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2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - CHAPTER 72 CORONERS, INQUESTS, AND MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS
- .010 Oath and bond of coroner -- Minimum -- Record -- Payment of bond premiums from county funds -- Appointment of deputy coroners.
- .020 Duty of person, hospital, or institution finding or possessing dead body -- Duties of coroner, law enforcement officer, embalmer, funeral director, or ambulance service.
- .025 Circumstances requiring post-mortem examination to be performed by coroner.
- .029 Monthly report by coroner on child fatalities.
- .030 Repealed, 1978.
- .040 Repealed, 1978.
- .045 Liability of office -- Deputies.
- .050 Repealed, 1978.
- .060 Repealed, 1978.
- .070 Repealed, 1978.
- .072 Repealed, 1978.
- .075 Repealed, 1978.
- .080 Repealed, 1978.
- .090 Repealed, 1978.
- .100 Repealed, 1978.
- .110 Repealed, 1978.
- .120 Repealed, 1978.
- .130 Repealed, 1978.
- .140 Repealed, 1978.
- .150 Repealed, 1978.
Medical Examiners
- .210 Purpose of Division of Kentucky State Medical Examiners Office.
- .215 Repealed, 1974.
- .220 Justice Cabinet to provide medical assistance to coroner investigating deaths.
- .225 Advisory commission for medical examination.
- .230 Repealed, 1974.
- .235 Justice Cabinet may provide facilities and professional personnel for studies and examinations.
- .240 Justice Cabinet may employ state chief medical examiner and associate -- Employment of county and district medical examiners.
- .245 County or district examiner to assist coroner.
- .250 Repealed, 1982.
- .255 Rules and regulations.
- .260 Charge for copies.
- .265 Coroner may act as county or district medical examiner.
- .270 Trust and agency fund for fees.
- .275 Persons enforcing law immune from liability.
- .280 Annual report to Justice Cabinet on drug-related deaths.
Kentucky Coroner's Act of 1978
- .400 Legislative intent.
- .405 Definitions.
- .410 Investigation of deaths defined as a coroner's case.
- .415 Power and authority of coroners and their deputies -- Training course for deputy coroners.
- .420 Coroner's inquest -- Subpoenas -- Stenographic services -- Verdict.
- .425 Consent to autopsy when death not a coroner's case.
- .430 Pathologist, toxicologist, chemist -- Immunity from civil liability.
- .435 Cost of transporting or exhuming a body.
- .440 Circumstances under which coroner may order body exhumed.
- .445 County or Commonwealth's attorney may petition court to order autopsy.
- .450 Disposal of body and valuables found thereon.
- .455 Expense of search for body.
- .460 Cost of autopsies.
- .465 Inquiry into death under natural circumstances -- Death certificate -- Change in original certificate.
- .470 Coroner or deputy -- Immunity from civil liability.
- .475 Short title.
Penalties
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