Chief Medical Examiner And Postmortem Examinations
This is Article 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Chief Medical Examiner And Postmortem Examinations.” It is part of Title 32.1, titled “Health.” It is part of Chapter 8, titled “Postmortem Examinations And Services.” It’s comprised of the following 20 sections.
- § 32.1-277
- Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; central and district offices and facilities
- § 32.1-278
- Appointment and qualifications of Chief Medical Examiner
- § 32.1-279
- Duties of Chief Medical Examiner; teaching legal medicine
- § 32.1-280
- Repealed
- § 32.1-281
- Commissioner may obtain additional services and facilities
- § 32.1-282
- Medical examiners
- § 32.1-282.1
- Per diem medicolegal death investigators
- § 32.1-283
- Investigation of deaths; obtaining consent to removal of organs, etc.; fees
- § 32.1-283.1
- State Child Fatality Review Team; membership; access to and maintenance of records; confidentiality; etc
- § 32.1-283.2
- Local and regional child fatality review teams established; membership; authority; confidentiality; immunity
- § 32.1-283.3
- Family violence fatality review teams established; model protocol and data management; membership; authority; confidentiality, etc
- § 32.1-283.4
- Confidentiality of certain information and records collected and maintained by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
- § 32.1-283.5
- Adult Fatality Review Team; duties; membership; confidentiality; penalties; report; etc
- § 32.1-283.6
- Local and regional adult fatality review teams established; membership; authority; confidentiality; immunity
- § 32.1-284
- Repealed
- § 32.1-285
- Autopsies
- § 32.1-285.1
- Death of infants under eighteen months of age; autopsies required; definition of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- § 32.1-286
- Exhumations
- § 32.1-287
- Repealed
- § 32.1-288
- Repealed