(1) The Chief Medical Examiner shall assist and advise district medical examiners in the performance of their duties.\n(2) The Chief Medical Examiner shall perform autopsies, if in the judgment of the Chief Medical Examiner such autopsy is necessary in any death requiring investigation, when requested by a medical examiner or district attorney.\n(3) The Chief Medical Examiner shall regularly conduct training programs for the district medical examiners and law enforcement agencies.\n(4) The Chief Medical Examiner shall submit an annual report to the State Medical Examiner Advisory Board detailing the activities and accomplishments of the state and each county office in the preceding year as well as a cost analysis of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. [1973 c.408 §6; 2017 c.151 §8]
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