Code of Alabama - Title 36: Public Officers and Employees - Chapter 18 - Director of Forensic Sciences
- Article 1 General Provisions.
- Section 36-18-1 Appointment; removal
There shall be a Director of the Department of Forensic Sciences who shall be appointed by the Attorney General upon certification by the Director of...
- Section 36-18-2 Duties generally; maintenance, inspection, and copying of reports of investigations of Director of Forensic Sciences; police authority of Director of Forensic Sciences and assistants
The duties of the director shall be to make such investigations, including any necessary autopsy, to be performed by physicians licensed to practice medicine in...
- Section 36-18-3 Offices and laboratories
The director shall maintain an office and a laboratory for the scientific investigation of deaths and crime at Auburn, Alabama, and shall be furnished adequate...
- Section 36-18-4 Salary and expenses
The salary of the director shall be established as provided in Section 36-6-6 and shall be payable out of the funds provided therefor in the...
- Section 36-18-5 Continued employment of certain employees
All present employees of the office of State Toxicologist (State Department of Toxicology and Criminal Investigation) shall remain in their respective positions and continue to...
- Section 36-18-6 Alabama Forensic Services Trust Fund - Created
The Alabama Forensic Services Trust Fund is created and shall be administered by the Director of the Department of Forensic Sciences.
- Section 36-18-7 Alabama Forensic Services Trust Fund - Additional fee for persons convicted of drug possession, sale, trafficking; proceeds and earnings credited to fund
(a) Beginning October 1, 1995, in addition to all fines, fees, costs, and punishments prescribed by law, there shall be imposed or assessed an additional...
- Section 36-18-8 Alabama Forensic Services Trust Fund - Fees charged for use of department personnel in private lawsuits; proceeds and earnings credited to fund
(a) Beginning October 1, 1995, the Director of the Department of Forensic Sciences shall charge and collect three hundred dollars ($300) per hour for the...
- Section 36-18-9 Costs of services provided by department
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any county in which the Department of Forensic Sciences performs the duties of the county coroner or county...
- Article 2 DNA Database System.
- Section 36-18-20 Declaration of purpose
The Legislature hereby finds, determines and declares: (a) That the tragic incidence of violent crime in our society is growing at an alarming rate, and...
- Section 36-18-21 Definitions
As used in this article, the following words, phrases or terms shall have the following meanings, respectively unless the context thereof clearly indicates otherwise: (a)...
- Section 36-18-22 Powers of director
The director is hereby authorized and empowered to: (1) Collect, accept, analyze, test and store DNA samples. (2) Create, maintain or exchange DNA records. (3)...
- Section 36-18-23 Compatibility with procedures specified by Federal Bureau of Investigation
The director shall ensure that forensic DNA testing conducted pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be conducted in a manner that is compatible...
- Section 36-18-24 DNA database
(a) The director is hereby authorized and empowered to create and establish a DNA database for the purposes of: (1) Assisting federal, state, county, municipal,...
- Section 36-18-25 Collection of DNA samples from convicted persons
(a) All persons convicted of a criminal offense as set out in Section 36-18-24 shall, when requested by the director submit to the taking of...
- Section 36-18-26 Expungement of DNA records
Upon the reversal of conviction, the director shall be authorized and empowered to expunge DNA records upon request of the person from whom the sample...
- Section 36-18-27 Disclosure of DNA records
DNA records collected and maintained for the purpose of the identification of criminal suspects or offenders shall be disclosed only: (a) To criminal justice agencies...
- Section 36-18-28 Penalties
(a) A person who by virtue of employment or official position has possession of, or access to, individually identifiable DNA information indexed or otherwise contained...
- Section 36-18-29 Penalty for false entry or alteration of records
A person who shall knowingly make any false entry or falsely alter any record of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences; or who shall intentionally...
- Section 36-18-30 Admissibility of evidence relating to use of genetic markers
Expert testimony or evidence relating to the use of genetic markers contained in or derived from DNA for identification purposes shall be admissible and accepted...
- Section 36-18-31 Statistical database
(a) The director is hereby authorized and empowered to create and establish a DNA population statistical database which shall not include therein individually identifiable information....
- Section 36-18-32 DNA Database Fund
(a) There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the Alabama DNA Database Fund. (b) The fund shall be placed under the...
- Section 36-18-32.1 Purpose; disposition of funds
It is the intent of Act 2009-768 to effect the changes provided in criminal procedure, and concurrently, to reduce criminal conduct by promoting good citizenship...
- Section 36-18-33 Municipal share of docket fees not increased
The increase in fees provided in this article shall in no instance operate to increase the municipal share of the docket fees collected in municipal...
- Section 36-18-34 Powers of director
(a) For the purposes of performing any of the functions, duties, or responsibilities of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences or for the purposes of...
- Section 36-18-35 Unlawful influence; conflict of interest; penalties
(a) Any person who confers, offers, or agrees to confer anything of value upon any director, agent, or employee of the Alabama Department of Forensic...
- Section 36-18-36 Director to have powers of corporation; powers of department
For the purposes of implementing the provisions of this article or to defray the costs thereof, the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences...
- Section 36-18-37 Immunity from civil liability
(a) Neither the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences nor any person designated by the director for the purposes of taking, collecting, storing,...
- Section 36-18-38 Representation by Attorney General
The Attorney General shall represent the director in all litigation to which the director is a party or in which the director has an interest...
- Section 36-18-39 Construction
This article shall be broadly construed and, if necessary, reconstrued to make its provisions constitutional.
- Article 3 Alabama Chemical Testing Training and Equipment Trust Fund.
Last modified: May 3, 2021