22-30-16
Section 22-30-16 Responsibilities of hazardous waste storage and treatment facility and hazardous waste disposal site operators. (a) The department, acting through the commission, is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations establishing such standards, applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facilities as may be necessary to protect human health or the environment. In establishing such standards, the department may, where appropriate, distinguish in such standards between requirements appropriate for new facilities and for facilities in existence on the date of promulgation of such regulations. Such standards shall include but not be limited to the following: (1) Unless exempted from regulation by this chapter or rules promulgated under authority of this chapter, obtaining a permit from the department or interim status for each treatment, storage or disposal facility; (2) Assuring that all hazardous wastes are stored, treated or...
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22-21-28
Section 22-21-28 Rules and regulations. (a) In the manner provided in this section, the State Board of Health, with the advice and after approval by the advisory board, shall have the power to make and enforce, and may modify, amend, and rescind, reasonable rules and regulations governing the operation and conduct of hospitals as defined in Section 22-21-20. All such regulations shall set uniform minimum standards applicable alike to all hospitals of like kind and purpose in view of the type of institutional care being offered there and shall be confined to setting minimum standards of sanitation and equipment found to be necessary and prohibiting conduct and practices inimicable to the public interest and the public health. The board shall not have power to promulgate any regulation in conflict with law nor power to interfere with the internal government and operation of any hospital on matters of policy. The procedure for adopting, amending, or rescinding any rules authorized by this...
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2-27-5.1
Section 2-27-5.1 Local governments prohibited from passing ordinances regulating pesticides. (a)(1) The term "pesticides" as used herein shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Alabama Pesticide Act, Section 2-27-2(1). (2) Except as provided in subsection (b), no county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of this state shall adopt or continue in effect any ordinance, rule, regulation, or resolution regulating the use, sale, distribution, storage, transportation, disposal, formulation, labeling, registration, manufacturing, or application of pesticides. (b) This section shall not prohibit or affect the right of any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of this state to adopt and enforce the provisions of the Standard Building Code, Standard Fire Prevention Code, or the codes, standards, and recommended practices of the National Fire Protection Association. (c) Any local law or general law of local application regulating pesticide use,...
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9-16-90
Section 9-16-90 Environmental protection performance standards. (a) Any permit issued pursuant to this article to conduct surface mining operations shall require that such surface coal mining operations will meet all applicable performance standards of this article, and such other requirements as the regulatory authority shall promulgate. (b) General performance standards shall be applicable to all surface coal mining and reclamation operations and shall require the operation as a minimum to: (1) Conduct surface coal mining operations so as to maximize the utilization and conservation of the solid fuel resource being recovered so that reaffecting the land in the future through surface coal mining can be minimized; (2) Restore the land affected to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting prior to any mining, or higher or better uses of which there is reasonable likelihood, so long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to...
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21-4-22
Section 21-4-22 Promulgation of guidelines. (a) The Attorney General of this state, in consultation with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, and in accordance with Section 553 of Title 5, United States Code, shall promulgate, within six months of April 8, 1985, guidelines to assure that registration and polling place facilities used for state elections are readily accessible to and usable by handicapped and elderly individuals. Such guidelines at a minimum shall require: (1) That all polling places shall be located a. In any building or other facility which is or can be made accessible, by temporary ramp or otherwise, to individuals in wheelchairs on election days for all hours during which said polling places are used for the purpose of a state election; and b. On the ground level of the building or other facility or at a location within such building or facility as is accessible by elevator; and (2) That all places of registration shall be located a. In any...
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34-14B-9
Section 34-14B-9 Failure to be licensed; presentation or filing of false information. (a) Any person who undertakes or attempts to undertake the business of home inspection without first having been licensed as required by this chapter, or who knowingly presents or files false information with the Building Commission for the purpose of licensure as a home inspector or knowingly violates the Alabama Home Inspectors Code of Ethics or Alabama Home Inspectors Standards of Practice as promulgated by the Building Commission shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (b) A person who has failed to be licensed pursuant to this chapter shall not bring an action to enforce the provisions of any contract to provide home inspections which he or she entered into in violation of this chapter. (Acts 1996, No. 96-574, p. 883, §10; Act 2002-517, p. 1331, §1.)...
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34-14B-4
Section 34-14B-4 Certificate of licensure. (a) The certificate of licensure shall be initially issued only to properly qualified home inspectors for a period commencing on the date of issue and expiring on December 31. Certificates of licensure shall be renewed for a term of one year beginning on January 1 of the year in which renewed and expiring on December 31 of that year. Certificates of licensure shall be renewed on or before 60 days prior to the expiration date. The Building Commission shall issue certificates of licensure to applicants upon applicants' compliance with the licensure requirements of this chapter, and records of certificates and any renewals thereof shall be filed in the office of the Building Commission and be available to the public. (b) The Building Commission may adopt administrative rules and procedures for the purpose of revoking or suspending a certificate of licensure upon a finding by the Building Commission that the licensed home inspector has either...
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36-15-6
Section 36-15-6 Appointment or employment of assistant attorneys general, investigators, and other employees. (a) Subject to the Merit System, the Attorney General may appoint as many assistant attorneys general and other employees as the public interest requires by reason of the volume of work in his or her office. (b) Subject to the Merit System, the Attorney General may employ as many investigators in his or her office as may be necessary to perform investigatory functions for the office. (c) Investigators appointed pursuant to this section shall have all the powers vested in deputy sheriffs and all other law enforcement officers of the State of Alabama, including, but not limited to, the powers of arrest and the power to serve any and all process, and shall perform the duties, responsibilities, and functions as may be designated by the Attorney General. (d) No person shall serve as an investigator who has not met the minimum standards established for law enforcement officers by the...
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9-10B-5
Section 9-10B-5 Functions and duties of Office of Water Resources. The general functions and duties of the Office of Water Resources shall be as follows: (1) To develop long-term strategic plans for the use of the waters of the state by conducting and participating in water resource studies and by administering the laws established by this chapter and regulations promulgated hereunder; (2) Acting through the commission, to adopt and promulgate rules, regulations, and standards for the purposes of this chapter, and to develop policy for the state regarding the waters of the state; (3) To implement quantitative water resource programs and projects for the coordination, conservation, development, management, use, and understanding of the waters of the state; (4) To serve as a repository for data regarding the waters of the state; (5) To, at its discretion, study, analyze, and evaluate in coordination with, or with the assistance of, other agencies of the state, the federal government, any...
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45-5-243
Section 45-5-243 Power to levy; disposition of proceeds. (a) Subject to any limitation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or of any general law of this state, the Blount County Commission shall have the power to levy and provide for the collection of additional privilege license taxes, excise taxes, gasoline taxes, and sales and use taxes. The proceeds from any of the taxes authorized above shall be collected by the State Department of Revenue, less any costs of collection, and shall be deposited into the county treasury to be used in the manner prescribed by the county commission or by law. The amount deducted from the proceeds by the Department of Revenue for the cost of collection shall be an amount equivalent to five percent of the revenue collected hereunder. (b) The county Board of Education of Blount County shall, periodically upon receipt of the proceeds from the county commission from any of the taxes authorized hereunder, divide or pro rate the funds to the county board...
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