Code of Alabama - Title 34: Professions and Businesses - Chapter 8A - Counselors
- Section 34-8A-1 Board of Examiners in Counseling created; composition; powers and duties
There is hereby created a board to be known as the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling composed of seven members, appointed by the Governor...
- Section 34-8A-2 Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section:...
- Section 34-8A-3 Construction and application of chapter
(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to apply to any of the following: (1) The activities, services, and use of an official title...
- Section 34-8A-4 Board of Examiners in Counseling - Creation; membership; Sunset provision
(a) There is created an Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling, to consist of seven members who shall be citizens of this state and appointed...
- Section 34-8A-5 Board of Examiners in Counseling - Officers; compensation; meetings; seal; rules and regulations; grants
(a) The board shall elect annually a chair and a vice chair. Each member shall receive daily compensation as established by the board for each...
- Section 34-8A-6 Inactive status; collection and disposition of fees, etc.; reactivation; renewal
(a) A licensee may request that the board designate his or her license with inactive status at any point prior to the date of renewal....
- Section 34-8A-7 Qualifications for licensed professional counselor; specialty designation
The board shall issue a license as a licensed professional counselor to each applicant who files an application upon a form and in a manner...
- Section 34-8A-8 Qualifications for associate licensed counselor
The board shall issue a license as an associate licensed counselor to each applicant who files an application upon a form and in such manner...
- Section 34-8A-9 Application investigation; acceptance or rejection
After investigation of the application and other evidence submitted, the board shall notify each applicant that the application and evidence submitted is satisfactory and accepted...
- Section 34-8A-10 Examination
The place of examination shall be designated in advance by the board, and such examination shall be given annually at such time and place and...
- Section 34-8A-11 Focus of examination
The examination shall require that the applicant demonstrate his or her knowledge and application thereof in those areas deemed relevant to his or her specialty...
- Section 34-8A-12 Reexamination
In the event an applicant fails to receive a passing grade on the entire examination, the applicant may register and shall be allowed to take...
- Section 34-8A-13 Preservation of examination scores
The board is required to preserve an examination score of each candidate, as part of its records for a period of two years following the...
- Section 34-8A-14 Renewal; fees; continuing education; practice in a specialty
(a) Counselors licensed as a licensed professional counselor by the board shall be required to submit biennially at the time of renewal a license renewal...
- Section 34-8A-15 Applicants qualified out-of-state; provisional license
Upon application accompanied by fee the board may issue a license to any person who furnishes upon a form and in such manner as the...
- Section 34-8A-16 Disciplinary actions; discovery
(a) The board by a majority of the board members present and voting is authorized to withhold, deny, revoke, or suspend, any license or certificate...
- Section 34-8A-17 Injunction, mandamus, etc
When it shall appear to the board that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice constituting a violation...
- Section 34-8A-18 Penalties; review; disciplinary oversight of licensees; legal counsel
(a) In addition to any other powers and functions which may be conferred upon it by law, the board may issue an order assessing a...
- Section 34-8A-19 Board's quasi-judicial authority; sole licensing authority
The Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling shall have authority to administer oaths, to summon witnesses, to issue subpoenas, and to take testimony in all...
- Section 34-8A-20 All qualified applicants licensed; signatures
The Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling shall license to engage in private practice all persons who shall present satisfactory evidence of attainments and qualifications...
- Section 34-8A-21 Privileged communications and confidential relations between practitioner and client
For the purpose of this chapter, the confidential relations and communications between licensed professional counselor or certified counselor associate and client are placed upon the...
- Section 34-8A-22 Code of ethics
The Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling shall adopt a code of ethics to govern appropriate practice or behavior as referred to in Section 34-8A-16...
- Section 34-8A-23 Waiver of requirement for prior practitioners
For a period of one year from July 25, 1983, the board shall waive the requirements of subdivisions (5) and (6) of Section 34-8A-7, and...
- Section 34-8A-24 Liability
There shall be no monetary liability on the part of, and no cause of action shall arise against a licensed professional counselor or associate licensed...
Last modified: May 3, 2021