Title 38 — Title 38

There is hereby created a State Department of Human Resources, with subordinate bureaus and divisions which shall operate under a State Board of Human Resources and consist of a Commissioner of Human Resources and such other officers and employees as are authorized to be appointe…

Assistance. The state department is authorized and it shall be its duty to develop standards of assistance for the administration of the various public assistance programs in the state, to administer these programs through county departments of human resources and to provide such…

Documents of State Department. (a) Commissioner authorized to make reproductions and destroy originals. The Commissioner of Human Resources of the State of Alabama is authorized to make or to have made microfilm copies, photostatic copies or other similar photographic reproductio…

(a) The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources shall have the authority to destroy or cause to be destroyed, in his discretion: (1) RECORDS OF CERTAIN AGENCIES. - All records of the Alabama Relief Administration, the Alabama Transient Bureau and Surplus Commodity…

Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources and other public welfare officers shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in amounts to be fixed by the State Board of Human Re…

There shall be a State Board of Human Resources which shall consist of the Governor, as chairman, and six other members, not less than two of whom shall be women, appointed by the Governor without regard to political affiliation but on the basis of recognized interest in welfare …

Personnel. (a) The chief executive officer of the State Department of Human Resources shall be known as the Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources. (b) It shall be the duty of the state board to appoint the commissioner who shall serve at its pleasure. He shall b…

The commissioner, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall be authorized, subject to the provisions of the state merit system law, to appoint a legal counsel for the State Department of Human Resources. He shall be commissioned as assistant attorney general and shall have…

The state department, subject to the approval of the state board, shall allocate such federal and state funds for public assistance, administration and services as are available, in a manner that assures equitable treatment of needy individuals in similar circumstances throughout…

The aim of the state department shall be the promotion of a unified development of welfare activities and agencies of the state and of the local governments so that each agency and each governmental institution shall function as an integral part of a general system. In order to c…

Established; Duties; Assistance of Other Agencies, Etc.; Use of Information Obtained. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ABSENT PARENT. The parent of a minor child who owes a financial ligation for the support of the minor chil…

Office; Meetings; Duties, Etc.; County Director. There is hereby created in each county a county board of human resources, which shall consist of seven members, not less than two of whom shall be women, selected by the county commission from the citizenship of the county on the b…

(a) There is hereby created in each county a county department of human resources which shall consist of the county director of human resources and such other officers and employees as the county board and state department shall deem necessary for the efficient performance of the…

Approved by State Department. The county commission in any county shall have the power and is hereby authorized to appropriate out of the public funds of the county such sum or sums of money, as it may deem wise to be expended by the county department for the relief of children u…