Section 45-37-60.02 - Staffing requirements; coroner-medical examiner qualifications(a) The employment and compensation of all members of the staff shall be governed by any applicable civil service law.(b) Each coroner-medical examiner shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama and recognized and trained in forensic medicine and pathology; provided, however, that the county governing body may waive this requirement temporarily whenever a vacancy exists in the position which the county governing body is seeking to fill.Ala. Code § 45-37-60.02 (1975)