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144.57 PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER DEATH -- REQUIRED NOTICE
-- AUTOPSY.
A person who is authorized to pronounce individuals dead is
required to inform one of the persons authorized to request an
autopsy, as provided in section 144.56, that an autopsy will be
required if the individual who died was a public safety officer{ who
may have died in the line of duty and an eligible beneficiary of the
deceased seeks to claim a federal public safety officer death
benefit.{ Section History: Recent Form
2005 Acts, ch 174, §19
{Public safety officers' death benefits, see 42 U.S.C. § 3796 et
seq.
