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:

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:

A. Violence or poisoning;

B. Suddenly when the person is in apparent good health and has no specific natural disease sufficient to explain death;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

I. Sudden infant death syndrome deaths and all other deaths of children under the age of 18 years of age unless clearly certifiable