45-37-60.02
Section 45-37-60.02 Staffing requirements; coroner-medical examiner qualifications. (a) The employment and compensation of all members of the staff shall be governed by any applicable civil service law. (b) Each coroner-medical examiner shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and recognized and trained in forensic medicine and pathology; provided, however, that the county governing body may waive this requirement temporarily whenever a vacancy exists in the position which the county governing body is seeking to fill. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §3.)...
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45-37-60.04
Section 45-37-60.04 Direction of staff. The chief coroner-medical examiner shall direct the staff, subject to the supervision of the county governing body and pursuant to this part and any rules and regulations promulgated by the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §5.)...
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45-49-171.62
Section 45-49-171.62 Qualifications. The county medical examiner shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and trained in anatomic and forensic pathology. Any vacancy in the county shall be filled by appointment of the Director of the Department of Forensic Sciences, who may waive the requirement temporarily to appoint a physician licensed to practice medicine and trained in anatomic pathology when a vacancy exists which he or she is seeking to fill. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 3.)...
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45-37-60.03
Section 45-37-60.03 Chief coroner-medical examiner. When there is only one coroner-medical examiner on the staff, he or she shall be the chief coroner-medical examiner. When there is more than one coroner-medical examiner on the staff, the governing body shall designate one of them as the chief coroner-medical examiner. Until such designation, the person who has been longest in the continuous service of the county as coroner-medical examiner shall be the chief coroner-medical examiner. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §4.)...
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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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22-19-161
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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38-15-4
Section 38-15-4 Registration of certain youth residential institutions or organizations; staff training plans; rights of children; licensing and inspection of food preparation areas; access by law enforcement agencies. (a) Commencing on January 1, 2018, the department shall register any religious, faith-based, or church nonprofit, other nonprofit, or for profit affiliated youth residential facility, youth social rehabilitation facility, community treatment facility for youths, youth transitional care facility, long term youth residential facility, private alternative boarding school, private alternative outdoor program, and any organization entrusted with the residential care of children in any organizational form or combination defined by this section, whenever children are housed at the facility or location of the program for a period of more than 24 hours. At a minimum, registered youth residential institution or organization under this section shall do all of the following: (1) Be...
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22-32-1
Section 22-32-1 Enactment of Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHEAST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT Article I. Policy and Purpose There is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party states recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest of consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states; 4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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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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