22-9A-14
Section 22-9A-14 Death registration. (a) A certificate of death for each death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise directed by the State Registrar, within five days of the death and shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance with this section. (1) If the place of death is not known, but the dead body is found in this state, the certificate of death shall be completed and filed in accordance with this section. The county where the body is found shall be shown on the certificate as the county of death. If the date of death is unknown, the date the dead body was found shall be shown on the certificate as the date of death. (2) When death occurs in a moving conveyance in the United States and the body is first removed from the conveyance in this state, the death shall be registered in this state and the county where it is first removed shall be considered as the county of death. When a death occurs on a...
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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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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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34-13-121
Section 34-13-121 Cremation procedures; authorization; identification of remains; records. (a) Human remains shall not be cremated under either of the following circumstances: (1) Within 24 hours after the time of death, unless death was a result of an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease and unless the disease is verified and the time requirement waived by a medical examiner, county health director, county coroner, or attending physician where the death occurred. (2) Without a completed cremation authorization form approved by the board and signed by the authorizing agent and a completed state identification form. A copy of the cremation authorization shall be presented with the body to the crematory before any cremation process may be initiated. (b) All cremations of human remains performed in this state shall be arranged through a funeral establishment licensed by the board pursuant to this chapter. (c) Whenever a crematory is unable or unauthorized to cremate human...
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45-49-171.65
Section 45-49-171.65 Issuance of death certificate. If after investigating a death, the county medical examiner or his or her designated assistant, who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama, 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 his or her designated assistant, may execute a death certificate in the form required by law and authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate as prescribed by the State Health Department. If the deceased is unidentified, or if the county medical examiner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission, or if the cause of death is obscure, he, she, or a qualified pathologist, licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and under his or her direction, shall further examine the body and take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever tissues, biological fluids, or other...
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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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45-2-61.06
Section 45-2-61.06 Responsibility to certify deaths. If after conducting a coroner's investigation of a death, the Baldwin County Coroner or the designated deputy coroner is satisfied that the death was not caused by a criminal act or omission, that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, that the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has no questions about the death, and that he or she knows to a reasonable certainty the cause of death, then he or she or the designated deputy coroner may execute a death certificate in the form required by law and authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate as prescribed by the State Health Department. If the deceased is unidentified or if the Baldwin County Coroner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission or if the cause of death is obscure or if the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction has questions about the death, the coroner shall ask a medical examiner for assistance in the death...
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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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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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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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