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.
Structure Code of Alabama
Section 45-2-61 - Coroner's Investigation.
Section 45-2-61.01 - Qualifications.
Section 45-2-61.02 - Limitation of Coroner's Investigation.
Section 45-2-61.04 - Postmortem Examination and Autopsies.
Section 45-2-61.05 - County Coroner or State Medical Examiner May Take Charge of Bodies.
Section 45-2-61.06 - Responsibility to Certify Deaths.
Section 45-2-61.07 - Hospital and Medical Records.
Section 45-2-61.08 - Duty to Report Deaths; Alteration of Body Evidence Prohibited.
Section 45-2-61.09 - Duty to Notify Next of Kin and Account for Personal Effects.
Section 45-2-61.10 - Cost of Assistance.
Section 45-2-61.11 - Reports as Evidence.
Section 45-2-61.12 - No Liability Incurred for Proper Performance.