72.235 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may provide facilities and professional personnel for studies and examinations. - Kentucky Statutes

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72.235 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may provide facilities and professional personnel for studies and examinations. The Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may establish or contract for physical facilities for
the conduct of post-mortem and other necessary examinations. The cabinet may employ,
by contract or otherwise, pathologists, toxicologists and other ancillary, technical and
administrative personnel to perform autopsies and such other pathological, chemical and
other studies and examinations as may be deemed necessary. Such studies and
examinations may be performed in another state if deemed to be in the best interest of the
Commonwealth by the chief medical examiner or the certified coroner or deputy coroner
and the reports thereof shall have the same validity and admissibility in evidence as those
performed within this state when duly certified by the chief medical examiner of the
cabinet or by a certified coroner or deputy coroner. Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 145, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 195, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1982; and ch. 343, sec. 16, effective
July 15, 1982. -- Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 6.