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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45-37-60.02
Section 45-37-60.02 Staffing requirements; coroner-medical examiner qualifications. (a) The
employment and compensation of all members of the staff shall be governed by any applicable
civil service law. (b) Each coroner-medical examiner shall be a physician licensed to practice
medicine in Alabama and recognized and trained in forensic medicine and pathology; provided,
however, that the county governing body may waive this requirement temporarily whenever a
vacancy exists in the position which the county governing body is seeking to fill. (Act 79-454,
p. 739, §3.)...
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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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22-19-182
Section 22-19-182 Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction
of coroner or medical examiner. (a) Upon request of a procurement organization, a coroner
or medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization the name, contact information,
and available medical and social history of a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction
of the coroner or medical examiner. Specific operational details regarding visitation, referral
methods, recovery logistics, and efforts to minimize interruptions to the operations of the
coroner and/or medical examiner will be established in the protocols referenced in Section
22-19-181 (d). Section 164.512 of the Health Information Portability and Protection Act, enacted
1996, specifies that a covered entity may use or disclose protected health information to
organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or
transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissues for the...
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26-16-96
Section 26-16-96 Local child death review teams. (a) There are hereby created local child death
review teams. (b) Each county of the state shall be included in a local multidisciplinary,
multiagency child death review team's jurisdiction. The district attorney shall initiate the
establishment of local teams by convening a meeting of potential team members within 60 days
of September 11, 1997. In the absence of the initiation of a child death review team by the
district attorney within 60 days of September 11, 1997, the local public health representative
will initiate the first team meeting. During this meeting, participants shall recommend whether
to establish a team for that county alone or to establish a team with and for the counties
within that judicial circuit. (c) The local team shall include, but not be limited to, all
of the following members, the first five of whom are ex officio. The ex officio members may
designate representatives from their particular departments or offices...
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22-9A-13
prepare and file the report. (2) When the induced termination of pregnancy is performed outside
an institution, the physician in attendance shall prepare and file the report. (3) Beginning
January 1, 2012, the Office of Vital Statistics shall collect the following information for
all induced terminations of pregnancies in addition to information already collected; provided,
that the definition of induced termination of pregnancy in Section 22-9A-1(5) shall be construed
to include every abortion as defined in Section 26-23B-3(1). a. Postfertilization age:
1. If a determination of probable postfertilization age was made, whether ultrasound was employed
in making the determination, and the week of probable postfertilization age determined. 2.
If a determination of probable postfertilization age was not made, the basis of the determination
that a medical emergency existed. b. Method of abortion: Which of the following was
employed: 1. Medication abortion (such as, but not limited to,...
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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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20-2-190
Section 20-2-190 Penalties; sale of ephedrine, etc.; Alabama Drug Abuse Task Force. (a) Any
person who manufactures, sells, transfers, receives, or possesses a listed precursor chemical
violates this article if the person: (1) Knowingly fails to comply with the reporting requirements
of this article; (2) Knowingly makes a false statement in a report or record required by this
article or the rules adopted thereunder; (3) Is required by this article to have a listed
precursor chemical license or permit, and is a person as defined by this article, and knowingly
or deliberately fails to obtain such a license or permit. An offense under this subsection
shall constitute a Class C felony. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 20-2-188,
a person who possesses, sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes or attempts to solicit another
or conspires to possess, sell, transfer, or otherwise furnish a listed precursor chemical
or a product containing a precursor chemical or ephedrine or...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning October
1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues and upon
appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated
for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs.
(b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First
Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in
the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1) Ten percent
of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution to one
or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for tobacco
control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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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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