Title 10 — Health and Safety
112 chapters · 2,597 sections in this title.
10 GCA § 81101 Commission on Post-Mortem Examinations
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A Commission on Post-Mortem Examinations is hereby established. The members of the Commission shall be the Attorney General, the Chief of Police, the Director of the Department of Public Health and Social Services, the President of the Guam Medical Society, and the Administrator …
10 GCA § 81102 Office of Post-Mortem Examinations
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The Office of Post-Mortem Examinations is hereby established, to be operated under the control and supervision of the Commission. The Office shall be directed by a Chief Medical Examiner, and may employ such assistant medical examiners, pathologists, toxicologists, laboratory tec…
10 GCA § 81103 Chief Medical Examiner
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(a) The Chief Medical Examiner shall be named by the Commission to serve for such term and at such salary as the Commission may fix. He may as part of his duties teach medical or law school classes, conduct special classes for police investigators, and engage in other activities …
10 GCA § 81103.1 Minimum Qualifications for Chief Medical Examiner
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The Chief Medical Examiner shall be a citizen, a permanent resident of the United States, or a person whose immigration status with the U.S. Immigration legally allows him to work in the United States, and a physician licensed to practice his profession in Guam. He must have curr…
10 GCA § 81104 Deaths to Be Investigated
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The Office of Post-Mortem Examinations shall investigate all human deaths providing such deaths in the opinion of the Chief Medical Examiner arose from the following causes: (a) Violent deaths, whether apparently homicidal, suicidal or accidental, including but not limited to dea…
10 GCA § 81105 Autopsies
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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, a…
10 GCA § 81106 Same: Traffic Deaths
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In the event a person who was driving the car dies within four (4) hours as a result of a traffic accident related injury from the time of its occurrence and there is reasonable cause to believe that such person was driving under the influence of alcohol, a blood sample will be i…
10 GCA § 81107 Cooperative Action
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(a) All law enforcement officers, prosecuting attorneys, and other officials shall cooperate fully with the Office of Post-Mortem Examinations in making the investigations and conducting the autopsies herein provided for. Such officials and all physicians, undertakers, embalmers …
10 GCA § 81108 Laboratories
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The Office of Post- Mortem Examinations shall maintain a laboratory or laboratories suitably equipped with medical, scientific and other facilities for performance of the duties imposed by this Chapter. Laboratories may be maintained in collaboration with Guam Police Department, …
10 GCA § 81109 Fees, Rules, and Regulations
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Subject to the Administrative Adjudication Law, the Commission may promulgate fees, rules, and regulations necessary or appropriate to effectively carry out the provisions of this Chapter. SOURCE: GC § 49107; repealed and reenacted by P.L. 11-037 (May 8, 1971). Amended and rename…
10 GCA § 81110 Records and Reports
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The Office of Post-Mortem Examinations shall keep full and complete records, properly indexed, giving the name, if known, of every person whose death is investigated, the place where the body was found, the date, cause and manner of death, and all other relevant information conce…
10 GCA § 81111 Records as Evidence
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The records of the Office of Post-Mortem Examinations, or transcripts thereof certified by the Chief Medical Examiner, are admissible in evidence in any court of Guam, except that statements by witnesses or other persons and conclusions upon extraneous matters are not hereby made…
10 GCA § 81112 Fees; Fund; Annual Audit
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(a) Fees. The Commission is authorized to impose fees reasonably necessary for the Office of Post- Mortem Examinations to carry out its duties and responsibilities as required or authorized by this Chapter, or rules and regulations adopted under this Chapter. The Commission is fu…
10 GCA § 81113 Severability
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If any provision or application of this Chapter is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or application of the Chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end the provisions of this Chapter are declared to…
10 GCA § 81114 Employment of Medicolegal Death Investigators
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(a) The Office of Post-Mortem Examinations/Chief Medical Examiner may employ registered and certified medicolegal death investigators. Medicolegal death investigators are employees that aid in the investigations that determine the cause of death of deceased persons. (b) The Depar…