22-9A-15
Section 22-9A-15 Delayed registration of death. (a) When a death occurring in this state has
not been registered within the time period prescribed by subsection (a) of Section 22-9A-14,
a certificate of death may be registered on a regular certificate of death as follows: (1)
If the attending physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner at
the time of death and the attending funeral director or person who acted as the funeral director
are available to complete and sign the certificate of death, it may be completed without additional
evidence and filed with the State Registrar. For those certificates filed one year or more
after the date of death, the physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, coroner,
or the funeral director shall state in accompanying affidavits that the information on the
certificate is based on records kept in their files. (2) In the absence of the attending physician,
county medical examiner, state medical examiner,...
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22-9A-16
Section 22-9A-16 Authorization for final disposition. (a) The funeral director or person acting
as the funeral director who first assumes custody of a dead body shall, prior to final disposition
of the body, or prior to removal of the dead body from the state, obtain authorization for
final disposition of the body or removal of the body from the state. The completion of the
medical certification of cause of death on the death certificate by the physician, county
medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner shall constitute authorization. If the
body is to be cremated or buried at sea, additional authorization shall be obtained from the
county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner. (b) With the consent of the physician,
county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner who is to certify the cause of
death, a dead body may be moved from the place of death for the purpose of being prepared
for final disposition. Prior to removing a dead body from the place...
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36-18-36
Section 36-18-36 Director to have powers of corporation; powers of department. For the purposes
of implementing the provisions of this article or to defray the costs thereof, the Director
of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences shall have all the powers and privileges of
a corporation and all of his or her business shall be transacted in the name of the Alabama
Department of Forensic Sciences. In addition to any other powers and duties specified elsewhere
in this article, the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences shall have power to: (a) Regulate
its own procedures except as otherwise provided in this article. (b) Define any term not defined
in this section. (c) Prescribe forms necessary to carry out the purposes of this article.
(d) Take judicial notice of general, technical and scientific facts within the director's
specialized knowledge. (e) Collect all moneys provided by this article to be collected by
the director. (f) Provide for and maintain all necessary administrative...
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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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22-9A-14
Section 22-9A-14 Death registration. (a) A certificate of death for each death which occurs
in this state shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise directed
by the State Registrar, within five days of the death and shall be registered if it has been
completed and filed in accordance with this section. (1) If the place of death is not known,
but the dead body is found in this state, the certificate of death shall be completed and
filed in accordance with this section. The county where the body is found shall be shown on
the certificate as the county of death. If the date of death is unknown, the date the dead
body was found shall be shown on the certificate as the date of death. (2) When death occurs
in a moving conveyance in the United States and the body is first removed from the conveyance
in this state, the death shall be registered in this state and the county where it is first
removed shall be considered as the county of death. When a death occurs on a...
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36-18-29
Section 36-18-29 Penalty for false entry or alteration of records. A person who shall knowingly
make any false entry or falsely alter any record of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences;
or who shall intentionally destroy, mutilate, conceal, remove or otherwise impair the verity
or availability of records of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences with the knowledge
of a lack of authority to do so; or who shall possess a record of the Alabama Department of
Forensic Sciences and refuse to deliver up such record upon proper request of a person lawfully
entitled to receive the same shall be guilty of a Class B felony. (Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess.,
No. 94-804, p. 109, §10.)...
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36-18-37
Section 36-18-37 Immunity from civil liability. (a) Neither the Director of the Alabama Department
of Forensic Sciences nor any person designated by the director for the purposes of taking,
collecting, storing, analyzing or testing DNA samples shall incur any civil liability when
such taking, collecting, storing, analyzing or testing is performed according to rules or
regulations promulgated or adopted by the director, and (b) The alleged damage or injury was
not caused by willful or wanton conduct by the director or the director's designated person.
(Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-804, p. 109, §18.)...
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45-49-171.75
Section 45-49-171.75 Transportation of bodies. This subpart makes no changes in the funding
of, responsibility for, or existing methods of transporting bodies in Mobile County. The Department
of Forensic Sciences is assigned no additional responsibilities for transportation of bodies
under this subpart. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 16.)...
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11-5-50
Section 11-5-50 Transportation of body to forensic science laboratory; storage of body. Except
where there is an agreement or local law which provides otherwise, the coroner shall be responsible
for carrying out the duties required for proper transportation of a body to a forensic sciences
laboratory for the purpose of performing an autopsy or any other postmortem examination ordered
pursuant to Section 36-18-2. The coroner shall be responsible for storage of a body prior
to transportation to a forensic sciences laboratory when necessary. Upon receipt of an order
issued pursuant to Section 36-18-2, the coroner shall coordinate with the Department of Forensic
Sciences regarding the storage and transportation of the body to the forensic sciences laboratory
designated by the Department of Forensic Sciences. (Act 2010-542, p. 943, §1.)...
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22-9A-13
Section 22-9A-13 Reports of fetal death; reports of induced termination of pregnancy. (a) A
report of fetal death shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise
directed by the State Registrar, within five days after the occurrence is known if the fetus
has advanced to, or beyond, the twentieth week of uterogestation. (1) When a fetal death occurs
in an institution, the person in charge of the institution or his or her designated representative
shall prepare and file the report. (2) When a fetal death occurs outside an institution, the
physician in attendance shall prepare and file the report. (3) When a fetal death occurs without
medical attendance, the county medical examiner, the state medical examiner, or the coroner
shall determine the cause of fetal death and shall prepare and file the report. (4) When a
fetal death occurs in a moving conveyance and the fetus is first removed from the conveyance
in this state or when a dead fetus is found in this state and...
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