Ch. 238 LAWS OF MARYLAND

FOR the purpose of altering the compensation for the deputy medical examiner for
each medical examiner's case that the examiner investigates; altering the standard
for when a certain medical examiner must file a certain report; providing that if
the cause of death is established with a reasonable degree of medical probability
a certain medical examiner must file a certain report; and providing that medical
examiners' records must include date, cause, and manner of death.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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Section 5-306(e), 5-310(a), and 5-311(a)(2)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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5-306.

(e) Each deputy medical examiner is entitled:

(1) For each medical examiner's case that the examiner investigates, to at
least $60 and not more than [$75] $80, as provided in the State budget;

(2) If the examiner is called as a witness before a grand jury or in a
criminal case, to the fee that the court sets; and

(3) To any additional compensation that a county provides.
5-310.

(a) If the cause of death [in a medical examiner's case] is established [beyond a
reasonable doubt] TO A REASONABLE DEGREE OF MEDICAL PROBABILITY
CERTAINTY, the medical examiner who investigates the case shall file in the medical
examiner's office a report on the cause of death within 30 days after notification of the
case.

5-311.

(a) (2) The records shall be indexed properly and include:
(i) The name, if known, of the deceased;
(ii) The place where the body was found;
(iii) The date [and], cause, AND MANNER of death; and
(iv) All other available information about the death.

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