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2019 SESSION
19101793DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 32.1-277 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 32.1-277. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; central and district offices and facilities.
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 in
the City of Richmond 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.