Section 7.05.440. Suspicious deaths.  


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  • If a question of foul play exists regarding the death, a person may not accept a death or fetal death certificate for filing or recording, issue a burial-transit permit, or otherwise move or allow a body to be moved or molested without permission for the state medical examiner. In presumptive death cases with no body, presumption of death must be established in accordance with the statutes. In all presumptive death cases, the filing of the certificate and the presumption about death and its cause is the responsibility of the appropriate court.  
    

Authorities

12.65.020;18.50.230;18.50.240

Notes


Authority
AS 12.65.020 AS 18.50.230 AS 18.50.240
History
In effect before 7/28/59; am 7/25/60, Register 2; am 9/1/93, Register 127; am 4/1/99, Register 149