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1998 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 32.1-277 and 32.1-281 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 32.1-277. Central and district offices and facilities.
The Commissioner shall establish and maintain, for medicolegal investigation of
deaths and postmortem examinations, a central office and facilities in the City
of Richmond and such district offices and facilities in such localities in the
Commonwealth as are necessary. Each such office and facility shall have
adequate professional and, technical and medical
investigative personnel and physical facilities for the conduct of such
examinations and investigations as may be authorized or required by law.
§ 32.1-281. Commissioner may obtain additional services and facilities.
In the investigation of any death or for the performance of any autopsy authorized or required pursuant to this article, the Commissioner may, in addition to the central and district office personnel and medical investigators, employ and pay, out of funds appropriated for such purpose, a qualified pathologist, designated by the Chief Medical Examiner, to perform such autopsy or to make such pathological studies and investigations as may be deemed necessary or advisable by the Chief Medical Examiner and may arrange for the use of mortuary facilities.