Code of Alabama
Chapter 8 - Relief and Support of Poor Persons by Counties.
Section 38-8-2 - Burial of Persons Dying With No Estate, Etc.

Upon the decease of any person having no estate and leaving no relatives in the county with the ability or estate adequate to defray his necessary burial expenses, such necessary burial expenses are a charge upon the county in which such death shall take place, and the county commission, upon the presentation of the account of such burial expenses shall make payment therefor.