California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Responsibility of Coroner

• Section 102850.
  A physician and surgeon, physician assistant, funeral director, or other person shall immediately notify the coroner when he or she has knowledge of a death...
• Section 102855.
  The coroner whose duty it is to investigate such deaths shall ascertain as many as possible of the facts required by this chapter.(Added by Stats....
• Section 102860.
  The coroner shall state on the certificate of death the disease or condition directly leading to death, antecedent causes, other significant conditions contributing to death...
• Section 102865.
  In any case involving an infant under the age of one year where the gross autopsy results in a presumed diagnosis of sudden infant death...
• Section 102870.
  (a)  In deaths investigated by the coroner or medical examiner where he or she is unable to establish the identity of the body or human...

Last modified: October 22, 2018