Arkansas Code
Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory
§ 12-12-304. Director of the State Crime Laboratory

(a)
(1) The State Crime Laboratory shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the Governor and who shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.
(2) The director shall report to the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety.

(b) The director may delegate specific duties to competent and qualified associates, assistants, and deputies who may act for the director within the scope of the authority granted him or her, subject, however, to such rules as may be prescribed by the State Crime Laboratory Board.
(c) The board shall prescribe the duties, responsibilities, compensation, and qualifications for the director.

Structure Arkansas Code

Arkansas Code

Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs

Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs

Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations

Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory

§ 12-12-301. Establishment

§ 12-12-302. Board created — Members — Meetings

§ 12-12-303. Board's powers and duties generally

§ 12-12-304. Director of the State Crime Laboratory

§ 12-12-305. Housing and equipment — Functions

§ 12-12-306. State Medical Examiner

§ 12-12-307. Medical examiners — Qualifications — Duties

§ 12-12-308. Medical examiners — Professional liability insurance

§ 12-12-309. Utilization of outside personnel

§ 12-12-310. Reimbursement for use of outside faculty

§ 12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity

§ 12-12-312. Records confidential and privileged — Exception — Release

§ 12-12-313. Records as evidence — Analyst's testimony

§ 12-12-314. Fees — Disposition

§ 12-12-315. Notification of certain deaths

§ 12-12-316. Transportation of corpses

§ 12-12-317. Death certificates

§ 12-12-318. Examinations, investigations, and postmortem examinations — Authorization and restrictions

§ 12-12-319. Embalming corpse subject to examination, investigation, or autopsy — Penalty

§ 12-12-320. Autopsies — Removal of pituitary gland

§ 12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies

§ 12-12-322. Hazardous duty pay

§ 12-12-323. Crime Lab Equipment Fund

§ 12-12-324. Testing by State Crime Laboratory

§ 12-12-326. Autopsies — Line-of-duty death — Definitions