36-18-9
Section 36-18-9 Costs of services provided by department. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, in any county in which the Department of Forensic Sciences performs the duties of
the county coroner or county medical examiner pursuant to local law, the county commission
shall pay to the department each year the cost of the services provided by the department,
as determined by the department. Payments from the county shall be made by the tenth day of
each month to the department and shall be deposited into the Alabama Forensic Services Trust
Fund. In the event a county does not pay the amounts required by this section, the department
shall not be required to perform the duties or responsibilities of the coroner or medical
examiner for that county. (Act 2012-398, p. 1091, §1.)...
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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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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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22-9A-16
Section 22-9A-16 Authorization for final disposition. (a) The funeral director or person acting
as the funeral director who first assumes custody of a dead body shall, prior to final disposition
of the body, or prior to removal of the dead body from the state, obtain authorization for
final disposition of the body or removal of the body from the state. The completion of the
medical certification of cause of death on the death certificate by the physician, county
medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner shall constitute authorization. If the
body is to be cremated or buried at sea, additional authorization shall be obtained from the
county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner. (b) With the consent of the physician,
county medical examiner, state medical examiner, or coroner who is to certify the cause of
death, a dead body may be moved from the place of death for the purpose of being prepared
for final disposition. Prior to removing a dead body from the place...
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34-13-117
Section 34-13-117 Disposition of remains. Disposition of human remains shall occur within 48
hours after the time of death or the time the body is released by the coroner or a medical
examiner, unless the body has been embalmed by a licensed embalmer in this state, with permission
from the authorizing agent, or the body is kept under refrigeration. No public viewing of
unembalmed bodies shall be permitted 24 hours after death has occurred. Nothing is this section
shall prevent a licensed establishment from requiring identification before disposition. (Act
2017-433, §2.)...
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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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45-27-60.01
Section 45-27-60.01 County medical examiner. The county medical examiner shall be a physician
licensed to practice medicine in Alabama. The Escambia County Medical Examiner shall be appointed
by the senior state medical examiner in Region IV of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.
The appointment shall be made, with the approval of the Director of the Alabama Department
of Forensic Sciences, from a list of qualified physicians submitted by the Escambia County
Medical Society after review by the district attorney of the county. The appointment shall
establish the Escambia County Medical Examiner as a contract employee of the Alabama Department
of Forensic Sciences with the same liability coverage as provided to Merit System employees
of the State of Alabama. (Act 97-571, p. 1010, §2.)...
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45-27-60.07
Section 45-27-60.07 Autopsies or postmortem examinations. (a) An autopsy or postmortem examination
may be performed by a state medical examiner at the written direction of the Escambia County
District Attorney or his or her authorized representative in any case in which the district
attorney is conducting a criminal investigation. (b) The county medical examiner or the State
Medical Examiner may authorize an autopsy or postmortem examination, or the autopsy may be
performed by the State Medical Examiner when the county medical examiner 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...
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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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22-19-170
Section 22-19-170 Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift. (a)
An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons named in the document of gift: (1)
a hospital; accredited medical school, dental school, college, or university; organ procurement
organization; or other appropriate person, for research or education; (2) subject to subsection
(b), an individual designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the individual is
the recipient of the part; (3) an eye bank or tissue bank. (b) If an anatomical gift to an
individual under subsection (a)(2) cannot be transplanted into the individual, the part passes
in accordance with subsection (g) in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the
person making the anatomical gift. (c) If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts
or of all parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person described in subsection
(a) but identifies the purpose for which an anatomical gift may be...
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