                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MEDICAL EXAMINERS (§ 32.1-282)

A. The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint for each county and city one or more
medical examiners, who shall be licensed as a doctor of medicine or osteopathic
medicine, a physician assistant, or an advanced practice registered nurse in the
Commonwealth and appointed as agents of the Commonwealth, to assist the Office
of the Chief Medical Examiner with medicolegal death investigations. A physician
assistant appointed as a medical examiner shall practice in accordance with
&#xA7; 54.1-2952. An advanced practice registered nurse appointed as a medical
examiner shall practice in accordance with &#xA7; 54.1-2957.

B. At the request of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Assistant Chief Medical
Examiner, or their designees, medical examiners may assist the Office of the
Chief Medical Examiner with cases requiring medicolegal death investigations in
accordance with &#xA7; 32.1-283.

C. The term of each medical examiner appointed, other than an appointment to
fill a vacancy, shall begin on the first day of October of the year of
appointment. The term of each medical examiner shall be three years; however, an
appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-31.16; 1952, c. 318; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 475; 1979,
c. 711; 2014, c. 583; 2015, c. 107; 2017, c. 170; 2018, c. 776; 2022, c. 151;
2023, c. 183.