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41-16-141
Section 41-16-141 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ENERGY COST SAVINGS MEASURE. A training program or new facility
or existing facility alteration designed to reduce energy consumption or operating costs,
or water and other natural resources consumption, and may include one or more of the following:
a. Insulation and reduced air infiltration of the building structure including walls, ceilings,
and roofs or systems within the building. b. Storm windows or doors, caulking or weather-stripping,
multiglazed windows or doors, heat absorbing or heat reflective glazed and coated window or
door systems, additional glazing, reductions in glass area, or other window and door system
modifications that reduce energy consumption. c. Automated or computerized energy control
systems, including computer software and technical data licenses. d. Heating, ventilating,
or air conditioning system modifications or replacements. e....
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41-16-142
Section 41-16-142 Energy cost savings measures authorized. (a) A governmental unit may enter
into a guaranteed energy cost savings contract in order to reduce energy consumption or operating
costs of government facilities in accordance with this article. (b) All energy cost savings
measures shall comply with current local, state, and federal construction and environmental
codes and regulations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, a guaranteed energy cost
savings contract does not include improvements or equipment that allow or cause water from
any condensing, cooling, or industrial process or any system of nonpotable usage over which
public water supply system officials do not have sanitary control, to be returned to the potable
water supply. (Act 98-663, p. 1450, §3.)...
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11-81-241
Section 11-81-241 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall
have the following meanings: (1) COSTS OF A QUALIFIED PROJECT. All costs including, but not
limited to, the following: a. All costs of acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, construction,
assembly, installation, modification, renovation, or rehabilitation incurred in connection
with any qualified project or any part of any qualified project. b. All costs of real property,
fixtures, or personal property used in or in connection with or necessary for any qualified
project or for any facilities related thereto, including, but not limited to, the following:
1. The cost of all land, estates for years, easements, rights, improvements, water rights,
connections for utility services, fees, franchises, permits, approvals, licenses, and certificates.
2. The cost of securing any franchises, permits, approvals, licenses, or certificates. 3.
The cost of preparation of any application therefor and the cost of...
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22-27-40
Section 22-27-40 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that: (1) The state, its subdivisions
and the nation face an emerging crisis in solid waste management; (2) Proper waste management
is an increasingly complex issue involving the need for reducing the volumes of waste requiring
disposal, properly managing wastes to reduce the likelihood of both short-term and long-term
threat to human health and the environment, and assuring that adequate, environmentally secure,
waste management and disposal facilities will be available at reasonable costs to accommodate
wastes generated in the state; (3) Provision for necessary systems, facilities, technology
and services for solid waste management and resource recovery is a matter of important public
interest and concern, and action taken in this regard will be for a public purpose and will
benefit the public welfare; (4) Solid waste management problems are potentially statewide
in scope and necessitate state and local action through the...
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41-16-143
Section 41-16-143 Request for proposals; meeting; public notice; guarantee required; bond;
type, duration, funding, etc., of contract. (a) Before entering into a guaranteed energy cost
savings contract, a governmental unit shall submit a request for proposals. The governmental
unit shall evaluate any proposal from a qualified provider and shall select the qualified
provider that best meets the needs of the unit. After reviewing the proposals, the governmental
unit may enter into a guaranteed energy cost savings contract with a qualified provider if
it finds that the amount it would spend on the energy cost savings measures recommended in
the proposal would not exceed the amount of energy or operational cost savings, or both, within
the lesser of a 20-year period or the average useful life of the energy cost savings measures
from the date installation is complete and has been accepted by the governmental unit, if
the recommendations in the proposal are followed. The governmental unit...
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40-18-1
Section 40-18-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) ADVANCED FOSSIL-BASED GENERATION. The
production of electricity from fossil-based generation with the use of technology or efficiency
improvements to control or reduce carbon emissions, including but not limited to, technologies
described in 26 U.S.C. § 48A(f), as such provision existed on December 31, 2007. (2) ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY RESOURCES. Coal gasification or liquefaction, nuclear, and advanced fossil-based generation.
(3) BIOMASS. Animals and plants, and the waste, by-products, or derivatives of either, including,
but not limited to, the materials described in 26 U.S.C. §§ 45(c)(2), 45(c)(3), 45K(c)(3),
or 48B(c)(4). (4) BUSINESS TRUST. Any entity which is a business trust for federal income
tax purposes. (5) CAPTIVE REIT. Any REIT whose shares or certificates of beneficial interest
are not regularly traded on an established...
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22-21-265
Section 22-21-265 Certificates of need - Required for new institutional health service. (a)
On or after July 30, 1979, no person to which this article applies shall acquire, construct,
or operate a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or furnish or offer,
or purport to furnish a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or make
an arrangement or commitment for financing the offering of a new institutional health service,
unless the person shall first obtain from the SHPDA a certificate of need therefor. Notwithstanding
any provisions of this article to the contrary, those facilities and distinct units operated
by the Department of Mental Health, and those facilities and distinct units operating under
contract or subcontract with the Department of Mental Health where the contract constitutes
the primary source of income to the facility, shall not be required to obtain a certificate
of need under this article. (b) Notwithstanding all other...
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8-20-4
Section 8-20-4 Unfair and deceptive trade practices. Notwithstanding the terms, provisions,
or conditions of any dealer agreement or franchise or the terms or provisions of any waiver,
prior to the termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of any dealer agreement or franchise,
the following acts or conduct shall constitute unfair and deceptive trade practices: (1) For
any manufacturer, factory branch, factory representative, distributor, or wholesaler, distributor
branch, or distributor representative to coerce or attempt to coerce any motor vehicle dealer
to do any of the following: a. To accept, buy, or order any motor vehicle or vehicles, appliances,
equipment, parts, or accessories therefor, or any other commodity or commodities or service
or services which such motor vehicle dealer has not voluntarily ordered or requested except
items required by applicable local, state, or federal law; or to require a motor vehicle dealer
to accept, buy, order, or purchase such items in order to...
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22-32-4
Section 22-32-4 Authorization to operate site; users' charges; lease or contract for operation
and disposal of low-level radioactive wastes. (a) The Alabama Department of Energy is authorized
to operate a treatment, storage or disposal site for low-level radioactive wastes pursuant
to any license issued by the Radiation Control Agency. The Alabama Department of Energy is
authorized to charge each user of any licensed site within the state that user's proportionate
share of the costs for handling of the wastes. These costs shall be paid on the basis of a
fee per volume of wastes received at each site. Such fee shall be paid to the Department of
Energy and may include, but not be limited to costs of: (1) Operating fund (as hereinafter
provided for), including: labor and equipment, liability insurance, contingency costs, licensing
and inspection fees of the Radiation Control Agency for operation of the site; (2) Perpetual
cost fund costs (as hereinafter provided for); (3) Operating fund...
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37-4-140
Section 37-4-140 Purchase of electricity. (a) For purposes of this section only, the following
terms shall have the following meanings: (1) AVOIDED COSTS. Costs that a utility or a commission
non-jurisdictional electric supplier which purchases electrical energy from a distributed
generation facility would have been required to incur but for the distributed generation facility's
provision of electrical energy during the same period of time. To the extent such costs are
actually avoided, the term may include incremental fuel costs, incremental energy losses,
incremental emission allowance costs, and incremental fuel-related operation and maintenance
expenses. The term does not include, among other things, costs associated with capacity, the
transmission and distribution system, administrative and general costs, customer accounting
costs, and general plant in service costs. (2) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission.
(3) COMMISSION NON-JURISDICTIONAL ELECTRIC SUPPLIER. a. A...
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