2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §11-595  Right to enter premises; right to seize articles

A. The county medical examiner or any person performing the duties of a county medical examiner may enter any room, dwelling, building or other place in which the body or evidence of the circumstances of the death requiring investigation may be found, provided that a law enforcement agent investigating the death obtains a search warrant for private property other than in the immediate location where the body was found.

B. The county medical examiner or any person performing the duties of a county medical examiner, with the permission of the law enforcement agent investigating the death may take into his or her possession any object or article found on the deceased or in the deceased's immediate vicinity which in his or her opinion may aid in the determination of the deceased's identity or determination of the cause or manner of death. Upon completion of his or her findings, the medical examiner or the person performing the duties of a county medical examiner shall within thirty days, deliver such object or article to the law enforcement agency concerned, the legal representative of the deceased or to the county treasurer.