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12-12-316. Transportation of corpses.
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12-12-316. Transportation of corpses.
(a) The State Crime Laboratory is authorized to transport bodies of persons whose death is subject to the provisions of this subchapter to an appropriate place for autopsy or for any other scientific tests.
(b)(1)(A) The bodies of such deceased persons shall be returned to the county from which they were brought by or at the expense of the laboratory only if the State Medical Examiner determines that the cause of death was not suicide, accidental, or from natural causes.
(B) In cases in which the examiner determines that the cause of death was suicide, accidental, or from natural causes, the expense of transporting and returning the bodies of such deceased persons shall be borne by whomever requests the laboratory to examine the cause of death, except for cases referred under the provisions of § 12-12-315(a)(2).
(C) A body may be transported when authorized by the prosecuting attorney, circuit court, county sheriff, or chief of police, or upon the request of the next of kin of the deceased or the persons who may be responsible for burial, to a place other than the county of origin.
(2) The laboratory shall not, however, be required to provide actual transportation or the cost of transportation in excess of what would be required to return the body to the county of origin.
(c) The laboratory shall provide transportation or shall bear the cost of transportation at the option of the Director of the State Crime Laboratory, but in no case shall the cost of transportation of dead bodies subject to the provisions of this subchapter be borne by the laboratory without the prior approval and authorization of the director or his or her staff.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-12-316
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12-12-316. Transportation of corpses.
(a) The State Crime Laboratory is authorized to transport bodies of persons whose death is subject to the provisions of this subchapter to an appropriate place for autopsy or for any other scientific tests.
(b)(1)(A) The bodies of such deceased persons shall be returned to the county from which they were brought by or at the expense of the laboratory only if the State Medical Examiner determines that the cause of death was not suicide, accidental, or from natural causes.
(B) In cases in which the examiner determines that the cause of death was suicide, accidental, or from natural causes, the expense of transporting and returning the bodies of such deceased persons shall be borne by whomever requests the laboratory to examine the cause of death, except for cases referred under the provisions of § 12-12-315(a)(2).
(C) A body may be transported when authorized by the prosecuting attorney, circuit court, county sheriff, or chief of police, or upon the request of the next of kin of the deceased or the persons who may be responsible for burial, to a place other than the county of origin.
(2) The laboratory shall not, however, be required to provide actual transportation or the cost of transportation in excess of what would be required to return the body to the county of origin.
(c) The laboratory shall provide transportation or shall bear the cost of transportation at the option of the Director of the State Crime Laboratory, but in no case shall the cost of transportation of dead bodies subject to the provisions of this subchapter be borne by the laboratory without the prior approval and authorization of the director or his or her staff.
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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.