§ 45-56-171 — County Health Officer Issuing Official Death Certificate

(a)
In Randolph County, any county health officer or administrator may issue an official death certificate in any case within the county, except where an autopsy is required.
Data obtained from the attending physician or funeral director shall be kept on file for one year following the death for the purpose of issuing the death certificate.
The certificate shall be in all particulars the same as those issued by the Alabama Department of Public Health and shall be sufficient proof of death in any court or for insurance purposes.
Nothing
in
this
section
shall
affect
any
existing
duty
of
any
person to gather and transmit data to the local registrar or to the state health
department.
(b)
The
county
health
officer,
not
later
than
10
days
from
the
date
of
death, shall make the official death certificate available to the surviving spouse or next of kin of the deceased at a fee not greater than that charged by the state health department for the same service.
Any officer failing to comply with this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Legislative History

(Act 81–423, p. 664, §§ 1, 2.)