O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-16-10 (2019)

Furnishing information to out-of-state coroners

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Records, papers, or reports concerning the death of a person on file at any hospital, nursing home, or other medical facility in this state shall be available to a coroner of another state if such person was injured in, a resident of, or buried in the county of such coroner in such other state or if such records, papers, or reports are the subject of a subpoena issued by the coroner of another state. The release of such records to the coroner of another state shall not be prohibited by Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50.

History

(Code 1981, § 45-16-10, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1594, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 559, § 1.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Release of medical records. - Medical facilities in this state may only release non-privileged portions of medical records to out-of-state coroners upon the receipt of: (1) satisfactory proof that the deceased person was a resident of, or buried in, the county of the out-of-state coroner; (2) sat-

isfactory proof that, under the laws of the deceased’s own state, the particular coroner’s office is a court of record; and (3) a subpoena was issued and served in compliance with Georgia law. 1986 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 86-44.