seek to achieve the following goals: (1) That solid waste facilities and management systems are provided for in an orderly manner consistent with the needs and plans of the state and its regions and local governments; (2) That alternative methods of solid waste management are encouraged as a means of reducing the state's dependence on landfilling; (3) That all aspects of local, regional and state planning, zoning, population estimates, and economics are taken into consideration; and (4) That appropriate time schedules are set for the phasing in of the required component parts of the system. Said plan shall be developed in two phases: a. The first phase of the plan shall be...
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40-9G-1
Section 40-9G-1 Definitions. For purposes of the chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meaning: (1) APPROVED ACTIVITY. The conduct of an activity that is predominantly any one or more of the following: a. Described by NAICS Code 1133, 115111, 2121, 22111, 221330, 31 (other than 311811), 32, 33, 423, 424, 482, 4862, 48691, 48699, 48819, 4882, 4883 (other than 48833), 493, 511, 5121 (other than 51213), 51221, 517, 518 (without regard to the premise that data processing and related services be performed in conjunction with a third party), 51913, 52232, 54133 (if predominantly in furtherance of another activity described in this chapter), 54134 (if predominantly in furtherance of another activity described in this chapter), 54138, 5415, 541614, 5417, 55 (if not for the production of electricity), 561422 (other than establishments that originate telephone calls), 562213, 56291, 56292, 611512, 927 or 92811. b. The production of biofuel as such term is defined in...
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22-40A-2
Section 22-40A-2 Legislative findings; purpose. (a) The Legislature finds as follows: (1) The Alabama Scrap Tire Study Commission (STSC) submitted a report as required by Section 22-40-10, and SJR 152, adopted May 11, 2000. The section and the resolution both directed the STSC to study the present law and recommend revisions that are needed. The report from the STSC recommended substantial changes to the present law, which are incorporated into this chapter. The study and report were necessary to address the estimated 14 to 20 million tires stockpiled or illegally dumped. (2) This state generates over five million scrap tires annually. Of these tires, an estimated two million are recycled annually and an estimated two million are disposed of legally in landfills. Many of the remaining tires are disposed of illegally and therefore may present a public health and/or environmental threat to the citizens of Alabama. (b) This chapter has the following stated purposes, to: (1) Remediate...
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29-2-273
Section 29-2-273 Goals and objectives; funding. (a) The committee shall make a continuous study of the energy supply for the state and make recommendations for legislation and initiatives that will create the necessary institutional and regulatory changes to accomplish the overall goals and objectives of the state in a manner that benefits the economy and protects the environment. (b) The continuing study conducted by the committee, and recommendations submitted to the Governor and the Legislature, shall be designed to achieve the following goals and objectives, provided that those goals and objectives may be met while still providing reliable and affordable energy to Alabama residents: (1) The expansion of diverse sources of fuels to be used to meet Alabama's current and future energy needs through each of the following methods: a. Encouraging a diverse fuel mix among electric supply generation that promotes reliability and minimizes negative impacts that would result from electric...
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21-9-11
Section 21-9-11 Duties of commissioner. (a) The commissioner shall direct all matters involving the department in conformance with state and federal law and the policies of the board. (b) The commissioner shall perform the following specific duties: (1) Enforce the rules and regulations of the board governing the department's services and programs. (2) Appoint to positions of employment those professional, clerical, and other assistants, including specialists and consultants, on a full or part-time basis as may be needed. The number of employees, their qualifications, their compensation, and all other expenditures of the commissioner shall be within the limits of a budget approved by the board. The commissioner and all employees of the department shall be entitled to all benefits accruing to merit system employees including the right to accumulate leave and participate in the Teachers' Retirement System under the same terms and conditions as employees of the State Department of...
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9-12-180
Section 9-12-180 Authorized; form. The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of Alabama with any one or more of the states of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and with such other states as may enter into the compact legally therein in the form substantially as follows: GULF STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I Whereas the Gulf Coast States have the proprietary interest in and jurisdiction over fisheries in the waters within their respective boundaries, it is the purpose of this compact to promote the better utilization of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the seaboard of the Gulf of Mexico, by the development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries and the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. Article II This compact shall become operative immediately as to those states ratifying it whenever any two...
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