General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 38 Medical Examiners and Inquests
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 38, Section 1
As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Commission”, to the commission on medicolegal investigation,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 368, Sec. 2 - Chapter 38, Section 1A to 1C
Repealed, 1992, 368, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chief medical examiner; qualifications; appointment; powers and duties; district medical examiners - Chapter 38, Section 2
There shall be an office of chief medical examiner under the supervision and control of the chief medical examiner, which shall be within the executive...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State and local multidisciplinary child fatality review teams - Chapter 38, Section 2A
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:- “Child”, a person under the age of 18. “Fatality”, any death...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duty to report deaths; failure to report - Chapter 38, Section 3
It shall be the duty of any person having knowledge of a death which occurs under the circumstances enumerated in this paragraph immediately to notify...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation; transportation of bodies - Chapter 38, Section 4
Upon notification of a death in the circumstances enumerated in section three, the chief medical examiner or his designee shall carefully inquire into the cause...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death resulting from single-vehicle accident; blood sample analysis; liability of medical examiner - Chapter 38, Section 4A
If, after making inquiry pursuant to section four, the medical examiner is of the opinion that death may have resulted from injuries sustained in a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperation with office of chief medical examiner - Chapter 38, Section 5
All law enforcement officers, district medical examiners, hospitals and other medical facilities, and other state, county and local officials shall cooperate with the office of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unmarked human skeletal remains; notice to office of chief medical examiner; inquiry; notification of commission on Indian affairs - Chapter 38, Section 6
It shall be the duty of any person who discovers unmarked human skeletal remains or who knowingly causes human remains to be disturbed through construction...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attorney general; notice of circumstances of death - Chapter 38, Section 7
If, during the course of investigation, the medical examiner is of the opinion that the death may have been caused by the act or negligence...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inquests - Chapter 38, Section 8
The chief medical examiner or his designee may request the attorney general or the district attorney to direct that an inquest be held. The attorney...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accidental deaths; public conveyances; transcript of inquest - Chapter 38, Section 9
If the court determines that the inquest relates to an accidental death upon a conveyance regulated by the department of telecommunications and energy, the court...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Report of findings by court - Chapter 38, Section 10
The court shall report in writing when, where, and by what means the person met his death, the person’s name, if known, and all material...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons charged with crime; arrest - Chapter 38, Section 11
If a person charged by an inquest report with the commission of a crime is at large, the district court, upon the request of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Embalming fluid; restriction on use - Chapter 38, Section 12
No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of any person whose death is being investigated by the office until...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Section 3. Duty to report deaths; failure to report - Chapter 38, Section 13
Section 3. It shall be the duty of any person having knowledge of a death which occurs under the circumstances enumerated in this paragraph immediately...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bodies intended for cremation or burial at sea; authorization; fees - Chapter 38, Section 14
A medical examiner or forensic investigator designated by the chief medical examiner shall, on payment of a fee as determined from time to time by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personal property of deceased; disposition - Chapter 38, Section 15
A medical examiner responding to the scene of a death shall take charge of any money or other personal property of the deceased found on...
Last modified: September 11, 2015