Senate Bill sb0128

    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 128

    By Senator Posey





    24-153-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the disposition of dead

  3         bodies; amending s. 406.12, F.S.; increasing a

  4         penalty for failing to report certain deaths to

  5         the district medical examiner or to alter the

  6         evidence or circumstances surrounding the

  7         death;; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Section 406.12, Florida Statutes, is

12  amended to read:

13         406.12  Duty to report; prohibited acts.--It is the

14  duty of any person in the district where a death occurs,

15  including all municipalities and unincorporated and federal

16  areas, who becomes aware of the death of any person occurring

17  under the circumstances described in s. 406.11 to report such

18  death and circumstances forthwith to the district medical

19  examiner.  Any person who knowingly fails or refuses to report

20  such death and circumstances, who refuses to make available

21  prior medical or other information pertinent to the death

22  investigation, or who, without an order from the office of the

23  district medical examiner, willfully touches, removes, or

24  disturbs the body, clothing, or any article upon or near the

25  body, with the intent to alter the evidence or circumstances

26  surrounding the death, commits shall be guilty of a felony

27  misdemeanor of the third first degree, punishable as provided

28  in s. 775.082, or s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

29         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 128
    24-153-05




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 3    Increases the penalty for failure to report certain
      deaths to the district medical examiner or willfully
 4    alter evidence.

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