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27-1-17
Section 27-1-17 Limitation periods for payment of claims; overdue claims; retroactive denials,
adjustments, etc.; penalties. (a) Each insurer, health service corporation, and health benefit
plan that issues or renews any policy of accident or health insurance providing benefits for
medical or hospital expenses for its insured persons shall pay for services rendered by Alabama
health care providers within 45 calendar days upon receipt of a clean written claim or 30
calendar days upon receipt of a clean electronic claim. If the insurer, health service corporation,
or health benefit plan is denying or pending the claim, the insurer, health service corporation,
or health benefit plan shall, within 45 calendar days for a written claim and 30 calendar
days for an electronic claim, notify the health care provider or certificate holder of the
reason for denying or pending the claim and what, if any, additional information is required
to process the claim. Any undisputed portion of the claim...
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32-8-87
Section 32-8-87 Dismantling, destroying, changing identity of vehicle; certificate requirements;
insurance claims; "total loss"; removal of identification numbers, plates, etc.;
transfer of salvage vehicles; inspections; "component parts"; rebuilt vehicles;
flood vehicles; online verifications. (a) Each owner of a motor vehicle and each person mentioned
as owner in the last certificate of title who scraps, dismantles, destroys, or changes the
motor vehicle in such a manner that it is not the same motor vehicle described in the certificate
of origin or certificate of title shall as soon as practicable cause the certificate of origin
or certificate of title, if any, and any other documents or information required by the department
to be mailed or delivered to the department for processing. The department shall, with the
consent of any holder of liens noted on the surrendered certificate, enter a cancellation
upon its records. Upon cancellation of a certificate of origin or certificate of...
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5-19-17
Section 5-19-17 Inducing obligation on more than one contract in order to obtain higher finance
charge prohibited; consolidation of existing precomputed consumer credit transaction contract
and subsequent precomputed consumer credit transaction. (a) No creditor shall induce or permit
any person or any husband and wife, jointly or severally, to become obligated directly or
contingently, or both, on more than one consumer credit transaction at the same time for the
purpose of obtaining a higher finance charge than would otherwise be permitted by Section
5-19-3. This subsection shall not apply to the maintenance of two or more separate consumer
credit transactions where the consumer credit transactions were created on different dates.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any seller to evade or attempt to evade this section by inducing
a buyer to become obligated to another creditor in which the initial creditor has a pecuniary
interest or with whom the initial creditor has an arrangement for...
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5-19-32
Section 5-19-32 Service contracts. Any creditor who extends credit with respect to a consumer
credit sale, may sell or finance, or both, a service contract covering tangible goods which
are the subject of the consumer credit sale. Any other person who was not the creditor with
regard to the initial sale of the tangible goods also may sell or finance, or both, a service
contract covering the tangible goods. A "service contract" as used in this section
is an agreement, for a separately stated consideration, of the service contract offeror to
correct, repair, or replace, or to pay for the correction, repair, maintenance, or replacement
of tangible goods during the period covered by the service contract, with or without additional
provisions for payment of or indemnity under limited circumstances for related expenses including,
without limitation, for towing, rental, and emergency road service, whether called a service
contract, extended warranty or otherwise. The service contract offeror...
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5-19-33
Section 5-19-33 Account maintenance fee. (a) In addition to other lawful charges permitted
under various state or federal laws, except under open-end credit plans, a creditor may, if
provided in the contract, charge an account maintenance fee of not more than three dollars
($3) for each month of the scheduled period of repayment of the credit transaction. The account
maintenance fee shall be determined at the date of the credit transaction and may be charged
in full at that time. The account maintenance fee as so determined shall not bear interest
and shall constitute a part of the finance charge. In the event of the renewal, refinance,
or payment in full of the credit transaction, the debtor shall be entitled to a refund or
credit of any unearned portion of the account maintenance fee under subsection (c) of Section
5-19-4, as of the date of such renewal, refinancing, or payment in full. (b) This section
shall not repeal, amend, modify, or diminish any right or power to charge and...
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5-19-6
Section 5-19-6 Copies of instruments signed by debtors to be furnished to debtors; required
statement in contracts, etc.; limitation on disclosure requirements; intent, applicability
of limitation. (a) Any creditor, when extending credit with respect to a consumer credit transaction,
other than under an open-end credit plan, shall at that time furnish to the debtor a copy
of each instrument executed by the debtor in connection with the consumer credit transaction.
The consumer credit transaction contract or note shall contain the following statement in
eight point or larger type immediately above the space for the borrower's signature. "CAUTION
- IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU THOROUGHLY READ THE CONTRACT BEFORE YOU SIGN IT." (b) No disclosures
are required by this chapter to be made by a creditor with respect to any transaction other
than disclosures required by regulations made by the administrator pursuant to Section 5-19-21
and disclosures required by subsection (a) above and by Sections...
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7-9A-102
Section 7-9A-102 Definitions and index of definitions. (a) Article 9A definitions. In this
article: (1) "Accession" means goods that are physically united with other goods
in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. (2) "Account,"
except as used in "account for," means a right to payment of a monetary obligation,
whether or not earned by performance, (i) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased,
licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (ii) for services rendered or to be rendered,
(iii) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (iv) for a secondary obligation incurred
or to be incurred, (v) for energy provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of
a vessel under a charter or other contract, (vii) arising out of the use of a credit or charge
card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (viii) as winnings in a lottery
or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a State, governmental unit of a State, or...
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27-17A-22
Section 27-17A-22 Violations and penalties. (a)(1) A person who knowingly receives payments
for a preneed contract without having a valid certificate of authority: a. Commits a Class
B felony, punishable as provided by law, as to each contract on which the payments collected
equal or exceed, in the aggregate, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). b. Commits
a Class C felony, punishable as provided by law, as to each contract on which the payments
collected are between, in the aggregate, five hundred dollars ($500) and two thousand five
hundred dollars ($2,500). c. Commits a Class A misdemeanor, punishable as provided by law,
as to each contract on which the payments collected do not exceed, in the aggregate, five
hundred dollars ($500). (2) In addition to the criminal penalty imposed under subdivision
(1), upon conviction of an offense under subdivision (1), a person may not thereafter obtain
a certificate of authority or register as a preneed sales agent. (b)(1) A person who...
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8-37-2
Section 8-37-2 (Effective January 1, 2018) Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the
following words have the following meanings: (1) ADMINISTRATOR. A person, other than an insurer
or creditor, that performs administrative or operational functions pursuant to guaranteed
asset protection waiver programs. (2) BORROWER. A debtor, retail buyer or lessee, under a
finance agreement. (3) CREDITOR means any of the following: a. The lender in a loan or credit
transaction. b. The lessor in a lease transaction. c. Any retail seller of motor vehicles
in a retail installment transaction. d. The seller in commercial retail installment transactions.
e. The assignees of any of the foregoing to whom the credit or lease obligation is payable.
(4) FINANCE AGREEMENT. A loan, lease, or retail installment sales contract for the purchase
or lease of a motor vehicle. (5) FREE LOOK PERIOD. The period of time from the effective date
of the GAP waiver until the date the borrower may cancel the GAP...
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33-2-210
Section 33-2-210 Creation and funding of Alabama State Docks Facilities Contingency Trust Fund.
Beginning with the fiscal year commencing on October 1, 1987, the first nine million five
hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000) of the net amount of all taxes required to be deposited
to or certified into the State Treasury to the credit of the State General Fund pursuant to
Section 40-20-8, during each quarter of each fiscal year shall be credited to an account to
be established in the State Treasury and known as the Alabama State Docks Facilities Contingency
Trust Fund. All funds deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Alabama State Docks
Facilities Contingency Trust Fund are to the extent set out herein appropriated to the Alabama
State Port Authority and shall be transferred to the port authority upon the making by the
Director of Finance of the factual determinations hereinafter provided for. In no case shall
the amount transferred and paid out of the Alabama State Docks...
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