07 LC 38
0248
House
Bill 244
By:
Representative Sims of the
169th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to death investigations, so as to provide for certain
notification requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to death investigations, is amended by revising subsection (f) of Code Section
45-16-22, relating to medical examiners´ inquiries, as
follows:
"(f)
When death occurs in a hospital as a direct result and consequence of acts or
events taking place in a county other than the one in which such death occurs,
the body shall be returned to the county in which such acts or events took
place. The
hospital where the pronouncement of death was made shall within 24 hours notify
the coroner of the county where the original acts or events resulting in the
death occurred. When a dead body is found
in a county in which the acts or events leading to death did not occur, it shall
be returned to the county in which the acts or events did occur, if known. The
coroner or local medical examiner of the county in which such acts or events
took place shall assume jurisdiction and the medical examiner´s inquiry, if
any performed, shall be paid for from funds of the county in which such acts or
events took place."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed