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22-19-3
Section 22-19-3 Burial or removal permits for dead bodies; certificates of birth or
death. Any person, for himself or as an officer, agent or employee of any other person or
of any corporation or partnership, who shall: (1) Inter, cremate or otherwise finally dispose
of a dead human body or permit the same to be done or remove such body from the primary registration
district in which the death occurred or the body was found, without the authority of a burial
or removal permit issued by the local registrar of the district in which the death occurred
or in which the body was found; or (2) Refuse or fail to furnish correctly any information
in his possession or furnish false information affecting any certificate or record required
by the health laws of this state; or (3) Willfully alter, otherwise than is provided by law,
or falsify any certificate of birth or death or any record established by the health laws
of this state; or (4) Being required by the health laws of this state to fill...
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45-2-61.04
Section 45-2-61.04 Postmortem examination and autopsies. When the Baldwin County Coroner
determines a death under investigation is one described in Section 45-2-61.03, the
coroner may, and upon request, shall be assisted by a state medical examiner in the Alabama
Department of Forensic Sciences, as necessary, to help determine the cause and manner of death
or to provide other information to the coroner or investigating law enforcement agency. The
state medical examiner may upon request, assist by reviewing the coroner's case file and the
circumstances of the death, by conducting an external examination of the body, or by conducting
an autopsy on the body under the following circumstances: (1) An autopsy or postmortem examination
shall be performed by a state 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. (2) In a death where the Baldwin County...
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22-9A-13
Section 22-9A-13 Reports of fetal death; reports of induced termination of pregnancy.
(a) A report of fetal death shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise
directed by the State Registrar, within five days after the occurrence is known if the fetus
has advanced to, or beyond, the twentieth week of uterogestation. (1) When a fetal death occurs
in an institution, the person in charge of the institution or his or her designated representative
shall prepare and file the report. (2) When a fetal death occurs outside an institution, the
physician in attendance shall prepare and file the report. (3) When a fetal death occurs without
medical attendance, the county medical examiner, the state medical examiner, or the coroner
shall determine the cause of fetal death and shall prepare and file the report. (4) When a
fetal death occurs in a moving conveyance and the fetus is first removed from the conveyance
in this state or when a dead fetus is found in this state and...
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26-16-99
Section 26-16-99 Duties of coroner/medical examiner. The duties of the coroner/medical
examiner shall include the following: (1) Except in locations where a county medical examiner
has jurisdiction, the coroner or a person acting in a professional capacity shall report the
death of a child by telecommunications to the medical examiner or his or her representative
as soon as possible upon discovery. (2) Upon receipt of a report of a child death, the county
medical examiner or state medical examiner shall determine whether the death appears to be
unexpected/unexplained. If the death appears to be unexpected/unexplained, the county medical
examiner or state medical examiner shall commence an investigation of the death consisting
of a postmortem examination conducted by a state or county medical examiner. Upon the recommendation
of the state medical examiner, with authorization from a district attorney, an autopsy may
be conducted. A county medical examiner may conduct an autopsy at his or...
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22-19-22
Section 22-19-22 Notice of possession of bodies required to be buried at public expense;
delivery to board; authorization to solicit dead bodies from counties. All public officers
of this state and their assistants and all officers and their deputies of every county, city,
town or other municipality and of every prison, penitentiary, morgue and public hospital in
this state having charge or control over any dead human body or bodies, not dead from any
contagious or infectious disease and required to be buried at public expense, are required
to notify the said Anatomical Board, or such person or persons as may from time to time be
designated in writing by said board or its duly authorized officers, whenever any such body
or bodies come into their possession, charge or control and shall, without fee or reward,
deliver such body or bodies and suffer said board and its duly authorized agents, who may
comply with the provisions of this article, to take and remove all such bodies to be used...
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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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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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34-24-521
Section 34-24-521 Definitions. In this compact, the following terms have the following
meanings: (a) BYLAWS. Those bylaws established by the interstate commission pursuant to Section
34-24-530 for its governance, or for directing and controlling its actions and conduct. (b)
COMMISSIONER. The voting representative appointed by each member board pursuant to Section
34-24-530. (c) CONVICTION. A finding by a court that an individual is guilty of a criminal
offense through adjudication, or entry of a plea of guilty or no contest to the charge by
the offender. Evidence of an entry of a conviction of a criminal offense by the court shall
be considered final for purposes of disciplinary action by a member board. (d) EXPEDITED LICENSE.
A full and unrestricted medical license granted by a member state to an eligible physician
through the process set forth in the compact. (e) INTERSTATE COMMISSION. The interstate commission
created pursuant to Section 34-24-530. (f) LICENSE. Authorization by a...
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27-17A-2
Section 27-17A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ALTERNATIVE CONTAINER. A nonmetal receptacle or enclosure, without
ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, which is designed for the encasement of human remains
and which is made of cardboard, pressed-wood, composition materials (with or without an outside
covering), or pouches of canvas or other materials. (2) ARRANGEMENT CONFERENCE. The meeting
occurring either at need or preneed between the seller and the purchaser during which funeral
or cemetery merchandise and services are discussed. (3) ARRANGEMENT CONFERENCE FEE. The charge
to the purchaser in conjunction with the arrangement conference. (4) AT NEED. At the time
of death, or immediately following death. (5) AUTHORIZING AGENT. One who is lawfully authorized
to control the final disposition of human remains. (6) BELOW-GROUND CRYPT. A preplaced enclosed
chamber, which is usually constructed of reinforced concrete,...
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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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