Section 23-4-16. – Uniform determination of death.
§ 23-4-16. Uniform determination of death. A person who has sustained either: (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards. History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. […]
Section 23-4-14. – Preservation of reports — Tabular reports.
§ 23-4-14. Preservation of reports — Tabular reports. The director of the department of health shall cause the returns received by the office of state medical examiners and reports made by that office on causes of death for each year, in accordance with this chapter, to be bound together with an index to the volume. […]
Section 23-4-14.1. – Repealed.
§ 23-4-14.1. Repealed.
Section 23-4-15. – Morgue.
§ 23-4-15. Morgue. A centrally located morgue shall be provided with laboratories, furniture, equipment, records, and supplies that may be required in the conduct of the office of state medical examiners. History of Section.P.L. 1973, ch. 169, § 1; P.L. 1992, ch. 400, § 1.
Section 23-4-7. – Reporting of certain deaths required — Violations — Penalties.
§ 23-4-7. Reporting of certain deaths required — Violations — Penalties. (a)(1) Where any person shall die in any manner to suggest the possibility of a criminal act or as the result of violence or apparent suicide, or from a criminal abortion or in any suspicious or unusual manner, it shall be the duty of […]
Section 23-4-8. – Procedure for investigation of deaths.
§ 23-4-8. Procedure for investigation of deaths. (a) When the office of state medical examiners has notice that there has been found or is lying within this state the body of a person who is supposed to have come to his or her death by violence, or in any manner as stated in § 23-4-7, […]
Section 23-4-9. – Deaths in public places.
§ 23-4-9. Deaths in public places. In the event that a person dies suddenly on a public highway or elsewhere in the public view and the death appears to be from natural causes or the result of injuries received from a highway accident, the state police or any superior officer of the local police or […]
Section 23-4-10. – Disposition of deceased bodies.
§ 23-4-10. Disposition of deceased bodies. (a) The office of state medical examiners shall, after any postmortem examination or any autopsy, promptly release the deceased body to the relatives, representatives or domestic partners of the deceased. The cost of transporting the deceased body to a mortuary within the state of the relatives’ or domestic partner’s […]
Section 23-4-11. – Effects and property of deceased.
§ 23-4-11. Effects and property of deceased. An agent of the office of state medical examiners, as the case may be, may take into his or her possession all articles and property of the deceased on or about the body and shall deliver them to the office of the chief medical examiner if an autopsy […]
Section 23-4-12. – Compensation for recovery of body from water.
§ 23-4-12. Compensation for recovery of body from water. When services are rendered in bringing to land the dead body of a person found in any of the harbors, rivers, or waters of the state, compensation for services as he or she deemed reasonable may be allowed; but this privilege shall not entitle any person […]