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NY A10278
Bill
Status
7/21/2016
Primary Sponsor
Steven Otis
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AI Summary
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County medical examiners and coroners must promptly furnish fingerprints, personal descriptions, and identifying data (including date and place of death) to the Division of Criminal Justice Services and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System for all unidentified or questionably identified deceased persons.
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Fingerprint submissions must be provided on standardized eight-inch by eight-inch fingerprint cards or equivalent digital images.
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The Division must make available personal descriptions and identifying data of unidentified deceased persons to all state law enforcement agencies and, upon request, to out-of-state law enforcement agencies.
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The act takes effect sixty days after becoming law.
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
signed chap.153
7/21/2016