Code of Virginia - Title 32.1 Health - Section 32.1-281 Commissioner may obtain additional services and facilities

§ 32.1-281. Commissioner may obtain additional services and facilities

In the investigation of any death or for the performance of any autopsy authorized or required pursuant to this article, the Commissioner may, in addition to the central and district office personnel and medical investigators, employ and pay, out of funds appropriated for such purpose, a qualified pathologist, designated by the Chief Medical Examiner, to perform such autopsy or to make such pathological studies and investigations as may be deemed necessary or advisable by the Chief Medical Examiner and may arrange for the use of mortuary facilities.

(Code 1950, § 32-31.15; 1960, c. 366; 1972, c. 741; 1975, c. 475; 1979, c. 711; 1998, c. 217.)

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