Title 22 — Title 22

The State Board of Health shall establish rules and regulations to carry out the purpose of this article. These rules and regulations shall be reviewed and approved by the advisory board established by Section 22-21-27. The advisory board shall also be provided reports at its mee…

There is established a separate special revenue trust fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Department of Public Health Plan Review Fund. All receipts received by the State Board of Health or the Department of Public Health for whatever purpose pursuant to this article sh…

(a) Any public body heretofore or hereafter created and established by ordinance or resolution pursuant to this chapter may become a body corporate and politic under the name set forth in such ordinance or resolution by filing a certified copy of such ordinance or resolution with…

(a) Any one or more local governing bodies located in the same or contiguous counties, within a zone determined by the State Board of Health as a zone for public hospitals, may act to establish a hospital association, a body corporate and politic. Before taking action to establis…

(a) A hospital association shall consist of the directors appointed by the local governing bodies, and the directors shall elect from among their number the first chairman. The term of office of each director shall be five years. A director shall hold office until his successor h…

The directors shall meet annually and shall adopt a constitution and bylaws of the corporation, said constitution and bylaws to be subject to the approval of the State Board of Health. The active affairs of the corporation shall be vested in an executive committee composed of not…

(a) Any district or regional hospital association is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the following powers in addition to others granted in this article: (1) To cooperate with the State Board of Health for the purpose of constructing, equipping, maintaining and operati…

In all cases where the county commission of a county has, or the governing bodies of a county and of a city have, adopted a resolution or resolutions authorizing the incorporation, under this article as originally enacted or as subsequently amended, of a public hospital associati…

Any hospital association organized under the provisions of this article may be dissolved, in the manner prescribed in this section if, at the time of such dissolution, it owns no property and has no indebtedness outstanding and if it is not, at the time, designated as the agency …

The governing bodies of each local political subdivision involved are hereby authorized to appropriate their respective shares of the cost of constructing, maintaining, equipping and operating such hospitals as determined upon by agreement between the executive committee of the a…

Nothing in this article shall be construed to mean that all local, regional or district hospitals included in this article are to be under the direction or control of any body other than the local executive committee of each hospital, subject to the rules and regulations containe…

(a) Bonds, notes and other securities issued by any public hospital corporation are hereby exempted from all laws of the state governing usury or prescribing or limiting interest rates, including, without limitation, the provisions of Chapter 8 of Title 8 of this code. (b) For th…

Services and Expenses; Action by Attorney General; Payment of Claims by Insurance Companies. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term “hospital” shall mean any hospital in which human patients are given medical care. It shall include all emergency rooms or outpatient facili…

For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) THE CORPORATION. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this division. (2) SECURITIES. Notes, bonds, certificates of indebtedness, warr…

It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this division to authorize in each of the several counties of the state the organization of one or more public corporations for the purpose of acquiring, owning and operating public hospitals and other public health facilit…

Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the county commission of any county in this state an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation for hospital purposes in the manner provided in this section, and if it shall…

Certificates of Incorporation. (a) The certificate of incorporation shall state: (1) The name of the corporation, which shall be “_____ County Hospital Board,” if such name is available for use by the corporation and, if not available, then the incorporators shall designate some …

(a) The certificate of incorporation shall have attached thereto a certified copy of the resolution provided for in Section 22-21-73 and a certificate by the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama that the name proposed for the corporation is not identical with that of any ot…

In all cases where the county commission of a county has adopted a resolution authorizing the incorporation under this division, as originally enacted or as subsequently amended, of a public corporation for hospital purposes and there has been an attempt to organize such public c…

The corporation shall have a board of directors, which shall constitute the governing body of the corporation. The members of the board of directors shall be residents of the county and shall be elected by the county commission of the county for staggered terms of office as follo…

The corporation shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time, which may be in perpetuity, specified in its certificate of…

(a) All securities of the corporation shall be signed by the chairman of its board of directors and attested by its secretary, and the seal of the corporation shall be affixed thereto. Any interest coupons applicable to the securities of the corporation shall be signed by the cha…

Unless otherwise directed by the court having jurisdiction thereof or by the document which is the source of authority, a fiduciary may, with the exercise of reasonable business prudence, invest trust funds in securities of the corporation for payment of the principal of, and int…

(a) Accreditation, quality assurance and similar materials as used in this section shall include written reports, records, correspondence, and materials concerning the accreditation or quality assurance or similar function of any hospital, clinic, or medical staff. The confidenti…

All real, personal and mixed property that may be owned by the corporation and all income of the corporation shall be exempt from state, county and municipal taxation. History: (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §10.)

The county in which the corporation is organized, and any municipality located within such county, are hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the corporation, without consideration, any hospital that may be owned by such county or municipality, as the case may be, and any fu…

At any time when the corporation owns no property and has no indebtedness outstanding, the county commission of the county in which the corporation was organized may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon the minutes of said county commission, declaring that the cor…

This division shall not be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any power, right or remedy which any corporation, now in existence or hereafter formed, may have in the absence thereof and shall be construed as cumulative and independent of any statute authorizing the for…

(a) Each health care provider and facility in Alabama which employs or contracts for the employment of one or more registered nurses shall require each registered nurse to wear a name tag, badge, or pin with the letters “R.N.” printed on the name tag, badge, or pin while the nurs…

As used in this compact, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMISSION. The Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission. (2) EFFECTIVE DATE. The date upon which this compact shall become effective for purposes of the operation of state and federal law in a member …

The member states shall take joint and separate action to secure the consent of the United States Congress to this compact in order to return the authority to regulate health care to the member states consistent with the goals and principles articulated in this compact. The membe…

The legislatures of the member states have the primary responsibility to regulate health care in their respective states. History: (Act 2013-420, p. 1672, §3.)

Each member state, within its state, may suspend by legislation the operation of all federal laws, rules, regulations, and orders regarding health care that are inconsistent with the laws and regulations adopted by the member state pursuant to this compact. Federal and state laws…

(a) Each federal fiscal year, each member state shall have the right to federal monies up to an amount equal to its member state current year funding level for that federal fiscal year, funded by Congress as mandatory spending and not subject to annual appropriation, to support t…

(a) The Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission is established. The commission consists of members appointed by each member state through a process to be determined by each member state. A member state may not appoint more than two members to the commission and may withdraw me…

This compact shall be effective on its adoption by at least two member states and consent of the United States Congress. This compact shall be effective unless the United States Congress, in consenting to this compact, alters the fundamental purposes of this compact, which are: (…

The member states, by unanimous agreement, may amend this compact from time to time without the prior consent or approval of Congress and any amendment shall be effective unless, within one year, the Congress disapproves that amendment. Any state may join this compact after the d…

Any member state may withdraw from this compact by adopting a law to that effect, but no such withdrawal shall take effect until six months after the governor of the withdrawing member state has given notice of the withdrawal to the other member states. A withdrawing state shall …

This chapter may be known and cited as the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act. History: (Act 2017-189, §1.)

The Legislature finds and declares: (1) It is the public policy of the State of Alabama to respect and protect the fundamental right of conscience of individuals who provide health care services. (2) Without comprehensive protection, health care rights of conscience may be violat…

The following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, unless otherwise required by their respective context: (1) CONSCIENCE. The religious, moral, or ethical principles held by a health care provider. (2) DISCRIMINATION. Discrimination includes, …

(a) A health care provider has the right not to participate, and no health care provider shall be required to participate, in a health care service that violates his or her conscience when the health care provider has objected in writing prior to being asked to provide such healt…

(a) An action for injunctive relief may be brought for the violation of any provision of this chapter. (b) The court in such action may award injunctive relief, including ordering reinstatement of a health care provider to his or her prior job position, back pay, and costs of the…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to permit or require the violation of any Alabama statute, regulation, or other provision of law that regulates or provides rights, duties, obligations, or limitations related in any way to abortion. History: (Act 2017-189, §6.)

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to health care institutions or employers who are licensed by the State Board of Health as abortion clinics. Further, nothing in this chapter shall modify, amend, repeal, or supersede any provision of Section 6-5-333, or the “Alabama …

If any part, section, or subsection of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect parts, sections, or subsections or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid part, sect…

(a) This chapter may be cited as the “Alabama Water Pollution Control Act.” (b) For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Department of Envir…

Funds which are or may become available from any source, appropriations or otherwise, to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, shall be disbursed by the commission or by its director in accordance with rules prescribed by the commission. History: (Acts 1971, No. 1260, p. 2175,…

This chapter is intended to supplement existing law, and no part of this chapter shall be construed to repeal any existing laws specifically enacted for the protection of health or the control of radiation. All remedies for the prevention and abatement of water pollution given to…

(a) Any person who willfully or with gross negligence violates any provision of the chapter, or rule, regulation or standard adopted under this chapter, or any condition or limitation in a permit issued under this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than $2,500.00 nor…