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22-11A-10
Section 22-11A-10 State Board of Health to investigate reported cases of tuberculosis; voluntary
treatment; probate court may order compulsory treatment and quarantine; cost of treatment;
exercise of religious freedom. Whenever the State Board of Health or its authorized representative
shall discover, as a result of its own investigation or as a result of any report required
by this article, that any person may be afflicted with tuberculosis, the State Board of Health,
through its authorized representative, shall investigate or further investigate the circumstances
and, if after investigation, the representative of the State Board of Health is of the opinion
that an active case of tuberculosis is found, he shall encourage the person infected to take
voluntary treatment to meet the minimum requirements prescribed by the State Board of Health.
If such afflicted person refuses voluntary treatment, than the state board of health, through
its authorized representative, may petition the...
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22-11A-24
Section 22-11A-24 Commitment to Department of Public Health for compulsory treatment when person
exposed or afflicted and refuses treatment. When any person exposed to a disease or where
reasonable evidence indicates exposure to a disease or infection designated under this article
refuses testing or when any person afflicted with a disease designated under this article
refuses treatment and/or conducts himself so as to expose others to infection, the state or
county health officer or the designee may petition the probate judge of the county in which
such person is located to commit him to the custody of the Alabama Department of Public Health
for compulsory testing, treatment and quarantine. (Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §24.)...
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22-11A-11
Section 22-11A-11 Contract hospitals to admit indigent patients with chronic lung diseases;
costs. The State Board of Health, at its option, may authorize regional contract tuberculosis
hospitals to admit indigent patients afflicted with chronic lung diseases other than tuberculosis.
Costs for the care and treatment of indigent patients afflicted with chronic lung diseases
other than tuberculosis who are treated in regional tuberculosis hospitals under the provisions
of this article shall be paid in the same manner and from the same funds that the costs for
care and treatment of indigent tuberculosis patients are paid. (Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p.
904, §11.)...
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22-11A-3
Section 22-11A-3 Action of health officer upon being notified of diseases; quarantine. Whenever
the State Health Officer or his representative, or the county health officer or his representative,
is notified of any person or persons afflicted with any of the notifiable diseases or health
conditions designated by the State Board of Health, he shall, at his discretion, isolate or
quarantine such person or persons as further provided in this article. Such quarantine shall
be established and maintained in accordance with the rules adopted by the State Board of Health
for the control of the disease with which the person or persons are afflicted. (Acts 1987,
No. 87-574, p. 904, §3.)...
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22-1-7
Section 22-1-7 Procedure when county health officer, etc., resisted. If, in the attempt to
perform any duty enjoined by any public health law of the State of Alabama or rule or regulation
of the State Board of Health, the health or quarantine officer of a county, or his duly authorized
representative, shall be forcibly resisted or threatened with forceful resistance, such health
officer shall, after conference with the county board of health, if found necessary, make
affidavit before any judge of a circuit court, district court, municipal court or the judge
of probate of the municipality or county where such resistance occurs or is threatened, whereupon
the officer before whom said affidavit has been made shall forthwith issue his warrant directed
to the sheriff or to any bonded constable of said county, commanding said sheriff or constable
to remove or abate, under the direction of said health officer, said insanitary condition,
or source of infection or offensive or indecent material...
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22-11A-37
Section 22-11A-37 Testing and treatment of inmate of correctional facility. When there is reasonable
cause to believe that an inmate of any state correctional facility or any municipal or county
jail has been exposed to or is afflicted with any of the diseases designated by this article,
the State or county Health Officer may petition the superintendent of the facility to isolate
the inmate for compulsory testing, treatment and quarantine. (Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904,
§37.)...
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22-55-1
Section 22-55-1 Enactment of compact; terms. The Interstate Compact on Mental Health is hereby
enacted into law and entered into by this state with all other states legally joining therein
in the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH The contracting
states solemnly agree that: Article I The party states find that the proper and expeditious
treatment of the mentally ill and mentally deficient can be facilitated by cooperative action
to the benefit of the patients, their families and society as a whole. Further, the party
states find the necessity of and desirability for furnishing such care and treatment bear
no primary relation to the residence or citizenship of the patient but that, on the contrary,
the controlling factors of community safety and humanitarianism require that facilities and
services be made available for all who are in need of them. Consequently, it is the purpose
of this compact and of the party states to provide the necessary legal basis...
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34-21-25
Section 34-21-25 Denial, suspension, or revocation of license; administrative fines; voluntary
disciplinary alternative program. (a) For disciplinary purposes, the board may adopt, levy,
and collect administrative fines not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation
and may institute any legal proceedings necessary to effect compliance with this chapter against
its licensees. (b)(1) The board may also deny, revoke, or suspend any license issued by it
or otherwise discipline a licensee, or holder of a multistate privilege to practice in Alabama,
upon proof of any of the following regarding the licensee: a. Is guilty of fraud or deceit
in procuring or attempting to procure a license. b. Has been convicted of a felony. c. Is
guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude or of gross immorality that would tend to bring
reproach upon the nursing profession. d. Is unfit or incompetent due to the use of alcohol,
or is addicted to the use of habit-forming drugs to such an extent as to...
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22-11A-12
Section 22-11A-12 Statewide outpatient clinics; State Board of Health to contract for regional
tuberculosis hospitals; expenditures. (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health
to assure the statewide operation of outpatient clinics necessary for the treatment and control
of tuberculosis. These clinics shall make available anti-tuberculosis drugs, other tuberculosis
services, and conduct a continuing search for individuals infected with tuberculosis. (b)
The State Board of Health shall have the authority to contract with accredited general hospitals
to serve as regional contract tuberculosis hospitals and to determine the method of reimbursement.
The regional contract tuberculosis hospitals shall furnish the State Board of Health with
such reports as are required by the board. The Regional Tuberculosis Hospitals shall be compensated
in a manner fixed by the State Board of Health. (c) The amount of expenditure for the purpose
of treatment of tuberculosis, operation of clinics...
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22-2-2
Section 22-2-2 State Board of Health - Authority and jurisdiction. The State Board of Health
shall have authority and jurisdiction: (1) To exercise general control over the enforcement
of the laws relating to public health. (2) To investigate the causes, modes or propagation
and means of prevention of diseases. (3) To investigate the influence of localities and employment
on the health of the people. (4) To inspect all schools, hospitals, asylums, jails, theatres,
opera houses, courthouses, churches, public halls, prisons, stockades where convicts are kept,
markets, dairies, milk depots, slaughter pens or houses, railroad depots, railroad cars, street
railroad cars, lines of railroads and street railroads (including the territory contiguous
to said lines), industrial and manufacturing establishments, offices, stores, banks, club
houses, hotels, rooming houses, residences and other places of like character, and whenever
insanitary conditions in any of these places, institutions or...
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