Autopsies may be conducted by the Office of Post-Mortem Examinations in the following cases: (a) Deaths caused by violent deaths whether apparently homicidal, suicidal or accidental, including but not limited to deaths due to thermal, chemical, electrical or radiational injury, and deaths due to criminal abortion, whether apparently self-induced or not; (b) Sudden deaths not caused by readily recognizable diseases; (c) Deaths upon suspicious circumstances;
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(d) Deaths of persons whose bodies are to be cremated, dissected, buried at sea or otherwise disposed of so as to be thereafter unavailable for examinations; (e) Deaths related to disease which might cause a threat to public health. (f) The Office of Post-Mortem Examinations shall further conduct autopsies whenever so ordered by the Attorney General or a court of competent jurisdiction. SOURCE: GC § 49104; repealed and reenacted by P.L. 11-037 (May 8, 1971). 2025 NOTE: Subsection designation (f) added pursuant to authority of 1 GCA § 1606.