Deaths to Be Investigated

The Office of Post-Mortem Examinations shall investigate all human deaths providing such deaths in the opinion of the Chief Medical Examiner arose from the following causes:

(a)Violent deaths, whether apparently homicidal, suicidal or accidental, including but not limited to deaths due to thermal, chemical, electrical or radiational injury, and deaths due to criminal abortion, whether apparently self-induced or not;

(b)Sudden deaths not caused by readily recognizable disease;

(c)Deaths under suspicious circumstances;

(d)Deaths of persons whose bodies are to be cremated, dissected, buried at sea, or otherwise disposed of so as to be thereafter unavailable for examinations.