691.5 State medical examiner. The office and position of state medical examiner is established for administrative purposes within the department of health and human services. Other state agencies shall cooperate with the state medical examiner in the use of state-owned facilities whenappropriate for the performance of nonadministrative duties of the state medical examiner.The state medical examiner shall be a physician and surgeon or osteopathic physician andsurgeon, be licensed to practice medicine in the state of Iowa, and be board certified oreligible to be board certified in anatomic and forensic pathology by the American boardof pathology. The state medical examiner shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasureof the director of health and human services upon the advice of and in consultation withthe director of public safety and the governor. The state medical examiner, in consultationwith the director of health and human services, shall be responsible for developing andadministering the medical examiner’s budget and for employment of medical examinerstaff and assistants. The state medical examiner may be a faculty member of the universityof Iowa college of medicine or the tering the medical examiner’s budget and for employment of medical examinerstaff and assistants. The state medical examiner may be a faculty member of the universityof Iowa college of medicine or the college of law at the university of Iowa, and any of theexaminer’s assistants or staff may be members of the faculty or staff of the university ofIowa college of medicine or the college of law at the university of Iowa. [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.5; C79, 81, §691.5]86 Acts, ch 1245, §1602; 99 Acts, ch 208, §6, 14; 2001 Acts, ch 74, §20; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §1291 Referred to in §124.553, 142C.2, 691.6ASection amended Sat Dec 23 12:26:34 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 691.5 (16, 1)
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