(a) The medical examiner or forensic science pathologist in Mobile County is hereby authorized to provide a cornea to any patient in need of corneal tissue for a transplant upon request of a certified eye bank, certified by the Eye Bank Association of America under all of the following conditions:
- (1) If a decedent who may provide a suitable cornea for the transplant is under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner or forensic science pathologist and an autopsy will be required in accordance with state law.
- (2) If no objection by the next of kin is known by the medical examiner or forensic science pathologist.
- (3) If the cornea for transplant will not interfere with the subsequent course of an investigation or autopsy or will alter the postmortem facial appearance.
- (b) Upon compliance with this section, the medical examiner or forensic science pathologist or the certified eye bank shall not have any civil or criminal liability.
(Act 86-406, p. 595, §§ 1, 2.)