12-15-130
Section 12-15-130 Ordering, conduct, and certification of findings of mental and physical examinations of children; minors or children believed to be individuals with a mental illness or an intellectual disability; treatment or care for children; payment; authority to order emergency medical care for children. (a) Where there are indications that a child may be physically ill, a child with mental illness or an intellectual disability, or an evaluation of a child is needed to help determine issues of competency to understand judicial proceedings, mental state at the time of the offense, or the ability of the child to assist his or her attorney, the juvenile court, on its own motion or motion by the prosecutor, or that of the child's attorney or guardian ad litem for the child, may order the child to be examined at a suitable place by a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, or other qualified examiner, under the supervision of a physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist who shall certify...
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45-37-60.08
Section 45-37-60.08 Investigative powers of coroner-medical examiner. In investigating a death hereunder, the coroner-medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, to investigate the circumstances of the death, to conduct or have conducted an autopsy, and whether or not there is an autopsy, to take and retain whatever tissues and biological samples, including blood or urine, or both, as he or she deems necessary from the body of a person which he or she deems necessary to establish the cause and manner of such person's death, and to take possession of any object or article which in his or her opinion would be useful in establishing the identity of the deceased or the cause and manner of death, or both. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §9.)...
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45-37-60.03
Section 45-37-60.03 Chief coroner-medical examiner. When there is only one coroner-medical examiner on the staff, he or she shall be the chief coroner-medical examiner. When there is more than one coroner-medical examiner on the staff, the governing body shall designate one of them as the chief coroner-medical examiner. Until such designation, the person who has been longest in the continuous service of the county as coroner-medical examiner shall be the chief coroner-medical examiner. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §4.)...
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45-27-60.12
Section 45-27-60.12 Death investigation reports. The county medical examiner shall maintain the reports of death investigations conducted by the Escambia County Medical Examiner and a copy shall be forwarded to the Region IV Laboratory of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. These reports, 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 Escambia County, with or without testimony by the county medical examiner or Department of Forensic Sciences officials, provided, any person preparing a report given in evidence pursuant to this article may be summoned as a witness in any civil or criminal case by either party to the cause. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §13.)...
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45-37-60.09
Section 45-37-60.09 Authority of coroner-medical examiner. There shall be vested in coroners-medical examiners all the authority now or hereafter vested in coroners by the laws of Alabama, including the authority which Section 15-4-1, vests in coroners and to make inquiry of the facts and circumstances of the death of any person who has been killed or has suddenly died under such circumstances as to afford a reasonable ground for belief that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means, and the authority of the section vests in coroners to submit to a judge of a court of record or a district attorney, sworn written statements of witnesses having personal knowledge of such circumstances, and to summon, upon direction of such judge or district attorney, a jury to inquire into the cause and manner of such person's death. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §10.)...
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45-49-171.61
Section 45-49-171.61 County Medical Examiner; deputies. The State Medical Examiner assigned to the Department of Forensic Sciences, Region IV office in Mobile, Alabama, shall also serve as the County Medical Examiner for Mobile County. Other state medical examiners may be assigned as deputy county medical examiners. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 2.)...
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45-49-171.64
Section 45-49-171.64 Authority of medical examiner in death investigations. While investigating a death hereunder, the County Medical Examiner of Mobile County shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and he, she, or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction, or the medical examiner's legal designee, 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, or both. The county medical examiner shall examine the body and 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 87-525, p. 794, § 5.)...
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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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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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45-37-60.05
Section 45-37-60.05 Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission - Creation; powers. There shall be established the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission, with the following powers: (1) To consult with the county governing body on the selection, appointment, and retention of the coroner-medical examiner, and such associate coroner-medical examiners as may be necessary and appropriate to appoint. (2) To obtain such opinions from the county attorney and Attorney General and to rely thereon as the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission may determine to be necessary to interpret any statutes that pertain to the operation of the coroner-medical examiner function. (3) To promulgate rules and regulations governing the reviews and investigations of the coroner-medical examiners' office including the conditions upon which such investigations shall be conducted. (4) To receive all questions and inquiries concerning the operation of the coroner-medical examiners' function which may be submitted by the...
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