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22-18-6
Section 22-18-6 Violations; good Samaritan provisions; scope of privilege; control of emergency
scene; penalties. (a) It shall be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm, company, corporation,
organization, facility, or agency to do any of the following: (1) Deliberately hinder, obstruct,
or interfere with an officer, inspector, or duly authorized agent of the board while in the
performance of official duties. (2) Deliberately hinder, obstruct, or interfere with any physician,
licensed nurse, licensed EMSP, or emergency personnel exempt from licensure under this article
while that individual is providing emergency care to a third person or while that individual
is assisting at the scene of an emergency, directing traffic at the scene of an emergency,
or managing or helping to manage the scene of an emergency. (3) Violate subsection (c) or
(d). (4) Offer, provide, or perform, without a license or certificate to do so, an emergency
medical service or other function which, under this...
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34-24-293
Section 34-24-293 Powers and duties of board. (a) The Board of Medical Examiners shall have
and exercise all powers and duties previously granted to it. The board may make specific rules
and regulations pertaining to the licensure approval, registration, and regulation of assistants
to physicians. The board may also make specific rules and regulations pertaining to approvals,
disapprovals, and withdrawing approvals from physicians to utilize assistants to physicians.
(b) The board may recognize, approve, and disapprove new categories and specialties of assistants
to physicians as they develop in the delivery of health care. (c) The board shall issue certificates
of approval for programs for the education and training of assistants to physicians which
meet board standards. (d) In developing criteria for program approval, the board shall give
consideration to and encourage the utilization of equivalency and proficiency testing and
other mechanisms whereby full credit is given to trainees...
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15-22-43
Section 15-22-43 Special medical parole docket; implementation; factors considered; annual
report. (a)(1) The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall establish a special medical parole docket
and adopt the rules for implementation pursuant to Section 15-22-24(e). For each person considered
for medical parole, the board shall determine whether the person is a geriatric inmate, permanently
incapacitated inmate, or terminally ill inmate for purposes of placing the person on a special
medical parole docket to be considered for parole by the board. An open public hearing shall
be held, pursuant to Section 15-22-23, to consider the medical parole of the inmate. Notices
of the hearing shall be sent pursuant to Sections 15-22-23 and 15-22-36. The notice shall
clearly state the inmate is being considered for a medical parole. (2) The Department of Corrections
shall immediately provide, upon request from the board, a list of geriatric, permanently incapacitated,
and terminally ill inmates who are...
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20-2-54
Section 20-2-54 Registration of persons manufacturing, distributing or dispensing controlled
substances - Revocation or suspension of registration - Grounds and procedure generally. (a)
A registration under Section 20-2-52 to manufacture, distribute or dispense a controlled substance
may be suspended or revoked by the certifying boards upon a finding that the registrant: (1)
Has furnished false or fraudulent material information in any application filed under this
article; (2) Has been convicted of a crime under any state or federal law relating to any
controlled substance; (3) Has had his federal registration suspended or revoked to manufacture,
distribute or dispense controlled substances; (4) Has violated the provisions of Chapter 23
of Title 34; or (5) Has, in the opinion of the certifying board, excessively dispensed controlled
substances for any of his patients. a. A registrant may be considered to have excessively
dispensed controlled substances if his certifying board finds...
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22-19-182
Section 22-19-182 Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction
of coroner or medical examiner. (a) Upon request of a procurement organization, a coroner
or medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization the name, contact information,
and available medical and social history of a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction
of the coroner or medical examiner. Specific operational details regarding visitation, referral
methods, recovery logistics, and efforts to minimize interruptions to the operations of the
coroner and/or medical examiner will be established in the protocols referenced in Section
22-19-181 (d). Section 164.512 of the Health Information Portability and Protection Act, enacted
1996, specifies that a covered entity may use or disclose protected health information to
organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or
transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissues for the...
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22-52-91
Section 22-52-91 Duty of law enforcement officer, community mental health officer to take into
custody alleged mentally ill persons; detention; admission; hearing. (a) When a law enforcement
officer is confronted by circumstances and has reasonable cause for believing that a person
within the county is mentally ill and also believes that the person is likely to be of immediate
danger to self or others, the law enforcement officer shall contact a community mental health
officer. The community mental health officer shall join the law enforcement officer at the
scene and location of the person to assess conditions and determine if the person needs the
attention, specialized care, and services of a designated mental health facility. If the community
mental health officer determines from the conditions, symptoms, and behavior that the person
appears to be mentally ill and poses an immediate danger to self or others, the law enforcement
officer shall take the person into custody and,...
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27-45-2
Section 27-45-2 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the respective
meanings herein set forth, unless the context shall otherwise require: (1) ALABAMA INSURANCE
CODE. Title 27 of the Code of Alabama 1975. (2) INSURER. Such term shall have the meaning
ascribed in Section 27-1-2. (3) PERSON. Such term shall have the meaning ascribed in Section
27-1-2. (4) COMMISSIONER and DEPARTMENT. Such terms, respectively, shall have the meanings
ascribed in Section 27-1-2. (5) CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION. Any obligation under covered policies
or employee benefit plans. (6) COVERED POLICY OR PLAN. Any policy, employee benefit plan,
or contract within the scope of this article. (7) HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY. Any individual,
group, blanket, or franchise insurance policy, insurance agreement, or group hospital service
contract providing for pharmaceutical services, including without limitation, prescription
drugs, incurred as a result of accident or sickness, or to prevent same....
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13A-6-21
Section 13A-6-21 Assault in the second degree. (a) A person commits the crime of assault in
the second degree if the person does any of the following: (1) With intent to cause serious
physical injury to another person, he or she causes serious physical injury to any person.
(2) With intent to cause physical injury to another person, he or she causes physical injury
to any person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument. (3) He or she recklessly
causes serious physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous
instrument. (4) With intent to prevent a peace officer, as defined in Section 36-21-60, a
detention or correctional officer at any municipal or county jail or state penitentiary, emergency
medical personnel, a utility worker, or a firefighter from performing a lawful duty, he or
she intends to cause physical injury and he or she causes physical injury to any person. For
the purpose of this subdivision, a person who is a peace officer who is...
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22-13-70
Section 22-13-70 Standardized summary of treatment methods, reconstruction options, and availability
of coverage. (a) The Alabama Department of Public Health shall develop a standardized written
summary, in plain nontechnical language, which shall contain all of the following: (1) An
explanation of the alternative medically viable methods of treating breast cancer including,
but not limited to, hormonal, radiological, chemotherapeutic, or surgical treatments, or combinations
thereof. (2) Information on breast reconstructive surgery including, but not limited to, the
use of breast implants, their side effects, risks, and other pertinent information to aid
a person in deciding on a course of treatment. (3) An explanation of the special provisions
relating to mastectomy, lymph node dissection, lumpectomy, and breast reconstructive surgery
coverage, and second opinion coverage, including out-of-network options, under the insurance
law, Section 22-6-10, Section 22-6-11, and Chapter 50,...
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22-18-1
Section 22-18-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL
TECHNICIAN. Any person 18 years of age or older who satisfies all of the following: a. Has
successfully completed the advanced emergency medical technician course of instruction, or
its equivalent, as approved by the State Board of Health. b. Has passed the state Advanced
EMT examination, as well as having met the requirements for becoming a licensed emergency
medical technician. c. Has been granted a license by the State Board of Health. (2) ADVANCED
LIFE SUPPORT (ALS). The treatment of potentially life-threatening medical emergencies through
the use of invasive medical techniques specified as advanced life support techniques by the
Board of Health, which ordinarily would be performed or provided by licensed physicians, but
which may be performed by emergency medical service personnel during emergencies...
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