29-5A-61
Section 29-5A-61 Purposes and duties. The general purposes of the Law Revision Division shall be to promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of Alabama to secure the better administration of justice and to carry on scholarly legal research and scientific legal work. To that end it shall be the duty of the division to do all of the following: (1) Consider needed improvements in both substantive and adjective law and to make recommendations concerning the same to the chairs and members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. (2) Examine and study the law of Alabama and Alabama jurisprudence and statutes with a view of discovering defects and inequities and of recommending needed reforms. (3) Receive and consider suggestions from members of the Legislature and the public generally as to defects and anachronisms in the law. (4) Recommend such changes in the law as it deems necessary to modify or eliminate antiquated and inequitable...
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16-6F-6
Section 16-6F-6 Authorization of establishment; Alabama Public Charter School Commission; registration requirements; powers and duties of authorizers. (a) Eligible authorizing entities. (1) A public charter school shall not be established in this state unless its establishment is authorized by this section. No governmental entity or other entity, other than an entity expressly granted chartering authority as set forth in this section, may assume any authorizing function or duty in any form. The following entities shall be authorizers of public charter schools: a. A local school board, for chartering of schools within the boundaries of the school system under its jurisdiction, pursuant to state law. b. The Alabama Public Charter School Commission, pursuant to this section. (2) A local school board that registers as an authorizer may approve or deny an application to form a public charter school within the boundaries of the local school system overseen by the local school board. (3) All...
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9-10C-4
Section 9-10C-4 Alabama Drought Assessment and Planning Team. (a) There is created the Alabama Drought Assessment and Planning Team (ADAPT) consisting of the following members: (1) The Office of Water Resources Division Director or his or her designated representative. (2) The AEMA Director or his or her designated representative. (3) The ADEM Director or his or her designated representative. (4) The Alabama Adjutant General or his or her designated representative. (5) The AGI Commissioner or his or her designated representative. (6) The ADCNR Commissioner or his or her designated representative. (7) The Alabama State Forester or his or her designated representative. (8) The State Geologist of Alabama or his or her designated representative. (9) The State Climatologist of Alabama or his or her designated representative. (10) The Chair of the Drought Monitoring and Impact Group (MIG) Subcommittee. (11) A representative from Choctawhatchee Pea River Watershed Authority. (12) Two members...
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36-25-3
Section 36-25-3 State Ethics Commission - Creation, composition; annual reports; compensation; political activities; director; personnel. (a) There is hereby created a State Ethics Commission composed of five members, each of whom shall be a fair, equitable citizen of this state and of high moral character and ability. The following persons shall not be eligible to be appointed as members: (1) a public official; (2) a candidate; (3) a registered lobbyist and his or her principal; or (4) a former employee of the commission. No member of the commission shall be eligible for reappointment to succeed himself or herself. The members of the commission shall be appointed by the following officers: The Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, or in the absence of a Lieutenant Governor, the Presiding Officer of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Appointments shall be subject to Senate confirmation and persons appointed shall assume their duties upon confirmation by the...
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22-40A-21
Section 22-40A-21 Scrap Tire Commission. (a) There is created the Scrap Tire Commission (STC) to review the implementation of this chapter, including the scrap tire program, and recommend changes to this chapter to the Legislature, as needed. The STC may promulgate regulations to establish procedures for its operations. On September 1, 2003, the present monies received under the existing Alabama Scrap Tire Study Commission (STSC) are transferred to the Scrap Tire Fund created herein. (b) The Scrap Tire Commission shall be comprised of the following individuals or their designees or a representative of each of the authorities listed below: (1) The State Health Officer. (2) The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (3) The Alabama Department of Transportation. (4) The Association of County Commissions of Alabama. (5) The Alabama Tire Dealers Association shall be represented by two members, one of which shall be the president of the association. (6) The Rubber...
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31-14-3
Section 31-14-3 Creation; composition; meetings; compensation; powers and duties. (a) There is created the Alabama Job Creation and Military Stability Commission. Members of the commission shall include a chair and two vice chairs. The chair shall be the Lieutenant Governor, or in the absence of a Lieutenant Governor, the chair shall be the Governor, or his or her designee. The vice chairs shall be the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, or his or her designee, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or his or her designee. (b) The commission shall also consist of the following members: (1) Two members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (2) Two members of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. (3) The Adjutant General of the Alabama National Guard. (4) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. (5) The Secretary of the Department of Commerce. (6) The Director of the Alabama...
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26-24-30
Section 26-24-30 Alabama Children's Policy Council. (a) The Alabama Children's Policy Council is hereby created and shall consist of the following members: Three appointees from business and industry made by the Governor; the Lieutenant Governor; the Speaker of the House of Representatives; two members of the Alabama Senate, one appointed by the Lieutenant Governor and one appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; two members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama; the legal advisor to the Governor; the Attorney General; the President of the Juvenile and Family Court Judges' Association; the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections; the President of the District Attorneys' Association; the President of the Chief Juvenile Probation Officers' Association; the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources; the Administrative Director of Courts; the Secretary of the...
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26-16-94
Section 26-16-94 State Child Death Review Team - Purpose; duties. The purpose of the state team is to decrease the risk and incidence of unexpected/unexplained child injury and death by undertaking all of the following duties: (1) Identifying factors which make a child at risk for injury or death. (2) Collecting and sharing information among state team members and agencies which provide services to children and families or investigate child deaths. (3) Making suggestions and recommendations to appropriate participating agencies regarding improving coordination of services and investigations. (4) Identifying trends relevant to unexpected/unexplained child injury and death. (5) Reviewing reports from local child death teams and, upon request of a local team, individual cases of child deaths. (6) Providing training and written materials to the local teams to assist them in carrying out their duties. Such written materials shall include model protocols for the operation of the local teams....
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9-18A-1
Section 9-18A-1 Enactment of Southern States Energy Compact. The Legislature hereby enacts, and the State of Alabama hereby enters into, the Southern States Energy Compact with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: "SOUTHERN STATES ENERGY COMPACT "Article I. Policy and Purpose. "The party states recognize that the proper employment and conservation of energy and employment of energy-related facilities, materials, and products, within the context of a responsible regard for the environment, can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south and the development of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum benefit from an acquisition of energy resources and facilities require systematic encouragement, guidance and assistance from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of the party states to undertake such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of...
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16-1-41.1
Section 16-1-41.1 School board governance improvement. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the School Board Governance Improvement Act of 2012. (b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the purpose of this section is to enhance the effectiveness of public education governance in Alabama through the establishment of training requirements, boardsmanship standards, and accountability measures that are designed to promote informed deliberations and decisions, to revise the qualifications for serving as a member of a local board of education, to provide for a code of conduct for each member of a local board of education in order to better ensure that any decision or action of a local board of education is based on the interests of students or the system, and to foster the development and implementation of organizational practices that are designed to promote broad support of the public schools. (2) A local board of education is the legally...
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