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Kentucky Revised Statutes (Last Updated: May 10, 2014) |
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TITLE IX. COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS |
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CHAPTER 72. CORONERS, INQUESTS, AND MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS |
| 010. Oath and bond of coroner -- Minimum -- Record -- Payment of bond premiums from county funds -- Appointment of deputy coroners. |
| 020. Duty of person, hospital, or institution finding or possessing dead body -- Duties of coroner, law enforcement officer, embalmer, funeral director, or ambulance service. |
| 025. Circumstances requiring post-mortem examination to be performed by coroner. |
| 026. Testing for presence of controlled substances in post-mortem examination -- When required -- Reporting of drug overdose -- Administrative regulations. |
| 029. Monthly report by coroner on child fatalities. |
| 030. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 040. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 045. Liability of office -- Deputies. |
| 050. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 060. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 070. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 072. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 075. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 080. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 090. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 100. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 110. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 120. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 130. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 140. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 150. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| Medical Examiners |
| 210. Purpose of Office of the Kentucky State Medical Examiner. |
| 215. Repealed, 1974. [Repealed] |
| 220. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to provide medical assistance to coroner investigating deaths. |
| 225. Advisory commission for medical examination. |
| 230. Repealed, 1974. [Repealed] |
| 235. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may provide facilities and professional personnel for studies and examinations. |
| 240. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may employ state chief medical examiner and associate -- Employment of county and district medical examiners. |
| 245. County or district examiner to assist coroner. |
| 250. Repealed, 1982. [Repealed] |
| 255. Administrative regulations. |
| 260. Charge for copies. |
| 265. Coroner may act as county or district medical examiner. |
| 270. Trust and agency fund for fees. |
| 275. Persons enforcing law immune from liability. |
| 280. Annual report to Justice and Public Safety Cabinet on drug-related deaths. |
| Kentucky Coroner's Act of 1978 |
| 400. Legislative intent. |
| 405. Definitions. |
| 410. Investigation of deaths defined as a coroner's case. |
| 415. Power and authority of coroners and their deputies -- Training course for deputy coroners. |
| 420. Coroner's inquest -- Subpoenas -- Stenographic services -- Verdict. |
| 425. Consent to autopsy when death not a coroner's case. |
| 430. Pathologist, toxicologist, chemist -- Immunity from civil liability. |
| 435. Cost of transporting or exhuming a body. |
| 440. Circumstances under which coroner may order body exhumed. |
| 445. County or Commonwealth's attorney may petition court to order autopsy. |
| 450. Disposal of body and valuables found thereon. |
| 455. Expense of search for body. |
| 460. Cost of autopsies. |
| 465. Inquiry into death under natural circumstances -- Death certificate -- Change in original certificate. |
| 470. Coroner or deputy -- Immunity from civil liability. |
| 475. Short title. |
| Penalties |
| 990. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 991. Repealed, 1978. [Repealed] |
| 992. Penalties. |