Code of Massachusetts Regulations
505 CMR - OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER
Title 505 CMR 1.00 - Disclosure Of Autopsy Reports
Section 1.03 - Disclosure of Autopsy Reports to Spouse or Next of Kin
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
The Office may, in its discretion, provide a copy of the autopsy report of a decedent to the decedent's surviving spouse or next of kin, who shall have priority in the order named, if the following conditions are met:
(1) The Office receives a written request for a copy of the autopsy report from the surviving spouse or next of kin;
(2) The surviving spouse or next of kin provides an affidavit, signed under the pains and penalties of perjury, indicating and verifying his or her relationship to the decedent; and
(3) In cases of unnatural or suspicious death where the district attorney or his law enforcement representative is directing and controlling the investigation of the death pursuant to M.G.L. c. 38, § 4, the district attorney or his law enforcement representative has determined, in his discretion and in writing, that he does not object to the disclosure of the autopsy report to the spouse or next of kin.