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2014 Virginia Code
Title 32.1 - Health
§ 32.1-282. Medical examiners


VA Code § 32.1-282 (2014) What's This?

A. The Chief Medical Examiner shall appoint for each county and city one or more medical examiners, who shall be licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth, to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with medicolegal death investigations.

B. Each medical examiner appointed pursuant to subsection A shall take office on the first day of October of the year of appointment. The term of each medical examiner so appointed shall be three years.

C. The Chief Medical Examiner shall fill any medical examiner vacancy for the unexpired term and shall make any necessary temporary appointments.

Code 1950, ยง 32-31.16; 1952, c. 318; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 475; 1979, c. 711; 2014, c. 583.

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