§ 14-5. Reports of deaths resulting from accidental or violent means.

(a)

Hospitals. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of every hospital in the town or the person actively in charge thereof to report to the police department and the coroner, within thirty (30) minutes thereafter, the death of any person within such hospital resulting from accidental or violent means.

(b)

Physicians. It shall be the duty of every practicing physician attending a case within the town, where death occurs as a result of accidental or violent means, to report the fact of such death to the police department and the coroner within thirty (30) minutes after information of such death is received by such physician.

(Code 1967, § 20-7(a), (b))

State law reference

Determination of death by physician, G.S. § 90-323; notification of death, G.S. § 130A-112; post-mortem investigation and disposition, G.S. § 130A-377 et seq.