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9-13-271
Section 9-13-271 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
application of prescribed burning is a landowner property right and a land management tool
that benefits the safety of the public, the environment, the natural resources, and the economy
of Alabama. Therefore, the Legislature finds that: (1) Prescribed burning reduces naturally
occurring vegetative fuels within wildland areas. The reduction of the fuel load reduces the
risk and severity of major catastrophic wildfire, thereby reducing the threat of loss of life
and property, particularly in urbanizing areas. (2) Many of Alabama's natural communities
require periodic fire for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Prescribed burning is
essential to the perpetuation, restoration, and management of many plant and animal communities.
Significant loss of the state's biological diversity will occur if fire is excluded from fire-dependent
ecosystems. (3) Forest lands constitute significant...
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9-14A-2
Section 9-14A-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is
necessary, desirable and in the public interest that the state parks system, public historical
sites, and public historical parks be maintained and improved. It is the intention of the
Legislature by the passage of this chapter to authorize the formation of two public corporations
for the purposes of providing for the acquisition, provision, construction, improvement, renovation,
equipping, and maintenance of the state parks system, public historical sites, and public
historical parks, and to authorize the corporations to provide for payment of the costs of
accomplishing the stated purposes by implementing Amendment 617 to the Constitution of Alabama
of 1901 authorizing the issuance by the state of up to $110,000,000 in aggregate principal
amount of general obligation bonds, which amendment was proposed by Act 98-413 and ratified
by the electors of the state at the 1998 General Election, and by...
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11-47-14.1
Section 11-47-14.1 Construction of port facilities by Class 1 municipalities; bonds and other
contributions. (a) Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds that the Tombigbee
Waterway will soon be completed, and the transportation opportunities afforded thereby must
be fully utilized if Alabama is to benefit from economic growth and job development potential
afforded by this project, and that local governments need broader authorization to participate
in the development of river port facilities necessary to accomplish this purpose. (b) Municipalities
authorized to construct port facilities; limitations thereon. The council or other governing
body of any Class 1 municipality may alter and change the channel of any watercourse within
25 miles of such municipality and may construct and maintain wharves and construct buildings
and other improvements on and near wharves and wharf sites, within such municipality or within
25 miles of the limits thereof, and may collect wharfage...
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17-5-8.2
Section 17-5-8.2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature determines that there is a compelling
state and public interest in the disclosure of the source of funds used to advertise or otherwise
influence public opinion with regard to elections as defined in Section 17-5-2(3). The Legislature
further finds that these compelling interests should be designed to protect the public's right
to know while protecting free speech of individuals as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution
and the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (b) Currently, the Fair Campaign Practices Act, as
provided in this chapter, commencing with Section 17-5-1, et seq., regulates the disclosure
of contributions and expenditures made for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election.
This chapter is also intended to regulate the disclosure of contributions and expenditures
for electioneering communications. (c) The Legislature finds and declares that Alabama voters
have a right to know who pays for the costs of...
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34-27B-1
Section 34-27B-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares that the practice
of respiratory therapy in Alabama affects the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens
of Alabama. It, therefore, should be subject to regulation and control, in the public interest
to protect the citizenry against the unauthorized, unqualified, and improper administration
of respiratory therapy and from unprofessional or unethical conduct by persons licensed to
practice respiratory therapy. (Act 2004-518, p. 1038, ยง1.)...
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41-10-540
Section 41-10-540 Legislative findings; construction. The Legislature finds and declares the
following: That the State of Alabama, acting in its own name and through various public corporations,
has made substantial financial contractual commitments for incentives to industries agreeing
to locate or expand their operations in Alabama; that the creation of a state-level agency
with power to fund the commitments is desirable and in the public interest; that by the passage
of this division it is the intention to provide for the creation of Alabama Incentives Financing
Authority with broad powers to meet existing commitments made by the state to industries committing
to locate or expand in the state; and that it is necessary and in the public interest that
the authority pledge for payment of its obligations the funds appropriated to the authority
in order to enable it to fund existing commitments and to carry out functions that are essential
to the public welfare. This division shall be...
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11-54B-1
Section 11-54B-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature finds: (1) That patterns of urban
development have had a substantial adverse impact upon downtown and community business districts
vital to the economies of Class 1 municipalities in Alabama. (2) That the public interest
would be advanced by authorizing the creation of self-help business improvement districts
and district management corporations to assist Class 1 municipalities in promoting economic
growth in business districts. (3) That district management corporations representing real
property owners within self-help business improvement districts can assist Class 1 municipalities
in promoting economic growth and employment within business districts. (4) That Class 1 municipalities
should be authorized to create self-help business improvement districts and designate district
management corporations to execute self-help programs to improve the local business climates.
(b) The Legislature further finds that it is the public...
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2-6-101
Section 2-6-101 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL CENTER BOARD or AACB. The Alabama Agricultural
Center Board established by Section 2-6-1, as amended by this article. (2) BOARD OF DIRECTORS
or BOARD. The board of directors of the Garrett Coliseum Redevelopment Corporation, the public
corporation created pursuant to this article. (3) BONDS. Includes refunding bonds unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise. (4) GARRETT COLISEUM or COLISEUM. The Alabama Agricultural
Center, the Garrett Coliseum, and all related properties located in Montgomery, Alabama. (5)
GARRETT COLISEUM REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION or CORPORATION. The public corporation created
pursuant to this article. (6) GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Any bonds or other obligations which,
as to principal and interest, constitute direct obligations of, or are unconditionally guaranteed
by, the United States of America, including obligations of...
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23-1-371
Section 23-1-371 Formulation, adoption, of aircraft approach plans; airspace reservations.
(a) The Legislature finds that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of the general
public, the users of airports, and the occupants of land in their vicinity, and reduces the
size of the area available for the landing, taking off, and maneuvering of aircraft, thus
tending to destroy or impair the utility of the airport and the public investment therein.
Accordingly, the creation, establishment, or maintenance of an airport hazard is a public
nuisance and harms the community served by the affected airport; it is therefore necessary
in the interest of the public health and safety and general welfare that the creation or establishment
of airport hazards be prevented and both the prevention of the creation or establishment of
airport hazards and the elimination, removal, alteration, mitigation, abatement, or marking
or lighting of existing airport hazards are public purposes for which...
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26-23C-2
Section 26-23C-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds all
of the following: (1) Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148,
federal tax dollars, via affordability credits, subsidies provided to individuals between
150-400 percent of the federal poverty level, are routed to exchange participating health
insurance plans, including plans that provide coverage for abortions. (2) Federal funding
of insurance plans that provide abortions is an unprecedented change in federal abortion funding
policy. The Hyde Amendment, as passed each year in the Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations
bill, and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, FEHBP, prohibit federal funds from
subsidizing health insurance plans that provide abortions. Under this new law, however, exchange
participating health insurance plans that provide abortions can receive federal funds. (3)
The provision of federal funding for health insurance plans that...
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