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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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26-23A-3
Section 26-23A-3 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the
following meanings: (1) ABORTION. The use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug,
or any other substance or device with the intent to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known
to be pregnant. Such use or prescription is not an abortion if done with the intent to save
the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, remove a dead unborn child, or to deliver
an unborn child prematurely in order to preserve the health of both the mother (pregnant woman)
and her unborn child. (2) CONCEPTION. The fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum.
(3) EMANCIPATED MINOR. Any minor who is or has been married or has by court order otherwise
been legally freed from the care, custody, and control of her parents. (4) GESTATIONAL AGE.
The time that has elapsed since the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. (5) MEDICAL
EMERGENCY. That condition which, on the basis of the physician's...
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34-14-10
Section 34-14-10 Receipt to be furnished to person supplied with hearing instrument; persons
under age 18 to be first examined by physician. (a) Any person who practices the fitting and
sale of hearing instruments shall deliver to each person supplied with a hearing instrument
a receipt which shall contain the licensee's or apprentice's signature and show his or her
business street address and the number of his or her license or permit, together with specifications
as to the make and model of the hearing instrument furnished and the full terms of sale clearly
stated. If an instrument which is not new is sold, the receipt and the container thereof shall
be clearly marked as "used" or "reconditioned," whichever is applicable,
with terms of guarantee, if any. (b) Such receipt shall bear in no smaller type than the smallest
used in the body copy portion the following: "The purchaser has been advised at the outset
of his or her relationship with the hearing instrument apprentice, fitter, or...
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34-24-400
Section 34-24-400 Identification, treatment, etc., of impaired physicians; Alabama Physician
Wellness Committee; funding. It shall be the duty and obligation of the State Board of Medical
Examiners to promote the early identification, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation
of physicians and osteopaths licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama who may
be impaired by reason of illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol,
chemicals, or other substances or as a result of any physical or mental condition. For the
purposes of this article the term "impaired" shall mean the inability of a physician
or osteopath to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of
illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol, chemicals, or other substances
or as a result of any physical or mental condition. In order to carry out this obligation
the State Board of Medical Examiners is hereby empowered to contract with any...
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25-5-311
Section 25-5-311 Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board; creation, members, functions.
There is established a Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board composed of five physicians
licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama who shall be appointed by the Secretary
of the Department of Labor. The initial board shall be selected from a list of 15 physicians
who are members of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, submitted by the association.
Members of the board shall serve terms of five years. In order that the appointments be staggered,
one member shall serve an initial term of six years, one member shall serve an initial term
of two years, one member shall serve an initial term of three years, one member shall serve
an initial term of four years, and the remaining member shall serve an initial term of five
years. Thereafter, successors shall be appointed by the secretary from among a list of three
nominees submitted by the Medical Association of the State...
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32-5C-4
Section 32-5C-4 Medical exemptions. (a) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), upon
application from a person required for medical reasons to be shielded from the direct rays
of the sun, may issue an exemption from this chapter for any motor vehicle owned by the person
or in which the person is a habitual passenger. The application shall be supported by written
statement of that fact from a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state. Except
as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the exemption may be issued with the conditions and
limitations prescribed by ALEA. (b) An exemption granted pursuant to subsection (a) to persons
with light-sensitive prophyria shall apply to all areas of the windshield and windows prescribed
by the physician in the written statement submitted as part of the application. (c) ALEA shall
design a decal with a unique identification number to be issued to each person granted an
exemption pursuant to this section. The decal shall be placed on...
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34-40-10
Section 34-40-10 Reasons for rejection, revocation, or suspension of license. The board may
refuse to issue a license certificate to any person and, after notice and hearing pursuant
to its regulations and rules, may suspend or revoke the license certificate of any person
who has done any of the following: (1) Practiced athletic training other than under the direction
or referral, or both, of a physician licensed to practice medicine or surgery. (2) Uses drugs
or intoxicating liquors to an extent which affects professional competency. (3) Obtained or
attempted to obtain a license by fraud or deception. (4) Been grossly negligent in the practice
of athletic training. (5) Been adjudged mentally incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(6) Been guilty of conduct detrimental to the best interest of the public. (7) Has been imprisoned
for violating any state or federal controlled substance law. (8) Treated or undertaken to
treat human ailments otherwise than by athletic training...
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13A-6-221
Section 13A-6-221 Bestiality. (a) A person commits the crime of bestiality if he or she: (1)
Knowingly engages in or submits to any sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal. (2)
Knowingly causes, aids, or abets another in engaging in any sexual conduct or sexual contact
with an animal. (3) Knowingly permits any sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal
upon premises under his or her control. (4) Knowingly organizes, promotes, conducts, advertises,
aids, abets, observes, or performs any service furthering an act involving sexual conduct
or sexual contact with an animal for a commercial or recreational purpose. (b) Bestiality
is a Class A misdemeanor. (c) This article shall not apply to accepted animal husbandry practices,
conformation judging practices, or accepted veterinary medicine practices. (Act 2014-275,
p. 879, §2.)...
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22-11A-23
Section 22-11A-23 Any person believed exposed to diseases to be tested; any person believed
afflicted shall seek and accept treatment. Any person who the state or county health officer
has reason to believe has been exposed to any of the diseases designated under this article
shall be tested. Any person who the state or county health officer has reason to believe is
afflicted with any of the diseases designated under this article shall seek and accept treatment
at the direction of the health officer or a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §23.)...
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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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