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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 17-5-550: Coroner or medical examiner may petition for warrant to inspect home of child whose death occurred elsewhere.

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  1. Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURES
  2. CHAPTER 5 Coroners and Medical Examiners
  3. ARTICLE 7 Duties of Coroners and Medical Examiners

If the home or premises last inhabited by a child is not the scene of the death of a child, the coroner or medical examiner, while conducting an investigation of the death, may petition the local magistrate of the appropriate judicial circuit for a warrant to inspect the home or premises inhabited by the deceased before death. The local magistrate must issue the inspection warrant upon probable cause to believe that events in the home or premises may have contributed to the death of the child.

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