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26-16-93
Section 26-16-93 State Child Death Review Team - Created. (a) There is hereby created the State
Child Death Review Team, referred to in this article as the state team. (b) The state team
shall be situated within the Alabama Department of Public Health for administrative and budgetary
purposes. (c) The state team shall be a multidisciplinary, multiagency review team, composed
of 28 members, the first 7 of whom are ex officio. The ex officio members may designate representatives
from their particular departments or offices to represent them on the state team who may vote
and exercise all other prerogatives of the appointment. The members of the state team shall
include all of the following: (1) The Jefferson County Coroner, Medical Examiner. (2) The
State Health Officer who shall serve as chair. (3) One member appointed by the Alabama Sheriff's
Association. (4) The Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. (5) The Commissioner
of the Alabama Department of Human Resources....
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34-13-121
Section 34-13-121 Cremation procedures; authorization; identification of remains; records.
(a) Human remains shall not be cremated under either of the following circumstances: (1) Within
24 hours after the time of death, unless death was a result of an infectious, contagious,
or communicable disease and unless the disease is verified and the time requirement waived
by a medical examiner, county health director, county coroner, or attending physician where
the death occurred. (2) Without a completed cremation authorization form approved by the board
and signed by the authorizing agent and a completed state identification form. A copy of the
cremation authorization shall be presented with the body to the crematory before any cremation
process may be initiated. (b) All cremations of human remains performed in this state shall
be arranged through a funeral establishment licensed by the board pursuant to this chapter.
(c) Whenever a crematory is unable or unauthorized to cremate human...
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45-2-61.08
Section 45-2-61.08 Duty to report deaths; alteration of body evidence prohibited. It shall
be the duty and responsibility of any person in the county having knowledge concerning a death
occurring under the categories defined in Section 45-2-61.03 to report such death promptly
to the Baldwin County Coroner or to any law enforcement agency who, in turn, shall promptly
report the same to the Baldwin County Coroner. Deaths reportable to the Baldwin County Coroner
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 or evidence on
the body until authorized by the Baldwin County Coroner or his or her designee except for
the purpose of preserving such body or remains from loss or destruction. No person shall knowingly
fail to make such report or withhold related medical or other evidence, or willfully alter
the body or related evidence without the authority of the county...
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45-49-171.66
Section 45-49-171.66 Autopsy or postmortem examination. (a) An autopsy or postmortem examination
may be performed by a county 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. (b) An autopsy or postmortem examination may be performed by a county
medical examiner, or his or her designated pathologist, when he or she 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 autopsy and the cost
therefor shall be paid by the next of kin. (Act 87-525, p. 794, ยง...
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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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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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22-19-22
Section 22-19-22 Notice of possession of bodies required to be buried at public expense; delivery
to board; authorization to solicit dead bodies from counties. All public officers of this
state and their assistants and all officers and their deputies of every county, city, town
or other municipality and of every prison, penitentiary, morgue and public hospital in this
state having charge or control over any dead human body or bodies, not dead from any contagious
or infectious disease and required to be buried at public expense, are required to notify
the said Anatomical Board, or such person or persons as may from time to time be designated
in writing by said board or its duly authorized officers, whenever any such body or bodies
come into their possession, charge or control and shall, without fee or reward, deliver such
body or bodies and suffer said board and its duly authorized agents, who may comply with the
provisions of this article, to take and remove all such bodies to be used...
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45-37-60.07
Section 45-37-60.07 Duty to investigate certain deaths. Pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated
by the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission, it shall be the duty of the chief and associate
coroner-medical examiners to review or investigate and determine, the cause and manner of
any death, when such death may fall within one or more of the following categories subject
to the commission's power to change the categories: (1) Criminal violence or criminal neglect.
(2) Criminal abortion. (3) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea. (4)
Unclaimed bodies. (5) When a dead body is brought into this state without proper medical certification.
(6) Accident, when requested by surviving spouse, if any, or next of kin. (7) Unexpected death
while under anesthesia or within 24 hours following anesthesia, or any other diagnostic or
therapeutic procedure with the written permission of the surviving spouse or next of kin.
(8) In any prison or penal institution. (9) When in...
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34-13-56
Section 34-13-56 Grounds for revocation, suspension, or refusal to issue or renew licenses,
etc.; hearing; fines. (a) The board may refuse to license any person or establishment for
violation of this chapter. If the board refuses to issue, grant, or renew a license based
on a violation of this chapter, including, but not limited to, violations listed in subsection
(c), the licensee or prospective licensee may request a public hearing before the board to
appeal the action of the board. The request for a public hearing shall be submitted to the
board in writing within 14 calendar days after the date of the refusal. Upon request, the
board shall provide the licensee or prospective licensee with 20 days' notice of the public
hearing by United States certified mail. The public hearing shall be conducted pursuant to
Section 34-13-26. (b) A public hearing conducted pursuant to Section 34-13-26 shall be provided
by the board to any licensee for whom the board is considering the probation,...
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12-15-102
Section 12-15-102 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have
the following meanings: (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age or older. (2) AFTERCARE.
Conditions and supervision as the juvenile court orders after release from the Department
of Youth Services. (3) CHILD. An individual under the age of 18 years, or under 21 years of
age and before the juvenile court for a delinquency matter arising before that individual's
18th birthday, or under 19 years of age and before the juvenile court for a child in need
of supervision matter or commitment to the State Department of Mental Health or under 19 years
of age and before the juvenile court for a proceeding initiated under Section 12-15-115(b)(2).
Where a delinquency petition alleges that an individual, prior to the individual's 18th birthday,
has committed an offense for which there is no statute of limitation pursuant to Section 15-3-5,
the term child also shall include the individual subject to the...
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