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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36-30-21
Section 36-30-21 Authorized. (a) If a law enforcement officer who qualifies for benefits under the provisions of this article suffers disability as a result of a law enforcement officer's occupational disease, his or her disability shall be compensable the same as any service-connected disability under any law which provides benefits for the law enforcement officer or, if a state law enforcement officer, under the state Employees' Retirement System, the same as if injured in the line of duty. If a law enforcement officer who qualifies for benefits under the provisions of this article dies as a result of a law enforcement officer's occupational disease, his or her death shall be compensable to the same extent as the death of a law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; provided, that this article shall not apply to any municipality which has elected to be covered by the workers' compensation laws of this state. (b) In order to qualify for benefits under the provisions of this...
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45-2-61.06
Section 45-2-61.06 Responsibility to certify deaths. If after conducting a coroner's investigation of a death, the Baldwin County Coroner or the designated deputy coroner is satisfied that the death was not caused by a criminal act or omission, that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, that the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has no questions about the death, and that he or she knows to a reasonable certainty the cause of death, then he or she or the designated deputy coroner may execute a death certificate in the form required by law and authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate as prescribed by the State Health Department. If the deceased is unidentified or if the Baldwin County Coroner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission or if the cause of death is obscure or if the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has questions about the death, the coroner shall ask a medical examiner for assistance in the death...
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6-5-680
Section 6-5-680 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ASBESTOS CLAIM. Any claim, wherever or whenever made, for damages, losses, indemnification, contribution, or other relief arising out of, based on, or in any way related to asbestos, including: a. The health effects of exposure to asbestos, including any claim for: 1. Personal injury or death. 2. Mental or emotional injury. 3. Risk of disease or other injury. 4. The costs of medical monitoring or surveillance, to the extent these claims are recognized under state law. b. Any claim made by or on behalf of a person exposed to asbestos, or a representative, spouse, parent, child, or other relative of the person. c. Any claim for damage or loss caused by the installation, presence, or removal of asbestos. (2) CORPORATION. A corporation for profit, including a domestic corporation organized under the laws of this state, or a foreign corporation organized under laws other...
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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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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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22-11A-38
Section 22-11A-38 Notification of third parties of disease; rules; who may be notified; liability; confidentiality; disclosure of information for certain criminal proceedings; penalty. (a) The State Committee of Public Health is hereby authorized to establish the rules by which exceptions may be made to the confidentiality provisions of this article and establish rules for notification of third parties of such disease when exposure is indicated or a threat to the health and welfare of others. All notifications authorized by this section shall be within the rules established pursuant to this subsection. (b) Physicians and hospital administrators or their designee may notify pre-hospital transport agencies and emergency medical personnel of a patient's contagious condition. In case of a death in which there was a known contagious disease, the physician or hospital administrator or their designee may notify the funeral home director. (c) The attending physician or the State Health Officer...
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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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36-30-1
Section 36-30-1 Definitions; dependents; persons eligible for compensation. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AWARDING AUTHORITY. The State Board of Adjustment, created and existing pursuant to Article 4, Chapter 9 of Title 41. (2) COMPENSATION. The money benefits paid on account of injury or death which occurred during the course of employment or activity as a peace officer or firefighter and is in the nature of workers' compensation. (3) DEPENDENT CHILD. An unmarried child under the age of 18 years, or one over the age of 18 who is physically or mentally incapacitated from earning. (4) DIRECT AND PROXIMATE RESULT OF A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE. Death resulting from a heart attack or stroke caused by engaging or participating in a situation while on duty involving nonroutine stressful or strenuous physical law enforcement, fire suppression, rescue, hazardous material response, emergency medical service, prison...
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25-5-1
Section 25-5-1 Definitions. Throughout this chapter, the following words and phrases as used therein shall be considered to have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context shall clearly indicate a different meaning in the connection used: (1) COMPENSATION. The money benefits to be paid on account of injury or death, as provided in Articles 3 and 4. The recovery which an employee may receive by action at law under Article 2 of this chapter is termed "recovery of civil damages," as provided for in Sections 25-5-31 and 25-5-34. "Compensation" does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, and crutches and apparatus furnished an employee on account of an injury. (2) CHILD or CHILDREN. The terms include posthumous children and all other children entitled by law to inherit as children of the deceased; stepchildren who were members of the family of the deceased, at the time of the accident, and were dependent upon him or...
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