00                              HOUSE BILL NO. 33                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to reporting dead bodies to law enforcement."                                                          
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 11.56 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
04            Sec. 11.56.767.  Failure to report a dead body.  (a)  A person commits the                                 
05       crime of failure to report a dead body if the person observes the dead body of a person                           
06       or parts of the body of a person under circumstances that would lead a reasonable                                 
07       person to believe that the person whose dead body or body parts were observed was                                 
08       the victim of a crime and does not in a timely manner report the existence and location                           
09       of the dead body or body parts to a peace officer or law enforcement agency.                                      
10            (b)  In a prosecution under this section, it is an affirmative defense that the                              
11       defendant did not report in a timely manner because the defendant reasonably believed                             
12       that doing so would have exposed the defendant or others to a substantial risk of                                 
13       physical injury.                                                                                                  
14            (c)  Failure to report a dead body is a class A misdemeanor.