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12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity.
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12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity.
(a)(1) All law enforcement officers and other state, county, and city officials, as well as private citizens, shall fully cooperate with the staff of the State Crime Laboratory in making any investigation provided for or authorized in this subchapter.
(2)(A) The prosecuting attorney for each judicial district shall provide the laboratory each month with a list of cases having been adjudicated through plea negotiations and which require no further laboratory analysis.
(B) The monthly list shall contain the laboratory case number and will be used by the laboratory for the purpose of returning evidence on which analysis is no longer necessary, thus reducing the backlog of cases found on the evidence shelves at the laboratory.
(3) Nothing in this subchapter shall impair the authority of the prosecuting attorney to require further analysis of evidence in any case having been adjudicated through plea negotiations.
(4)(A) Upon completion of all requested analysis of submitted evidence by the laboratory, the evidence shall be returned to the submitting agency within thirty (30) days.
(B) The submitting agency shall maintain and store evidence until released by a court of competent jurisdiction or the prosecuting attorney.
(b) Any physician or other person in attendance or present at the death of a person, or any hospital, if death occurs therein and results from such conditions and circumstances as set out in § 12-12-315, shall promptly notify the chief law enforcement official of the county or municipality which shall have jurisdiction and the laboratory of the death and shall assist in making available dead bodies and related evidence as may be requested by the Director of the State Crime Laboratory or h
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-12-311
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12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity.
(a)(1) All law enforcement officers and other state, county, and city officials, as well as private citizens, shall fully cooperate with the staff of the State Crime Laboratory in making any investigation provided for or authorized in this subchapter.
(2)(A) The prosecuting attorney for each judicial district shall provide the laboratory each month with a list of cases having been adjudicated through plea negotiations and which require no further laboratory analysis.
(B) The monthly list shall contain the laboratory case number and will be used by the laboratory for the purpose of returning evidence on which analysis is no longer necessary, thus reducing the backlog of cases found on the evidence shelves at the laboratory.
(3) Nothing in this subchapter shall impair the authority of the prosecuting attorney to require further analysis of evidence in any case having been adjudicated through plea negotiations.
(4)(A) Upon completion of all requested analysis of submitted evidence by the laboratory, the evidence shall be returned to the submitting agency within thirty (30) days.
(B) The submitting agency shall maintain and store evidence until released by a court of competent jurisdiction or the prosecuting attorney.
(b) Any physician or other person in attendance or present at the death of a person, or any hospital, if death occurs therein and results from such conditions and circumstances as set out in § 12-12-315, shall promptly notify the chief law enforcement official of the county or municipality which shall have jurisdiction and the laboratory of the death and shall assist in making available dead bodies and related evidence as may be requested by the Director of the State Crime Laboratory or his or her staff or by the law enforcement agency conducting the investigation.
(c) Any physician, surgeon, dentist, hospital, or other supplier of healthcare services shall cooperate and make available to the director or his or her staff the records, reports, charts, specimens, or X-rays of the deceased as may be requested where death occurs and an investigation is being conducted under the provisions of this subchapter.
(d) No person, institution, or office in this state which shall make available information or material under this section shall be liable for violating any criminal law of this state, nor shall any person, institution, or office be held liable in tort for compliance with this section.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
12-12-315. Notification of certain deaths.
(a)(1) The county coroner, prosecuting attorney, and either the county sheriff or the chief of police of the municipality in which the death of a human being occurs shall be promptly notified by any physician, law enforcement officer, undertaker or embalmer, jailer, or coroner or by any other person present or with knowledge of the death if:
(A) The death appears to be caused by violence or appears to be the result of a homicide or a suicide or to be accidental;
(B) The death appears to be the result of the presence of drugs or poisons in the body;
(C) The death appears to be a result of a motor vehicle accident, or the body was found in or near a roadway or railroad;
(D) The death appears to be a result of a motor vehicle accident and there is no obvious trauma to the body;
(E) The death occurs while the person is in a state mental institution or hospital and there is no previous medical history to explain the death, or while the person is in police custody or jail other than a jail operated by the Division of Correction;
(F) The death appears to be the result of a fire or an explosion;
(G) The death of a minor child appears to indicate child abuse prior to death;
(H) Human skeletal remains are recovered or an unidentified deceased person is discovered;
(I) Postmortem decomposition exists to the extent that an external examination of the corpse cannot rule out injury, or in which the circumstances of death cannot rule out the commission of a crime;
(J) The death appears to be the result of drowning;
(K) The death is of an infant or a minor child under eighteen (18) years of age;
(L) The manner of death appears to be other than natural;
(M) The death is sudden and unexplained;
(N) The death occurs
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-12-315
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 12-12-315. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.