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41-17A-1
Section 41-17A-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of Alabama makes the following findings
and statements: (1) Energy use associated with the operation of state motor vehicle fleets
exacerbates local air quality problems and results in greenhouse gas emissions that contribute
to global climate change. (2) Agencies and departments of state government have a significant
role to play in improving local air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by improving
the energy efficiency of their fleets and reducing emissions from fleet operations. (3) Improving
the energy efficiency of state fleets will result in a significant monetary savings in the
long term. (b) The Legislature expresses its intent as follows: (1) To express its power as
a participant in the marketplace to ensure that purchases and expenditures of public monies
are made in a manner consistent with the policies of improving local air quality, reducing
Alabama's water pollution of hazardous waste oil, reducing the...
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26-10D-2
Section 26-10D-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds all of the following: (1) Alabama
provides state licensed child placing services through various state, charitable, religious,
and private organizations. (2) Religious organizations, in particular, have a lengthy and
distinguished history of providing child placing services that predate government involvement.
(3) Religious organizations have long been licensed and should continue to contract with and
be licensed by the state to provide child placing services. (4) The faith of the people of
the United States has always played a vital role in efforts to serve the most vulnerable,
and this chapter seeks to ensure that people of any faith, or no faith at all, are free to
serve children and families who are in need in ways consistent with the communities that first
inspired their service. (5) Religious organizations display particular excellence when providing
child placing services. (6) Religious organizations cannot provide...
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40-18-370
Section 40-18-370 Short title; legislative findings; definitions. (a) This article shall be
known and may be cited as the Alabama Jobs Act. (b) The Legislature makes the following findings:
(1) The economic well-being of the citizens of the state will be enhanced by the increased
development and growth of employment within Alabama. (2) It is in the best interests of the
state to provide certain incentives to allow the state to foster economic development through
the recruitment of quality projects and the expansion of existing businesses within Alabama.
(3) The incentives provided for in this article do not raise any taxes for any individuals
or businesses in Alabama under state law. (4) The incentives provided in this article will
allow the state to encourage the creation of new jobs that may not otherwise exist within
the State of Alabama. (5) The incentives provided in this article will increase revenues for
the state without increasing taxes. (6) The Constitution of the State of...
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40-20-1
Section 40-20-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The state Department of
Revenue. (2) ANNUAL. The calendar year or the taxpayer's fiscal year, when permission is obtained
from the department to use a fiscal year as a tax period in lieu of a calendar year. (3) VALUE.
The sale price or market value at the mouth of the well. If the oil or gas is exchanged for
something other than cash, if there is no sale at the time of severance or if the relation
between the buyer and the seller is such that the consideration paid, if any, is not indicative
of the true value or market price, then the department shall determine the value of the oil
or gas subject to the tax hereinafter provided for, considering the sale price for cash of
oil or gas of like quality. (4) OIL. Crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless
of gravity which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary...
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41-23-80
Section 41-23-80 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that the development, management,
efficient consumption, and conservation of residential energy resources are of prime importance
throughout this state and this nation. It is also important to ensure the protection of the
economic and environmental values of Alabama's citizens. It is the intent of the Legislature
to do each of the following pursuant to this article: (1) Encourage the conservation and efficient
use of residential energy resources within this state's counties and municipalities. (2) Provide
a governmental environment that will promote an initiative for the implementation of the Alabama
Energy and Residential Codes by the units of local government. (3) Advise and assist the units
of local government in adopting the Alabama Energy and Residential Codes and implementing
those code provisions within their boundaries. (4) Promote the identification of energy management
technologies available for residential uses,...
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22-30A-1
Section 22-30A-1 Legislative findings; purpose and intent of chapter. The Legislature finds
that hazardous substances have been treated, stored or disposed of at sites which are inactive
or abandoned and that such sites have the potential for deleterious impacts on groundwater,
human health or the environment. The Legislature, therefore, declares that it is in the public
interest to assure that such sites are identified and that action is taken to provide for
the cleanup and rehabilitation of such sites within the State of Alabama. The Legislature
intends that funds provided under this chapter be used primarily to clean up and rehabilitate
sites not qualified for or unlikely to receive funding under the Federal Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. ยง9601 et seq.) but that the funds
provided under this chapter may also be used to provide state matching funds for cleanups
and for operation and maintenance of sites which have completed...
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23-1-47
Section 23-1-47 Authority to maintain, etc., city and town streets and roads. (a) It is hereby
declared by the Legislature of Alabama that all city and town streets and roads in the State
of Alabama, including viaducts, bridges, and culverts, do now, and will in the future, serve
a state purpose and are of benefit to the people of the state, that said streets and roads,
including viaducts, bridges, and culverts, are public highways and bridges and that it is
a proper and legitimate function for the state to provide for the cost of maintaining, improving,
constructing, and reconstructing such streets and roads in cooperation with the city or town
involved. (b) The State Department of Transportation, hereinafter referred to as the department,
in cooperation with the city or town involved, is hereby authorized and empowered to make
expenditures from its funds for all, or any part of, the costs of maintaining, improving,
repairing, constructing, and reconstructing all or any portion of the...
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41-6A-2
Section 41-6A-2 Legislative intent. The Legislature finds that the development, management
and efficient use of energy resources and the conservation of energy is of prime importance
in an era of rising costs, foreign dependence and uncertain supplies. At the same time it
is also important to protect the economic, social and environmental values of the citizens
of the state. Such responsibilities require a comprehensive, coordinated capacity on the part
of the state to respond to the needs and demands of her citizens. It is therefore the intent
of the Legislature: (1) To ensure the wise development and efficient use of traditional energy
sources; (2) To encourage and assist the development, the use of renewable energy resources,
demonstration, and placement in the marketplace of viable, alternative energy sources, more
efficient uses of energy sources and other appropriate technology; (3) To encourage the conservation
and efficient use of all energy resources and to provide a...
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9-17-107
Section 9-17-107 Requirements as to storage capacity; exemption; submission of plans; construction
requirements; fees. (a) The board shall require that every applicant for a Permit A have located
within the State of Alabama a minimum of 30,000 (water gallon capacity) gallons storage capacity
for liquefied petroleum gases. Class B-1 permit holders shall be required to have a minimum
of 18,000 (water gallon capacity) gallons storage capacity of liquefied petroleum gas. (b)
If the required minimum storage consists of more than one container, then no storage container
in any installation used to meet this requirement of the law shall be a size less than 6,000
gallon (water capacity) and the storage capacity required by this section of the law shall
be within close proximity to the area serviced and used by the applicant to service the applicant's
customers in the State of Alabama. (c) The board shall require that such person shall submit
plans for the proposed bulk storage facility to the...
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22-30B-1.1
Section 22-30B-1.1 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that: (1) The state is increasingly
becoming the nation's final burial ground for the disposal of hazardous wastes and materials;
(2) The volumes of hazardous wastes and substances disposed in the state have increased dramatically
for the past several years; (3) The existence of hazardous waste disposal activities in the
state poses unique and continuing problems for the state; (4) As the site for the ultimate
burial of hazardous wastes and substances, the state incurs a permanent risk to the health
of its people and the maintenance of its natural resources that is avoided by other states
which ship their wastes to Alabama for disposal; (5) The state also incurs other substantial
costs related to hazardous waste management including the costs of regulation of transportation,
spill cleanup and disposal of ever-increasing volumes of hazardous wastes and substances;
(6) Because all waste and substances disposed at commercial...
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