N.Y. Social Services Law § 418: Mandatory reporting to and post-mortem investigation of deaths by medical examiner or coroner

§ 418. Mandatory reporting to and post-mortem investigation of deaths

by medical examiner or coroner. Any person or official required to

report cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment, including workers

of the local child protective service who has reasonable cause to

suspect that a child died as a result of child abuse or maltreatment

shall report that fact to the appropriate medical examiner or coroner.

The medical examiner or coroner shall accept the report for

investigation and shall issue a preliminary written report of his or her

finding within sixty days of the date of death, absent extraordinary

circumstances, and his or her final written report promptly, absent

extraordinary circumstances, to the police, the appropriate district

attorney, the local child protective service, the office of children and

family services, and, if the institution making the report is a

hospital, the hospital. The office of children and family services shall

promptly provide a copy of the preliminary and final reports to the

statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.