16-47-121
Section 16-47-121 Board of Medical Scholarship Awards - Created; authorization to issue scholarships; agreements with loan recipients. There is hereby created a Board of Medical Scholarship Awards, which shall establish scholarships and loans to provide for the medical training of qualified applicants for admission, or students in, the University of Alabama School of Medicine or the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, or any other accredited or provisionally accredited school of medicine in Alabama. The recipients of loan awards shall enter into a valid agreement with the Board of Medical Scholarship Awards to practice the profession of medicine in those areas and localities of Alabama as may be determined by the board for a number of years to be stipulated in the agreement. (Acts 1977, No. 663, p. 1125, §1; Acts 1994, No. 94-103, p. 110, §1.)...
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16-6B-1
Section 16-6B-1 Student achievement. (a) The Legislature finds that the people of Alabama desire two basic things from their public schools: (1) High achievement for students. (2) A safe and orderly environment in which to learn. (b) The Legislature encourages the State Board of Education to assist local boards of education in the development of a strong disciplinary policy and directs the State Board of Education to develop a program to closely monitor student achievement. (1) The State Board of Education shall require implementation of an assessment program for the public schools of Alabama. The assessment program may include nationally normed tests or criterion referenced tests, or both. These tests may be used to assist in the assessment of student achievement. The State Board of Education may also require the use of other tests and assessments as the board may deem necessary. (2) In grades 11 and 12, the State Board of Education shall implement an assessment and remediation...
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16-6B-2
Section 16-6B-2 Core curriculum. Every Alabama student shall be given instruction in grades kindergarten through twelve to prepare him or her to enter the world of work and/or to complete course work at the postsecondary level. In addition to a comprehensive core curriculum of academics, each local board of education shall offer a program of vocational/technical education. (a) The following words and phrases used in this section shall, in the absence of a clear implication otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations: (1) REQUIRED COURSES. Courses which are required to be taken by every student enrolled in public schools in the State of Alabama. (2) ELECTIVE COURSES. Courses which are neither mandatory nor required to be taken by any student enrolled in public schools in the State of Alabama. (b) The Legislature finds that students must become more literate in the basic skills needed to earn a living or to continue their education. The Legislature further finds that the...
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16-6B-3
Section 16-6B-3 Assistance programs. (a) Student strategy. The superintendent of the local board of education along with the staff of each school shall develop an assistance program at each school for at-risk students performing below the standards set by the State Board of Education. The standards shall include the results of the required assessment program adopted by the State Board of Education with emphasis on students who are found to be at one or more grade levels below the prescribed norm. The local board of education shall budget at least one hundred dollars ($100) per student so identified to be expended on tutorial assistance programs including, but not limited to, after-school, Saturday school, or summer school, or any combination of these programs. These funds may be budgeted from state or federal funds. However, federal funds already budgeted for at-risk students may not be counted toward the minimum one hundred dollars ($100) requirement set aside to be expended for...
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32-6-41
Section 32-6-41 Board created; membership, appointment, expenses, meetings, etc. (a) There is hereby created within the state Department of Public Safety a Driver License Medical Advisory Board for the purposes of advising the director concerning the medical aspects of driver licensure. (b) The board shall consist of a minimum of 18 physicians appointed by the director, from a slate of nominees submitted by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and one licensed optometrist appointed by the director from a slate of nominees submitted by the Alabama Optometric Association. Each member of the board shall be licensed to practice in this state. (c) The board shall be appointed initially as follows: Six members to serve two-year terms, six members to serve three-year terms, and six members to serve four-year terms; thereafter appointments shall be for four-year terms, and vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. The director may increase or...
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34-24-306
Section 34-24-306 Voluntary restriction on license. (a) An assistant to physician may surrender his or her license to practice as an assistant to physician or request in writing to the Board of Medical Examiners that a restriction be placed upon his or her license to practice as an assistant to physician within the State of Alabama. The board may accept a surrender or grant such a request for restriction and shall have the authority, if it deems appropriate, to attach such restrictions to the license of the assistant to physician to practice as an assistant to physician within the State of Alabama. Removal of a voluntary restriction on the license of an assistant to physician shall be done only with the approval of the Board of Medical Examiners. If the board accepts the surrender of a license of an assistant to physician, any current registration of the assistant to physician shall be automatically terminated, the license shall be withdrawn, and the assistant to physician shall not be...
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34-24-521
Section 34-24-521 Definitions. In this compact, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) BYLAWS. Those bylaws established by the interstate commission pursuant to Section 34-24-530 for its governance, or for directing and controlling its actions and conduct. (b) COMMISSIONER. The voting representative appointed by each member board pursuant to Section 34-24-530. (c) CONVICTION. A finding by a court that an individual is guilty of a criminal offense through adjudication, or entry of a plea of guilty or no contest to the charge by the offender. Evidence of an entry of a conviction of a criminal offense by the court shall be considered final for purposes of disciplinary action by a member board. (d) EXPEDITED LICENSE. A full and unrestricted medical license granted by a member state to an eligible physician through the process set forth in the compact. (e) INTERSTATE COMMISSION. The interstate commission created pursuant to Section 34-24-530. (f) LICENSE. Authorization by a...
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34-29-78
Section 34-29-78 Injunction against unauthorized practice of veterinary medicine. The board or any citizen of this state may bring action in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County to enjoin any person from practicing veterinary medicine without a currently valid license or temporary permit. If the court finds that the person is violating or is threatening to violate this article, it shall enter an injunction restraining him or her from such unlawful acts. The successful maintenance of an action based on any one of the remedies set forth in this section shall in no way prejudice the prosecution of an action based on any other of the remedies. (Acts 1986, No. 86-500, p. 956, §19; Acts 1997, 97-249, §1.)...
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16-28-2.1
Section 16-28-2.1 Adoption of standards for mandatory attendance policy; parents held accountable; enforcement. The Legislature finds that mandatory attendance policies for schools differ from school system to school system throughout the State of Alabama. The State Board of Education shall adopt standards for a mandatory and enforceable attendance policy for all students in public schools in the State of Alabama. Parents shall be held accountable in accordance with Sections 16-28-12 and 16-28-7, for the failure of the child who is of compulsory attendance age to attend either public, private or church-school. Enforcement of this section shall lie with the local board of education and the juvenile court system. (Acts 1991, No. 91-323, p. 602, §15.)...
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27-26-1
Section 27-26-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) MEDICAL PRACTITIONER. Anyone licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of Alabama, engaged in such practice, and shall include medical professional corporations, associations, and partnerships. (2) DENTAL PRACTITIONER. Anyone licensed to practice dentistry in the State of Alabama, engaged in such practice, and such term includes professional dental corporations, associations, and partnerships. (3) MEDICAL INSTITUTION. Any licensed hospital, or any physicians' or dentists' offices or clinics containing facilities for the examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of human illnesses. (4) PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION. Any medical or dental professional corporation or any medical or dental professional association. (5) PHYSICIAN. Any person licensed to practice medicine in Alabama. (6) DENTIST. Any person licensed to practice...
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