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12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies.
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12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies.
(a) Where death occurs under such circumstances as are set forth in § 12-12-315 and where a body has been buried without proper certification of death, it shall be the duty of the chief law enforcement official of the county or municipality in which death occurred or in which the body is buried or the State Medical Examiner, his or her associates, assistants, or deputies to notify the prosecuting attorney of the jurisdiction in which death occurred and the body is buried.
(b) The prosecuting attorney shall thereupon present the facts to the circuit court of the county, and the court may, by written order, require that the body be exhumed and an autopsy be performed by the State Crime Laboratory or its designee.
(c) A full and complete report of the facts developed by the autopsy shall be furnished to the court and the prosecuting attorney in timely fashion.
(d) The cost of the exhumation and for transportation to and from the place of autopsy shall be borne by the county in which the death occurred.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-12-321
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12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies.
(a) Where death occurs under such circumstances as are set forth in § 12-12-315 and where a body has been buried without proper certification of death, it shall be the duty of the chief law enforcement official of the county or municipality in which death occurred or in which the body is buried or the State Medical Examiner, his or her associates, assistants, or deputies to notify the prosecuting attorney of the jurisdiction in which death occurred and the body is buried.
(b) The prosecuting attorney shall thereupon present the facts to the circuit court of the county, and the court may, by written order, require that the body be exhumed and an autopsy be performed by the State Crime Laboratory or its designee.
(c) A full and complete report of the facts developed by the autopsy shall be furnished to the court and the prosecuting attorney in timely fashion.
(d) The cost of the exhumation and for transportation to and from the place of autopsy shall be borne by the county in which the death occurred.
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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.