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Alabama Bureau of Environmental Services

  • In Alabama, there are currently no statewide regulations for the construction, operation, filtration, or disinfection of public recreational water facilities. Some counties in Alabama establish and enforce local ordinances based on the following:
    • The Code of Alabama 1975, Section 22-2-2 (4): The State Board of Health shall have authority and jurisdiction…To inspect all schools, hospitals, asylums, jails, theatres, opera houses, courthouses, churches, public halls, prisons, stockades where convicts are kept, markets, dairies, milk depots, slaughter pens or houses, railroad depots, railroad cars, street railroad cars, lines of railroads and street railroads (including the territory contiguous to said lines), industrial and manufacturing establishments, offices, stores, banks, club houses, hotels, rooming
      houses, residences and other places of like character, and whenever insanitary
      conditions in any of these places, institutions or establishments or conditions prejudicial to health, or likely to become so, are found, proper steps shall be taken by the proper authorities to have such conditions corrected or abated.
    • The Code of Alabama 1975, Section 22-3-2 (4): It shall be the duty of the county boards of health in their respective counties and subject to the supervision and control of the State Board of Health…To exercise, through county health officers or quarantine officers, special supervision over the sanitary conditions of schools,
      hospitals, asylums, jails, theatres, opera houses, courthouses, churches, public
      halls, prisons, markets, dairies, milk depots, slaughter pens or houses, railroad depots, railroad cars, dining cars, street railroad cars, lines of railroads and street railroads (including the territory contiguous to said lines), airports, industrial and manufacturing establishments, offices, stores, banks, club houses, hotels, rooming houses, residences and the sources of supply, tanks, reservoirs, pumping stations and avenues of conveyance of drinking water and other institutions and places of
      like character and, whenever insanitary conditions are found, to use all legal means to have the same abated.
    • County Health Department Directory

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