36-27A-1
Section 36-27A-1 Legislative intent. It is the intent of the Legislature to make available
to the public employees and officials of the State of Alabama, or any political subdivision
thereof, a public employees' individual retirement account plan and/or any other tax avoidance
or deferral plan permitted by federal law, so as to enable said persons to conveniently and
economically receive the fullest benefits offered by federal tax law as it relates to tax
deferred savings plans for public employees covered by a mandatory public retirement plan.
(Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-776, p. 278, §1; Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-685, p. 80,
§1; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-925, p. 535, §1.)...
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8-1-197
Section 8-1-197 Legislative intent; application. It is hereby declared that this article expresses
fundamental public policies of the State of Alabama. Therefore, this article shall govern
and shall be applied instead of any foreign laws that might otherwise be applicable in those
instances when the application of those foreign laws would violate a fundamental public policy
expressed in this article. (Act 2015-465, §8.)...
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16-16-14.2
Section 16-16-14.2 Legislative intent. Act 2010-731 is adopted by the Legislature of the State
of Alabama to amend certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975 and certain prior acts
of the Legislature of Alabama and to make other provisions in a manner intended to permit
the Alabama Public School and College Authority (the authority) to issue bonds, notes, or
other debt obligations under the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009 or other governmental program providing cost-savings or conditions acceptable to the
authority. The issuance of such bonds, notes, or other debt obligations by the authority for
the benefit of local boards of education in the state will provide financing for such local
boards on favorable terms and will thereby serve an essential need of the citizens of the
state. Bonds of the authority in the form of bonds, notes, or other debt obligations under
the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or other...
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41-16A-2
Section 41-16A-2 Legislative intent. It is hereby found and declared by the Legislature of
Alabama that it is in the public interest that the state, political subdivisions, agencies,
boards, commissions, and departments thereof, the various counties of the state, the various
municipal corporations within the state, county boards of education, city boards of education,
instrumentalities of any of the foregoing, and public corporations arising under or organized
pursuant to any statute of the state shall have the flexibility to finance the acquisition,
installation, equipping, and/or improvement of any eligible property that such governmental
entity otherwise is legally authorized to acquire through the use of lease, lease-purchase,
and/or installment-purchase financing. It is the intention of the Legislature by passage of
this chapter that wherever, either by express grant or by implication, a governmental entity
has the power and authority to acquire any eligible property by purchase,...
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11-54A-1
Section 11-54A-1 Legislative intent. The revitalization and redevelopment of any business district
of any city in Alabama develops and promotes for the public good and general welfare trade,
commerce, industry, and employment opportunities and promotes the general welfare of the city
and state by creating a climate favorable to the location of new industry, trade, and commerce.
Revitalization and redevelopment of a business district by financing projects under the chapter
will develop and promote for the public good and general welfare trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities and will promote the general welfare of the city and state. It
is therefore in the public interest and is vital to the public welfare of the people of Alabama,
and it is hereby declared to be the public purpose of this chapter, to so revitalize and redevelop
any business district of any city in the state. (Acts 1985, No. 85-683, §1; Act 2004-630,
p. 1439, §1.)...
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11-95-1
Section 11-95-1 Legislative intent; liberal construction of chapter. It is the intent of the
Legislature by the passage of this chapter to promote the public health of the people of the
State of Alabama by authorizing each county and any municipality located in such county to
act jointly in authorizing the incorporation of one or more public corporations for the purpose
of providing public hospital facilities in such county and to invest each corporation so organized
with all powers that may be necessary to enable it to accomplish such purpose. This chapter
shall be liberally construed in conformity with said intent. (Acts 1981, No. 81-338, p. 480,
§1.)...
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28-8-1
Section 28-8-1 Legislative policy and intent. Pursuant to the authority of this state under
the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, the policy and intent of the
Legislature in the enactment of this chapter are to further regulate and control alcoholic
beverage transactions in Alabama under the control and supervision of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board; to promote and assure the public's interest in fair and efficient distribution
and quality control of alcoholic beverages in Alabama; to promote orderly marketing of alcoholic
beverages; to promote vigorous inter-brand competition; and to facilitate collection of state
and local revenue. (Acts 1984, No. 84-374, p. 876, §1.)...
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34-14A-1
Section 34-14A-1 Legislative intent. In the interest of the public health, safety, welfare,
and consumer protection and to regulate the home building and private residence construction
industry, the purpose of this chapter, and the intent of the Legislature in passing it, is
to provide for the licensure of those persons who engage in home building, private residence
construction, and home improvement industries, including remodeling, and to provide home building
standards and to support education within the construction trades in the State of Alabama.
The Legislature recognizes that the home building and home improvement construction industries
are significant industries. Home builders may pose significant harm to the public when unqualified,
incompetent, or dishonest home builders and remodelers provide inadequate, unsafe, or inferior
building services. The Legislature finds it necessary to regulate the residential home building
and home improvement industries. (Acts 1992, No. 92-608,...
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34-28A-2
Section 34-28A-2 Declaration of policy and legislative intent. It is declared that the practice
of speech-language pathology and audiology is a privilege which is granted to qualified persons
by legislative authority in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare, and, in enacting
this law, it is the intent of the Legislature to require educational training and licensure
of any person who engages in the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology, or both,
to encourage better educational training programs, to prohibit the unauthorized and unqualified
practice of speech-language pathology or audiology, or both, and the unprofessional conduct
of persons licensed to practice speech-language pathology and audiology and to provide for
enforcement of this chapter and penalties for its violation. To help insure the availability
of the highest possible quality speech-language pathology or audiology services, or both,
to the communicatively handicapped people of the state, it is...
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9-10B-2
Section 9-10B-2 Legislative findings; exemptions. The Legislature of the State of Alabama hereby
finds and declares that: (1) All waters of the state, whether found on the surface of the
ground or underneath the surface of the ground, are among the basic resources of the State
of Alabama; (2) The use of waters of the state for human consumption is recognized as a priority
use of the state and it is the intent of this chapter that no limitation upon the use of water
for human consumption shall be imposed except in emergency situations after the Office of
Water Resources has considered all feasible alternatives to such limitations; (3) The use
of such waters should be conserved and managed to enable the people of this state to realize
the full beneficial use thereof and to maintain such water resources for use in the future;
(4) The general welfare of the people of this state is dependent upon the dedication of the
water resources of the State of Alabama to beneficial use to the fullest...
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