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Reports by coroners and medical examiners - 75 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3749

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     § 3749.  Reports by coroners and medical examiners.
        (a)  General rule.--Every coroner or medical examiner in this
     Commonwealth shall report in writing to the department within
     five days of certification the death of any person resulting
     from a vehicle accident, giving the time and place of accident
     and the circumstances relating thereto. These reports shall be
     made on forms prepared by the department. Every coroner or
     medical examiner shall retain a copy of the reports in his
     office for a period of two years.
        (b)  Blood and urine samples.--The coroners or medical
     examiners of each county in this Commonwealth shall take blood
     or urine samples or both from the bodies of all drivers and of
     all pedestrians over 15 years of age who die within four hours
     following an accident and shall, within ten days of the
     accident, transmit the samples to the Governor's Council on Drug
     and Alcohol Abuse. This subsection shall be applicable to all
     occupants over 15 years of age if the driver of the vehicle
     cannot be determined.
        (c)  Regulations for testing samples.--The Governor's Council
     on Drug and Alcohol Abuse shall establish and promulgate rules
     and regulations for the testing of the blood and urine samples
     authorized to be taken from dead bodies under this section.

        Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse.  The Governor's
     Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse is now known as the
     Pennsylvania Advisory Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse and is
     designated as the advisory council to the Department of Health
     for drug and alcohol programs. See section 3 of the act of April
     14, 1972 (P.L.221, No.63), known as the Pennsylvania Drug and
     Alcohol Abuse Control Act.

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