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
5. Provision of other forensic services for children when requested by the council. b. The Department of Forensic Sciences shall prepare an annual accounting of the distribution of monies received and the effectiveness of programs implemented pursuant to this chapter and shall file the accounting with the council before July 1. Sufficient safeguards shall be implemented to ensure that the new monies increase and not supplant or decrease existing state support. (12) One-half of one percent of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Rehabilitation Services for distribution to one or more of the following: a. Early intervention services for children from birth through age three and services for children who have traumatic brain injury. b. Child death review teams pursuant to Article 5 of Chapter 16 of Title 26. The Department of Rehabilitation Services shall work in cooperation with the Department of Public Health to administer this paragraph. (Act 99-390, p. 628, §3.)...
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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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