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§ 17-5-610 — Duty to notify coroner or medical examiner in certain cases when body is buried without investigation.

South Carolina·Title 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURES·Ch. 5 CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS
If in a case of sudden, violent, or suspicious death a body is buried without an investigation by the coroner or medical examiner, a person having knowledge of this fact must notify the coroner or the medical examiner.

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Legislative History

HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 73, SECTION 1.

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