Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons; requires the county medical examiner and coroner to provide certain information to the division of criminal justice services and to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10278--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. OTIS, LENTOL, JOYNER -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Governmental Operations -- reported and referred to
the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on
Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the identification of
unknown dead and missing persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 838 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 331 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Every county medical examiner and coroner shall promptly furnish
5 the division [promptly] and the National Missing and Unidentified
6 Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National
7 Institute of Justice, with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight
8 inch by eight inch fingerprint cards or the equivalent digital image,
9 personal descriptions and other identifying data, including date and
10 place of death, of all deceased persons whose deaths are in a classi-
11 fication requiring inquiry by the medical examiner or coroner where the
12 deceased is not identified or the medical examiner or coroner is not
13 satisfied with the decedent's identification. The division shall prompt-
14 ly make available personal descriptions and other identifying data,
15 including date and place of death, of such deceased persons to all law
16 enforcement agencies in the state, and upon request, to law enforcement
17 agencies outside of the state.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15326-02-6
