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Section 313.15 | Determination of responsibility for death.

Ohio Revised Code
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Title 3 Counties
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Chapter 313 Coroner
 
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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All dead bodies in the custody of the coroner shall be held until such time as the coroner, after consultation with the prosecuting attorney, or with the police department of a municipal corporation, if the death occurred in a municipal corporation, or with the sheriff, has decided that it is no longer necessary to hold such body to enable him to decide on a diagnosis giving a reasonable and true cause of death, or to decide that such body is no longer necessary to assist any of such officials in his duties.

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