Does removing a DOM element remove the associated scope?

In Angular, scopes are associated with DOM elements. If you call $element.remove(), does $element.scope().$destroy() end up getting called as well? Or is the developer responsible for cleaning up scopes himself?

This makes me think that it removing a DOM element should automatically remove the scope:

angular.js

/////////////////////////////////////////////
// jQuery mutation patch
//
//  In conjunction with bindJQuery intercepts all jQuery's DOM destruction apis and fires a
// $destroy event on all DOM nodes being removed.
//
/////////////////////////////////////////////

function JQLitePatchJQueryRemove(name, dispatchThis) { /* ... */ }