Pennsylvania § 6317 Mandatory reporting and postmortem investigation of deaths

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 6317 — Mandatory reporting and postmortem investigation of deaths

Pennsylvania § 6317

JurisdictionPennsylvania

Title 23DOMESTIC RELATIONS

PartPART VII

Ch. 63CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES

Subch.PROVISIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR

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Bluebook

23 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 6317 (2026).

Text

A person or official required to report cases of suspected child abuse, including employees of a county agency, who has reasonable cause to suspect that a child died as a result of child abuse shall report that suspicion to the appropriate coroner or medical examiner. The coroner or medical examiner shall accept the report for investigation and shall report his finding to the police, the district attorney, the appropriate county agency and, if the report is made by a hospital, the hospital.

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A person or official required to report cases of suspected child abuse, including employees of a county agency, who has reasonable cause to suspect that a child died as a result of child abuse shall report that suspicion to the appropriate coroner or medical examiner. The coroner or medical examiner shall accept the report for investigation and shall report his finding to the police, the district attorney, the appropriate county agency and, if the report is made by a hospital, the hospital.

Legislative History

(Dec. 16, 1994, P.L.1292, No.151, eff. July 1, 1995; Apr. 7, 2014, P.L.388, No.29, eff. Dec. 31, 2014) Cross References.Section 6317 is referred to in sections 6313, 6318, 6367 of this title.