Title 22 — Title 22

(a) A state or local health department may not prohibit the serving of wine or beer, including draft beer, in a food service establishment that allows pet dogs in accordance with Section 22-20-5.3 or a dog park if the establishment or dog park otherwise meets the requirements for…

(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) CERTIFYING FIRE OFFICIAL. The State Fire Marshal or a local fire department authorized to conduct fire safety inspections under subdivision (c)(1). (2) COMMISSARY. A food service establishment permi…

Any rule or regulation of the Health Department to the contrary notwithstanding, legally taken deer, turkeys and any other wild animal may be butchered, killed and/or processed at any slaughterhouse, abattoir, meat-packing and processing plant in this state. History: (Acts 1967, …

The State Board of Health shall inspect dairy farms, milk-cooling stations, milk-processing plants and creameries for grading the milk and cream output of such establishments. The said inspections shall be made in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Board of He…

It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly deposit any dead animal or nauseous substance in any source, standpipe or reservoir from which water is supplied to any city or town of this state or in any private well, spring, reservoir, tank, vessel or receptacle. Any person vi…

Any person who deposits the body of a dead animal or fowl in any running stream must, on conviction, be fined $10.00, and one half of the fine must go to the informer. History: (Code 1867, §4435; Code 1876, §1728; Code 1886, §1464; Code 1896, §5330; Code 1907, §7874; Code 1923, §…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares the consumer’s right to know the source or origin of a food product for human consumption is paramount and essential to the health, safety, and well-being of the people of this state and nation. Providing notice to the public of whether f…

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (1) BOARD. The State Committee of Public Health pursuant to Section 22-2-1. (2) COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. The country in which an animal, from whic…

(a) Any individual or entity who supplies a covered commodity to a food service establishment shall provide the country of origin of the covered commodity to the food service establishment. (b) A food service establishment, including an in-store deli, selling or providing a cover…

For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) BOARD. The State Board of Health as defined in Section 22-2-3. (2) CATFISH. Any species of fish classified within the family Ictaluridae. …

(a) A food service establishment shall not advertise or label a food item as catfish unless it is fish classified within the family of Ictaluridae. (b) Any advertising of catfish or other members of the Order of Siluriformes, or catfish products or siluriformes products by food s…

(a) Any food service establishment engaged in the sale or advertising of catfish products in violation of this article shall be subject to civil penalties. The department shall impose the following civil penalties. For violations occurring within a 24-month period: (1) A warning …

Any covered commodity with the United States as its country of origin may have the appropriate state name, USA, or United States of America, including a trade name or trademark, listed in lieu thereof to accommodate products produced in any of the states or a territory of the Uni…

The board shall promulgate rules as may be necessary for the enforcement of this article, such rules to be promulgated according to the Administrative Procedure Act. History: (Act 2009-582, p. 1715, §5.)

Any shrimp harvested from inland ponds or farms may be processed at the site where the harvesting occurs pursuant to rules adopted by the Alabama Department of Public Health. History: (Act 2015-488, §2.)

The board may cooperate with and enter into agreements with governmental agencies of this state or agencies of the federal government in order to carry out the purpose of this article. History: (Act 2009-582, p. 1715, §6.)

The State Health Officer may apply for and the court may grant a temporary restraining order or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this article or any rule promulgated under this article, notwithstanding th…

(a) Any food service establishment that violates this article or the rules adopted thereunder, after notice and a hearing, shall be subject to civil penalties. The State Health Officer shall impose these penalties on a graduated scale in accordance with the following schedule for…

The requirements of this article shall not apply to any of the following: (1) Any retailer required to inform consumers of the country of origin of a covered commodity as provided in 7 U.S.C. §§ 1638 through 1638d, inclusive. (2) A hospital as defined in Section 22-21-20. (3) A g…

The corporate authorities of any town or city and the county commission of any county may each establish, within the town or city or within the county, hospitals, temporary or permanent, for the reception of the sick or infirm or of persons suspected of having infectious or conta…

(a) As used in this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) EMPLOYEE. An individual who is a part-time or full-time employee of the long term care facility. (2) LONG TERM CARE FACILITY. The term includes a skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility…

For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) HOSPITAL CORPORATION. A hospital association heretofore or hereafter organized under and pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 211, General Acts of Al…

The county commission of any county in which a special tax for public hospital purposes has heretofore been or shall hereafter be authorized at an election held in the county pursuant to the provisions of any amendment to the constitution shall have the power to designate a hospi…

When a hospital corporation has been designated as the agency of the county to acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain public hospital facilities in the county, and without restriction to a particular area or portion of the county in which such corporation is to act as su…

All elections which have heretofore been held in any county pursuant to the provisions of any amendment to the constitution for the purpose of authorizing a special county tax for public hospital purposes which said elections resulted in a majority of the votes cast being in favo…

Every election heretofore held in any county in this state, which has a population of less than 50,000, according to the last federal decennial census, on the question of the levy of a special tax for public hospital purposes under the Constitution of Alabama, including any amend…

Every election heretofore held in any county in this state submitting to the qualified electors of such county the question of the levy of a special tax for public hospital purposes pursuant to the provisions of Amendment 72 to the Constitution of Alabama at which a majority of t…

Any hospital corporation may anticipate the proceeds from any special county tax required to be paid to it in accordance with the provisions of this division, by issuing securities for any one or more of the purposes for which the tax shall have been voted, and may pledge for the…

Securities issued under this division may contain such other terms, provisions, conditions, limitations and agreements, not inconsistent with the provisions of this division, as the directors of the hospital corporation issuing the same shall deem advisable, including, but not li…

Securities of the hospital corporation may be executed and delivered by it at any time, and from time to time, shall be in such form and denomination and of such tenor and maturities, shall contain such provisions not inconsistent with this division and shall bear such rate or ra…

All securities issued under this division may be sold, either at private or public sale, in such manner, and from time to time, as may be determined by the directors of the hospital corporation issuing the same to be most advantageous. The hospital corporation may pay all expense…

(a) Any physician, nurse, or employee thereof or agent of the same and any employee or agent of a hospital, mental health facility, clinic, or nursing home knowingly treating a person suffering from a gunshot wound, or receiving a request for treatment, shall report the injury to…

Unless otherwise directed by the court having jurisdiction thereof and 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 a hospital corporation for payment of the principal of,…

Securities reciting that they are issued pursuant to the terms of this division shall, in any action or proceeding involving their validity, be conclusively deemed to be fully authorized by this division and to have been issued, sold, executed and delivered in conformity with thi…

The directors of any hospital corporation may, in their discretion, before the issuance of any securities, determine the authority of the hospital corporation to issue such securities, and the legality of all proceedings had or taken in connection therewith and the validity of th…

For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AUTHORITY. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the aut…

It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this article to empower each incorporated city and town in the state to authorize the incorporation of one or more public corporations as political subdivisions of the state for the purpose of providing public hospital faci…

Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the governing body an application in writing for permission to incorporate a public corporation under the provisions of this article, if it shall be made to appear to the governing body that each of the …

(a) The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall state: (1) The name and address of each of the incorporators, and a statement that each of them is a duly qualified elector of, and property owner in, the municipality; (2) The name of the authority, which shall be “The …

The certificate of incorporation, having attached thereto: (1) A certified copy of the resolution provided for in Section 22-21-133; and (2) A certificate by the Secretary of State of the state that the name proposed for the authority is not identical with that of any other corpo…

(a) The authority shall have a board of directors composed of the number of directors provided in the certificate of incorporation, as most recently amended. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by the board or pursuant to its authorization. The directors shall be resid…

The officers of the authority shall consist of a president, a vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer and such other officers as the board shall deem necessary to accomplish the purposes for which the authority was organized. The offices of secretary and treasurer may, but need …

The authority shall have the following powers and capacities, among others specified in this article, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof: (1) To have succession by its corporate name until dissolved as provided in Section 22-21-154; …

The authority shall have the same power of eminent domain as is vested by law in the municipality, which power shall be exercised in the same manner and under the same conditions as are provided by law for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the municipality. History: …

The municipality is hereby authorized to convey to the authority, with or without the payment of monetary consideration therefor, any property that may, immediately preceding such conveyance, be owned by the municipality, whether or not such property is necessary for the conduct …

(a) Authorization of lease. The authority and the municipality are hereby respectively authorized to enter into one or more lease agreements with each other whereunder one or more projects or any part thereof shall be leased by the authority to the municipality. No such lease agr…

The authority is empowered, at any time and from time to time, to sell and issue its revenue bonds for the purpose of providing funds to acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, complete and equip one or more projects and for payment of obligations incurred for any such purpose. The…

The authority may at any time and from time to time sell and issue its refunding revenue bonds for the purpose of refunding the principal of, and interest on, any matured or unmatured bonds of the authority at the time outstanding and for the payment of any expenses incurred in c…

The bonds of the authority shall be signed by either its president or its vice-president, as shall be provided in the resolution under which the bonds shall be issued, and the seal of the authority shall be affixed to the bonds and attested by its secretary; provided, that a facs…

The principal of, and the interest on, the bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues out of which the bonds shall be made payable, may be secured by a pledge of the lease agreement (if any) covering the project from which revenues so pledged shall be derived and by a ple…