Title 22 — Title 22

The said board shall have full power to establish rules and regulations for its government and to appoint and remove its officers and shall keep full and complete minutes of its transactions. Records shall also be kept under its direction of all bodies received and distributed by…

Bodies from Counties. All public officers of this state and their assistants and all officers and their deputies of every county, city, town or other municipality and of every prison, penitentiary, morgue and public hospital in this state having charge or control over any dead hu…

No notice shall be given, nor shall any such body or bodies be delivered, if any person shall satisfy the authorities in charge of said body or bodies that he or she is of any degree of kin or is related by marriage to, or socially or otherwise connected with and interested in, t…

Such body or bodies shall, in each and every instance, be held and kept by the person or persons having charge or control of it or them at least 24 hours after death before being delivered to said board, or its agent or agents, during which period notice of the death of such pers…

The said board, or its duly authorized agent, may take and receive such bodies so delivered as provided in this article and shall, upon receiving them, distribute them among schools, duly authorized by said board, for lectures and demonstrations by said schools, the number assign…

Said schools, upon receiving them, and before any use is made of them, and without unnecessary mutilation or dissection shall cause them to be properly embalmed and carefully preserved and kept for a period of 60 days from the day of their reception and shall deliver them properl…

When said bodies have been so used and are no longer needed or serviceable for objects mentioned in this article, they shall be decently interred, cremated or otherwise properly disposed of by the said schools. History: (Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1295; Code 1940, T.…

The said board may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of said bodies, which shall be enclosed in a suitable encasement and carefully deposited free from public observation. Said carrier or carriers shall obtain receipts by name or, if the person be unknown, by a desc…

Neither the state, nor any county or municipality nor any officer, agent or servant thereof shall be at any expense by reason of delivery or distribution of any such body or bodies, but all expenses thereof shall be paid by those receiving the body or bodies in such a manner as m…

Any person, for himself or as an officer, agent or employee of any other person or of any corporation or partnership, who shall: (1) Inter, cremate or otherwise finally dispose of a dead human body or permit the same to be done or remove such body from the primary registration di…

Any person having duties enjoined upon him by the provisions of this article or other health laws of this state relating to the distribution of unclaimed dead bodies for scientific study who shall neglect, refuse or omit to perform the same as therein required must, on conviction…

Every minister of the gospel or other person conducting religious services at a funeral shall inquire whether or not a burial or removal permit has been secured for the disposition of the body. Should it be found that a burial permit has not been secured, the undertaker or person…

(a) This article may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 1969. (b) This article shall only apply to gifts made prior to January 1, 2004. History: (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §9; Act 2003-347, p. 887, §3.)

For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) BANK or STORAGE FACILITY. A facility licensed, accredited or approved under the laws of any state for the storage of human bodies, or parts thereof. (2…

(a) Any individual of sound mind and 18 years of age or older may give all, or any part of, his body for any purposes specified in Section 22-19-43, the gift to take effect upon death. (b) Any of the following persons, in order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes ar…

The following persons may become donees of gifts of bodies, or parts thereof, for the purposes stated: (1) Any hospital, surgeon or physician for medical or dental education, research, advancement or medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation; (2) Any accredited medica…

(a) A gift of all or part of the body under subsection (a) of Section 22-19-42 may be made by will. The gift becomes effective upon the death of the testator without waiting for probate. If the will is not probated, or if it is declared invalid for testamentary purposes, the gift…

If the gift is made by the donor to a specified donee, the will, card or other document, or an executed copy thereof, may be delivered to the donee to expedite the appropriate procedures immediately after death. Delivery is not necessary to the validity of the gift. The will, car…

(a) If the will, card or other document, or executed copy thereof, has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke the gift by: (1) The execution and delivery to the donee of a signed statement; (2) An oral statement made in the presence of two persons and …

(a) The donee may accept or reject the gift. If the donee accepts a gift of the entire body, he may, subject to the terms of the gift, authorize embalming and the use of the body in funeral services. If the gift is of a part of the body, the donee, upon the death of the donor and…

(a) Each funeral establishment taking possession of a dead human body shall maintain an identification system approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service. The identification system may include any dignified method, including, but not limited to, an arm band or a wrist band, …

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008. History: (Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)

Gift to Be Noted on Driver’s License or Nondriver Identification Card; When Gift Effective; Execution and Acknowledgment of Affidavit; Effect of Expiration, Revocation, Renewal, Etc., of License or Card. (a) A gift of all or part of the body may be made by the holder of a valid A…

The officers and employees of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall be immune from any civil liability for any acts or omissions in carrying out the provisions of this division. History: (Acts 1976, No. 753, p. 1037, §2.)

System; Notation of Affirmative Response on License or Card. No later than January 1, 1998, the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall redesign the driver’s license and nondriver identification card application system to process requests for information regarding consent of t…

Enforcement Agency. A brochure provided by the federally certified Alabama Organ Procurement Organization that is a member of and abides by the rules and regulations of United Network for Organ Sharing explaining the method of expressing an intent to make an anatomical gift shall…

(a) This section shall be named Angelynn and Courtney’s Law. (b) The Legislature finds: (1) There is an acute need for organ donors in Alabama and throughout the nation. (2) According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, more than 121,000 people are waiting for an organ trans…

The Director of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall designate a space on each driver’s license and nondriver identification card issued where the licensee may place a sticker or decal to indicate in appropriate language that the owner of the license or card desires to …

The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall quarterly electronically transfer statistical and demographic information including, but not limited to, the name, most recent address, and date of birth, if available, of any person who has a current driver’s license or nondriver id…

Return of Driver’s License or Nondriver Identification Card in Event of Death. Police and emergency personnel responding to the scene of an accident or trauma shall take reasonable steps to insure that the driver’s license or nondriver identification card, donor card, or other do…

(a) Each duly elected or appointed coroner in the State of Alabama is authorized to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal and retention of blood and/or urine from the dead body of a person who died unattended by a physician, or who died under suspicious circumstances, or w…

Only a physician, registered nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technologist, clinical laboratory technician, mortician, licensed embalmer or licensed practicing embalmer may be directed by a coroner, deputy coroner, a law enforcement officer or the State Toxicologist or hi…

(a) No coroner, deputy coroner, the State Toxicologist and his designated or appointed assistants, mortician, licensed embalmer, physician, registered nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technologist or clinical laboratory technician or employers of the aforementioned person…

Cause or Manner of Death; Notice. (a) Unless directed otherwise by the Governor, the Attorney General, a district attorney, or an order of a circuit court judge, a medical examiner performing his or her duties in any county in this state as provided under existing law, including …