(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 essential facts concerning the medical cause of death and, before leaving the
premises, reduce these facts and the names and addresses of witnesses to writing,
which shall be filed in the medical examiner's office.

(d) The medical examiner or the investigator shall take possession of and
deliver to the State's Attorney or the State's Attorney's designee any object or article
that, in the opinion of the medical examiner or the investigator, may be useful in
establishing the cause of death.

(e) (1) If the next of kin of the deceased is not present at the investigation,
the police officer or sheriff at the investigation or, if a police officer or sheriff is not
present, the medical examiner or the investigator shall:

(i) Take possession of all property of value found on the body;

(ii) In the report of the death, make an exact inventory of the

property; and

(iii) Deliver the property to the appropriate sheriff or police

department.

(2) The sheriff or police department shall surrender the property to the
person who is entitled to its possession or custody.

(F) IF THE CASE INVOLVES THE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF A CHILD, THE
MEDICAL EXAMINER SHALL NOTIFY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE LOCAL CHILD
FATALITY REVIEW TEAM FOR THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE CHILD RESIDED.