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38-13-2
Section 38-13-2 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age and older. (2) ADULT CARE FACILITY.
A person or entity holding a Department of Human Resources license or approval or certification
to provide care, including foster care, for adults. (3) APPLICANT. A person or entity who
submits an application for license as a child care or adult care facility to the Department
of Human Resources or a child placing agency, or an application for employment or for a volunteer
position to a Department of Human Resources licensed child care or adult care facility. With
regard to child care and adult care facilities in a home setting, the term includes an adult
household member whose residence is in the home. The term also includes an individual who
submits an application for a volunteer position or for employment with the Department of Human
Resources in a position in which the person has unsupervised...
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44-1-27
Section 44-1-27 Standards for programs and youth detention facilities; licensing and inspection
of youth detention and foster care facilities. (a) The Department of Youth Services shall
establish and promulgate reasonable minimum standards for the construction and operation of
detention facilities, programs for the prevention and correction of youth delinquency, consultation
from local officials, and subsidies to local delinquency projects. The standards shall include,
but not be limited to, reasonable minimum standards for detention facilities, foster care
facilities, group homes, and correctional institutions. (b) No county, city, public or private
agency, group, corporation, partnership, or individual shall establish, maintain, or operate
any detention facility or any foster care facility for youths found delinquent or in need
of supervision by a juvenile court without a license from the department. A license shall
be required on an annual basis or as determined by the department....
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22-5A-5
Section 22-5A-5 Procedures for receiving complaints; informing recipients of ombudsman program.
The State Ombudsman shall establish written procedures for receiving complaints involving
long-term residential health care facilities and their employees. The Department of Senior
Services shall provide to health care, domiciliary and residential facilities written information
on the ombudsman program to be distributed to recipients at the time of admission, or rendering
of care and/or treatment at a facility. (Acts 1985, No. 85-657, p. 1029, ยง5.)...
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16-22A-3
Section 16-22A-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter only, the following terms shall have
the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1)
APPLICANT. A certified or noncertified individual who submits an application for employment
to a local employing board or any nonpublic school, to act in any capacity in which the individual
will have unsupervised access to children in an educational environment. (2) APPLICANT FOR
CERTIFICATION. An individual who submits an application for certification issued by the State
Superintendent of Education. (3) AUTHORIZED EMPLOYER. Any educational entity authorized to
obtain criminal history background information, including the State Department of Education,
local employing boards, and nonpublic schools which are responsible for hiring employees or
contracting with private employers to provide personnel who have unsupervised access to children
in an educational setting. (4) CERTIFIED APPLICANT FOR EMPLOYMENT. A...
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22-15A-3
Section 22-15A-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings: (1) BAR AND LOUNGE. Any establishment which is primarily devoted
to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by patrons on the premises and in which
the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of beverages. Although a restaurant
may contain a bar, the term "bar" shall not include the restaurant dining area.
(2) CHILD CARE FACILITY. Any facility caring for children. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department
of Public Health. (4) EMPLOYER. Any person, partnership, association, corporation, or nonprofit
entity that employs five or more persons, including the legislative, executive, and judicial
branches of state government; and any county, city, town, or village or any other political
subdivision of the state; any public authority, commission, agency, or public benefit corporation;
or any other separate corporate instrumentality or unit of state or...
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22-21-10
Section 22-21-10 Flu and pneumonia vaccinations for long term care facility residents and employees.
(a) As used in this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) EMPLOYEE.
An individual who is a part-time or full-time employee of the long term care facility. (2)
LONG TERM CARE FACILITY. The term includes a skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility,
specialty care assisted living facility or dementia care facility, or an assisted living facility
licensed under this chapter. (b) Each long term care facility in this state shall conduct
an immunization program as provided in this section which gives residents the opportunity
to be immunized annually against the influenza virus and to be immunized against pneumococcal
disease and employees the opportunity to be immunized against influenza virus. (c) A long
term care facility shall notify the resident upon admission of the immunization program provided
by this section and shall request that the resident agree...
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26-1-4
Section 26-1-4 Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to provide criminal conviction information
on applicants for positions involving child care and treatment; such information to be confidential;
applicant to be denied status if has felony conviction; children may be removed from home.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, upon request to the Alabama
State Law Enforcement Agency, by the Department of Human Resources, or by any other youth
service agency approved by the department, such center shall provide information to the department
or an approved agency concerning the felony criminal conviction record in this or another
state of an applicant for a paid or voluntary position, including one established by contract,
whose primary duty is the care or treatment of children, including applicants for adoption
or foster parents. All information, including any criminal conviction record, procured by
the department or an approved agency shall be confidential and...
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27-19-38
Section 27-19-38 Coverage of newly born children in health insurance policies. (a) All individual
and group health insurance policies providing coverage on an expense-incurred basis and individual
and group service or indemnity type contracts issued by a nonprofit service corporation which
provide coverage for a family member of the insured or subscriber shall, as to such family
members' coverage, also provide that the health insurance benefits applicable for children
shall be payable with respect to a newly born child of the insured or subscriber from the
moment of birth. (b) The coverage for newly born children shall consist of coverage of injury
or sickness including the necessary care and treatment of medically diagnosed congenital defects
and birth abnormalities, but need not include benefits for routine well-baby care. (c) The
requirements of this section shall apply to all insurance policies and subscriber contracts
renewed, delivered, or issued for delivery in this state, 60...
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38-13-4
Section 38-13-4 Mandatory criminal history check notice; suitability determinations; checks
on subsequent activity. (a) Every employer, child care facility, adult care facility, the
Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency required to obtain a criminal history
background information check pursuant to this chapter shall obtain, prior to or upon the date
of employment, or issuance of a license or approval or renewal thereof, and maintain in the
agency or personnel file, a request with written consent for the criminal history background
information check and a statement signed by the applicant, volunteer, or employee indicating
whether he or she has ever been convicted of a crime, and if so, fully disclosing all convictions.
The statement shall include a notice and questionnaire the same as or similar to the following:
(1) MANDATORY CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK NOTICE: Alabama law requires that a criminal history
background information check be conducted on all persons who hold a...
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22-21-263
Section 22-21-263 New institutional health services subject to review. (a) All new institutional
health services which are subject to this article and which are proposed to be offered or
developed within the state shall be subject to review under this article. No institutional
health services which are subject to this article shall be permitted which are inconsistent
with the State Health Plan. For the purposes of this article, new institutional health services
shall include any of the following: (1) The construction, development, acquisition through
lease or purchase, or other establishment of a new health care facility or health maintenance
organization. A transaction involving the sale, lease, or other transfer or change of control
of an existing health care facility, existing health maintenance organization, or existing
institutional health service is not subject to certificate of need review or approval under
this article unless the transaction also involves implementing one or...
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