2018 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 711: MEDICAL EXAMINER ACT
22 §3023-A. Medicolegal death investigators; appointment; jurisdiction
§3023-A. Medicolegal death investigators; appointment; jurisdiction
The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint persons who are not physicians as medicolegal death investigators, who have statewide jurisdiction and serve at the pleasure of the Chief Medical Examiner, subject to the Chief Medical Examiner's control and rules adopted by the Chief Medical Examiner. Medicolegal death investigators must meet the certification and training requirements established by the Chief Medical Examiner and must be residents of this State. Medicolegal death investigators may be employees of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner or serve on a fee-for-service basis as determined by the Chief Medical Examiner. A medicolegal death investigator before entering upon the duties of the office must be duly sworn to the faithful performance of the medicolegal death investigator's duty. [2017, c. 475, Pt. A, §35 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
2013, c. 113, §2 (NEW). 2017, c. 475, Pt. A, §35 (AMD).
