26-1-5
Section 26-1-5 Age of majority for purposes of contracting with banks, credit unions, etc., for certain loans or accounts; requirements for members of Armed Forces. (a) Notwithstanding Section 26-1-1, the age of majority for the purposes of contracting for educational loans for college level education and above, within the State of Alabama, shall be 17 years of age. (b) Notwithstanding Section 26-1-1, for purposes of contracting with a bank, credit union, or similar savings and loan institution, including obtaining a loan or opening a checking or savings account, a member of any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States shall be deemed to have attained the age of majority and shall be relieved of his or her disabilities of minority for that purpose, and he or she may continue to be deemed to have reached the age of majority even if he or she shall subsequently no longer be a member of the Armed Forces of the United States. A member of the Armed Forces of the United States who...
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5-19A-2
Section 5-19A-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) APPROPRIATE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. The sheriff of each county in which the pawnbroker maintains an office, or the police chief of the municipality in which the pawnbroker maintains an office. (2) ATTORNEY GENERAL. The Attorney General of the State of Alabama. (3) PAWN TRANSACTION. Any loan on the security of pledged goods or any purchase of pledged goods on condition that the pledged goods are left with the pawnbroker and may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed price within a fixed period of time. A "pawn transaction" does not include the pledge to, or the purchase by, a pawnbroker of real or personal property from a customer followed by the sale or the leasing of that property back to the customer in the same or a related transaction. (4) PAWNBROKER. Any person engaged in the business of lending money on the security of pledged goods left in pawn, or in the business of...
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8-6-91
Section 8-6-91 Definitions. In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) BANK. A bank, trust company, national banking association, savings bank, or industrial bank. (2) BROKER. A person, including a bank, lawfully engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others and includes a broker lawfully engaged in buying and selling securities for his own account. (3) ISSUER. A person who places, or authorizes the placing of, his name on a security other than as a transfer agent to evidence that it represents a share, participation, or other interest in his property or in an enterprise or to evidence his duty to perform an obligation evidenced by the security or who becomes responsible for or in place of any such person. (4) PERSON. Such term includes a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or...
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10A-9A-7.03
Section 10A-9A-7.03 Rights of creditor of partner or transferee. (a) On application to a court of competent jurisdiction by any judgment creditor of a partner or transferee, the court may charge the transferable interest of the judgment debtor with payment of the unsatisfied amount of the judgment with interest. To the extent so charged and after the limited partnership has been served with the charging order, the judgment creditor has only the right to receive any distribution or distributions to which the judgment debtor would otherwise be entitled in respect of the transferable interest. (b) The limited partnership, after being served with a charging order and its terms, shall be entitled to pay or deposit any distribution or distributions to which the judgment debtor would otherwise be entitled in respect of the charged transferable interest into the hands of the clerk of the court so issuing the charging order, and the payment or deposit shall discharge the limited partnership and...
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22-19-171
Section 22-19-171 Search and notification. (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal: (1) a law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and (2) if no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital. (b) If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by subsection (a)(1) and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital. (c) A person is not subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section but may be...
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34-27-58
Section 34-27-58 Acts constituting violation of article - Failure to place 50 percent of cash, etc., received in escrow; failure to provide liability insurance, etc. (a) It shall be a violation of this article for a seller of vacation time-sharing lease plans to fail to: (1) Place in escrow 50 percent of the cash and receivables received from the purchasers of such plans, such receivables to be assessed at net principal value. a. The purpose of such escrow account is to protect the purchaser's right to a refund if at any time the accommodations and facilities are no longer available as provided in the contract; provided however, nothing contained in this section shall operate to deny the seller the option to repair, replace, or reconstruct, within a reasonable time, the accommodations or facilities, if destroyed or damaged. b. The purchaser shall be entitled to a refund from the escrow account upon the conditions described above in an amount which represents the buyer's pro rata share...
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8-35-2
Section 8-35-2 Security freeze on credit report. (a) A consumer may place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report by making a request in writing by certified mail to a consumer credit reporting agency. No later than August 31, 2012, a consumer credit reporting agency shall make available to consumers an Internet based method of requesting a security freeze and a toll-free telephone number for consumers to use to place a security freeze, temporarily lift a security freeze, or completely remove a security freeze. A security freeze shall prohibit, subject to exceptions in subsection (m), the consumer credit reporting agency from releasing the consumer's credit report or credit score without the prior express authorization of the consumer as provided in subsection (d) or (e). Nothing in this subsection shall prevent a consumer credit reporting agency from advising a third party that a security freeze is in effect with respect to the consumer's credit report. (b) A consumer credit...
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11-98-5.2
Section 11-98-5.2 911 Fund. (a) Effective October 1, 2013, the 911 Fund shall be created as an insured interest-bearing account into which the 911 Board shall deposit all revenues derived from the service charge levied on voice communications service providers under this chapter and all prepaid wireless 911 charges received from the department. The revenues deposited into the 911 Fund shall not be monies or property of the state and shall not be subject to appropriation by the Legislature. The 911 Board shall administer the fund and shall credit the 911 Fund all revenues received. The fund and revenues generated by the fund may only be used as provided in this chapter. (b) Effective October 1, 2013, there shall first be deducted, no more than one time during each calendar month, from the total amount of the statewide 911 charges paid over to the 911 Board during such month, a sum not to exceed one percent of the total amount, to be applied by the 911 Board exclusively for payment of...
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25-5-11
Section 25-5-11 Actions against third parties jointly liable with employers for injuries or death; actions for injury or death resulting from willful conduct; attorney's fees in settlements with third parties. (a) If the injury or death for which compensation is payable under Articles 3 or 4 of this chapter was caused under circumstances also creating a legal liability for damages on the part of any party other than the employer, whether or not the party is subject to this chapter, the employee, or his or her dependents in case of death, may proceed against the employer to recover compensation under this chapter or may agree with the employer upon the compensation payable under this chapter, and at the same time, may bring an action against the other party to recover damages for the injury or death, and the amount of the damages shall be ascertained and determined without regard to this chapter. If a party, other than the employer, is a workers' compensation insurance carrier of the...
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38-10-8
Section 38-10-8 Disposition of child support payments collected pursuant to judicial actions. Support collections, in cases in which an assignment has been made to the department and after the support payment has been made to the appropriate collection agent pursuant to this article, shall be paid directly to the state department and distribution shall be made by the state department in accordance with the provisions of the Social Security Act and amendments thereto. Support collections in cases where there is not an assignment to the department but services are otherwise being provided pursuant to the requirements of Title IV-D shall be accounted for and distributed by the state department in accordance with rules published and provided by the department. When an obligor is subject to more than one support order being enforced by the department and the amount received from the obligor for distribution is not sufficient to satisfy the total amount due under all of the orders,...
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