36-18-9
Section 36-18-9 Costs of services provided by department. Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, in any county in which the Department of Forensic Sciences performs the
duties of the county coroner or county medical examiner pursuant to local law, the county
commission shall pay to the department each year the cost of the services provided by the
department, as determined by the department. Payments from the county shall be made by the
tenth day of each month to the department and shall be deposited into the Alabama Forensic
Services Trust Fund. In the event a county does not pay the amounts required by this section,
the department shall not be required to perform the duties or responsibilities of the coroner
or medical examiner for that county. (Act 2012-398, p. 1091, §1.)...
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45-2-61.07
Section 45-2-61.07 Hospital and medical records. While conducting a coroner's investigation
of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or a state medical examiner or the director
of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences is authorized to issue subpoenas for the production
of pertinent medical records, radiographs, and biological tissues and fluids as may be required
by his or her investigation to determine the cause and manner of death. (Act 92-691, 2nd Sp.
Sess., p. 78, §8.)...
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45-27-60.05
Section 45-27-60.05 Medical examiner's investigative authority. While investigating
a death pursuant to this article, the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall be
authorized to take charge of the dead body, and the medical examiner or a law enforcement
officer having jurisdiction, or the legal designee of the medical examiner, may take possession
and examine or have examined related physical evidence on or about the body at the scene as
may be useful in establishing identity of the deceased or the cause, manner, and circumstances
of death. The county medical examiner shall examine the body externally and take, retain,
and examine or have examined whatever biological fluids or other evidence from the body he
or she deems necessary to determine the cause, manner, and circumstances of death and the
identity of the deceased. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §6.)...
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22-9A-16
Section 22-9A-16 Authorization for final disposition. (a) The funeral director or person
acting as the funeral director who first assumes custody of a dead body shall, prior to final
disposition of the body, or prior to removal of the dead body from the state, obtain authorization
for final disposition of the body or removal of the body from the state. The completion of
the medical certification of cause of death on the death certificate by the physician, county
medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner shall constitute authorization. If the
body is to be cremated or buried at sea, additional authorization shall be obtained from the
county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner. (b) With the consent of the physician,
county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner who is to certify the cause of
death, a dead body may be moved from the place of death for the purpose of being prepared
for final disposition. Prior to removing a dead body from the place...
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34-13-117
Section 34-13-117 Disposition of remains. Disposition of human remains shall occur within
48 hours after the time of death or the time the body is released by the coroner or a medical
examiner, unless the body has been embalmed by a licensed embalmer in this state, with permission
from the authorizing agent, or the body is kept under refrigeration. No public viewing of
unembalmed bodies shall be permitted 24 hours after death has occurred. Nothing is this section
shall prevent a licensed establishment from requiring identification before disposition. (Act
2017-433, §2.)...
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45-49-171.64
Section 45-49-171.64 Authority of medical examiner in death investigations. While investigating
a death hereunder, the County Medical Examiner of Mobile County shall be authorized to take
charge of the dead body, and he, she, or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction, or
the medical examiner's legal designee, may take possession and examine or have examined related
physical evidence on or about the body at the scene as may be useful in establishing identity
of the deceased or the cause, manner, and circumstances of death, or both. The county medical
examiner shall examine the body and take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever tissues,
biological fluids, or other evidence from the body he or she deems necessary to determine
the cause, manner, and circumstances of death and the identity of the deceased. (Act 87-525,
p. 794, § 5.)...
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45-27-60.01
Section 45-27-60.01 County medical examiner. The county medical examiner shall be a
physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama. The Escambia County Medical Examiner shall
be appointed by the senior state medical examiner in Region IV of the Alabama Department of
Forensic Sciences. The appointment shall be made, with the approval of the Director of the
Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, from a list of qualified physicians submitted by
the Escambia County Medical Society after review by the district attorney of the county. The
appointment shall establish the Escambia County Medical Examiner as a contract employee of
the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences with the same liability coverage as provided to
Merit System employees of the State of Alabama. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §2.)...
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45-27-60.07
Section 45-27-60.07 Autopsies or postmortem examinations. (a) An autopsy or postmortem
examination may be performed by a state medical examiner at the written direction of the Escambia
County District Attorney or his or her authorized representative in any case in which the
district attorney is conducting a criminal investigation. (b) The county medical examiner
or the State Medical Examiner may authorize an autopsy or postmortem examination, or the autopsy
may be performed by the State Medical Examiner when the county medical examiner suspects the
death was caused by a criminal act or omission, or the cause of death is obscure or, in his
or her opinion, an autopsy is advisable and in the public interest. (c) In a death where the
county medical examiner does not deem it advisable and in the public interest that an autopsy
be performed, but the next of kin of the deceased requests that an autopsy be performed, the
State Medical Examiner, or a designated pathologist, may perform the...
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45-49-171.66
Section 45-49-171.66 Autopsy or postmortem examination. (a) An autopsy or postmortem
examination may be performed by a county medical examiner, at the written direction of the
district attorney or his or her authorized representative, in any case in which the district
attorney is conducting a criminal investigation. (b) An autopsy or postmortem examination
may be performed by a county medical examiner, or his or her designated pathologist, when
he or she suspects the death was caused by a criminal act or omission, or the cause of death
is obscure or in his or her opinion, an autopsy is advisable and in the public interest. (c)
In a death where the county medical examiner does not deem it advisable and in the public
interest that an autopsy be performed, but the next of kin of the deceased requests that an
autopsy be performed, the state medical examiner, or a designated pathologist, may perform
the autopsy and the cost therefor shall be paid by the next of kin. (Act 87-525, p. 794, §...

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22-19-170
Section 22-19-170 Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift.
(a) An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons named in the document of gift:
(1) a hospital; accredited medical school, dental school, college, or university; organ procurement
organization; or other appropriate person, for research or education; (2) subject to subsection
(b), an individual designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the individual is
the recipient of the part; (3) an eye bank or tissue bank. (b) If an anatomical gift to an
individual under subsection (a)(2) cannot be transplanted into the individual, the part passes
in accordance with subsection (g) in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the
person making the anatomical gift. (c) If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts
or of all parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person described in subsection
(a) but identifies the purpose for which an anatomical gift may be...
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