22-9A-7
Section 22-9A-7 Registration of births. (a) A certificate of birth for each live birth that
occurs in this state shall be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics, or as otherwise directed
by the State Registrar, within five days after the birth and shall be registered if it has
been completed and filed in accordance with this section. (b)(1) When a birth occurs in an
institution or en route to the institution, the person in charge of the institution or his
or her designated representative shall obtain the personal data, prepare the certificate,
secure the signatures required, and file the certificate as directed in subsection (a) or
as directed by the State Registrar within the required five days. The physician or other person
in attendance shall provide the medical information required by the certificate and certify
to the facts of birth within 72 hours after the birth. If the physician, or other person in
attendance, does not certify to the facts of birth within the 72-hour period,...
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22-19-161
Section 22-19-161 Definitions. In this article: (1) "Adult" means an individual who
is at least 18 years of age. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (A) authorized to
make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care;
or (B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other
record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or
part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation,
therapy, research, or education. (4) "Coroner" means an elected or appointed official
who determines, with the assistance of other forensic scientists and investigators, the cause,
manner, and circumstances surrounding death. (5) "Decedent" means a deceased individual
whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this article, a fetus. (6) "Disinterested...

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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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45-27-60.06
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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45-2-61.07
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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45-27-60.03
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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26-16-99
Section 26-16-99 Duties of coroner/medical examiner. The duties of the coroner/medical examiner
shall include the following: (1) Except in locations where a county medical examiner has jurisdiction,
the coroner or a person acting in a professional capacity shall report the death of a child
by telecommunications to the medical examiner or his or her representative as soon as possible
upon discovery. (2) Upon receipt of a report of a child death, the county medical examiner
or state medical examiner shall determine whether the death appears to be unexpected/unexplained.
If the death appears to be unexpected/unexplained, the county medical examiner or state medical
examiner shall commence an investigation of the death consisting of a postmortem examination
conducted by a state or county medical examiner. Upon the recommendation of the state medical
examiner, with authorization from a district attorney, an autopsy may be conducted. A county
medical examiner may conduct an autopsy at his or...
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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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45-49-171.63
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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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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