45-27-60.10
Section 45-27-60.10 Subpoenas. The county medical examiner, or the State Medical Examiner,
or the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences may issue subpoenas for the
production of medical documents, radiographs, tissues, fluids, or any other material thing
as may be required while investigating the death. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §11.)...
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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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45-49-171.70
Section 45-49-171.70 Immunity form civil or criminal liability. Neither the county medical
examiner nor any member of his or her staff, nor the Director of the Alabama Department of
Forensic Sciences nor any member of the department's staff or agents, shall incur any civil
or criminal liability for the proper performance of their duties under this subpart. (Act
87-525, p. 794, § 11.)...
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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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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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36-18-2
Section 36-18-2 Duties generally; maintenance, inspection, and copying of reports of investigations
of Director of Forensic Sciences; police authority of Director of Forensic Sciences and assistants.
The duties of the director shall be to make such investigations, including any necessary autopsy,
to be performed by physicians licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and recognized and
trained in forensic medicine and pathology; provided, however, that the director may waive
this requirement temporarily whenever a medical examiner vacancy exists which he is seeking
to fill. Said investigations of unlawful, suspicious or unnatural deaths and crimes as are
ordered by the Governor, the Attorney General, any circuit judge, or any district attorney
in the State of Alabama, and the director and his staff shall cooperate with the coroners,
sheriffs and other police officers in Alabama in their investigations of crimes and deaths
from unlawful, suspicious or unnatural causes. The director shall...
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22-19-161
Section 22-19-161 Definitions. In this article: (1) "Adult" means an individual who
is at least 18 years of age. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (A) authorized to
make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care;
or (B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other
record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or
part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation,
therapy, research, or education. (4) "Coroner" means an elected or appointed official
who determines, with the assistance of other forensic scientists and investigators, the cause,
manner, and circumstances surrounding death. (5) "Decedent" means a deceased individual
whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this article, a fetus. (6) "Disinterested...

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26-14-3
Section 26-14-3 Mandatory reporting. (a) All hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, doctors, physicians,
surgeons, medical examiners, coroners, dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, chiropractors,
podiatrists, physical therapists, nurses, public and private K-12 employees, school teachers
and officials, peace officers, law enforcement officials, pharmacists, social workers, day
care workers or employees, mental health professionals, employees of public and private institutions
of postsecondary and higher education, members of the clergy as defined in Rule 505 of the
Alabama Rules of Evidence, or any other person called upon to render aid or medical assistance
to any child, when the child is known or suspected to be a victim of child abuse or neglect,
shall be required to report orally, either by telephone or direct communication immediately,
and shall be followed by a written report, to a duly constituted authority. (b)(1) When an
initial report is made to a law enforcement official, the...
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45-37-122.06
Section 45-37-122.06 Powers and duties. A county manager hired pursuant to this part shall
be the chief executive officer of Jefferson County and, as such, shall carry out the duties
and responsibilities established by the county commission, including the following: (1) To
act as the primary administrative advisor to the county commission on all matters relating
to the efficient and economical administration of county government. (2) To act as the executive
agent of the county commission in overseeing the implementation of authorized projects and
programs, assuring appropriate coordination of departmental operations, and resolving interdepartmental
problems and disputes. (3) To serve as the appointing authority for and exercise direct oversight
of all department heads and their agencies and departments including all county employees
thereof, except for (i) elected officials, (ii) non-merit system employees, and (iii) the
county attorneys and their staff. The county manager shall have...
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12-17-184
Section 12-17-184 Powers and duties generally. It is the duty of every district attorney and
assistant district attorney, within the circuit, county, or other territory for which he or
she is elected or appointed: (1) To attend on the grand juries, advise them in relation to
matters of law, and examine and swear witnesses before them. (2) To draw up all indictments
and to prosecute all indictable offenses. (3) To prosecute and defend any civil action in
the circuit court in the prosecution or defense of which the state is interested. (4) To inquire
whether registers have performed the duty required of them by Section 12-17-117 and shall,
in every case of failure, move against the register as provided by subsection (b) of Section
12-17-114. (5) If a criminal prosecution is removed from a court of his or her circuit, county,
or division of a county to a court of the United States, to appear in that court and represent
the state; and, if it is impracticable, consistent with his or her...
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