45-27-60.04
Section 45-27-60.04 Duty to investigate certain deaths. It shall be the duty of the county medical examiner, or designated assistant medical examiner, to investigate any death in Escambia County when the death falls within one or more of the following categories: (1) Deaths that occur suddenly and unexpectedly, that is, when the person has not been under medical care for significant disease of the heart or lung, or other disease. (2) Deaths suspected to be due to violence, resulting from anyone of the following: Suicide, accident, homicide, or undetermined injury, regardless of when or where the injury occurred. (3) Deaths suspected to be due to alcohol, or drugs, or exposure to toxic agents. (4) Deaths due to poisoning. (5) Deaths of persons in the custody of law enforcement officers or in penal institutions. (6) Deaths suspected to be involved with the occupation of the decedent. (7) Deaths unattended by a physician. (8) Deaths due to neglect. (9) Any stillbirth of 20 or more weeks...
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45-27-60.15
Section 45-27-60.15 Transfer of title to property to county medical examiner and Department of Forensic Sciences. Upon January 15, 1998, title and control of all equipment in the office of the Escambia County Coroner shall be transferred by Escambia County to the county medical examiner and to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. The Escambia County Commission shall establish a Medical Examiner Fund. Thereafter, all funds previously appropriated by the county commission to the office of coroner shall be appropriated to the Medical Examiner Fund. The appropriation shall be in the amount agreed to between the county commission and the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences each year, but the amount shall not be less than the amount appropriated to the office of the coroner in the Escambia County 1997-98 fiscal year budget. The senior state medical examiner in Region IV of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, in conjunction with the Escambia County Medical Examiner, shall...
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45-28-170
Section 45-28-170 Death certificates. (a) Any Etowah County health officer or administrator is authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required. Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on file for one year following the death for the purpose of issuing such death certificate. Such certificate shall be in all particulars the same as those issued by the State Department of Public Health in any court or for insurance purposes. Nothing in this section shall affect any existing duty of any person to gather and transmit data to the local registrar or to the State Health Department. (b) The county health officer shall not later than 10 days from the date of death, make such official death certificate available to the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased at a fee not greater than that charged by the State Health Department for the same service. The county health officer shall...
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45-5-170
Section 45-5-170 Issuance; fees. (a) Any Blount County health officer or administrator is authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required. Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on the file for one year following the death for the purpose of issuing such death certificate. Such certificate shall be in all particulars the same as those issued by the State Department of Public Health in any court or for insurance purposes. Nothing in this section shall affect any existing duty of any person to gather and transmit data to the local registrar or to the State Health Department. (b) The county health officer shall not later than 10 days from the date of death, make such official death certificate available to the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased at a fee not greater than that charged by the State Health Department for the same service. The county health officer shall...
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45-15-171.01
Section 45-15-171.01 Issuance of death certificates; fees. (a) In Cleburne County, any county health officer or administrator is hereby authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required. Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on file for one year following the death for the purpose of issuing such death certificate. Such certificate shall be in all particulars the same as those issued by the State Department of Public Health in any court or for insurance purposes. Nothing in this section shall affect any existing duty of any person to gather and transmit data to the local registrar or to the State Health Department. (b) The county health officer, not later than 10 days from the date of death, shall make such official death certificate available to the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased at a fee not greater than that charged by the State Health Department for the same...
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45-9-171
Section 45-9-171 Issuance of death certificates. (a) In Chambers County any county health officer or administrator is hereby authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required. Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on file for one year following the death for the purpose of issuing such death certificate. Such certificate shall be in all particulars the same as those issued by the State Department of Public Health in any court or for insurance purposes. Nothing in this section shall affect any existing duty of any person to gather and transmit data to the local registrar or to the State Health Department. (b) The county health office shall not later than 10 days from the date of death, make such official death certificate available to the surviving spouse or next or kin of the deceased at a fee not greater than that charged by the State Health Department for the same service. The...
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45-10-171
Section 45-10-171 Persons authorized to issue death certificates; availability to next of kin; fees; violations. (a) In Cherokee County any county health officer or administrator is hereby authorized to issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required. Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on file for one year following the death for the purpose of issuing such death certificate. Such certificate shall be in all particulars the same as those issued by the State Department of Public Health in any court or for insurance purposes. Nothing in this section shall affect any existing duty of any person to gather and transmit data to the local registrar or to the State Health Department. (b) The county health officer shall not later than 10 days from the date of death, make such official death certificate available to the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased at a fee not greater than that...
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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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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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30-9-1
Section 30-9-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter the term domestic violence fatality review team means an organization that includes, but is not limited to, representatives from the following agencies or organizations: (1) Law enforcement agencies. (2) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, the Attorney General, and the President of the Alabama District Attorney's Association, for state level teams or the district attorney of each judicial circuit for local or regional teams. (3) The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. (4) Certified domestic violence centers. (5) Child protection service providers. (6) The Administrative Office of Courts. (7) The municipal and circuit clerks of the court. (8) Victim service programs. (9) Providers of civil legal assistance to victims. (10) Child death review teams. (11) Members of the business community. (12) County probation or corrections agencies. (13) Any other persons who have knowledge regarding domestic violence fatalities, nonlethal...
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