691.3 Commissioner to make rules. The commissioner of public safety shall make rules defining the capabilities of the criminalistics laboratory. The commissioner shall make rules governing the handling ofitems to be processed by the criminalistics laboratory from the time they are forwardedto the laboratory by a county medical examiner or a city or state law enforcement agencyor county sheriff until their return to the forwarder. The rules shall prescribe a method ofidentifying, forwarding, handling and returning items that will maintain the identity andintegrity of the item. An item handled in conformity with the rules shall be presumed to beadmissible in evidence as to the period in transit to and from and while in custody of thelaboratory without further foundation. [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.3; C79, 81, §691.3] Sat Dec 23 12:26:33 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 691.3 (15, 0)
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