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36-21-160
Section 36-21-160 Termination for loss of work during emergency response prohibited. (a) As
used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) EMERGENCY.
Going to, attending to, or coming from any of the following: a. A fire call. b. A hazardous
or toxic materials spill and cleanup. c. Any other situation to which a volunteer fire department
has been dispatched. d. An actual medical emergency to prevent the imminent loss of life.
(2) EMPLOYER. Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any
person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in
relation to any employee. (3) VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY WORKER. An individual who does not receive
monetary compensation for his or her service as a volunteer firefighter, emergency medical
technician, rescue squad member, volunteer deputy, or a ham radio operator conducting storm
spotter operations for an emergency management association. (b) No employer...
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41-10-751
Section 41-10-751 Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ALABAMA TRUST FUND.
The trust fund of the state created under Amendment 450 to the Constitution of Alabama of
1901, and appearing as ยง219.02 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama
1901, as amended. (2) APPROPRIATED FUNDS. The BP settlement revenues deposited in the special
fund to the extent such revenues are appropriated to the authority pursuant to Section 41-10-759.
(3) AUTHORITY. The Alabama Economic Settlement Authority authorized to be established pursuant
to Section 41-10-752. (4) BONDS. Those bonds, including refunding bonds, issued pursuant to
this article. (5) BP SETTLEMENT REVENUES. Revenues received by the state in settlement of
economic damages claims of the state against BP Exploration and Production, Inc. and any of
its corporate affiliates arising out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
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41-9-1021
Section 41-9-1021 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) AMATEUR. An individual who engages in a match, contest, or exhibition
of boxing, tough man contests, wrestling, or mixed martial arts, for no compensation or thing
of value for participating, which is governed or authorized by any of the following: a. U.S.A.
Boxing. b. The Alabama High School Athletic Association. c. The National Collegiate Athletic
Association. d. Amateur Athletic Union. e. Golden Gloves. f. The local affiliate of any organization
listed in this subdivision. g. USA Wrestling. h. The National Junior College Athletic Association.
i. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. j. The National Collegiate Wrestling
Association. k. Any organization licensed by the commission. (2) BARE KNUCKLE BOXING. The
original form of boxing, involving two individuals fighting without boxing gloves or other
padding on their hands. (3) BOXING MATCH. A contest...
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45-39-221.03
Section 45-39-221.03 Powers of tourism board. (a) The tourism board may conduct programs and
events, including, but not limited to, programs of information and publicity, sporting events,
and other public events to attract tourists and visitors to the county. The tourism board
may conduct programs or events in the state and elsewhere and expend its funds in the furtherance
of such programs and events in the state and elsewhere. (b) The tourism board may enter into
contracts with any person, firm, corporation, or association to carry out the purposes set
forth herein. No contract entered into by the tourism board shall bind either the state, the
county, or any municipality. (c) The tourism board shall have the following additional powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits
and actions against it, including suits and actions ex delicto...
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6-12-1
Section 6-12-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds as follows: (1) Cigarette
smoking presents serious public health concerns to the state and to the citizens of the state.
The Surgeon General has determined that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, and other
serious diseases, and that there are hundreds of thousands of tobacco-related deaths in the
United States each year. These diseases most often do not appear until many years after the
person in question begins smoking. (2) Cigarette smoking also presents serious financial concerns
for the state. Under certain health care programs, the state may have a legal obligation to
provide medical assistance to eligible persons for health conditions associated with cigarette
smoking, and those persons may have a legal entitlement to receive such medical assistance.
(3) Under these programs, the state pays millions of dollars each year to provide medical
assistance for these persons for health conditions associated...
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8-1-130
Section 8-1-130 Persons involved in futures contracts not excused from testifying; participation
prima facie evidence of guilt. (a) No person shall be excused on any prosecution under this
article from testifying touching anything done by himself or others contrary to the provisions
of this article; but no disclosures made by the witness upon such examination shall be used
against him in any penal or criminal prosecution, and he shall be altogether pardoned of the
offense so done or participated in by him. (b) In all such prosecutions proof that the defendant
was a party to a contract as agent or principal to sell and deliver any article, thing or
property specified or named in this article, that he was agent, directly or indirectly, of
any party in making, furthering, or effectuating the same, or that he was the agent or officer
of any corporation or association or person in making, furthering, or effectuating the same
and that the article, thing, or property agreed to be sold and...
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45-37A-251.51
Section 45-37A-251.51 Notice of unsafe or dangerous condition. Whenever the appropriate city
official of the city shall find that any building, structure, part of building or structure,
party wall, foundation, abandoned or unused swimming pools, or abandoned wells or cisterns
situated in the city is unsafe to the extent that it is a public nuisance, the official shall
report the findings to the city governing body. At that time the city governing body shall
determine whether a nuisance exists. Should the city governing body find by resolution that
a nuisance exists, then the appropriate city official shall give the person or persons, firm,
association, or corporation last assessing the property for state taxes, by certified or registered
mail to the address on file in the office of tax collector, notice to remedy the unsafe condition
within a reasonable time set out in the notice, which time shall not be less than 30 days
unless an extension is granted by the appropriate city official...
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45-37A-41
Section 45-37A-41 Removal or demolition of unsafe structures. (a) The City of Bessemer shall
have authority, after notice as provided herein, to move or demolish buildings and structures,
or parts of buildings and structures, party walls, and foundations when the same are found
by the governing body of the city to be unsafe to the extent of being a public nuisance from
any cause. (b) The term appropriate city official as used in this section shall mean any city
official or city employee designated by the mayor or other chief executive officer of such
city as the person to exercise the authority and perform the duties delegated by this section
to appropriate city official. Whenever the appropriate city official of such city shall find
that any building, structure, part of building or structure, party wall, or foundation situated
in any such city is unsafe to the extent that it is a public nuisance, such official shall
give the person or persons, firm, association, or corporation last...
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6-5-549.1
Section 6-5-549.1 Limits of liability insurance coverage in legal action against health care
providers; testimony of health care providers as specialists. (a) This section and Sections
6-5-548 and 6-5-549 shall be known and may be cited as "The Alabama Medical Liability
Act of 1996." (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds and declares that a crisis
continues to threaten the delivery and availability of medical services to the people of Alabama
and the health and safety of the citizens of this state are in jeopardy as a result of this
crisis. In accordance with the previous declarations of the Legislature of Alabama in Sections
6-5-480 to 6-5-488, inclusive, 27-26-1 to 27-26-4, inclusive, and 27-26-20 to 27-26-43, inclusive,
and Sections 6-5-540 to 6-5-552, inclusive, it is the declared intent of this Legislature
to ensure that quality medical services continue to be available at reasonable costs to the
citizens of the State of Alabama. The continuing and ever increasing...
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22-19-161
Section 22-19-161 Definitions. In this article: (1) "Adult" means an individual who
is at least 18 years of age. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (A) authorized to
make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care;
or (B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other
record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or
part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation,
therapy, research, or education. (4) "Coroner" means an elected or appointed official
who determines, with the assistance of other forensic scientists and investigators, the cause,
manner, and circumstances surrounding death. (5) "Decedent" means a deceased individual
whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this article, a fetus. (6) "Disinterested...
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