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2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 3 | Counties
Chapter 313 | Coroner
Section 313.15 | Determination of Responsibility for Death.
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OH Rev Code § 313.15 (2025)
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Effective: October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All dead bodies in the custody of the coroner shall be held until such time as the coroner, after consultation with the prosecuting attorney, or with the police department of a municipal corporation, if the death occurred in a municipal corporation, or with the sheriff, has decided that it is no longer necessary to hold such body to enable him to decide on a diagnosis giving a reasonable and true cause of death, or to decide that such body is no longer necessary to assist any of such officials in his duties.
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