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45-27-60.04
Section 45-27-60.04 Duty to investigate certain deaths. It shall be the duty of the county
medical examiner, or designated assistant medical examiner, to investigate any death in Escambia
County when the death falls within one or more of the following categories: (1) Deaths that
occur suddenly and unexpectedly, that is, when the person has not been under medical care
for significant disease of the heart or lung, or other disease. (2) Deaths suspected to be
due to violence, resulting from anyone of the following: Suicide, accident, homicide, or undetermined
injury, regardless of when or where the injury occurred. (3) Deaths suspected to be due to
alcohol, or drugs, or exposure to toxic agents. (4) Deaths due to poisoning. (5) Deaths of
persons in the custody of law enforcement officers or in penal institutions. (6) Deaths suspected
to be involved with the occupation of the decedent. (7) Deaths unattended by a physician.
(8) Deaths due to neglect. (9) Any stillbirth of 20 or more weeks...
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45-34-60
Section 45-34-60 Remuneration. In Henry County, the coroner shall be entitled to receive remuneration
in the amount of fifty dollars ($50) in each case for holding an inquest, when ordered by
the judge of a court of record or for investigation and certification of the cause of death
when no jury is summoned or postmortem examination made by a physician or surgeon as provided
by Section 12-19-193; provided, however, the remuneration shall not be less than two hundred
dollars ($200) per month. In addition to the amounts listed herein, the coroner shall receive
travel expenses in such an amount as may be set by the county commission in going to and returning
from each such investigation. The compensation provided for by this section shall be paid
from the county general fund. (Act 90-434, p. 598, ยง1.)...
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12-19-192
Section 12-19-192 Coroners generally. (a) Coroners shall be entitled to the following fees:
(1) For going to and returning from the place where he holds an inquest, for each mile traveled
..... $.06 (2) For holding an inquest, when ordered by a judge of a court of record or by
the district attorney ..... 7.50 (3) For summoning a jury on inquest ..... 1.00 (4) For each
subpoena ..... .25 (5) For each warrant of arrest ..... .50 (6) For each bond or undertaking
returned to court ..... .50 (7) For investigation and certification of the cause of death
when no jury is summoned or postmortem examination made by a physician or surgeon as provided
in Section 12-19-193, $.06 for each mile traveled in going and returning, and $7.50 to be
paid from the county treasury. (8) For all services performed when discharging the duty of
the sheriff in cases authorized by law, the same fees that were allowed the sheriff for similar
services on December 18, 1973. (b) In no event shall the coroner be...
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12-19-193
Section 12-19-193 Fees for inquest; fees, etc., for postmortem examinations; payment of fees
to coroners for services rendered in discharging duties of sheriff. (a) Fees for holding inquest
shall be paid out of the county treasury, when the inquest has been held under the order of
a judge of a court of record or district attorney, and such fees must be also certified by
the coroner to the clerk of the circuit court of the county and must be taxed as costs against
any person who is convicted for killing the person on whose body the inquest was held and
be collected like other costs in criminal cases and, when collected in cases in which the
county has paid the same, shall be paid to the county treasurer for the use of the county
and, in other cases, to the coroner. (b) No fees shall be paid for an inquest when it is publicly
known before the jury is summoned who caused the death of the deceased or when the slayer
has been arrested for the homicide; but, in such case, if the immediate...
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22-9A-13
Section 22-9A-13 Reports of fetal death; reports of induced termination of pregnancy. (a) A
report of fetal death shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise
directed by the State Registrar, within five days after the occurrence is known if the fetus
has advanced to, or beyond, the twentieth week of uterogestation. (1) When a fetal death occurs
in an institution, the person in charge of the institution or his or her designated representative
shall prepare and file the report. (2) When a fetal death occurs outside an institution, the
physician in attendance shall prepare and file the report. (3) When a fetal death occurs without
medical attendance, the county medical examiner, the state medical examiner, or the coroner
shall determine the cause of fetal death and shall prepare and file the report. (4) When a
fetal death occurs in a moving conveyance and the fetus is first removed from the conveyance
in this state or when a dead fetus is found in this state and...
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3-1-18
Section 3-1-18 Removal from herd and slaughter or isolation of tuberculous cows generally;
procedure for isolation, retesting, slaughter, etc., of same; compensation of owners for slaughtered
cows, etc., determined not to have been affected by tuberculosis. The owner or proprietor
or manager of any such dairy, upon being notified by such inspector or his assistant, shall
remove or cause to be removed, within 24 hours, said tuberculous cow or cows from his herd
to a public abattoir and, under the supervision of such inspector or his assistant, such tuberculous
cow or cows must be slaughtered immediately unless such owner, proprietor or manager removes
said tuberculous cow or cows from the herd under the supervision of such inspector or his
assistant and keeps them isolated therefrom at the expense of the owner for a period of from
two to six months, at the expiration of which time said cow or cows shall be retested by said
inspector or his assistant and also by some competent...
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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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15-23-11
Section 15-23-11 Filing claim under article constitutes waiver of physician-patient privilege.
(a) Any person filing a claim under the provisions of this article shall be deemed to have
waived any physician-patient privilege as to communications or records relevant to an issue
of the physical, mental or emotional conditions of the claimant. (b) If the mental, physical
or emotional condition of a claimant is material to a claim, the commission upon physical
examination may order an autopsy of a deceased victim. The order shall specify the time, place,
manner, conditions and scope of the examination or autopsy and the person by whom it is to
be made. The order shall also require the person to file with the commission a detailed written
report of the examination or autopsy. The report shall set out the findings of the person
making the report, including results of all tests made, diagnoses, prognoses and other conclusions
and reports of earlier examinations of the same conditions. (c) The...
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26-16-96
Section 26-16-96 Local child death review teams. (a) There are hereby created local child death
review teams. (b) Each county of the state shall be included in a local multidisciplinary,
multiagency child death review team's jurisdiction. The district attorney shall initiate the
establishment of local teams by convening a meeting of potential team members within 60 days
of September 11, 1997. In the absence of the initiation of a child death review team by the
district attorney within 60 days of September 11, 1997, the local public health representative
will initiate the first team meeting. During this meeting, participants shall recommend whether
to establish a team for that county alone or to establish a team with and for the counties
within that judicial circuit. (c) The local team shall include, but not be limited to, all
of the following members, the first five of whom are ex officio. The ex officio members may
designate representatives from their particular departments or offices...
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26-22-3
Section 26-22-3 Prohibition, exceptions, and regulations. (a) Prohibition. Except as provided
in subsection (b), no person shall intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly perform or induce
an abortion when the unborn child is viable. (b) Exceptions. (1) It shall not be a violation
of subsection (a) if an abortion is performed by a physician and that physician reasonably
believes that it is necessary to prevent either the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial
and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman. No abortion shall be
deemed authorized under this paragraph if performed on the basis of a claim or a diagnosis
that the woman will engage in conduct which would result in her death or in substantial and
irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. (2) It shall not be a violation of subsection
(a) if the abortion is performed by a physician and that physician reasonably believes, after
making a determination of the viability of the unborn child in...
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