Records, papers, or reports concerning the death of a person on file at any hospital, nursing home, or other medical facility in this State are available to a coroner of another state as they are to a coroner in this State if the deceased person was a resident of or is buried in the county in which the coroner serves in the other state. The release of these records to the coroner of another state is not prohibited by Chapter 4 of Title 30 or any other provision of law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 17-5-120
Availability of medical records to coroner of another state
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Perry v. Bullock (2014)
Most recently applied in Perry v. Bullock (July 2014)
1986 Act No. 490; 2001 Act No. 73, SECTION 1.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.