Code of Alabama - Title 21: Handicapped Persons - Chapter 9 - Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services

• Section 21-9-1 Declaration of policy
  It is the policy of this state to provide rehabilitation services, to the extent needed and feasible within resources available, to eligible children and adults...
• Section 21-9-2 Definitions
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) BOARD. The...
• Section 21-9-3 Transfer of powers, funds, personnel
  (a) All powers, duties, and functions of, and all related records, property, equipment of, and all contractual rights, obligations of, and unexpended balances of appropriations...
• Section 21-9-4 Creation, membership
  There is created the Board of Rehabilitation Services consisting of seven members, one from each United States Congressional District, appointed by the Governor and confirmed...
• Section 21-9-5 Terms of office
  Of the members first appointed to the Board of Rehabilitation Services: one shall be appointed for a term of seven years; one for a term...
• Section 21-9-6 Oath, bond
  Before entering upon the duties of office, each member of the board shall take and subscribe to an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws...
• Section 21-9-7 Reimbursement of expenses
  Each member of the board shall receive travel and per diem compensation for expenses incurred in the conduct of official duties while attending meetings and...
• Section 21-9-8 Chair
  The board shall elect a chair from its membership at the first meeting of initial board members on January 15, 1995, and every two years...
• Section 21-9-9 Duties of board
  The board shall perform all of the following duties: (1) Make rules and regulations for the provision of rehabilitation services. (2) Direct and supervise the...
• Section 21-9-10 Commissioner
  (a) The Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services of the State Department of Education shall serve as the initial commissioner of the Department of...
• Section 21-9-11 Duties of commissioner
  (a) The commissioner shall direct all matters involving the department in conformance with state and federal law and the policies of the board. (b) The...
• Section 21-9-12 Continuation of Board of Rehabilitation Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services; dissolution
  The Board of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Rehabilitation Services shall automatically continue in existence, but both may be dissolved and all operations restored...
• Section 21-9-13 Administrative action
  The State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Education shall take all administrative action, including the transfer of funds, appropriate and necessary to...
• Section 21-9-14 Office to provide information regarding Americans with Disabilities Act; toll-free telephone number; performance of duties; immunity
  (a) There shall be established at the Department of Rehabilitation Services a toll-free telephone number in an office staffed by an assistant or deputy attorney...

Last modified: May 3, 2021