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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 839

FOR the purpose of repealing the requirement that the chief
medical examiner, assistant medical examiner, or deputy
medical examiner personally go to the scene of a
violent death or suicide; permitting these medical
examiners to investigate the causes of death at their
office; requiring the police officer or sheriff at the
scene of the death to make certain investigations,
inventories, and deliveries of certain property at the

scene of the crime; exempting certain funeral

directors, agents, servants, and employees from the
requirement of giving live testimony in any criminal
trial resulting from a death; providing that this
testimony may be given in written form under certain
circumstances; and generally relating to investigations
of violent deaths or suicides.

FOR the purpose of providing that an investigator of a
medical examiner may conduct an investigation in a
medical examiner's case; providing that in certain
criminal prosecutions, the chain of custody of a body
may be established by a statement by the mortician or
other person who transported the body to the medical
examiner's office; providing for the contents of the
statement; providing for the personal appearance of the
mortician or other person under certain circumstances;
and generally relating to investigations in medical
examiners' cases and the chain of custody of a body.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 22 - Postmortem Examiners

Section 6

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

Article - Health - General
Section 5-309(c), (d), and (e)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter __ (H.B. 200) of

the Acts of the General Assembly of 1982)

BY renaming

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Title 10, "Subtitle 10. Controlled Dangerous

Substances"
to be "Subtitle 10. Chain of Custody"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
The new part, "Part I. Controlled Dangerous
Substances" to precede Sections 10-1001, 10-1002,