Arkansas Code Title 12. Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs § 12-12-315. Notification of certain deaths

(A) The death appears to be caused by violence or appears to be the result of a homicide or a suicide or to be accidental;

(B) The death appears to be the result of the presence of drugs or poisons in the body;

(C) The death appears to be a result of a motor vehicle accident, or the body was found in or near a roadway or railroad;

(D) The death appears to be a result of a motor vehicle accident and there is no obvious trauma to the body;

(E) The death occurs while the person is in a state mental institution or hospital and there is no previous medical history to explain the death, or while the person is in police custody or jail other than a jail operated by the Division of Correction;

(F) The death appears to be the result of a fire or an explosion;

(G) The death of a minor child appears to indicate child abuse prior to death;

(H) Human skeletal remains are recovered or an unidentified deceased person is discovered;

(I) Postmortem decomposition exists to the extent that an external examination of the corpse cannot rule out injury, or in which the circumstances of death cannot rule out the commission of a crime;

(J) The death appears to be the result of drowning;

(K) The death is of an infant or a minor child under eighteen (18) years of age;

(L) The manner of death appears to be other than natural;

(M) The death is sudden and unexplained;

(N) The death occurs at a work site;

(O) The death is due to a criminal abortion;

(P) The death is of a person where a physician was not in attendance within thirty-six (36) hours preceding death, or, in prediagnosed terminal or bedfast cases, within thirty (30) days;

(Q) A person is admitted to a hospital emergency room unconscious and is unresponsive, with cardiopulmonary resuscitative measures being performed, and dies within twenty-four (24) hours of admission without regaining consciousness or responsiveness, unless a physician was in attendance within thirty-six (36) hours preceding presentation to the hospital, or, in cases in which the decedent had a prediagnosed terminal or bedfast condition, unless a physician was in attendance within thirty (30) days preceding presentation to the hospital;

(R) The death occurs in the home;

(T) The death is a death listed in § 12-12-318(a)(3).