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22-18-50
Section 22-18-50 Enactment and text of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate
Compact. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact is hereby enacted
into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially
as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public through verification of competency
and ensure accountability for patient care related activities all states license emergency
medical services (EMS) personnel, such as emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs
and paramedics. This Compact is intended to facilitate the day to day movement of EMS personnel
across state boundaries in the performance of their EMS duties as assigned by an appropriate
authority and authorize state EMS offices to afford immediate legal recognition to EMS personnel
licensed in a member state. This Compact recognizes that states have a vested interest in
protecting the public's health and safety...
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22-21-210
Section 22-21-210 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated,
the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) HOSPITAL. Any state, county, municipal or other public or private hospital licensed under
the laws of this state, except a hospital, whether public or private, which is operated primarily
for the care and treatment of tuberculosis, mental disorders or any other such chronic disease
or illness. (2) INDIGENT. Any person who has resided continuously in this state for not less
than one year and who is acutely ill or injured and can be helped markedly by treatment in
a hospital, but who is unable to pay the cost of such hospitalization from his own resources
or from the resources of those upon whom he is legally dependent. (3) PHYSICIAN. Any person
who has been duly licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama. (4) PARTICIPATING
HOSPITAL. Any hospital, as defined by this section, which has been...
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34-11-30
Section 34-11-30 Creation and composition; nominating committee; terms of office. (a) A State
Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors is created. It shall be the
duty of the board to administer this chapter. The board shall consist of five members licensed
as professional engineers, two members licensed as professional land surveyors, and two public
members. One of the professional land surveyor members may also be licensed as a professional
engineer. All members shall be appointed by the Governor. The five professional engineers
shall be appointed from a list of three persons nominated for each appointment by a professional
engineer nominating committee; the two professional land surveyors shall be appointed from
a list of three persons nominated for each appointment by the Alabama Society of Professional
Land Surveyors; and, once the board has adopted rules establishing a public member nominating
committee, the two public members shall be appointed from a...
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34-14-2
Section 34-14-2 Licenses or permits - Required; display; duplicates; corporations, partnerships,
etc. (a) No person shall engage in the sale of or practice of fitting hearing instruments
or display a sign or in any other way advertise or represent himself or herself as a person
who practices the fitting and sale of hearing instruments unless the person holds a license
or permit issued by the board as provided in this chapter. The license or permit shall be
conspicuously posted in his or her office or place of business. Duplicate licenses or permits
may be issued by the board to valid license holders operating more than one office, upon additional
payment determined by the board for each additional office. A license under this chapter shall
confer upon the holder the right to select, fit, and sell hearing instruments. (b) Nothing
in this chapter shall prohibit a corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other like
organization maintaining an established business address from...
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34-24-313
Section 34-24-313 Employment of investigators, agents, etc., to assist commission; assistance
of prosecuting attorneys; consultants. (a) The State Board of Medical Examiners may employ
investigators, attorneys, agents, and any other employees and assistants or use any other
means necessary to aid the commission in bringing about and maintaining a rigid administration
and enforcement of this article, and the board may incur reasonable, necessary, and proper
expenses for assisting the commission and for implementing this article and all laws regulating
the practice of medicine or osteopathy within the State of Alabama. The commission and the
board may request assistance from the Attorney General, district attorneys, or other prosecuting
attorneys of this state in the various circuits and counties. All prosecuting attorneys throughout
the state shall assist the commission or the board, upon request of either, in any action
for injunction or any prosecution without charge or additional...
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41-9-550
Section 41-9-550 Creation; composition; appointment; qualifications of members; meetings; quorum;
compensation; expenses; terms of office; chairman and executive secretary of board; vacancies
on board. There is created and established a board to be designated and known as the Alabama
Women's Hall of Fame. The board shall be composed of 11 members with at least one member chosen
from each of the following fields: politics, art, education, business, law, community service,
medicine, religion, and science. The initial members of the board shall be appointed by the
Governor. In addition, the Governor and the President of Judson College shall serve as voting
members of the board. The executive secretary shall serve as a nonvoting member of the board.
The board shall meet semiannually and at other times as its rules and bylaws may prescribe.
A quorum of five members of the board shall be present for business to be conducted. The board
may meet and transact any of its business by telephone...
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9-17-101
Section 9-17-101 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board - Creation; composition; meetings; rules and
regulations. (a) There is created and established the Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board.
The board shall be composed of eight members: The State Fire Marshal; the state Director of
Public Safety; the President of the Alabama Public Service Commission; four members who are
representatives of the liquefied petroleum gas retail Class A permit holders; and one member
of the general public who shall be appointed by the Governor. The membership of the board
shall be inclusive and reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity
of the state. (b) Members of the board who are representatives of the liquefied petroleum
gas retail permit holders shall have been legal residents of the State of Alabama for at least
five years next preceding the date of appointment and shall have been actively engaged in
the retail distribution of liquefied petroleum gas in this state for a...
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22-56-2
Section 22-56-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) CONSUMER. A person who receives or uses mental health services. (2) DEPARTMENT.
The Alabama Department of Mental Health. (3) FAMILY MEMBER. A person within the immediate
family or a legal guardian of a mental health consumer. (4) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. Services
designed to treat or deal with persons with mental illness. (5) MENTAL ILLNESS. A psychiatric
disorder of thought or mood, or both, which significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity
to recognize reality, or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life. "Mental illness"
as used herein specifically excludes the primary diagnoses of epilepsy, intellectual disability,
substance abuse including alcoholism, or a developmental disability, or any combination thereof.
(6) PROGRAM. A program for providing mental health services. (7) PROVIDER. Any agency, corporation,
or individual who provides inpatient,...
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22-5A-6
Section 22-5A-6 Procedures for resolving complaints. (a) A community ombudsman's access to
any health care facility shall be limited to standard operating hours unless prior arrangements
with the operator of the facility has been made. If the complaint involves more than one provider
or alleges to involve more than one provider, the ombudsman shall investigate all providers.
(b) Any complaint requiring remedial action and deemed valid by the ombudsman shall be identified
and brought to the attention of the administrator or provider involved and followed up in
writing within a reasonable time. Upon receipt of such document, the administrator or provider,
in coordination with the ombudsman, shall establish a course of appropriate remedial action.
If the remedial action is not forthcoming within a reasonable time, the ombudsman must refer
the case to the State Ombudsman who may take any one or more of the following actions: (1)
Allow more time if the State Ombudsman has reason to believe...
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27-1-16
Section 27-1-16 Standard health insurance claim form; electronic claims form; various claim
forms. (a)(1) The Commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall prescribe a standard health
insurance claim form to be used by all hospitals. The forms shall be prescribed in a format
which allows for the use of generally accepted diagnosis and treatment coding systems by providers
of health care and payors. The standard form shall be accepted and used by all insurers doing
business in the State of Alabama and by all state agencies which pay providers of health care
for hospital services. (2) The Commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall also prescribe
a format for all health insurance claims transmitted or submitted for payment by electronic
or electro-mechanical means. Such a format shall be used by all insurers doing business in
the State of Alabama and by all state agencies which pay providers of health care for hospital
services. (b) An advisory committee of five persons, two...
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