(a) Notwithstanding Section 31-9A-9, the Alabama Department of Homeland Security may hire, appoint, and maintain APOST certified state law enforcement officers. Such officers shall receive the same rights and benefits as those prescribed to officers of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, except for the purposes of retirement. The officers shall have the same retirement benefits as a law enforcement officer as defined under Section 36-27-59.
(b) Unless a violation of state law occurs in their presence, officers authorized under this section shall not engage in routine law enforcement activity, except for those investigative and analytical duties necessary to carry out the enforcement of this chapter and to fulfill the mission of the Alabama Department of Homeland Security or those duties necessary to provide assistance to other law enforcement agencies.
(c) The Director of the Alabama Department of Homeland Security shall have the authority to promulgate rules for the enforcement of this chapter.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 31 - Military Affairs and Civil Defense.
Chapter 13 - Illegal Immigration.
Section 31-13-1 - Short Title.
Section 31-13-2 - Legislative Findings.
Section 31-13-3 - Definitions.
Section 31-13-4 - Memorandum of Agreement With u.s. Department of Homeland Security.
Section 31-13-8 - Enrollment or Attendance at Institutions of Postsecondary Education.
Section 31-13-9 - Verification of Employment Eligibility by Employers Seeking Economic Incentives.
Section 31-13-10 - Willful Failure to Complete or Carry Alien Registration Documentation.
Section 31-13-11 - Unauthorized Aliens Prohibited From Seeking Employment in State.
Section 31-13-13 - Concealing, Harboring, Shielding, etc., Unauthorized Aliens.
Section 31-13-14 - Dealing in False Identification Documents; Vital Records Identity Fraud.
Section 31-13-15 - Employment of Unauthorized Aliens Prohibited.
Section 31-13-16 - Certain Business Expense Deductions Prohibited.
Section 31-13-17 - Discriminatory Employment Practices.
Section 31-13-22 - Enforcement of Chapter in Coordination With Federal Immigration Laws.
Section 31-13-23 - Enforcement Report.
Section 31-13-24 - Solicitation, Attempt, or Conspiracy to Violate Chapter.
Section 31-13-25 - E-Verify Employer Agent Service.
Section 31-13-26 - Enforcement of Certain Contracts Prohibited.
Section 31-13-28 - Voter Registration Eligibility and Requirements.
Section 31-13-29 - Limitations on Public Records Transactions Conducted by Unauthorized Aliens.
Section 31-13-30 - Relation to Real ID Act of 2005.
Section 31-13-31 - Defense of Law Enforcement Officers in Enforcement of Chapter.
Section 31-13-32 - Report to Alabama Department of Homeland Security.
Section 31-13-33 - Rental Agreements With Unauthorized Aliens Prohibited.
Section 31-13-34 - Enforcement of Chapter.
Section 31-13-35 - Records Searches by Department of Revenue; Investigations.