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22-19-80
Section 22-19-80 Authority of coroners, deputy coroners, State Toxicologist and law
enforcement officers; purpose of taking samples. (a) Each duly elected or appointed coroner
in the State of Alabama is authorized to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal and
retention of blood and/or urine from the dead body of a person who died unattended by a physician,
or who died under suspicious circumstances, or where there is reasonable cause to believe
the person died from unnatural and/or unlawful causes. (b) Each duly elected or appointed
deputy coroner shall have the same authority to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal
and retention of a blood and/or urine sample when acting for the coroner. (c) The State Toxicologist
and his designated or appointed assistants are authorized to withdraw and retain or direct
the withdrawal and retention of blood and/or urine from the dead body of a person who died
unattended by a physician, or who died under suspicious circumstances, or where...
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15-4-1
Section 15-4-1 Duty of coroner to take sworn statement on death; direction to summon
jury; service, compensation, and oath of jurors. (a) When a coroner has been informed that
a person has been killed or suddenly died under such circumstances as to afford a reasonable
ground for belief that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means,
he must forthwith make inquiry of the facts and circumstances of such death by taking the
sworn statement in writing of the witnesses having personal knowledge thereof and submit the
same to a judge of a court of record or a district attorney. (b) If, upon such preliminary
inquiry, the judge or district attorney is satisfied from the evidence that there is reasonable
ground for believing that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful
means, he must direct the coroner to forthwith summon a jury of six qualified jurors of the
county to appear before him forthwith at a specified place and inquire into the...
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus
Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with
all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE
WHEREAS, with regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple
states, the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted
and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject
to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any
law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted
Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another
State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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45-37-60.08
Section 45-37-60.08 Investigative powers of coroner-medical examiner. In investigating
a death hereunder, the coroner-medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the
dead body, to investigate the circumstances of the death, to conduct or have conducted an
autopsy, and whether or not there is an autopsy, to take and retain whatever tissues and biological
samples, including blood or urine, or both, as he or she deems necessary from the body of
a person which he or she deems necessary to establish the cause and manner of such person's
death, and to take possession of any object or article which in his or her opinion would be
useful in establishing the identity of the deceased or the cause and manner of death, or both.
(Act 79-454, p. 739, §9.)...
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45-37-60.09
Section 45-37-60.09 Authority of coroner-medical examiner. There shall be vested in
coroners-medical examiners all the authority now or hereafter vested in coroners by the laws
of Alabama, including the authority which Section 15-4-1, vests in coroners and to
make inquiry of the facts and circumstances of the death of any person who has been killed
or has suddenly died under such circumstances as to afford a reasonable ground for belief
that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means, and the authority
of the section vests in coroners to submit to a judge of a court of record or a district
attorney, sworn written statements of witnesses having personal knowledge of such circumstances,
and to summon, upon direction of such judge or district attorney, a jury to inquire into the
cause and manner of such person's death. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §10.)...
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32-13-2
Section 32-13-2 Removal of motor vehicles; liability; lien on vehicles removed; notice.
(a) A law enforcement officer or, in a Class 1 municipality, a parking enforcement officer
or traffic enforcement officer who is not required to be certified by the Alabama Peace Officers'
Standards and Training Commission, may cause a motor vehicle to be removed to the nearest
garage or other place of safety under any of the following circumstances: (1) The motor vehicle
is left unattended on a public street, road, or highway or other property for a period of
at least 48 hours. (2) The motor vehicle is left unattended because the driver of the vehicle
has been arrested or is impaired by an accident or for any other reason which causes the need
for the vehicle to be immediately removed as determined necessary by a law enforcement officer.
(3) The motor vehicle is subject to an impoundment order for outstanding traffic or parking
violations. (b)(1) A law enforcement officer, parking enforcement...
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11-5-31
Section 11-5-31 Alabama Coroner's Training Commission. (a) There is created the Alabama
Coroner's Training Commission to be appointed as herein provided. Appointments to the commission
shall be made as follows: (1) The President of the Alabama Coroner's Association shall appoint
one county coroner to serve an initial term of two years. (2) The Attorney General shall appoint
one district attorney to serve for an initial term of one year. (3) The Governor shall appoint
one county coroner to serve for an initial term of three years. (4) The Director of the Alabama
Department of Forensic Sciences shall appoint one person who is either a state medical examiner
or a forensic scientist to serve for an initial term of two years. (5) The Board of Directors
of the Alabama Coroner's Association shall appoint three county coroners to serve for initial
terms of two years each. (b) The membership of the commission shall be inclusive and reflect
the racial, gender, geographic, urban\rural, and...
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22-8A-11
Section 22-8A-11 Surrogate; requirements; attending physician consulted, intent of patient
followed; persons who may serve as surrogate; priority; validity of decisions; liability;
form; declaratory and injunctive relief; penalties. (a) If no advance directive for health
care has been made, or if no duly appointed health care proxy is reasonably available, or
if a valid advance directive for health care fails to address a particular circumstance, subject
to the provisions of subsection (c) hereof, a surrogate, in consultation with the attending
physician, may, subject to the provisions of Section 22-8A-6, determine whether to
provide, withdraw, or withhold life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition
and hydration if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The attending physician determines,
to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that: a. The individual is no longer able to
understand, appreciate, and direct his or her medical treatment, and b. The individual...
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34-13-11
Section 34-13-11 Authorizing agent; right of disposition. (a) A person, who is at least
18 years of age and of sound mind, may enter into a contract to act as authorizing agent and
direct the location, manner, and conditions of disposition of remains and arrange for funeral
goods and services to be provided upon death. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b),
the right to control the disposition of the remains of a deceased person as an authorizing
agent, including the location, manner, and conditions of disposition and arrangements for
funeral goods and services to be provided, shall vest in the following persons in the priority
listed and the order named, provided the person is at least 18 years of age and of sound mind:
(1) The person designated by the decedent as authorized to direct disposition pursuant to
Public Law No. 109-163, Section 564, as listed on the decedent's United States Department
of Defense Record of Emergency Data, DD Form 93, or its successor form, if the...
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31-2-111
Section 31-2-111 Ordering out of troops - Request to Governor by local officials. Whenever
any circuit court judge, municipal court judge, probate court judge, sheriff, or mayor of
any incorporated city, town, or village, shall have reasonable cause to apprehend the outbreak
of any riot, rout, tumult, mob, or combination to oppose the enforcement of the laws by force
or violence, within the jurisdiction in which such officer is by law a conservator of the
peace, which cannot be speedily suppressed or effectually prevented by the ordinary posse
comitatus and peace officers, it shall forthwith become the duty of such judge, sheriff, or
mayor, to report the facts and circumstances in writing or verbally to the Governor or his
authorized representative, and request him to order out such portion of the National Guard
of the state as may be necessary to enforce the laws and preserve the peace. It shall thereafter
be the duty of the Governor, if he deems such apprehension well-founded, to...
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