Title 26 Utah Health Code Chapter 4 Utah Medical Examiner Act Section 28 Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners.
26-4-28.Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Report to the
Health and Human Services Interim Committee -- Compensation to deputy medical
examiners.
(1) In all cases where it is suspected that a death resulted from suicide, including assisted
suicide, the medical examiner shall endeavor to have the following tests conducted upon samples
taken from the body of the deceased:
(a) a test that detects all of the substances included in the volatiles panel of the Bureau of
Forensic Toxicology within the Department of Health;
(b) a test that detects all of the substances included in the drugs of abuse panel of the
Bureau of Forensic Toxicology within the Department of Health; and
(c) a test that detects all of the substances included in the prescription drug panel of the
Bureau of Forensic Toxicology within the Department of Health.
(2) The medical examiner shall maintain information regarding the types of substances
found present in the samples taken from the body of a person who is suspected to have died as a
result of suicide or assisted suicide.
(3) (a) Beginning in 2008, on or before November 30 of each year, the Department of
Health shall present a report on the information described in Subsection (2) to the Health and
Human Services Interim Committee.
(b) The information described in Subsection (3)(a) may not contain any identifying
information regarding any person to whom the information described in Subsection (2) relates.
(4) Within funds appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose, the medical examiner
shall provide compensation, at a standard rate determined by the medical examiner, to a deputy
medical examiner who collects samples for the purposes described in Subsection (1).
Enacted by Chapter 205, 2007 General Session
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