45-2-61.07
Section 45-2-61.07 Hospital and medical records. While conducting a coroner's investigation
of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or a state medical examiner or the director
of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences is authorized to issue subpoenas for the production
of pertinent medical records, radiographs, and biological tissues and fluids as may be required
by his or her investigation to determine the cause and manner of death. (Act 92-691, 2nd Sp.
Sess., p. 78, §8.)...
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45-49-171.69
Section 45-49-171.69 Issuance of subpoenas. While investigating a death hereunder, the
county medical examiner or the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences is
authorized to issue subpoenas for the production of medical documents, radiographs, tis- sues,
or fluids as may be required by the investigation. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 10.)...
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45-2-61.04
Section 45-2-61.04 Postmortem examination and autopsies. When the Baldwin County Coroner
determines a death under investigation is one described in Section 45-2-61.03, the
coroner may, and upon request, shall be assisted by a state medical examiner in the Alabama
Department of Forensic Sciences, as necessary, to help determine the cause and manner of death
or to provide other information to the coroner or investigating law enforcement agency. The
state medical examiner may upon request, assist by reviewing the coroner's case file and the
circumstances of the death, by conducting an external examination of the body, or by conducting
an autopsy on the body under the following circumstances: (1) An autopsy or postmortem examination
shall be performed by a state 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. (2) In a death where the Baldwin County...
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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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11-5-31
Section 11-5-31 Alabama Coroner's Training Commission. (a) There is created the Alabama
Coroner's Training Commission to be appointed as herein provided. Appointments to the commission
shall be made as follows: (1) The President of the Alabama Coroner's Association shall appoint
one county coroner to serve an initial term of two years. (2) The Attorney General shall appoint
one district attorney to serve for an initial term of one year. (3) The Governor shall appoint
one county coroner to serve for an initial term of three years. (4) The Director of the Alabama
Department of Forensic Sciences shall appoint one person who is either a state medical examiner
or a forensic scientist to serve for an initial term of two years. (5) The Board of Directors
of the Alabama Coroner's Association shall appoint three county coroners to serve for initial
terms of two years each. (b) The membership of the commission shall be inclusive and reflect
the racial, gender, geographic, urban\rural, and...
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45-2-61.05
Section 45-2-61.05 County coroner or state medical examiner may take charge of bodies.
While conducting a coroner's investigation of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner
or state medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and he or she
or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction 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 Baldwin County
Coroner is authorized to take or order the taking of certain tissues and fluids under Section
22-19-80. When a state medical examiner takes charge of a body, he or she is authorized to
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 92-691, 2nd Sp. Sess.,...
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45-2-61.06
Section 45-2-61.06 Responsibility to certify deaths. If after conducting a coroner's
investigation of a death, the Baldwin County Coroner or the designated deputy coroner is satisfied
that the death was not caused by a criminal act or omission, that there are no suspicious
circumstances about the death, that the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has no
questions about the death, and that he or she knows to a reasonable certainty the cause of
death, then he or she or the designated deputy coroner may execute a death certificate in
the form required by law and authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate
as prescribed by the State Health Department. If the deceased is unidentified or if the Baldwin
County Coroner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission or if the cause of
death is obscure or if the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has questions about
the death, the coroner shall ask a medical examiner for assistance in the death...
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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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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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34-24-363
Section 34-24-363 Witnesses - How subpoenaed and sworn; failure to comply. (a) To any
such hearing witnesses may be subpoenaed by the commission on its own motion, or on the demand
of either side by subpoena signed by the chairman of the commission, or by the executive officer
of the commission, and such subpoenas may be served by any sheriff of the State of Alabama,
or by the executive officer of the commission or by any person designated by the executive
officer; and, if served by anyone other than a sheriff, the return of service shall be sworn
to by the person before some officer authorized to administer oaths. Witnesses may be sworn
by the chairman or by the person discharging the duties of the chairman. Similar subpoenas
may be issued directing the production of books, papers, or documents at the hearing. (b)
In conducting its investigations, the State Board of Medical Examiners shall have the authority
to subpoena witnesses and command the production at any of its meetings of...
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