22-14-14
Section 22-14-14 Penalty for violation of article or rules, regulations or orders; notice of possible liability for civil penalty; civil action by Attorney General; considerations affecting amount of civil penalty; maximum penalty on small businesses; payment of penalty. (a) Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this article or rules, regulations or orders of the agency in effect pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail or by a sentence to hard labor for the county not exceeding 12 months, or by both fine and imprisonment or hard labor. (b) Any person who (1) Violates any licensing provision of Section 22-14-4 or Section 22-14-6 or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, or any term, condition, or limitation of any license issued thereunder, or (2) Commits any violation for which a license may be revoked under Section 22-14-11, shall be subject to a civil penalty...
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23-1-415
Section 23-1-415 Enforcement. The department may institute, in any court of competent jurisdiction, a civil action to enjoin, restrain, prevent, abate, or correct any violation of this article and violation of any determination, order, or ruling of the department. (Act 2009-579, p. 1701, §7.)...
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22-20A-7
Section 22-20A-7 Enforcement. The State Health Officer may apply for and the court may grant a temporary restraining order or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this article or any rule promulgated under this article, notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law. The injunction shall be issued without bond in the county where the violation occurred. (Act 2009-582, p. 1715, §7.)...
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9-17-15
Section 9-17-15 Judicial review of rules, regulations or orders. Any interested person aggrieved by any rule, regulation or order made or promulgated by the board under this article and who may be dissatisfied therewith shall, within 30 days from the date said order, rule or regulation was promulgated, have the right, regardless of the amount involved, to institute a civil action by filing a complaint in the circuit court of the county in which all or part of the aggrieved person's property affected by any such rule, regulation or order is situated to test the validity of said rule, regulation or order promulgated by the board. Such civil action shall be advanced for trial and be determined as expeditiously as feasible, and no postponement or continuance thereof shall be granted except for reasons deemed imperative by the court. In such trials the validity of any rule, regulation or order made or promulgated under this article shall be deemed prima facie valid, and the court shall be...
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13A-6-162
Section 13A-6-162 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) Any person, corporation, or other legal entity who engages in any act or practice that violates this article is liable for a civil penalty of up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for each violation. (b) Any person, corporation, or other legal entity who violates the terms of an injunction or order issued under this article shall forfeit and pay a civil penalty of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per violation and shall be adjudged in contempt. For the purpose of this section, any court issuing an injunction or order under this article shall retain jurisdiction, and in such cases the Attorney General may petition for recovery of civil penalties. (c) Upon a second or continuing violation of an injunction after imposition of the sanctions in subsection (b), and upon petition by the Attorney General,...
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22-6-25
Section 22-6-25 Enforcement remedies; adoption of criteria. Medicaid shall have such specific civil remedies of enforcement as is required by OBRA as a minimum state enforcement remedy. In order to ensure compliance with this article, Medicaid rules and regulations and OBRA, Medicaid shall also specify criteria, as to when and how each of such enforcement remedies is to be applied, the amounts of any fines, and the severity of each of these remedies, to be used in the imposition of such remedies. Such criteria shall be designed so as to minimize the time between the identification of violations and final imposition of the remedies, and shall provide for the imposition of incrementally more severe fines for repeated or uncorrected deficiencies. Such enforcement remedies and criteria shall be promulgated by rule or regulation pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedures Act no later than October 1, 1989. Medicaid shall not have the power to implement such specific enforcement...
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34-27-68
Section 34-27-68 Commission may seek injunctive relief, etc., for violation of article; investigation; revocation of registration. (a) If it appears that a person, firm, corporation, or any business entity has engaged, or is about to engage, in an act or practice constituting a violation of a provision of this article or rule or order of the commission, the commission, through the Attorney General, may institute legal actions to enjoin the act or practice and to enforce compliance with this article or any rule or order of the commission or to have a receiver or conservator appointed. To prevail in such action, it shall not be necessary to allege or prove either that an adequate remedy at law does not exist or that substantial or irreparable damage would result from the continued violation thereof. (b) The commission may: (1) Make any public or private investigation which it deems necessary, either within or outside of this state, to determine whether any person has violated or is about...
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9-17-109
Section 9-17-109 Violations; records; fees; assessment and hearing; filling of containers; installation, maintenance, etc., of appliances; damages. (a) Any person violating this article or any rule, order, or regulation promulgated pursuant to this article shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months. Every violation of this article or any rule, order, or regulation promulgated pursuant to this article shall constitute a separate offense. (b) Every person subject to the fees imposed by Section 9-17-106 shall keep and preserve suitable records of all liquefied petroleum gas transactions subject to fees and any other books or accounts necessary to determine the amount of fees for which the person is liable under this article. Those records shall be retained for a period of not less than three years, and shall include the name and...
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36-25A-9
Section 36-25A-9 Enforcement; hearings; penalties and remedies. (a) This chapter is designed and intended to hold members of governmental bodies, and the bodies themselves, accountable to the public for violations of this chapter. Therefore, enforcement of this chapter, except a violation of Section 26-25A-3(a)(1), may be sought by civil action brought in the county where the governmental body's primary office is located by any media organization, any Alabama citizen impacted by the alleged violation to an extent which is greater than the impact on the pubic at large, the Attorney General, or the district attorney for the circuit in which the governmental body is located; provided, however, that no member of a governmental body may serve as a plaintiff in an action brought against another member of the same governmental body for an alleged violation of this chapter. The complaint shall be verified, shall state specifically the applicable ground or grounds for the complaint as set out...
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37-14-13
Section 37-14-13 Judicial determination of legality, etc., of article - Hearing; entry of judgment; appeals. At the time and place designated in said order, the judge of said circuit court shall proceed to hear and determine all questions of law and of fact in said civil action, and he shall make such order, or orders, as to the proceedings in said civil action as will best preserve and protect the interests of all parties and to enable him to enter a final judgment with the least possible delay. The final judgment shall find the facts specially and shall state separately the judge's conclusions with regard to any and all legal issues raised with regard to any of the provisions of this article and proposed purchase and sale of distribution facilities and other transactions and restrictions under this article, together with other matters raised in the complaint, and shall state the judge's conclusions of law thereon. Any citizen of the state may appear in such proceedings, either...
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