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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68777</law_id><section_number>32.1-282.1</section_number><catch_line>Per diem medicolegal death investigators</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Postmortem Examinations and Services</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Chief Medical Examiner and Postmortem Examinations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint per diem medicolegal death investigators, who shall have knowledge of standards and procedures for medicolegal death investigations, to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with medicolegal death investigations. Per diem medicolegal death investigators shall be agents of the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>2015, c. 53.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
