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5-18A-1
Section 5-18A-1 Short title; purpose. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Deferred
Presentment Services Act." The purpose of this chapter is to protect consumers who enter
into short-term cash advances from abuses that occur in the marketplace. This chapter shall
be liberally construed to effectuate its purpose as a consumer protection statute. (Act 2003-359,
p. 992, §1.)...
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12-15-101
Section 12-15-101 Purpose of the Alabama Juvenile Justice Act; short title; goals for the juvenile
court. (a) This chapter shall be known as the Alabama Juvenile Justice Act. The purpose of
this chapter is to facilitate the care, protection, and discipline of children who come under
the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, while acknowledging the responsibility of the juvenile
court to preserve the public peace and security. (b) In furtherance of this purpose, the following
goals have been established for the juvenile court: (1) To preserve and strengthen the family
of the child whenever possible, including improvement of the home environment of the child.
(2) To remove the child from the custody of his or her parent or parents only when it is judicially
determined to be in his or her best interests or for the safety and protection of the public.
(3) To reunite a child with his or her parent or parents as quickly and as safely as possible
when the child has been removed from the custody...
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27-61-1
functions. 5. CORPORATE RECORDS OF THE COMMISSION The Commission shall maintain its corporate
books and records in accordance with the Bylaws. 6. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, DEFENSE, AND INDEMNIFICATION
a. The Members, officers, executive director, employees, and representatives of the Commission,
the Executive Committee, and any other Committee of the Commission shall be immune from suit
and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for any claim for damage to
or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability caused by or
arising out of any actual or alleged act, error, or omission that occurred, or that the person
against whom the claim is made had a reasonable basis for believing occurred within the scope
of Commission employment, duties, or responsibilities; provided that nothing in this paragraph
shall be construed to protect any such person from suit and/or liability for any damage, loss,
injury, or liability caused by the intentional or willful or wanton...
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40-27-1
a tax measured in any way by the capital of a corporation considered in its entirety. 6. "Gross
receipts tax" means a tax, other than a sales tax, which is imposed on or measured by
the gross volume of business, in terms of gross receipts or in other terms, and in the determination
of which no deduction is allowed which would constitute the tax an income tax. 7. "Sales
tax" means a tax imposed with respect to the transfer for a consideration of ownership,
possession or custody of tangible personal property or the rendering of services measured
by the price of the tangible personal property transferred or services rendered and
which is required by state or local law to be separately stated from the sales price by the
seller, or which is customarily separately stated from the sales price, but does not include
a tax imposed exclusively on the sale of a specifically identified commodity or article or
class of commodities or articles. 8. "Use tax" means a nonrecurring tax, other than
a...
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16-22A-1
Section 16-22A-1 Short title; purpose. This chapter shall be known and cited as the Alabama
Child Protection Act of 1999. Article 1 provides the procedure for conducting criminal history
background information checks on all applicants for certification, public and nonpublic applicants
for employment, nonpublic current employees, and current employees under review. Article 2
provides the procedure for conducting criminal history background information checks on current
public certified and noncertified employees. (Act 99-361, p. 566, §1; Act 2002-457, p. 1171,
§1.)...
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30-5-1
Section 30-5-1 Short title; construction; purposes. (a) This chapter shall be known as and
may be cited as the Protection From Abuse Act. (b) This chapter shall be liberally construed
and applied to promote all of the following purposes: (1) To assure victims of domestic violence
the maximum protection from abuse that the law can provide. (2) To create a flexible and speedy
remedy to discourage violence and harassment against family members or others with whom the
perpetrator has continuing contact. (3) To expand the ability of law enforcement officers
to assist victims, to enforce the law effectively in cases of domestic violence, and to prevent
further incidents of abuse. (4) To facilitate equal enforcement of criminal law by deterring
and punishing violence against family members and others who are personally involved with
the perpetrators. (5) To recognize that domestic violence is a crime that will not be excused
or tolerated. (6) To provide for protection orders to prevent...
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34-14A-15
a licensee, the aggrieved homeowner may, when the judgment is final, file a verified claim
in the court in which the judgment was entered and, on 30 days' written notice to the board,
may apply to the court for an order directing payment out of the Homeowners' Recovery Fund
of the amount remaining unpaid on the judgment. (4) The court shall proceed on such application
and the complainant shall be required to show that: a. He or she is not the spouse, child,
or parent of the debtor, or the personal representative of the spouse, child, or parent
or a shareholder, officer, or director of the debtor. b. He or she has obtained a judgment,
as described in this section, stating the amount of the judgment and the amount owing on the
judgment at the date of the application, and, that in such action, he or she had joined any
and all bonding companies which issued corporate surety bonds to the judgment debtor as principal
and all other necessary parties. c. The following items, if recovered by...
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34-13-2
Section 34-13-2 Purpose of chapter. It is declared and established that the procedures for
making final disposition of human dead, including embalming and funeral directing, are so
affected with the public interest as to require regulation and control of such included occupations
and that, additionally, such regulation and control are necessary for the prevention of the
spread of infectious and contagious diseases, for the protection of the health and welfare
of the people of the state and that all of the provisions of this chapter and regulations
authorized to be made are necessary to effectuate its purpose; and all of the provisions of
this chapter shall be construed liberally and in a manner to carry out its obvious intents
and purposes. (Acts 1975, No. 214, p. 705, §1.)...
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34-14A-1
Section 34-14A-1 Legislative intent. In the interest of the public health, safety, welfare,
and consumer protection and to regulate the home building and private residence construction
industry, the purpose of this chapter, and the intent of the Legislature in passing it, is
to provide for the licensure of those persons who engage in home building, private residence
construction, and home improvement industries, including remodeling, and to provide home building
standards and to support education within the construction trades in the State of Alabama.
The Legislature recognizes that the home building and home improvement construction industries
are significant industries. Home builders may pose significant harm to the public when unqualified,
incompetent, or dishonest home builders and remodelers provide inadequate, unsafe, or inferior
building services. The Legislature finds it necessary to regulate the residential home building
and home improvement industries. (Acts 1992, No. 92-608,...
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2-17-2
welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that meat and meat food products distributed
to them are wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled and packaged. Unwholesome,
adulterated or misbranded meat or meat food products are injurious to the public welfare,
destroy markets for wholesome, not adulterated and properly labeled and packaged meat and
meat food products and result in sundry losses to livestock producers and processors of meat
and meat food products as well as injury to consumers. The unwholesome, adulterated,
misbranded or deceptively packaged articles can be sold at lower prices and compete unfairly
with the wholesome, not adulterated and properly labeled and packaged articles to the detriment
of consumers and the public generally. It is hereby found that regulation by the commissioner
and cooperation by this state and the United States as contemplated by this chapter are appropriate
to protect the health and welfare of consumers and otherwise...
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