Section 22-20-1 Use of common drinking cups or towels in public places prohibited. It shall be unlawful to provide for use, or permit the use of, a common drinking cup or a common towel in any hotel, restaurant, railroad car, railroad station or other place frequented by the public. (Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; […]
Section 22-20-10 Duty to drain areas in construction works. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the construction of any railroad, public highways or other construction work in Alabama shall drain all borrow pits, cuts and fills likely to impound water which shall be dangerous to the public health. Any person, firm or corporation failing […]
Section 22-20-11 Restrictions on retail sales of certain poisons. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to retail any poisons enumerated in Schedules “A” and “B” which are as follows, except upon the conditions named in this section: (1) Schedule “A” – biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, carbolic acid, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine, arsenate […]
Section 22-20-12 Advertisements concerning impotency, prostatic troubles, etc. Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, publish, deliver or distribute, or cause to be published, delivered or distributed, in any manner, whatsoever, any advertisement concerning lost manhood, lost vitality, impotency, sexual weakness, seminal emissions, stricture, drains, discharges, prostatic troubles, self-abuse or excessive sexual indulgences or calling […]
Section 22-20-2 Prevention of infantile blindness. Any physician, midwife, nurse or other person in attendance on a confinement case shall, within two hours after the birth of the child, use one of the following prophylactic solutions for the prevention of infantile blindness or ophthalmia neonatorum, two drops of the solution to be dropped in each […]
Section 22-20-3 Neonatal testing for certain diseases; rules and regulations for treatment thereof. (a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other persons in charge of each institution caring for infants 28 days or less of age, or the physician attending a newborn child or the person attending a newborn child that […]
Section 22-20-3.1 Educational information on pertussis to be provided prior to discharge of newborn child. (a) During the postpartum period, before discharging a newborn child, a hospital shall provide parents with educational information on pertussis disease. The information provided to parents shall contain the following statement: Pertussis, whooping cough, can cause serious illness in infants, […]
Section 22-20-4 Location and extension of cemeteries. Whenever it is proposed to locate a cemetery or to extend the boundaries of an existing cemetery, the party or parties so proposing shall make written application to the judge of probate and county commission or to the mayor and council of an incorporated city or town, according […]
Section 22-20-5 Regulations for establishments handling food and providing public accommodations. (a) The State Committee on Public Health shall, as conditions demand, adopt and promulgate regulations for the construction, maintenance and operation of all establishments, and their immediate surroundings, in which foods or beverages intended for sale for human consumption are made, prepared, processed, displayed […]
Section 22-20-5.1 Cottage food production. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) COTTAGE FOOD. A non-potentially hazardous food that has been prepared in a person’s home that does not require time or temperature control for safety to limit pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation and that does not […]
Section 22-20-5.2 Food service establishments to secure covers of grease traps. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Sadie Grace Andrews Act. (b) This section shall apply to commercial food service establishments that utilize grease traps that are outdoors or are in areas that are accessible to members of the […]
Section 22-20-5.3 Pet dogs permitted in outdoor dining areas of food service establishments under certain conditions. (a) A pet dog that is under the control of a person shall be permitted in an outdoor dining area of a food service establishment if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The owner of the food […]
Section 22-20-5.4 Serving wine or beer in food service establishments or dog parks. (a) A state or local health department may not prohibit the serving of wine or beer, including draft beer, in a food service establishment that allows pet dogs in accordance with Section 22-20-5.3 or a dog park if the establishment or dog […]
Section 22-20-6 Butchering, etc., of legally taken wild animals. Any rule or regulation of the Health Department to the contrary notwithstanding, legally taken deer, turkeys and any other wild animal may be butchered, killed and/or processed at any slaughterhouse, abattoir, meat-packing and processing plant in this state. (Acts 1967, No. 413, p. 1068.)
Section 22-20-7 Inspection of dairy farms, milk-cooling stations, etc. The State Board of Health shall inspect dairy farms, milk-cooling stations, milk-processing plants and creameries for grading the milk and cream output of such establishments. The said inspections shall be made in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, and the […]
Section 22-20-8 Depositing dead animals or nauseous substances in water supplies. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly deposit any dead animal or nauseous substance in any source, standpipe or reservoir from which water is supplied to any city or town of this state or in any private well, spring, reservoir, tank, vessel […]
Section 22-20-9 Depositing dead animals or fowl in running streams. Any person who deposits the body of a dead animal or fowl in any running stream must, on conviction, be fined $10.00, and one half of the fine must go to the informer. (Code 1867, §4435; Code 1876, §1728; Code 1886, §1464; Code 1896, §5330; […]
