2025 Vermont Statutes
Title 18 - Health
Chapter 9 - Laboratory Services; Chief Medical Examiner; Autopsies
§ 506. Duties and compensation of the Chief Medical Examiner performing autopsy

Universal Citation:
18 VT Stats § 506
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§ 506. Duties and compensation of the Chief Medical Examiner performing autopsy

At such autopsy, the Chief Medical Examiner shall take and preserve under proper seal such portions of the body and its contents, together with such other articles as the Chief Medical Examiner judges may require subsequent examination in the investigation of the case. For performing such autopsy, the Chief Medical Examiner shall be paid actual expenses, including the expenses of the Chief Medical Examiner’s assistants. The Commissioner of Finance and Management, upon presentation of the account for such expenses, duly sworn to by the Chief Medical Examiner and approved by the Attorney General, shall issue the Commissioner’s warrant for the expenses. (Amended 1959, No. 328 (Adj. Sess.), § 8(a), (b); 1971, No. 33, § 3, eff. July 1, 1971; 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2023, No. 6, § 102, eff. July 1, 2023.)

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