45-49-171.76
Section 45-49-171.76 Annual report. The county medical examiner shall make an annual report
to the county governing body listing the number of deaths investigated, the determinations
made, and other reasonable facts as required by the governing body. (Act 87-525, p. 794, §
17.)...
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31-8-29
Section 31-8-29 Grand jury investigations of county pension list; report. The county department
of human resources of each county shall, at least twice a year, submit a certified list of
the pensioners on the roll of its county, with the post-office address of each, to the judge
of the circuit court, who shall specifically charge the grand jury to investigate the pension
list for the purpose of ascertaining such as are not entitled to pensions. The list may be
purged of any names on the list who are not entitled to receive pensions, and the foreman
of such grand jury shall report through the county department of human resources to the State
Department of Human Resources the recommendation of the grand jury as to such names as from
their investigation are not entitled to the benefits of this chapter. Such names shall, on
order of the State Department of Human Resources, be stricken from the pension roll. (Acts
1919, No. 409, p. 535; Code 1923, §2967; Code 1940, T. 60, §40.)...
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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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45-49-171.63
Section 45-49-171.63 Investigation of deaths. It shall be the duty of the county medical examiner
to investigate any death in Mobile County when the death may fall within one or more of the
following categories: (1) Any death that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly, that is, when the
person has not been under medical care for significant heart, lung, or other disease. (2)
Any death suspected to be due to violence, resulting, that is, from suicidal, accidental,
homicidal, or undetermined injury, regardless of when or where the injury occurred. (3) Any
death suspected to be due to alcohol or drugs or exposure to toxic agents. (4) Deaths due
to poisoning. (5) All deaths of persons in the custody of law enforcement officers or in penal
institutions. (6) Deaths suspected to be involved with the decedent's occupation. (7) Deaths
unattended by a physician. (8) Any death due to neglect. (9) Any stillbirth of 20 or more
weeks' gestation unattended by a physician. (10) Deaths due to criminal...
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22-9A-15
Section 22-9A-15 Delayed registration of death. (a) When a death occurring in this state has
not been registered within the time period prescribed by subsection (a) of Section 22-9A-14,
a certificate of death may be registered on a regular certificate of death as follows: (1)
If the attending physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner at
the time of death and the attending funeral director or person who acted as the funeral director
are available to complete and sign the certificate of death, it may be completed without additional
evidence and filed with the State Registrar. For those certificates filed one year or more
after the date of death, the physician, county medical examiner, state medical examiner, coroner,
or the funeral director shall state in accompanying affidavits that the information on the
certificate is based on records kept in their files. (2) In the absence of the attending physician,
county medical examiner, state medical examiner,...
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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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45-27-60.04
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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45-4-60.06
Section 45-4-60.06 Execution of death certificate; circumstances requiring notice to Department
of Forensic Sciences. Repealed Act 2015-321 effective June 3, 2015. (Act 99-366, p. 586, §7.)...

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45-49-171.66
Section 45-49-171.66 Autopsy or postmortem examination. (a) An autopsy or postmortem examination
may be performed by a county 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. (b) An autopsy or postmortem examination may be performed by a county
medical examiner, or his or her designated pathologist, when he or she suspects the death
was caused by a criminal act or omission, or the cause of death is obscure or in his or her
opinion, an autopsy is advisable and in the public interest. (c) In a death where the county
medical examiner does not deem it advisable and in the public interest that an autopsy be
performed, but the next of kin of the deceased requests that an autopsy be performed, the
state medical examiner, or a designated pathologist, may perform the autopsy and the cost
therefor shall be paid by the next of kin. (Act 87-525, p. 794, §...
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15-27-10
Section 15-27-10 Maintenance of files, reports, etc., by law enforcement agencies, officials,
etc. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a law enforcement agency or official, district
attorney or a prosecuting authority, the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, or the Department
of Human Resources from maintaining an investigative file, report, case file, or log which
may include any evidence, biological evidence, photographs, exhibits, or information in documentary
or electronic form. (Act 2014-292, p. 1043, §10.)...
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