32.1-282 - Local medical examiners. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-282. Local medical examiners.

A. The Chief Medical Examiner shall appoint for each county and city one ormore medical examiners to take office on the first day of October of the yearof appointment.

B. Each medical examiner shall be licensed to practice medicine in thisCommonwealth and shall be appointed from a list of two or more nominationssubmitted by the medical society for the county or city for which theappointment is to be made. If no list of names is submitted, the ChiefMedical Examiner shall select the medical examiner or medical examiners.

C. The term of each medical examiner so appointed shall be three years anduntil his successor is appointed and has qualified.

D. The Chief Medical Examiner shall fill any vacancy in the office of medicalexaminer for the unexpired term and shall make any necessary temporaryappointments.

E. In the event the medical examiner of any county or city is unable to servein any particular case or for any period of time on account of illness,enforced absence or personal interest, the Chief Medical Examiner shalldesignate some other qualified doctor of medicine to serve in the place ofsuch medical examiner in such particular case or for such period of time.

(Code 1950, § 32-31.16; 1952, c. 318; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 475; 1979, c.711.)