2022 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 72 - Coroners, inquests, and medical examinations 72.415 Power and authority of coroners and their deputies -- Training course for deputy coroners -- Effects of failure to complete required training. (Effective January 1, 2023).
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72.415 Power and authority of coroners and their deputies -- Training course
for deputy coroners -- Effects of failure to complete required training.
(Effective January 1, 2023)
(1)
(2)
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of KRS 72.410 to 72.470, coroners
and deputy coroners shall have the full power and authority of peace officers in
this state, including the power of arrest and the authority to bear arms, and
shall have the power and authority to:
(a) Administer oaths;
(b) Enter upon public or private premises for the purpose of making
investigations;
(c) Seize evidence;
(d) Interrogate persons;
(e) Require the production of medical records, books, papers, documents, or
other evidence;
(f) Impound vehicles involved in vehicular deaths;
(g) Employ special investigators and photographers; and
(h) Expend funds for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of KRS
72.410 to 72.470.
The fiscal court or urban-county government shall pay all reasonable expenses
incurred by the coroner and his deputy in carrying out his responsibilities under
the provisions of KRS 72.410 to 72.470.
(a) 1.
No person shall be eligible to hold the office of deputy coroner
unless he holds a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent.
Every deputy coroner, other than a licensed physician, shall be
required as a condition of office to take during every calendar year
he or she is in office the training course of at least eighteen (18)
hours provided by the Department of Criminal Justice Training or
other courses approved by the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet
after having completed the basic training course the first year of
employment. The training course shall include material developed
by the cabinet and approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services on the human immunodeficiency virus infection and
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The material shall include
information on known modes of transmission and methods of
controlling and preventing these diseases with an emphasis on
appropriate behavior and attitude change.
2.
Within three (3) years of initially assuming office, every deputy
coroner shall be required as a condition of office to take a course of
at least four (4) hours provided by the Department of Criminal
Justice Training that shall include instruction on the grieving process
and best practices for providing a notice of death to a spouse or next
of kin and may include instruction on other similar topics, as set out
in KRS 64.185(4)(b). A deputy coroner that has completed the
course shall not be required to retake the course.
(b) 1.
Any deputy coroner subject to the training requirements of
2.
3.
paragraph (a) of this subsection who fails to complete the mandated
training shall be ineligible to perform the duties of deputy coroner,
and may be terminated by the coroner. The coroner shall make
written notification of the deputy coroner's ineligibility to perform his
or her duties to the deputy coroner and to the fiscal court or the
legislative body of the consolidated local government, charter county
government, urban-county government, or unified local government.
The deputy coroner shall regain his or her eligibility upon successful
recompletion of the initial basic training course referenced in KRS
64.185(4), which shall be evidenced by written certification provided
by the Department of Criminal Justice Training to the coroner. Upon
receipt of the certification, the coroner shall make written notification
of the reinstatement of eligibility to the deputy coroner and to the
fiscal court or the legislative body of the consolidated local
government, charter county government, urban-county government,
or unified local government.
The compensation of a deputy coroner who becomes ineligible to
perform his or her duties under subparagraph 1. of this paragraph
shall be modified as follows:
a.
From the coroner's written notification of ineligibility until the
deputy coroner begins the basic training course mandated by
subparagraph 2. of this paragraph, the deputy coroner shall
receive no compensation;
b.
From the first day that the deputy coroner begins the basic
training course mandated by subparagraph 2. of this paragraph
until written notification of course outcome is received by the
coroner, the deputy coroner shall be compensated at his or her
previously established rate of compensation;
c.
If the deputy coroner fails the basic training course mandated
by subparagraph 2. of this paragraph, the deputy coroner shall
receive no compensation from the date of receipt of notification
of failure from Department of Criminal Justice Training to the
coroner until the deputy coroner begins anew the basic training
course mandated by subparagraph 2. of this paragraph, at
which time the deputy coroner shall be compensated at his or
her previously established rate of compensation; and
d.
If the deputy coroner successfully completes the basic training
course mandated by subparagraph 2. of this paragraph as
evidenced by written certification provided by the Department
of Criminal Justice Training to the coroner, the deputy coroner
shall receive compensation as is normally determined for
deputy coroners pursuant to statute.
Effective:January 1, 2023
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 138, sec. 2, effective January 1, 2023. -Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 26, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2016. -- Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 153, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky.
Acts ch. 99, sec. 112, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch.
426, sec. 95, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 443, sec.
35, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 248, sec. 2, effective
July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 64, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1986.
-- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 195, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1982. -- Created
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 93, sec. 5, effective June 17, 1978.
Legislative Research Commission Note (1/1/2023). 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 138, sec. 6,
provides that the Act, which amended this statute and KRS 64.185 and created
KRS 72.480, may be cited as Nathans Law.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2007).
The numbering of
subsection (1) of this section has been altered by the Reviser of Statutes from
the numbering in 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 153, under the authority of KRS
7.136.
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