Article 1 - AUTOPSIES, PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS, AND INQUESTS
- Section 17-7-10 - Coroners or solicitors shall order autopsies; autopsy to be ordered upon death of persons in penal institutions
- Section 17-7-15 - Return of body after autopsy or medical examination
- Section 17-7-20 - Requirement of preliminary examination before formal inquest; issuance of burial permit, conclusion of inquiry or formal inquest
- Section 17-7-25 - Autopsy on unidentified body; preservation of DNA samples
- Section 17-7-30 - Findings on preliminary examination and filing of evidence
- Section 17-7-40 - Fees for preliminary examination
- Section 17-7-70 - Jurisdiction of coroners to take inquests
- Section 17-7-80 - Duties of coroner concerning motor vehicle, swimming, or boating accident deaths
- Section 17-7-90 - Persons subject to jury duty are liable to serve on an inquest
- Section 17-7-100 - Mode of summoning a jury
- Section 17-7-110 - Procedures to be followed by person directed to summon jury; compensation
- Section 17-7-120 - Form of warrant to summon jury
- Section 17-7-130 - Execution and return of warrant; officer or juror subject to penalty for failure to perform
- Section 17-7-140 - Number of jurors and oath
- Section 17-7-150 - Coroner shall charge jury
- Section 17-7-160 - Inquiry in case of suicide
- Section 17-7-170 - Coroner's power to issue warrants and to summon and examine witnesses
- Section 17-7-175 - Coroner's power to issue subpoena duces tecum
- Section 17-7-180 - Disregard of summons or refusal to testify
- Section 17-7-190 - Coroner may punish for contempt
- Section 17-7-200 - Coroner's power to adjourn the jury and bind jurors
- Section 17-7-210 - Supplying places of absent jurors
- Section 17-7-220 - Oath of witnesses
- Section 17-7-230 - Coroner shall take testimony in writing and bind over or commit witnesses
- Section 17-7-240 - Duty to render verdict; form
- Section 17-7-250 - Form of conclusion of inquisition where deceased was wilfully killed
- Section 17-7-260 - Form of conclusion of inquisition where death was not wilful but by the hands of another
- Section 17-7-270 - Form of conclusion of inquisition in case of death by self-murder
- Section 17-7-280 - Form of conclusion of inquisition in case of death by means unknown
- Section 17-7-290 - Form of conclusion of inquisition in case of death by mischance
- Section 17-7-300 - Form of attestation clause; signature to inquisition
- Section 17-7-310 - Return of inquisition and evidence to clerk
- Section 17-7-320 - Endorsement on return of inquisition and evidence
- Section 17-7-330 - Coroner's Book of Inquisitions
- Section 17-7-340 - Compensation and mileage allowed coroner's jurors