8-19A-19
Section 8-19A-19 Attorney's fees and costs. (a) In any civil action or investigation resulting from a transaction involving a violation of this chapter, except as provided in subsection (c), the division shall receive reasonable attorney's fees and costs from the nonprevailing party. The amounts appropriated for those purposes in this chapter are in addition to all monies heretofore and hereafter appropriated in any special or general appropriation act to the Attorney General's Special Revenue Account which is a revolving fund in which the Attorney General is authorized to make deposits and withdrawals from time to time so that the account operates on a revolving basis for expenditure for administration and future civil and criminal investigation and prosecution, and all balances of revenue, income, and receipts remaining at the end of the fiscal year shall carry over to the next fiscal year and shall not revert to the State General Fund or any other fund under Section 41-4-93. (b) Any...
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8-6-121
Section 8-6-121 Criminal penalties. Any lessee, any guarantor, or any officer of any issuer, lessee, or guarantor or any other person, firm, or corporation who: (1) Willfully violates this article; (2) Willfully participates in the issuance of any industrial revenue bonds without having obtained the certificate of notification required by Section 8-6-120; (3) Willfully participates in the issuance of any industrial revenue bonds in violation of this article; (4) Willfully violates any stop order lawfully issued by the director or the commission under this article and in effect; or (5) Makes or files or causes to be made or filed, with the director or the commission under this article, any statement, document, or other paper which is false in any material respect or matter; shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be fined not more than $10,000 or shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 10 years or both so fined and so imprisoned, as the trial court shall determine....
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9-16-95
Section 9-16-95 Citizens' actions; attorneys, etc., fees allowed as damages. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any person having an interest which is or may be adversely affected, (or any citizen of this state having knowledge that any of the provisions of this article are willfully or deliberately not being enforced and who files a statement with the regulatory authority in writing and under oath with facts set forth specifically stating the nature of the failure to enforce the provisions of this article), may commence a civil action on his own behalf to compel compliance with this article: (1) Against any other governmental instrumentality or agency to the extent permitted by the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which is alleged to be in violation of the provisions of this article or of any rule, regulation, order or permit issued pursuant thereto, or against any other person who is alleged to be in violation of any rule, regulation,...
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11-50-410
Section 11-50-410 Rights and remedies of bondholders and trustees. In addition to all other rights and all other remedies, any holder or holders of any bond or bonds of any district incorporated under this article, including a trustee for a bondholder, shall have the right, subject to any contractual limitation binding upon such bondholder or holders or trustee and subject to the prior or superior rights of others: (1) To bring an action on the bonds; (2) To enforce its rights against the district and the board of directors, by mandamus or other civil action or proceeding, including the right to require the district and such board to fix and collect rates and charges adequate to carry out any agreement as to or pledge of the revenues produced by such rates or charges and to require such district and such board to carry out the other covenants and agreements with such bondholder and to perform its and their duties under this article and under any mortgage, indenture of trust or...
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15-5-61
Section 15-5-61 Seizure and forfeiture of proceeds, property, etc., acquired through the commission of certain criminal offenses. (a) Any property, proceeds, or instrumentality of every kind, used or intended for use in the course of, derived from, or realized through the commission of a felony offense, as defined in this article, or a misdemeanor offense under Article 3, Chapter 12, Title 13A, relating to prostitution offenses, or as inducement or attempt or conspiracy to commit such offenses, is subject to civil forfeiture. (b) This article does not apply to or limit forfeiture under Sections 20-2-93, 13A-11-84, 13A-12-30, or 13A-12-198. (Act 2014-306, p. 1103, §2; Act 2016-282, §8.)...
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22-19-103
Section 22-19-103 Employees to comply with Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; no liability. Any employee of the Alabama Eye Bank who is trained in donor eye tissue procurement under this article shall comply with the provisions of the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Such eye bank technician acting in accordance with the terms of this article shall not have any liability either civil or criminal for such eye tissue procurement. (Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §4; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)...
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34-21-121
Section 34-21-121 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ADVERSE ACTION. Any administrative, civil, equitable, or criminal action permitted by the law of a state which is imposed by a licensing board or other authority against a nurse, including actions against the license or multistate licensure privilege of an individual, including revocation, suspension, probation, monitoring of a licensee, limitations on the practice of the licensee, the bringing of a cease and desist action against the licensee, or any other encumbrance on licensure affecting the authorization of a nurse to practice. (2) ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM. A nondisciplinary monitoring program approved by a licensing board. (3) COMMISSION. The Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. (4) COMPACT. The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact created by this article. (5) COORDINATED LICENSURE INFORMATION SYSTEM. An integrated process for collecting,...
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36-19-43
Section 36-19-43 Insurer or agents not liable for compliance with division; confidentiality; testimony; violations. (a) In the absence of fraud or malice, no insurer, or person who furnishes information on its behalf, shall be liable for damages in a civil action or subject to criminal prosecution for any oral or written statement made or any other action taken that is necessary to supply information required by this article. (b) The officials and departmental and agency personnel receiving any information furnished pursuant to this article shall hold the information in confidence until such time as its release is required pursuant to a criminal or civil proceeding. (c) Any official referred to in Section 36-19-41 may be required to testify as to any information in his possession regarding the fire loss of real or personal property in any civil action in which any person seeks recovery under a policy against an insurance company for the fire loss. (d) No person shall purposely refuse...
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40-17-168.16
Section 40-17-168.16 Civil penalties. (a) Each person who engages in any business activity for which a license is required by this article without having first obtained and subsequently retained a valid license shall be subject to the following civil penalties: (1) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the first violation. (2) For each subsequent violation, the amount shall be increased by the sum of the current violation plus prior violations. (b) Civil penalties prescribed under this section shall be assessed, collected, and paid in the same manner as the compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas tax. (Act 2017-229, §2.)...
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45-37A-331.03
Section 45-37A-331.03 Utilization of photographic traffic signal enforcement system. (a) The city is authorized to utilize an automated photographic traffic signal enforcement system to detect and record traffic signal violations, to issue notices of civil violations by mail, and to prosecute civil violations for the recorded traffic signal violations which may occur within the corporate limits of the city as provided in this part. A civil fine assessed under this part shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100), and municipal court costs shall be assessed in the same manner and in the same amounts prescribed for a municipal criminal traffic control device violation prosecuted as a misdemeanor under Sections 32-5A-31, 32-5A-32, or 32-5A-35, or any combination thereof. Court costs collected pursuant to this part shall be distributed in the same manner as prescribed by law for the distribution of municipal court costs for misdemeanor violations. An additional fee of ten dollars ($10)...
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