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35-9A-423
Section 35-9A-423 Remedies for absence, nonuse, and abandonment. (a) If a rental agreement
requires the tenant to give notice to the landlord of an anticipated extended absence in excess
of 14 days pursuant to Section 35-9A-304 and the tenant willfully fails to do so, the landlord
may recover actual damages from the tenant. (b) During any absence of a tenant in excess of
14 days, the landlord may enter the dwelling unit at times reasonably necessary. (c) If a
tenant abandons the dwelling unit, the landlord shall make reasonable efforts to rent it at
a fair rental. But such duty shall not take priority over the landlord's right to first rent
other vacant units. If the landlord rents the dwelling unit for a term beginning before the
expiration of the rental agreement, it terminates as of the date of the new tenancy. If the
tenancy is from month-to-month or week-to-week, the term of the rental agreement for this
purpose is deemed to be a month or a week, as the case may be. (d) If a...
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35-9A-301
Section 35-9A-301 Tenant to maintain dwelling unit. A tenant shall: (1) comply with all obligations
primarily imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions of building and housing codes materially
affecting health and safety; (2) keep that part of the premises that the tenant occupies and
uses as clean and safe as the condition of the premises permit; (3) dispose from the dwelling
unit all ashes, garbage, rubbish, and other waste in a clean and safe manner; (4) keep all
plumbing fixtures in the dwelling unit or used by the tenant as clear as their condition permits;
(5) use in a reasonable manner all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning,
and other facilities and appliances including elevators in the premises; (6) not deliberately
or negligently destroy, deface, damage, impair, or remove any part of the premises; or knowingly,
recklessly, or negligently permit any person to do so; and (7) conduct himself or herself
and require other persons on the...
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37-14-2
Section 37-14-2 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following
meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise; (1) ELECTRIC SUPPLIER.
Any municipality, municipally-owned utility or other governmental entity, any cooperative,
corporation, person, firm, association or other entity engaged in the business of supplying
electric service at retail; provided, however, that a university, college or United States
military base which distributes electricity shall not be deemed an electric supplier for the
purpose of this article. (2) ELECTRIC SERVICE AT RETAIL and RETAIL ELECTRIC SERVICE. Electric
service furnished to a customer for ultimate consumption, but does not include wholesale electric
service furnished by an electric supplier to another electric supplier for resale. (3) PREMISES.
The building, structure or facility to which electricity is being metered or is to be furnished
and metered, including all meters on such building,...
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13A-3-20
Section 13A-3-20 Definitions. The following definitions are applicable to this article: (1)
BUILDING. Any structure which may be entered and utilized by persons for business, public
use, lodging, or the storage of goods, and includes any vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft used
for the lodging of persons or carrying on business therein. Each unit of a building consisting
of two or more units separately occupied or secured is a separate building. (2) DEADLY PHYSICAL
FORCE. Force which, under the circumstances in which it is used, is readily capable of causing
death or serious physical injury. (3) DWELLING. A building which is usually occupied by a
person lodging therein at night, or a building of any kind, including any attached balcony,
whether the building is temporary or permanent, mobile or immobile, which has a roof over
it, and is designed to be occupied by people lodging therein at night. (4) FORCE. Physical
action or threat against another, including confinement. (5) PREMISES. The...
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35-9A-501
Section 35-9A-501 Retaliatory conduct prohibited. (a) Except as provided in this section, a
landlord may not retaliate by discriminatorily increasing rent or decreasing services or by
bringing or threatening to bring an action for possession because: (1) the tenant has complained
to a governmental agency charged with responsibility for enforcement of a building or housing
code of a violation applicable to the premises materially affecting health and safety; (2)
the tenant has complained to the landlord of a violation under Section 35-9A-204; or (3) the
tenant has organized or become a member of a tenant's union or similar organization. (b) If
a landlord acts in violation of subsection (a), the tenant is entitled to the remedies provided
in Section 35-9A-407 and has a defense in any retaliatory action against the tenant for possession.
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), a landlord may bring an action for possession
if: (1) the violation of the applicable building or housing...
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37-14-31
Section 37-14-31 Definitions. As used in this article the following terms shall have the following
meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise; (1) ELECTRIC SUPPLIER.
Any municipality, municipally-owned utility or other governmental entity, any cooperative,
corporation, person, firm, association or other entity engaged in the business of supplying
electric service at retail; provided, however, that no person or entity, including the Tennessee
Valley Authority, who may not be lawfully regulated by the state by virtue of powers granted
by the laws of the United States which prevail over Alabama statutes, nor any university,
college or United States agency which distributes electricity at retail shall be deemed an
electric supplier for the purpose of this article. (2) ELECTRIC SERVICE AT RETAIL and RETAIL
ELECTRIC SERVICE. Electric service furnished to a customer for ultimate consumption, but does
not include wholesale electric service furnished by an electric...
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45-16A-20
Section 45-16A-20 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) ALARM MONITORING SERVICE. A service that uses a device located at
a residence, place of business, or other fixed premises for both of the following purposes:
a. To receive signals from other devices located at or about the premises regarding a possible
threat at the premises to life, safety, or property, from burglary, fire, vandalism, bodily
injury, or other emergency. b. To transmit a signal regarding any threat by means of transmission
facilities of a municipality, municipal instrumentality, local exchange carrier, or one of
its affiliates to a remote monitoring center to alert a person at the center of the need to
inform the customer or another person or police, fire, rescue, security, or public safety
personnel of the threat, but does not include a service that uses a medical monitoring device
attached to an individual for the automatic surveillance of an ongoing...
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45-39-250
Section 45-39-250 Definitions. As used in this part, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ALARM MONITORING SERVICE. A service that uses a device located at a residence,
place of business, or other fixed premises for both of the following purposes: a. To receive
signals from other devices located at or about the premises regarding a possible threat at
the premises to life, safety, or property, from burglary, fire, vandalism, bodily injury,
or other emergency. b. To transmit a signal regarding any threat by means of transmission
facilities of a municipality, municipal instrumentality, local exchange carrier, or one of
its affiliates to a remote monitoring center to alert a person at the center of the need to
inform the customer or another person or police, fire, rescue, security, or public safety
personnel of the threat, but does not include a service that uses a medical monitoring device
attached to an individual for the automatic surveillance of an ongoing medical...
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7-2A-103
Section 7-2A-103 Definitions and index of definitions. (1) In this article unless the context
otherwise requires: (a) "Buyer in ordinary course of business" means a person who
in good faith and without knowledge that the sale to him or her is in violation of the ownership
rights or security interest or leasehold interest of a third party in the goods, buys in ordinary
course from a person in the business of selling goods of that kind but does not include a
pawnbroker. "Buying" may be for cash or by exchange of other property or on secured
or unsecured credit and includes receiving goods or documents of title under a pre-existing
contract for sale but does not include a transfer in bulk or as security for or in total or
partial satisfaction of a money debt. (b) "Cancellation" occurs when either party
puts an end to the lease contract for default by the other party. (c) "Commercial unit"
means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease
and...
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11-50B-2
Section 11-50B-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITY. Without regard to any transmission media
or technology, high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications capability that enables
users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications
using any technology. (2) ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE. Without regard to any transmission
media or technology, the provision of high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications capability
that enables users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video
telecommunications using any technology. (3) ALARM MONITORING SERVICE. A service that uses
a device located at a residence, place of business, or other fixed premises for both of the
following purposes: a. To receive signals from other devices located at or about such premises
regarding a possible threat at the premises to life,...
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