Ala. Code § 14-2-1

Current through the 2024 Regular Session.

Section 14-2-1 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

(2) COMMISSION. The Building Commission created by Section 41-9-140 and its successors as the state agency for awarding construction contracts and supervising construction.

(3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Corrections created by Section 14-1-1.1 and its successors as the state agency responsible for supervising and controlling the operation of the correctional institutions of the state.

(4) ESCAMBIA MEN'S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility, including all real property, buildings, and improvements, designed to house at least 4,000 male inmates and with intake capability, to be located on land owned by the state or the authority as of December 1, 2020, in Escambia County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)a.

(5) STATE. The State of Alabama.

(6) BONDS. The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter.

(7) FACILITIES. Such term includes any one or more of the following:

a. Prisons;

b. Buildings and enclosures for housing, containing, or supervising prisoners; and

c. Any facilities necessary or useful in connection with prisons, buildings, or enclosures, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hospitals, offices, correctional officers' quarters and residences, warehouses, garages, storage facilities, abattoirs, cold storage plants, canning plants, laundries, and manufacturing plants , educational and other programming facilities, medical, mental health, and other health care facilities, and substance abuse and addiction treatment facilities.

(8) KILBY PROPERTY. Such term includes all of the real property commonly referred to as Kilby prison property, embracing not only the real property owned by the state on which Kilby prison is located, but also all real property owned by the state used in connection with Kilby prison and adjacent thereto, all located in sections 2, 3, 10, 11, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, and 35 in township 17, range 18 in Montgomery County, Alabama, together with all personal property owned by the state and used in connection with Kilby prison and the real property adjacent thereto.

(9) PERRY COUNTY FACILITY. The Perry County Correctional Center, including all real property, buildings, and improvements located at the facility in Perry County.

(10) SPECIALIZED MEN'S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility, including all real property, buildings, and improvements, designed to house at least 4,000 male inmates, with intake capability, and with designated space for enhanced medical, mental health, and other health care, substance abuse and addiction treatment, and educational and other programming services to inmates, to be located on land owned by the state or the authority as of December 1, 2020, in Elmore County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)a.

(11) WOMEN'S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility designed to house at least 1,000 female inmates to be located on land owned by the state or the authority in Elmore County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)b.1.

Ala. Code § 14-2-1 (1975)

Amended by Act 2021SP1-546,§ 2, eff. 10/1/2021.

Acts 1965, No. 678, p. 1226, §2; Acts 1985, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 85-125, p. 187, §1; Act 2010-729, p. 1834, § 1.