22-19-181
Section 22-19-181 Cooperation between coroner, medical examiner, and procurement organization.
(a) A coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official or
a designee shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover
anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education when
it has been determined that the recovery will not interfere with a death investigation. The
organ procurement organization, tissue bank, and eye bank will make every reasonable effort
to seek approval and release from the coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or
designee prior to proceeding with consent approaches to the authorized parties as described
in this article. The request for release process will begin with the coroner or designee,
who may defer to the medical examiner or designee, who may subsequently defer to the district
attorney or designee. At the time of coroner or medical examiner or district...
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45-37-60.07
Section 45-37-60.07 Duty to investigate certain deaths. Pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated
by the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission, it shall be the duty of the chief and associate
coroner-medical examiners to review or investigate and determine, the cause and manner of
any death, when such death may fall within one or more of the following categories subject
to the commission's power to change the categories: (1) Criminal violence or criminal neglect.
(2) Criminal abortion. (3) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea.
(4) Unclaimed bodies. (5) When a dead body is brought into this state without proper medical
certification. (6) Accident, when requested by surviving spouse, if any, or next of kin. (7)
Unexpected death while under anesthesia or within 24 hours following anesthesia, or any other
diagnostic or therapeutic procedure with the written permission of the surviving spouse or
next of kin. (8) In any prison or penal institution. (9) When in...
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34-13-121
Section 34-13-121 Cremation procedures; authorization; identification of remains; records.
(a) Human remains shall not be cremated under either of the following circumstances: (1) Within
24 hours after the time of death, unless death was a result of an infectious, contagious,
or communicable disease and unless the disease is verified and the time requirement waived
by a medical examiner, county health director, county coroner, or attending physician where
the death occurred. (2) Without a completed cremation authorization form approved by the board
and signed by the authorizing agent and a completed state identification form. A copy of the
cremation authorization shall be presented with the body to the crematory before any cremation
process may be initiated. (b) All cremations of human remains performed in this state shall
be arranged through a funeral establishment licensed by the board pursuant to this chapter.
(c) Whenever a crematory is unable or unauthorized to cremate human...
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22-9A-24
Section 22-9A-24 Persons required to keep records and to furnish information. (a)(1) Every
person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person
admitted or confined to the institution. This record shall include information as required
for the certificates of birth and death and the reports of fetal death required by this chapter.
The record shall be made at the time of admission from information provided by the person
being admitted or confined, but when it cannot be obtained, the information shall be obtained
from relatives or other persons acquainted with the facts. The name and address of the person
providing the information shall be part of the record. (2) When a dead body or dead fetus
is released or disposed of by an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall
keep a record as provided for in subsection (e) of Section 22-9A-16. (3) Not later than the
fifth day of the month following the month of occurrence, the person in...
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26-23F-3
Section 26-23F-3 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings: (1) ABORTION. The use or prescription of any instrument,
medicine, drug, or any other substance or device with the intent to terminate the pregnancy
of a woman known to be pregnant with knowledge that the termination by those means will with
reasonable likelihood cause the death of the unborn child. Such use or prescription is not
an abortion if done with the intent to save the life or preserve the health of an unborn
child, remove a dead unborn child, or to deliver the unborn child prematurely in order to
preserve the health of both the mother (pregnant woman) and her unborn child. The term "abortion"
as used in this chapter, does not include a procedure or act to terminate the pregnancy of
a woman with an ectopic pregnancy, nor does it include the procedure or act to terminate the
pregnancy of a woman when the unborn child has a lethal anomaly. (2) BODILY...
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45-49-120.06
Section 45-49-120.06 Personnel board. (a)(1) The personnel board shall consist of five members
designated respectively as Member 1, Member 2, Member 3, Member 4, and Member 5, each of whom
shall be over 19 years of age, of recognized good character and ability, a qualified elector
of Mobile County, and shall not, when appointed nor for three years then next preceding the
date of his or her appointment have held elective public office, nor have been a candidate
for public office. If any person actively solicits a position on the board, the committee,
for this reason, shall refuse to consider his or her appointment. After May 15, 2009, each
member shall be a resident of his or her respective district, as hereinafter provided, at
the time of his or her appointment and for the duration of his or her term; provided however,
that those members in office on May 15, 2009, may serve out the remainder of their then unexpired
term without regard to their respective districts of residence. Members...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment set
forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient, and analogous
forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY. The
State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county charge
that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the following
forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney of
the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary to
law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the
unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales
of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised),
which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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11-5-54
Section 11-5-54 Assistance rendered upon request for autopsy or postmortem examination. In
the event an autopsy or any other postmortem examination is requested for purposes other than
in the course of an investigation, the coroner shall not be responsible for the storage or
transportation of the body. The coroner may provide assistance to the person or entity requesting
the autopsy or any other postmortem examination if the person or entity pays all expenses
incurred by the coroner prior to the services being rendered. Payment shall be made payable
to the county general fund and expended as provided in Section 11-5-53. (Act 2010-542, p.
943, §5.)...
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11-5-50
Section 11-5-50 Transportation of body to forensic science laboratory; storage of body. Except
where there is an agreement or local law which provides otherwise, the coroner shall be responsible
for carrying out the duties required for proper transportation of a body to a forensic sciences
laboratory for the purpose of performing an autopsy or any other postmortem examination ordered
pursuant to Section 36-18-2. The coroner shall be responsible for storage of a body prior
to transportation to a forensic sciences laboratory when necessary. Upon receipt of an order
issued pursuant to Section 36-18-2, the coroner shall coordinate with the Department of Forensic
Sciences regarding the storage and transportation of the body to the forensic sciences laboratory
designated by the Department of Forensic Sciences. (Act 2010-542, p. 943, §1.)...
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45-2-61.09
Section 45-2-61.09 Duty to notify next of kin and account for personal effects. The county
coroner or any law enforcement officer having jurisdiction and with approval of the county
coroner shall take possession of personal effects on or about the dead body and ascertain
that the next of kin is notified in regard to the death. Such personal effects may: (1) Be
retained as evidence if deemed necessary, or (2) forthwith be returned to the next of kin.
(Act 92-691, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 78, §10.)...
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