§ 45-37-60.08 — Investigative Powers of Coroner-Medical Examiner

Alabama § 45-37-60.08

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 45: Local Laws
• Ch. 37: Jefferson County
• Art. 6: Coroner
• Part 1: Coroner-Medical Examiner’s Office and Commission

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In investigating a death hereunder, the coroner-medical examiner shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, to investigate the circumstances of the death, to conduct or have conducted an autopsy, and whether or not there is an autopsy, to take and retain whatever tissues and biological samples, including blood or urine, or both, as he or she deems necessary from the body of a person which he or she deems necessary to establish the cause and manner of such person’s death, and to take possession of any object or article which in his or her opinion would be useful in establishing the identity of the deceased or the cause and manner of death, or both.

Legislative History

(Act 79-454, p. 739, §9.)