Arkansas Code Title 12, Subtitle 2, Chapter 12, Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory

• § 12-12-301 - Establishment.
  (a) There is established a State Crime Laboratory.(b) The laboratory shall offer services to law enforcement in pathology and biology, toxicology, criminalistics, raw drug...
• § 12-12-302 - Board Created -- Members -- Meetings.
  (a) (1) There is created a State Crime Laboratory Board. (2) (A) The members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor and...
• § 12-12-303 - Board's Powers and Duties Generally.
  (a) The State Crime Laboratory Board shall promulgate such policies, rules, and regulations as shall be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose...
• § 12-12-304 - Executive Director.
  (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall be headed by an executive director who shall be appointed by the Governor.(b) The Executive Director of the...
• § 12-12-305 - Housing and Equipment -- Functions.
  (a) There shall be established under the supervision of the Executive Director of the State Crime Laboratory a central office and laboratory facility sufficient...
• § 12-12-306 - State Medical Examiner.
  (a) The Executive Director of the State Crime Laboratory shall appoint and employ a State Medical Examiner with the approval of the State Crime...
• § 12-12-307 - Medical Examiners -- Qualifications -- Duties.
  (a) (1) The State Medical Examiner as well as associate medical examiners shall: (A) Be citizens of the United States; (B) Be physicians or...
• § 12-12-308 - Medical Examiners -- Professional Liability Insurance.
  (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall obtain a policy of professional liability insurance in the amount of no less than four hundred thousand dollars...
• § 12-12-309 - Utilization of Outside Personnel.
  (a) The State Crime Laboratory Board is empowered to authorize the Executive Director of the State Crime Laboratory to contract with the University of...
• § 12-12-310 - Reimbursement for Use of Outside Faculty.
  (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall reimburse the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center and the Graduate Institute of Technology for the...
• § 12-12-311 - Cooperation by Others Required -- Tort Immunity.
  (a) (1) All law enforcement officers and other state, county, and city officials, as well as private citizens, shall fully cooperate with the staff...
• § 12-12-312 - Records Confidential and Privileged -- Exception -- Release.
  (a) (1) (A) (i) The records, files, and information kept, obtained, or retained by the State Crime Laboratory under this subchapter are privileged and...
• § 12-12-313 - Records As Evidence -- Analyst's Testimony.
  (a) The records and reports of autopsies, evidence analyses, drug analyses, and any investigations made by the State Crime Laboratory under the authority of...
• § 12-12-314 - Fees -- Disposition.
  (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall charge certain fees in an amount to be determined by the State Crime Laboratory Board, but subject to...
• § 12-12-315 - Notification of Certain Deaths.
  (a) (1) The county coroner, prosecuting attorney, and either the county sheriff or the chief of police of the municipality in which the death...
• § 12-12-316 - Transportation of Corpses.
  (a) The State Crime Laboratory is authorized to transport bodies of persons whose death is subject to the provisions of this subchapter to an...
• § 12-12-317 - Death Certificates.
  (a) The certificate of death of any person whose death is investigated under the provisions of this subchapter shall be made by the State...
• § 12-12-318 - Examinations, Investigations, and Postmortem Examinations -- Authorization and Restrictions.
  (a) (1) When death occurs in such a manner or under such circumstances as described in § 12-12-315, the State Crime Laboratory shall have...
• § 12-12-319 - Embalming Corpse Subject to Examination, Investigation, or Autopsy -- Penalty.
  (a) It shall be unlawful to embalm a dead body when the body is subject to examination by the State Medical Examiner or his...
• § 12-12-320 - Autopsies -- Removal of Pituitary Gland.
  (a) The State Medical Examiner and his or her assistants may remove the pituitary gland during the course of an autopsy and donate the...
• § 12-12-321 - Autopsies -- Exhumed Bodies.
  (a) Where death occurs under such circumstances as are set forth in § 12-12-315 and where a body has been buried without proper certification...
• § 12-12-322 - Hazardous Duty Pay.
  (a) (1) The State Crime Laboratory is authorized to provide special compensation to certain employees for each full pay period of eighty (80) hours...
• § 12-12-323 - Crime Lab Equipment Fund.
  (a) There is created the Crime Lab Equipment Fund on the books of the Auditor of State, the Treasurer of State, and the Chief...
• § 12-12-324 - Testing by State Crime Laboratory.
  (a) (1) All firearms used in the commission of a crime that come into the custody of any law enforcement agency in this state...
• § 12-12-325 - [Repealed.]
• § 12-12-326 - Autopsies -- Line-Of-duty Death.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible person" means a person with an eligibility similar to a firefighter or police officer under the...

Last modified: November 15, 2016