26-16-115
Section 26-16-115 Duties of county coroner or medical examiner. (a) In every case of SUID,
the county coroner or medical examiner shall be notified and cooperate and assist law enforcement
with the death investigation. (b) The county coroner or medical examiner shall obtain legal
authorization to send the infant to a forensic pathologist for examination. (c) The county
coroner or medical examiner shall contact the appropriate law enforcement personnel to conduct
a death investigation according to the protocol developed by the SUIDI Team. The investigation
shall be initiated within 24 hours of the time the appropriate law enforcement personnel is
contacted. (d) The county coroner or medical examiner shall send a copy of the SUIDI Team
approved investigative form to the forensic pathologist conducting the autopsy. (Act 2011-705,
p. 2184, §6.)...
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26-16-99
Section 26-16-99 Duties of coroner/medical examiner. The duties of the coroner/medical examiner
shall include the following: (1) Except in locations where a county medical examiner has jurisdiction,
the coroner or a person acting in a professional capacity shall report the death of a child
by telecommunications to the medical examiner or his or her representative as soon as possible
upon discovery. (2) Upon receipt of a report of a child death, the county medical examiner
or state medical examiner shall determine whether the death appears to be unexpected/unexplained.
If the death appears to be unexpected/unexplained, the county medical examiner or state medical
examiner shall commence an investigation of the death consisting of a postmortem examination
conducted by a state or county medical examiner. Upon the recommendation of the state medical
examiner, with authorization from a district attorney, an autopsy may be conducted. A county
medical examiner may conduct an autopsy at his or...
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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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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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45-49-171.61
Section 45-49-171.61 County Medical Examiner; deputies. The State Medical Examiner assigned
to the Department of Forensic Sciences, Region IV office in Mobile, Alabama, shall also serve
as the County Medical Examiner for Mobile County. Other state medical examiners may be assigned
as deputy county medical examiners. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 2.)...
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45-27-60.03
Section 45-27-60.03 Death investigation training. The county medical examiners shall complete
eight hours of training in death investigation each year. The Department of Forensic Sciences
state medical examiners shall provide the training, or the county medical examiners may attend
other training in death investigation with prior approval of the senior medical examiner of
Region IV of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. All training shall be approved for
continuing medical education credits. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §4.)...
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45-37-60.08
Section 45-37-60.08 Investigative powers of coroner-medical examiner. In investigating a death
hereunder, the coroner-medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body,
to investigate the circumstances of the death, to conduct or have conducted an autopsy, and
whether or not there is an autopsy, to take and retain whatever tissues and biological samples,
including blood or urine, or both, as he or she deems necessary from the body of a person
which he or she deems necessary to establish the cause and manner of such person's death,
and to take possession of any object or article which in his or her opinion would be useful
in establishing the identity of the deceased or the cause and manner of death, or both. (Act
79-454, p. 739, §9.)...
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11-5-34
Section 11-5-34 Deputy coroners. The coroner of each county is authorized to appoint such deputy
coroners as are needed, with the prior approval of the county commission. Any appointment
shall be in writing and shall be filed in the office of the coroner and the office of the
judge of probate. The coroner of each county may delegate any of the powers of the office
to one or more deputies who shall then have the same duties with respect thereto as has the
coroner. Any act of a deputy shall be performed in the name of the coroner and signed by the
deputy performing the act. A deputy coroner shall hold office during and subject to the pleasure
of the coroner. Each deputy coroner, before entering the performance of the office, shall
file with the judge of probate of the county the bond and oath of office required by law to
be filed by the coroner. No compensation shall be paid to a deputy coroner without approval
of a majority of the membership of the county commission. (Act 2006-581, p....
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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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