Sec. 19a-404. (Formerly Sec. 19-528). Chief Medical Examiner. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 19a-404. (Formerly Sec. 19-528). Chief Medical Examiner. The Chief Medical Examiner shall be a citizen of the United States and a doctor of medicine licensed to practice medicine in Connecticut and shall have had a minimum of four years postgraduate training in pathology and such additional subsequent experience in forensic pathology as the commission may determine, provided any person otherwise qualified who is not licensed to so practice may be appointed Chief Medical Examiner, provided he shall obtain such a license within one year of his appointment. His term of office and annual salary shall be fixed by the commission and he may be removed by the commission only for cause. Under the direction of the commission, he shall prepare for transmission to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management as required by law estimates of expenditure requirements. He shall account to the State Treasurer for all fees and moneys received and expended by him by virtue of his office. He may as part of his duties teach medical and law school classes, conduct special classes for police investigators and engage in other activities related to the work of his office to such extent and on such terms as may be authorized by the commission.

      (1969, P.A. 699, S. 4; P.A. 96-180, S. 60, 166.)

      History: Sec. 19-528 transferred to Sec. 19a-404 in 1983; P.A. 96-180 changed obsolete reference to "director of the budget" to "Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management", effective June 3, 1996.