31-9-8
Section 31-9-8 Emergency powers of Governor. (a) The provisions of this section shall be operative
only during the existence of a state of emergency, referred to hereinafter as one of the states
of emergency defined in Section 31-9-3. The existence of a state of emergency may be proclaimed
by the Governor as provided in this subsection or by joint resolution of the Legislature if
the Governor in the proclamation or the Legislature in the resolution finds that an attack
upon the United States has occurred or is anticipated in the immediate future, or that a natural
disaster of major proportions or a public health emergency has occurred or is reasonably anticipated
in the immediate future within this state and that the safety and welfare of the inhabitants
of this state require an invocation of the provisions of this section. If the state of emergency
affects less than the entire state, the Governor or the Legislature shall designate in the
proclamation or resolution those counties to...
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36-29-9
Section 36-29-9 Contracts to provide for health insurance for retiring state employees, spouses
and dependents; adoption of rules and regulations for election by retiring employees or surviving
spouses and dependents as to participation, etc., in plan. The contract or contracts shall
provide for health insurance for retiring state employees and their spouses and dependents
as defined by rules and regulations of the board on such terms as the board may deem appropriate.
The board shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing the conditions under which retiring
employees, and in the event of the death of a retired employee their spouses and dependents,
may elect to participate in or withdraw from the plan. (Acts 1965, No. 833, p. 1564, §7;
Acts 1982, No. 82-519, p. 866, §1.)...
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22-20-6
Section 22-20-6 Butchering, etc., of legally taken wild animals. Any rule or regulation of
the Health Department to the contrary notwithstanding, legally taken deer, turkeys and any
other wild animal may be butchered, killed and/or processed at any slaughterhouse, abattoir,
meat-packing and processing plant in this state. (Acts 1967, No. 413, p. 1068.)...
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22-21-28
Section 22-21-28 Rules and regulations. (a) In the manner provided in this section, the State
Board of Health, with the advice and after approval by the advisory board, shall have the
power to make and enforce, and may modify, amend, and rescind, reasonable rules and regulations
governing the operation and conduct of hospitals as defined in Section 22-21-20. All such
regulations shall set uniform minimum standards applicable alike to all hospitals of like
kind and purpose in view of the type of institutional care being offered there and shall be
confined to setting minimum standards of sanitation and equipment found to be necessary and
prohibiting conduct and practices inimicable to the public interest and the public health.
The board shall not have power to promulgate any regulation in conflict with law nor power
to interfere with the internal government and operation of any hospital on matters of policy.
The procedure for adopting, amending, or rescinding any rules authorized by this...
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22-21-33
Section 22-21-33 Penalties for operation of or referring persons to unlicensed hospital. (a)(1)
Any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other
business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined in
this article or any rules promulgated hereunder, without having been granted a license by
the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor upon conviction, except
that any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or
other business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined
in this article or any rules promulgated hereunder without having been granted a license by
the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor upon conviction of a second
or any subsequent offense. (2) The State Board of Health, upon determination that a facility
or business is operating as a hospital, within the meaning of this article or...
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22-21-40
Section 22-21-40 Approval of design and construction of project. No licensee of the State Board
of Health or Department of Public Health, applicant for licensure from the State Board of
Health or Department of Public Health, or any person or entity seeking certification for reimbursement
under the Social Security Act or other law of the United States for which the State Board
of Health or Department of Public Health provides surveys or inspections shall commence or
in any fashion engage in any new construction, additions to, or alterations of any hospital
or other health care facility in the State of Alabama as defined by Section 22-21-20 and rules
of the State Board of Health without first submitting to the State Board of Health plans,
drawings, and specifications for the new construction, addition, or alteration, and receiving
review comments from the State Board of Health. Construction shall not begin until the licensee,
applicant, or submitter satisfies the State Board of Health...
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22-22-2
Section 22-22-2 Purpose of chapter; declaration of policy. Whereas the pollution of the waters
of this state constitutes a menace to public health and welfare, creates public nuisances,
is harmful to wildlife, fish and aquatic life and impairs domestic, agricultural, industrial,
recreational and other legitimate beneficial uses of water, it is hereby declared to be the
public policy of this state and the purpose of this chapter to conserve the waters of the
state and to protect, maintain and improve the quality thereof for public water supplies,
for the propagation of wildlife, fish and aquatic life and for domestic, agricultural, industrial,
recreational and other legitimate beneficial uses; to provide for the prevention, abatement
and control of new or existing water pollution; and to cooperate with other agencies of the
state, agencies of other states and the federal government in carrying out these objectives.
(Acts 1971, No. 1260, p. 2175, §1.)...
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27-21A-2
Section 27-21A-2 Establishment of health maintenance organizations. (a) Notwithstanding any
law of this state to the contrary, any person may apply to the commissioner for and obtain
a certificate of authority to establish and operate a health maintenance organization in compliance
with this chapter. No person shall establish or operate a health maintenance organization
in this state without obtaining a certificate of authority under this chapter. A foreign corporation
may qualify under this chapter, subject to its registration to do business in this state as
a foreign corporation under the provisions of Sections 10-2A-220, et seq. (b) Health maintenance
organizations licensed as of May 29, 1986, shall be issued a certificate of authority in accordance
with Section 27-21A-29. (c) Each application for a certificate of authority shall be verified
by an officer or authorized representative of the applicant, shall be in a form prescribed
by the commissioner, and shall set forth or be...
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34-2A-2
Section 34-2A-2 License required; permission to supervise multiple facilities. (a) All administrators
of assisted living facilities or specialty care assisted living facilities as recorded in
the records of the State Department of Public Health shall be issued a provisional license,
as defined herein, upon the effective date of this act. On and after September 1, 2003, no
assisted living facility in the state may operate unless it is under the supervision of an
administrator who holds a currently valid assisted living administrator's license, or new
initial provisional license, issued by the board. No person shall practice or offer to practice
assisted living administration in this state or use any title, sign, card, or device to indicate
that he or she is an assisted living administrator unless the person shall have been duly
licensed as an assisted living administrator or as a provisional assisted living administrator
in this state. In the event an assisted living administrator dies,...
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36-29-52
Section 36-29-52 Assignment of attachment of health benefits. In the case of any state law
authorizing the assignment of benefits or a lien against benefits under a health insurance
policy, the health benefits covered under any policy or plan of health insurance may not be
assigned by the insured or attached by lien if the policy provides coverage for excepted benefits,
as defined in Section 2791(c)(2), (3), and (4) of the Public Health Service Act. (Act 2013-245,
p. 593, §3.)...
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