| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §3025, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. K, | §82 and affected by §83, is further amended to read: |
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| | 1. Circumstances of death constituting medical examiner case. | A medical examiner case exists when remains are found which that | may be human and raise suspicion that death has occurred under | any of the following circumstances: |
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| A. Violence or poisoning; |
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| B. Suddenly when the person is in apparent good health and | has no specific natural disease sufficient to explain death; |
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| C. During diagnostic or therapeutic procedures under | circumstances indicating gross negligence or when clearly | due to trauma or poisoning unrelated to the ordinary risks | of those procedures; |
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| D. Death when the person is in custody pursuant to an | arrest, confined in a state correctional facility, county | institution, facility or local lockup, unless clearly | certifiable by an attending physician as due to specific | natural causes; |
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| E. Death while the person is a patient or resident of a | facility of the Department of Mental Health, Mental | Retardation and Substance Abuse Services or residential care | facility maintained or licensed by the Department of Human | Services, unless clearly certifiable by an attending | physician as due to specific natural causes; |
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| F. Death suspected of being due to a threat to the public | health when the authority of the medical examiner is needed | to adequately study the case for the protection of the | public health; |
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| G. Death suspected of not having been certified, including, | but not limited to, bodies brought into the State and any | buried remains uncovered other than by legal exhumation; |
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| H. Deaths suspected of being medical examiner cases which | that may have been improperly certified or inadequately | examined, including, but not limited to, bodies brought into | the State under those circumstances; |
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| I. Sudden infant death syndrome deaths and all other deaths of | children under the age of 18 years of age unless clearly | certifiable |
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