Florida Statutes Part I - Medical Examiners (Ss. 406.01-406.17)

• 406.01 - Short Title.
  This chapter shall be known as the “Medical Examiners Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 70-232.
• 406.02 - Medical Examiners Commission; Membership; Terms; Duties; Staff.
  (1) There is created the Medical Examiners Commission within the Department of Law Enforcement. The commission shall consist of nine persons appointed or selected as follows:(a) The...
• 406.03 - Organization And Meetings Of Commission.
  The commission shall annually select a chair from among its own membership and shall meet at least four times each year and on the call...
• 406.04 - Rules.
  The commission shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this chapter. The commission shall ensure minimum and uniform...
• 406.05 - Medical Examiner Districts.
  The Medical Examiners Commission shall establish medical examiner districts within the state, taking into consideration population, judicial circuits of the state, geographical size of the...
• 406.06 - District Medical Examiners; Associates; Suspension Of Medical Examiners.
  (1)(a) A district medical examiner shall be appointed by the Governor for each medical examiner district from nominees who are practicing physicians in pathology, whose nominations...
• 406.075 - Grounds For Discipline; Disciplinary Proceedings.
  (1) A medical examiner may be reprimanded, placed on a period of probation, removed, or suspended by the Medical Examiners Commission for any of the following:(a) Failure...
• 406.08 - Payment Of Fees, Salaries, And Expenses; Transportation Costs; Facilities.
  (1) Fees, salaries, and expenses may be paid from the general funds or any other funds under the control of the board of county commissioners. The...
• 406.09 - Expert Witness Fees.
  District medical examiners or associate medical examiners shall be entitled to expert witness fees as provided by law.History.—s. 5, ch. 70-232; s. 4, ch. 81-89.
• 406.11 - Examinations, Investigations, And Autopsies.
  (1) In any of the following circumstances involving the death of a human being, the medical examiner of the district in which the death occurred or...
• 406.12 - Duty To Report; Prohibited Acts.
  It is the duty of any person in the district where a death occurs, including all municipalities and unincorporated and federal areas, who becomes aware...
• 406.13 - Examiner’s Report; Maintenance Of Records.
  Upon receipt of such notification pursuant to s. 406.12, the district medical examiner or her or his associate shall examine or otherwise take charge of...
• 406.135 - Autopsies; Confidentiality Of Photographs And Video And Audio Recordings; Exemption.
  (1) For the purpose of this section, the term “medical examiner” means any district medical examiner, associate medical examiner, or substitute medical examiner acting pursuant to...
• 406.136 - A Photograph Or Video Or Audio Recording That Depicts Or Records The Killing Of A Person.
  (1) As used in this section, the term “killing of a person” means all acts or events that cause or otherwise relate to the death of...
• 406.14 - Duty Of Law Enforcement Officers.
  Any evidence material to the determination of the cause of death in possession of the law enforcement officers assigned to the investigation of the death...
• 406.145 - Unidentified Persons; Reporting Requirements.
  When an unidentified body is transported to a district medical examiner pursuant to this chapter, the medical examiner shall immediately report receipt of such body...
• 406.15 - Designation Of Substitute In Absence Of Official Examiner.
  In the absence of the district medical examiner or associate medical examiner, the state attorney of the county may appoint a competent physician to act...
• 406.16 - Professional Liability Insurance.
  The district medical examiners and associate medical examiners shall obtain professional liability insurance in an amount to be determined by the board of county commissioners...
• 406.17 - Application And Construction.
  This chapter supersedes all parts of statutes, general law, and special acts, with which it may be in conflict. Nothing in this chapter shall be...

Last modified: September 23, 2016