Article 1 Generally 41-7A-20 – 41-7A-48
§ 41-7A-1 Director – Position created; appointment; salary; rights, benefits, etc
§ 41-7A-2 Employees of office
§ 41-7A-3 Purchase of prior service credit for time in Employees’ Retirement System

Terms Used In Alabama Code > Title 41 > Chapter 7A - Alabama Film Office

  • agriculture: The art or science of cultivating the ground and raising and harvesting crops, including also feeding, breeding, and management of livestock and poultry; tillage; husbandry; or farming. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • ALLOCATED FUNDS: That portion of the funds appropriated to the commission that are allocated by the commission to the soil and water conservation district in each county of the state. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • articles: The articles of incorporation or articles of reincorporation of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • authority: A public corporation incorporated or reincorporated pursuant to the provisions of this article. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The board of directors of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • certificate of incorporation: as used in this chapter is synonymous to the term "certificate of formation" used in Chapter 1. See Alabama Code 10A-2A-1.40
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • commission: The Alabama Agricultural and Conservation Development Commission organized pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, and this chapter. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 2-1-1
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • COST-SHARE GRANT: An award of money made pursuant to the terms of this chapter with no requirement that such money be repaid except in the events outlined herein. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • council: The Alabama Propane Education and Research Council created pursuant to Section 9-17-175. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • COUNTY OF INCORPORATION: The county in which an authority has been or is proposed to be incorporated or reincorporated. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • department: The Department of Revenue. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • directors: The members of the board of directors. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • education: Any action to provide information regarding propane and the use of propane to consumers and members of the propane gas industry. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • ELIGIBLE PERSON: An individual, partnership, family-owned corporation the owners of all the stock of which are related by blood or marriage, estate, or trust who, as an owner, landlord, lessee, tenant or sharecropper, participates in the operation of (1) a farm lying within a soil and water conservation district, or (2) a tract of land devoted to the growth of timber lying within a soil and water conservation district. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • employee: An employee, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code, as amended from time to time; except that any individual providing services to an employer on an hourly, part-time, full-time, salaried, or contractual basis shall be considered an employee for purposes of this division. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • employer: An employer, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code, as amended from time to time, that is either a general contractor or subcontractor that primarily holds itself out for hire to the general public as a general contractor or subcontractor and who receives more than five percent of its annual gross revenue from business described in either North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 236, 237, or 238 of the United States Department of Commerce in effect as of January 1, 2009. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • fee: The tax levied by this division. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Any individual, person, corporation, limited liability entity, trust, association, or any other business enterprise other than home building projects by licensed residential home builders as defined in Chapter 14A of Title 34, or those specifically exempted under Chapter 14A of Title 34, except for subdivision (3) of Section 34-14A-6, that for a price, commission, fee, or payment undertakes to construct or superintend or engage in the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, remediation, reclamation, demolition of any building, highway, sewer, structure, site work, grading, or paving of any project, or any improvement, in the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • incorporators: The natural persons filing a written application for the incorporation or reincorporation of an authority pursuant to this article. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • landowner: Any person, firm, or corporation holding title to land lying within a soil and water conservation district. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • municipality: Any municipal corporation wholly or partially within the county of incorporation. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • ODORIZED PROPANE: Propane which has an odorant added to it. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITY: Any municipality named in the articles that elects to participate in the incorporation or reincorporation of the authority. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • person: An individual, a partnership, a corporation or two or more individuals having a joint or common interest. See Alabama Code 2-1-1
  • person: Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, any person, including, without limitation, a private firm, a private association, a corporation, and a public person. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidence of debt, deeds and conveyances. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • PROBATE JUDGE: The judge of probate of the county of incorporation of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • PROGRAM YEAR: The period from October 1 to September 30. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • project: Any land and any buildings or other improvements thereon, and all real, personal, and mixed properties deemed by an authority to be necessary or appropriate in connection therewith, whether or not now in existence, which shall be suitable for road improvement purposes. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • propane: Hydrocarbon whose chemical composition is predominately C3H8, whether recovered from natural gas or crude oil, and includes liquefied petroleum gases and mixtures thereof. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • PROPANE GAS INDUSTRY: Those persons involved in the production, transportation, and sale of propane. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • PUBLIC MEMBER: A member of the council, other than a representative of wholesalers or retail marketers, representing significant users of propane, public safety officials, state regulatory officials, or other groups knowledgeable about propane. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • PUBLIC PERSON: The state and any county, municipal corporation, agency, subdivision thereof, instrumentality thereof, or similar person. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
  • QUALIFIED INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION: The Alabama Propane Gas Association or its successor. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • real property: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • research: Any type of study, investigation, or other activities designed to advance the image, desirability, usage, marketability, and efficient use of propane gas and to further the development and distribution of the information. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • RETAIL MARKETER: A person engaged primarily in the sale of odorized propane gas to the end user or to retail propane dispensers. See Alabama Code 9-17-171
  • SKILLED LABOR: Includes all labor or services performed by employees directly engaged in construction operations at the location of any construction, alteration, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, remediation, reclamation, demolition, highway, sewer, structure, grading, paving, or improvement project in Alabama. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT: A governmental subdivision of this state and a public body corporate and politic organized pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 9. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION PRACTICES: The measures approved by the commission and applied to the land that prevent soil erosion in the state or improve the quality of water from agricultural sources in the state or improve the forest resources of the state. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 9-8A-1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • subcontractor: Any individual, person, corporation, limited liability entity, trust, association, or any other business enterprise performing work under contract to a general contractor, but not licensed residential home builders building homes as defined in Chapter 14A of Title 34, or those specifically exempted under Chapter 14A of Title 34, except for subdivision (3) of Section 34-14A-6. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • wages: The gross earnings paid by an employer to an employee covered by this division, including all forms of compensation such as salaries, hourly payments, commissions, remuneration, dismissal pay, bonuses, and vacation and sick leave pay, prior to deductions for items such as Social Security contributions, withholding taxes, group health insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. See Alabama Code 41-10-727
  • wholesaler: A company engaged primarily in the sale of odorized propane gas to the retail marketer or to the end user. See Alabama Code 9-17-171