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22-52-37
Section 22-52-37 Standards for conduct of civil commitment proceedings generally; minimum standards
for civil commitment; appeals from orders of probate courts as to commitment. (a) Any civil
commitment proceedings are to be conducted in accordance with the following constitutional
due process standards: (1) Adequate notice of the hearing and its purpose shall be given sufficiently
in advance of the scheduled proceedings to permit a reasonable opportunity to prepare therefor.
(2) The person to be committed shall have the right to attend the hearing unless the court,
after appropriate inquiry, determines that he or she is so mentally or physically ill as to
be incapable of attendance. (3) The subject of the hearing shall be informed of his right
to counsel and to the appointment of counsel if indigent. Where the commitment of a presently
confined patient is sought, a guardian ad litem who is an attorney shall be appointed. (4)
The guardian ad litem shall be entitled to a reasonable fee...
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22-52-7
Section 22-52-7 Restrictions on imposition of limitations upon liberty of person sought to
be committed pending hearings; ordering, etc., of examinations of person sought to be committed;
supervision of temporary treatment. (a) When a petition has been filed seeking to have limitations
placed upon the liberty of a respondent pending the outcome of a final hearing on the merits,
the probate judge shall order the sheriff of the county in which the respondent is located
to serve a copy of the petition upon the respondent and to bring the respondent before the
probate judge instanter. When any respondent against whom a petition has been filed seeking
to have limitations placed upon the respondent's liberty pending the outcome of a full and
final hearing on the merits is initially brought before the probate judge, the probate judge
shall determine from an interview with the respondent and with other available persons what
limitations, if any, shall be imposed upon the respondent's liberty...
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15-5-50
Section 15-5-50 Warrant for tracking device installation; requirements; procedures. (a) Any
circuit or district court judge in this state is authorized to issue a warrant to install
a tracking device. The term tracking device means an electronic or mechanical device which
permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object. (b) Upon the written application,
under oath, of any law enforcement officer as defined in Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure
1.4, district attorney, or Attorney General of the state, including assistant and deputy district
attorneys and assistant and deputy attorneys general, any authorized judge may issue a warrant
for the installation, retrieval, maintenance, repair, use, or monitoring of a tracking device.
The warrant application shall do all of the following: (1) State facts sufficient to show
probable cause that a crime is being, has been, or is about to be committed in the jurisdiction
of the issuing judge. (2) Identify the person, if reasonably...
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11-62-1
Section 11-62-1 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this chapter, 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) AUTHORITY.
Any public corporation organized pursuant to this chapter. (2) AUTHORIZED PURPOSE OBLIGATION.
The term includes either of the following: a. Any lease, note, installment sale contract,
or any other obligation of a user, whether general or special, which was entered into, made,
assumed, or otherwise incurred by the user, in whole or in part, for the purpose of financing
the acquisition or ownership of one or more facilities, for the purpose of obtaining funds
with which to operate one or more facilities or for any combination of those purposes. b.
Any obligation of any kind which was entered into, made, assumed, or otherwise incurred by
the United States of America or any department, agency, or instrumentality...
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12-15-208
Section 12-15-208 Facilities to be used for detention or shelter care of children generally;
when child may be detained in jail or other facility for detention of adults; notification
of juvenile court, when child received at facility for detention of adult offenders or persons
charged with crimes; development of statewide system; Department of Youth Services to subsidize
detention in regional facilities, may contract for detention; transfer of child to detention
facility, when case transferred from juvenile court for criminal prosecution. (a) Persons
who shall not be detained or confined in secure custody include all of the following: (1)
STATUS OFFENDERS. Effective October 1, 2009, status offenders, as defined in this article,
shall not be detained or confined in secure custody, except that a status offender who is
charged with or who commits a violation of a valid court order may be detained in secure custody
in a juvenile detention facility for up to 72 hours in any six-month...
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13A-11-61.2
Section 13A-11-61.2 Possession of firearms in certain places. (a) In addition to any other
place limited or prohibited by state or federal law, a person, including a person with a permit
issued under Section 13A-11-75(a)(1) or recognized under Section 13A-11-85, may not knowingly
possess or carry a firearm in any of the following places without the express permission of
a person or entity with authority over the premises: (1) Inside the building of a police,
sheriff, or highway patrol station. (2) Inside or on the premises of a prison, jail, halfway
house, community corrections facility, or other detention facility for those who have been
charged with or convicted of a criminal or juvenile offense. (3) Inside a facility which provides
inpatient or custodial care of those with psychiatric, mental, or emotional disorders. (4)
Inside a courthouse, courthouse annex, a building in which a district attorney's office is
located, or a building in which a county commission or city council is...
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22-52-10.9
Section 22-52-10.9 Order finding defendant insane, mentally incompetent, etc., to be entered
into information systems; civil review. (a)(1) Upon any finding that a defendant is insane,
mentally incompetent, or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to Chapter
16 of Title 15, or the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure, the judge shall immediately forward
the order of the finding to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the order shall be entered
in its information systems. The order shall be forwarded to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
in the manner as the Alabama Justice Information Center Commission shall provide. (2) The
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, as soon as possible thereafter, shall enter the order in the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and the information shall be entered
into the NICS Index Denied Persons File. (3) The records maintained pursuant to this section
shall only be used for purposes of determining eligibility to...
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15-18-171
Section 15-18-171 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings, respectively, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) APPLICATION PROCESS
AND PROCEDURES. The criteria and guidelines developed by the Department of Corrections for
the establishment of community punishment and corrections programs, the granting of funds
for programs authorized herein, and the monitoring, evaluation, and review of programs funded
herein. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the authority or the board of directors of a
nonprofit entity. (3) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections. (4)
COMMUNITY. The county or counties comprising one or more judicial circuits. (5) COMMUNITY
PUNISHMENT AND CORRECTIONS AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions
of this article. (6) COMMUNITY PUNISHMENT AND CORRECTIONS PROGRAM. Any program designed as
an alternative to incarceration and maintained by a county commission or an...
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35-11-371
Section 35-11-371 Perfection of lien. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) HEALTH CARE PAYOR. A health care insurer, health maintenance
organization, or health care service plan organized under Article 6, Chapter 20, Title 10A,
authorized to provide health care coverage in the state. (2) SATISFY THE CLAIM. Receipt by
the hospital of either of the following: a. Full payment for services as billed. b. If the
hospital has a contract with the injured person's health care payor, payment together with
all credits, discounts, and contractual adjustments that the patient's bill would be entitled
under the contract, including recoupments, between the hospital and the patient's health care
payor which extinguish the patient's obligation for the services rendered. (b) Unless specifically
contrary to any contractual agreement between the hospital and the injured person's health
care payor or unless contrary to any statute or governmental...
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22-55-1
Section 22-55-1 Enactment of compact; terms. The Interstate Compact on Mental Health is hereby
enacted into law and entered into by this state with all other states legally joining therein
in the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH The contracting
states solemnly agree that: Article I The party states find that the proper and expeditious
treatment of the mentally ill and mentally deficient can be facilitated by cooperative action
to the benefit of the patients, their families and society as a whole. Further, the party
states find the necessity of and desirability for furnishing such care and treatment bear
no primary relation to the residence or citizenship of the patient but that, on the contrary,
the controlling factors of community safety and humanitarianism require that facilities and
services be made available for all who are in need of them. Consequently, it is the purpose
of this compact and of the party states to provide the necessary legal basis...
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