Terms Used In Alabama Code > Title 6 > Chapter 5 - Actions

• access: To gain entry to, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve or intercept data from, alter data or computer software in, or otherwise make use of any resource of a computer, computer system, or computer network. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• ACCREDITED STATE: A state in which the Department of Insurance meets the minimum financial qualifications and regulatory standards promulgated and established, from time to time, by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Alabama Code 27-6B-2
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• actuary: A person who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries. See Alabama Code 27-6A-2
• actuary: A person who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• administrator: A third party other than the warrantor who is designated by the warrantor to be responsible for the administration of vehicle protection product warranties. See Alabama Code 8-33-2
• administrator: The person designated by a provider to be responsible for the administration of service contracts or the service contracts plan or to make the filings required by this chapter. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• ADULT MOVIE HOUSE: A place where obscene "adult films" depicting sexual conduct are shown. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• ADULT-ONLY ENTERTAINMENT: Any commercial establishment or private club where entertainers, employees, dancers, or waiters appear nude or semi-nude. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• advertisement: All representations, other than those on the label, disseminated in any manner or by any means, relating to seed within the scope of this article. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• advertisement: A commercial message in any medium that directly or indirectly promotes or assists a rental-purchase agreement, except for instore merchandising aids. See Alabama Code 8-25-1
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• ADVISORY PLANNING: Continuing and systematic studies of the land economics and land policies of a region in terms of social and economic betterment of said region, together with the submission of interim and final results of said systematic and continuous studies to the governing bodies of constituent governmental units for review, adoption, rejection, or implementation thereof in whole or in part. See Alabama Code 11-85-20
• AFFECTED LAND: The area of land from which overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been deposited after October 1, 1970. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• Affiliate: means :

  (i) a person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person that holds the securities:

  (A) as a fiduciary or agent without sole discretionary power to vote the securities; or

  (B) solely to secure a debt, if the person has not in fact exercised the power to vote;

  (ii) a corporation 20 percent or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held, with power to vote, by the debtor or a person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds, with power to vote, 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person that holds the securities:

  (A) as a fiduciary or agent without sole discretionary power to vote the securities; or

  (B) solely to secure a debt, if the person has not in fact exercised the power to vote;

  (iii) a person whose business is operated by the debtor under a lease or other agreement, or a person substantially all of whose assets are controlled by the debtor; or

  (iv) a person that operates the debtor's business under a lease or other agreement or controls substantially all of the debtor's assets. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• agency: Any state agency responsible for administering programs under Title IV-D or Title XIX of the Social Security Act. See Alabama Code 27-21B-2
• agent: A person who is appointed or employed by a health maintenance organization and who engages in solicitation of membership in such organization. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• AGRICULTURAL CENTER BOARD: The board of that name established pursuant to Article 2 of this chapter. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• AGRICULTURAL FUND: The fund of that name created and administered pursuant to Article 1, Chapter 9, Title 2. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS: Such term shall include horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, fish, aquatic and seafood products and any farm products. See Alabama Code 2-10-50
• AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS: The products of field, pasture, meadow and garden; fruits, melons, berries, nuts, vegetables, livestock, poultry and poultry products, dairy products, fish, aquatic and seafood products and all other things commonly known as agricultural products. See Alabama Code 2-10-90
• AGRICULTURAL SEED: The seeds of grasses, forage, cereal and fiber crops and any other kinds of seeds commonly recognized within this state as agricultural or field seeds and mixtures of such seeds. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• Alabama affiliated group: means a group of corporations, each member of which is subject to tax under Section 40-18-31 and Public Law 86-272 (15 U. See Alabama Code 40-18-39
• ALABAMA INSURANCE CODE: Title 27 of the Code of Alabama 1975. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• ALARM MONITORING SERVICE: A service that uses a device located at a residence, place of business, or other fixed premises for both of the following purposes:

  a. See Alabama Code 45-39-250

• alcoholism: A chronic disorder or illness in which the individual is unable, for psychological or physical reasons, or both, to refrain from the frequent consumption of alcohol in quantities sufficient to produce intoxication and, ultimately, injury to health and effective functioning. See Alabama Code 27-20A-1
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• animal: Every living creature, domestic or wild, with the exception of man and animals used for illegal gaming purposes. See Alabama Code 13A-11-152
• ANIMAL OR CROP FACILITY: Any facility engaging in scientific research, education, or agricultural production of or involving the use of animals or crops including any organization with the primary purpose of representing livestock or crop production or processing; any organization with a primary purpose of promoting or marketing livestock or crops; any organization with a primary purpose of promoting or marketing livestock or crop products or materials; any person licensed to practice veterinary medicine; any person licensed to apply chemical applications not limited to pesticides, insecticides, rodenticides, or herbicides; any organization with a primary purpose of representing any of the above; the owner, operator, and employees of any animal or crop facility; and any vehicle, building, greenhouse, structure, laboratory, pasture, field, paddock, pond, impoundment, or premises where animals or crops are located. See Alabama Code 13A-11-152
• APPEARANCE BOND: An appearance bond is an undertaking to pay the clerk of the circuit, district, or municipal court, for the use of the State of Alabama or the municipality, a specified sum of money upon the failure of a person released to comply with its conditions. See Alabama Code 15-13-101
• applicant: A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of Marengo County, or with the governing body of any municipality in such county in accordance with Section 45-46-90. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• applicant: A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of the city in accordance with Section 45-41A-10. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• applicant: A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of the city in accordance with Section 45-41A-40. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• applicant: A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of any county or municipality or public corporation or cooperative in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-89-3. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• applicant: Any person applying for a license under this chapter, including the principal, if such person is the agent of another who is the true owner, notwithstanding whether that other is an individual, partnership, association, firm, or corporation and notwithstanding whether the name of the true owner appears on the application or not. See Alabama Code 8-13-1
• applicant: A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of any county in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-88-3. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• APPOINTING AUTHORITY: A department head. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• AREA OF SALES RESPONSIBILITY: The geographical area, agreed to by the dealer and the manufacturer or the distributor or in the manufacturer and dealer agreement, within which the dealer has the exclusive right to display or sell new recreational vehicles of a particular line-make of the manufacturer or distributor to the retail public. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• article: When referring to food or drugs, such term is used in the broad and comprehensive sense and has reference to the food product or the drug product in question. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• articles: The articles of incorporation or articles of reincorporation of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
• assessment: A standardized diagnostic evaluation for placement in a treatment program. See Alabama Code 45-41-83.01
• asset: Property of a debtor, but the term does not include:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1

• Asset: means property of a debtor, but the term does not include:

  (i) property to the extent it is encumbered by a valid lien;

  (ii) property to the extent it is generally exempt under nonbankruptcy law; or

  (iii) an interest in property held in tenancy in common for life with cross contingent remainder to the survivor in fee to the extent it is not subject to process by a creditor holding a claim against only one tenant. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2

• associate: When used to indicate a relationship with:

  (A) a domestic or foreign entity for which the person is:

  (i) an officer or governing person; or

  (ii) a beneficial owner of 10 percent or more of a class of voting ownership interests or similar securities of the entity;

  (B) a trust or estate in which the person has a substantial beneficial interest or for which the person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity;

  (C) the person's spouse or a relative of the person related by consanguinity or affinity within the fifth degree who resides with the person; or

  (D) a governing person or an affiliate or officer of the person. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03

• association: Includes, but is not limited to, an unincorporated nonprofit association as defined in Chapter 17 and an unincorporated professional association as defined in Article 1 of Chapter 30. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• association: as used in this article , shall refer to agricultural cooperative marketing associations and other organizations, whether incorporated or not, which have for their objects engaging in activities similar to those of a cooperative marketing association. See Alabama Code 2-10-20
• association: Any corporation organized under this article. See Alabama Code 2-10-50
• Attorney: as used in this chapter , refers to the attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal insurer. See Alabama Code 27-31-5
• ATTORNEY GENERAL: The Attorney General of the State of Alabama or his or her duly designated representatives. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• authority: The Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority, a public corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• authority: A public corporation organized pursuant to this article. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• authority: The Civic Center Authority created by this part. See Alabama Code 45-39A-11
• authority: The Auburn Downtown Redevelopment Authority, a public corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• authority: The Opelika Downtown Redevelopment Authority, a public corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• authority: A public corporation incorporated or reincorporated pursuant to the provisions of this article. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
• authority: The public corporation organized pursuant to this article. See Alabama Code 11-85-100
• authority: A public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• authority: A public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 of this chapter, as amended. See Alabama Code 11-88-40
• Authority: means the Anniston Downtown Development Authority, a public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this part. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT: That certain amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, proposed by Act 88-479 enacted at the 1988 Regular Session of the Legislature. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• AUTHORIZING COUNTY: Marengo County, Alabama, provided the governing body thereof shall have adopted an authorizing resolution. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITY: Any municipality in the county, the governing body of which shall have adopted an authorizing resolution. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION: The resolution that authorizes the incorporation of an authority, adopted by the governing body of the county or the governing body of any municipality in the county in accordance with Section 45-46-90. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION: The resolution adopted by the governing body of the City of Florence or the county, in accordance with this part, that authorizes the organization of the tourism board. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION: A resolution adopted by the governing body of the city in accordance with Section 45-41A-10. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION: A resolution adopted by the governing body of the city in accordance with Section 45-41A-40. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION: A resolution, adopted by a governing body in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-89-3, that authorizes the incorporation of a district. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• Authorizing resolution: means a resolution adopted by the governing body of the city in accordance with the provisions of Section 45-8A-20. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION: Any county or municipality or public corporation or cooperative the governing body of which shall have adopted an authorizing resolution. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• BABY FOOD: A food which purports to be or is represented for special dietary use as a food for babies by reason of its special formulation or its particular suitability for children under two years of age. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• BASIC HEALTH CARE SERVICES: Emergency care, inpatient hospital and physician care, and outpatient medical services. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• benefit: Any gain or advantage to the beneficiary, including any gain or advantage to a third person pursuant to the desire or consent of the beneficiary. See Alabama Code 13A-10-60
• BENEFIT CORPORATION: A benefit corporation as defined in Chapter 2A. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• Bequeath: To gift property by will.
• bid: A written offer or proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor in response to an invitation to bid for the right to exhibit a motion picture, stating the terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• bingo: The game, commonly known as bingo, where numbers or symbols on a card are matched with numbers or symbols selected at random. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• BINGO SESSION: A consecutive period of time not to exceed five consecutive hours during which bingo is played in a given day not to exceed one day in a given week. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• BLIND BIDDING: The bidding for, negotiating for or offering or agreeing to terms for the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture at any time before such motion picture has either been trade screened or before such motion picture, at the option of the distributor, otherwise has been made available for viewing by all exhibitors from whom the distributor is soliciting bids or with whom the distributor is negotiating for the right to exhibit such motion picture. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• blind person: means a natural person who has no vision or whose vision with correcting glasses is so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential, or who has central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting glasses, or whose central visual acuity is more than 20/200 in the better eye with correcting glasses but whose peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees. See Alabama Code 1-1-3
• board: The State Board of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• board: The Board of Directors of the Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• board: The board of directors of an authority. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• board: The board of directors of the tourism board. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• board: The Lee County Alternative Sentencing Board. See Alabama Code 45-41-83.01
• board: The State Board of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• board: The board of directors of the authority. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• board: The board of directors of the authority. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• board: The Board of County Commissioners. See Alabama Code 45-42-122.01
• board: The board of directors of a district. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• board: The board of directors of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• board: The State Board of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• board: The board of directors of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-88-40
• board: The Agricultural Center Board created by Sections 2-6-1 and 2-6-2. See Alabama Code 2-6-50
• board: The State Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• board: The Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• board: The State Board of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• board: The personnel board herein authorized. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES: The Alabama Board of Agriculture and Industries created pursuant to Section 2-3-1. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The board of directors of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
• BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The Board of Directors of the Alabama Revolving Loan Fund Authority. See Alabama Code 11-85-100
• BOLL WEEVIL: Anthonomus grandis Boheman in any stage of development. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• BONA FIDE INVENTORY REPURCHASE PROGRAM: A program by which an entity repurchases from a salesperson current and marketable inventory in possession of the salesperson, on request and on commercially reasonable terms, when the salesperson's business relationship is terminated. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• bonds: Bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• bonds: Includes bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• bonds: Bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• bonds: Shall include bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• bonds: Bonds, notes and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• bonds: The bonds issued under this article. See Alabama Code 11-85-100
• bonds: Bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• Bonds: means and shall include bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• borrower: A county or incorporated municipality, as the case may be, exercising the powers conferred by this article. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• brand: Any recorded identification mark applied to any position on the hide of livestock by means of heat, acid, or a chemical, except numbers used to keep production records or record of age. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• BREAST NUDITY: The showing of the post-pubertal human female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• building: As used in this article, such term means any structure which may be entered and utilized by persons for business, public use, lodging or the storage of goods, and includes any vehicle, railway car, aircraft or watercraft used for the lodging of persons or for carrying on business therein. See Alabama Code 13A-7-40
• BUILDING COMMISSION: The Building Commission created under Article 6, Chapter 9, Title 41, and any successor agency thereto. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• BURDEN OF INTERJECTING THE ISSUE: Shall be defined as provided in Section 13A-1-2(14). See Alabama Code 13A-5-39
• BUSINESS TRUST: A business trust as defined in Chapter 16. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• CABLE SERVICE: A service that provides both of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 45-39-250

• CABLE SYSTEM: A facility, consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception, and control equipment that is designed to provide cable service which includes video programming and which is provided to multiple subscribers within a community, but the term does not include any of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 45-39-250

• CAMPING TRAILER: A vehicular unit that is mounted on wheels and constructed with collapsible partial side walls that fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold at the campsite to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• Capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
• CAPITAL OFFENSE: An offense for which a defendant shall be punished by a sentence of death or life imprisonment without parole, or in the case of a defendant who establishes that he or she was under the age of 18 years at the time of the capital offense, life imprisonment, or life imprisonment without parole, according to the provisions of this article. See Alabama Code 13A-5-39
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• cash: Any legal tender, negotiable paper, or solvent credit. See Alabama Code 40-18-1
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• certificate: A document issued or authorized by the commissioner indicating that a regulated article is not contaminated with boll weevils. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION: Any document such as a certificate of dissolution, statement of dissolution, or articles of dissolution, required or permitted to be filed publicly with respect to an entity's dissolution and winding up of its business, activity, activities, not for profit activity, or affairs. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• 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
• CERTIFICATED OWNERSHIP INTEREST: An ownership interest of a domestic entity represented by a certificate. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• CERTIFIED PRESCRIBED BURN MANAGER: An individual who successfully completes a certification program approved by the Alabama Forestry Commission. See Alabama Code 9-13-272
• CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: Any benevolent, philanthropic, or patriotic person, or one purporting to be such, consistent with the then-controlling definition provided in the Internal Revenue Code of the United States of America, which solicits and collects funds for charitable purposes and includes each local, county, or area division within this state of the charitable organization; provided the local, county, or area division has authority and discretion to disburse funds or property otherwise than by transfer to any parent organization. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: A person or nonprofit corporation who is or holds himself or herself out to be established for a benevolent, educational, philanthropic, humane, scientific, artistic, patriotic, social welfare or advocacy, public health, environmental, conservation, civic, or other eleemosynary purpose, or a person who employs a charitable appeal as the basis for any solicitation or appeal that suggests, directly or indirectly, that the solicitation is for a charitable purpose. See Alabama Code 13A-9-80
• CHARITABLE PURPOSE: Any charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, or patriotic purpose which is consistent with the then-controlling definition provided in the Internal Revenue Code of the United States of America. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• CHARITABLE PURPOSE: Any charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, humane, patriotic, scientific, artistic, public health, social welfare, advocacy, environmental, conservation, civic, or other eleemosynary purpose as defined and amended, from time to time, by the Internal Revenue Code. See Alabama Code 13A-9-80
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• city: The City of Auburn, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• city: The City of Opelika, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• city: The City of Opelika, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02
• City: means the City of Anniston, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• CIVIL FINE: The monetary amount assessed by the city pursuant to this part for an adjudication of civil liability for a traffic signal violation, including municipal court costs associated with the infraction. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION: Any charitable organization exempt from taxation pursuant to Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code that is organized to protect the rights of persons against deprivation, discrimination, or denial of their right to equal protection of the laws under the Constitution of the United States of America because of color, race, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• CIVIL VIOLATION: There is hereby created a noncriminal category of law called a civil violation created and existing for the sole purpose of carrying out the terms of this part. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02
• claim: A right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured, and specifically shall include the nonpayment of child support pursuant to a court order. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• claim for relief: means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured and specifically shall include the nonpayment of child support pursuant to a court order. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• CLASS A FOODS: Baby food, infant formula, and potentially hazardous food. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• CLASSIFIED SERVICE: Includes all offices, positions, and employment in the City of Dothan as these offices, positions, and employment now or may hereafter exist, the holders of which are paid whether by salary, wages, or fees, in whole or in part, from funds of the city, except those expressly placed in the unclassified service. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• 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.
• code: This code and all amendments thereto and, with respect to any particular title, chapter, article, division, section, or other portion thereof, any act of the Legislature or other code preceding such portion of this code or subsequently replacing the same. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• code: The Code of Alabama 1975, as amended. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• coercion: Any of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151

• coliseum: The existing coliseum building located in the Alabama Agricultural Center in the City of Montgomery. See Alabama Code 2-6-50
• coliseum: The existing Garrett Coliseum and the grounds and other buildings and structures associated therewith, all owned by the Agricultural Center Board and located in the City of Montgomery, Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• collect: To dig, cut or otherwise remove any ginseng from the location where it grew for the specific purpose of export. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• COMBINED SYSTEM: A consolidated system resulting from the combination of any two or more of the following: a waterworks system, a sanitary system, a gas system and an electric system. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• COMMERCIAL BUILDING: Any building, structure, or other improvement to real property, excluding, however, any dwelling that:

  a. See Alabama Code 45-41-141

• COMMERCIAL CO-VENTURER: Any person who for profit or other commercial consideration conducts, promotes, underwrites, arranges, or sponsors a sale, performance, or event of any kind which is advertised, and which will benefit, to any extent, a charitable or religious organization. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE TERMS: The repurchase of current and marketable inventory within 12 months after the date of purchase at not less than 90 percent of the original net cost, less appropriate set-offs and legal claims, if any. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• commission: The Alabama Forestry Commission. See Alabama Code 9-13-189
• commission: The Lee County Commission or other governing body of the county. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• commission: Compensation accruing to a sales representative for payment by a principal, the rate of which is expressed as a percentage of the dollar amount of certain orders or sales. See Alabama Code 8-24-1
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Insurance. See Alabama Code 27-6B-2
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his authorized representatives. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• commissioner: The Commissioner of the Department of Insurance. See Alabama Code 8-33-2
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Insurance. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries for the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 13A-11-152
• commissioner: The Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Revenue of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• commissioner: The Insurance Commissioner of this state or the commissioner, director, or superintendent of insurance in any other state. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his designated representative. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• commissioner: The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-150
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 2-19-100
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his designated representative. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• commissioner: The Alabama Commissioner of Insurance. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• commissioner: The Commissioner of Insurance of this state. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• committee: The citizens supervisory committee herein created. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• commodity: Any goods, services, materials, merchandise, supplies, equipment, resources, or other articles of commerce, and includes, without limitation, all services offered or provided or work performed or offered to be performed as an occupation or business to consumers and food, water, ice, chemicals, petroleum products, and lumber necessary for consumption or use as a direct result of the emergency. See Alabama Code 8-31-2
• COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION: Any group, whether incorporated or unincorporated, affiliated with or organized for the benefit of one or more communities or neighborhoods containing an alleged drug-related nuisance, or any group organized to improve the quality of life in a residential area containing the alleged drug-related nuisance. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• company: means any franchised or other duly licensed company which is operated or intended to be operated to perform the service of receiving and amplifying the signals broadcast by one or more television stations and redistributing such signals by wire, cable or other device or means for accomplishing such redistribution, to members of the public who subscribe to such service, or distributing through such company's antennae, poles, wires, cables, conduits or other property used in providing service to its subscribers and customers any television signals whether broadcast or not. See Alabama Code 13A-8-120
• COMPLETE WRITTEN INSTRUMENT: One which purports to be a genuine written instrument fully drawn with respect to every essential feature thereof. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• COMPLETED OPERATIONS LIABILITY: Liability arising out of the installation, maintenance, or repair of any product at a site which is not owned or controlled by either of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2

• COMPREHENSIVE ADVISORY PLANNING: Comprehensive studies of the present and future development of the land economics and land policies of a region, with due regard to neighboring regions and the state as a whole. See Alabama Code 11-85-20
• computer: An electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device or system that performs logical, arithmetic, or memory functions by the manipulations of electronic or magnetic impulses and includes all input, output, processing, storage, or communication facilities that are connected or related to the device. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• COMPUTER NETWORK: The interconnection of two or more computers or computer systems that transmit data over communication circuits connecting them. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• COMPUTER PROGRAM: An ordered set of data representing coded instructions or statements that when executed by a computer cause the computer to process data or perform specific functions. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• COMPUTER SECURITY SYSTEM: The design, procedures, or other measures that the person responsible for the operation and use of a computer employs to restrict the use of the computer to particular persons or uses or that the owner or licensee of data stored or maintained by a computer in which the owner or licensee is entitled to store or maintain the data employs to restrict access to the data. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• COMPUTER SERVICES: The product of the use of a computer, the information stored in the computer, or the personnel supporting the computer, including computer time, data processing, and storage functions. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• COMPUTER SOFTWARE: A set of instructions or statements, and related data, that when executed in actual or modified form, cause a computer, computer system, or computer network to perform specific functions. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• COMPUTER SYSTEM: A set of related or interconnected computer or computer network equipment, devices and software. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• CONCENTRATION YARD: A place where logs, pulpwood, or inwoods pulpwood chips severed in Alabama are brought or received within the State of Alabama in a green or rough form or condition for resale to processors or manufacturers or for shipment out of state. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• CONCISE LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A reasonably concise description of a particular geographic area which may be by metes and bounds or by reference to government surveys, recorded maps and plats, municipal, county, or state boundary lines, well-defined landmarks and other monuments, or any combination of the foregoing. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• CONCISE LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A reasonably concise description of a particular geographic area which may be by metes and bounds or by reference to government surveys, recorded maps and plats, municipal, county or state boundary lines, well-defined landmarks and other monuments, or any combination of the foregoing. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• CONCISE LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A reasonably concise description of a particular geographic area which may be by metes and bounds or by reference to government surveys, recorded maps and plats, municipal, county, or state boundary lines, well-defined landmarks and other monuments, or any combination of the foregoing. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• consumer: A natural person residing in this state. See Alabama Code 8-35-1
• consumer: Any natural person who buys goods or services for personal, family, or household use. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• consumer: The purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of a new or previously untitled motor vehicle used in substantial part for personal, family, or household purposes, and any other person entitled by the terms of such warranty to enforce the obligations of the warranty. See Alabama Code 8-20A-1
• consumer: An individual who leases personal property under a rental-purchase agreement. See Alabama Code 8-25-1
• consumer: A natural person who buys, primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, and not for resale, any tangible personal property normally used for personal, family, or household purposes and not for commercial or research purposes. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• CONSUMER CREDIT REPORT: A consumer report, as defined in 15 U. See Alabama Code 8-35-1
• CONSUMER CREDIT REPORTING AGENCY: Any person who, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer credit reports to third parties. See Alabama Code 8-35-1
• container: Box, carton, package, receptacle, canister, jar, dispenser, or machine that offers a product for sale or distribution, for solicitation purposes. See Alabama Code 13A-9-80
• contemporaneous: Occurring at the same time as a surface mining operation and in conjunction with the grading activities at the site. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• contiguous: In actual contact, touching, as contrasted with being near but not in contact. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• CONTINUING COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP: Any relationship in which the equipment dealer has been granted the right to sell and/or service equipment manufactured by the supplier. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION: Any obligation under covered policies or employee benefit plans. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• contribution: A tangible or intangible benefit that a person transfers to an entity in consideration for an ownership interest in the entity or otherwise in the person's capacity as an owner or a member. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• contribution: The promise or grant of any money or property of any kind or value, including the promise to pay, except payments by members of an organization for membership fees, dues, fines, or assessments, or for services rendered to individual members, if membership in the organization confers a bona fide right, privilege, professional standing, honor, or other direct benefit, other than the right to vote, elect officers, or hold offices, and except money or property received from any governmental authority. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• CONTROL ZONE: An area of potential or actual infestation or infection, the boundaries of which are fixed and clearly described in a manner definitely identifying the zone. See Alabama Code 9-13-120
• CONTROLLED INSURER: A licensed insurer who is controlled, directly or indirectly, by a producer. See Alabama Code 27-6B-2
• CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACTS: The provisions of Sections 20-2-1 et seq. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• CONTROLLING PERSON: Any person, firm, association, or corporation who directly or indirectly has the power to direct or cause to be directed, the management, control, or activities of the reinsurance intermediary. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• CONTROLLING PRODUCER: A producer who, directly or indirectly, controls an insurer. See Alabama Code 27-6B-2
• conversion: A conversion, whether referred to as a conversion, domestication, or otherwise, means:

  (A) the continuance of a domestic entity as a foreign entity of any type;

  (B) the continuance of a foreign entity as a domestic entity of any type; or

  (C) the continuance of a domestic entity of one type as a domestic entity of another type. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03

• CONVERTED ENTITY: An entity resulting from a conversion. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• CONVERTING ENTITY: An entity as the entity existed before the entity's conversion. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• conviction: An adjudication of guilt of or a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to the commission of an offense against the laws of this state, any other state or territory, the United States, or a foreign nation recognized by the United States. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• cooperative: Any corporation organized under Article 9 (commencing with Section 10-4-190) of Chapter 4 of Title 10, or any successor thereto, to render water service or sewer service. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• corporation: Includes a domestic or foreign business corporation, including a benefit corporation, as defined in Chapter 2A, a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation as defined in Chapter 3, a domestic or foreign professional corporation as defined in Chapter 4, and those entities specified in Chapter 20 as corporate. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• CORPORATION: Any public corporation which may be organized pursuant to any law now in force or hereafter enacted for the purpose of acquiring title to and completing the construction and equipment of the coliseum and the necessary facilities in connection therewith. See Alabama Code 2-6-50
• corporation: The public corporation authorized to be created by this article. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• cotton: Any cotton plant or cotton plant product upon which the boll weevil is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• COTTON BUYER: A person who buys cotton from a producer on a forward contract. See Alabama Code 2-19-100
• COTTON GROWER: Any person who is engaged in and has an economic risk in the business of producing or causing to be produced, for market, cotton. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• COTTON PRODUCER: A person who grows cotton. See Alabama Code 2-19-100
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• county: Lamar County. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• county: Marengo County, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• county: Lauderdale County, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• county: Lee County, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• county: Limestone County, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-42-122.01
• county: Any county in the state. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• county: Any county in the state. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• COUNTY LODGING TAX: That certain tax levied pursuant to Part 5, commencing with Section 45-39-244, of Article 24 of this chapter. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• 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
• court: The designated court, and if none, the circuit court specifically set forth in this title, and if none, any other court having jurisdiction in a case. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• COVERED POLICY OR PLAN: Any policy, employee benefit plan, or contract within the scope of this chapter. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. ^{Source: OCC}
• creditor: A person who has a claim. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• Creditor: means a person that has a claim. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• crops: Any shrub, vine, tree, seedling, shoot, slip, or other plant undergoing experimentation or otherwise capable of producing food, fiber, lawful or legal medicines, nursery stock, floral products, or aesthetic beauty. See Alabama Code 13A-11-152
• cruel: as used in this article shall mean: Every act, omission, or neglect, including abandonment, where unnecessary or unjustifiable pain or suffering, including abandonment, is caused or where unnecessary pain or suffering is allowed to continue. See Alabama Code 13A-11-240
• CULTIVATED GINSENG: Ginseng that has been planted and cultivated by standard horticultural practices. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• CURRENT AND MARKETABLE: The term does not include inventory to which any of the following apply:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-19-3

• CURRENT NET PRICE: The dealer's price as listed in the supplier's effective price list and/or catalog. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• customer: Any person who causes a molder to make a form or to use a form to make a product. See Alabama Code 8-28-1
• CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT: Equipment employed on the premises of a person, other than a telecommunications service provider, to originate, route, or terminate telecommunications. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• data: A representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts, or instructions, which are prepared and are intended for use in a computer, computer system, or computer network. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• day: When used in the computation of time, excludes the first day and includes the last day of the period so computed, unless the last day is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday, or a legal holiday. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• dealer: Any person not a grower of nursery stock who buys, receives on consignment or otherwise acquires and has in his possession nursery stock for the purpose of offering or exposing for sale, reselling, reshipping or distributing same. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• dealer: Any person, corporation, or partnership that engages in the business of purchasing precious items for the purpose of reselling such items in any form. See Alabama Code 8-34-1
• dealer: Any person who buys and sells seed in Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• dealer: A manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, jobber, and similar establishments, mobile or permanent, engaged in the sale of food for consumption on premises. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• dealer: Any person, firm, corporation, or business engaged in the business of selling recreational vehicles to the general public and that maintains a permanent business establishment including a service and repair facility which offers mechanical services for the recreational vehicles it sells. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• dealer: Any person engaged in the business of buying livestock in the State of Alabama for resale, exchange or slaughter and meat packing purposes, either on his or her own account or as agent for others on a commission basis or otherwise. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• debt: Liability on a claim. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• Debt: means liability on a claim. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• debtor: A person who is liable on a claim. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• Debtor: means a person that is liable on a claim. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• deception: Any of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151

• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• DENTAL CARE SERVICES: Any services furnished to any person for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human dental illness or injury. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• dentist: Any person who furnishes dental care services and who is licensed as a dentist by the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• department: The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• department: The Department of Insurance. See Alabama Code 8-33-2
• department: The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• department: The Department of Revenue of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• department: Alabama Department of Environmental Management. See Alabama Code 45-43-170.03
• department: The Department of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• department: The Department of Labor of the State of Alabama or any department, bureau, or commission as may lawfully succeed to the powers and duties of the department relating to mining operations. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• department: The Department of Agriculture and Industries. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• department: The Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• department: The Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• department: The Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-15-150
• department: The Alabama Department of Public Health. See Alabama Code 27-3A-3
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• DESIGNATED COURT: The court or courts that are designated in the (i) certificate of incorporation or bylaws of a corporation as authorized by Chapter 2A, (ii) limited liability company agreement of a limited liability company formed pursuant to or governed by Chapter 5A, (iii) partnership agreement of a partnership formed pursuant to or governed by Chapter 8A, or (iv) limited partnership agreement of a limited partnership formed pursuant to or governed by Chapter 9A. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• DETERMINING COUNTY: Any county the governing body of which shall have made findings and determinations of fact in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-88-3. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• detonator: A device containing a detonating charge that is used to initiate detonation in an explosive, including, but not limited to, electric blasting caps, blasting caps for use with safety fuses, and detonating cord delay connectors. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• detoxification: Supervised physical withdrawal from alcohol. See Alabama Code 27-20A-1
• DIRECT SEEDING: The planting of seeds by hand sowing, machine sowing, or aerial seeding. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• director: The personnel director herein created. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• director: The Director of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• director: A member of the Board of Directors of the Lamar County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• director: A member of the board of directors of the authority. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• director: A member of the board. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• director: The Director of the Alabama Small Business Office of Advocacy. See Alabama Code 41-29-221
• director: An individual who serves on the board of directors, by whatever name known, of a foreign or domestic corporation. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• director: A member of the board of the authority. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• director: A member of the board of the authority. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• director: A member of the board of directors of the district. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• director: A member of the board of directors of the authority. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• Director: means a member of the board of the authority. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• directors: The members of the board of directors. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
• DISCLOSURE LABEL: A printed or typed notice affixed to a container, in a conspicuous place and accessible to the public, that is easily readable and legible that informs the public of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-9-80

• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• disparagement: The dissemination to the public in any manner of false information that a perishable food product or commodity is not safe for human consumption. See Alabama Code 6-5-621
• DISPLAY FOR SALE: To expose, place, exhibit, show, or in any fashion display any material for the purpose of the sale of such material to any person in a manner that a minor can physically examine or see the material. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• DISSEMINATE PUBLICLY: To expose, place, perform, exhibit, show or in any fashion display, in any location, public or private, any material in a manner that the material can either be readily seen and its content or character distinguished by normal unaided vision or be physically examined, by viewing or examining the material from any public place or any place to which members of the general public are invited. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• DISTRESS MERCHANDISE SALE: Any offer to sell to the public or a sale to the public of goods, wares, or merchandise on the implied or direct representation that such sale is being held other than in the ordinary course of business and not otherwise defined herein. See Alabama Code 8-13-1
• distress merchandise sales: shall include , but not be limited to, any sale advertised either specifically or in substance to be any one of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-13-1

• distribute: The actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• distribute: To import, export, sell, rent, lend, transfer possession of or title to, display, exhibit, show, present, provide, broadcast, transmit, retransmit, communicate by telephone, play, orally communicate or perform. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• distribution: The movement of nursery stock from the property where it is grown or kept to any other property that is not contiguous thereto, regardless of the ownership of the properties concerned. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• distribution: A transfer of property, including cash, from an entity to an owner or member of the entity in the owner's or member's capacity as an owner or member. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• distributor: Any person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale or licensing. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• distributor: Any person, firm, corporation, or business entity that purchases new recreational vehicles for resale to dealers. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• district: A fire fighting district established pursuant to Amendment 392 or any law providing for the implementation of the authorizing amendment of Amendment 392. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• district: A geographical area designated by the Governor as provided in this article. See Alabama Code 11-85-50
• district: A public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• DISTRICT ATTORNEY: The district attorney of the judicial circuit in which the county is located. See Alabama Code 11-81-220
• DISTRICT FIRE PROTECTION FUND: A district fire protection fund established and maintained in the county treasury pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• division: The Business Development Division of the Department of Commerce. See Alabama Code 41-29-221
• DOCK FACILITIES: Docks and all kinds of dock facilities, including elevators, warehouses, water and rail terminals, wharves, piers, quays, compresses, and other related structures, facilities, and improvements that may be needed for the convenient use of the inland waterways of the state, as well as the land on which such facilities are located, which lie within the county. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• dog or cat: as used in this article shall mean any domesticated member of the dog or cat family. See Alabama Code 13A-11-240
• domestic: With respect to an entity, means governed as to its internal affairs by this title. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• domestic: When used with reference to a waterworks system, a waterworks system designed to supply or distribute water primarily for human consumption. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• DOMESTIC ENTITY: An entity governed as to its internal affairs by this title. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDER: A domestic violence protection order is any protection from abuse order issued pursuant to the Protection from Abuse Act, Sections 30-5-1 to 30-5-11, inclusive. See Alabama Code 13A-6-141
• DOMESTIC WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: A waterworks system designed to distribute water primarily for human consumption. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• domicile: For purposes of determining the state in which a purchasing group is domiciled:

  a. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2

• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dower: A widow
• DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AREA: The central business district of the city as described in subsection (b) of Section 45-41A-10. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AREA: The central business district of the city as described in subsection (b) of Section 45-41A-40. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• Downtown development area: means the central business district of the city as established by ordinance of the city council. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• DRIED GINSENG: Ginseng roots that have been dried to remove moisture. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• drug: Includes all of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 45-41-83.01

• drug: All medicines and preparations recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia or national formulary for internal or external use and any substance or mixture of substances to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease in man or domestic animals. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• during: The term as used in Section 13A-5-40(a) means in the course of or in connection with the commission of, or in immediate flight from the commission of the underlying felony or attempt thereof. See Alabama Code 13A-5-39
• dwelling: Any building, structure, or other improvement to real property used or expected to be used as a dwelling or residence for one or more human beings, including specifically and without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

  a. See Alabama Code 45-41-141

• EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: A school, college, or other institution which has a defined curriculum, student body, and faculty and which conducts classes on a regular basis. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• ELECTRIC SYSTEM: Facilities for the generation, manufacture and distribution, or any thereof, of electricity, together with all appurtenances to such facilities. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• electronic: Relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE: A message sent to a unique destination that consists of a unique user name or mailbox and a reference to an Internet domain, whether or not displayed, to which such message can be sent or delivered. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS: (i) Any time deposit with, or any certificate of deposit issued by, any bank, savings bank or savings and loan association which is organized under the laws of the United States of America that may succeed to the functions of such corporation; (ii) any debt securities that are direct, general obligations of the United States of America; (iii) any debt securities payment of the principal of and interest on which is unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America; (iv) any debt securities (including participation certificates) that are direct, general obligations of any of the following agencies of the United States of America: the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Federal Farm Credit Bank, the Federal Land Banks, the Federal Immediate Credit Banks, the Banks for Cooperatives, the Federal Home Loan Banks (including any joint obligations of any two or more of the foregoing agencies), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Farmers Home Administration, or any other agency or instrumentality of the United States of America; (v) any repurchase obligations of any bank, savings bank or savings and loan association which is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (or any department, agency or instrumentality of the United States of America that shall succeed to the functions of such federal corporation), which repurchase obligations are at least 100 percent secured by any one or more classes of eligible investments described in (i) through (iv), inclusive, above; (vi) any security or interest therein, whether secured or unsecured, in which an insurance company or a savings and loan association organized under the laws of the state may legally invest its own moneys at the time of investment therein by the corporation; (vii) shares of any money market fund registered and regulated under the Federal Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a no-load, open-end management investment company, the portfolio assets of which consist solely of cash and eligible investments and repurchase agreements fully secured by any one or more classes of eligible investments; and (viii) any debt obligation, debt instrument or deposit obligation in which trustees are legally permitted to invest under the laws of the state at the time of investment therein by the corporation. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• employee: A person in the classified service herein set up and appointed by the appointing authority, unless herein expressly excepted. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• employee: Any person including the heads of departments, chief clerks, and chief deputy sheriff, who is employed in the service of the county on a regular full-time basis. See Alabama Code 45-42-122.01
• EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN: Any plan, fund, or program heretofore or hereafter established or maintained by an employer or by an employee organization, or by both, to the extent that such plan, fund, or program was established or is maintained for the purpose of providing for its participants or their beneficiaries, through the purchase of insurance or otherwise, dental care benefits in the event of accident or sickness. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• EMPLOYMENT REGISTER: Typewritten lists containing the names of those applicants who have successfully passed mental tests for initial employment within the classified service for any specific position and which names are listed in the order of final grades attained on such tests from the highest grade attained to the lowest grade attained. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• enrollee: An individual who is enrolled in a health maintenance organization. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• enrollee: An individual who has contracted for or who participates in coverage under an insurance policy, a health maintenance organization contract, a health service corporation contract, an employee welfare benefit plan, a hospital or medical services plan, or any other benefit program providing payment, reimbursement, or indemnification for health care costs for the individual or the eligible dependents of the individual. See Alabama Code 27-3A-3
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• entity: A domestic or foreign organization. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• equipment: Machines designed for or adapted and used for agriculture, horticulture, irrigation for agriculture or horticulture, livestock, grazing, lawn and garden, and/or light industrial purposes. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• equity security: when used in this chapter, means any stock or similar security or any security convertible, with or without consideration, into such a security, or carrying any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase such a security, or any such warrant or right or any other security which the commissioner shall deem to be of similar nature and consider necessary or appropriate, by such rules and regulations as he may prescribe in the public interest or for the protection of investors, to treat as an equity security. See Alabama Code 27-27-58
• EQUIVALENT VALUE: The fair market value of the gift on the date the gift is given as the prize in a bingo game. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• EVIDENCE OF COVERAGE: Any certificate, agreement, or contract issued to an enrollee setting out the coverage to which he is entitled. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• examination: Physical fitness evaluation to include annual or other physical examinations, physical fitness examinations, final physical examinations, or any other type of physical examinations as prescribed by the personnel board or the director to determine the physical fitness of initial applicants for employment within the classified service and the physical fitness of classified employees now assigned, to qualify physically for the positions they now occupy or expect to occupy within the classified service. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• EXCEEDS AUTHORIZATION OF USE: Accessing a computer, computer network, or other digital device with actual or perceived authorization, and using such access to obtain or alter information that the accessor is not entitled to obtain or alter. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executrix: The female counterpart of an executor. See also
• exhibitor: Any person engaged in the business of operating one or more theatres. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• Explosion: includes , but is not limited to, a sudden and rapid combustion, causing violent expansion of the air, or the sudden bursting or breaking up or in pieces from an internal or other force. See Alabama Code 13A-7-40
• explosive: A chemical compound or other substance or mechanical system intended for the purpose of producing an explosion capable of causing injury to persons or damage to property or containing oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in proportions or quantities that ignition, fire, friction, concussion, percussion, or detonator may produce an explosion capable of causing injury to persons or damage to property. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• explosives: Any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by detonator or by chemical action of any part of the compound or mixture may cause a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb. See Alabama Code 13A-7-40
• export: To transport, deliver or cause to be transported or delivered to any person or place for the purpose of transportation from any place in this state to any place outside this state. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• export: To send or cause to be sent outside of the State of Alabama from inside the state. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• EXPRESS WARRANTY: A written warranty, so labeled, issued by the manufacturer of a new motor vehicle, including any terms or conditions precedent to the enforcement of obligations under that warranty. See Alabama Code 8-20A-1
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• FACTORY CAMPAIGN: An effort on the part of a warrantor to contact recreational vehicle owners or dealers in order to address a part or equipment issue. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• FAIR MARKET VALUE: The fair and reasonable market value (or, if applicable, the current use value) of a commercial building or dwelling (as the case may be), as such value is appraised by the tax assessor or the State Department of Revenue pursuant to applicable provisions of the code, prior to the assessment thereof for purposes of state or county ad valorem taxation pursuant to Section 40-8-1. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• FALSELY ALTER: To "falsely alter" a written instrument means to change, without lawful authority, a written instrument, whether complete or incomplete, by means of erasure, obliteration, deletion, addition or transportation of matter, or in any other manner, so that the instrument so changed falsely appears or purports to be in all respects an authentic creation of its ostensible maker or authorized by him. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• FALSELY COMPLETE: To "falsely complete" a written instrument means to transform, by adding, inserting or changing matter, an incomplete written instrument into a complete one, without lawful authority, so that the completed written instrument falsely appears or purports to be in all respects an authentic creation of its ostensible maker or authorized by him. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• FALSELY MAKE: To "falsely make" a written instrument means to make or draw a complete written instrument in its entirety, or an incomplete written instrument, which purports to be authentic creation of its ostensible maker, but which is not either because the ostensible maker is fictitious or because, if real, he did not authorize the making or drawing thereof. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• FAMILY MEMBER: A spouse or a child, grandchild, parent, sibling, niece, or nephew, or the spouse thereof. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• felony: An offense punishable by imprisonment for a term of one year or more, and includes conviction by a court-martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for an offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of the United States. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• FERROUS METALS: Any metals containing significant quantities of iron or steel, excluding motor vehicles purchased in accordance with Section 32-8-87. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• FIFTH WHEEL: Coupling between a trailer and a vehicle used for towing. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• FIFTH WHEEL TRAILER: A vehicular unit, mounted on wheels, designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use and of such size and weight as not to require a special highway movement permit and designed to be towed by a motorized vehicle that contains a towing mechanism that is mounted above or forward of the tow vehicle's rear axle. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• FILING ENTITY: A domestic entity that is a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability limited partnership, limited liability company, professional association, employee cooperative corporation, or real estate investment trust. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• FILING INSTRUMENT: An instrument, document, or statement that is required or permitted by this title to be delivered for filing by or for an entity to a filing officer. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• FILING OFFICER: An officer of this state with whom a filing instrument is required or permitted to be delivered for filing pursuant to this title. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• FINANCIAL CHARGE: A financial charge or assessment levied by the commission in accordance with the authorizing amendment and this part. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• FINANCIAL INSTITUTION: A bank, insurance company, credit union, safety deposit company, savings and loan association, investment trust, or other organization held out to the public as a place of deposit of funds or medium of savings or collective investment. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT: Includes, but is not limited to, any check, cashier's check, draft, warrant, money order, certificate of deposit, negotiable instrument, letter of credit, bill of exchange, credit or debit card, transaction authorization mechanism, marketable security, or any computer system representation thereof. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• FIRE PROTECTION CORPORATION: Any public corporation, district, or authority that is:

  a. See Alabama Code 45-41-141

• FIRE PROTECTION FACILITY: Land, plants, systems, facilities, buildings, fire engines, fire hydrants, ladders, equipment, hoses, alarm apparatus, chemicals, uniforms, supplies or any combination of any thereof used or useful or capable of future use in furnishing fire protection service and all other property deemed necessary or desirable by the district for use in furnishing fire protection service. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• FIRE PROTECTION FACILITY: Land, plants, systems, facilities, buildings, fire engines, fire hydrants, ladders, equipment, hoses, alarm apparatus, chemicals, uniforms, supplies, or any combination of any thereof used or useful or capable of future use in furnishing fire protection service and all other property deemed necessary or desirable by the authority for use in furnishing fire protection service. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• FIRE PROTECTION SERVICE: All services involved in protecting property and life from fires, including, but not limited to, discovering, ascertaining, extinguishing, preventing the spread of or fighting fires, or inspecting property for fire hazards, or any part or combination thereof. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• FIRE PROTECTION SERVICE: All services involved in protecting property and life from fires, including, but not limited to, discovering, ascertaining, extinguishing, preventing the spread of or fighting fires or inspecting property for fire hazards or any part or combination thereof. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• FIRE PROTECTION SERVICE: All services involved in protecting property and life from fires, including but not limited to discovering, ascertaining, extinguishing, preventing the spread of or fighting fires, or inspecting property for fire hazards, or any part or combination thereof. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• firearm: A weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• florence: The City of Florence, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• FLOWER SEED: The seeds of all plants grown for ornamental purposes, either for domestic or commercial purposes, and which are generally known and sold under the name of flower seed in this state. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• food: All articles of food, drink, confectionery, or condiment, whether simple, mixed, or compound, used or intended for use by man or domestic animals. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• FOOD SALES ESTABLISHMENT: Retail and wholesale stores and places of business, and similar establishments, mobile or permanent, engaged in the sale of food primarily for consumption off the premises. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• FOR ANY THING OF PECUNIARY VALUE: In exchange for, in return for, or for any consideration consisting of, whether wholly or partly:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1

• foreign: With respect to an entity, means governed as to its internal affairs by the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• foreign corporation: as used in this division , shall mean:

  (1) Any bank or other corporation now or hereafter organized or existing under the laws of any state of the United States other than the State of Alabama; and

  (2) Any national banking association or other corporation organized under the laws of the United States having its principal place of business in any state of the United States other than Alabama. See Alabama Code 10A-2-15.40

• FOREIGN ENTITY: An entity governed as to its internal affairs by the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• FOREIGN FILING ENTITY: A foreign entity that registers or is required to register as a foreign entity under Article 7. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership that has filed a statement of limited liability partnership under Section 10A-8A-10. See Alabama Code 10A-8A-1.02
• FOREST LAND: Any land which supports a forest growth or which is being used or reserved for any forest purpose and is classified as Class III forest property in Section 40-8-1(b)(1), but excludes land within the city limits of any incorporated municipality. See Alabama Code 9-13-189
• FOREST PRODUCTS: Logs, pulpwood, poles, pilings, inwoods pulpwood chips, and stumpwood (tarwood). See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• FOREST TREES: Only those trees which are a part of and constitute a stand of potential, immature or mature commercial timber trees; provided, however, that such term shall be deemed to include shade trees of any species around houses, along highways and within cities and towns if the same constitute an insect or disease menace to nearby timber trees or timber stands. See Alabama Code 9-13-120
• forestland: Land on which forest trees occur. See Alabama Code 9-13-120
• FORGED INSTRUMENT: A written instrument which has been falsely made, completed or altered. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• form: An object in or around which material is placed to make a mold for pouring plastic or casting metal, and includes a mold, die or pattern. See Alabama Code 8-28-1
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• GAS SYSTEM: Facilities for the manufacture, conditioning, transmission and distribution, or any thereof, of manufactured or natural gas, together with all appurtenances to such facilities. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• GENERAL PARTNERSHIP: A partnership as defined in Chapter 8A. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• GENERAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT: A real property instrument that affects the title to personal property as well as real property. See Alabama Code 45-41-84.01
• GENITAL NUDITY: The showing of the human male or female genitals or pubic area. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• germination: The percentage of seeds capable of producing normal seedlings under ordinarily favorable conditions (not including seeds which produce weak, malformed or obviously abnormal sprouts nor hard seeds). See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• ginseng: The plant Panax quinquefolius L. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• GINSENG COLLECTOR: Any person who intentionally removes wild ginseng from the location in which the plant grew for the purpose of sale, resale or export. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• GINSENG DEALER: Any person who collects or purchases ginseng for the purpose of reselling, selling, manufacturing or exporting same. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• GINSENG GROWER: Any person who grows cultivated ginseng as a commercial crop. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE: Any offer to sell to the public or a sale to the public of goods, wares, or merchandise on the implied or direct representation that such sale is in anticipation of the termination of a business at its present location or that the sale is being held other than in the ordinary course of business. See Alabama Code 8-13-1
• going out of business sales: shall include , but not be limited to, any sale advertised either specifically or in substance to be any one of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-13-1

• GOOD CAUSE: Failure of the dealer to substantially comply with requirements of the dealer agreement, provided such requirements are not different from, nor enforced differently than those requirements imposed on other similarly situated dealers. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• goods: Includes but is not limited to any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal, or any combination thereof, and any franchise, license, distributorship, or other similar right, privilege, or interest. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• GOVERNING AUTHORITY: A person or group of persons who are entitled to manage and direct the affairs of an entity pursuant to this title and the governing documents of the entity, except that if the governing documents of the entity or this title divide the authority to manage and direct the affairs of the entity among different persons or groups of persons according to different matters, governing authority means the person or group of persons entitled to manage and direct the affairs of the entity with respect to a matter under the governing documents of the entity or this title. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• GOVERNING BODY: With respect to a municipality, its city or town council, board of commissioners, or other like governing body. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• GOVERNING BODY: With respect to the county, its county commission, and, with respect to a municipality, its city or town council, board of commissioners, or other like governing body. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• GOVERNING BODY: With respect to the city, its city council, board of commissioners, or other like governing body. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• GOVERNING BODY: With respect to the city, its city council, board of commissioners, or other like governing body. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• GOVERNING BODY: In the case of a county, the county commission exercising the legislative functions of the county and, in the case of a municipality, the board of commissioners, the mayor and council or other similar body exercising the legislative functions of the municipality. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• GOVERNING BODY: The chief legislative body of a governmental unit. See Alabama Code 11-85-20
• GOVERNING BODY: The chief legislative body of a governmental unit. See Alabama Code 11-85-50
• GOVERNING BODY: With respect to a county, its county commission, and, with respect to a municipality, its city or town council, board of commissioners or other like governing body and, with respect to a public corporation or a cooperative, its board of directors. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• GOVERNING BODY: The county commission of a county. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• GOVERNING BODY: The county commission of a county. See Alabama Code 11-88-40
• Governing body: means , with respect to the city, its city council, board of commissioners, or other like governing body. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• GOVERNING PERSON: A person serving as part of the governing authority of an entity. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• government: The United States, any state or any county, municipality, or other political unit within territory belonging to the United States, or any department, agency, or subdivision of any of the foregoing, or any corporation or other association carrying out the functions of government, or any corporation or agency formed pursuant to interstate compact or international treaty. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• government: Such term is defined as in Section 13A-8-1(5). See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• GOVERNMENTAL UNIT: Counties and municipalities. See Alabama Code 11-85-20
• GOVERNMENTAL UNIT: Counties and municipalities. See Alabama Code 11-85-50
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• grantee: The several existing regional planning and development commissions, as provided for in Sections 11-85-50 to 11-85-73, inclusive. See Alabama Code 11-85-100
• GREEN GINSENG: Ginseng roots retaining moisture, not dried. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• HARD SEEDS: The percentage of seeds which because of hardness or impermeability do not absorb moisture or germinate under prescribed tests but remain hard during the period prescribed for germination of the kind of seed concerned. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• harm: Partial or total alteration, damage, or erasure of stored data, interruption of computer services, introduction of a virus, or any other loss, disadvantage, or injury that might reasonably be suffered as a result of the actor's conduct. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• HARMFUL TO MINORS: The term means:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1

• HAZARDOUS FINANCIAL CONDITION: Based on its present or reasonably anticipated financial condition, a risk retention group, although not yet financially impaired or insolvent, is unlikely to be able to do either of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2

• HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OR OFFICES: Shall include but not be limited to the sheriff, tax assessor, tax collector, judge of probate, and county clerk. See Alabama Code 45-42-122.01
• HEALTH CARE SERVICES: Any services included in the furnishing to any individual of medical or dental care, or hospitalization or incident to the furnishing of such care or hospitalization, as well as the furnishing to any person of any and all other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury, or physical disability. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY: Any individual, group, blanket, or franchise insurance policy, insurance agreement, or group hospital service contract providing benefits for dental care expenses incurred as a result of an accident or sickness. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION: Any person that undertakes to provide or arrange for basic health care services through an organized system which combines the delivery and financing of health care to enrollees. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• highwall: The unexcavated face of exposed overburden or mineral in an opencast mine or the face or bank on the uphill side of a contour surface mine excavation. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• host: Any plant or plant product upon which the boll weevil is dependent for completion of any portion of its life cycle. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• HYBRID SEED CORN: The first generation seed of a cross produced by controlling the pollination and by combining two, three or four inbred lines or by combining one inbred line or a single cross with an open-pollinated variety. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT: Any document containing data that is issued to an individual and which that individual, and only that individual, uses alone or in conjunction with any other information for the primary purpose of establishing his or her identity or accessing his or her financial information or benefits. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• IDENTIFYING INFORMATION: Specific details that can be used to access a person's financial accounts, obtain identification, or to obtain goods or services, including, but not limited to:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111

• import: To bring or cause to be brought into the State of Alabama from outside of the state. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• IMPROPER MEANS: "Improper means" are means such as:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-27-2

• IMPROVED INDEXING SYSTEM: A system of indexing real property instruments and personal property instruments in the probate office and, in the discretion of the judge of probate, of indexing other instruments and documents, which system when completed, shall consist of the equipment necessary and suitable to prepare and index records. See Alabama Code 45-41-84.01
• improvement: Any sanitary sewage treatment or sewage disposal plant or any sanitary sewer, including mains, laterals, trunk lines, collector lines, outfall lines, force mains, and appurtenant facilities. See Alabama Code 11-88-40
• incendiary: A flammable or combustible liquid or compound with a flash point of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or less as determined by Tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup device including, but not limited to, gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, or a derivative of these substances. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• INCIDENTAL COSTS: Expenses specified in the warranty incurred by the warranty holder related to the failure of the vehicle protection product to perform as provided in the warranty. See Alabama Code 8-33-2
• includes: Is not a limiting term. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• INCOMPLETE WRITTEN INSTRUMENT: One which contains some matter by way of content or authentication, but which requires additional matter in order to render it a complete written instrument. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• incorporators: The persons forming a public corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• incorporators: The persons forming a public corporation organized pursuant to this article. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• incorporators: The persons forming a public corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• incorporators: The persons forming a public corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• 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
• incorporators: The persons forming a public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• incorporators: The persons forming a public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• Incorporators: means the persons forming a public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this part. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• individual: A natural person and the estate of an incompetent or deceased natural person. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• industrial: When used with reference to a waterworks system, a waterworks system designed to supply or distribute water primarily for use other than human consumption. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• INERT MATTER: All matter not seeds, including, among others, broken seeds, sterile florets, chaff, fungus bodies and stones, etc. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• INFANT FORMULA: A food which purports to be or is represented for special dietary use solely as a food for infants by reason of its simulation of human milk or its suitability as a complete or partial substitute for human milk. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• infestation: The actual presence of plant pests and/or noxious weeds or the existence of circumstances that make it reasonable to believe plant pests and/or noxious weeds are present. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• infestation: Infestation by means of any insect which is dangerously injurious to forest trees; such term shall mean infection by any disease affecting forest trees which is dangerously injurious to same. See Alabama Code 9-13-120
• infested: Actually infested with a boll weevil or so exposed to infestation that it would be reasonable to believe that an infestation exists. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• INPATIENT TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOLISM: Care provided in a licensed hospital and is normally limited to detoxification where severe medical or psychiatric complications are present or may be anticipated. See Alabama Code 27-20A-1
• insider: Includes:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1

• Insider: includes :

  (i) if the debtor is an individual:

  (A) a relative of the debtor or of a general partner of the debtor;

  (B) a partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

  (C) a general partner in a partnership described in clause (B); or

  (D) a corporation of which the debtor is a director, officer, or person in control;

  (ii) if the debtor is a corporation:

  (A) a director of the debtor;

  (B) an officer of the debtor;

  (C) a person in control of the debtor;

  (D) a partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

  (E) a general partner in a partnership described in clause (D); or

  (F) a relative of a general partner, director, officer, or person in control of the debtor;

  (iii) if the debtor is a partnership:

  (A) a general partner in the debtor;

  (B) a relative of a general partner in, a general partner of, or a person in control of the debtor;

  (C) another partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

  (D) a general partner in a partnership described in clause (C); or

  (E) a person in control of the debtor;

  (iv) an affiliate, or an insider of an affiliate as if the affiliate were the debtor; and

  (v) a managing agent of the debtor. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2

• insolvent: A person who is unable to pay the person's debts as they become due in the usual course of business or affairs. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• inspector: Any authorized employee of the department under the direction of the director. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• insurance: Primary insurance, excess insurance, reinsurance, surplus lines insurance, and any other arrangement for shifting and distributing risk which is determined to be insurance under the laws of this state. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2
• insurer: A person defined in subdivisions (2) and (3) of Section 27-1-2. See Alabama Code 27-6A-2
• insurer: Such term shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 27-1-2. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• insurer: Every insurer authorized in this state to issue contracts of accident and sickness insurance. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• insurer: A health insurer, including a group health plan as defined in Section 607(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, a health maintenance organization, or an entity offering a service benefit plan. See Alabama Code 27-21B-2
• insurer: Any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of the insurance law as an insurer. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARD: Also known as a smart card or chip card, a pocket sized, plastic card with embedded integrated circuits used for data storage or special purpose processing used to validate personal identification numbers (PINs), authorize purchases, verify account balances and store personal records. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• INTENT TO DEFRAUD: A purpose to use deception, as defined in Section 13A-8-1(1), or to injure another person's interest which has value, as defined in Section 13A-8-1(14). See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE: Any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and the systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• internet: The international computer network of both federal and non-federal interoperable packet switched data networks. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• INTIMATE AREAS: Any portion of a person's body, whether or not covered by undergarments, that are traditionally covered by undergarments to protect that portion from public view, including genitals, pubic areas, buttocks, and female breasts. See Alabama Code 13A-11-40
• inventory: A list of and the wholesale cost of goods, wares, and merchandise. See Alabama Code 8-13-1
• inventory: Includes both goods and services, including company-produced promotional materials, sales aids, and sales kits that an entity requires independent salespersons to purchase. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• inventory: Tractors, farm implements, machinery, equipment, lawn and garden tractors and equipment, light industrial tractors and equipment, and repair parts held by the dealer. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• INVENTORY LOADING: The requirement or encouragement by a plan or operation to have the independent salesperson of the plan or operation purchase inventory in an amount that exceeds the amount that the salesperson can expect to resell for ultimate consumption or to use or consume in a reasonable time period, or both. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• INVITATION TO BID: A written or oral solicitation or invitation by a distributor to one or more exhibitors to bid for the right to exhibit a motion picture. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• JUDGE OF PROBATE: The judge of probate of the county in which an entity is required or permitted to deliver a filing instrument for filing pursuant to this title. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• JUDICIAL OFFICER: Any supreme court, appellate court, circuit court, district court, or municipal court judge or any magistrate of any court in this state. See Alabama Code 15-13-101
• jurat: A clause wherein a notary public or other attesting officer authorized by law to administer oaths in connection with affidavits, depositions and other subscribed written instruments certifies that the subscriber has appeared before him and sworn to the truth of the contents thereof. See Alabama Code 13A-10-100
• juror: Any person who is a member of any jury, including a grand jury, impaneled by any court of this state or by any public servant authorized by law to impanel a jury. See Alabama Code 13A-10-120
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Jury instructions: A judge's directions to the jury before it begins deliberations regarding the factual questions it must answer and the legal rules that it must apply. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• kind: One or more related species or subspecies which singly or collectively are known by one common name, for example, wheat, oat, vetch, sweet clover, cabbage, cauliflower, etc. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• knowingly: means either actual awareness or should have reasonably known. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• knowingly: The term means knowingly, as defined by Section 13A-2-2(2), doing an act involving a material when the person knows the nature of the material. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• label: A display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• labeling: All labels and other written, printed or graphic representations in any form whatsoever accompanying and pertaining to any seed, whether in bulk or in containers, and such term includes invoices and other bills of shipment. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• LABOR SERVITUDE: Work or service of economic or financial value which is performed or provided by another person and is induced or obtained by coercion or deception. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151
• law: Unless the context requires otherwise, both statutory and common law. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: A duly constituted and certified peace officer of the State of Alabama or of any county or municipality within the state. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• LEASE AGREEMENT: Any agreement of lease covering all or any part of the properties comprising the Alabama Agricultural Center, including the coliseum and any facilities necessary in connection therewith, which may be made between the board and the corporation pursuant to the provisions of this article. See Alabama Code 2-6-50
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• legislature: The Legislature of the state. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• LEMON LAW RIGHTS PERIOD: The period ending one year after the date of the original delivery of a motor vehicle to a consumer or the first 12,000 miles of operation, whichever first occurs. See Alabama Code 8-20A-1
• lessee: Any person who leases land for a period over five years for the purpose of producing or causing to be produced, for market, forest or timber products. See Alabama Code 9-13-189
• license: A license, certificate of registration, or other legal authorization. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• LICENSE AGREEMENT: Any contract, agreement, understanding or condition between a distributor and an exhibitor relating to the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture by the exhibitor. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• license tax: as used in this title , shall be deemed to include any tax prescribed by a license tax schedule, but shall not exclude any license tax otherwise prescribed. See Alabama Code 40-12-344
• LICENSED PRODUCER: An insurance producer or reinsurance intermediary licensed pursuant to the applicable provision of the insurance law. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• LICENSING AUTHORITY: The state court, state regulatory licensing board, or other like agency which has the power to issue a license or other legal authorization to render professional services. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• lien: A charge against or an interest in property to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, and includes a security interest created by agreement, a judicial lien obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings, a common law lien, or a statutory lien. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• Lien: means a charge against or an interest in property to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, and includes a security interest created by agreement, a judicial lien obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings, a common-law lien, or a statutory lien. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: A limited liability company as defined in Chapter 5A. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: A limited liability limited partnership as defined in Chapter 9A. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP: A limited liability partnership as defined in Chapter 8A. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: A limited partnership as defined in Chapter 9A. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• LINE-MAKE: A specific series of recreational vehicle products that meets all of the following specifications:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2

• livestock: Cattle, swine, sheep, goats, equine or equidae, ratites, and poultry. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• livestock: Cattle, swine, sheep, goats, equidae, ratites, poultry, and catfish. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• livestock: Any animal maintained in captivity for any reason. See Alabama Code 2-15-150
• LIVESTOCK HIDE DEALER: Any dealer who buys hides of livestock. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• LIVESTOCK MARKET: A place where a person assembles livestock for public sale, if the person is required to procure a license or permit from the state Department of Agriculture and Industries to operate the market. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• LIVESTOCK MARKET: A place, concentration, or collection point or other public or private place where a person assembles livestock for either public or private sale by himself or herself and the service or the cost or expense thereof is compensated by the owner of the livestock on a commission basis or otherwise. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• LIVESTOCK MARKET OWNER: A person engaged in the business of conducting or operating a public livestock market whether personally or through agents or employees. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY: The chief of police for businesses located within the jurisdiction of a municipality and the county sheriff for businesses located outside the jurisdiction of a municipality. See Alabama Code 8-34-1
• location: A single building, hall, enclosure, or outdoor area used for the purpose of playing bingo pursuant to a permit or license issued under this article. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• LOT OF SEED: A definite quantity of seed identified by a lot number, every portion or bag of which is uniform, within permitted tolerances, for the factors which appear in the labeling. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT: A contract of limited duration that provides for scheduled maintenance only. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• MANAGERIAL OFFICIAL: An officer or a governing person. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• MANAGING GENERAL AGENT: Any person, firm, or association who does both of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 27-6A-2

• manufacturer: A person that is one of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-32-2

• manufacturer: As applied to logs suitable for manufacture into lumber, plywood, veneer, or other solid wood product, the person who operates the sawmill or plant in which the products are manufactured; as applied to pulpwood, the person who operates the paper or pulp mill, oriented strand board mill, pellet mill, or other plant in which the products are manufactured; as applied to poles and pilings, the person who purchases from the producer; as applied to stumpwood, the person who operates the plant or retort in which the product is utilized. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• manufacturer: The person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing and/or distributing motor vehicles to be made available to a motor vehicle dealer for retail sale. See Alabama Code 8-20A-1
• manufacturer: Any person, firm, corporation, or business entity that engages in the manufacture of recreational vehicles. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• MANUFACTURER AND DEALER AGREEMENT: A written agreement or contract entered into between a manufacturer or a distributor and a dealer that fixes the rights and responsibilities of the parties and pursuant to which the dealer sells new recreational vehicles. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• manufacturing: The process of combining two or more components necessary to produce a destructive device, over-pressure device, explosive, detonator, or poison gas, with the exception of commercially manufactured reactive targets used for recreational shooting purposes, or manufactured under provisions set forth under a permit issued by the State Fire Marshal. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• manufacturing: The production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin or independent means of chemical synthesis, including any packaging or repackaging of the drug or labeling or relabeling of its container. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• MARINE MAMMAL: Any mammal which is morphologically adapted to the marine environment or primarily inhabits the marine environment. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• MARINE MAMMAL PRODUCT: Any item of merchandise which consists or is composed, in whole or in part, of any marine mammal. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• MARKET FACILITY: Any facility for the inspection, grading, standardization, classification, refrigeration, dehydration, canning, packing, processing, cold storage and marketing of agricultural and kindred products permitted to be acquired and constructed by the Board of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to Section 2-3-20. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
• MASCULINE GENDER: Comprehends all other genders. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• material: A statement is "material" regardless of the admissibility of the statement under the rules of evidence, if it could have affected the course or outcome of the official proceeding. See Alabama Code 13A-10-100
• material: Any book, magazine, newspaper, printed or written matter, writing, description, picture, drawing, animation, photograph, motion picture, film, video tape, pictorial representation, depiction, image, electrical or electronic reproduction, broadcast, transmission, telephone communication, sound recording, article, device, equipment, matter, oral communication, live performance, or dance. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• materials: Infected barns or other infected structures or parts thereof and farm products, clothing, straw, hay or other feed for animals and other articles stored or contained in or adjacent to such barns or other structures. See Alabama Code 2-15-150
• mayor: The mayor or other chief executive officer of a municipality. See Alabama Code 45-39A-11
• MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN INSURANCE: For purposes of this chapter, a policy, contract, or agreement issued by an authorized insurance company directly to a consumer or other owner of property that provides for, among other coverages, the repair, replacement, or maintenance of property or indemnification for repair, replacement, or maintenance, for the operational or structural failure of the property due to a defect in materials or workmanship or due to normal wear and tear. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• member: Such term shall include actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in organizations organized with capital stock. See Alabama Code 2-10-50
• MENTAL SUFFERING: A high degree of mental pain or emotional disturbances, such as distress, anxiety, public humiliation, or psychosomatic physical symptoms. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151
• merchandise: The personal property that is the subject of a rental-purchase agreement. See Alabama Code 8-25-1
• merchant: A person who, in the ordinary course of business, regularly leases, offers to lease, or arranges for the leasing of merchandise under a rental-purchase agreement, and includes a person who is assigned an interest in a rental-purchase agreement. See Alabama Code 8-25-1
• merger: The combination of one or more domestic entities with one or more domestic entities or foreign entities resulting in:

  (A) one or more surviving domestic entities or foreign entities;

  (B) the creation of one or more new domestic entities or foreign entities, or one or more surviving domestic entities or foreign entities; or

  (C) one or more surviving domestic entities or foreign entities and the creation of one or more new domestic entities or foreign entities. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03

• METAL PROPERTY: Metals as defined in this section as either ferrous or nonferrous metals. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• minor: Any unmarried person under the age of 18 years. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• minor: A person under the age of 19. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• misbranded: Such term shall apply to all drugs or foods or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear or contain any statement, design, or device regarding such article or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular and to any food or drug product which is falsely branded as to the state, territory, or country in which it is manufactured or produced. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• Mistrial: An invalid trial, caused by fundamental error. When a mistrial is declared, the trial must start again from the selection of the jury.
• mixture: Seed consisting of more than one kind or variety, each present in excess of 5 percent of the whole. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• molder: Any person who makes a form or who uses a form to make a product. See Alabama Code 8-28-1
• moratorium: A complete cessation of the taking of marine mammals, except as provided in this article. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• MOTOR HOME: A motorized, vehicular unit designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle intended primarily for use and operation on the public highways which is self-propelled; provided, however, that the term "motor vehicle" shall not apply to motor homes or to any motor vehicle having a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 10,000 pounds or more. See Alabama Code 8-20A-1
• municipality: An incorporated city or town of Lamar County. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• municipality: An incorporated city or town in Marengo County, Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• municipality: Any incorporated municipality located wholly within the county. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• municipality: Any incorporated city or town in Lauderdale County. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• municipality: An incorporated city or town. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• municipality: Any municipal corporation wholly or partially within the county of incorporation. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
• municipality: Such term shall include cities and towns. See Alabama Code 11-85-20
• municipality: Cities or towns. See Alabama Code 11-85-50
• municipality: An incorporated city or town of the state. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• municipality: An incorporated city or town of the state. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• NEW TERRITORY: Any territory added, by amendment to the certificate of incorporation of an authority, to the area or areas in which that authority is authorized to render water service, fire protection service, or any thereof. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• NEW TERRITORY: Any territory added, by amendment to the certificate of incorporation of a district, to the area or areas in which that district is authorized to render water service, fire protection service, sewer service or any thereof. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• NEW TERRITORY: Any territory added, by amendment to the certificate of incorporation of an authority, to the area or areas in which that authority is authorized to render water service, fire protection service, sewer service or any thereof. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• NONCONFORMING CONDITION: Any condition of a motor vehicle which shall not be in conformity with the terms of any express warranty issued by the manufacturer to a consumer and which: (i) significantly impairs the use, value or safety of the motor vehicle and (ii) occurs or arises solely in the course of the ordinary use of the motor vehicle, and which does not arise or occur as a result of abuse, neglect, modification, or alteration of the motor vehicle not authorized by the manufacturer, nor from any accident or other damage to the motor vehicle which occurs or arises after such motor vehicle was delivered by an authorized dealer to the consumer. See Alabama Code 8-20A-1
• NONFERROUS METALS: Metals not containing significant quantities of iron or steel, including, without limitation, copper, brass, aluminum other than aluminum cans, bronze, lead, zinc, nickel, stainless steel, and alloys thereof, including stainless steel beer kegs. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: An unincorporated nonprofit association as defined in Chapter 17. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• NONPROFIT CORPORATION: A domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation as defined in Chapter 3. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• NONPROFIT ENTITY: An entity that is a nonprofit corporation, nonprofit association, or other entity that is organized solely for one or more nonprofit purposes. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS: Any day between the hours of 8:00 A. See Alabama Code 8-35-1
• NOTICE OF A NONCONFORMING CONDITION: A written statement which shall be delivered to the manufacturer and which shall describe the subject motor vehicle, the nonconforming condition, and shall describe all previous attempts to correct such nonconforming condition by identifying the person, firm or corporation who or which made such attempt, and the time when such attempt was made. See Alabama Code 8-20A-1
• NOXIOUS WEED: Any living stage, including, but not limited to, seeds and productive parts of a parasitic or other plant of a kind, or subdivision of a kind, which may be a serious agricultural threat in Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• nursery: Any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is grown or propagated for sale or distribution. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• NURSERY STOCK: All plants, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions and buds grown or kept for or capable of propagation, distribution or sale, unless specifically excluded by the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this article. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• nurseryman: Any person engaged in the production of nursery stock for sale or distribution to include any person who obtains nursery stock for the purpose of growing it to a more mature size over a period of one growing season or more. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• oath: Such term includes an affirmation and every other mode authorized by law of attesting to the truth of that which is stated. See Alabama Code 13A-10-100
• obligations: Bonds, warrants, certificates of indebtedness and notes of a unit, including bonds, warrants, certificates and notes that are general obligations of the issuing unit and those that are payable solely from a specified source. See Alabama Code 11-81-220
• obscene: The term means that:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1

• obtains: Such term means:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1

• office: The Alabama Small Business Office of Advocacy. See Alabama Code 41-29-221
• officer: An individual elected, appointed, or designated as an officer of an entity by the entity's governing authority or under the entity's governing documents. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• officer: The term includes every person authorized to enforce the game and fish laws of this state, and whenever the possession, use, importation, transportation, storage, sale, offering, or exposing for sale of game birds, animals, or fish is prohibited or restricted, the prohibition or restriction shall extend to and include every part of the game, bird, animal, or fish, and a violation as to each animal, bird, or fish, or part thereof, shall be a separate offense. See Alabama Code 9-11-1
• OFFICIAL PROCEEDING: Any proceeding heard before any legislative, judicial, administrative or other government agency or official authorized to hear evidence under oath. See Alabama Code 13A-10-100
• OPEN-DATE STATEMENT: The terms "Sell By"; "Freeze By"; "Sell or Freeze By"; "Not to be Sold After"; "Best if Used By"; "Expiration"; or other terms as defined by rules or regulations; or a date without additional words shall be considered an open-date statement. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• operator: Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation engaged in or controlling one or more surface mining operations. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• OPTIMUM CARRYING CAPACITY: The ability of a given habitat to support the optimum sustainable population of a species or population stock in a healthy state without diminishing the ability of the habitat to continue that function. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• OPTIMUM SUSTAINABLE POPULATION: With respect to any population stock, the number of animals which will result in the maximum productivity of the population or the species, keeping in mind the optimum carrying capacity of the habitat and the health of the ecosystem of which they form a constituent element. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• organization: A corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, limited liability company, business trust, real estate investment trust, joint venture, joint stock company, cooperative, association, or other organization, including, regardless of its organizational form, a bank, insurance company, credit union, and savings and loan association, whether for profit, not for profit, nonprofit, domestic, or foreign. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• Organization: means a person other than an individual. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• organizer: A person, who need not be an owner or member of the entity, who, having the capacity to contract, is authorized to execute documents in connection with the formation of the entity. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• ORGANIZING SUBDIVISION: With respect to any unit, each municipality or county which may have granted authorization or made determinations respecting the incorporation of the unit or the governing body of which may have granted such authorization or made such determinations and, in the case of a board of education, the county or city with respect to which such board of education is organized. See Alabama Code 11-81-220
• OTHER CROP SEED: The seed of all kinds or varieties of agricultural or vegetable seeds not of the kind or variety declared on the label or tag. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• OUT-OF-DATE: Any article with a label containing an open-date statement with a date affixed thereto which has passed. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• OUTPATIENT TREATMENT: Treatment rendered in a nonresidential setting and using an intermittent, periodic schedule of visits. See Alabama Code 27-20A-1
• OVER-PRESSURE DEVICE: A frangible container filled with an explosive gas or expanding gas which is designed or constructed so as to cause the container to break or fracture in a manner which is capable of causing death, bodily harm, or property damage. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• overburden: All of the earth and other materials which lie above natural deposits of clay, sand, gravel, ores, and other minerals except limestone, marble, and dolomite, and also the earth and other materials disturbed from their natural state in the process of surface mining. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• owner: Any person who is engaged in and has an economic risk in the business of producing or causing to be produced, for market, forest or timber products. See Alabama Code 9-13-189
• owner: A person owning one or more dwellings or commercial buildings. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• owner: An individual, corporation, partnership, trust association, joint venture, or any other business entity, and the respective agents of the individuals or entities, in whom is vested all or any part of the title to the property alleged to be a drug-related nuisance. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• owner: The owner of a motor vehicle as shown on the motor vehicle registration records of the Alabama Department of Revenue or the analogous department or agency of another state or country. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02
• owner: A person, other than the defendant, who has possession of or any other interest in the property involved, even though that interest or possession is unlawful, and without whose consent the defendant has no authority to exert control over the property. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• owner: as used in this article , shall mean the person who owns, or has the exclusive license in the United States to reproduce or the exclusive license in the United States to distribute to the public copies of the original fixation of sounds embodied in the master phonograph record, master disc, master tape, master film or other device used for reproducing recorded sounds on phonograph records, discs, tapes, films, videocassettes or other articles now known or later developed on which sound is recorded and from which the transferred sounds are directly or indirectly derived, or the person who owns the rights to record or to authorize the recording of a live performance. See Alabama Code 13A-8-80
• owner: An owner or lessee of a computer or a computer network, or an owner, lessee, or licensee of computer data, computer programs, or computer software. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• OWNERSHIP INTEREST: An owner's interest in an entity. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• paid: For the purpose of deductions and credits hereinafter provided for with respect to income tax means paid or accrued or paid or incurred, and the terms paid or accrued and paid or incurred shall be construed according to the method of accounting on the basis of which the net income is computed under this chapter. See Alabama Code 40-18-1
• participant: A person who has been approved for participation in the program. See Alabama Code 45-41-83.01
• 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
• partner: A limited partner or general partner. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• partnership: Includes a general partnership, a limited liability partnership, a foreign limited liability partnership, a limited partnership, a foreign limited partnership, a limited liability limited partnership, and a foreign limited liability limited partnership. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT: Any agreement (whether referred to as a partnership agreement or otherwise), written, oral or implied, of the partners as to the activities and affairs of a general partnership or a limited partnership. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• PARTY OFFICER: A person who holds any position or office in a political party, whether by election, appointment or otherwise. See Alabama Code 13A-10-60
• PARTY TO THE MERGER: A domestic entity or foreign entity that under a plan of merger is combined by a merger. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• peak: A projected point of overburden created in the process of surface mining. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• PECUNIARY BENEFIT: Benefit in the form of money, property, commercial interests or anything else the primary significance of which is economic gain. See Alabama Code 13A-10-60
• PERISHABLE FOOD PRODUCT OR COMMODITY: Any agricultural or aquacultural food product which is sold or distributed in a form that will perish or decay beyond marketability within a short period of time. See Alabama Code 6-5-621
• PERMANENT PLACE OF BUSINESS: A fixed premises either owned by the dealer or leased by the dealer for at least one year. See Alabama Code 8-34-1
• permit: A document issued or authorized by the commissioner to provide for the movement of regulated articles to restricted designations for limited handling, utilization, or processing. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• PERMIT HOLDER: A qualified organization or qualified club which has a permit or license pursuant to this article. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• PERMIT PERIOD: A one-year period commencing on the issuance of a permit to engage in surface mining. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• person: An individual, partnership, corporation, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint stock company, reciprocal, syndicate, or any other entity, or combination of persons acting in concert. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• person: Any individual, corporation, company, society, association or other business entity. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• person: Any human being, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• person: Such term shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 27-1-2. See Alabama Code 27-19A-2
• person: An individual, partnership, corporation, company, society, association or agency. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• person: Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, such term includes a public or private corporation, a municipality, a county or an agency, department, or instrumentality of the state or of a county or municipality. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, cooperative, association, government or governmental subdivision or agency, or other entity. See Alabama Code 8-35-1
• person: Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, includes a public or private corporation, a municipality, the county, or an agency, department, or instrumentality of the state or of the county or of a municipality therein. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• person: A human being, and where appropriate, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated corporation, a partnership, a government or a governmental instrumentality, or a private organization, association, coalition, federation, and its officers or spokespersons. See Alabama Code 13A-11-152
• person: Any natural or artificial person including, but not limited to, individuals, partnerships, associations, trusts, or corporations. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• person: Any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership; or any officer, employee, agent, department or other instrumentality of the federal government or of any state government. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• person: Any individual, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, receiver, trustee, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• person: An individual, partnership, corporation, company, society or association. See Alabama Code 9-13-120
• person: Includes a natural person, a corporation, a partnership, an association, or any other entity. See Alabama Code 45-39A-11
• person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association, or other business entity. See Alabama Code 9-13-189
• person: Any individual, corporation, company, society, association or other business entity. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• person: Any natural person, firm, corporation, association, partnership, joint venture, or representative of any kind or any other group acting as a unit. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• person: Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, includes a public or private corporation, a municipality, a county, or an agency, department, or instrumentality of the state, or of a county or municipality. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• person: Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, includes a public or private corporation, a municipality, a county, or an agency, department, or instrumentality of the state, or of a county or municipality. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• person: Any individual and, except where inappropriate, any partnership, firm, association, corporation or other legal entity. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• person: An individual, including the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual, or an entity, whether created by the laws of this state or another state or foreign country, including, without limitation, a general partnership, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, limited liability limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, professional corporation, nonprofit corporation, professional association, trustee, personal representative, fiduciary, as defined in Section 19-3-150 or person performing in any similar capacity, business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• person: An individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• person: Any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, or joint stock association and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof engaged in the transportation of hazardous liquids. See Alabama Code 37-4-90
• person: Any individual, trust, estate, corporation, association, disregarded entity, or subchapter K entity. See Alabama Code 40-18-1
• 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
• Person: means an individual, estate, partnership, association, trust, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal or commercial entity. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• person: Any individual, partnership, association, firm, or corporation. See Alabama Code 8-13-1
• person: One or more individuals, partnerships, associations, societies, trusts, organizations or corporations. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• person: Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, such term includes a public or private corporation, a municipality, a county, a cooperative, or an agency, department or instrumentality of the state or of a county or municipality or cooperative. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• person: Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, such term includes a public or private corporation, a municipality, a county, or an agency, department, or instrumentality of the state or of a county or municipality. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• person: Includes, but is not limited to, natural persons, corporations, trusts, partnerships, incorporated or unincorporated associations, and any other legal entity. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• person: An individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, trust, association, or any other legal entity. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• person: An individual, partnership, corporation, or association or any combination thereof. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• person: Such term shall include individuals, firms, partnerships and associations. See Alabama Code 2-10-50
• person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, or association. See Alabama Code 2-15-20
• person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other business unit. See Alabama Code 2-15-131
• person: Any individual, organization, group, association, partnership, corporation, trust, or any combination of them. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• person: is a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Alabama Code 8-27-2
• person: An individual, association, partnership, corporation or other private entity. See Alabama Code 2-19-100
• person: Shall include, but not be limited to, natural persons, corporations, trusts, partnerships, incorporated or unincorporated associations, and any other legal entity. See Alabama Code 8-31-2
• person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, business, trust, or other legal entity. See Alabama Code 13A-9-110
• person: Any individual, corporation, company, society, or association, or other business entity. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION CARD: A driver's license or identification card issued by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency or a similar card issued by another state, a military identification card, a passport, or an appropriate work authorization issued by the U. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• PERSONAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT: Any instrument or document affecting the title to personal property only, as distinguished from real property, that may be now or hereafter titled for record in the probate office, in accordance with the applicable requirements of the law of this state, including and particularly Sections 34-4-50 and 34-4-90. See Alabama Code 45-41-84.01
• PERSONAL RISK LIABILITY: Liability for damages because of injury to any person, damage to property, or other loss or damage resulting from any personal, familial, or household responsibilities or activities, rather than from responsibilities or activities referred to in subdivisions (6)a. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2
• Petit jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
• pharmacy: Any building, warehouse, physician's office, hospital, pharmaceutical house or other structure used in whole or in part for the sale, storage and/or dispensing of any controlled substance as defined in Section 20-2-2 as amended. See Alabama Code 13A-8-51
• PHARMACY ROBBERY: A person commits the offense of "pharmacy robbery" under this article if in the course of committing a theft of any controlled substance as defined in Section 20-2-2 such person violates Section 13A-8-41. See Alabama Code 13A-8-51
• photograph: A still photographic image, including an image captured in digital format, which is of such quality that the persons and objects depicted are identifiable. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• PHOTOGRAPHIC TRAFFIC SIGNAL ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM: A camera system which is designed and installed to work in conjunction with an electrically operated traffic-control device using vehicle sensors synchronized to automatically record, either by conventional film or digital imaging, sequenced photographs or full motion video of the rear of a motor vehicle while proceeding through a signalized intersection. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02
• PHYSICAL INJURY: Impairment of physical condition or substantial pain. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151
• pit: A tract of land from which overburden has been or is being removed for the purpose of surface mining. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• places: Vessels, railroad cars, automobiles, aircraft, and other vehicles, buildings, docks, nurseries, orchards and other premises where plants or plant products are grown, kept or handled. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• PLANNING JURISDICTION: A municipality's planning jurisdiction but excludes any portion of the planning jurisdiction located outside of the county. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• PLANT PEST: Any living stage of any insects, mites, nematodes, slugs, snails, protozoa, or other invertebrate animals, bacteria, fungi, other parasitic plants or reproductive parts thereof, or viruses, or any organisms similar to or allied with any of the foregoing, or any infectious substances which can directly or indirectly injure or cause disease or damage in any plants or parts thereof or any processed, manufactured, or other products of plants and which may be a serious agricultural or horticultural threat in Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-25-1
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• POISON GAS: A toxic chemical or its precursors that through its chemical action or properties on life processes causes death or permanent injury to human beings. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• POLICYHOLDER SURPLUS: The excess of assets over liabilities. See Alabama Code 27-6A-2
• POLITICAL ORGANIZATION: A party, committee, association, fund, or other organization, whether or not incorporated, which is organized and operated primarily for the purpose of directly or indirectly accepting contributions or making expenditures, or both, for an exempt function pursuant to 26 U. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD: A food that is natural or synthetic and that requires temperature control because it is in a form capable of supporting rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms or the growth and toxin production of Clostridium botulinum or the growth of Salmonella Enteritidis. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• PRECIOUS ITEM: Any of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-34-1

• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• premium: The consideration paid to an insurer for a reimbursement insurance policy. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• PRESCRIBED BURNING: The controlled application of fire to naturally occurring vegetative fuels for ecological, silvicultural, agricultural and wildlife management purposes under specified environmental conditions and the following of appropriate precautionary measures which cause the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and accomplishes the planned land management objectives. See Alabama Code 9-13-272
• prescription: A written plan for starting and controlling a prescribed burn to accomplish the ecological, silvicultural, and wildlife management objectives. See Alabama Code 9-13-272
• principal: Any person who does all of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-24-1

• PRINCIPAL OFFICE: The place at which the certificate of incorporation and amendments thereto, the by-laws, and the minutes of the proceedings of the board of an authority are kept. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• PRINCIPAL OFFICE: The place at which the certificate of incorporation and amendments thereto, the bylaws and the minutes of the proceedings of the board of the authority are kept. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• PRINCIPAL OFFICE: The place at which the certificate of incorporation and amendments thereto, the bylaws and the minutes of the proceedings of the board of the authority are kept. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• PRINCIPAL OFFICE: The office, in or out of this state, where the principal executive office, whether referred to as the principal executive office, chief executive office, or otherwise, of an entity is located. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• PRINCIPAL OFFICE: The place at which the certificate of incorporation and amendments thereto, the bylaws and the minutes of proceedings of the board of a district are kept. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• Principal office: means the place at which the certificate of incorporation and amendments thereto, the bylaws and the minutes of the proceedings of the board of the authority are kept. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• PROBATE JUDGE: The judge of probate of the county of incorporation of an authority. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• processing: The passing of seed through a cleaning machine for the purpose of removing some constituent or through a blending machine or grinding of the seed for other uses. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• processor: A chip mill or other facility that receives forest products from a producer and further processes those forest products before delivery to a manufacturer. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• produce: Create, make, write, film, produce, reproduce, direct, or stage. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• producer: An insurance broker or brokers or any other person, firm, association, or corporation, when, for any compensation, commission, or other thing of value, the person, firm, association, or corporation acts or aids in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring the making of any insurance contract on behalf of another insured person, firm, association, or corporation. See Alabama Code 27-6B-2
• producer: Any person engaging or continuing to engage in this state in the business of severing timber or any other forest products from the soil, whether as owner, lessee, concessionaire, or contractor. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• PRODUCERS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS: Individual persons, partnerships, associations and corporations who produce such products either directly or as landlords, tenants or sharecroppers. See Alabama Code 2-10-90
• PRODUCT LIABILITY: Liability for damages because of any personal injury, death, emotional harm, consequential economic damage, or property damage, including damages resulting from the loss of use of property, arising out of the manufacture, design, importation, distribution, packaging, labeling, lease, or sale of a product, but does not include the liability of any person for those damages if the product involved was in the possession of the person when the incident giving rise to the claim occurred. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2
• PRODUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS: Such term shall include fishing activities and the harvesting of aquatic and seafood products as well as the production of other agricultural or farm products hereinabove defined in subdivision (1) of this section. See Alabama Code 2-10-50
• PROFESSIONAL BAIL COMPANY: A person, individual proprietor, partnership, corporation, or other entity, other than a professional surety company, that furnishes bail or becomes surety for a person on an appearance bond and does so for a valuable consideration. See Alabama Code 15-13-101
• PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN: An individual person or agent employed by a professional surety company or professional bail company to solicit and execute appearance bonds or actively seek bail bond business for or on behalf of a professional surety company or a professional bail company. See Alabama Code 15-13-101
• PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION: A domestic or foreign professional corporation as defined in Chapter 4. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• PROFESSIONAL ENTITY: A professional association and a professional corporation. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• PROFESSIONAL FUND RAISER: Any person who for compensation or other consideration plans, conducts, manages, or carries on any drive or campaign in this state for the purpose of soliciting contributions for or on behalf of any charitable organization or any other person, or who engages in the business of, or holds himself or herself out to persons in this state as independently engaged in the business of soliciting contributions for such purposes. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Any type of service that may lawfully be performed only pursuant to a license issued by a state court, state regulatory licensing board, or other like agency pursuant to state laws. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• PROFESSIONAL SOLICITOR: Any person who is employed or retained for compensation by a professional fund raiser to solicit contributions for charitable purposes in this state. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• PROFESSIONAL SURETY COMPANY: An insurance company, domestic or foreign corporation, or association engaged in the business of insurance, or a surety with a bail line of insurance to which has been issued a certificate of authority or certificate of compliance by the Alabama Department of Insurance to execute appearance bonds or bail bonds in criminal cases in the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 15-13-101
• program: The Lee County Alternative Sentencing Program. See Alabama Code 45-41-83.01
• project: Interest in land, buildings, structures, facilities, or other improvements located or to be located within the downtown development area, and any fixtures, machinery, equipment, furniture, or other property of any nature whatsoever used on, in, or in connection with any such land, interest in land, building, structure, facility, or other improvement, all for the essential public purpose of the development of trade, commerce, industry, general business, and employment opportunities in the downtown development area. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• project: Interests in land, buildings, structures, facilities, or other improvements located or to be located within the downtown development area, and any fixtures, machinery, equipment, furniture, or other property of any nature whatsoever used on, in, or in connection with any such land, interest in land, building, structure, facility, or other improvement, all for the essential public purpose of the development of trade, commerce, industry, and employment opportunities in the downtown development area. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• 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
• Project: means interests in land, buildings, structures, facilities, or other improvements located or to be located within the downtown development area, and any fixtures, machinery, equipment, furniture, or other property of any nature whatsoever used on, in, or in connection with any such land, interest in land, building, structure, facility, or other improvement, all for the essential public purpose of the development of trade, commerce, industry, and employment opportunities in downtown development area. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• PROMOTIONAL REGISTER: Typewritten lists containing the names of those classified employees, presently assigned, who have successfully passed mental tests for promotion to higher positions within the classified service and which names are listed in the order of final grades attained on such tests from the highest grade attained to the lowest grade attained. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• PROPELLED VEHICLE: Any propelled device in, upon, or by which any person or property is transported on land, water, or in the air, and such term includes motor vehicles, motorcycles, motorboats, aircraft, and any vessel propelled by machinery, whether or not that machinery is the principal source of propulsion. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• PROPER IDENTIFICATION: Information generally deemed sufficient to identify a person for consumer reporting agency purposes under 15 U. See Alabama Code 8-35-1
• property: Real or personal property of any kind including money, choses in action, and other similar interests in property. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• property: Real and personal property and interests therein. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• property: Includes real and personal property, and interests therein. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• property: Tangible real property, or an interest in real property, including an interest in any leasehold, license, or real estate, including any house, apartment building, condominium, cooperative, office building, store, restaurant, tavern, nightclub, or warehouse, and the land extending to the boundaries of the lot upon which the structure is situated, and anything growing on, affixed to, or found on the land. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• property: Both real and personal property, whether tangible or intangible, and any interest in property whether legal or equitable and includes anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• property: Includes all property, whether real, personal, or mixed, or tangible or intangible, or any right or interest therein. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• Property: means both real and personal property, whether tangible or intangible, and any interest in property whether legal or equitable and includes anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• property: Real and personal property and interests therein. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• property: Real and personal property and interests therein. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• property: Any money, tangible or intangible personal property, property (whether real or personal) the location of which can be changed (including things growing on, affixed to, or found in land and documents, although the rights represented hereby have no physical location), contract right, chose-in-action, interest in a claim to wealth, credit, or any other article or thing of value of any kind. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• property: Only land which has been subdivided and platted. See Alabama Code 11-88-40
• property: Includes a financial instrument, data, databases, data while in transit, computer software, computer programs, documents associated with computer systems and computer programs, or copies whether tangible or intangible. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• property: Such term is defined as in Section 13A-8-1(10). See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• PROPRIETARY PART: Any part manufactured by or for and sold exclusively by the manufacturer. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• PROSECUTING ATTORNEY: The Attorney General, district attorney, or county, municipal, or private attorney bringing a drug-related nuisance action. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• provider: A person who administers, makes, provides, sells, or offers to sell a service contract, who is contractually obligated to provide service under a service contract. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• provider: Any physician, hospital, or other person which is licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• provider: A health care provider duly licensed or certified by the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 27-3A-3
• PROVIDER FEE: The total purchase price paid for a service contract. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• PUBLIC BUILDING: A structure which is generally open to members of the public with or without the payment of an admission fee or membership dues including, but not limited to, structures owned, operated, or leased by the state, the United States, any of the several states, or a foreign nation or any political subdivision or authority thereof; a religious organization; any medical facility; any college, school, or university; or any corporation, partnership, or association. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• PUBLIC CORPORATION: Any public corporation organized under the laws of the state. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• PUBLIC FIRE PROTECTION FACILITY: A fire protection facility which is owned or operated by the United States of America, the state, a county, a municipality, a public corporation, any combination of any thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof or in which any one or more thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof holds a reversionary or remainder interest. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• PUBLIC FIRE PROTECTION FACILITY: A fire protection facility which is owned or operated by the United States of America, the state, a county, a municipality, a public corporation organized under the laws of the state, any combination of any thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof or in which any one or more thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof holds a reversionary or remainder interest. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• PUBLIC HATCHERY: Any establishment that regularly artificially hatches and sells or offers for sale to the public baby chicks or the young of any domestic fowl under six weeks of age or hatching eggs or that does custom hatching. See Alabama Code 2-16-1
• PUBLIC HEARING: A meeting of the board open to the public, where any citizen, taxpayer, or other interested party may appear and be heard, subject to the duly adopted rules and regulations. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• PUBLIC PERSON: The state and any county, municipal corporation, agency, subdivision thereof, instrumentality thereof, or similar person. See Alabama Code 11-81-260
• PUBLIC RECORD: A record which the members of the public shall have the right to inspect, within reason and during ordinary business hours. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• PUBLIC SERVANT: As used in this article, such term includes persons who presently occupy the position of a public servant, as defined in Section 13A-10-1(7), or have been elected, appointed or designated to become a public servant although not yet occupying that position. See Alabama Code 13A-10-60
• PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM: A sewer system which is owned or operated by the United States of America, the state, a county, a municipality, a public corporation, a cooperative, any combination of any thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof or in which any one or more thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof holds a reversionary or remainder interest. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM: A sewer system which is owned or operated by the United States of America, the state, a county, a municipality, a public corporation organized under the laws of the state, any combination of any thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof or in which any one or more thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof holds a reversionary or remainder interest. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM: A water system which is owned or operated by the United States of America, the state, a county, a municipality, a public corporation organized under the laws of the state, any combination of any thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof or in which any one or more thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof holds a reversionary or remainder interest. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM: A water system which is owned or operated by the United States of America, the state, a county, a municipality, a public corporation, a cooperative, any combination of any thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof or in which any one or more thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof holds a reversionary or remainder interest. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM: A water system which is owned or operated by the United States of America, the state, a county, a municipality, a public corporation organized under the laws of the state, any combination of any thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof or in which any one or more thereof or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more thereof holds a reversionary or remainder interest. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• Puffing: means an exaggerated commendation of wares or services. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• purchase: The acquisition of a precious item or items for a consideration of cash, goods, or another precious item. See Alabama Code 8-34-1
• purchase: To acquire, obtain or receive or to attempt to acquire, obtain or receive by exchange of money or other valuable consideration and specifically includes barter or exchange. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• PURCHASE TRANSACTION: A transaction in which a secondary metals recycler gives consideration in exchange for regulated metal property. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• PURCHASING GROUP: Any group which meets all of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2

• pure honey: as used in this article , shall mean the nectar of plants that has been transformed by, and is the natural product of the honeybee, either in the honeycomb or taken from the honeycomb and marketed in a liquid, crystalized or granulated condition. See Alabama Code 2-11-120
• PURE SEED: The seed of the kind or kind and variety of agricultural, tree, shrub or vegetable seed declared on the label or tag. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• PYRAMID PROMOTIONAL SCHEME: A plan or operation by which a person gives consideration for the opportunity to receive compensation that is derived primarily from the introduction of other persons into the plan or operation rather than from the sale or consumption of goods, services, or intangible property by a participant or other persons introduced into the plan or operation. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• QUALIFIED ORGANIZATION: A bona fide religious, educational, service, senior citizens, fraternal, or veterans' organization or club which qualifies as an exempt organization under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and operates without profit to its members and which has been in existence continuously as that organization for a period of three years and which has owned or leased real property in Limestone County for at least three years immediately prior to making application for operating bingo. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST: An unincorporated trust, association, or other entity as defined in Chapter 10. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• REAL PROPERTY INSTRUMENT: Includes any instrument or document affecting the title to real property that may now or hereafter be filed for record in the probate office pursuant to the applicable requirements of the laws of this state, including but without limitation to, Section 12-13-43, and all statutes providing for the filing and recording of notices or statements of liens of any kind, notices of judgments, and plats or maps showing subdivisions of real estate. See Alabama Code 45-41-84.01
• REASONABLE EXPENSES: Includes customary and usual business overhead expenses. See Alabama Code 45-42-150
• receiving: Such term includes, but is not limited to, acquiring possession, control, or title and taking a security interest in the property. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• recklessly: The term means recklessly, as defined by Section 13A-2-2(3), doing an act involving a material when the person knows the nature of the material. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• reclamation: The reconditioning or rehabilitation of affected land in accordance with the requirements of this article. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: A motor home, travel trailer, fifth wheel trailer, camping trailer, and truck camper. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• reencoder: An electronic device that places encoded information from the magnetic strip, integrated circuit, RFID tag of an identification document onto the magnetic strip, integrated circuit, or RFID tag of a different identification document. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• refuse: All waste material, exclusive of overburden, directly connected with the mining, cleaning, or preparation of substances mined by surface mining. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• region: All the geographical area contained within the aggregate territorial limits of all governmental units participating in the establishment of a region for planning as provided in this article. See Alabama Code 11-85-20
• region: All the geographical area contained within the aggregate territorial limits of all governmental units participating in a regional planning and development commission as provided in this article. See Alabama Code 11-85-50
• REGULATED ARTICLE: Any article of any character carrying or capable of carrying the boll weevil, including but not limited to, cotton plants, seed cotton, other hosts, gin trash, and mechanical cotton pickers. See Alabama Code 2-19-121
• REIMBURSEMENT INSURANCE POLICY: A policy of insurance issued to a provider pursuant to which the insurer agrees, for the benefit of the service contract holders, to discharge the obligations of the provider under the terms of the service contracts in the event of non-performance by the provider. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• REINSURANCE INTERMEDIARY: A reinsurance intermediary-broker or a reinsurance intermediary-manager as these terms are defined in subdivisions (8) and (9). See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• REINSURANCE INTERMEDIARY-BROKER: Any person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, firm, association, or corporation who solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of such insurer. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• REINSURANCE INTERMEDIARY-MANAGER: Any person, firm, association, or corporation who has authority to bind or manages all or part of the assumed reinsurance business of a reinsurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, and acts as an agent for such reinsurer whether known as a reinsurance intermediary-manager, manager, or other similar term. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• reinsurer: Any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of the insurance law as an insurer with the authority to assume reinsurance. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• relative: An individual related by consanguinity within the third degree as determined by the common law, a spouse, or an individual related to a spouse within the third degree as so determined, and includes an individual in an adoptive relationship within the third degree. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• Relative: means an individual related by consanguinity within the third degree as determined by the common law, a spouse, or an individual related to a spouse within the third degree as so determined, and includes an individual in an adoptive relationship within the third degree. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• RELEVANT MARKET AREA: The geographic area for which a dealer is assigned responsibility for selling or soliciting or advertising the sale of equipment under the terms of a franchise. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION: Any society, sect, persuasion, mission, church, parish, congregation, temple, convention, or association of any of the foregoing, diocese or presbytery, or other organization, whether or not incorporated, or any employee thereof, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private party or individual associated with such an organization and that otherwise qualifies as an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26, United States Code, as amended. See Alabama Code 13A-9-70
• Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
• RENTAL FACILITY: Shall include, but not be limited to, any hotel, motel, boarding house, dwelling house, and self storage facility offered for rent or lease. See Alabama Code 8-31-2
• RENTAL-PURCHASE AGREEMENT: An agreement for the use of merchandise by a consumer for personal, family, or household purposes, for an initial period of four months or less that is automatically renewable with each payment after the initial period, and that permits the consumer to become the owner of the merchandise. See Alabama Code 8-25-1
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• REQUIRED OR AUTHORIZED BY LAW: An oath is "required or authorized by law" when the use of the oath is provided for by statute or municipal ordinance. See Alabama Code 13A-10-100
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• residence: A single or multiple family dwelling including, but not limited to, a single-family home, apartment building, condominium, duplex, townhouse, or mobile home which is used or intended to be used by its occupants as their dwelling place. See Alabama Code 13A-9-110
• RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE: A new or existing building constructed for habitation by one to four families, including detached garages. See Alabama Code 8-36-1
• RESIDENTIAL ROOFING CONTRACTOR: A person or entity in the business of contracting or offering to contract with an owner or possessor of residential real estate to repair or replace roof systems. See Alabama Code 8-36-1
• residing: as used in this article , shall mean any person who remains within any county in the state for a period of more than 24 hours and maintains or uses sleeping quarters anywhere within the county. See Alabama Code 13A-11-180
• RESORT AREA: An area located outside the corporate limits of any municipality in which the primary use of the majority of the real property is for recreational pursuits or those associated with relaxation, avocation, or pleasure, including vacation homes and facilities and commercial amusement or recreational establishments providing such facilities or goods or services with respect thereto. See Alabama Code 11-88-40
• REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS: The monies provided by the sale of the bonds pursuant to this article. See Alabama Code 11-85-100
• ridge: A lengthened elevation of overburden created in the process of surface mining. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• rights-of-way: as used in this title does not authorize the commission to prescribe the location or the routing of any pipeline facility;

  (5) COMMISSION. See Alabama Code 37-4-90

• RISK RETENTION GROUP: Any corporation or other limited liability association which meets all of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2

• ROAD HAZARD: A hazard that is encountered while driving a motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, potholes, rocks, wood debris, metal parts, glass, plastic, curbs, or composite scraps. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• ROOF SYSTEM: A roof covering, roof sheathing, roof weatherproofing, roof framing, roof ventilation system, and insulation. See Alabama Code 8-36-1
• roster: A typewritten list showing the names of persons employed in the classified service by departments and the position occupied by each employee concerned. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• RULES AND REGULATIONS: A prescribed course of procedure adopted by the board to promote the administration of this part and the system hereby created. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• run: The continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• SADO-MASOCHISTIC ABUSE: The term means:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1

• SALES REPRESENTATIVE: Any person who engages in the business of soliciting, on behalf of a principal, orders for the purchase at wholesale of the product or products of the principal, but does not include a person who places orders or purchases for his or her own account for resale, or a person engaged in home solicitation sales. See Alabama Code 8-24-1
• SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM: Facilities for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of sewage, together with all appurtenances to any such facilities. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• SCANNING DEVICE: A scanner, reader, or any other electronic device that is used to access, read, scan, obtain, memorize, or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the magnetic strip, integrated circuit, or RFID tag of an identification document. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• SCHEDULE OF CHARGES: A statement of the method used by a health maintenance organization to establish rates. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• seafoods: shall include and mean all oysters, saltwater fish, saltwater shrimp, diamond back terrapin, sea turtle, crabs and all other species of marine or saltwater animal life existing or living in the water within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 9-2-80
• SECONDARY METALS RECYCLER: Any person, whether licensed or not licensed, who is engaged, from a fixed location or otherwise, in the business of paying compensation for ferrous or nonferrous metals, whether or not engaged in the business of performing the manufacturing process by which ferrous metals or nonferrous metals are converted into raw material products consisting of prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• secretary: The Secretary of the Department of Labor or officer, bureau, or commission as may lawfully succeed to the powers and duties of the secretary. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• securities: When used with reference to debt instruments to be issued by the corporation, shall mean and include notes, bonds and other forms of indebtedness. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• SECURITY FREEZE: A restriction placed on a consumer credit report at the request of the consumer that prohibits a consumer credit reporting agency from releasing the consumer's consumer credit report for a purpose relating to the extension of credit without the express authorization of the consumer. See Alabama Code 8-35-1
• sell: Dispose of, transfer or convey or attempt to dispose of, transfer or convey by exchange of money or other valuable consideration and specifically includes barter or exchange. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• Sentencing guidelines: A set of rules and principles established by the United States Sentencing Commission that trial judges use to determine the sentence for a convicted defendant. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• SERVICE AREA: The geographic area or areas in which the authority is authorized by its certificate of incorporation or any amendment thereto to render water and fire protection service, or any thereof, which area may include not only territory located outside the boundaries of any municipality but also territory located within the boundaries of one or more municipalities. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• SERVICE AREA: The geographic area or areas in which a fire protection corporation is authorized, whether by statute, by its certificate of incorporation, or similar corporate charter (as such may from time to time be amended), or otherwise, to provide or render fire protection, fire prevention, and related services, as such area or areas may from time to time exist. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• SERVICE AREA: The geographic area or areas in which a district is authorized by its certificate of incorporation or any amendment thereto to render water service, fire protection service, sewer service or any thereof, which area may include both territory located outside the boundaries of any municipality and territory located within the boundaries of one or more municipalities. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• SERVICE AREA: The geographic area or areas in which an authority is authorized by its certificate of incorporation or any amendment thereto to render water service, fire protection service, sewer service or any thereof, which area may include not only territory located outside the boundaries of any municipality but also territory located within the boundaries of one or more municipalities. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• SERVICE CONTRACT: A contract or agreement for a separately stated consideration for a specific duration to perform the repair, replacement, or maintenance of property or indemnification for repair, replacement, or maintenance, for the operational or structural failure due to a defect in materials or workmanship, or normal wear and tear, with or without additional provision for incidental payment or indemnity under limited circumstances, for related expenses, including, but not limited to, towing, rental, and emergency road service. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• SERVICE CONTRACT: A contract or agreement as defined in subdivision (13) of Section 8-32-2. See Alabama Code 8-33-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• services: Work, labor, and other services, including, but not limited to, services furnished in connection with the sale or repair of goods. See Alabama Code 8-19-3
• services: Such term is defined as in Section 13A-8-10(b). See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• setback: An undisturbed buffer strip adjacent to watercourses, lakes, easements, adjoining property, perimeter property lines, road rights-of-way, residences, or other features which could be adversely affected by mining. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• sever: To fell, cut, or otherwise separate from the soil. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• SEWER SERVICE: All services involved in collecting, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage or solid wastes and the performing of all functions and activities reasonably incident to the operation of a sewer system. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• SEWER SERVICE: All services involved in collecting, transporting, treating, and disposing of sanitary sewage and the performing of all functions and activities reasonably incident to the operation of a sewer system. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• SEWER SYSTEM: A sanitary sewer system, including mains, laterals, sewage disposal plants and sewage treatment plants and all appurtenances to such a system and all properties, rights, easements and franchises deemed necessary or desirable by the district for use in rendering sewer services. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• SEWER SYSTEM: A sanitary sewer system, including mains, laterals, sewage disposal plants, and sewage treatment plants and all appurtenances to such a system and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises deemed necessary or desirable by the authority for use in rendering sewer services. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• SEXUAL CONDUCT: The term means:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1

• SEXUAL CONDUCT: Any of the following acts:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151

• SEXUAL INTERCOURSE: Intercourse, whether genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, and whether between persons of the same or opposite sex or between a human and an animal. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• SEXUAL SERVITUDE: Any sexual conduct as defined in subdivision (3) of Section 14-11-30, for which anything of value is directly or indirectly given, promised to, or received by any person, which conduct is induced or obtained by coercion or deception from a person; provided, however, that if the sexual conduct is with a minor, no coercion or deception is required. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151
• shopping cart: when used in this article, shall mean those pushcarts of the type or types which are commonly provided by grocery stores, drugstores or other merchant stores or markets for the use of the public in transporting commodities in stores and markets and incidentally from the store to a place outside the store. See Alabama Code 13A-8-60
• SHORT TERM RESIDENTIAL ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT FACILITY: A state certified facility which provides structured programs of intensive treatment services for people addicted to alcohol. See Alabama Code 27-20A-1
• SMALL BUSINESS: A small business, as defined in Section 25-10-3. See Alabama Code 41-29-221
• SOLID WASTES: All solid wastes and hazardous wastes as the same are defined in Article 1 of Chapter 27 of Title 22. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• STANDARD OF PURITY OR QUALITY: The standards of purity for food products promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries and by statutes of this state. See Alabama Code 20-1-20
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-46-90.01
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• state: Any state of the United States or the District of Columbia. See Alabama Code 27-31A-2
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-41A-10.01
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-41A-40.01
• state: Includes, when referring to a part of the United States, a state or commonwealth, and its agencies and governmental subdivisions, and a territory or possession, and its agencies and governmental subdivisions, of the United States. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 11-85-100
• state: includes any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• state: The State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 2-6-70
• State: means the State of Alabama. See Alabama Code 45-8A-20.01
• STATE FIRE MARSHAL: The State Fire Marshal who is appointed by the Commissioner of Insurance pursuant to Section 27-2-10. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190
• STATE HEALTH OFFICER: The executive officer of the State Department of Public Health. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• stolen: Obtained by theft, theft by appropriating lost property, robbery, or extortion. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• subscriber: A person who agrees with or makes an offer to an entity to purchase by subscription an ownership interest in the entity. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• subscription: include a mark when the person cannot write, if his name is written near the mark, and witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness, and include with respect to corporate securities facsimile signature placed upon any instrument or writing with intent to execute or authenticate such instrument or writing. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
• subscription: An agreement between a subscriber and an entity, or a written offer made by a subscriber to an entity before or after the entity's formation, in which the subscriber agrees or offers to purchase a specified ownership interest in the entity. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• subsidiary: An entity at least 50 percent of:

  (A) the ownership or membership interest of which is owned by a parent entity; or

  (B) the voting power of which is possessed by a parent entity. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03

• supplier: The manufacturer, wholesaler, or distributor of the tractor, equipment, lawn and garden equipment, light industrial tractors and equipment, and/or repair parts to be sold by the dealer. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• supplier: Any person, firm, corporation, or business entity that engages in the manufacturing of recreational vehicle parts, accessories, or components. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• SUPPLY DISTRICT: A district which renders sewer service or water service only to one or more counties, municipalities, or other public corporations, a cooperative, or to one or more customers of a county, municipality, public corporation, or a cooperative at its written request. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• SURFACE MINING: The mining of clay, sand, gravel, ores, and other minerals except chert (or similar type pits from which construction materials are obtained, which involve five acres or less and do not involve excavation below the surrounding area in such a way as to create a pit that will accumulate water), limestone, marble, dolomite, and coal, by removing the overburden lying above natural deposits thereof and mining directly from the natural deposits thereby exposed or by mining directly from deposits lying exposed in their natural state. See Alabama Code 9-16-2
• take: To harass, hunt, capture or kill, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture or kill any marine mammal. See Alabama Code 9-11-391
• TAX ASSESSOR: The tax assessor of the county. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• TAX COLLECTOR: The tax collector of the county. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• TAXABLE YEAR: The calendar year or the fiscal year ending during the calendar year upon the basis of which net income is computed, or a period of less than 12 months resulting from a change in accounting period as provided in Section 40-18-30. See Alabama Code 40-18-1
• taxpayer: Any person liable for taxes under this article. See Alabama Code 9-13-80
• taxpayer: Any person subject to a tax imposed by this chapter, or whose income is, in whole or in part, subject to a tax imposed by this chapter. See Alabama Code 40-18-1
• telecommunications: The transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER: Any provider of telecommunications services, except that the term does not include aggregators of telecommunications services as defined in 47 U. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT: Equipment, other than customer premises equipment, used by a provider of telecommunications to provide telecommunications services, and includes software integral to the equipment, including upgrades. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: The offering of telecommunications, including servicing and repairing related equipment, for a fee directly to the public, or to the classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public regardless of the facilities used, including, but not limited to, voice, data, imaging, and video transmissions and local telephone exchange service. See Alabama Code 45-39-250
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• tenant: A person who resides in or occupies property belonging to another person pursuant to a lease agreement, or pursuant to a tenancy under the common law. See Alabama Code 6-5-155.1
• termination: The termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or noncontinuation of the contract or agreement. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2
• termination: The end of services performed by the sales representative for the principal, whether by discharge, resignation, or expiration of a contract. See Alabama Code 8-24-1
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• tests: Written, oral, or other methods of evaluation established by the board or director, to determine the merit, aptitude, knowledge of the job, and general qualifications, other than physical, of applicants to fill initial positions within the classified service, or for the promotion of those classified employees presently assigned to higher positions within the classified service, or for the purpose of reclassification or transfer of such employees into new or existing positions within the classified service. See Alabama Code 45-35A-51.01
• theatre: Any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• threat: A menace, however communicated, to:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1

• TO BE IN VIOLATION: The reinsurance intermediary, insurer, or reinsurer for whom the reinsurance intermediary was acting failed to substantially comply with the provisions of this chapter. See Alabama Code 27-5A-2
• TOURISM BOARD: The public corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Alabama Code 45-39-221
• TRADE SCREENING: The showing of a motion picture by a distributor at the location of the film exchange that distributes his picture in Alabama, which is open to any exhibitor from whom the distributor intends to solicit bids or with whom the distributor intends to negotiate for the right to exhibit the motion picture. See Alabama Code 8-18-2
• TRADE SECRET: A "trade secret" is information that:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-27-2

• traffic sign: shall mean any traffic sign, traffic signal, warning sign, guideboard, milepost, road marker, emergency telephone sign, or any similar sign, signal, or device used by the state or any political subdivision of the state on the highways, roads, bridges, or streets of this state for the warning, instruction, or information of the public. See Alabama Code 13A-8-70
• TRAFFIC SIGNAL VIOLATION: Any violation of Section 32-5A-31, 32-5A-32, or 32-5A-35, or any combination thereof, wherein a vehicle proceeds into a signalized intersection at a time while the traffic-control signal for that vehicle's lane of travel is emitting a steady red signal. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02
• TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNAL: Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed as defined in Section 32-1-1. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02
• TRAFFICKING VICTIM: Any person, including minors, subjected to labor servitude, sexual servitude, or involuntary servitude. See Alabama Code 13A-6-151
• TRAINED TECHNICIAN: A sworn law enforcement officer employed by the city, who alternatively:

  a. See Alabama Code 45-41A-41.02

• transfer: Every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset, and includes payment of money, release, lease, and creation of a lien or other encumbrance. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• Transfer: means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset, and includes payment of money, release, lease, license, and creation of a lien or other encumbrance. See Alabama Code 8-9B-2
• TRANSIENT CUSTOMER: A customer who is temporarily traveling through a dealer's area of sales responsibility. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• TRAVEL TRAILER: A vehicular unit, mounted on wheels, designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use and of such size and weight as not to require a special highway movement permit when towed by a motorized vehicle. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• treasurer: The county treasurer of the county. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• TREE AND SHRUB SEED: The seeds of woody plants commonly known and sold as tree or shrub seeds in this state. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• Trial jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
• TRUCK CAMPER: A portable unit, constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, travel, or camping use, consisting of a roof, floor, and sides and designed to be loaded onto and unloaded from the back of a pickup truck. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• trust: Any entity which is a trust for federal income tax purposes. See Alabama Code 40-18-1
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• trustee: A person who serves as a trustee of a trust, including a real estate investment trust. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
• UNCERTIFICATED OWNERSHIP INTEREST: An ownership interest in a domestic entity that is not represented by a certificate. See Alabama Code 10A-1-1.03
• UNCOVERED EXPENDITURES: The costs of health care services that are covered by a health maintenance organization, for which an enrollee would also be liable in the event of the organization's insolvency. See Alabama Code 27-21A-1
• UNDER SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT: As used in Section 13A-5-49(1), the term means while serving a term of imprisonment, while under a suspended sentence, while on probation or parole, or while on work release, furlough, escape, or any other type of release or freedom while or after serving a term of imprisonment, other than unconditional release and freedom after expiration of the term of sentence. See Alabama Code 13A-5-39
• undergarments: Articles of clothing worn under clothing that conceal intimate areas from view. See Alabama Code 13A-11-40
• underwrite: The authority to accept or reject risk on behalf of the insurer. See Alabama Code 27-6A-2
• unit: Any public corporation organized in this state pursuant to authorization or determination by any municipality or municipalities or county or counties or a municipality and a county or by any combination of municipalities and counties or by the governing body of any one or more thereof and shall include also any county board of education and any city board of education. See Alabama Code 11-81-220
• UNIT OF PROPERTY: Any dwelling or commercial building, together with the real property on which it is situated or to which it is appurtenant. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• UNUSED LANDS: Lands not utilized for the immediate purposes of any institution or department, not being cultivated, leased or mined and not contiguous to the premises of any department or institution or state building. See Alabama Code 9-15-1
• USED LANDS: Lands that are being utilized for the specific and immediate purposes of the state or of any institution or department thereof or by any township or the inhabitants thereof, including buildings, grounds and premises, experiment farms, leased, mined or cultivated property and any other tracts utilized by or for the operation of any institution or department. See Alabama Code 9-15-1
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• UTILIZATION REVIEW: A system for prospective and concurrent review of the necessity and appropriateness in the allocation of health care resources and services given or proposed to be given to an individual within this state. See Alabama Code 27-3A-3
• UTILIZATION REVIEW AGENT: Any person or entity, including the State of Alabama, performing a utilization review, except the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 27-3A-3

• utter: means to directly or indirectly offer, assert, declare or put forth a forged instrument as genuine. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1
• VALID LIEN: A lien that is effective against the holder of a judicial lien subsequently obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings. See Alabama Code 8-9A-1
• value: The market value of the property at the time and place of the criminal act. See Alabama Code 13A-8-1
• variety: A subdivision of a kind which is characterized by growth, plant, fruit, seed, period of maturation or other characters by which it can be differentiated from other sorts of the same kind, for example, Redhart wheat, Flat Dutch cabbage, Otootan soybeans, Chantenay carrot, etc. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• VEGETABLE SEED: The seeds of those crops which are grown in gardens or on truck farms and are generally known and sold under the name of vegetable seeds in this state. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• VEHICLE PROTECTION PRODUCT: A vehicle protection device, system, or service that is all of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 8-33-2

• VERIFIABLE DOCUMENTATION: Written evidence of ownership which may be verified, including, but not limited to, receipts, bills of sale, titles, certificates of title, purchase agreements, shipping manifests, work orders, etc. See Alabama Code 13A-8-30
• Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
• violation: The knowing commission of any act prohibited by a domestic violence protection order or any willful failure to abide by its terms. See Alabama Code 13A-6-141
• VIOLENT OFFENSE: An offense or charge as defined in subdivision (14) of Section 12-25-32, to also include chemical endangerment of a child pursuant to Section 26-15-3. See Alabama Code 45-41-83.01
• virus: Means an unwanted computer program or other set of instructions inserted into a computer's memory, operating system, or program that is specifically constructed with the ability to replicate itself or to affect the other programs or files in the computer by attaching a copy of the unwanted program or other set of instructions to one or more computer programs or files. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: Any volunteer fire department with which the commission, pursuant to Amendment 392, may enter into an agreement or agreements with respect to providing fire protection, fire prevention, and related services and facilities within the county. See Alabama Code 45-41-141
• warrantor: Any person, firm, corporation, or business entity, including any manufacturer or distributor, that provides a written warranty to the consumer in connection with a new recreational vehicle or parts, accessories, or components thereof. See Alabama Code 8-21C-2
• warranty: A warranty made by the manufacturer, importer, distributor, or seller of property or services without consideration stated separately from the price of the property or services sold, that is not negotiated separate from the sale of the product and is incidental to the sale of the product, that guarantees repair or replacement, or indemnity for repair or replacement, for defective parts, mechanical or electrical breakdown, labor or other remedial measures, such as repair or replacement of the property or repetition of services. See Alabama Code 8-32-2
• WARRANTY HOLDER: The person who purchases a vehicle protection product or who is a permitted transferee. See Alabama Code 8-33-2
• WARRANTY REIMBURSEMENT INSURANCE POLICY: A policy of insurance that is issued to the vehicle protection product warrantor to provide reimbursement to the warrantor or to pay on behalf of the warrantor all covered contractual obligations incurred by the warrantor under the terms and conditions of the insured vehicle protection product warranties sold by the warrantor. See Alabama Code 8-33-2
• WATER SERVICE: The providing, furnishing, supplying, or distributing of water and the performing of all of the functions and activities reasonably incident to the operation of a water system. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• WATER SERVICE: The providing, furnishing, supplying or distributing of water and the performing of all of the functions and activities reasonably incident to the operation of a water system. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• WATER SERVICE: The providing, furnishing, supplying, or distributing of water and the performing of all of the functions and activities reasonably incident to the operation of a water system, including the provision of water to a fire protection authority to be used in the rendition of fire protection service. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• WATER SYSTEM: Land, plants, systems, facilities, buildings, and other property, or any combination of any thereof, which are used or useful or capable of future use in providing, furnishing, supplying, or distributing water, including, but not limited to, water supply systems, water distribution systems, reservoirs, wells, intakes, mains, laterals, aqueducts, pumping stations, standpipes, filtration plants, purification plants, meters, valves, fire hydrants, and all necessary appurtenances and equipment, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises deemed necessary or desirable by the authority for use in rendering water service. See Alabama Code 45-38-141
• WATER SYSTEM: Land, plants, systems, facilities, buildings, and other property, or any combination of any thereof, which are used or useful or capable of future use in providing, furnishing, supplying, or distributing water, including but not limited to water supply systems, water distribution systems, reservoirs, wells, intakes, mains, laterals, aqueducts, pumping stations, standpipes, filtration plants, purification plants, meters, valves, and all necessary appurtenances and equipment, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises deemed necessary or desirable by the authority for use in rendering water service. See Alabama Code 11-88-1
• WATER SYSTEMS: Land, plants, systems, facilities, buildings and other property or any combination of any thereof which are used or useful or capable of future use in providing, furnishing, supplying or distributing water, including, but not limited to, water supply systems, water distribution systems, reservoirs, wells, intakes, mains, laterals, aqueducts, pumping stations, standpipes, tanks, filtration plants, purification plants, meters, valves and all necessary appurtenances and equipment and all properties, rights, easements and franchises deemed necessary or desirable by the district for use in rendering water service. See Alabama Code 11-89-1
• WATERWORKS SYSTEM: Facilities for the gathering, collecting, impounding, treatment, transmission and distribution, or any of them, of water for domestic use or for industrial use or both, together with all appurtenances to any such facilities. See Alabama Code 11-81-160
• WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: Include any of the following:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-10-190

• WEB PAGE: A location that has a single uniform resource locator or other single location with respect to the Internet. See Alabama Code 13A-8-111
• WEED SEEDS: The seeds, bulblets and tubers of all plants generally recognized as weeds within this state, including noxious weed seeds, bulblets and tubers. See Alabama Code 2-26-1
• Whips: Assistants to the floor leaders who are also elected by their party conferences. The Majority and Minority Whips (and their assistants) are responsible for mobilizing votes within their parties on major issues. In the absence of a party floor leader, the whip often serves as acting floor leader.
• wholesaler: A person who distributes material for the purpose of resale or commercial distribution at retail. See Alabama Code 13A-12-200.1
• WILD GINSENG: Ginseng in, or collected from its native habitat, notwithstanding whether the ginseng occurs naturally from that habitat or was introduced or increased in abundance by the actions of humans, including, but not limited to, sowing ginseng seed or by transplanting ginseng plants from other areas. See Alabama Code 9-13-241
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
• WRITTEN INSTRUMENT: Such term means:

  a. See Alabama Code 13A-9-1

• WRITTEN NOTICE: In addition to a delivered written notice, such notice shall include notice by any other accepted means including, but not limited to, notice by "electronic mail" or its equivalent. See Alabama Code 8-21A-2