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22-6-151
Section 22-6-151 Regional care organizations; governing board of directors; citizen's advisory
committee; solvency and financial requirements; reporting; provider standards committee. (a)
A regional care organization shall serve only Medicaid beneficiaries in providing medical
care and services. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a regional care organization
shall not be deemed an insurance company under state law. (c)(1) A regional care organization
and an organization with probationary regional care organization certification shall have
a governing board of directors composed of the following members: a. Twelve members shall
be persons representing risk-bearing participants in the regional care organization or organization
with probationary certification. A participant bears risk by contributing cash, capital, or
other assets to the regional care organization. A participant also bears risk by contracting
with the regional care organization to treat Medicaid beneficiaries...
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22-6-153
Section 22-6-153 Contract to provide medical care to Medicaid beneficiaries; enrollment; grievance
procedures; duties of Medicaid Agency. (a) Subject to approval of the federal Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Medicaid Agency shall enter into a contract in each Medicaid
region for at least one fully certified regional care organization to provide, pursuant to
a risk contract under which the Medicaid Agency makes a capitated payment, medical care to
Medicaid beneficiaries. However, the Medicaid Agency may enter into a contract pursuant to
this section only if, in the judgment of the Medicaid Agency, care of Medicaid beneficiaries
would be better, more efficient, and less costly than under the then existing care delivery
system. The Medicaid Agency may contract with more than one regional care organization in
a Medicaid region. Pursuant to the contract, the Medicaid Agency shall set capitation payments
for the regional care organization. (b) The Medicaid Agency shall...
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25-14-3
Section 25-14-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ADMINISTRATIVE FEE. The fee charged to a client by a professional employer organization
for professional employer services. The term does not include any amount of a fee by the professional
employer organization that is for wages and salaries, benefits, workers' compensation, payroll
taxes, withholding, or other assessments paid by the professional employer organization to
or on behalf of covered employees under the professional employer agreement. (2) CLIENT. A
person or entity that enters into a professional employer agreement with a professional employer
organization, including a worksite employer. (3) CONTROLLING PERSON. Any of the following:
a. An officer or director of a corporation operating as a professional employer organization,
a shareholder holding 25 percent or more of the voting stock of a corporation operating as
a professional employer organization, or a...
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25-14-9
Section 25-14-9 Written contract; rights and duties of clients; employees, and professional
employer organizations. (a) All professional employer organization arrangements shall have
a written contract between the client and the professional employer organization recognizing
the rights, responsibilities, and duties of each party. The contract shall disclose to the
client the services to be rendered by the professional employer organization, including the
total administrative fees charged for professional employer organization services, the respective
rights and obligations of the parties, and shall provide the following: (1) The professional
employer organization reserves a right of direction and control over contract employees and
exercises that right in the context of the need to do so according to the terms and conditions
of the professional employment agreement. The client, however, as an employer, may retain
sufficient direction and control over covered employees necessary to...
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36-26-14
Section 36-26-14 Deferred compensation plans for certain employees. (a) The personnel board
may adopt, establish, and maintain a deferred compensation plan or plans, except under Internal
Revenue Code Section 403 (b), for the employees of the State of Alabama or any city, town,
county, or public entity or corporation organized pursuant to the laws of this state. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, prior to the employees of a county or political subdivision of the county participating
in a plan, the employing county or political subdivision of the county shall approve participation
in the plan. The personnel board may include in any such plan any provision that does not
cause the plan to fail to qualify for its tax-favored treatment under the United States Internal
Revenue Code, including, but not limited to, participant loans, unforeseeable emergency or
hardship distributions, Roth deferrals, rollovers, transfers to purchase service credit, and
distributions to purchase a retired public...
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9-8-23
Section 9-8-23 Creation and incorporation of districts; increase or decrease in boundaries;
reorganization; change of name. (a) Any 25 owners of land lying within the limits of the territory
proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water
Conservation Committee asking that a soil and water conservation district be organized to
function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth: (1) The
proposed name of said district; (2) That there is need in the interest of the public health,
safety and welfare for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory
described in the petition; (3) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as
a district, which description shall not be required to be given by metes and bounds or by
legal subdivisions but shall be deemed sufficient if generally accurate; and (4) A request
that the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee duly define the boundaries...
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16-1-46
Section 16-1-46 Farm-to-school procurement processes and procedures. (a) This section shall
be known and may be cited as the Farm-To-School Procurement Act. (b) For the purposes of this
section, unprocessed agricultural products means only those agricultural products that retain
their inherent character. The effects of any of the following handling and preservation techniques
shall not be considered as changing an agricultural product into a product of a different
inherent character: Cooling, refrigerating, freezing; size adjustment through size reduction
made by peeling, slicing, dicing, cutting, chopping, shucking, and grinding; drying or dehydration,
or both; washing; the application of high water pressure or cold pasteurization; packaging,
such as placing eggs in cartons, and vacuum packing and bagging, such as placing vegetables
in bags; butchering livestock, fish, and poultry; and the pasteurization of milk. (c)(1) The
Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries and the...
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22-6-163
Section 22-6-163 Legislative findings; rules; collaboration; approval of agreements and contracts;
state action immunity; confidentiality of records; additional duties. (a) The Legislature
declares that collaboration among public payers, private health carriers, third party purchasers,
and providers to identify appropriate service delivery systems and reimbursement methods in
order to align incentives in support of integrated and coordinated health care delivery is
in the best interest of the public. Collaboration pursuant to this article is to provide quality
health care at the lowest possible cost to Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The
Legislature, therefore, declares that this health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates
the foreseeable displacement of competition, such that any anti-competitive effect may be
attributed to the state's policy to displace competition in the delivery of a coordinated
system of health care for the public benefit. In furtherance of...
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31-2-17
Section 31-2-17 Unauthorized wearing of uniform of United States Armed Forces. It shall be
unlawful for any person not an officer, warrant officer, or enlisted man of the United States
Armed Forces to wear the duly prescribed uniform or any distinctive part thereof, of the uniform
of the United States Armed Forces, within the boundaries of the State of Alabama; provided
that the foregoing provisions shall not be construed so as to prevent officers, warrant officers,
or enlisted men of the National Guard or Naval Militia, or such other organizations as the
Secretary of Defense shall designate, from wearing the prescribed uniform, nor to prevent
persons who in time of war have served honorably as officers of the United States Armed Forces,
regular or volunteer, whose most recent service was terminated by an honorable discharge,
muster out or resignation, from wearing, upon occasions of ceremony, the uniform of the highest
grade they held by brevet or other commission in such regular or...
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9-7-13
Section 9-7-13 Activities deemed permissible uses within coastal area; determination of additional
permissible uses. (a) The Legislature of Alabama finds that the following activities shall
constitute permissible uses within the coastal area: (1) The accomplishment of emergency decrees
of any duly appointed health officer of a county or municipality or of the state acting to
protect the public health and safety; (2) The conservation, repletion and research activities
of the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, the Marine Resources Division of the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium; (3)
The exercise of riparian rights by the owner of the riparian rights; provided, that the construction
and maintenance of piers, boathouses and similar structures shall be on pilings that permit
a reasonably unobstructed ebb and flow of the tide; (4) The normal maintenance and repair
of bulkheads, piers, roads and highways existing on the...
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