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Alabama regulations: details
Copied from the Alabama Legislative Services Agency’s own Administrative Code data, the data its code pages show on October 19, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.
What is here
- Release 1: 17,380 rules of the Alabama Administrative Code, read by us from the data the Legislative Services Agency’s own code pages use. We asked for all 2,393 chapters its agency index lists, on October 19, 2026. Each rule comes back as printed, with its Author, Statutory Authority, History and Penalty lines and its Editor’s Note. A rule changed after we copied it is not reflected here.
- Of the 18,980 rules our readers found, 1,600 are held and not shown, each with its reasons: mainly rules that print a title and History line but no text, most of them repealed (910), pictures (347), tables (319). A held rule comes back as held, with its reasons and no text. Held is not absent.
- 218 chapters list no rule at all (most are reserved or repealed, as the index’s title for them says), and 0 did not return their rules when we asked. They are listed by chapter, with the title the index gives them.
- The Legislative Services Agency is the official publisher of the Alabama Administrative Code. Our copy is not the official version. The Agency’s site says “Copyright © Alabama Legislative Services Agency. All rights reserved.” Those are its words, not ours. Read the rule on its site before relying on it.
- Look a rule up by its citation, as in Ala. Admin. Code r. 20-X-1-.01. A long rule comes back in pages, and nothing is cut. A chapter such as Ala. Admin. Code ch. 20-X-1 lists its rules: shown and held.
How we checked it
- Two separate readers, written with no shared code, read every chapter: one with a standard HTML parser, one by plain text operations. A rule is shown only where both agree on every word of its title and text and of its Author, Statutory Authority, History and Penalty lines and Editor’s Note.
- A rule is held when it prints no text, when it holds a table, a list, a picture, subscript or superscript, struck text or a lost character, when its number is outside its chapter or printed twice, when the chapter and the agency index disagree about it, or when the two readers differ.
- Before release, we drew 20 shown rules at random and fetched each one again from the Agency’s own data for that rule. All 20 matched word for word.
- One AI system wrote the readers, ran every check and made every reading and ruling, with no second reader.
What it can't tell you
- Whether a rule is in force, valid or current, or is good law.
- Whether anything changed after we copied the rules on October 19, 2026.
- What the held rules say.
Known gaps
- 1,600 rules are held, not shown; the largest group is rules that print a title and History line but no text, most of them repealed (910).
- Tables, lists, pictures and forms appendices are held, not shown.
- Paragraphs are shown one a line; bold, underlining and indentation are not shown, and a link shows as its words.
- Keyword search reads only the shown rules. Held rules have no text here and never match.
Notes you may see on an entry
- A held rule: “GLO holds this rule and does not show its text, because its two readers or the release check did not clear it. Its reasons are listed by name.”
- A chapter with no rule: “The Agency’s answer for this chapter lists no rule, or did not come back when we asked. It is listed with the title the index gives it.”
- A rule not in this copy: “Not in this copy of the Alabama Administrative Code, neither shown nor held. That never means the rule does not exist.”
Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every Alabama result (source=al).