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Section 17-5-5. Definitions. - As used in this chapter: (1) "Autopsy" means the dissection...
Section 17-5-10. Election of coroner. - There must be an election for coroner by the qualified...
Section 17-5-20. Bond. - Before receiving his commission, the coroner must post a bond,...
Section 17-5-30. Official oaths; commission. - Before the coroner is qualified to act, he must take...
Section 17-5-40. Term. - A coroner shall serve a term of office for four...
Section 17-5-50. Vacancy. - (A) Except as provided in subsection (B), in the event...
Section 17-5-60. Office; book of inquisitions. - The coroner must keep a public office in his county...
Section 17-5-70. Coroner's deputies, appointment and duties. - A county coroner shall appoint one or more deputies or...
Section 17-5-90. Coroner may not act under appointment of sheriff. - No coroner may act as jailer or deputy sheriff or...
Section 17-5-100. Coroners must carry out orders of county governing body; fees and costs. - Coroners must execute all lawful orders directed to them by...
Section 17-5-110. Coroner or deputy coroner may carry pistol or other handgun. - A coroner or deputy coroner, while engaged in official duties...
Section 17-5-115. Deputy coroners; training and law enforcement status. - (A) A person appointed by a coroner to the position...
Section 17-5-120. Availability of medical records to coroner of another state. - Records, papers, or reports concerning the death of a person...
Section 17-5-130. Coroner qualifications; affidavits of candidates; training; exemptions; Coroners Training Advisory Committee; Expenses. - (A)(1) A coroner in this State shall have all of...
Section 17-5-140. Funding for full-time county coroners; disbursement of remaining funds. - (A) From the funds appropriated for the implementation of this...
Section 17-5-220. Establishment and functions of medical examiner commissions in certain counties. - A county with a population of 100,000 or more, according...
Section 17-5-230. Medical examiner commission shall employ medical examiner; duties; assistants; facilities. - The commission must employ a skilled physician or pathologist as...
Section 17-5-240. Employment and duties of deputy medical examiners. - In addition to those powers granted in Section 17-5-330, the...
Section 17-5-280. Records to be kept in office of medical examiner; index; copies; admissibility in evidence. - The medical examiner's office must keep complete indexed records of...
Section 17-5-330. Salaries and fees; annual budget. - The commission must fix the salary of the medical examiner....
Section 17-5-510. Duties of coroner and medical examiner. - In counties which have both a coroner and a medical...
Section 17-5-520. Authority to order autopsy; request in event of child's death. - (A) In addition to the powers vested in other law...
Section 17-5-530. Duty to notify coroner's or medical examiner's office of certain deaths and stillbirths; inquiry; findings; notification of next-of-kin; consent for certain actions. - (A) If a person dies: (1) as a result of...
Section 17-5-535. Persons authorized to view photographs or videos of autopsy; training use exception; penalty. - (A) Photographs, videos, or other visual images and audio recordings...
Section 17-5-540. Coroner or medical examiner to notify Department of Child Fatalities of certain child deaths. - The coroner or medical examiner, within twenty-four hours or one...
Section 17-5-541. Local Child Fatality Review Teams; composition; notifications. - (A) For the purposes of this section, "a person responsible...
Section 17-5-542. Local Child Fatality Review Teams; purpose; reports. - (A) The purpose of the local Child Fatality Review Team...
Section 17-5-543. Meetings of Child Fatality Review Team; confidentiality; penalties. - (A) Meetings of the Child Fatality Review Team, the "review...
Section 17-5-544. Child Fatality Review team; exemptions from disclosure; public information; penalties. - (A) All information, documents, and records of the Child Fatality...
Section 17-5-550. Coroner or medical examiner may petition for warrant to inspect home of child whose death occurred elsewhere. - If the home or premises last inhabited by a child...
Section 17-5-555. Reporting certain deaths of vulnerable adults. - (A) The coroner or medical examiner, within twenty- four hours...
Section 17-5-560. Certification of cause of death on death certificate. - (A) The coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner, or deputy medical...
Section 17-5-570. Release and burial of dead bodies; preservation and disposition of unidentified dead bodies. - (A) After the post-mortem examination, autopsy, or inquest has been...
Section 17-5-580. Authorization for removal of dead body; penalties; coroner's jury. - (A)(1) It is unlawful for any person to move or...
Section 17-5-590. Disposition of remains of unidentified dead bodies. - If the body of a dead person is unidentifiable, the...
Section 17-5-600. Permit required for cremation. - When the body of any dead person who died in...
Section 17-5-610. Duty to notify coroner or medical examiner in certain cases when body is buried without investigation. - If in a case of sudden, violent, or suspicious death...