11-44D-4
Section 11-44D-4 Mayor-council form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors
voting in the referendum provided herein choose a mayor-council form of government, the following
provisions of this chapter shall be applicable: (1) The municipality shall thereafter and
as provided in this chapter be governed by a mayor elected at-large and a five-member council
elected from single-member districts, which municipality shall have the same powers and duties
as herein enumerated and as other mayor-council municipalities organized under Chapter 43,
Title 11, and any other powers and duties not inconsistent with this chapter which may be
now or hereafter granted to such municipality. (2) The council shall include five members
who shall be elected from districts, which shall be, as near as practicable, of equal population
according to the last federal decennial census, but not more than five percent, more or less,
than the average of the five districts. (3) The council members shall...
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45-37-61
Section 45-37-61 Authority to take corneal tissue during autopsy. Pursuant to rules and regulations
recommended by the Jefferson County Medical Examiner and adopted by the Coroner-Medical Examiners'
Commission, the coroner-medical examiner and any associate coroner-medical examiner shall
be authorized to take corneal tissue on behalf of any eye bank located in Jefferson County
which makes such corneal tissue for transplants available to all medical facilities in Jefferson
County authorized to perform such transplants, when such tissue would otherwise be destroyed
during the course of the examination. There shall be no charge to the patient recipient for
the corneal tissue provided by the eye bank. (Act 87-524, p. 793, §1; Act 91-711, p. 1384,
§1.)...
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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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45-27-60.07
Section 45-27-60.07 Autopsies or postmortem examinations. (a) An autopsy or postmortem examination
may be performed by a state medical examiner at the written direction of the Escambia County
District Attorney or his or her authorized representative in any case in which the district
attorney is conducting a criminal investigation. (b) The county medical examiner or the State
Medical Examiner may authorize an autopsy or postmortem examination, or the autopsy may be
performed by the State Medical Examiner when the county medical examiner suspects the death
was caused by a criminal act or omission, or the cause of death is obscure or, in his or her
opinion, an autopsy is advisable and in the public interest. (c) In a death where the county
medical examiner does not deem it advisable and in the public interest that an autopsy be
performed, but the next of kin of the deceased requests that an autopsy be performed, the
State Medical Examiner, or a designated pathologist, may perform the...
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45-37-60.05
Section 45-37-60.05 Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission - Creation; powers. There shall be
established the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission, with the following powers: (1) To consult
with the county governing body on the selection, appointment, and retention of the coroner-medical
examiner, and such associate coroner-medical examiners as may be necessary and appropriate
to appoint. (2) To obtain such opinions from the county attorney and Attorney General and
to rely thereon as the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission may determine to be necessary
to interpret any statutes that pertain to the operation of the coroner-medical examiner function.
(3) To promulgate rules and regulations governing the reviews and investigations of the coroner-medical
examiners' office including the conditions upon which such investigations shall be conducted.
(4) To receive all questions and inquiries concerning the operation of the coroner-medical
examiners' function which may be submitted by the...
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45-49-171.66
Section 45-49-171.66 Autopsy or postmortem examination. (a) An autopsy or postmortem examination
may be performed by a county medical examiner, at the written direction of the district attorney
or his or her authorized representative, in any case in which the district attorney is conducting
a criminal investigation. (b) An autopsy or postmortem examination may be performed by a county
medical examiner, or his or her designated pathologist, when he or she suspects the death
was caused by a criminal act or omission, or the cause of death is obscure or in his or her
opinion, an autopsy is advisable and in the public interest. (c) In a death where the county
medical examiner does not deem it advisable and in the public interest that an autopsy be
performed, but the next of kin of the deceased requests that an autopsy be performed, the
state medical examiner, or a designated pathologist, may perform the autopsy and the cost
therefor shall be paid by the next of kin. (Act 87-525, p. 794, §...
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45-2-61.07
Section 45-2-61.07 Hospital and medical records. While conducting a coroner's investigation
of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or a state medical examiner or the director
of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences is authorized to issue subpoenas for the production
of pertinent medical records, radiographs, and biological tissues and fluids as may be required
by his or her investigation to determine the cause and manner of death. (Act 92-691, 2nd Sp.
Sess., p. 78, §8.)...
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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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45-49-171.64
Section 45-49-171.64 Authority of medical examiner in death investigations. While investigating
a death hereunder, the County Medical Examiner of Mobile County shall be authorized to take
charge of the dead body, and he, she, or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction, or
the medical examiner's legal designee, 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, or both. The county medical
examiner shall examine the body and 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 87-525,
p. 794, § 5.)...
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34-13-117
Section 34-13-117 Disposition of remains. Disposition of human remains shall occur within 48
hours after the time of death or the time the body is released by the coroner or a medical
examiner, unless the body has been embalmed by a licensed embalmer in this state, with permission
from the authorizing agent, or the body is kept under refrigeration. No public viewing of
unembalmed bodies shall be permitted 24 hours after death has occurred. Nothing is this section
shall prevent a licensed establishment from requiring identification before disposition. (Act
2017-433, §2.)...
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