Title 12 — Code of Criminal Procedure
26 chapters · 362 sections in this title.
AS 12.65.005 Duty to notify state medical examiner.
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(a) Unless the person has reasonable grounds to believe that notice has already been given, a person who attends a death or has knowledge of a death, in addition to notifying a peace officer, shall immediately notify the state medical examiner when the death appears to have (1) b…
AS 12.65.007 No duty for peace officer to respond to the scene of an expected home death.
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(a) A peace officer is not required by state law to respond to the scene of an expected home death if (1) the death was expected to occur due to the dead person's state of health before death; (2) the death occurred at the dead person's home as expected due to the dead person's s…
AS 12.65.010 Appointment of medical examiner. [Repealed, § 18 ch 103 SLA 1996.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 12.65.015 State medical examiner and deputies.
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(a) The commissioner of health shall appoint a state medical examiner to perform the duties set out in AS 12.65.015 — 12.65.025. The commissioner shall also appoint a deputy medical examiner, and may appoint assistant medical examiners, to perform or assist the state medical exam…
AS 12.65.020 Medical death investigations.
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(a) When a death is reported to the state medical examiner under AS 12.65.005, the state medical examiner or the deputy medical examiner shall perform a medical death investigation. When a person dies under circumstances that, in the opinion of the state medical examiner, warrant…
AS 12.65.025 Post mortem examinations.
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(a) The state medical examiner shall designate the facilities at which post mortem examinations and autopsies ordered under this chapter may be performed consistent with this section. The Department of Health shall pay the costs of (1) post mortem examinations and autopsies order…
AS 12.65.030 Secs. 12.65.030 — 12.65.090. Coroners duties and powers. [Repealed, § 18 ch 103 SLA 1996. For current law, see AS 09.55.062 — 09.55.069.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 12.65.100 Unclaimed bodies.
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When a person dies and no person appears to claim the body for burial, and no provision is made for the body under AS 13.52, the Department of Health, upon notification, shall request a court order authorizing the body to be plainly and decently buried or cremated and the remains…
AS 12.65.105 Release of property to temporary custodian.
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A person having possession of tangible personal property of a decedent may release the property to a temporary custodian willing to take custody of and preserve the property pending the appointment of a personal representative or other transfer under AS 13.16. Upon execution of a…
AS 12.65.110 Inventory and disposition of property.
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Article 2. Child Fatality Review Teams. If a body is unclaimed as described in AS 12.65.100 and money or other property belonging to the deceased is found, the public administrator shall inventory it and take it into possession for disposition under AS 13.16.
AS 12.65.120 State child fatality review team.
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(a) The state child fatality review team is established in the Department of Health to assist the state medical examiner. The team is composed of (1) the following persons, or that person's designee: (A) the state medical examiner; (B) a state prosecutor with experience in homici…
AS 12.65.130 State child fatality review team duties.
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(a) The state child fatality review team shall (1) assist the state medical examiner in determining the cause and manner of the deaths in this state of children under 18 years of age; (2) unless the child's death is currently being investigated by a law enforcement agency, review…
AS 12.65.140 Records; information; meetings; confidentiality; immunity.
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(a) The state child fatality review team and its members shall have access to all information and records to which the state medical examiner has access under this chapter. The state child fatality review team and its members shall maintain the confidentiality of information and …