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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