34-8B-1
Section 34-8B-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is
the policy of the state to promote the skill, art, and practice of court reporting in order
to assure that court reporters possess the necessary skills and qualifications and that a
board be established to prescribe the qualifications of court reporters and to issue licenses
to persons who demonstrate their ability and fitness for the licenses. This chapter is intended
to establish and maintain a standard of competency for individuals engaged in the practice
of court reporting and for the protection of the public, in general, and for the litigants
whose rights to personal freedom and property are affected by the competency of court reporters.
The examination, licensing, and supervision of the conduct and proficiency of court reporters
are integrally related to the effective, impartial, and prompt operation of the judicial system
of the State of Alabama. (Act 2006-200, p. 289, §1.)...
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9-13-271
Section 9-13-271 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
application of prescribed burning is a landowner property right and a land management tool
that benefits the safety of the public, the environment, the natural resources, and the economy
of Alabama. Therefore, the Legislature finds that: (1) Prescribed burning reduces naturally
occurring vegetative fuels within wildland areas. The reduction of the fuel load reduces the
risk and severity of major catastrophic wildfire, thereby reducing the threat of loss of life
and property, particularly in urbanizing areas. (2) Many of Alabama's natural communities
require periodic fire for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Prescribed burning is
essential to the perpetuation, restoration, and management of many plant and animal communities.
Significant loss of the state's biological diversity will occur if fire is excluded from fire-dependent
ecosystems. (3) Forest lands constitute significant...
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34-9-2
Section 34-9-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby declares that the practice
of dentistry and the practice of dental hygiene affect the public health, safety, and welfare
and should be subject to regulation. It is further declared to be a matter of public interest
and concern that the dental profession merit and receive the confidence of the public and
that only qualified dentists be permitted to practice dentistry and only qualified dental
hygienists be permitted to practice dental hygiene in the State of Alabama. All provisions
of this chapter relating to the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene shall be liberally
construed to carry out these objects and purposes. (b) The Legislature also finds and declares
that, because of technological advances and changing practice patterns, the practice of dentistry
and the practice of dental hygiene is occurring with increasing frequency across state lines
and that the technological advances in the practice of dentistry and in...
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38-15-2
Section 38-15-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that there is a substantial need
to protect children and youth from abuse and neglect by persons entrusted with their physical
custody, and from persons or organizations that advertise, hold themselves out, or lead others
to believe that they will provide them with health, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or disciplinary
services, and from persons employed or exercising authority over them, and who they depend
upon to provide the basic necessities of life. The Legislature further finds that abuse and
neglect often take the form of the withholding of the basic necessities of life, including
food, water, shelter, clothing, and health care through an affirmative act or omission. It
is the intent of the Legislature to implement a baseline of registration and regulation requirements
for religious, faith-based, or church nonprofit, other nonprofit, and for profit affiliated
youth residential facilities and institutions that have...
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41-10-350
Section 41-10-350 Legislative findings and purpose. The Legislature hereby finds and declares
that it is necessary, desirable and in the public interest that additional facilities be made
available in this state for mental health purposes. It is the intention of the Legislature
by the passage of this article to authorize the formation of a public corporation for the
purpose of providing for the acquisition, construction, improvement and equipment of the mental
health facilities (including improvements to existing facilities), and to authorize the said
corporation, in order to provide for payment of the costs of the said facilities, to anticipate
the proceeds of that portion of a special state tax (originally levied by Act No. 275, adopted
at the 1967 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama), that was levied for mental health
purposes by the issuance of the bonds of the said corporation payable solely from the proceeds
of the said tax. (Acts 1988, No. 88-475, p. 739, §1.)...
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41-9-338
Section 41-9-338 Legislative findings - Rosa Parks. The Legislature finds as follows as to
Rosa Parks: (1) On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery
bus. (2) This bold act led to the Montgomery bus boycott, a major event in the United States'
Civil Rights struggle. (3) Rosa Parks spent all of her life advocating for Civil Rights for
African-Americans. (4) Following the death of Rosa Parks, her body lay in honor in the rotunda
of the United States Capitol, making her the first woman given such honor, the second African-American,
and the first American who was not a government official. (5) A statue of Rosa Parks was placed
in the National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol by special action of the U.S. Congress.
(6) That a commemorative statue to honor Rosa Parks would be a worthy addition to the grounds
of the Alabama State Capitol, and the Legislature supports the inclusion of such a statue
in a place of prominence on the West front of the Capitol...
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26-22-1
Section 26-22-1 Legislative findings and intent. (a) The public policy of the State of Alabama
is to protect life, born, and unborn. This is particularly true concerning unborn life that
is capable of living outside the womb. The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds there
are abortions being done in Alabama after the time of viability and in violation of its public
policy. (b) The Legislature specifically finds the following: (1) Medical evidence shows there
is a survival rate of babies born between ages 23 weeks to 29 weeks gestational age of 64
percent to 94 percent. (2) In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 499 (1989),
the United States Supreme Court determined that viability may occur as early as 23 to 24 weeks
gestational age. Also, the United States Supreme Court determined that requiring fetal viability
testing at 20 weeks gestational age is constitutional, because there is up to a four week
margin of error in determining gestational age. (3) In the latest...
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38-13-1
Section 38-13-1 Legislative findings and intent. Under the National Child Protection Act of
1993, Public Law 103-209, 42 U.S.C. § 5119, et seq., the states are permitted to implement
a computerized information system to provide child abuse crime information through the Federal
Bureau of Investigation National Criminal History Record Information System. The states may
conduct a nationwide criminal history background check for the purpose of determining whether
an individual who shall have unsupervised access to children, the elderly, or individuals
with disabilities has been convicted of a crime that bears upon the fitness of the individual
to provide care to or have responsibility for the safety and well-being of children, the elderly,
or individuals with disabilities as defined in this chapter. The Legislature finds that there
is an important state interest and it is in the best interest of the children, the elderly,
and individuals with disabilities of Alabama to protect them from...
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11-62-2
Section 11-62-2 Legislative findings and declarations. It is hereby found and declared as follows:
There exists in the State of Alabama a serious shortage of adequate facilities for the housing,
care, and treatment of persons requiring special care, including orphans and persons who are
elderly, sick, physically disabled, or handicapped or mentally ill or retarded, as well as
a shortage of investment funds needed to finance such facilities; in order to alleviate the
shortage of such facilities, to encourage the continued operation of such facilities as now
exist and to enable certain not-for-profit organizations to finance such facilities it is
necessary and desirable to authorize the creation by municipalities in the state of authorities
which will have the power to increase the supply of investment funds available for such facilities
by selling and issuing bonds and notes and using the proceeds of such bonds and notes to (1)
acquire facilities for lease or sale to such not-for-profit...
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22-30F-2
Section 22-30F-2 Legislative findings; purpose and intent of chapter; establishment of revolving
loan program for voluntary remediation of environmentally contaminated areas. (a) The Legislature
finds that rural and urban property in Alabama may have areas of contamination which may be
addressed via the Alabama Land Recycling and Economic Redevelopment Act, Sections 22-30E-1
through 22-30E-13. The Legislature further finds that encouraging the voluntary remediation
and redevelopment of such properties is in the public interest. (b) The Legislature finds
that industries and developers often give preference to previously unused greenfield sites
over previously used property due largely to concerns over the financial and environmental
liabilities which may be incurred in acquiring such previously used property for reuse and
redevelopment. The Legislature further finds that the appropriate reuse and redevelopment
of properties which are contaminated, or perceived to be contaminated is in...
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