2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 6 - (411 - 428) CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
418 - Mandatory reporting to and post-mortem investigation of deaths by medical examiner or coroner.

 
    * §  418.  Mandatory  reporting  to  and  post-mortem investigation of
  deaths by medical examiner or coroner. Any person or  official  required
  to  report  cases  of  suspected  child abuse or maltreatment, including
  workers of the local child protective service, as well as an employee of
  or official of a state agency responsible for  the  investigation  of  a
  report  of abuse or maltreatment of a child in residential care, who has
  reasonable cause to suspect that a child died as a result of child abuse
  or maltreatment shall  report  that  fact  to  the  appropriate  medical
  examiner  or  coroner.  The medical examiner or coroner shall accept the
  report for investigation and shall issue a preliminary written report of
  his or her finding within sixty  days  of  the  date  of  death,  absent
  extraordinary  circumstances,  and  his  or  her  final  written  report
  promptly,  absent  extraordinary  circumstances,  to  the  police,   the
  appropriate  district  attorney, the local child protective service, the
  office of children and family services, and, if the  institution  making
  the  report  is  a  hospital,  the  hospital. The office of children and
  family services shall promptly provide a copy  of  the  preliminary  and
  final  reports  to  the  statewide  central  register of child abuse and
  maltreatment.
    * NB Effective until June 30, 2013
    * § 418. Mandatory  reporting  to  and  post-mortem  investigation  of
  deaths  by  medical examiner or coroner. Any person or official required
  to report cases of suspected  child  abuse  or  maltreatment,  including
  workers  of  the local child protective service who has reasonable cause
  to suspect that a child died as a result of child abuse or  maltreatment
  shall  report  that fact to the appropriate medical examiner or coroner.
  The  medical  examiner  or  coroner  shall   accept   the   report   for
  investigation and shall issue a preliminary written report of his or her
  finding  within  sixty  days  of the date of death, absent extraordinary
  circumstances, and his or her  final  written  report  promptly,  absent
  extraordinary  circumstances,  to  the  police, the appropriate district
  attorney, the local child protective service, the office of children and
  family services,  and,  if  the  institution  making  the  report  is  a
  hospital, the hospital. The office of children and family services shall
  promptly  provide  a  copy  of  the preliminary and final reports to the
  statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.
    * NB Effective June 30, 2013