22-9A-7
Section 22-9A-7 Registration of births. (a) A certificate of birth for each live birth
that occurs in this state shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise
directed by the State Registrar, within five days after the birth and shall be registered
if it has been completed and filed in accordance with this section. (b)(1) When a birth
occurs in an institution or en route to the institution, the person in charge of the institution
or his or her designated representative shall obtain the personal data, prepare the certificate,
secure the signatures required, and file the certificate as directed in subsection (a) or
as directed by the State Registrar within the required five days. The physician or other person
in attendance shall provide the medical information required by the certificate and certify
to the facts of birth within 72 hours after the birth. If the physician, or other person in
attendance, does not certify to the facts of birth within the 72-hour period,...
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22-19-161
Section 22-19-161 Definitions. In this article: (1) "Adult" means an individual
who is at least 18 years of age. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (A) authorized
to make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health
care; or (B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by
any other record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation
of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation,
therapy, research, or education. (4) "Coroner" means an elected or appointed official
who determines, with the assistance of other forensic scientists and investigators, the cause,
manner, and circumstances surrounding death. (5) "Decedent" means a deceased individual
whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this article, a fetus. (6) "Disinterested...

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45-2-61.05
Section 45-2-61.05 County coroner or state medical examiner may take charge of bodies.
While conducting a coroner's investigation of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner
or state medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and he or she
or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction 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 Baldwin County
Coroner is authorized to take or order the taking of certain tissues and fluids under Section
22-19-80. When a state medical examiner takes charge of a body, he or she is authorized to
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 92-691, 2nd Sp. Sess.,...
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45-27-60.06
Section 45-27-60.06 Execution of death certificate; circumstances requiring notice to
Department of Forensic Sciences. (a) After investigating a death, if the county medical examiner
or the designated assistant is satisfied that the death was not caused by criminal act or
omission and that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, then the county medical
examiner, or designated assistant, may execute a death certificate as required by law, and
authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate as prescribed by the
State Health Department. (b) The county medical examiner shall contact the State Medical Examiner
of Alabama Forensic Sciences under the following circumstances: (1) If the deceased is unidentified.
(2) If the county medical examiner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission.
(3) If the cause of death is obscure. (c) The State Medical Examiner shall further examine
the body, take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever...
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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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45-27-60.03
Section 45-27-60.03 Death investigation training. The county medical examiners shall
complete eight hours of training in death investigation each year. The Department of Forensic
Sciences state medical examiners shall provide the training, or the county medical examiners
may attend other training in death investigation with prior approval of the senior medical
examiner of Region IV of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. All training shall be
approved for continuing medical education credits. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §4.)...
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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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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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45-49-171.63
Section 45-49-171.63 Investigation of deaths. It shall be the duty of the county medical
examiner to investigate any death in Mobile County when the death may fall within one or more
of the following categories: (1) Any death that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, that is,
when the person has not been under medical care for significant heart, lung, or other disease.
(2) Any death suspected to be due to violence, resulting, that is, from suicidal, accidental,
homicidal, or undetermined injury, regardless of when or where the injury occurred. (3) Any
death suspected to be due to alcohol or drugs or exposure to toxic agents. (4) Deaths due
to poisoning. (5) All deaths of persons in the custody of law enforcement officers or in penal
institutions. (6) Deaths suspected to be involved with the decedent's occupation. (7) Deaths
unattended by a physician. (8) Any death due to neglect. (9) Any stillbirth of 20 or more
weeks' gestation unattended by a physician. (10) Deaths due to criminal...
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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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