Coroners; items of value of the deceased shall not be converted to the coroner/medical examiner's personal use
It became law on Apr 24, 2014.
- Stage
- Became law
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- Senate
- Sponsors
- 4
- Latest action
- Apr 24, 2014
What it does
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to duties of coroner or county medical examiner upon receipt of notice of suspicious or unusual death, authority to embalm body, identification, inventory and disposition of deceased's property, use of deceased's property for evidence, and autopsy when death occurs on state owned property, so as to provide that items of value of a deceased person of which a coroner or medical examiner takes possession shall not be converted to the coroner or medical examiner's personal use; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other…
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