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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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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45-49-171.77
Section 45-49-171.77 Cornea tissue transplants. (a) The medical examiner or forensic science
pathologist in Mobile County is hereby authorized to provide a cornea to any patient in need
of corneal tissue for a transplant upon request of a certified eye bank, certified by the
Eye Bank Association of America under all of the following conditions: (1) If a decedent who
may provide a suitable cornea for the transplant is under the jurisdiction of the medical
examiner or forensic science pathologist and an autopsy will be required in accordance with
state law. (2) If no objection by the next of kin is known by the medical examiner or forensic
science pathologist. (3) If the cornea for transplant will not interfere with the subsequent
course of an investigation or autopsy or will alter the postmortem facial appearance. (b)
Upon compliance with this section, the medical examiner or forensic science pathologist or
the certified eye bank shall not have any civil or criminal liability. (Act...
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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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22-19-182
Section 22-19-182 Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction
of coroner or medical examiner. (a) Upon request of a procurement organization, a coroner
or medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization the name, contact information,
and available medical and social history of a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction
of the coroner or medical examiner. Specific operational details regarding visitation, referral
methods, recovery logistics, and efforts to minimize interruptions to the operations of the
coroner and/or medical examiner will be established in the protocols referenced in Section
22-19-181 (d). Section 164.512 of the Health Information Portability and Protection Act, enacted
1996, specifies that a covered entity may use or disclose protected health information to
organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or
transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissues for the...
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11-5-31
Section 11-5-31 Alabama Coroner's Training Commission. (a) There is created the Alabama Coroner's
Training Commission to be appointed as herein provided. Appointments to the commission shall
be made as follows: (1) The President of the Alabama Coroner's Association shall appoint one
county coroner to serve an initial term of two years. (2) The Attorney General shall appoint
one district attorney to serve for an initial term of one year. (3) The Governor shall appoint
one county coroner to serve for an initial term of three years. (4) The Director of the Alabama
Department of Forensic Sciences shall appoint one person who is either a state medical examiner
or a forensic scientist to serve for an initial term of two years. (5) The Board of Directors
of the Alabama Coroner's Association shall appoint three county coroners to serve for initial
terms of two years each. (b) The membership of the commission shall be inclusive and reflect
the racial, gender, geographic, urban\rural, and...
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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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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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45-37-60.01
Section 45-37-60.01 Office of coroner abolished. In Jefferson County the office of coroner
is abolished and all powers, rights, and duties now or hereafter authorized or required by
law to be performed by coroners shall be exercised and performed by the governing body through
appointed coroners-medical examiners, representatives, or agents, for the performance of such
duties in the entire county or in a designated portion thereof, pursuant to this part and
the rules promulgated by the herein established Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission. (Act
79-454, p. 739, §2.)...
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26-16-93
Section 26-16-93 State Child Death Review Team - Created. (a) There is hereby created the State
Child Death Review Team, referred to in this article as the state team. (b) The state team
shall be situated within the Alabama Department of Public Health for administrative and budgetary
purposes. (c) The state team shall be a multidisciplinary, multiagency review team, composed
of 28 members, the first 7 of whom are ex officio. The ex officio members may designate representatives
from their particular departments or offices to represent them on the state team who may vote
and exercise all other prerogatives of the appointment. The members of the state team shall
include all of the following: (1) The Jefferson County Coroner, Medical Examiner. (2) The
State Health Officer who shall serve as chair. (3) One member appointed by the Alabama Sheriff's
Association. (4) The Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. (5) The Commissioner
of the Alabama Department of Human Resources....
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