§ 20-15-501. Title

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Act”.

§ 20-15-502. Reports required

(a) Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, city police officer, state police officer, member of the staff of any public or private hospital, or attending physician with knowledge of the sudden death of a child between the ages of one (1) week and one (1) year who appeared in apparent good health shall immediately report the death […]

§ 20-15-503. Autopsy

(a) Upon receipt of the report, the county coroner, or the county sheriff if the county coroner is unavailable, shall request from the parents or guardian of the deceased written permission upon a form provided by the Department of Health for an autopsy to be made to determine the exact cause of death. (b) (1) […]

§ 20-15-504. Limitation on autopsies

The Department of Health shall provide for the transportation and the autopsy as provided in § 20-15-503 only so long as federal funds are available to the department for the transportation and autopsies of suspected victims of sudden infant death syndrome.