13A-7-80
Section 13A-7-80 Definitions; penalties. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words have the following meaning: (1) BUILDING. Any structure that may be entered and utilized by persons for business, public use, lodging, or the storage of goods. The term includes any vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft used for the lodging of persons or carrying on business therein and includes any railroad boxcar or other rail equipment or trailer or tractor trailer, or combination thereof. Where a building consists of two or more units separately occupied or secure, each shall be deemed both a separate building and a part of the main building. (2) STATE OF EMERGENCY. When the Governor duly proclaims the existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by fire, flood, storm, epidemic, technological failure or accident, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, earthquake,...
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13A-9-110
Section 13A-9-110 Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) HOME REPAIR. a. The repairing, replacing, altering, or the construction or renovation of an addition to a building on real property which is or will be primarily used as a residence. b. Home repair shall include: The construction, installation, replacement, repairing, or renovation of driveways, swimming pools, porches, kitchens, chimneys, chimney liners, garages, fences, fallout shelters, central air conditioning, central heating, boilers, furnaces, hot water heaters, electrical wiring, sewers, plumbing fixtures, storm doors, storm windows, awnings, roofs, insulation, and other improvements to structures within the residence or upon the real property adjacent thereto. c. Home repair shall not include: The sale, installation, cleaning, or repair of carpets; the sale of goods or materials by a merchant who does not...
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35-15-24
Section 35-15-24 Otherwise existing liability not limited. (a) Nothing in this article limits in any way legal liability which otherwise might exist when such owner has actual knowledge: (1) That the outdoor recreational land is being used for non-commercial recreational purposes; (2) That a condition, use, structure, or activity exists which involves an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm; (3) That the condition, use, structure, or activity is not apparent to the person or persons using the outdoor recreational land; and (4) That having this knowledge, the owner chooses not to guard or warn, in disregard of the possible consequences. (b) The test set forth in subsection (a) of this section shall exclude constructive knowledge by the owner as a basis of liability and does not create a duty to inspect the outdoor recreational land. (c) Nothing in this article shall be construed to create or expand any duty or ground of liability or cause of action for injury to persons on...
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34-14A-2
Section 34-14A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ADVISORY COUNCIL. The Alabama Construction Trade Advisory Council. (2) BOARD. The Home Builders Licensure Board. (3) COST OF THE UNDERTAKING. The total cost of the materials, labor, supervision, overhead, and profit. (4) HOMEOWNER. A person who owns and resides in or intends to reside in a structure constructed or remodeled by a licensee of the board, or who contracts with a licensee for the purchase, construction, repair, improvement, or reimprovement of a structure to be used as a residence. (5) IMPROVEMENT. Any site-built addition or enhancement attached to or detached from a residence or structure for use and enjoyment by the homeowner. (6) INACTIVE LICENSE. A license issued at the request of a licensee, or a building official or a building inspector, that is renewable, but that is not currently valid. (7)...
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34-27-50
Section 34-27-50 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) ACCOMMODATIONS. Any hotel or motel room, condominium, or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, apartment, or any other private or commercial structure designed for occupancy by one or more individuals or any recreational vehicle campsite or campground. (2) BUSINESS ENTITY. Any individual, corporation, firm, association, joint venture, partnership, trust, estate, business trust, syndicate, fiduciary, and any other group or combination which engages in acts or practices in any trade or commerce. (3) CONTRACT. Any contract, promissory note, credit agreement, negotiable instrument, lease, use agreement, license, security, or other muniment conferring on the purchaser the rights, benefits, and obligations of a vacation time-sharing plan. (4) COMMISSION. The Alabama Real Estate Commission. (5) COMMISSIONER. A member of the Alabama Real Estate...
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40-3-27
Section 40-3-27 Appeals - Duty to disclose information. (a) For protests and appeals of commercial and industrial property, operating as such at the time of valuation, any party that intends to offer into evidence a sale or lease transaction as evidence of the value of the property that is the subject of the protest before the board of equalization or appeal before the circuit court, shall have an affirmative duty to disclose both of the following: (1) Whether the proposed comparable property was occupied or unoccupied at the time of the transaction. (2) Whether the proposed comparable property was subject to any use, deed, or lease restriction at the time of the transaction that prohibits the property, on which a building or structure sits, from being used for the purpose for which the building or structure was designed, constructed, altered, renovated, or modified. (b) The purpose of the disclosure is to allow the court to determine whether the proposed comparable property is...
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45-49-140.10
Section 45-49-140.10 Service charges - Levy and collection. (a) The expense of establishing and maintaining a district shall be paid for by the proceeds of a service charge which shall be levied and collected in an amount sufficient to pay the expense. The service charge shall be levied upon and collected from persons and properties served by the system. Such charge shall be a personal obligation of the owner of the property served by the system, and to secure the collection of the charge there shall be a lien against the property in favor of the district, which lien shall be enforceable by sale thereof in the same manner in which the foreclosure of a municipal assessment for public improvements is authorized. (b) A property owner who owns a structure, used solely as a residence, which at the time of its original construction was situated on a county line, may avoid the payment of a service charge which is based upon the presence of such structure, if all of the following: (1) Between...
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11-53A-22
Section 11-53A-22 Notice to remedy unsafe condition or to demolish structure. (a) The term "appropriate city official" as used in this article shall mean any city employee designated by the mayor as the person to exercise the authority and perform the duties delegated by this article to the "appropriate city official." (b) Whenever the appropriate city official finds that a building, structure, part of a building or structure, party wall, or foundation situated in the city is unsafe to the extent that it is a public nuisance, the official shall give the person or persons, firm, association, or corporation last assessed for state taxes and all mortgagees of record written notice to remedy the unsafe or dangerous condition of the building or structure or to demolish the building or structure within the time set out in this article, or that the building or structure may be demolished by the city and the cost thereof assessed against the property. A copy of the notice shall be served by...
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33-6A-1
Section 33-6A-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) DEPARTMENT. The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (2) DISCHARGE. Includes, but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping in state waters. (3) MARINA. Any entity required to have a business license which is located on any waters of this state and which moors, docks, stores, or anchors vessels for periods of seven consecutive calendar days or longer for a fee. (4) MARINE SANITATION DEVICE. Any equipment for installation on board a vessel, or a floating or over-the-water residence, which is designated to receive, retain, treat, or discharge sewage, and any process to treat such sewage except that marine sanitation device shall not be interpreted to include portable toilets of any type. (5) RECREATIONAL VESSEL. Every description of watercraft or other...
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45-44A-40.01
Section 45-44A-40.01 Findings of appropriate city official; notice. The term appropriate city official as used in this part shall mean any city official or city employee designated by the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city as the person to exercise the authority and perform the duties delegated by this part to the appropriate city official. Whenever the appropriate city official of the city shall find that any building, structure, part of building or structure, party wall or foundation, accumulation and storage of junk, inoperable motor vehicles or parts of inoperable motor vehicles, abandoned dwellings and mobile homes, and litter around property and vacant lots, including, but not limited to, abandoned cars and appliances, situated in the city is unsafe to the extent that it is a public nuisance, the official shall give the person or persons, firm, association, or corporation last assessing the property for state taxes notice by personally serving upon the person,...
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