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VETOES

Section 5-309

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General

Section 5-310

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Volume and 1985 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter 246 of

the Acts of the General Assembly of 1984)

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

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5-309.

(a)  (1) A medical examiner shall investigate the death of a
human being if the death occurs:

(i) By violence;

(ii) By suicide;

(iii) By casualty;

(iv) Suddenly, if the deceased was in apparent
good health or unattended by a physician; or

(v) In any suspicious or unusual manner.

(2) A medical examiner shall investigate the death of
a human fetus if:

(i) Regardless of the duration of the
pregnancy, the death occurs before the complete expulsion or
extraction of the fetus from the mother; and

(ii) The mother is not attended by a physician
at or after the delivery.

(b)  If a medical examiner's case occurs, the police or
sheriff immediately shall notify the medical examiner and State's
Attorney for the county where the body is found and give the
known facts concerning the time, place, manner, and circumstances
of the death.

(c)  Immediately on notification that a medical examiner's
case has occurred, the medical examiner or an investigator of the
medical examiner shall go to and take charge of the body. The
medical examiner or the investigator shall investigate fully the