                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER; CENTRAL AND DISTRICT OFFICES AND
FACILITIES (§ 32.1-277)

The Commissioner shall establish and maintain, for the purpose of conducting
medicolegal investigations of deaths and postmortem examinations, an Office of
the Chief Medical Examiner, which shall include a central office and facilities
and such district offices and facilities in such localities in the Commonwealth
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. The central
office and each district office established pursuant to this section shall be
under the supervision of the Chief Medical Examiner. Each such office and
facility shall have adequate professional, technical, and medical investigative
personnel and physical facilities for the conduct of such examinations and
investigations as may be authorized or required by law.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-31.12; 1960, c. 366; 1972, c. 741; 1975, c. 475; 1979,
c. 711; 1998, c. 217; 2014, c. 583; 2019, c. 168.