Alabama § 45-2-61.03 - Deaths to Be Investigated by the Baldwin County Coroner.

§ 45-2-61.03. Deaths to Be Investigated by the Baldwin County Coroner.

The county coroner may conduct a coroner’s investigation of any death in Baldwin County when the death shall 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, or resulting from suicidal, accidental, or homicidal injury, regardless of when or where the injury occurred;

(3) Any death suspected to be due to alcohol, drugs, or exposure to toxic agents;

(4) Death due to poisoning;

(5) All deaths of persons in the custody of law enforcement officers, penal institutions, or state mental institutions;

(6) Deaths suspected to be involved with the decedent’s occupation;

(7) Death 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 abortion;

(11) Any death of an infant or child under 19 years of age where the medical history has not established some preexisting medical condition to clearly explain the death and the preterminal circumstances;

(12) Deaths which are possibly directly or indirectly attributable to environmental exposure not otherwise specified;

(13) Any death suspected to be due to infectious or contagious disease wherein the diagnosis and extent of the disease at the time are undetermined;

(14) Any death occurring under suspicious or unusual circumstances;

(15) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea; or

(16) When a body is brought into the country without proper medical certification.