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2017 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 32.1-282 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 32.1-282. Medical examiners.
A. The Chief Medical Examiner shall 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 a
nurse practitioner 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 have a practice agreement with and be under the continuous
supervision of a physician medical examiner in accordance with § 54.1-2952. A
nurse practitioner appointed as a medical examiner shall have a practice
agreement with and practice in collaboration with a physician medical examiner
in accordance with § 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 § 32.1-283.
Each C. The term of each medical examiner appointed
pursuant to subsection A, other than an appointment to fill a vacancy,
shall take office begin on the first day of October of the year
of appointment. The term of each medical examiner so appointed shall be
three years; however, an appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the
unexpired term.
C. The Chief Medical Examiner shall fill any medical
examiner vacancy for the unexpired term and shall make any necessary temporary
appointments.