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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45-27-60.05
Section 45-27-60.05 Medical examiner's investigative authority. While investigating a death pursuant to this article, the County Medical Examiner of Escambia County shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and the medical examiner or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction, or the legal designee of the medical examiner, 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 county medical examiner shall examine the body externally and take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever 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 97-571, p. 1010, §6.)...
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45-27-60.06
Section 45-27-60.06 Execution of death certificate; circumstances requiring notice to Department of Forensic Sciences. (a) After investigating a death, if the county medical examiner or the designated assistant is satisfied that the death was not caused by criminal act or omission and that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, then the county medical examiner, or designated assistant, may execute a death certificate as required by law, and authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate as prescribed by the State Health Department. (b) The county medical examiner shall contact the State Medical Examiner of Alabama Forensic Sciences under the following circumstances: (1) If the deceased is unidentified. (2) If the county medical examiner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission. (3) If the cause of death is obscure. (c) The State Medical Examiner shall further examine the body, take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever...
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45-49-171.65
Section 45-49-171.65 Issuance of death certificate. If after investigating a death, the county medical examiner or his or her designated assistant, who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama, is satisfied that the death was not caused by criminal act or omission and that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, then the county medical examiner, or his or her designated assistant, 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 county medical examiner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission, or if the cause of death is obscure, he, she, or a qualified pathologist, licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and under his or her direction, shall further examine the body and take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever tissues, biological fluids, or other...
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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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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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45-2-61.04
Section 45-2-61.04 Postmortem examination and autopsies. When the Baldwin County Coroner determines a death under investigation is one described in Section 45-2-61.03, the coroner may, and upon request, shall be assisted by a state medical examiner in the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, as necessary, to help determine the cause and manner of death or to provide other information to the coroner or investigating law enforcement agency. The state medical examiner may upon request, assist by reviewing the coroner's case file and the circumstances of the death, by conducting an external examination of the body, or by conducting an autopsy on the body under the following circumstances: (1) An autopsy or postmortem examination shall be performed by a state 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. (2) In a death where the Baldwin County...
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34-13-121
Section 34-13-121 Cremation procedures; authorization; identification of remains; records. (a) Human remains shall not be cremated under either of the following circumstances: (1) Within 24 hours after the time of death, unless death was a result of an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease and unless the disease is verified and the time requirement waived by a medical examiner, county health director, county coroner, or attending physician where the death occurred. (2) Without a completed cremation authorization form approved by the board and signed by the authorizing agent and a completed state identification form. A copy of the cremation authorization shall be presented with the body to the crematory before any cremation process may be initiated. (b) All cremations of human remains performed in this state shall be arranged through a funeral establishment licensed by the board pursuant to this chapter. (c) Whenever a crematory is unable or unauthorized to cremate human...
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45-27-60.08
Section 45-27-60.08 Personal effects of deceased; notice to next of kin. The county medical examiner and assistant medical examiners of Escambia County, or any law enforcement officer having jurisdiction and the approval of the county medical examiner, shall take possession of personal effects on or about the dead body and notify the next of kin in regard to the death. The personal effects may either be retained as evidence if deemed necessary or be returned forthwith to the next of kin. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §9.)...
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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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