New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico Senate Bill SB352 Compare Versions

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28	28	SENATE BILL 352
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30	30	TH LEGISLATURE
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42	42	FIRST SESSION
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46	46	INTRODUCED BY
47	47	Katy M. Duhigg
48	48	AN ACT
49	49	RELATING TO MEDICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PROVIDING THAT PHOTOGRAPHIC
50	50	IMAGES TAKEN BY A STATE, DISTRICT OR DEPUTY MEDICAL
51	51	INVESTIGATOR ARE CONFIDENTIAL, ARE NOT PUBLIC RECORDS AND SHALL
52	52	NOT BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC OTHER THAN FOR USE OR POTENTIAL
53	53	USE IN A CIVIL OR CRIMINAL PROCEEDING.
54	54	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
55	55	SECTION 1. Section 24-11-7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1961,
56	56	Chapter 91, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:
57	57	"24-11-7. EXAMINATION--AUTOPSY--INQUEST.--If the deceased
58	58	is unidentified, the state, district or deputy medical
59	59	investigator may order the body fingerprinted and photographed.
60	60	When the state, district or deputy medical investigator
61	61	suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission or if
62	62	the cause of death is obscure, [he ] the medical investigator
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90	90	shall order an autopsy performed by a qualified pathologist
91	91	certified by the state board of medical examiners who shall
92	92	record every fact found in the examination tending to show the
93	93	identity and condition of the body and the time, manner and
94	94	cause of death. Photographic images taken by a state, district
95	95	or deputy medical investigator are confidential, are not public
96	96	records and shall not be accessible to the public other than
97	97	for use or potential use in a civil or criminal proceeding.
98	98	The pathologist shall sign the report under oath and deliver it
99	99	to the state, district or deputy medical investigator within a
100	100	reasonable time. The state, district or deputy medical
101	101	investigator may take the testimony of the pathologist and any
102	102	other persons, and this testimony, combined with the written
103	103	report of the pathologist, constitutes an inquest."
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