Ohio Revised Code Chapter 313 - Coroner

• Section 313.01 - Elected - Term.
  A coroner shall be elected quadrennially in each county, who shall hold his office for a term of four years, beginning on the first...
• Section 313.02 - Qualifications For Coroner - Continuing Education.
  (A) No person shall be eligible to the office of coroner except a physician who has been licensed to practice as a physician in...
• Section 313.03 - Bond.
  The coroner shall give a bond, signed by a bonding or surety company authorized to do business in this state and to be approved...
• Section 313.04 - Absence, Service, Or Disability.
  When the coroner is absent temporarily from the county, or when on duty with the armed services of the United States, the state militia,...
• Section 313.05 - Appointment Of Deputy Coroners And Other Personnel.
  (A) (1) The coroner may appoint, in writing, deputy coroners, who shall be licensed physicians of good standing in their profession, one of whom...
• Section 313.06 - Duties Of Coroner And Deputies.
  The coroner, his deputy, and assistants shall be available at all times for the performance of their duties as set forth in sections 313.01...
• Section 313.07 - Coroner's Office, Laboratory, And County Morgue.
  (A) There may be established in the county seat of justice, or at another location as provided in division (B) of this section, suitable...
• Section 313.08 - Coroner Custodian Of Morgue - Duties Where Decedent Not Identified.
  (A) In counties in which a county morgue is maintained, the coroner shall be the official custodian of the morgue. In all cases of...
• Section 313.09 - Records.
  The coroner shall keep a complete record of and shall fill in the cause of death on the death certificate, in all cases coming...
• Section 313.091 - Request For Decedent's Medical And Psychiatric Records.
  In connection with the performance of duties under this chapter, a coroner, deputy coroner, or representative of a coroner or deputy coroner may request,...
• Section 313.10 - Records To Be Public - Certified Copies As Evidence.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the records of the coroner who has jurisdiction over the case, including, but not limited...
• Section 313.11 - Unlawfully Disturbing A Body.
  (A) No person, without an order from the coroner, any deputy coroner, or an investigator or other person designated by the coroner as having...
• Section 313.12 - Notice To Coroner Of Violent, Suspicious, Unusual Or Sudden Death.
  (A) When any person dies as a result of criminal or other violent means, by casualty, by suicide, or in any suspicious or unusual...
• Section 313.121 - Autopsy Of Child In Apparent Good Health Who Dies Suddenly.
  (A) As used in this section, "parent" means either parent, except that if one parent has been designated the residential parent and legal custodian...
• Section 313.122 - Rules For Protocol Governing The Performance Of Autopsies For Sudden Infant Death.
  The director of health , after reviewing and considering any recommendations made by the Ohio state coroners association, shall adopt rules in accordance with...
• Section 313.123 - Removal And Disposal Of Autopsy Specimens - Good Faith Immunity Of Coroner.
  (A) (1) As used in this chapter, "autopsy" means the external and internal examination of the body of a deceased person, including, but not...
• Section 313.13 - Autopsy - Blood Test Of Operator Of Motor Vehicle Killed In Accident.
  (A) The coroner, any deputy coroner, an investigator appointed pursuant to section 313.05 of the Revised Code, or any other person the coroner designates...
• Section 313.131 - Autopsy Contrary To Deceased Person's Religious Beliefs.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Friend" means any person who maintained regular contact with the deceased person, and who was familiar with...
• Section 313.14 - Notice To Relatives - Disposition Of Property.
  The coroner shall notify any known relatives of a deceased person who meets death in the manner described by section 313.12 of the Revised...
• Section 313.141 - Disposition Of Firearms In Personal Effects Of Deceased Person.
  If firearms are included in the valuable personal effects of a deceased person who met death in the manner described by section 313.12 of...
• Section 313.15 - Determination Of Responsibility For Death.
  All dead bodies in the custody of the coroner shall be held until such time as the coroner, after consultation with the prosecuting attorney,...
• Section 313.16 - Laboratory Examinations By Coroner Of Another County.
  In counties where no coroner's laboratory has been established or where the coroner's laboratory does not have the equipment or personnel to follow the...
• Section 313.161 - Cost Of Autopsy When Death Occurred In Another County.
  Whenever an autopsy is performed, and the injury causing death occurred within the boundaries of a county other than the one in which the...
• Section 313.17 - Subpoenas - Oath And Testimony Of Witnesses.
  The coroner or deputy coroner may issue subpoenas for such witnesses as are necessary, administer to such witnesses the usual oath, and proceed to...
• Section 313.18 - Disinterment Of Body.
  The prosecuting attorney or coroner may order the disinterment of any dead body, under the direction and supervision of the coroner, and may authorize...
• Section 313.19 - Coroner's Verdict The Legally Accepted Cause Of Death.
  The cause of death and the manner and mode in which the death occurred, as delivered by the coroner and incorporated in the coroner's...
• Section 313.20 - Coroner's Writs.
  The coroner may issue any writ required by sections 313.01 to 313.22, of the Revised Code, to any constable of the county in which...
• Section 313.21 - Tests For Emergency Involving Suspected Toxic Substances Or For Law Enforcement-related Testing.
  (A) The coroner may use or may allow the use of the coroner's laboratory and facilities for tests in an emergency involving suspected toxic...
• Section 313.211 - Powers Of Coroner Regarding Dangerous Drugs.
  The coroner may secure, catalog, record, and, with the approval of the prosecuting attorney, destroy any dangerous drugs found at the scene of an...
• Section 313.212 - Notice Of Death By Overdose.
  If the coroner determines that a drug overdose is the cause of death of a person, the coroner may provide a notice of the...
• Section 313.22 - Rights Of Administrator Or Executor.
  Sections 311.01 to 311.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not interfere with the rights of any appointed and qualified administrator or executor, but...
• Section 313.23 - View Of Autopsy By Interested Person.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Interested person" means an employee of the coroner's office, a physician, dentist, nurse, professor at a medical...
• Section 313.30 - Coroner To Designate Eye Or Tissue Bank - Immunity.
  A coroner acting in good faith is not liable in damages for injury resulting from acting or attempting to act in accordance with sections...
• Section 313.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974

Last modified: October 10, 2016