45-49-171.62
Section 45-49-171.62 Qualifications. The county medical examiner shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and trained in anatomic and forensic pathology. Any vacancy in the county shall be filled by appointment of the Director of the Department of Forensic Sciences, who may waive the requirement temporarily to appoint a physician licensed to practice medicine and trained in anatomic pathology when a vacancy exists which he or she is seeking to fill. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 3.)...
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45-49-171.71
Section 45-49-171.71 Admissibility of reports of death investigations. The reports of death investigations conducted by the county medical examiner or by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, or true copies thereof duly certified by the county medical examiner or the director of the department, are admissible in evidence in any court in Mobile County, with or without testimony by the county medical examiner or Department of Forensic Sciences officials. Provided, however, any person preparing a report given in evidence under this subpart may be summoned as a witness in any civil or criminal case by either party to the cause. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 12.)...
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22-9A-15
Section 22-9A-15 Delayed registration of death. (a) When a death occurring in this state has not been registered within the time period prescribed by subsection (a) of Section 22-9A-14, a certificate of death may be registered on a regular certificate of death as follows: (1) If the attending physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner at the time of death and the attending funeral director or person who acted as the funeral director are available to complete and sign the certificate of death, it may be completed without additional evidence and filed with the State Registrar. For those certificates filed one year or more after the date of death, the physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, coroner, or the funeral director shall state in accompanying affidavits that the information on the certificate is based on records kept in their files. (2) In the absence of the attending physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner,...
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45-27-60.14
Section 45-27-60.14 Reimbursement for services. The County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall be reimbursed for his or her services by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences through a contract that shall be negotiable and renewable each year. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §15.)...
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45-37-60.04
Section 45-37-60.04 Direction of staff. The chief coroner-medical examiner shall direct the staff, subject to the supervision of the county governing body and pursuant to this part and any rules and regulations promulgated by the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §5.)...
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45-27-60.09
Section 45-27-60.09 Persons in county having knowledge of certain deaths. Any person in the county having knowledge concerning a death occurring under the categories defined in Section 45-27-60.04 shall promptly report the death to the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County or to any law enforcement agency that in turn shall promptly report the death to the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County. Each death reportable to the county medical examiner shall be reported whether the cause is known or suspected, primary or contributory, or recent, delayed, or remote. No one shall disturb or remove the body or human remains until authorized by the county medical examiner except for the purpose of preserving the body or remains from loss or destruction. Except as otherwise provided by law, any person who knowingly fails to make the report or withholds related medical or other evidence, or willfully alters the body or related evidence without authority of the county medical examiner...
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45-27-60.11
Section 45-27-60.11 Immunity from civil or criminal liability. Neither the county medical examiner nor any member of the staff, nor the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, nor any member of the staff or agent of the department, shall incur any civil or criminal liability for duties performed pursuant to this article. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §12.)...
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45-49-171.68
Section 45-49-171.68 Reporting of death; violations. It shall be the duty of any person in the county having knowledge concerning a death occurring under the categories defined in Section 45-49-171.63 to report such death promptly to the County Medical Examiner of Mobile County or to any law enforcement agency who, in turn, shall promptly report the same to the County Medical Examiner of Mobile County. Deaths reportable to the county medical examiner must be reported whether the cause is known or suspected, primary or contributory, or recent, delayed, or remote. No one shall disturb or remove the body or human remains until authorized by the county medical examiner except for the purpose of preserving such body or remains from loss or destruction. Any person who knowingly fails to make such report or withholds related medical or other evidence, or willfully alters the body or related evidence without authority of the county medical examiner and outside the exceptions stated, shall be...
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22-9A-14
Section 22-9A-14 Death registration. (a) A certificate of death for each death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise directed by the State Registrar, within five days of the death and shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance with this section. (1) If the place of death is not known, but the dead body is found in this state, the certificate of death shall be completed and filed in accordance with this section. The county where the body is found shall be shown on the certificate as the county of death. If the date of death is unknown, the date the dead body was found shall be shown on the certificate as the date of death. (2) When death occurs in a moving conveyance in the United States and the body is first removed from the conveyance in this state, the death shall be registered in this state and the county where it is first removed shall be considered as the county of death. When a death occurs on a...
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45-27-60.05
Section 45-27-60.05 Medical examiner's investigative authority. While investigating a death pursuant to this article, the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and the medical examiner or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction, or the legal designee of the medical examiner, 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 county medical examiner shall examine the body externally and take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever 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 97-571, p. 1010, §6.)...
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