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AL Code § 45-49-170.72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 1 - Environment.|Division 4 - Unsafe Structures.|Section 45-49-170.72 - Hearing; Appeal.

Section 45-49-170.72Hearing; appeal.  (a) Within the time specified in the notice, any person, firm, or corporation having an interest in the building or structure may file a written request for a hearing before the county commission, together with any objections to the finding by the appropriate county official that the building or structure constitutes a public nuisance. The filing of such a request shall hold in abeyance any action on the finding of the county official until a determination is made by the county commission. A hearing shall be held not less than five nor more than 30 days after it is requested. At the hearing the county commission shall determine whether or not the building or structure constitutes a public nuisance. If no hearing is timely requested, the county commission shall determine if a nuisance exists at the expiration of the 60 day period following notice. In the event that it is determined by the county commission that a building or structure constitutes a public nuisance, it shall order the building or structure to be demolished. Demolition may be accomplished by the county by the use of its own forces, or it may provide by contract for the demolition. The county may sell or otherwise dispose of salvaged materials resulting from a demolition. (b) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the governing body at a hearing, within 10 days thereafter, may appeal to the circuit court upon filing with the clerk of the court notice of the appeal and bond for security of costs in the form and amount to be approved by the circuit clerk. Upon filing the notice of appeal and approval of the bond, the clerk of the court shall serve a copy of the notice of appeal on the appropriate county official and the appeal shall be docketed as a preferred case. The appropriate county official, upon receiving notice of appeal, shall file with the clerk of the court a copy of the findings and determination of the county commission in the proceedings. A trial on the matter shall be held without jury upon the determination of the county commission that a building or structure constitutes a public nuisance.  (Act 2002-323, p. 890, § 4.)
AL Code § 45-49-170.73 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 1 - Environment.|Division 4 - Unsafe Structures.|Section 45-49-170.73 - Report of Cost of Demolition; Adoption of Resolution Fixing Costs; Proceeds of Sale of Salvaged Materials; Objections; Lien.

Section 45-49-170.73Report of cost of demolition; adoption of resolution fixing costs; proceeds of sale of salvaged materials; objections; lien. (a) Upon demolition of any building or structure pursuant to this subpart, the appropriate county official shall make a report to the county commission of the demolition costs at a meeting held for that purpose, and the county commission shall adopt a resolution fixing the costs which it finds were reasonably incurred in the demolition, and shall assess those costs against the property. The appropriate county official shall give notice of the meeting at which the fixing of such costs are to be considered by first-class mail to all entities having an interest in the property whose address and interest is determined from the tax collector's records on the property or is otherwise known to the official. The proceeds of any monies received from the sale of salvaged materials from a demolished building or structure shall be used or applied against the cost of the demolition. Any person, firm, or corporation having an interest in any demolished property may be heard at any such meeting as to any objection he or she may have to the fixing of such costs or the amounts of its demolition. (b) The fixing of costs by a resolution of the county commission shall constitute a special assessment against any lot or parcel of land upon which a building or structure was located, and duly made and confirmed shall constitute a lien on the property for the amount of the assessment. The lien shall be superior to all other liens on the property, except liens for taxes, and shall continue in force until paid. A certified copy of the resolution of the county commission fixing the costs shall also be filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county. The tax collector of the county shall add the amount of the lien to the ad valorem tax bill on the property and shall collect the amount as if it were a tax and remit the amount to the county.  (Act 2002-323, p. 890, § 5.)
AL Code § 45-49-170.74 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 1 - Environment.|Division 4 - Unsafe Structures.|Section 45-49-170.74 - Assessment of Costs; Sale and Redemption of Lots.

Section 45-49-170.74Assessment of costs; sale and redemption of lots. The county commission may assess the costs authorized herein against any real property where a demolition or removal has taken place and the property is subsequently purchased by the State of Alabama at any sale for the nonpayment of taxes. If any such assessment is made against a piece of real property, a subsequent redemption of the property by any person or persons authorized to redeem, or a sale of the property by the state, shall not operate to discharge, or in any manner affect the lien of the county for the assessment, but any redemptioner or purchaser at any sale by the state of any piece of real property upon which an assessment has been levied, whether prior to or subsequent to a sale to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, shall take the property subject to the assessment. The assessment shall then be added to the tax bill of the property, collected as a tax, and remitted to the county.  (Act 2002-323, p. 890, § 6.)
AL Code § 45-49-170.75 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 1 - Environment.|Division 4 - Unsafe Structures.|Section 45-49-170.75 - Subpart Cumulative.

Section 45-49-170.75Subpart cumulative. This subpart shall be cumulative in its nature and in addition to any and all power and authority which the county commission may have under any other law.  (Act 2002-323, p. 890, § 7.)
AL Code § 45-49-171 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 1 - Board of Health.|Section 45-49-171 - Fees.

Section 45-49-171Fees. The Board of Health of Mobile County is hereby authorized to charge and collect any fee it deems necessary and proper for any service rendered by its officers, employees, or agents in the performance of duties, functions, and programs required by law or by regulation or resolution of the county or State Board of Health. The Board of Health of Mobile County may fix a schedule of fees which shall cover the actual cost or a portion thereof involved in the performance of the service rendered. Any fee schedule fixed pursuant to this section shall not go into effect until adopted by the County Commission of Mobile County. The schedule of fees fixed by the board of health and adopted by the county commission may be increased by the board from time to time as is necessary to reflect cost of living increases in pay of Mobile County merit system classified personnel employed by the board as may hereafter be authorized by the Personnel Board of Mobile County.  (Acts 1971, No. 57, p. 310, § 1; Act 80-332, p. 452, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 2 - Health Department.|Section 45-49-171.20 - Funding - Amounts.

Section 45-49-171.20Funding - Amounts. There shall be paid annually, in equal monthly installments, out of the General Fund of Mobile County to the board of health of such county such sums of money as shall be reasonably necessary for the county health department, for the acquisition of land, the erection, construction, extension, renewal, and repair of any buildings and improvements thereon, and for the maintenance and operation of such department, under the direction of the county health officer, which sum for any fiscal year after September 30, 1987, shall not be less than a sum equal to one dollar seventy-five cents ($1.75) per capita of population according to the last or any succeeding federal census, and which sum for any fiscal year after September 30, 1989, shall not be less than a sum equal to two dollars ($2) per capita of population according to the last or any succeeding federal census. The amount to be appropriated each year shall be determined by the governing body of the county under the foregoing rules and directions. Such sum may be anticipated, but for not longer than 12 months, by temporary loan certificates issued by the county board of health, and, when anticipated, the proceeds shall be used for the same purposes as the sum so appropriated.  (Acts 1967, No. 544, p. 1294, § 2; Act 87-493, p. 751, § 2.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 2 - Health Department.|Section 45-49-171.21 - Funding - Increase.

Section 45-49-171.21Funding - Increase. There shall be paid annually, in equal monthly installments, out of the general funds of the several incorporated municipalities of Mobile County to the board of health of such county such sums of money as shall be reasonably necessary for the county health department, for the acquisition of land, the erection, construction, extension, renewal, and repair of any buildings and improvements thereon, and for the maintenance and operation of such department, under the direction of the county health officer, which sum for any fiscal year after September 30, 1987, shall not be less than a sum equal to one dollar seventy-five cents ($1.75) per capita of population according to the last or any succeeding federal census, and which sum for any fiscal year after September 30, 1989, shall not be less than a sum equal to two dollars ($2) per capita of population according to the last or any succeeding federal census. The amount to be appropriated each year shall be determined by the governing body of the county under the foregoing rules and directions. After fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, the sum shall not be less than a sum equal to two dollars ($2) per capita of population according to the last or any succeeding federal census. Such sum may be anticipated, but for not longer than 12 months, by temporary loan certificates issued by the county board of health, and, when anticipated, the proceeds shall be used for the same purposes as the sum so appropriated.  (Acts 1967, No. 751, p. 1606, § 2; Acts 1975, No. 661, p. 1417, § 1; Act 87-819, p. 1655, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 2 - Health Department.|Section 45-49-171.22 - Cost-of-Living Pension Increases.

Section 45-49-171.22Cost-of-living pension increases. Whenever the retired employees of the state are granted a cost-of-living pension increase either by act of the Legislature or action of the Board of Control of the State Employees' Retirement System, the retired employees of the Mobile County Health Department shall be granted a cost-of-living pension increase on a percentage basis equal to any such increase granted to retired state employees. Such increases for such retired health department employees shall be funded out of any and all appropriations made to the Mobile County Health Department.  (Act 84-477, p. 1098, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 3 - Indigent Care Board.|Section 45-49-171.40 - Definitions.

Section 45-49-171.40Definitions. For the purposes of this subpart, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) COUNTY COMMISSION. The County Commission of Mobile County, as it is duly constituted on July 14, 1983, and any subsequent duly constituted governing body of Mobile County. (2) MEDICALLY INDIGENT PERSON. Any person who is a resident of Mobile County and who is ill, injured, and suffering whose condition can be helped or relieved by treatment in a hospital, but who is unable to pay the cost of hospital treatment, or who is able to pay only a portion of the cost of such hospital treatment.  (Act 83-501, p. 704, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 3 - Indigent Care Board.|Section 45-49-171.42 - Legislative Intent.

Section 45-49-171.42Legislative intent. It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this subpart to be in accordance with Section 88 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.  (Act 83-501, p. 704, § 3.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.43 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 3 - Indigent Care Board.|Section 45-49-171.43 - Funding - Accounts; Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-49-171.43Funding - Accounts; disposition of funds. (a) The county commission shall establish an account or accounts within the general fund of the county for payment of such amounts recommended by the Mobile County Indigent Care Board, as set forth herein. The county commission shall place into such account or accounts an amount equal to the sum of one-half, or 50 percent, of all oil and gas severance tax revenues, designated for and distributed to the General Fund of Mobile County, and remaining after distribution of those revenues to the Mobile County Board of Health and the Mobile County Board of Education provided for by Section 45-49-248, pursuant to Article 1, commencing with Section 40-19-1, of Chapter 20, Title 40, as amended, not to include any and all net revenues held in escrow, as a result of litigation, for Mobile County which have been collected pursuant to Act 79-434 and Act 80-708. (b) Allocation of such revenues for indigent care shall not exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000), in fiscal year 1982-1983. In subsequent years the board shall consider such factors as estimated population growth, unemployment rates, population age distribution, and other such demographic and sociological factors as might be indicative of indigent care needs in establishing the levels of indigent care funding, provided, however, that the funds so allocated shall not be less than the funds allocated for the previous year as adjusted by change in the hospital consumer price index. (c) The remainder of all revenues paid to Mobile County pursuant to any other severance tax or privilege tax on oil and gas, under any general or local law whatsoever, shall not be deemed a part of or included in the provision of this subpart. The revenues shall be used by the Mobile County Indigent Care Board to provide for the costs of medical care and treatment of medically indigent citizens of Mobile County, as set forth herein. Provided, however, that if the subject revenues exceed the need for funds to reimburse for medical care for the medically indigent of Mobile County, as of the end of the fiscal year of the county commission, then such funds shall revert to the General Fund of Mobile County. (d) The provisions of this section are cumulative and shall apply to all of the additional oil and gas severance tax revenues henceforth to be distributed.  (Act 83-501, p. 704, §§ 4, 7.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.44 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 3 - Indigent Care Board.|Section 45-49-171.44 - Funding - Additional Revenues.

Section 45-49-171.44Funding - Additional revenues. The county commission also shall obligate such additional revenues from the General Fund of Mobile County in the amount of any oil and gas severance tax revenues being held in escrow designated for Mobile County and collected pursuant to Act 79-434 and Act 80-708, and in the amount of any funds transferred from the License Commissioner of Mobile County to the General Fund of Mobile County which relates to beer taxes; such revenues to be used to the extent the board may require same to perform properly its duties as provided in Section 45-49-171.41 after such funds authorized in Section 45-49-171.43 have been appropriated and paid out by the board. Provided, however, that in the event that oil and gas severance tax revenues held in escrow and collected pursuant to Act 79-434 and Act 80-708 and distributed to the General Fund of Mobile County are reduced by judicial decree, the county commission shall obligate funds from its general fund in an amount equal to one-half, or 50 percent, of such reduction, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) per annum for the 1982-83 and 1983-84 fiscal years of the county commission to the extent the board may require same to perform properly its duties as provided in Section 45-49-171.41 after such funds authorized in Section 45-49-171.43 have been appropriated and paid out by the board.  (Act 83-501, p. 704, § 5.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.45 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 3 - Indigent Care Board.|Section 45-49-171.45 - Authority to Bring Suit.

Section 45-49-171.45Authority to bring suit. The Mobile County Indigent Care Board shall be authorized and empowered to bring and prosecute any suits in its name, as agent for the County of Mobile, against any person whose cost of hospitalization, in whole or in part, has been paid by the board to the provider of medical care or the hospital, within the statutory period fixed by law.  (Act 83-501, p. 704, § 6.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 4 - Medical Examiner.|Section 45-49-171.60 - Office of Coroner Abolished.

Section 45-49-171.60Office of coroner abolished.  In Mobile County, Alabama, the office of coroner is hereby abolished and all powers, rights, and duties now or hereafter authorized or required by law to be performed by such coroner shall be exercised and performed by the county medical examiner as hereinafter provided for in this subpart.  (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 1.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 4 - Medical Examiner.|Section 45-49-171.61 - County Medical Examiner; Deputies.

Section 45-49-171.61County Medical Examiner; deputies. The State Medical Examiner assigned to the Department of Forensic Sciences, Region IV office in Mobile, Alabama, shall also serve as the County Medical Examiner for Mobile County. Other state medical examiners may be assigned as deputy county medical examiners.  (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 2.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.62 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 4 - Medical Examiner.|Section 45-49-171.62 - Qualifications.

Section 45-49-171.62Qualifications. The county medical examiner shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and trained in anatomic and forensic pathology. Any vacancy in the county shall be filled by appointment of the Director of the Department of Forensic Sciences, who may waive the requirement temporarily to appoint a physician licensed to practice medicine and trained in anatomic pathology when a vacancy exists which he or she is seeking to fill.  (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 3.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.63 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 4 - Medical Examiner.|Section 45-49-171.63 - Investigation of Deaths.

Section 45-49-171.63Investigation of deaths. It shall be the duty of the county medical examiner to investigate any death in Mobile County when the death may 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, resulting, that is, from suicidal, accidental, homicidal, or undetermined injury, regardless of when or where the injury occurred. (3) Any death suspected to be due to alcohol or drugs or exposure to toxic agents. (4) Deaths due to poisoning. (5) All deaths of persons in the custody of law enforcement officers or in penal institutions. (6) Deaths suspected to be involved with the decedent's occupation. (7) Deaths 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 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. (16) When a body is brought into Mobile County without proper medical certification.  (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 4.)
AL Code § 45-49-171.64 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 49 - Mobile County.|Article 17 - Health and Environment.|Part 2 - Health.|Division 4 - Medical Examiner.|Section 45-49-171.64 - Authority of Medical Examiner in Death Investigations.

Section 45-49-171.64Authority of medical examiner in death investigations. While investigating a death hereunder, the County Medical Examiner of Mobile County shall be authorized to take charge of the dead body, and he, she, or a law enforcement officer having jurisdiction, or the medical examiner's legal designee, 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, or both. The county medical examiner shall examine the body and 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.  (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 5.)