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People convicted of sex-offense-registration crimes generally may not drive or receive a commercial driver license with P or S endorsements, and the department must revoke, deny, or cancel such licenses in specified cases.
The county board of health sets which services may have fees and how much each fee is. The health department may collect those fees, but no one can be denied service for inability to pay.
This section defines several words used in the code, including terms like boy, girl, person, property, state, United States, and year.
The Act says Alabama sex-related laws should be read with clarity and uniformity, and it applies wherever state law uses sex-based classifications or terms like male, female, men, women, boys, or girls.
This section repeals uncodified public, general, and permanent statutes, but keeps listed categories of statutes from being repealed.
Laws or statute parts already repealed or abrogated by this Code stay repealed or abrogated.
Keeping this Code silent about earlier validating acts does not repeal their effect if those acts were lawfully passed and do not conflict with the U.S. or Alabama Constitution.
This provision says the Code’s titles, chapters, sections, headings, catchlines, historical citations, and notes are mainly for reference and organization, not to change the law.
References to parts of this Code generally mean those same parts of this Code, and references to any part of this Code or any other law include later amendments.
If part of the Code, an amendment, or another statute is invalid, the rest remains effective if it can still operate.
This provision explains how words in the Code are read: tense, gender, number, and joint authority are interpreted broadly unless stated otherwise.
This provision defines “blind person,” allows proof of blindness by a licensed eye-care certificate when claiming state rights or benefits, and lets the Alabama State Department of Human Resources set a different blindness definition for its blind-assistance program.
When a law sets a time period for doing an act, the first day is excluded and the last day is included. If the last day is Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day the office is closed by law, that last day is also excluded and the next working day becomes the last day. Time is measured by central standard time, or central da
If Congress amends the federal law to allow year-round Daylight Saving Time, Alabama must adopt Daylight Saving Time as the year-round standard for the whole state and its political subdivisions.
This provision was repealed and became effective January 1, 1980.
Acts or omissions with a pecuniary penalty attached are not public offenses under this Code.
A penal act does not take effect until 60 days after approval, unless the act specially says otherwise.
This section preserves existing rights, remedies, defenses, and already-commenced prosecutions for offenses already committed.
Alabama’s official coat of arms must have the specified shield, flags, eagle supports, crest, Latin motto, and the word “Alabama” beneath it.
The racking horse is designated as Alabama’s official state horse.
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