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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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45-49-171.68
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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45-49-171.63
of when or where the injury occurred. (3) Any death suspected to be due to alcohol or drugs
or exposure to toxic agents. (4) Deaths due to poisoning. (5) All deaths of persons in the
custody of law enforcement officers or in penal institutions. (6) Deaths suspected to be involved
with the decedent's occupation. (7) Deaths unattended by a physician. (8) Any death due to
neglect. (9) Any stillbirth of 20 or more weeks' gestation unattended by a physician. (10)
Deaths due to criminal abortion. (11) Any death of an infant or child under 19 years
of age where the medical history has not established some preexisting medical condition to
clearly explain the death and the preterminal circumstances. (12) Deaths which are possibly
directly or indirectly attributable to environmental exposure not otherwise specified. (13)
Any death suspected to be due to infectious or contagious disease wherein the diagnosis and
extent of disease at the time are undetermined. (14) Any death occurring...
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6-10-87
Section 6-10-87 Report of appraisers or commissioners - Notice to next of kin of decedent of
date set for hearing of report on exemptions. In all cases where exemptions of real or personal
property have been reported by appraisers or commissioners to the surviving spouse and minor
child or children, or either, it shall be the duty of the probate judge, immediately upon
the filing of the report of such appraisers or commissioners, to give 10 days' notice thereof
and of the day set for the hearing of said report to the next of kin of decedent, which date
of hearing shall not be less than 30 days from the filing of said report. If any of said next
of kin are nonresidents of the state, said notice shall be given by publication once a week
for three successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county or, if none is published
in the county, by posting such notice for said length of time at the courthouse door and three
other public places in the county. (Code 1923, §7934; Code 1940,...
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27-1-23
Section 27-1-23 Motor vehicle accidents by certain public safety officers. (a) A personal auto
insurance carrier of a full-time law enforcement officer or firefighter of a municipality
or a county or the State of Alabama or a member of a volunteer fire department, volunteer
rescue squad, or volunteer emergency medical service shall not consider any motor vehicle
accident of the full-time law enforcement officer or firefighter or member of a volunteer
fire department, volunteer rescue squad, or volunteer emergency medical service in fixing
insurance premiums or cause any increase in the employee's personal automobile insurance premiums
if, at the time of the accident, any of the following conditions exist: (1) The full-time
law enforcement officer or firefighter or member of a volunteer fire department, volunteer
rescue squad, or volunteer emergency medical service was acting as an agent of the governmental
employer or of the volunteer fire department, volunteer rescue squad, or...
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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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34-13-121
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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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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5-5A-38
Section 5-5A-38 Disposition of small deposits of deceased person - To whom payable; when bond
required. Whenever a person shall die leaving deposits in a bank not exceeding $5,000.00 in
the aggregate, the bank may in its discretion discharge itself from liability thereafter by
paying the deposits to the surviving spouse of the deceased or, if there is none, to the adult
children and to the person having the actual custody and control of the minor child or children
of the deceased; provided, that such person, if not the legal guardian, shall execute to the
probate judge of the county where the principal office of the bank is located a bond in the
penal sum of double the amount of the portion of such deposit he receives for the faithful
accounting of the money so received, which shall be approved by said probate judge; or, if
there is no surviving spouse or child or children, to the person or persons who, under the
laws of Alabama, are the next of kin and inherit the personal property of...
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16-1-34
Section 16-1-34 Donation by two-year college president of surplus property to local public
school system. A two-year college president under the jurisdiction of the Department of Postsecondary
Education and the State Board of Education and the State Board of Medical Examiners may donate
surplus personal property of the institution to a local city board of education or to a local
county board of education for use by public high schools, public middle schools, and public
elementary schools in the respective local public school system. Accurate records of the transactions
shall be kept by the two-year institution and the State Board of Medical Examiners and the
recipient local public school system. (Act 2000-689, p. 1400, §1.)...
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