Section 15. A medical examiner responding to the scene of a death shall take charge of any money or other personal property of the deceased found on or near the body, or may request the police department to do so. The medical examiner or police department shall, unless such money or property is required as evidence, deliver it to the person entitled to its custody or possession, or, if not claimed within sixty days, to a public administrator. A medical examiner or police officer who fraudulently refuses to deliver such property within ten days after demand or who converts such property to his own use shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two years.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VI - Counties and County Officers
Chapter 38 - Medical Examiners and Inquests
Section 2a - State and Local Multidisciplinary Child Fatality Review Teams
Section 3 - Duty to Report Deaths; Failure to Report
Section 4 - Investigation; Transportation of Bodies
Section 5 - Cooperation With Office of Chief Medical Examiner
Section 7 - Attorney General; Notice of Circumstances of Death
Section 9 - Accidental Deaths; Public Conveyances; Transcript of Inquest
Section 10 - Report of Findings by Court
Section 11 - Persons Charged With Crime; Arrest
Section 12 - Embalming Fluid; Restriction on Use
Section 13 - Release of Body; Pronouncement of Death
Section 14 - Bodies Intended for Cremation or Burial at Sea; Authorization; Fees