Code of Alabama - Title 38: Public Welfare - Chapter 2 - State and County Departments and Boards of Human Resources

• Section 38-2-1 State Department of Human Resources
  There is hereby created a State Department of Human Resources, with subordinate bureaus and divisions which shall operate under a State Board of Human Resources...
• Section 38-2-2 State Board of Human Resources
  There shall be a State Board of Human Resources which shall consist of the Governor, as chairman, and six other members, not less than two...
• Section 38-2-3 Commissioner of State Department of Human Resources; other personnel
  (a) The chief executive officer of the State Department of Human Resources shall be known as the Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources....
• Section 38-2-4 Legal counsel for department
  The commissioner, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall be authorized, subject to the provisions of the state merit system law, to appoint a...
• Section 38-2-5 Allocation of funds
  The state department, subject to the approval of the state board, shall allocate such federal and state funds for public assistance, administration and services as...
• Section 38-2-6 Duties, powers, and responsibilities of state department
  The aim of the state department shall be the promotion of a unified development of welfare activities and agencies of the state and of the...
• Section 38-2-6.1 Office of State Parent Locator for the Location of Absent Parents established; duties; assistance of other agencies, etc.; use of information obtained
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ABSENT PARENT. The parent of a minor child who owes...
• Section 38-2-7 County boards of human resources created; composition; terms of office; meetings; duties, etc.; county director
  There is hereby created in each county a county board of human resources, which shall consist of seven members, not less than two of whom...
• Section 38-2-8 County departments of human resources
  (a) There is hereby created in each county a county department of human resources which shall consist of the county director of human resources and...
• Section 38-2-9 Appropriations by counties and municipalities; expenditures to be approved by state department
  The county commission in any county shall have the power and is hereby authorized to appropriate out of the public funds of the county such...
• Section 38-2-10 Authority of state department with respect to granting of public assistance
  The state department is authorized and it shall be its duty to develop standards of assistance for the administration of the various public assistance programs...
• Section 38-2-11 Photographic reproductions of books, records, papers or other documents of state department
  (a) Commissioner authorized to make reproductions and destroy originals. The Commissioner of Human Resources of the State of Alabama is authorized to make or to...
• Section 38-2-12 Authority of commissioner to destroy certain records, etc
  (a) The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources shall have the authority to destroy or cause to be destroyed, in his discretion: (1)...
• Section 38-2-13 Bonds of officers of State Department of Human Resources
  Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources and other public welfare officers shall execute to...

Last modified: May 3, 2021