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22-38-3
Section 22-38-3 Legislative intent. In order to further the efficient and effective administration
of programs related to agricultural nonpoint sources of pollution it is hereby declared to
be the intent of the Legislature to have federal cost-sharing funds provided to the state
and administered by state agencies for control of agricultural nonpoint sources of pollution
through financial assistance or cost-share grants to landusers to be administered by the committee
and soil and water conservation districts. (Acts 1988, No. 88-602, p. 939, §3.)...
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5-26-2
Section 5-26-2 Legislative findings. The activities of mortgage loan originators and the origination
or offering of financing for residential real property have a direct, valuable, and immediate
impact upon Alabama's consumers, Alabama's economy, the neighborhoods and communities of Alabama,
and the housing and real estate industry. The Legislature finds that accessibility to mortgage
credit is vital to the state's citizens. The Legislature also finds that it is essential for
the protection of the citizens of Alabama and the stability of Alabama's economy that reasonable
standards for licensing and regulation of the business practices of mortgage loan originators
be imposed. Therefore the Legislature establishes within this chapter: (a) SYSTEM OF SUPERVISION
AND ENFORCEMENT. An effective system of supervision and enforcement of the mortgage lending
industry, including: (i) The authority to issue licenses to conduct business under this chapter,
including the authority to write rules or...
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29-2-1
Section 29-2-1 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as
follows: improving the efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance of all branches of government
can only be achieved with proper oversight, accountability, and transparency in government
decision making and processes for service delivery; a long-range program of highway development
and maintenance in Alabama (herein "the state") is vital to the safety of the traveling
public as well as the industrial and agricultural growth of the state; the highway system
in the state must be adequate to meet expanding needs; highway construction, maintenance,
and administration to support such a system should include long-range planning, soundness
in scope of the highway program, efficient performance, and fiscal responsibility in both
policy and planning; the use of a long-range highway program will further the judicious expenditure
of highway funds, will promote the public safety and convenience, will...
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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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41-4-97
Section 41-4-97 Annual report by certain state agencies regarding receipt of federal funds.
(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) FEDERAL RECEIPTS. Federal financial assistance received or administered from federal entities
in the form of grants, loans, loan guarantees, property, cooperative agreements, interest
subsidies, insurance, food commodities, direct appropriations, other assistance, and amounts
received as reimbursement for services rendered to individuals, that is reported as part of
a single audit. (2) SINGLE AUDIT. An audit, as described under 31 U.S.C. § 7502(d), of a
non-federal entity that includes the entity's financial statements and federal awards. (3)
STATE AGENCY. An agency, department, authority, bureau, commission, or other administrative
office of the state, including the legislative and judicial branches of state government.
This term does not include a professional licensing board of the state. (b) A...
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41-9-941
Section 41-9-941 Declaration of findings. The Legislature hereby finds as follows: (1) The
state and federal governments are facing unprecedented demands for government services in
a time of proration, national deficit spending, increasing national debt, a highly competitive
world economy, and the increasing disillusionment on the part of the public with the ability
of the governments to adequately meet the needs. (2) Citizens want their governments, state
and federal, to be more responsive to their needs, by operating at a more personal level with
greater efficiency, higher performance, and lower cost. (3) Total Quality, a structured management
approach first used in private industry, has proven to increase profitability and marketshare,
decrease costs, increase employee satisfaction, and decrease employee turnover. (4) Early
efforts to implement Total Quality within the federal government have produced favorable results;
in fact, it is believed that Total Quality offers one of the...
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11-20-2
Section 11-20-2 Legislative intent; construction of article generally. (a) It is the intent
of the Legislature by the passage of this article to authorize counties to acquire, own and
lease projects for the purpose of promoting industry and trade by inducing manufacturing,
industrial and commercial enterprises to locate in this state or to expand, enlarge or modernize
existing enterprises or both, promoting the use of the agricultural products and natural resources
of this state and promoting a sound and proper balance in this state between agriculture,
commerce and industry. It is the further intent of the Legislature by the passage of this
article to authorize counties having populations of not less than 54,500 nor more than 56,000,
according to the most recent federal decennial census, to acquire, own and lease projects
for the purpose of inducing the federal government or its departments or agencies to locate
or to enlarge existing facilities and operations of any kind within the...
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11-54-126
Section 11-54-126 Legislative findings and intent. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares
all of the following: (1) That industrial development boards have been, and may hereafter
be, organized, under the provisions of either industrial development board act, to promote
industry, develop trade, and further the use of the agricultural products and natural and
human resources of the State of Alabama and the development and preservation of such resources.
(2) That in order to enable all industrial development boards to act more effectively to promote
both the establishment of new business, manufacturing, industrial, commercial, service, and
research enterprises, and the expansion of such enterprises already existing in Alabama, it
is advisable that they be empowered to receive, manage, use, and expend contributions from
private sources that are separate from and in addition to any other moneys or other properties
that such boards are empowered by law to expend or to own. (3) That...
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22-21-312
Section 22-21-312 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares:
(1) That publicly-owned (as distinguished from investor-owned and community-nonprofit) hospitals
and other health care facilities furnish a substantial part of the indigent and reduced-rate
care and other health care services furnished to residents of the state by hospitals and other
health care facilities generally; (2) That as a result of current significant fiscal and budgetary
limitations or restrictions, the state and the various counties, municipalities, and educational
institutions therein are no longer able to provide, from taxes and other general fund moneys,
all the revenues and funds necessary to operate such publicly-owned hospitals and other health
care facilities adequately and efficiently; and (3) That to enable such publicly-owned hospitals
and other health care facilities to continue to operate adequately and efficiently, it is
necessary that the entities and agencies...
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40-9-34
Section 40-9-34 Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology. (a) The following is hereby found
and declared by the Legislature of Alabama: (1) The lack of content in natural and bio-science
education offered to students in kindergarten through high school is a nationwide problem.
(2) Such lack in curricular offerings to students will be detrimental in the long-term to
the economy of the state and the welfare of the citizens during the scientific revolution
now engulfing the world. (3) The biotechnology institute can provide to education leaders
of the distance learning program of the state cutting edge biotechnology curriculum recommendations
and content for Alabama high schools, by providing information about cutting edge biotechnology
curriculum and content to students in kindergarten through high school pursuant to the distance
learning program of the state, the state course of study, and state textbooks. (4) By educating
Alabama high school students in the field of biotechnology, such...
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