Title 22

A person who owns or operates a licensed tattoo facility shall do each of the following: (1) Display the license in a conspicuous place within the customer service area of the tattoo facility. (2) Ensure that an individual engaged in tattooing in the tattoo facility wears disposa…

(a) The department shall perform each of the following duties: (1) Enforce this chapter and the rules promulgated under this chapter. (2) Promulgate rules necessary to implement this chapter, including, but not limited to, rules governing each of the following: a. Tattoo facility…

A person who violates this chapter or a rule promulgated under this chapter shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100), or both, for each violation. (Act 2000-321, p. 512, §8…

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) OPERATOR. A person designated by the tanning facility owner or tanning device lessee to operate or assist and instruct in the operation and use of the tanning facility or tanning device. (2) …

The use of a tanning device at a tanning facility in this state is subject to the following restrictions: (1) No person 16 or 17 years of age shall use a tanning device unless a parent or legal guardian provides written consent signed at the tanning facility. (2) No person 15 yea…

The written consent required to be signed by a parent or legal guardian as required in Section 22-17B-2 shall contain the following warning: “Danger. Ultraviolet radiation. Follow instructions. Avoid overexposure. As with natural sunlight, overexposure can cause eye and skin inju…

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN. Any individual who is an emergency medical services personnel, is 18 years of age or older, and who satisfies all of t…

(a) The board may establish and administer a community paramedicine program to authorize paramedics to provide community paramedic services under the direction and oversight of the program medical director, as further provided in this section. (b) The criteria for which an indivi…

The provisions of this article shall not apply to volunteer rescue squads that are members of the Alabama Association of Rescue Squads, Inc., and which furnish BLS ambulance service to the public; nor shall the provisions of this chapter apply to businesses or companies which onl…

(a) In the manner provided in this section, the Board of Health shall establish and publish reasonable rules and regulations for the training, qualification, scope of privilege, and licensing of EMSP, and provider services, and for the operation, design, equipment, and licensing …

(a) In addition to all other fees payable, the department shall establish, by rule, a fee for EMSP and air or ground provider service licenses. Each license issued to an EMSP shall be valid for a period of 24 calendar months. Each license issued to a provider service shall be val…

(a) Beginning January 1, 2025, the Alabama Department of Public Health shall require each emergency medical services personnel to annually complete one hour of training on interacting with individuals with sensory needs or invisible disabilities. (b)(1) The Alabama Department of …

(a) It shall be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm, company, corporation, organization, facility, or agency to do any of the following: (1) Deliberately hinder, obstruct, or interfere with an officer, inspector, or duly authorized agent of the board while in the performan…

This article is cumulative and shall not be construed as limiting any power or authority of any municipality to set standards equal to, or above, state standards as provided in this chapter. (Acts 1971, No. 1590, p. 2717, §8.)

In those instances in which EMSP of any municipality, county, fire district, or the state are employed by the State of Alabama, any county, fire district, or another municipality, within 24 months after completing the training requirements mandated by this chapter, or by rules ad…

(a) When reviewing an applicant for initial licensure under this article, the Board of Health may require a fingerprint-based state and national criminal background check through the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency for purposes of determining the applicant’s suitability for …

(a) The board shall be assisted in formulating rules and policy pertaining to emergency medical services by the State Emergency Medical Control Committee (SEMCC). Each member of the SEMCC shall have voting privileges. Members of the SEMCC shall serve without compensation but shal…

(a) The board may by rule designate certain procedures as advanced life support techniques, which may be performed by EMSP during emergencies, such as situations where the life, health, or safety of a prehospital patient is in immediate jeopardy. The board may prescribe by rule t…

This chapter shall govern and it shall authorize the Board of Health to regulate only emergency medical care provided outside of hospitals, EMSP who provide care outside of hospitals, provider services ground ambulances, air ambulances, ALS nontransport services, the training of …

In carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this chapter, the board shall follow the Administrative Procedure Act. (Acts 1995, No. 95-276, p. 488, §6.)

Neither the provisions of this chapter nor rules of the board adopted thereunder shall apply to volunteer fire departments which are not regularly engaged in the provision of emergency medical care and which offer only Basic Life Support response and do not transport. Volunteer f…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Emergency medical services are an essential public service and a part of the health care safety net for many residents of this state. (2) It is in the public interest to assure that high quality emergency and urgent medica…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Lakyn Canine Act. (b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL. The same meaning as provided in Section 22-18-1. (2) POLICE DOG. Any dog with…

The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public through verification of compe…

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ACCS. The Alabama Community College System. (2) AMBULANCE SERVICE. An ambulance service located in this state which is a member of the Alabama Association of Ambulance Services. (3) ASSOCIATION…

(a) Eligible educational institutions, in consultation with the associations, shall jointly develop and administer a student tuition reimbursement program for students who contract to provide two years of emergency medical services for volunteer rescue squads, volunteer fire depa…

Upon written request by an association or a member of an association, the ACCS may retroactively consider reimbursement of actual tuition costs, excluding required fees, provided by the association or its members to a student to pay his or her eligible tuition costs. (Act 2023-35…

(a) Member institutions of the ACCS, the fire college, the University of South Alabama, and designated EMS regional agencies may enter into contracts with new students seeking to obtain certification as an EMSP. (b) The Alabama Department of Public Health shall adopt rules settin…

(a) The tuition reimbursement program is subject to direct appropriations from the Education Trust Fund. (b) Any monies appropriated for the program that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert, but shall be carried forward for use of the program in the next f…

(a) The ACCS shall annually report on the condition and accomplishments of the tuition reimbursement program to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee, the Chair of the …

The State Board of Health shall prescribe the rules and regulations under which the bodies of deceased persons may be brought into, or transported through, the state and, also, the rules and regulations under which such bodies may be transported from one point to another point in…

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to take, carry, transport or remove from within the confines of this state any dead human body unless said body has been embalmed or cremated. Any person, firm or corporation who violates this section shall be guilty of a m…

Any person, for himself or as an officer, agent or employee of any other person or of any corporation or partnership, who shall: (Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §3870; Code 1940, T. 14, §114; Code 1975, §13-6-86.)

Every minister of the gospel or other person conducting religious services at a funeral shall inquire whether or not a burial or removal permit has been secured for the disposition of the body. Should it be found that a burial permit has not been secured, the undertaker or person…

(a) Each funeral establishment taking possession of a dead human body shall maintain an identification system approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service. The identification system may include any dignified method, including, but not limited to, an arm band or a wrist band, …

The State Health Officer, the Dean of the School of Medicine and the head of the Department of Anatomy of the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the deans and heads of the departments of anatomy of other medical schools which may hereafter become incorporated under the laws …

The said board shall have full power to establish rules and regulations for its government and to appoint and remove its officers and shall keep full and complete minutes of its transactions. Records shall also be kept under its direction of all bodies received and distributed by…

All public officers of this state and their assistants and all officers and their deputies of every county, city, town or other municipality and of every prison, penitentiary, morgue and public hospital in this state having charge or control over any dead human body or bodies, no…

No notice shall be given, nor shall any such body or bodies be delivered, if any person shall satisfy the authorities in charge of said body or bodies that he or she is of any degree of kin or is related by marriage to, or socially or otherwise connected with and interested in, t…

Such body or bodies shall, in each and every instance, be held and kept by the person or persons having charge or control of it or them at least 24 hours after death before being delivered to said board, or its agent or agents, during which period notice of the death of such pers…

The said board, or its duly authorized agent, may take and receive such bodies so delivered as provided in this article and shall, upon receiving them, distribute them among schools, duly authorized by said board, for lectures and demonstrations by said schools, the number assign…

Said schools, upon receiving them, and before any use is made of them, and without unnecessary mutilation or dissection shall cause them to be properly embalmed and carefully preserved and kept for a period of 60 days from the day of their reception and shall deliver them properl…

When said bodies have been so used and are no longer needed or serviceable for objects mentioned in this article, they shall be decently interred, cremated or otherwise properly disposed of by the said schools. (Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1295; Code 1940, T. 22, §181…

The said board may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of said bodies, which shall be enclosed in a suitable encasement and carefully deposited free from public observation. Said carrier or carriers shall obtain receipts by name or, if the person be unknown, by a desc…

Neither the state, nor any county or municipality nor any officer, agent or servant thereof shall be at any expense by reason of delivery or distribution of any such body or bodies, but all expenses thereof shall be paid by those receiving the body or bodies in such a manner as m…

Any person having duties enjoined upon him by the provisions of this article or other health laws of this state relating to the distribution of unclaimed dead bodies for scientific study who shall neglect, refuse or omit to perform the same as therein required must, on conviction…