45-49-171.71
Section 45-49-171.71 Admissibility of reports of death investigations. The reports of death
investigations conducted by the county medical examiner or by the Alabama Department of Forensic
Sciences, or true copies thereof duly certified by the county medical examiner or the director
of the department, are admissible in evidence in any court in Mobile County, with or without
testimony by the county medical examiner or Department of Forensic Sciences officials. Provided,
however, any person preparing a report given in evidence under this subpart may be summoned
as a witness in any civil or criminal case by either party to the cause. (Act 87-525, p. 794,
§ 12.)...
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45-27-60.12
Section 45-27-60.12 Death investigation reports. The county medical examiner shall maintain
the reports of death investigations conducted by the Escambia County Medical Examiner and
a copy shall be forwarded to the Region IV Laboratory of the Alabama Department of Forensic
Sciences. These reports, or true copies thereof duly certified by the county medical examiner
or the director of the department, are admissible in evidence in any court in Escambia County,
with or without testimony by the county medical examiner or Department of Forensic Sciences
officials, provided, any person preparing a report given in evidence pursuant to this article
may be summoned as a witness in any civil or criminal case by either party to the cause. (Act
97-571, p. 1010, §13.)...
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45-27-60.15
Section 45-27-60.15 Transfer of title to property to county medical examiner and Department
of Forensic Sciences. Upon January 15, 1998, title and control of all equipment in the office
of the Escambia County Coroner shall be transferred by Escambia County to the county medical
examiner and to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. The Escambia County Commission
shall establish a Medical Examiner Fund. Thereafter, all funds previously appropriated by
the county commission to the office of coroner shall be appropriated to the Medical Examiner
Fund. The appropriation shall be in the amount agreed to between the county commission and
the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences each year, but the amount shall not be less than
the amount appropriated to the office of the coroner in the Escambia County 1997-98 fiscal
year budget. The senior state medical examiner in Region IV of the Alabama Department of Forensic
Sciences, in conjunction with the Escambia County Medical Examiner, shall...
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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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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning October
1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues and upon
appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated
for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs.
(b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First
Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in
the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1) Ten percent
of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution to one
or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for tobacco
control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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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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45-27-60.03
Section 45-27-60.03 Death investigation training. The county medical examiners shall complete
eight hours of training in death investigation each year. The Department of Forensic Sciences
state medical examiners shall provide the training, or the county medical examiners may attend
other training in death investigation with prior approval of the senior medical examiner of
Region IV of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. All training shall be approved for
continuing medical education credits. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §4.)...
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45-49-171.69
Section 45-49-171.69 Issuance of subpoenas. While investigating a death hereunder, the county
medical examiner or the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences is authorized
to issue subpoenas for the production of medical documents, radiographs, tis- sues, or fluids
as may be required by the investigation. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 10.)...
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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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45-2-61.07
Section 45-2-61.07 Hospital and medical records. While conducting a coroner's investigation
of a death hereunder, the Baldwin County Coroner or a state medical examiner or the director
of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences is authorized to issue subpoenas for the production
of pertinent medical records, radiographs, and biological tissues and fluids as may be required
by his or her investigation to determine the cause and manner of death. (Act 92-691, 2nd Sp.
Sess., p. 78, §8.)...
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