Title 45

The board of barber commissioners shall charge and collect the following fees: (1) The original as well as any subsequent examination fee for barber or apprentice shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per examination. Any fee shall also include the cost of the issuance of any barber…

Any person who, after, September 8, 1961, shall enter the active military or naval service of the United States, or of this state, and who, at the time of such entry, was the holder of a license as a barber, or apprentice, and which license was then in full force and effect, shal…

The board is vested with the power and authority to refuse to issue or renew as well as the power to suspend or revoke any license for any one or a combination of the following causes: (1) Conviction of a felony. (2) Malpractice or incompetency. (3) When applicant barber or appre…

(a) No action in refusing to issue or renew or in suspending or revoking a license for any of the causes enumerated in Section 45-49-40.15 shall be taken until the accused has been furnished with a statement of the specific charges against him or her and notice of the time and pl…

(a) An application for a license and approval as a registered school or college of barbering shall contain, under oath, all of the following: (1) The full name of the applicant. (2) The residence of the applicant, and if an association or corporation, the same information of the …

(a) Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to prevent the Department of Public Health or any local board of health or other board or body, exercising the powers of such local boards, from enacting and enforcing ordinances, codes, rules, and regulations pertaining to sa…

For purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) COMMUNITY OF INTEREST. A continuing financial interest between the grantor and the grantee in either the operation of the dealership business or the marketing of such goods and services. (2) DEALERSHI…

(a) This part shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying remedial purposes and policies. (b) This part shall govern dealership agreements for the sale or distribution of liquid goods in Mobile County, Alabama, to the full extent consistent with the constit…

No grantor, directly or through any officer, agent, or employee, may terminate, cancel, fail to renew, or amend or modify a dealership agreement without good cause. The burden of proving good cause is on the grantor. (Act 2008-461, p. 894, § 4.)

Provided good cause exists for the purposes of an amendment or modification, termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or discontinuance of a dealership agreement, a grantor shall provide a dealer at least 90 days’ prior written notice of the amendment or modification, termination, …

If a dealership agreement is terminated by a grantor, the grantor, at the option of the dealer, shall repurchase all inventories sold by the grantor to the dealer for resale under the dealership agreement at the fair wholesale market value. This section applies only to merchandis…

It shall be a violation of this part for a grantor to prevent a dealer from having an investment in, or holding a dealership agreement for, the sale of competing product lines or brands of liquid goods. (Act 2008-461, p. 894, § 7.)

If any grantor violates this part, a dealer may bring an action against the grantor in the Circuit Court of Mobile County for damages sustained by the dealer as a consequence of the grantor’s violation, together with the actual costs of the action, including reasonable actual att…

In any action brought against a grantor under this part, any violation of this part by the grantor may be deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be an irreparable injury to the dealer in determining if temporary injunctions should issue. (Act 2008-461, p. 894, § 9.)

(a) This part applies to a new or existing dealership agreement for the sale or distribution of liquid goods within Mobile County, Alabama. However, the provisions of this part shall not apply to those business relations, actions, transactions, dealerships, or franchises subject …

The Legislature of the State of Alabama declares and finds that the business of operating massage parlors as defined herein are businesses affecting the public health, safety, and general welfare; that such businesses have been used in Mobile County and elsewhere as fronts for th…

(a) MASSAGE. The manipulations of the soft tissue of the human body either by hand or with mechanical or electrical apparatus. The term does not include diagnosis or any service or procedure performed by the following individuals while engaged in the personal performance of the d…

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a massage parlor without first having acquired from the county governing body a license for the operation of the business as required by this part. (Act 81-132, p. 152, § 3.)

Any massage parlor licensed by the county governing body shall at all times comply with all health regulations, rules, and requirements as shall now or hereafter be promulgated by the State Board of Health, and any premises used for the purposes of a massage parlor, during all ho…

(a) No towels, wash clothes, or other linen items shall come in contact with the body or any other part thereof of any customer or patron at a massage parlor that has not been boiled and laundered since used last. (b) Every person applying or administering massages shall cleanse …

No massage parlor shall be used as and for dormitory or place of sleep, nor shall any licensee under this part permit any massage parlor to be so used. (Act 81-132, p. 152, § 6.)

No massages shall be administered or applied by any licensee hereunder or any employee, operator, or attendant while working for such licensee, except in or upon the premises or regular place of business of the licensee where the license is regularly displayed and at the place an…

No masseur, masseuse, or other employee or attendant in any massage parlor shall apply or administer any massage or other treatment to any person behind locked doors. (Act 81-132, p. 152, § 8.)

Subsequent to March 20, 1981, it shall be unlawful for any masseur, masseuse, or other employee or attendant to administer massages in any massage parlor within the county without first, and within six months from the date thereof, having secured a written verification from a lic…

It shall be unlawful for any person to render any service to the public upon the premises of a massage parlor within the county except during the time that the establishment is open with free access thereto by the public, during which time all portions of such establishment shall…

(a) It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, or supervisor of a massage parlor within the county to allow, authorize, or tolerate in his or her establishment any activity or behavior prohibited by the laws of the State of Alabama including such laws proscribing acts of prosti…

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a massage parlor, regardless of whether it is a public or private facility, or any bath parlor or any similar type business within the county, where any physical contact with the recipient of such service is provided by a person of t…

It shall be unlawful for any masseur, masseuse, attendant, or person employed in a massage parlor within the county to massage or in any way touch the genital organs of another in connection with any massage or any other service rendered by the establishment. It shall be unlawful…

Any license issued hereunder by the county governing body upon the violation of any section, requirement, or provision of this part by the licensee or any agent, attendant, or other employee of the licensee, provided the licensee shall first be notified of the violation and be af…

Any person who shall violate any provision or section of this part for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or six months in jail, one or both. (Act 81-132, p. 152, § 15.)

It shall be unlawful for anyone to conduct, pursue, or carry on the business of purchasing second-hand gold or silver, whether in the form of jewelry, household articles or furnishings, personal effects, bric-a-brac, settings for gems, watches, flatware, service sets, or other ar…

The license tax levied against buyers as described in Section 45-49-43 shall be five hundred dollars ($500) per calendar year. There shall be no half-year license. (Act 81-445, p. 767, § 3.)

Applicants for license under this part shall file with the license commission a sworn application in writing, in duplicate, on a form to be furnished by the license commission which shall give all of the following information: (1) Name and physical description of the applicant. (…

At the time of filing the application for the permit required by Section 45-49-43, a fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid to the county to cover the cost of an investigation of the facts stated therein. (Act 81-445, p. 767, § 5.)

Upon receipt of an application for the license required by Section 45-49-43, the original shall be referred to the chief of police of the city or municipality in which the business is to be located or the sheriff of the county who shall cause such investigation of the applicant’s…

The license required by Section 45-49-43 shall contain the signature of the license commission and shall show the name, address, and photographs of the licensee, the date of issuance and length of time the same shall be operative, as well as the license number. The license shall …

The license commission shall keep a permanent record of all licenses issued under this part. (Act 81-445, p. 767, § 8.)

Each applicant who secures a license under this part for purchasing gold or silver in any form set out in Section 45-49-43 shall keep a book in which shall be entered promptly at the time of purchase a brief description of the articles or property purchased, the date and hour of …

Each licensee under this part, after the beginning of business, shall promptly register with the chief of police or sheriff, in a book kept for that purpose, his or her name, address, and every place where he or she carries on business or stores property. (Act 81-445, p. 767, § 1…

The books and records kept by each licensee of the articles described in Section 45-49-43, shall be open for inspection by the chief of police or by any officer of the police department or the sheriff or any law enforcement officer at all times and the licensee and his or her age…

Each licensee under this part purchasing gold or silver in any form set out in Section 45-49-43 shall attach to or place on each such article purchased a tag or other identifying mark or label numbered to correspond with the serial number of the book required by Section 45-49-43.…

The property of the kind described in Section 45-49-43 shall be held in the same form, shape, or condition in which they were purchased, without mutilation, melting, reduction to block or lump form, or destruction of the form thereof, for a period of 86 hours after the hour when …

The word applicant, when used herein, shall include the plural where applicable, and all agents, officers, servants or employees of the applicants if the applicant is other than a sole proprietor. (Act 81-445, p. 767, § 14.)

This part shall be binding upon every employee or agent of the buyer of the articles described in Section 45-49-43, and it shall be unlawful and an offense against the county for any licensee or his or her agents, servants, officers, or employees to fail or refuse to carry out th…

Anyone who has operated a jewelry store or business with a jewelry license for three years prior to May 7, 1981, is hereby exempt from the application of this part. (Act 81-445, p. 767, § 16.)

All revenues payable to the county under this part shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the county general fund. (Act 81-445, p. 767, § 17.)